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23 papers
FairGA: Fair Genetic Algorithm - Beyond Resource-oriented Sustainability for ICT Products and Services
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Yves Lemieux, Mohamed Cheriet
The complexity of ICT products and services has brought them to the level of disposable `species'. The combination of the race to optimal performance and disposability has resulted…
Transparent Clouds: An Enhancement to Abstraction
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Yves Lemieux, Mohamed Cheriet
With the introduction of various hardware/software technologies such as Cloud Technologies or Virtualization technologies, there has been a great potential to reuse ICT artifacts t…
The Service-Bond Paradigm - Potentials for a Sustainable, ICT-enabled Future
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Yves Lemieux, Mohamed Cheriet
The service paradigm as we know it has gone through a long journey of evolution and improvement, and it seems that a service-oriented vision to activities in general could serve as…
Modified Hausdorff Fractal Dimension (MHFD)
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet
The Hausdorff fractal dimension has been a fast-to-calculate method to estimate complexity of fractal shapes. In this work, a modified version of this fractal dimension is presente…
A Decentralized Approach to Software-Defined Networks (SDNs)
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Yves Lemieux, Mohamed Cheriet
Redistribution of the intelligence and management in the software defined networks (SDNs) is a potential approach to address the bottlenecks of scalability and integrity of these n…
40 Gbps Access for Metro networks: Implications in terms of Sustainability and Innovation from an LCA Perspective
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Yves Lemieux, Mohamed Cheriet
In this work, the implications of new technologies, more specifically the new optical FTTH technologies, are studied both from the functional and non-functional perspectives. In pa…
Dynamic Bandwidth-Efficient BCube Topologies for Virtualized Data Center Networks
Vahid Asghari, Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet
Network virtualization enables computing networks and data center (DC) providers to manage their networking resources in a flexible manner using software running on physical comput…
SmartPacket: Re-Distributing the Routing Intelligence among Network Components in SDNs
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet
In this work, a new region-based, multipath-enabled packet routing is presented and called SmartPacket Routing. The proposed approach provides several opportunities to re-distribut…
A Graph-based Perspective to Total Carbon Footprint Assessment of Non-marginal Technology-driven Projects - Use case of OTT/IPTV
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet
Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of green and sustainable projects has been found to be a necessary analysis in order to include all upstream, downstream, and indirect impacts. Because…
Quality of Experience (QoE) beyond Quality of Service (QoS) as its baseline: QoE at the Interface of Experience Domains
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet
In this work, a new approach to the definition of the quality of experience is presented. By considering the quality of service as a baseline, that portion of the QoE that can be i…
A Multi-Entity Input Output (MEIO) Approach to Sustainability - Water-Energy-GHG (WEG) Footprint Statements in Use Cases from Auto and Telco Industries
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet
A new Input-Output model, called the Multi-Entity Input-Output (MEIO) model, is introduced to estimate the responsibility of entities of an ecosystem on the footprint of each other…
Spiralet Sparse Representation
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet
This is the first report on Working Paper WP-RFM-14-01. The potential and capability of sparse representations is well-known. However, their (multivariate variable) vectorial form,…
Challenges and complexities in application of LCA approaches in the case of ICT for a sustainable future
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam, Thomas Dandres +3
In this work, three of many ICT-specific challenges of LCA are discussed. First, the inconsistency versus uncertainty is reviewed with regard to the meta-technological nature of IC…
A Monte-Carlo Approach to Lifespan Failure Performance Analysis of the Network Fabric in Modular Data Centers
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Vahid Asghari, Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam +2
Data centers have been evolved from a passive element of compute infrastructure to become an active, core part of any ICT solution. In particular, modular data centers (MDCs), whic…
IIGHGINT: A generalization to the modified GHG intensity universal indicator toward a production/consumption insensitive border carbon tax
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet
A global agreement on how to reduce and cap human footprint, especially their GHG emissions, is very unlikely in near future. At the same time, bilateral agreements would be ineffi…
Computer Simulation of 3-D Finite-Volume Liquid Transport in Fibrous Materials: a Physical Model for Ink Seepage into Paper
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet
A physical model for the simulation ink/paper interaction at the mesoscopic scale is developed. It is based on the modified Ising model, and is generalized to consider the restrict…
A maximal-information color to gray conversion method for document images: Toward an optimal grayscale representation for document image binarization
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Shaohua Chen, Rachid Hedjam +1
A novel method to convert color/multi-spectral images to gray-level images is introduced to increase the performance of document binarization methods. The method uses the distribut…
Unsupervised ensemble of experts (EoE) framework for automatic binarization of document images
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet
In recent years, a large number of binarization methods have been developed, with varying performance generalization and strength against different benchmarks. In this work, to lev…
Curved Space Optimization: A Random Search based on General Relativity Theory
Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam, Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet
Designing a fast and efficient optimization method with local optima avoidance capability on a variety of optimization problems is still an open problem for many researchers. In th…
A prototype system for handwritten sub-word recognition: Toward Arabic-manuscript transliteration
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet, Thomas Milo +1
A prototype system for the transliteration of diacritics-less Arabic manuscripts at the sub-word or part of Arabic word (PAW) level is developed. The system is able to read sub-wor…
The BlueNetwork Concept
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet
Most of energy efficiency and carbon reduction initiatives and concepts attempt to regulate and optimize machines behavior, and therefore, human behavior itself is left neglected.…
A Modified GHG Intensity Indicator: Toward a Sustainable Global Economy based on a Carbon Border Tax and Emissions Trading
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Fereydoun Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet
It will be difficult to gain the agreement of all the actors on any proposal for climate change management, if universality and fairness are not considered. In this work, a univers…
Beyond pixels and regions: A non local patch means (NLPM) method for content-level restoration, enhancement, and reconstruction of degraded document images
Reza Farrahi Moghaddam, Mohamed Cheriet
A patch-based non-local restoration and reconstruction method for preprocessing degraded document images is introduced. The method collects relative data from the whole input image…