Professional Activities

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Journal Editing

  • IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (COMST)

    • Area Editor - Wireless Communications (2018 - Present)

    • Editor (2015 - 2018)

  • IEEE Communications Magazine - Associate Technical Editor - (2014 - Present)

  • Elsevier Computers and Electrical Engineering Journal - Associate Editor (2014 - Present)

  • IEEE Access Journal - Associate Editor (2015 - Present)

  • Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications - Associate Editor (2015 - Present)

  • Springer Wireless Networks Journal - Associate Editor (2015 - Present)

  • Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems - Associate Editor (2017 - Present)

  • Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks: An International Journal - Associate Editor (2015 - Present)

  • Journal of Communications and Networks - Editor (2015 - Present)

  • Elsevier Digital Communications and Networks Journal - Associate Editor (2015 - Present)

  • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems - Associate Editor (2015 - Present)

    • Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences - Associate Editor (2017 - Present)

  • International J​ournal​ of Multimedia Intelligence and Security (IJMIS) - Associate Editor (2018 - Present)

  • International Journal on Network Science - Associate Editor (2018 - Present)

  • International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security - Area Editor - (2013 - 2017)

Guest Editor

    • [Guest Editor-36] Special Issue on Software Defined Networks for Energy Internet and Smart Grid Communications, IEEE Access, 2019. [Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Alan Davy, Brendan Jennings, Zeeshan Kaleem, Akhilesh Thyagaturu, Hassnaa Moustafa, and Al-Sakib Khan Pathan]

    • [Guest Editor-35] Special Issue on Network Resource Management in Flying Ad Hoc Networks: Challenges, Potentials, Future Applications, and Wayforward, IEEE Access, 2019

    • [Omer Chughtai, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Leila Musavian, Sidi-Mohammed Senouci, Soumaya Cherkaoui, Shiwen Mao, Onur Alparslan]

    • [Guest Editor-34] Special Issue on Special Issue on Mission Critical Communications and Networking for Disaster Management, Elsevier Physical Communications, 2019

    • [Zeeshan Kaleem, Trung Q. Duong, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Nguyen-Son Vo]

    • [Guest Editor-33] Special Issue on Network Softwarization & Enablers, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 2019

    • [Tarik Taleb, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, et al.,]

    • [Guest Editor-32] Special Issue on Vehicular Communication Systems, Elsevier Computers and Electrical Engineering, 2018

    • [Mehdi Shadaram, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, ​Vyasa Sai]

    • [Guest Editor-31] Special Issue on Selected Sensor Papers from ICGHIT 2019 –The 7th International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology, Sensors MDPI , 2019

    • [Byung-Seo Kim, Sung Won Kim, Chi Zhang, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Yuanxiong Guo, Tariq Umer]

    • [Guest Editor-30] Special Issue on Data Driven Intelligence in Wireless Networks: Issues, Challenges, and Solution, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2018

    • [Muhammad Khalil Afzal, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Yousaf Bin Zikria, and Qiang Ni]

    • [Guest Editor-29] Special Issue on Softwarization and Caching for the Internet of Things, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2018

    • [Maaz Rehan, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Ghadah Aldabbagh, Ejaz Ahmed, Anis Laouiti]

      • [Guest Editor-28] Special Issue on SDN, NFV, and Mobile Edge Computing with QoE Support for 5G, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), 2017

    • [Yaser Jararweh; Constandinos Mavromoustakis; Danda B. Rawat, and Mubashir Husain Rehmani]

    • [Guest Editor-27] Special Issue on Fairness in Futuristic Wireless Networks: Applications, Implementation, Issues, and Opportunities, IEEE Access, 2017

    • [Tariq Umer, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Samee U. Khan, Qiang Ni, and Waleed Ijaz]

    • [Guest Editor-26] Special Issue on Recent Advances on Security and Privacy in Intelligent Transportation Systems, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks, 2017

[Sedjelmaci Hichem, Sidi Mohammed Senouci, Nirwan Ansari, and Mubashir Husain Rehmani]

    • [Guest Editor-25] Special Issue on Cyber Threats against Critical Infrastructure and their Countermeasures, The Journal of Supercomputing, 2017.

        • [Junaid Chaudhry, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Ali Kashif Basheer]

    • [Guest Editor-24] Special Issue on 5G Mobile Services and Scenarios: Challenges and Solutions, MDPI Sustainability, 2017.

        • [Yousaf Bin Zikria, Sung Won Kim, Muhammad Khalil Afzal, Haoxiang Wang, Mubashir Husain Rehmani]

    • [Guest Editor-23] Special Issue on The Green Internet of Things (GIoT), Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (WCMC) Journal, Hindawi and Wiley, 2017.

        • [Fadi M. Al-Turjman, Ahmed E. Kamal, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Ayman Radwan, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan]

    • [Guest Editor-22] Special Issue on Smart Cities and Smart Sensory Platforms, IET Wireless Sensor Systems, 2017.

[Fadi Al-Turjman Hossam Hassanein Mubashir Husain Rehmani Ayman Radwan Muhammad Imran]

[Jointly with Zeeshan Kaleem, Ejaz Ahmed, Abbas Jamalipour, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Hassna Moustafa, and Wael Guibene]

  • [Guest Editor-20] Special Issue on Internet of Things (IoT): Operating System, Applications and Protocols Design, and Validation Techniques, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems, 2017.

[Jointly with Heejung Yu, Muhammad Khalil Afzal, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, and Oliver Hahm]

[Jointly with Zeeshan Kaleem, Muhammad Ali Imran, Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir, Abbas Jamalipour, Ejaz Ahmed]

[Jointly with Muhammad Khalil Afzal, Antonio Pescape, Sung Won Kim, and Waleed Ejaz]

[Jointly with Martin Reisslein, Abderrezak Rachedi, Melike Erol Kantarci, and Milena Radenkovic]

    • [Guest Editor-16] Special Issue on ''Health informatics for the developing world'', IEEE Access, 2017.

[Jointly with Junaid Qadir, Muhammad Mujeeb-U-Rahman, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Muhammad Ali Imran, Amir Hussain, Rajib Rana, and Bin Luo]

    • [Guest Editor-15] Special Issue onInformation and Resource Management Systems for Internet of Things: Energy Management, Communication Protocols and Future Applications, Elsevier Future Generation Computer Systems, 2017

[Jointly with Tariq Umer, Ahmed E. Kamal, Lyudmila Mihaylova]

    • [Guest Editor-14] Special Issue on Resource Management in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks: Energy Management, Communication Protocol and Future Applications, IEEE Access, 2016

[Jointly with Tariq Umer, Zhiguo Ding, Byung-Seo Kim, and Samee U. Khan ]

    • [Guest Editor-13] Special Issue on Energy Harvesting and Scavenging: Technologies, Algorithms, and Communication Protocols, IEEE Access, 2016

[Jointly with Ayaz Ahmad, Abderrezak Rachedi, Soumaya Cherkaoui, and Kok-Lim Alvin Yau]

    • [Guest Editor-12] Special Issue on Optimization for Emerging Wireless Networks: IoT, 5G and Smart Grid Communication Networks, IEEE Access, 2016

[Jointly with Ayaz Ahmad, Hamidou Tembine, Osama Mohammed, and Abbas Jamalipour]

    • [Guest Editor-11] Special Issue on Information Fusion in Internet of Things, Elsevier Information Systems Journal, 2016

[Jointly with Ejaz Ahmed]

    • [Guest Editor-10] Special Issue on Emerging Peer to Peer (P2P) Network Technologies for Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, 2016

[Jointly with Nadir Shah and Paolo Bellavista]

[Jointly with Ejaz Ahmed]

    • [Guest Editor-08] Special Issue on The Plethora of Research in Internet of Things, IEEE Access Journal, 2016

[Jointly with Abderrezak Rachedi, Joel J.P.C Rodrigues, and Soumaya Cherkaoui]

    • [Guest Editor-07] Special Issue on Body Area Networks for Interdisciplinary Research, IEEE Access Journal, 2016

[Jointly with Ejaz Ahmed, Samee U. Khan, and Milena Radenkovic]

[Jointly with Ejaz Ahmed]

[Jointly with Martin Reisslein, Abderrezak Rachedi, Melike Erol Kantarci, and Milena Radenkovic]

[Jointly with Martin Reisslein, Abderrezak Rachedi, Melike Erol Kantarci, and Milena Radenkovic]

[Jointly with Mehdi Shadaram, Sherali Zeadally, and Paolo Bellavista]

[Jointly with Mehdi Shadaram and Ayaz Isazadeh]

[Jointly with Mehdi Shadaram]

Associate Editor for Newsletters

Area Editor

Conferences/Workshop Chair and Co-Chair

    • Co-chairing the track of Network Protocols and Performance Analysis for 10th BWCCA International Conference, 2015.

    • Co-chairing the track on Internet of Things for 24th ICCCN 2015 to be held in Las Vegas.

    • Co-chairing QoS QoE Workshop 2015

Program Committee:

    • TPC Member of IEEE Globecom 2019 - Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium

    • TPC Member of IEEE ICC 2019 - Cognitive Radio and Networks (CRN) Symposium

    • TPC Member of IEEE ICC 2019 - SPC Symposium

    • TPC Member of IEEE WNCN 2019

  • TPC Member of CrownCom 2019

  • TPC Member of IWCMC 2019 QoS and QoE Workshop (IWCMC 2019 QoS and QoE Workshop)

    • TPC Member of IEEE Globecom 2018 - Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium

    • TPC Member of IEEE Globecom 2018 - Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium

    • TPC Member of IEEE Globecom 2018 - Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium

    • TPC Member of IEEE ICC 2018 - Cognitive Radio and Networks (CRN) Symposium

    • TPC Member of IEEE ICC 2018 - Signal Processing for Communications Symposium

    • TPC member of IEEE VTC 2018 - Track: 3, Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Management

    • TPC Member of IEEE VTC 2018 Spring - Track: 5. Radio Access Technology and Heterogeneous Networks

    • TPC Member of IEEE VTC 2018 Fall - Track: 4. Multiple Antenna Systems and Cooperative Communications

    • TPC Member of Crowncom 2018

    • TPC Member of DepdendSys 2018

  • ​TPC Member of NetSoft 2018 - PVE-SDN Workshop organized by IEEE P1916.1 working group

  • TPC Member of ​VTC2018-Fall Recent Results, Symposia and Workshops

  • TPC Member of 16th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT 2018)

  • TPC Member of IWCMC-AI-IoT 2019 (IWCMC 2019 Artificial Intelligence for Future IoT)

  • TPC Member of SpaCCS 2018

  • TPC Member of "Communication, Computing and Networking in Internet of Vehicles (CCNIV)" Track at the 34th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC)

  • TPC Member of Sixth International Workshop on e-Health Pervasive Wireless Applications and Services 2018 in conjunction with the IEEE WiMob conference

    • TPC Member of IWCMC 2018 QoS and QoE Workshop

    • TPC Member of International Workshop on Technologies, Algorithms, Models, Platforms and Applications for Smart Cities(TAMPAS'18)

    • TPC Member of Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2018: e-Health Symposium

    • TPC Member of PANS 2018 - The 8th International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Architectures, Networks and Systems

  • TPC Member of MoWNet'2018 Workshop

    • TPC Member of IWCMC-SICM 2018 (SICM 2018-Smart Infrastructures for Crowd Management)

    • TPC Member of 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Computer and Communications (ISCC 2018)

    • TPC Member of Globecom2018 SAC EH (2018 IEEE Global Communications Conference: Selected Areas in Communications: E-Health)

    • TPC Member of International Conference on Computing, Mathematics and Engineering Technologies iCoMET 2018

    • TPC Member of BigData4Health, 2018

    • TPC Member of ISNCC-2018 5G-EI

    • TPC Member of ANT 2018

    • TPC Member of FNC 2018

    • TPC Member of IEEE GlobeCom 2017 - Mobile and Wireless Networks Symposium

    • TPC Member of 3rd IEEE SCAN-2018, in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM 2018 in HI, USA

    • TPC Member of DependSys 2017

    • TPC Member of ICT 2018

    • TPC Member of VEHICULAR 2018

    • TPC Member of Fifth International IEEE Workshop on e-Health Pervasive Wireless Applications and Services 2017

    • TPC Member of 2018 IEEE 1st 5G WORLD FORUM 2018

    • TPC Member of IEEE eHPWAS'17

    • TPC Member of SpaCCS 2017

    • TPC Member of Second IEEE International Workshop on Safe, Energy-Aware, & Reliable Connected Health 2017

    • TPC Member of IEEE Globecom 2017 - Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium

    • TPC Member of IEEE LCN 2017

    • TPC Member of ICCT 2017

    • TPC Member of ITU Kaleidoscope 2017

    • TPM Member of IWCMC 2017 QoS and QoE Workshop

    • TPC Member of 22nd IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2017)

    • TPC Member of e-Health Symposium 2017 (Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2017: e-Health Symposium)

    • TPC Member of IEEE Globecom 2017 - Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium

    • TPC Member of CROWNCOM 2017

    • TPC Member of IEEE ICC 2016 - Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium

    • TPC Member of VTC2016-Spring - Cognitive Radio and Spectrum Management

    • TPC Member of IEEE GlobeCom 2016 -- Cognitive Radio and Networks

    • TPC Member of IEEE LCN 2016

    • TPC Member of IEEE CHASE 2016

    • TPC Member of CROWNCOM 2016

    • TPC Member of 18th International Conference on E-health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE Healthcom'16), Munich, Germany

    • TPC Member of 18th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference MELECON 2016

    • TPC Member of RAFNET 2016

    • TPC Member of 1st IEEE International Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Smart and Connected Health within IEEE Chase 2016

    • TPC Member of IEEE 10th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Many-core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoC-16)

    • TPC Member of 23rd International Conference on Telecommunications (ICT 2016) that will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece

    • TPC Member of 1st EAI International Conference on Future Intelligent Vehicular Technologies, 2016

    • TPC Member of CHASE-SEARCH 2016 Conference

    • TPC Member of 7th Symposium on Security and Privacy in Next Generation Networks (SPNGN2016) in conjunction with ITNG 2016

    • TPC Member of IWCMC - QoS and QoE workshop

    • TPC Member of SpaCCS 2016 (http://trust.csu.edu.cn/conference/SpaCCS2016/)

    • TPC Member of DependSys 2016 (DependSys 2015)

    • TPC Member The 5th IEEE International Conference on Communication, Networks and Satellite (IEEE COMNETSAT 2016, http://comnetsat.org/)

    • TPC Member for ITU Kaleidoscope 2016 - ICTs for a Sustainable World

    • TPC Member APCC 2016 (22nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Communications

    • TPC Member 2nd Conference on Computing Systems and Applications (CSA 2016), will be held in Algiers, Algeria from December 13 to 14, 2016.

    • TPC Member of PerCom 2016 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Work in Progress

    • TPC Member of IEEE 2015 International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE)

    • TPC Member of ReHIS 2015

    • TPC Member of IEEE SDRANCAN with IEEE Globecom 2015

    • TPC Member of CROWNCOM 2015

    • TPC Member of CoCoNet'15

    • TPC Member of ITU kadeliscope 2015

    • TPC Member of ICCCN 2015

    • TPC Member of CIACS - 2015

    • TPC member of IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2015), Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium.

    • TPC member of ICT 2015, Australia.

    • TPC member of EMERGING 2015, France.

    • TPC member of SPNGN 2015.

    • TPC member of I4CT 2015, Malaysia.

    • TPC member of 4th International Multi Topic Conference (IMTIC) 2015.

  • TPC member of 6th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2015)

  • TPC member of 4th International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (ANT 2013)

  • TPC member of QoS and QoE in Wireless Communications Networks Workshop (QoS-QoE 2013) in 9th (IEEE IWCMC 2013)

    • TPC member of IEEE/ACM International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (IEEE ICCVE 2012), China.

    • TPC member of IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2012), Cognitive Radio and Networks Symposium.

    • TPC member of The 2nd International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE 2013), Dec 2-6, 2013 | Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Reviewer:

Journals:

International Conferences:

    • IWCMC 2014

    • 4th International Conference on SmArt COmmunications in NEtwork Technologies (SaCoNeT) June 17-19, 2013, Paris,France

    • ICSPCS 2013

    • ICCVE 2013

    • ATC 2013

EXAMINER

    • MS Thesis, "Evaluation and Performance of Reactive Protocols Using Mobility Model" by Naveed Anjum, Iqra University, July 2013, Islamabad.

    • MS Thesis, “Secured Route Mechanism in Mobile Ad hoc Networks.” by Zameer Ahmed, Iqra University, Nov 2013, Islamabad.

  • MSc Thesis, "Asynchronous Cooperative MIMO Communication", UET Taxila, Mar 2013, Taxila.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP

    • Senior Member IEEE

    • Member IEEE Communications Society (COMSOC)

    • Member IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC)

    • Member IEEE Technical Committee on Green Communications and Computing (TCGCC)

    • Member IEEE Technical Subcommittee on Big Data (TSCBD)

    • Member IEEE Multimedia Communications Technical Committee (MMTC)

    • Member IEEE Software Defined Networks Community

    • Member IEEE Smart Grid Community

    • Member IEEE Smart Cities

    • Member IEEE Internet of Things Community

    • Member IEEE Internet Initiative Technology and Policy Community

    • Member IEEE Green ICT Community

    • Member IEEE Cyber security Community

    • Member IEEE Cloud Computing Community

    • Member IEEE Big Data Community

WORKSHOP CONDUCTED

One day workshop on Network Simulator NS-2 was conducted on 05th June 2013 at COMSATS Wah Cantt