Journal Publications:
[33] Hussain, Hafiz Majid, Ashfaq Ahmad, and Pedro HJ Nardelli. "A Hybrid Heuristic Solution for Packetized Energy Transactions in Smart Homes." International Journal of Energy Research, 2025, 3241856, 11 pages, 2025. [Download: Wiley]
[32] Hussain, Hafiz Majid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Arun Narayanan, Pedro HJ Nardelli, and Yongheng Yang. "Benchmarking of Heuristic Algorithms for Energy Router-Based Packetized Energy Management in Smart Homes." IEEE Systems Journal 17, no. 2 (2023): 2721-2732. [Download: IEEE Xplore]
[31] Ahmad, Ashfaq, and Jamil Yusuf Khan. "Optimal sizing and management of distributed energy resources in smart buildings." Energy 244 (2022): 123110. [Download: ScienceDirect]
[30] Ahmad, Ashfaq, and Jamil Yusuf Khan. "Real-time load scheduling, energy storage control and comfort management for grid-connected solar integrated smart buildings." Applied Energy 259 (2020): 114208. [Download: ScienceDirect]
[29] Aslam, Zeeshan, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Abrar Ahmed, and Sardar Muhammad Gulfam. "A combined deep learning and ensemble learning methodology to avoid electricity theft in smart grids." Energies 13, no. 21 (2020): 5599. [Download: MDPI]
[28] Ahmad, Ashfaq, and Jamil Yusuf Khan. "Real-time load scheduling and storage management for solar powered network connected EVs." IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy 11, no. 3 (2019): 1220-1235. [Download: IEEE Xplore]
[27] Ilyas, Naveed, Ashfaq Ahmad, and Kiseon Kim. "Casa-crowd: A context-aware scale aggregation cnn-based crowd counting technique." IEEE Access 7 (2019): 182050-182059. [Download: IEEE Xplore]
[26] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Abdul Mateen, Muhammad Awais, and Zahoor Ali Khan. "Short-term load forecasting in smart grids: An intelligent modular approach." Energies 12, no. 1 (2019): 164. [Download: MDPI]
[25] Javaid, Nadeem, Usman Shakeel, Ashfaq Ahmad, Nabil Alrajeh, Zahoor Ali Khan, and Nadra Guizani. "DRADS: depth and reliability aware delay sensitive cooperative routing for underwater wireless sensor networks." Wireless Networks 25 (2019): 777-789. [Download: Springer Link]
[24] Ahmad, Ashfaq, and Jamil Yusuf Khan. "Roof-top stand-alone PV micro-grid: A joint real-time BES management, load scheduling and energy procurement from a peaker generator." IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 10, no. 4 (2018): 3895-3909. [Download: ResearchGate, IEEE Xplore]
[23] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Sheeraz Ahmed, Muhammad Imran, Masoom Alam, Iftikhar Azim Niaz, and Nadeem Javaid. "On energy efficiency in underwater wireless sensor networks with cooperative routing." Annals of Telecommunications 72 (2017): 173-188. [Download: Springer Link]
[22] Javaid, Nadeem, Sheraz Hussain, Ashfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Imran, Abid Khan, and Mohsen Guizani. "Region based cooperative routing in underwater wireless sensor networks." Journal of Network and Computer Applications 92 (2017): 31-41. [Download: ScienceDirect]
[21] Azam, Irfan, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Wadood Abdul, Ahmad Almogren, and Atif Alamri. "Balanced load distribution with energy hole avoidance in underwater WSNs." IEEE Access 5 (2017): 15206-15221. [Download: IEEE Xplore]
[20] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Mohsen Guizani, Nabil Alrajeh, and Zahoor Ali Khan. "An accurate and fast converging short-term load forecasting model for industrial applications in a smart grid." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 13, no. 5 (2016): 2587-2596. [Download: IEEE Xplore]
[19] Rahim, Sahar, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Shahid Ahmed Khan, Zahoor Ali Khan, Nabil Alrajeh, and Umar Qasim. "Exploiting heuristic algorithms to efficiently utilize energy management controllers with renewable energy sources." Energy and Buildings 129 (2016): 452-470. [Download: ScienceDirect]
[18] Rasheed, Muhammad Babar, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Awais, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, and Nabil Alrajeh. "Priority and delay constrained demand side management in real‐time price environment with renewable energy source." International Journal of Energy Research 40, no. 14 (2016): 2002-2021. [Download: Wiley Online Library]
[17] Rasheed, Muhammad Babar, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Mohsin Jamil, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, and Nabil Alrajeh. "Energy optimization in smart homes using customer preference and dynamic pricing." Energies 9, no. 8 (2016): 593. [Download: MDPI]
[16] Javaid, Nadeem, Ashfaq Ahmad, Anum Tauqir, Muhammad Imran, Mohsen Guizani, Zahoor Ali Khan, and Umar Qasim. "Modeling induction and routing to monitor hospitalized patients in multi-hop mobility-aware body area sensor networks." EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2016 (2016): 1-17. [Download: Springer Link]
[15] Latif, Kamran, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Zahoor Ali Khan, Nabil Alrajeh, and Majid Iqbal Khan. "On energy hole and coverage hole avoidance in underwater wireless sensor networks." IEEE Sensors Journal 16, no. 11 (2016): 4431-4442. [Download: IEEE Xplore]
[14] Javaid, Nadeem, Mehreen Shah, Ashfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Imran, Majid Iqbal Khan, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos. "An enhanced energy balanced data transmission protocol for underwater acoustic sensor networks." Sensors 16, no. 4 (2016): 487. [Download: MDPI]
[13] Ahmed, Sheeraz, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Imran Ahmed, Mehr Yahya Durrani, Armughan Ali, Syed Bilal Haider, and Manzoor Ilahi. "SPARCO: stochastic performance analysis with reliability and cooperation for underwater wireless sensor networks." Journal of Sensors 2016 (2016). [Download: Hindawi]
[12] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Nabil Alrajeh, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, and Abid Khan. "A modified feature selection and artificial neural network-based day-ahead load forecasting model for a smart grid." Applied Sciences 5, no. 4 (2015): 1756-1772. [Download: ResearchGate, MDPI]
[11] Javaid, Nadeem, Naveed Ilyas, Ashfaq Ahmad, Nabil Alrajeh, Umar Qasim, Zahoor Ali Khan, Tayyaba Liaqat, and Majid Iqbal Khan. "An efficient data-gathering routing protocol for underwater wireless sensor networks." Sensors 15, no. 11 (2015): 29149-29181. [Download: MDPI]
[10] Rasheed, Muhammad Babar, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, and Nabil Alrajeh. "An efficient power scheduling scheme for residential load management in smart homes." Applied Sciences 5, no. 4 (2015): 1134-1163. [Download: ResearchGate, MDPI]
[9] Umar, Amara, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, Nabil Alrajeh, and Amir Hayat. "DEADS: depth and energy aware dominating set based algorithm for cooperative routing along with sink mobility in underwater WSNs." Sensors 15, no. 6 (2015): 14458-14486. [Download: ResearchGate, MDPI]
[8] Akram, Sana, Nadeem Javaid, Ashfaq Ahmad, Zahoor Ali Khan, Muhammad Imran, Mohsen Guizani, Amir Hayat, and Manzoor Ilahi. "A fatigue measuring protocol for wireless body area sensor networks." Journal of medical systems 39 (2015): 1-15. [Download: Springer Link]
[7] Javaid, Nadeem, Ashfaq Ahmad, Yahya Khan, Zahoor Ali Khan, and Turki Ali Alghamdi. "A relay based routing protocol for wireless in-body sensor networks." Wireless Personal Communications 80 (2015): 1063-1078. [Download: ResearchGate, Springer Link]
[6] Ahmed, Sheeraz, Nadeem Javaid, Sidrah Yousaf, Ashfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Moid Sandhu, Muhammad Imran, Zahoor Ali Khan, and N. Alrajeh. "Co-LAEEBA: Cooperative link aware and energy efficient protocol for wireless body area networks." Computers in Human Behavior 51 (2015): 1205-1215. [Download: ResearchGate, ScienceDirect]
[5] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar Hussain Bouk, Manzoor Ilahi, and Dongkyun Kim. "COME: cost optimisation with multi-chaining for energy efficient communication in wireless sensor networks." International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing 20, no. 3 (2015): 186-198. [Download: ResearchGate, InderScience]
[4] Javaid, Nadeem, Ashfaq Ahmad, Qaisar Nadeem, Muhammad Imran, and Noman Haider. "iM-SIMPLE: iMproved stable increased-throughput multi-hop link efficient routing protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks." Computers in Human Behavior 51 (2015): 1003-1011. [Download: ScienceDirect, ResearchGate]
[3] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Umar Qasim, Mohammad Ishfaq, Zahoor Ali Khan, and Turki Ali Alghamdi. "RE-ATTEMPT: a new energy-efficient routing protocol for wireless body area sensor networks." International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 10, no. 4 (2014): 464010. [Download: SAGE]
[2] Javaid, Nadeem, Ashfaq Ahmad, Azizur Rahim, Zahoor Ali Khan, Mohammad Ishfaq, and Umar Qasim. "Adaptive medium access control protocol for wireless body area networks." International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 10, no. 3 (2014): 254397. [Download: SAGE]
[1] Ahmad, Ashfaq, Nadeem Javaid, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, and Turki Ali Alghamdi. "(ACH)2: Routing scheme to maximize lifetime and throughput of wireless sensor networks." IEEE Sensors Journal 14, no. 10 (2014): 3516-3532. [Download: ResearchGate, IEEE Xplore]