It is sad to announce the death of our colleague, and friend Mr. Ahmad Derakhshan. We are deeply saddened by this news.

Mr. Derakhshan was a member of our group, and did his Sc thesis in our Lab, under the supervision of Dr. . He graduated from Alberta University with a master of science degree in computer science.  It was an honor to have known such a great person and we will truly miss him.

A joint paper by Mehdi Naderi Soorki, Dr. Manshaei, Prof. Hossein Saidi, and Dr. Walid Saad from Virginia Tech., with the title "Social Community-Aware Content Placement in Wireless Device-to-Device Communication Networks" has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

You can find the full text in this address.

A high-ranking delegation from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) headed by professor Patrick Aebischer, President of EPFL, visited IUT on Wednesday, October 14th, 2015. Dr. Manshaei, previously a senior researcher in LCA1 group at EPFL, was part of the IUT's reception committee that welcomed the EPFL delegation. The two delegates met in IUT's International & Scientific Cooperation Office bureau and discuss future academic collaborations.

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A joint paper by GTMD members Sara Ranjbaran, Dr. Mansahei, and  Dr. Michele Nitti from the University of Cagliari, titled "A Social-Aware Approach for Federated IoT-Mobile Cloud Matching Theory" has been accepted to the IEEE 5th World Forum on Internet of Things in Limerick, Ireland.