Mahdi Attawna is a Ph.D. researcher at Deutsche Telekom Chair for Communication Networks at Dresden University of Technology (TUD). He has earned his Bachelor and Master degrees in Informatics from Palestine Polytechnic University (PPU) in Palestine. He is working on the “TOAST: Touch-enabled Tactile Internet Training Network and Open Source Testbed” project, the TOAST project aims to provide an innovative and interdisciplinary training program to 10 doctoral candidates, who will work on various aspects of Tactile Internet, such as haptics, networking, edge computing, machine learning, and human perception. The project will also develop a joint testbed and end-to-end solutions for Tactile Internet, as well as transfer the research outcomes into intellectual property, new products, and services. His current research focus is network functions state management in edge computing.
Hernandez-Gobertti, Fernando; Attawna, Mahdi; Yeh, Yu; Nguyen, Giang T.; Gomez-Barquero, David; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Elayoubi, Salah-Eddie
Performance Profiling of Diverse Tactile Internet Applications over Different 5G Deployments Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Mediterranean Conference on Communications and Networking (MeditCom), Nice, France, 2025.
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Enenche, Patrick; Lhamo, Osel; Doan, Tung V.; Attawna, Mahdi; Nguyen, Giang T.; You, Dongho; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Improving Network Latency in RLNC-enabled Cloud-native 5G and Beyond: A Comparative Evaluation in Handling Data Traffic Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, 2025.
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Lhamo, Osel; Doan, Tung V.; Tasdemir, Elif; Attawna, Mahdi; Nguyen, Giang T.; Seeling, Patrick; Reisslein, Martin; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
FlexNC + RecNet: Flexible Network (Re)Coding in Cloud-native 5G: Design and Testbed Measurements Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, pp. 1-1, 2025.
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Attawna, Mahdi; Doan, Tung V.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Nguyen, Giang T.
StateProc: Empowering Network Functions With Enhanced Processing Capabilities in Edge Clouds Proceedings Article
In: International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC24), Washington DC-USA, 2024.
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Bondarenko, Volodymyr; Attawna, Mahdi; Nguyen, Giang T.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Motion sickness comparison of 2 XR approaches: camera+screen or hologram on transparent lens (Meta Quest 3 or Microsoft HoloLens 2) Proceedings Article
In: International Electronics Symposium, pp. 728-733, 2024.
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Attawna, Mahdi; Lhamo, Osel; Doan, Tung V.; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Nguyen, Giang T.
Towards Reliable Cloud-native 5G and Beyond Networks using In-Network Computing Proceedings Article
In: IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, pp. 1-3, Seoul, South Korea, 2024.
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Lhamo, Osel; Doan, Tung V.; Tasdemir, Elif; Attawna, Mahdi; Senk, Stefan; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Nguyen, Giang T.
Improving Reliability for Cloud-native 5G and Beyond using Network Coding Proceedings Article
In: 2023 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN) (NFV-SDN'23), Dresden, Germany, 2023.
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Attawna, Mahdi; Doan, Tung V.; Nguyen, Vu; Fitzek, Frank H. P.; Nguyen, Giang T.
Leveraging Data Plane Acceleration For Network Coding Deployment: A Measurement Study Proceedings Article
In: 2023 IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN) (NFV-SDN'23), Dresden, Germany, 2023.
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