Publications

Thesis

·         Nadir Shah, “Chat Application Suite”, MSc thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar, May, 2005.

·         Nadir Shah “Adaptive Anycasting in Delay Tolerant Network”, MS Thesis, Department of Computer Science, International Islamic University, Islamabad, Pakistan, July, 2007.  http://www.iiu.edu.pk/wp-content/uploads/downloads/Libraries/central_library/downloads/thesis/fbas.pdf

·         Nadir Shah, “Efficient Overlay Routing for Peer to Peer Network over Mobile Ad Hoc Network”, PhD thesis, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China, April, 2011. http://paper.buaalib.com/docinfo.action?dbid=72&docid=24751

Book Chapters:

1.      Tariq Umer, Muhammad Amjad, Nadir Shah, Zhiguo Ding, and Bahram Honary (2016), Modeling  Vehicles Mobility for Connectivity Analysis in VANET, Intelligent Transportation Systems,  Springer, ISBN 978-3-319-28183-4, Jan-2016.

2.      Zahoor Uddin, Nadir Shah, Ayaz Ahmad, Waqar Mehmood and Farooq Alam  (2016), Signal Processing Techniques in Smart Grids, in Smart Grid as a Solution for Renewable and Efficient Energy,  IGI publisher.

Journals

Under process

Published

1. Wajid Ullah Khan, Nadir Shah, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Haleem Farman, , Moustafa M. Nasralla, Shan Ullah, Muhammad Shabir (2025), Optimal ACL Policy Placement in Hybrid SDN Networks: A Reinforcement Learning Approach, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol 6,  6095 - 6113(IF 6.1, W category of HEC)

2. Muhammad Farhan, Lei Wang, Nadir Shah, Hafsa Sidaq, Bilal Khan and Gabriel-Miro Muntean, (2025), ReCAP: Reliability-Capacity Aware Joint Controller Placement and Routing using a Hybrid AI Approach, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, published online, https://doi.org/10.1109/TR.2025.3585239 (IF 5.7, W as per HEC 2024-2025).

3. Syed Aizaz ul Haq; Muqaddas Imran; Nadir Shah; Gabriel-Miro Muntean (2025), SDN-based Edge Computing in Vehicular Communication Networks: A Survey of Existing Approaches, IEEE Access, online published, April 15,2025 (IF 3.4 W category for HEC)

4.  Muhammad Farhan, Nadir Shah, Lei Wang, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Houbing Herbert Song (2025), RDG-TE: Link reliability-aware DRL-GNN-based traffic engineering in SDN, Expert Systems with Applications, Volume 265, 2025, 125963,ISSN 0957-4174, (IF 7.7, W Category in HEC 2025 )

5. Waqas Ahmed, Nadir Shah, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, (2024) An innovative NSGA-II-based Byzantine Fault Tolerant solution for software defined network environments, Computer Networks, Volume 254, 2024, 110819, (IF 4.4, W Category in HEC 2024)

6. Khan, R., Khan, M., Shah, N., Al-Rasheed, A. and Khan, A.A., 2024. Device-enabled neighborhood-slot allocation for the edge-oriented Internet of Things. Frontiers in Computer Science, 6, p.1343778. (IF 2.4,  X Category in HEC HJRC 2023-2024)

7. Mushtaq Khan, Rahim Khan, Nadir Shah, Abdullah Ghani, Samia Allaoua Chelloug, Wasif Nisar and Jason Teo, (2023), Sensing and Device Neighborhood-Based Slot Assignment Approach for the Internet of Things, Applied Sciences, 2023,13(28), 4682, (IF 2.838, X Category in HEC HJRC 2022-2023)

8. Muhammad Ibrar, Lei Wang, Aamir Akbar, Mian Ahmad Jan, Venki Balasubramanian, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Nadir Shah (2023), Adaptive Capacity Task Offloading in Multi-hop D2D-based Social Industrial IoT, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2023 10(5) 2843-2852, (IF 6.600, W as per HJRS 2023-2024) 

9. Aamir Akbar , Muhammad Ibrar , Mian Ahmad Jan , Lei Wang , Nadir Shah , Houbing Herbert Song, SeAC: SDN-enabled Adaptive Clustering Technique for Social-Aware Internet of Vehicles, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems,2023,24(5) 4827 – 4835, (IF 9.551 W Catagorty in HEC HJRS 2022-2023)

10. Muhammad Ibrar, Safdar, Tauqeer; Malik, Kaleem; Afzal, Ayesha; Ibrar, Muhammad; wang, lei; Song, Houbing; Shah, Nadir (2023), RL-IoT: Reinforcement Learning-based Routing approach for Cognitive Radio-enabled IoT Communications, IEEE Internet of Things Journal,10(2), 1836-1847,  (IF 10.238 W Catagorty in HEC HJRS 2022-2023) 

11. Muhammad Ibrar, Lei Wang, Nadir Shah, Ori Rottenstreich,  Gabriel-Miro Muntean, and Aamir Akbar (2023), Reliability-Aware Flow Distribution Algorithm in SDN-enabled Fog Computing for Smart Cities, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 72(1), 573 - 588, 2023.  (ISI IF 6.239, W as per HJRS 2022-2023)

12. Mudassar Hussain, Nadir Shah, Rashid Amin,Sultan S. Alshamrani,Aziz Alotaibi  and Syed Mohsan Raza (2022), Software-Defined Networking: Categories, Analysis, and Future Directions, Sensors , 2022 , 22 (15), pp 1-47, published on July 25, 2022, (ISI IF 3.847, W as per HJRS 2021-2022)

13. Mushtaq Khan, Nadir Shah, Rahim Khan, Muhammad Wasif Nisar, Mukhtaj Khan, Ihsan Ali, Abdullah Gani & Khalid AbualSaud (2023) , Neighbourhood oriented TDMA scheme for the internet of things-enabled remote sensing, European Journal of Remote Sensing, Taylor & Francis, Volume 56, 2023 - Issue 1 , (ISI IF 3.647, W as per HJRS 2023-2024)

14.  Ibrar, M., Akbar, A., Jan, R., Jan, M.A., Wang, L., Song, H. and Shah, N.(2022),   ARTNet: AI-based Resource Allocation and Task Offloading in a Reconfigurable Internet of Vehicular Networks.  IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.2022, Volume: 9, Issue: 1 67-77   (IF 5.21        W as per HJRS 2021-2022  )

15. Muhammad Ibrar, Lei Wang, Aamir Akbar, Mian Ahmad Jan, Nadir Shah, Shahbaz Akhtar Abid, Michael Segal(2022), 3D-SIS: A 3D-Social Identifier Structure for Collaborative Edge Computing based Social IoT, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Journal, 2022,   9-1, 313-323, (IF      5.61 W as per HJRS 2021-2022)

16. Muhammad Ibrar · Lei Wang · Gabriel-Miro Muntean · Nadir Shah · Aamir Akbar · Khalid Ibrahim Qureshi (2021) , SOSW: Scalable and Optimal Nearsighted Location Selection for Fog Node Deployment and Routing in SDN-based Wireless Networks for IoT System, Annals of Telecommunications, Springer, 76, pages331–341 (2021) (ISI IF 1.546, X as per HJRS 2019

17. Awais Bin Asif, Muhammad Imran, Nadir Shah*, Mehtab Afzal, Hasnat Khurshid, (2021), ROCA: Auto-Resolving Overlapping and Conflicts in ACL Policies for SDN, International Journal of Communication Systems. Wiley, 2021 Volume34, Issue9,  e4815 (ISI IF 1.319, W as per HJRS 2019)

18. Ibrar, M., Wang, L., Muntean, G.M., Akbar, A., Shah, N. and Malik, K.R., 2021. PrePass-Flow: A Machine Learning based technique to minimize ACL policy violation due to links failure in hybrid SDN. Computer Networks, 184, p.107706. (ISI IF 3.11)

19. Muhammad Ibrar, Lei Wang, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Jenhui Chen, Nadir Shah, and Aamir Akbar, (2020), IHSF: An Intelligent Solution for Improved Performance of Reliable and Time-sensitive Flows in Hybrid SDN-based FC IoT Systems, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2021, vol8, no.      5,  (ISI IF 9.936)

20. Kousar, R., Alhaisoni, M., Akhtar, S.A., Shah, N., Qamar, A. and Karim, A., 2020. A Secure Data Dissemination in a DHT-Based Routing Paradigm for Wireless Ad Hoc Network. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2020. (ISI IF 1.396)

21. Yao, W., Khan, F., Jan, M.A., Shah, N. and Yahya, A., 2020. Artificial intelligence-based load optimization in cognitive Internet of Things. Neural Computing and Applications, 32(20), pp.16179-16189.. (ISI IF 4.664)

22. Badshah, Jan; Mohaia Alhaisoni, Majed; Shah, Nadir; Kamran, Muhammad. 2020. "Cache Servers Placement Based on Important Switches for SDN-Based ICN." Electronics 9, no. 1: 39. (ISI IF 1.764)

23. Hussain, M.; Shah, N.; Tahir , A. (2019) Graph-Based Policy Change Detection and Implementation in SDN. Electronics (Section: Networks) 2019, 8, 1136(ISI IF 1.764)

24. Rashid Amin, Nadir Shah, Waqar Mehmood, (2019) "Enforcing Optimal ACL Policies Using K-Partite Graph in Hybrid SDN" , Electronics (Section: Networks) 2019, 8(6), 604; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics8060604 (registering DOI) , (ISI IF 2.10)

25. Afzal, M., Shah, N. and Muhammad, T., 2019. Web video classification with visual and contextual semantics. International Journal of Communication Systems, 32(13), p.e3994., (ISI IF 1.717)

26. Shah, N., Giaccone, P., Rawat, D.B., Rayes, A. and Zhao, N., 2019. Solutions for adopting software defined network in practice. International Journal of Communication Systems, 32(17), p.e3990.(ISI IF 1.717)

27. Awan, I.I., Shah, N., Imran, M., Shoaib, M. and Saeed, N., 2019. An improved mechanism for flow rule installation in In-band SDN. Journal of Systems Architecture, 96, pp.32-51. (ISI IF 0.913)

28. Badshah, J., Kamran, M., Shah, N. and Abid, S.A., 2019. An improved method to deploy cache servers in software defined network-based information centric networking for big data. Journal of Grid Computing, 17(2), pp.255-277. (ISI IF 2.8)

29. M Alam, J Rufino, J Ferreira, SH Ahmed, N Shah, Y Chen (2018), Orchestration of Microservices for IoT Using Docker and Edge Computing, IEEE Communications Magazine 56 (9), 118-123  (ISI IF 9.270)

30.  Hohlfeld, O., Kempf, J., Reisslein, M., Schmid, S. and Shah, N., 2018. Guest editorial scalability issues and solutions for software defined networks. IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications, 36(12), pp.2595-2602. (ISI IF 7.170)

31. Amin, R., Reisslein, M. and Shah, N., 2018. Hybrid SDN networks: A survey of existing approaches. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 20(4), pp.3259-3306. (ISI IF 17.188)

32. Zahid, S., Abid, S.A., Shah, N., Naqvi, S.H.A. and Mehmood, W., 2018. Distributed partition detection with dynamic replication management in a DHT-based MANET. IEEE Access, 6, pp.18731-18746.(ISI IF 3.244)

33. Shah, N., Rehmani, M.H. and Bellavista, P., 2018. Guest Editorial for Special Issue on Emerging Peer to Peer (P2P) Network Technologies for Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 45, April 2018, Pages 1-3 Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Elsevier,  (IF 2.349)

34. Hussain, M. and Shah, N., 2018. Automatic rule installation in case of policy change in software defined networks. Telecommunication Systems, 68(3), pp.461-477. (ISI IF 1.542)

35. N. Shah et al. (2017), Breakpoint Diagnosis of Substation Grounding Grid Using Derivative Method, Progress In Electromagnetics Research M 57, 73-80  (ISI IF 2.404)

36. N. Shah et al (2017), Logical Clusters in DHT-Paradigm for Scalable Routing in MANETs, Computer Networks ElsevierVolume 128, 9 December 2017, Pages 142-153           (ISI IF 2.516)

37. Khalid Mahmood, Babar Nazir, Iftikhar Ahmad Khan and Nadir Shah (2017), Search-based routing in wireless mesh network, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, DOI: 10.1186/s13638-017-0818-2    (ISI IF 1..529)

38. Rashid Amin; Nadir Shah; Babar Shah; Omar Alfandi (2016), Auto-configuration of ACL policy in case of topology change in Hybrid SDN, IEEE ACCESS, vol.4, pp. 9437 - 9450,          (ISI IF 3.244)

39. Nadir Shah, S.A. Abid, Depei Qian, Waqar Mehmood (2017), A survey of P2P content sharing in MANETs, COMPUTER & ELECTRICAL ENGINGEERING ELSEVIER, vol.57, January 2017, pp. 55–68                         (ISI IF 1.570)

40. S.A.Abid, Mazliza Othman, Nadir Shah (2015) “A Survey on DHT-based Routing for Large Scale Mobile Ad hoc Networks”,  ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 47 Issue 2,  http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2632296                               (ISI IF 4.043)

41. S. A. Abid, Nadir Shah, Mazliza Othman(2013), Exploiting 3D Structure for Scalable Routing in MANETs,  in IEEE Communication Letters, Vol. 17, No. 11, P. 2056 – 2059, 2013                                                                                          (ISI IF 1.16)

42. Ayaz Ahmad, Naveed Ul Hassan, Nadir Shah, Robust Channel Quality Indicator Reporting for Multi-carrier and Multi-user Systems, Computer Networks, Elsevier, Volume 74, Part A, 9 December 2014, Pages 78–88                                                      (ISI IF 1.282)

43. S.A.Abid, Mazliza Othman, Nadir Shah et al.  (2014) 3D P2P Overlay over MANETs, in Computer Networks Elsevier publisher, vol. 60, pp. 89-111.              (ISI IF 1.282)

44. S. A. Abid, Nadir Shah, Mazliza Othman et al. (2015) Merging of DHT-based Logical Networks in MANETs, Transaction on Emerging Telecommunication Technologies, Wiley, publisher, vol. 26, Issue 12, pages 1347–1367.      (ISI IF 1.354)

45. S.A.Abid, Mazliza Othman, Nadir Shah , (2015) 3D-RP: A DHT-based Routing Protocol for MANETs, The Computer Journal, Oxford University Press, vol. 58(2), pp. 258-279.                                                                         (ISI IF 0.777)

46. Nadir Shah et al. (2014) An Efficient and Scalable Routing for MANETs, Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, vol. 75, no. 2, pp. 987-1004.                           (ISI IF 0.99)

47. Ayaz Khan, Nadir Shah (2015) “A Joint Resource Optimization and Adaptive Modulation Framework for Uplink SC-FDMA Systems”, International journal of communication systems, Wiley Journal, vol. 28, pp. 437–456                                      (ISI IF 1.109)

48. Nadir Shah, Depei Qian and Rui Wang (2015)“Merging of P2P Overlays over Mobile Ad Hoc Network: Evaluation of Three Approaches”, Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks , AHSWN Volume 25, Number 3-4 (2015), p. 199-222          (ISI IF 0.478)

49. Nadir Shah, Depei Qian, Rui Wang, (2013) “MANET adaptive structured P2P overlay”, Journal Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications,  Vol.5 No. 2, P. 143-160, 2013, (ISI IF 0.343)

50. Shah, N., Ahmad, A., Nazir, B. and Qian, D., 2016. A cross-layer approach for partition detection at overlay layer for structured P2P in MANETs. Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, 9(2), pp.356-371.(ISI IF 0.456)

51. Nadir Shah and Depei Qian, Rui Wang (2011),  “An efficient unstructured P2P overlay for file sharing over MANETs using underlying reactive routing”, Journal of Internet Technology , Vol. 12 No. 3, P.517-530.                                          (ISI IF 0.586)

52. Waqar Mehmood, Nadir Shah, Zahoo- ud-din, Ehsan Ullah Munir (2015), FINE-GRANULAR MODEL DIFF SOLUTION FOR MODEL-BASED SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT, Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 28, No. 2, 2015                                                                                                  (ISI IF 0.405)

53. Waqar Mehmood, Nadir Shah, Majid Jamal Khan, Mukhriar Memon, M Ikramullah (2016), Fine-Granular Model Merge Solution For Model-Based Version Control System, Malaysian Journal of Computer Science, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2016                                      (ISI IF 0.305)

54. Zahoor Uddin, Ayaz Ahmad, Muhammad Iqbal, Nadir Shah,(2015) Independent Component Analysis Based MIMO Transceiver With Improved Performance In Time Varying Wireless Channels, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, volume 9, No. 7, pp. 2435 - 2453                                                                                           (ISI IF 0.561)

55. Nadir Shah and Depei Qian (2010), “An efficient overlay for unstructured P2P file sharing over MANET using underlying cluster-based routing, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, vol.4, no. 5, October, 30, 2010.            (ISI IF 0.2)

56. Fazl-e-Hadi, Abid Ali Minhas, Nadir Shah, Mehboob Yasin, “A Novel Forwarding Scheme for Adaptive Anycasting in Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networks ”, Indian Journal of Science and Technology, vol.3, no. 11-12, 2010. ISSN, 0974-5645.

Conference Proceedings

1. Ibrar, M., Akbar, A., Shah, N., Erbad, A. and Ali, K., 2024, May. LRS 2: Improved Link Recovery in Software-Defined Networks with Stacked Generalization Ensemble. In 2024 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC) (pp. 1339-1344). IEEE. 

2. Mujahid Ali, Nadir Shah, Muazzam A Khan, DAI: Dynamic ACL Policy Implementation for Software-Defined Networking) in the Proceeding of 2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Smart Communities: Improving Quality of Life Using ICT, IoT and AI (HONET) , December 14-16, 2020

3. 1.      Kifayat Ullah, Edson Moreira and Nadir Shah, An Experimental Study on the Behavior of Received Signal Strength in Indoor Environment, 11th FIT, IEEE Proceeding, Islamabad, Pakistan December 16-18, 2013.

4. 2.      Nadir Shah, Depei Qian, An efficient unstructured p2p overlay over manet using underlying proactive routing, IEEE Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN), 2011 Seventh International Conference on, Pages 248-255, Publisher IEEE

5. 3.      Nadir Shah, Depei Qian, “Cross-Layer Design to Merge Structured P2P Networks over MANET”, In Proceeding of 16th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2010) 8-10 December 2010 in Shanghai , China.

6.  4.      Nadir Shah, Depei Qian, “Cross-Layer Design for Merging of unstructured P2P Networks over MANET”, In Proceeding of The 5th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies & Applications(CUTE2010), Sanya,Hainan, China 16th December 2010 - 18th December 2010.

7. 5.      Nadir Shah, Depei Qian, “An efficient structured p2p overlay over MANET”. In MobiDE, Ninth International ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (in conjunction with SIGMOD/PODS 2010), Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, June 2010 

8. 6.      Nadir Shah, Depei Qian, “A New Cross-Layer Unstructured P2P File Sharing Protocol over Mobile Ad Hoc Network” T.H. Kim and H. Adeli (Eds.): AST/UCMA/ISA/ACN 2010, LNCS 6059, pp. 250–263, 2010. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-13576-7.

9.  7.      Nadir Shah, Depei Qian, "Context-Aware Routing for Peer-to-Peer Network on MANETs," nas, pp.135-139, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, 2009

10. 8.      Nadir Shah, Depei Qian, Khalid Iqbal, “Performance evaluation of multiple routing protocols using multiple mobility models for mobile ad hoc networks”, in Proc. of IEEE INMIC, 2008, Karachi, Pakistan.

11. 9.      Aamir Saeed, L. Khan, Nadir Shah, “Performance Comparison of Two Anycast based Reactive Routing Protocols for Mobile Ad hoc Networks”, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer, Control & Communication (IEEE-IC4 2009).

12. 10.  Fazl-e-Hadi, Nadir Shah, Dr. Afaq Hussain Syed Dr. Mehboob Yasin, “Adaptive Anycast: A new Anycast protocol for performance improvement in Delay Tolerant Networks”, in Proc. of IEEE Conference 2007 on Integrated Technology, Shenzhen, China.

13. 11.  Fazl-e-Hadi, Nadir Shah, Dr. Afaq Hussain Syed, Dr. Mehboob Yasin “ Group Size Effects on Adaptive Anycasting in Delay Tolerant Networks”, In Proceeding of IEEE Conference on Electrical Engineering 2007 UET Lahore, Pakistan.