Journal Publications (Web of Science):

1. Abbas, Khizar, Yeongpil Cho, Ali Nauman, Prince Waqas Khan, Talha Ahmed Khan, and Koteswararao Kondepu. "Convergence of AI and MEC for Autonomous IoT Service Provisioning and Assurance in B5G." IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (2023). 

2. Abbas, Khizar, Ali Nauman, Muhammad Bilal, Jae-Hyung Yoo, James Won-Ki Hong, and Wang-Cheol Song. "AI-Driven Data Analytics and Intent-Based Networking for Orchestration and Control of B5G Consumer Electronics Services." IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (2023). 

3. Khizar Abbas, Talha Ahmed, Ali Nauman, Jae-Hyoung Yoo, James Won-ki Hong, and Wang-Cheol Song. “Intent-based Networking and Network Data Analytics for Network Slice Automation, Control and Management in Smart Cities” IEEE IoT journal. (Submitted) 

4. Khizar Abbas, Jibum Hong, Jae-Hyoung Yoo, James Won-ki Hong. “Autonomous DRL based EnergyEfficient VM Consolidation for Cloud Data Centers” , Physical Communication, Elsevier. (SCI) (2.69) 

5. Khizar Abbas, Talha Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Afaq, and Wang-Cheol Song. "Network Slice Lifecycle Management for 5G Mobile Networks: An Intent-based Networking Approach." IEEE Access (2021). (SCI) (IF: 3.36) 

6. Abbas, Khizar, Muhammad Afaq, Talha Ahmed Khan, Adeel Rafiq, and Wang-Cheol Song. "Slicing the core network and radio access network domains through intent-based networking for 5g networks." Electronics 9, no. 10 (2020): 1710. (SCI) (IF: 2.39) 

7.  Abbas, Khizar, Muhammad Afaq, Talha Ahmed Khan, Adeel Rafiq, Javed Iqbal, Ihtesham Ul Islam, and Wang‐Cheol Song. "An efficient SDN‐based LTE‐WiFi spectrum aggregation system for heterogeneous 5G networks." Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (2020): e3943. (SCI) (IF: 2.63)

8.  T.A Khan, Khizar Abbas, Muhammad Afaq, and Wang-Cheol Song, " An Intent-Driven closed-loop Platform for 5G Network Service Orchestration," Computers, Materials & Continua, 2021. (SCI) (IF: 3.77) 

9. Abbas, Khizar, Muhammad Afaq, Talha Ahmed Khan, and Wang-Cheol Song. "A blockchain and machine learning-based drug supply chain management and recommendation system for smart pharmaceutical industry." Electronics 9, no. 5 (2020): 852 (SCI) (IF: 2.39) 

10. Abbas, Khizar, Lo’Ai A. Tawalbeh, Ahsan Rafiq, Ammar Muthanna, Ibrahim A. Elgendy, Abd El-Latif, and A. Ahmed. "Convergence of blockchain and IoT for secure transportation systems in smart cities." Security and Communication Networks 2021 (2021). (SCI) (IF: 1.79) 

11. Rafiq, Adeel, Asif Mehmood, Talha Ahmed Khan, Khizar Abbas, Muhammad Afaq, and Wang-Cheol Song. "Intent-based end-to-end network service orchestration system for multi-platforms." Sustainability 12, no. 7 (2020): 2782. (SCI) (IF: 3.25) 

12. A. Rafiq, M. Afaq, K. Abbas and W. Song, "Mobility management in small cell cluster of cellular network," Computers, Materials & Continua, vol. 69, no.1, pp. 627–645, 2021. (SCI) (IF: 3.77) 

13. Khan, Prince Waqas, Khizar Abbas, Hadil Shaiba, Ammar Muthanna, Abdelrahman Abuarqoub, and Mashael Khayyat. "Energy efficient computation offloading mechanism in multi-server mobile edge computing—an integer linear optimization approach." Electronics 9, no. 6 (2020): 1010. (SCI) (IF: 2.39)

14.  Khan, Prince Waqas, Guangxia Xu, Muhammad Ahsan Latif, Khizar Abbas, and Ammara Yasin. "UAV’s agricultural image segmentation predicated by clifford geometric algebra." IEEE Access 7 (2019): 38442-38450. (SCI) (IF: 3.36) 

15. Mahmood, Faisal, Khizar Abbas, Asif Raza, Muhammad Awais Khan, and Khan PW. "Threedimensional agricultural land modeling using unmanned aerial system (UAS)." International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications 10, no. 1 (2019): 443-449. (SCOPUS) 

International Conferences:

1.  Abbas, K., Yoo. J.H., Hong. J.W.K (2022). Adaptive Ensemble Learning-based Network Resource Workload Prediction for VNF Lifecycle Management In 2022 23nd Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS) . IEEE.

2. Abbas, K., Khan, T. A., Afaq, M., Rivera, J. J. D., & Song, W. C. (2021, September). Network data analytics function for ibn-based network slice lifecycle management. In 2021 22nd Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS) (pp. 148-153). IEEE.

3. Abbas, K., Khan, T. A., Afaq, M., & Song, W. C. (2022, April). Ensemble Learning-based Network Data Analytics for Network Slice Orchestration and Management: An Intent-Based Networking Mechanism. In NOMS 2022-2022 IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

4. Abbas, K., Ahmed, K. T., Rafiq, A., Song, W. C., & Seok, S. J. (2020, January). An lte-wifi spectrum aggregation system for 5g network: A testbed. In 2020 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN) (pp. 753-755). IEEE.

5. Abbas, K., Afaq, M., Khan, T. A., Mehmood, A., & Song, W. C. (2020, September). IBNSlicing: intent-based network slicing framework for 5G networks using deep learning. In 2020 21st Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS) (pp. 19-24). IEEE.

6. Muhammad, A., Khan, T. A., Abbass, K., & Song, W. C. (2020). An End-to-end Intelligent Network Resource Allocation in IoV: A Machine Learning Approach. In 2020 IEEE 92nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Fall) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

7. Abbas, K., Khan, T. A., Afaq, M., & Song, W. C. (2021). Network Data Analytics Function for Network Slice Lifecycle Management: a closed-loop approach. Algorithms, 34(6), 14-20.

8. Khan, T. A., Muhammad, A., Abbas, K., & Song, W. C. (2021, March). Intent-based networking platform: an automated approach for policy and configuration of next-generation networks. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (pp. 1921-1930).

9. Abbas, K., Khan, P. W., Ahmed, K. T., & Song, W. C. (2019, October). Automatic brain tumor detection in medical imaging using machine learning. In 2019 International conference on information and communication technology convergence (ICTC) (pp. 531-536). IEEE.

10. Khan, T. A., Abbas, K., Muhammad, A., Rafiq, A., & Song, W. C. (2020, October). GAN and DRL based intent translation and deep fake configuration generation for optimization. In 2020 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC) (pp. 347-352). IEEE.

11. Khan, T. A., Abbass, K., Rafique, A., Muhammad, A., & Song, W. C. (2020, September). Generic intent-based networking platform for E2E network slice orchestration & lifecycle management. In 2020 21st Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS) (pp. 49-54). IEEE.

12. Khan, T. A., Abbas, K., Rivera, J. J. D., Muhammad, A., & Song, W. C. (2021, September). Applying RouteNet and LSTM to Achieve Network Automation: An Intent-based Networking Approach. In 2021 22nd Asia-Pacific Network Operations and Management Symposium (APNOMS) (pp. 254-257). IEEE.

13. Mateen, A., & Abbas, K. (2017, September). Optimization of model based functional test case generation for android applications. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Power, Control, Signals and Instrumentation Engineering (ICPCSI) (pp. 90-95). IEEE.

14. Mateen, A., Sehar, M., & Abbas, K. (2017, September). Performance analysis of LEACH with PEGASIS in wired and wireless sensor network. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Power, Control, Signals and Instrumentation Engineering (ICPCSI) (pp. 2509-2512). IEEE.

15. Akbar, M. A., Shameem, M., Ahmad, J., Maqbool, A., & Abbas, K. (2018, November). Investigation of Project Administration related challenging factors of Requirements Change Management in global software development: A systematic literature review. In 2018 International Conference on Computing, Electronic and Electrical Engineering (ICE Cube) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.

16. Mateen, A., Sehar, M., & Abbas, K. (2017, September). Performance analysis of LEACH with PEGASIS in wired and wireless sensor network. In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Power, Control, Signals and Instrumentation Engineering (ICPCSI) (pp. 2509-2512). IEEE.