Alaa Abu-Hantash

Jordan University of Science and Technology

Papers

Total Citations

H-Index

About

Alaa Abu-Hantash is a researcher specializing in wireless networking, autonomous robotics, and sensor systems, with a particular focus on solving real-world localization and coverage challenges in complex network environments. His most influential work, "Collaborative Indoor Access Point Localization Using Autonomous Mobile Robot Swarm" (2018, 21 citations), pioneered the use of coordinated robot swarms to identify and locate wireless access points indoors — a breakthrough with significant implications for neutralizing rogue access point security threats and optimizing network infrastructure deployment. Building on this foundation, his 2017 paper on autonomous mobile robot-based access point localization (8 citations) laid important groundwork for single-agent approaches to the same problem. Abu-Hantash has also made meaningful contributions to wireless sensor network efficiency, demonstrating in his 2017 fuzzy logic-based coverage work (10 citations) how intelligent mobile node movement can dramatically improve area coverage in large-scale, sparsely deployed sensor networks. Collectively, his research bridges the domains of swarm robotics, wireless security, and intelligent network management, offering practical solutions that address both infrastructure optimization and cybersecurity vulnerabilities — making his work particularly valuable for engineers and researchers designing next-generation smart network systems.