Frank Comeau

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Frank Comeau

Professor, Chair
Department
Engineering
Campus Location
Nasso Family Science Centre 3043/3053
Email
Email
Phone
902-867-4538/867-5557
Biography

Frank Comeau grew up in rural Nova Scotia. He is an electrical engineer licensed in Nova Scotia, Associate Professor and Chair of the StFX Engineering Department. He earned an engineering diploma from Université de Moncton, a B.Eng. from the Technical University of Nova Scotia (TUNS), which is now part of Dalhousie University, and MASc and PhD degrees from Dalhousie University.

Research

My research focuses on energy-saving algorithms for wireless sensor networks, both terrestrial and underwater.

Awards

  • University Research, Publications and Teaching Awards (URPTA): 2023, 2021, 2020, 2018. 
  • Two Nova Scotia Productivity and Innovation Vouchers 
  • Two NRC IRAP SME grants
Publications

Journal Publications

  1. R. Mhemed, W. Phillips, F. Comeau, and N. Aslam, “Void Avoiding Opportunistic Routing Protocols for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey." Sensors 2022, 22, 9525. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22239525
  2. H. Randhawa, N. Aslam, M. Alauthman, H. Rafiq and F. Comeau, "Security Hardening of Botnet Detectors Using Generative Adversarial Networks," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 78276-78292, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3083421.
  3. R. Mhemed, F. Comeau, W. Phillips, and N. Aslam, “Void Avoidance Opportunistic Routing Protocol for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks,” in Sensors, vol. 21, no. 6, p. 1942, Mar. 2021. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21061942
  4. Alomari, W. Phillips, N. Aslam and F. Comeau, "Swarm Intelligence Optimization Techniques for Obstacle-Avoidance Mobility-Assisted Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks," in IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 22368-22385, 2018.
  5. F. Comeau, S. Sivakumar, W. Robertson, and W. Phillips, “Energy Conservation in Clustered Wireless Sensor Networks”, in International Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 78-88, 2009. doi:10.1504/IJSNET.2009.029016

Refereed Conference Proceedings

  1. R. Mhemed, F. Comeau, W. Phillips and N. Aslam, "EEDOR: An Energy Efficient Depth-Based Opportunistic Routing Protocol for UWSNs," 2020 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CCECE47787.2020.9255687

  2. R. Mhemed, F. Comeau, W. Phillips and N. Aslam, "EEDOR: An Energy Efficient Depth-Based Opportunistic Routing Protocol for UWSNs," 2020 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2020, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/CCECE47787.2020.9255687.

  3. Alomari, N. Aslam, W. Phillips and F. Comeau, "Three-dimensional path planning model for mobile anchor-assisted localization in Wireless Sensor Networks," 2017 IEEE 30th Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Windsor, ON, 2017, pp. 1-5.
    doi: 10.1109/CCECE.2017.7946681

  4. Alomari, N. Aslam, W. Phillips and F. Comeau, "Using the DV-Hop technique to increase the localization ratio in static path planning models in wireless sensor networks," 2016 10th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing (CSNDSP), Prague, 2016, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/CSNDSP.2016.7574010

  5. Alomari, N. Aslam, W. Phillips and F. Comeau, "A scheme for using closest rendezvous points and Mobile Elements for data gathering in wireless sensor networks," 2014 IFIP Wireless Days (WD), Rio de Janeiro, 2014, pp. 1-6. doi: 10.1109/WD.2014.7020793

  6. R. Mhemed, N. Aslam, W. Phillips and F. Comeau, “An Energy Efficient Fuzzy Logic Cluster Formation Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks”, 2012 The 3rd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT), Niagara Falls, ON, 2012, pp. 255-262. doi: 10.1016/j.procs.2012.06.035

  7. Alomari, N. Aslam and F. Comeau, "Data collection using rendezvous points and mobile actor in wireless sensor networks," 2012 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Ottawa, ON, 2012, pp. 7115-7119.  doi: 10.1109/ICC.2012.6364936

  8. F. Comeau and  N. Aslam, "Analysis of LEACH Energy Parameters", Workshop on Emerging Topics in Sensor Networks (EmSeNs 2011), Niagara Falls, ON, 2011, pp. 933-938. doi:10.1016/j.procs.2011.07.131

  9. F. Comeau, S. Sivakumar, W. J. Phillips and W. Robertson, "A Clustered Wireless Sensor Network Model Based on Log–Distance Path Loss," 6th Annual Communication Networks and Services Research Conference (cnsr 2008), Halifax, NS, 2008, pp. 366-372. doi: 10.1109/CNSR.2008.48

  10. F. Comeau, S. C. Sivakumar, W. Robertson and W. J. Phillips, "Energy Conserving Architectures and Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks," Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06), 2006, pp. 236c-236c. doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.151