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Publication during PhD are available at: [MDHLink]

Theses:

1: Hierarchical scheduling for predictable execution of real-time software components and legacy systems. PhD Thesis. 17 Dec 2014. Sweden.  [PDF] [BibTex]
2. Towards a predictable component-based runtime system. Licentiate Thesis. Jan 2012. Sweden.  [PDF]
3. A* Algorithm for Multicore Graphics Processors. Master Thesis. 2010. Sweden.  [PDF]

Publications (from 2015 till todate) are below:

Journals Publications 

Integrating Systems  of systems with a federation of rule engines. [PDF     

Andrii Berezovskyi, Rafia Inam, Jad El-Khoury, Leonid Mokrushin, Elena Fersman. Journal of Industrial Information Integration, December 2023


Adding Cyber-Physical Systems to the Engineering Education Pi. [PDF     

Claudia Andruetto, Rafia Inam, Martin Törngren. IEEE Journal of Computer, February 2023


BEERL: Both Ends Explanations for Reinforcement Learning. [PDF     

Ahmad Terra, Rafia Inam, Elena Fersman. Journal of Applied Sciences, Special issue “Explainable Artificial Intelligence”, Vol 12, No. 21, November 2022


Edge computing for cyber-physical systems: A systematic mapping study emphasizing trustworthiness 

Jose Manuel Gaspar Sanchez, Nils Jörgensen, Martin Törngren, Rafia Inam, Andrii Berezovskyi, Lei Feng, Elena Fersman, Muhammad Rusyadi Ramli, Kaige Tan. ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, Vol. 1, No. 1, Article 1. Jan 2022


A systematic literature review about the impact of artificial intelligence on autonomous vehicle safety

A. M. Nascimento, L. F. Vismari, C. B. S. Molina, P. S. Cugnasca, J. B. Camargo, J. R. de Almeida, R. Inam, E. Fersman, M. V. Marquezini, A. Y. Hata. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 21 (12), 4928-4946, Dec 2020
A²CPS: A Vehicle-Centric Safety Conceptual Framework for Autonomous Transport Systems [PDF]Jamil K Naufal, João B Camargo, Lucio F Vismari, Jorge R de Almeida, Caroline Molina, Rodrigo Ignacio R González, Rafia Inam, Elena Fersman. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Issue:99, October  2017

Predictable Integration and Reuse of Executable Real-time Components.

Rafia Inam, Jan Carlson, Mikael Sjödin, Jiří Kunčar. Journal of Systems and Software, Volume 91, Number 0, May 2014.


Multi-core Composability in the Face of Memory Bus Contention.

Moris Behnam, Rafia Inam, Thomas Nolte, Mikael Sjödin. SIGBED Review, Special Issue on 5th Workshop on Compositional Theory and Technology for Real-Time Embedded Systems (CRTS'12) (SIGBED REVIEW13), Volume 10, Number 3, October 2013


Implementing and Evaluating Communication- Strategies in the ProCom Component Technology.

Rafia Inam, Mikael Sjödin. SIGBED Review: Special Issue on the 24th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS'12), ISSN: 1551-3688, 2012


Virtual Node - To Achieve Temporal Isolation and Predictable Integration of Real-Time Components.

Rafia Inam, Jukka Mäki-Turja, Jan Carlson, Mikael Sjödin. Journal on Computing, vol 1, nr 4, GSTF Publishing, January 2012


Conferences / Workshops:


Rollout-based Shapley Values for Explainable Cooperative Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning

Franco Ruggeri, William Emanuelsson, Ahmad Terra, Rafia Inam, Karl-Henrik Johansson. IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN), May 2024


Evaluation of Intrinsic Explainable Reinforcement Learning in Remote Electrical Tilt Optimization [PDF]

Franco Ruggeri, Ahmad Terra, Rafia Inam, Karl-Henrik Johansson. 8th International Congress on Information and Communication Technology  (ICICT) , Feb 2023


Safety-based Dynamic Task Offloading for Collaborative Robots using Deep Reinforcement Learning [PDF]        

Franco Ruggeri, Alberto Hata, Ahmad Terra, Rafia Inam, Iolanda Leite. 2022 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems  (IROS), October 2022


Using Counterfactuals to Proactively Solve Service Level Agreement Violations in 5G Networks [PDF]        

A Terra, R Inam, P Batista, E Fersman. 2022 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), July 2022


Model Compression for Resource-Constrained Mobile Devices .        

Timotheos Souroulla, Alberto Hata, Ahmad Terra, Ozer Ozkahraman, Rafia Inam . 22022 IJCAI - Second Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy  (AREA), July 2022


Explainability Metrics and Properties for Counterfactual Explanation Methods [PDF]

Vandita SinghKristijonas Cyras,  Rafia Inam. 4th International Workshop on EXplainable and TRAnsparent AI and Multi-Agent Systems(EXTRAMAAS), Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13283. Springer, Cham May 2022


Industrial Edge-based Cyber-Physical Systems - application needs and concerns for realization [PDF]

Martin Törngren, Haydn Thompson, Erik Herzog, Rafia Inam, James Gross and György Dan. ACM/IEEE 6th Symposium on Edge Computing (SEC) 14-17 December 2021 


Explainable Reinforcement Learning for Human-Robot Collaboration [PDF]

Alessandro Iucci, Alberto Hata,  Ahmad Terra,  Rafia Inam, Iolanda Leite. 20th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR), December 2021


A Comprehensive Study on Artificial Intelligence Algorithms to Implement Safety Using Communication Technologies

Rafia Inam, Alberto Hata, Vlasjov Prifti, Sara Abbaspour Asadollah. Accepted at Journal Wireless Personal Communications. December 2021.


Explainability Methods for Identifying Root-Cause of SLA Violation Prediction in 5G Network

A Terra, R Inam, S Baskaran, P Batista, I Burdick, E FersmanGLOBECOM 2020-2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference, 1-7, 2020

Scene Understanding for Safety Analysis in Human-Robot Collaborative Operations

H Riaz, A Terra, K Raizer, R Inam, A Hata2020 6th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR), 2020

Safety vs. Efficiency: AI-Based Risk Mitigation in Collaborative Robotics

Ahmad Terra, Hassam Riaz, Klaus Raizer, Alberto Hata, Rafia Inam6th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR), 2020

AI for 5G slicing - From reactive to proactive approach

Elena Fersman, Rafia Inam, Jonas Åkesonhttps://www.mobileworldlive.com/ai-for-5g-slicing-from-a-reactive-to …, 2020

AI-based safety analysis for collaborative mobile robots

A Hata, R Inam, K Raizer, S Wang, E Cao2019 24th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory …

Safety vs. Efficiency: AI-Based Risk Mitigation in Collaborative Robotics

RI Ahmad Terra, Hassam Riaz, Klaus Raizer, Alberto Hata6th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR)

Scene Understanding for Safety Analysis in Human-Robot Collaborative Operations

H Riaz, A Terra, K Raizer, R Inam, A Hata2020 6th International Conference on Control, Automation and Robotics (ICCAR …

AI-based safety analysis for collaborative mobile robots

A Hata, R Inam, K Raizer, S Wang, E Cao2019 24th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory …

Efficient State Update Exchange in a CPS Environment for Linked Data-based Digital Twins

A Berezovskyi, R Inam, J El-Khoury, M Törngren, E Fersman2019 IEEE 17th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN) 1 …
Risk Assessment for Human-Robot collaboration in an Automated Warehouse scenarioRafia Inam, Klaus Raizer, Alberto Hata, Ricardo Souza,  Elena Fersman, Enyu Cao, Shaolei Wang.IEEE 23rd International conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'18), Torino, Italy, 4-7 Sep, 2018.[PDF]
A Fuzzy logic, risk-based autonomous vehicle control approach and its impacts on road transportation safetyLucio F Vismari, João B Camargo, Jamil K. Naufal Jr, Caroline Molina, Jorge R de Almeida, Rafia Inam, Elena Fersman, M.V. Marquezini.IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES'18), Madrid  Spain, Sep 12-14 2018.[PDF]
Concerns on the differences between AI and system safety mindsets impacting autonomous vehicles safetyAlexandre M. Nasciment, Lucio F Vismari, PAulo Cugnasca, João B Camargo, Jorge R de Almeida, Rafia Inam, Elena Fersman, Alberto Hata, M.V. Marquezini. In: Gallina B., Skavhaug A., Schoitsch E., Bitsch F. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11094. Springer, Cham, pp 481-486, Sep 18 2018.[PDF]
Enhancing sensor capabilities of open-source simulation tools to support autonomous vehicles safety validationCaroline Molina, Lucio F Vismari, T. Y. Fujii, João B Camargo, Jorge R de Almeida, Rafia Inam, Elena Fersman, Alberto Hata, M.V. Marquezini.In: Gallina B., Skavhaug A., Schoitsch E., Bitsch F. (eds) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11094. Springer, Cham, pp 353-364, Sep 18 2018.[PDF
Safety for Automated Warehouse exhibiting collaborative robotsRafia Inam, Elena Fersman, Klaus Raizer, Ricardo Souza, Amadeu Nascimento Junior, Alberto Hata.28th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL'18), Pages 2021-2028, Trondheim, Norway, June 17-21 2018.[PDF
Assessing autonomous vehicles behavior and their impacts over the Road Transportation Systems safety and efficiency by a simulation-based safety analysis frameworkLucio F Vismari, Caroline Molina, João B Camargo, Jorge R de Almeida, Rafia Inam, Elena Fersman, M.V. Marquezini.28th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL'18), Pages 2067-2075, Trondheim, Norway, June 17-21 2018.[PDF
5G Network Programmability for Mission-Critical ApplicationsRafia Inam, Athanasios Karapantelakis, Leonid Mokrushin, Elena Fersman. Ericsson Technology Review (ETR'18), Kista, Sweden, Jan 2018.[PDF]
A Comparison of Two Simulators to Support Safety Analysis in Autonomous VehiclesCaroline Molina, Rodrigo Ignacio Rojas Gonzlez, Joao B. Camargo Jr, Jorge R. de Almeida Jr, Lucio F. Vismari, Jamil K. Naufal Jr, Rafia Inam, Carlos R. B. Azevedo. 27th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL'17), Portoroz, Slovenia, June 18-22 2017[PDF]
A preliminary analysis of impacts of Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks on traffic safetyTiago Alves Silva, Joao Batista Camargo Junior, Jamil Kalil Naufal Junior, Lucio Flavio Vismari, Rafia Inam, Carlos Azevedo. 27th European Safety and Reliability Conference (ESREL'17), Portoroz,Slovenia, June 18-22 2017[PDF]
Cognitive Automation as an IoT enabler, Tackling IoT Complexity with Machine IntelligenceAneta Vulgarakis Feljan, Athanasios Karapantelakis, Leonid Mokrushin, Rafia Inam, Elena Fersman, Carlos Azevedo, Klaus Raizer, Ricardo Souza. Ericsson Technology Review (ETR'17), Kista, Sweden, April 2017.[PDF]
KMARF: A Framework for Knowledge Management and Automated ReasoningAneta Vulgarakis Feljan, Athanasios Karapantelakis, Leonid Mokrushin, Rafia Inam, Elena Fersman, Carlos Azevedo, Klaus Raizer, Ricardo Souza. Workshop on Development aspects of Intelligent Adaptive Systems (DIAS) with ISEC 2017, Jaipur, India, February 5-7 2017[PDF
Feasibility Assessment to Realise Vehicle Teleoperation using Cellular NetworksRafia Inam, Nicolas Schrammar, Keven Wang, Athanasios Karapantelakis, Leonid Mokrushin, Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan, Elena Fersman. IEEE 19th  International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, November 1-4 2016[PDF]
A Platform to Support Service Lifecycle Management for ITSRafia Inam, Leonid Mokrushin, Athanasios Karapantelakis, Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan,Keven Wang, Hongxin Liang. 23rd  ITS World Congress, Melbourne, Australia, 10–14 October 2016[PDF
DevOps for IoT Applications Using Cellular Networks and CloudAthanasios Karapantelakis, Hongxin Liang, Keven Wang, Konstantinos Vandikas, Rafia Inam, Elena Fersman, Ignacio Mulas-Viela, Nicolas Seyvet and Vasileios Giannokostas. FiCloud 2016: The IEEE 4th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud, 22-24, Vienna, Austria, August 2016[PDF
Towards automated service-oriented lifecycle management for 5G networks (Best Paper)Rafia Inam, Athanasios Karapantelakis, Konstantinos Vandikas, Leonid Mokrushin, Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan, and Elena Fersman. in Proceedings of the IEEE 9th International Workshop on Service-Oriented Cyber-Physical Systems in Converging Networked Environments (SOCNE), City of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, September 8-11 2015[PDF

A Survey on Testing for Cyber Physical System.

Sara Abbaspour Asadollah, Rafia Inam, Hans Hansson. 27th International Conference on Testing Software and Systems (ICTSS'15), Dubai, UAE, November 2015.

 

Compositional Analysis for the Multi-Resource Server.

Rafia Inam, Moris Behnam, Thomas Nolte, Mikael Sjödin. 20th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'15), Luxembourg, September 2015.

 

Towards improved dynamic reallocation of real-time workloads for thermal management on many-cores.

Rafia Inam, Matthias Becker, Moris Behnam, Thomas Nolte, Mikael Sjödin. IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium Work-in-Progress (WiP) session (RTSS'14), Rome, Italy, December 2014.

 

Worst Case Delay Analysis of a DRAM Memory Request for COTS Multicore Architectures.

Rafia Inam, Moris Behnam, Mikael Sjödin. Seventh Swedish Workshop on Multicore Computing (MCC'14), Lund, Sweden, November 2014.

 

Formalization and Verification of Mode Changes in Hierarchical Scheduling.

Yin Hang, Rafia Inam, Reinder J. Bril, Mikael Sjödin. 26th Nordic Workshop on Programming Theory (NWPT'14), Halmstad, Sweden, October 2014.

 

Combating Unpredictability in Multicores through the Multi-Resource Server.

Rafia Inam, Mikael Sjödin. 2nd International Workshop on Virtualization for Real-Time Embedded Systems (VtRES'14), Barcelona, Spain, September 2014.

 

Performance Preservation using Servers for Predictable Execution and Integration.

Rafia Inam. 38th Annual International Computers, Software and Applications Conference (COMPSAC'14), Västerås, Sweden, July 2014.

 

The Multi-Resource Server for Predictable Execution on Multi-core Platforms.

Rafia Inam, Moris Behnam, Thomas Nolte, Mikael Sjödin. 20th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS'14), Berlin, Germany, April 2014

 

Mode-Change Mechanisms support for Hierarchical FreeRTOS Implementation.

Rafia Inam, Mikael Sjödin, Reinder J. Bril. 18th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'13), September 2013

 

Towards Implementing Multi-resource Server on Multi-core Linux Platform.

Rafia Inam, Joris Slatman, Moris Behnam, Mikael Sjödin, Thomas Nolte. 18th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'13), September 2013

 

Real-Time Component Integration using Runnable Virtual Nodes.

Rafia Inam, Jukka Mäki-Turja, Mikael Sjödin, Jiří Kunčar. 38th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA'12), Izmir, Turkey, September 2012

 

Bandwidth Measurement using Performance Counters for Predictable Multicore Software.

Rafia Inam, Mikael Sjödin, Marcus Jägemar. 17th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'12), WiP, September 2012

 

Implementing Hierarchical Scheduling to support Multi-Mode System.

Rafia Inam, Mikael Sjödin, Reinder. J. Bril. 7th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Embedded Systems (SIES'12), WiP, Karlsruhe, Germany, June 2012

 

Support for Hierarchical Scheduling in FreeRTOS.

Rafia Inam, Jukka Mäki-Turja, Mikael Sjödin, S. M. H. Ashjaei, Sara Afshar. 16th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA'11), Toulouse, France, September 2011

 

Towards Resource Sharing by Message Passing among Real-Time Components on Multi-cores.

Farhang Nemati, Rafia Inam, Thomas Nolte, Mikael Sjödin. 16th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA'11), WiP, Toulouse, France, September 2011

 

Hard Real-time Support for Hierarchical Scheduling in FreeRTOS.

Rafia Inam, Jukka Mäki-Turja, Mikael Sjödin, Moris Behnam. 7th annual workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT'11), p 51-60, Porto, Portugal, July 2011

 

A* Algorithm for Graphics Processors.

Rafia Inam, Daniel Cederman (Chalmers University of Technology), Philippas Tsigas (Chalmers University of Technology). THIRD SWEDISH WORKSHOP ON MULTI-CORE COMPUTING (MCC'10), Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, November 2010

 

Using Temporal Isolation to Achieve Predictable Integration of Real-Time Components.

Rafia Inam, Jukka Mäki-Turja, Jan Carlson, Mikael Sjödin. 22nd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time, Systems (ECRTS'10) WiP, p 17-20, Brussels, Belgium, July 2010

 


Patents:


Techniques for Configuring a Reinforcement Learning Agent, US Patent App. 18/286,609 Ajay Kattepur, Rafia Inam, Ahmad Ishtar Terra, Hassam Riaz, Alberto Hata, Somanahalli Krishna, Murthy Prayag Gowgi. June2024.[PDF
Communication nodes and methods åerformed therein for handling packets in an information centric network, US Patent App. 11/973,683 ,  Rafia Inam, L Araujo, H. Liang, N. Lender, L Mokrushin, AV. Feljan, W Keven. April 2024.[PDF
Link change decision-making using RL based on tracked rewards and outcomes in a wireless communication system, US Patent App. 18/278,484 ,  Athanoasious Karapatelakis, Rafia Inam,Elena Fersman, Markus Andersson, David Lindero. April 2024.[PDF
Configuring a Reinforcement Learning Agent based on relative feature contribution, US Patent App. 18/275,580 ,  Ahmad Ishtar Terra, Rafia Inam, Alberto Hata, Ajay Kattepur, Hassam Riaz. April 2024.[PDF
Intelligent Task offloading, US Patent App. 18/278,484 ,  Rafia Inam, Alberto Hata, Franco Ruggeri, Ahmad Ishtar Terra. February 2024.[PDF
A Method, Apparatus, and system for handling an internet protocol packet, US Patent App. 16/314,946,  WANG Keven, Rafia Inam, Hongxin Liang, Leonid Mokrushin. January 2024.[PDF
Platooning of Communication Devices, US Patent App. 18/247,288, 2023  Yifei Yin,  Vijaya Parampalli Yajnanarayana, Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan, Rafia Inam, Alexandros Nikou. January 2024.[PDF]
Network parameter for cellular network based on safety, US Patent App. 18/038,260,  2023  Alberto Hata, Rafia Inam, Maria Valéria Marquezini, Lucio Flavio Vismari, Alexandre Moreira Nascimento, Caroline Bianca Santos Tancredi Molina, João Batista Camargo Jr, Jorge RADY DE ALMEIDA Jr, Paulo CUGNASCA. December 2023.[PDF]
Graph-based systems and methods for controlling for Power Switching of components, US Patent App. 18/027,482, 2023  Selim Ickin, Oleg Gorbatov, Daniel Lindström, Adam Bergkvist, Rafia Inam, Lackis Eleftheriadis. December 2023.[PDF]Radio Network Node and Method Performed therein for Power Control, US Patent App. 18/025,966,  2023  Lackis Eleftheriadis,  Athanasios Karapantelakis, Caner Kilinc, Rafia Inam. December 2023.[PDF]
Method Performed by a Radio Network Node for Determining a Changed Bandwidth Interval, US Patent App. 18/017,521,  2023  Lackis Eleftheriadis, Ramamurthy Badrinath, Rafia Inam, Cecilia Nyström, Alexandros Nikou. November 2023.[PDF]
Identifying wireless devices that have relationship with each other, US Patent App. 17/925,031,  2023  Elena Fersman, Yifei Jin, Rafia Inam. November 2023.[PDF]
Scheduling communication of a wireless communication device in a communication network, US Patent App. 18/025,802, 2023  Lackis Eleftheriadis, Swarup Kumar Mohalic, Athanasios Karapantelakis, Rafia Inam, Ajay Kattepur, Yifei Jin,  Aneta Vulgarakis. Marin Orlic. October 2023.[PDF]
NETWORK NODE AND A METHOD PERFORMED IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORK FOR HANDLING CONFIGURATION OF RADIO NETWORK NODES USING REINFORCEMENT LEARNING, US Patent App. 118/023,857, 2023  Rafia Inam, Kaushik Dey. October 2023.[PDF]
Method and device for hardware identifier-based subscription management, US Patent App. 11,743,733  , 2023  Athanasios Karapantelakis, Ioannis Fikouras, Rafia Inam, Qiang Li, Leonid Mokrushin, Maxim Teslenko, Konstantinos Vandikas, Aneta Vulgarakis. August 2023.[PDF]
Method for filtering data traffic sent to a user device, US Patent App. 17/924,834  , 2023  Athanasios Karapantelakis, Rafia Inam, Marin Orlic, Maxim Teslenko. July 2023.[PDF]
Controlling communications from content server to end device, US Patent App. 17/928,257  , 2023  Selim Ickin, Tor Kvernvik, Rafia Inam, Burak Demirel  . July 2023.[PDF]
Radio network resource sharing based on a distributed ledger, US Patent App. 17/998,502  , 2023  Ajmal Muhammad, Rafia Inam, Athanasios Karapantelakis . June 2023.[PDF]
Network slice internal mapping using unsupervised learning and related apparatus, US Patent App. 17/912,984 , 2023  Pedro Henrique Gomes Da Silva, Mateus Santos, Ricardo Souza, Rafia Inam . June 2023.[PDF]
Optimized model transmission, US Patent App. 17/918,241 , 2023  Bin Sun, Yifei Yin, Rafia Inam. May 2023.[PDF]
Methods, wireless device and nodes for managing reservation of bandwidth, US Patent App. 11,638,180, 2023  Jing Fu, Rafia Inam, Vlasios Tsiatsis, Aneta Vulgarakis. April 2023.[PDF]
Methods for dynamic leader selection for distributed machine learning, US Patent App. 17/766,798, 2023  Farnaz Moradi, Erik Sanders, Yang Zuo,  Rafia Inam. April 2023.[PDF]
Methods and apparatus for propagating data in a wireless cellular network, US Patent App. 11,606,670 Keven Wang, Rafia Inam, Elena Fersman. March 2023.[PDF]
Data Transmission using  Data Prioritization, US Patent App. 17/760,232M. Folkesson, Bin Sun, Rafia Inam, Elena Fersman, Daniel Lindström . March 2023.[PDF]
Methods for Access Security at Operation and Maintenance, O&M, Support , US Patent App. 17/770,423A Karapantelakis, Rafia Inam, Marin Orlic, Bin Sun. December 2022.[PDF]
Frequency Balancing by Power supply Units, US Patent App. 17/772,404 Lackis Eleftheriadis, Yifei Jin, Rafia Inam, Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan, A Karapantelakis, Maxim Teslenko. November 2022.[PDF]
Feature Vector Generation using Neural Networks, US Patent App. 17/770,674, November 2022 Bin Sun, Rafia Inam, Yifei Jin [PDF]   
Methods for Selection of Energy Resource based on Energy rate correlated with Radio Traffic Power Usage and related Apparatus, US Patent App. 17/762,870, November 2022 Gaurav Dixit, Lackis Eleftheriadis, Marios Daoutis, Rafia Inam .[PDF]   
Executing Machine Learning Models, US Patent App. 17/616,369, October 2022 Bin Sun, Rafia Inam, Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan, Konstantinos Vandikas.[PDF]   
Method for Risk Management for autonomous devices and related node, US Patent App. 17/631991, September 2022 Rafia Inam, Alberto Hata, Ahmad Terra.[PDF]   
Dynamic collaboration among cognitive agents managing radio access networks, US Patent App. 17/619363, August 18 2022 Klaus Raizer, Yifei Jin,, André Luis Ogando Paraense,  Ricardo Ribeiro Gudwin, Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan, Rafia Inam, Amadeu Nascimento Junior,  Alberto Hata, Andrii Berezovskyi.[PDF]   
Method, Program and Apparatus for Managing a Tree-Based Learner, US Patent App. 17 / 434,971, June 9 2022 Bin Sun, Yang Zuo, Rafia Inam,  Leonid Mokrushin, Yifei Jin. [PDF]   
Method and System for Root cause Analysis Across Multiple Network Systems, US Patent App. 17 / 593,204, May 15 2022 Athanasios KARAPANTELAKIS, Rafia Inam, Yifei Jin, Ioannis Fikouras, Qiang Li, Konstantinos Vandikas, Michael Buisman. [PDF]

Migration of Computational Service,  US Patent App. 20220104079, Mar 31 2022 Athanasios Karapantelakis, Rafia Inam, Aneta V. Feljan, Adam Bergkvist.[PDF]
Method and apparatus for network resource allocation,  US Patent App. 2022/0053344 A1, Feb 17 2022 Konstantinos Vandikas, Rafia Inam, Athanasios Karapantelakis, Adam Bergkvist.[PDF]
Method and technician allocating  system for allocating a field technician,  US Patent App. 2022/17 / 299 262, Feb 03 2022 Rafia Inam, Yifei Yin, Aneta V Feljan, Daniel Lindström, Jörg Niemöller, Bin Sun[PDF]
Method and devices for hardware identifier-based subscription management,  US Patent App. 2022/0014929 A1 , Jan 13 2022 Athanasios Karapantelakis, Rafia Inam, Qiang Li, Leonid Mokrushin, Maxim TESLENKO, Konstantinos Vandikas, Aneta V Feljan [PDF]
Link Change Decision-Making using Reinforcement Learning based on Tracked Rewards and Outcomes in a Wireless Communication System,  US Patent App. 17/286,065, 2021 Athanasios Karapantelakis, Elena Fersman, Rafia Inam, Markus Andersson, David Lindero,[PDF]
Method and system for automatically protecting radio network equipment in extreme environmental conditions, US Patent App. 17 / 273,345R Inam, L ELEFTHERIADIS, J SHAIKH, D Lindström, November 2021,[PDF]

Method and apparatus for propagating data in wireless cellular network,  US Patent ,  16/332,662,K. Wang, E. Fersman, Rafia Inam.  September, 2021. [PDF
Dynamic allocation and de-allocation of MSISDN to vehicles , US Patent 10,863,315Qiang Li, Rafia Inam, Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan.  August, 2020. [PDF
Method and coordinating node for providing current analysis result relating to a link, US Patent App. 16/754,499,A Karapantelakis, L Eleftheriadis, R Inam.  2020. Network node and method for resource allocation for multiple radio access technologies,A Karapantelakis, R Inam, K Vandikas, AV FELJAN. US Patent 10,798,736, 2020.
First network node, second network node, third network node, wireless device and methods performed thereby, for handling content in an information-centric network,  US Patent App. 16/464,165,R Inam, N Lindqvist, I Pappa, M Teslenko, K Vandikas, AV FELJAN. 2020.
Adapting live content, US Patent App. 16/626,901, A Karapantelakis, R Inam, K Vandikas, W Keven. 2020.
Method and Devices for Hardware Identifier-Based Subscription Management, US Patent App. 16/626,733,A Karapantelakis, I Fikouras, R Inam, Q Li, L Mokrushin, M Teslenko, K Vandikas, AV FELJAN.  2020.
Mobile terminal, a buffering module, and methods therein for uploading a .le in a communications network, US Patent 10,623,997, E Fersman, M Anneroth, R Inam, M Olsson. 2020.
Associating unit, a mobile terminal, and methods therein for setting up bearers, and communicating in a congested communications network, US Patent 10,582,415, R Inam, E Fersman, J Malmodin, S Pierrel.  2020.
Dynamic allocation of radio resources in a wireless networks, US Patent 10,531,306, L Mokrushin, E Fersman, R Inam, A Karapantelakis, M Teslenko. 2020.
Communication nodes and methods performed therein for handling packets in an information centric network, US Patent App. 16/480,397R Inam, L Araujo, H Liang, N Linder, L Mokrushin, AV FELJAN, W Keven. 2019.
A gateway, a cms, a system and methods therein, for assisting a server with collecting data from a capillary device, US Patent App. 16/327,634, Hongxin Liang, Elena Fersman, Rafia Inam, Athanasios KARAPANTELAKIS. June 2019.[PDF
Methods, Wireless Device and Nodes for Managing Reservation of Bandwidth, US Patent App. 16/324,953, Jing Fu, Rafia Inam, Vlasios Tsiatsis, Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan. June 2019.[PDF
Network Node And Method For Resource Allocation For Multiple Radio Access Technologies, US Patent App. 16/092,809, Athanasios Karapantelakis Rafia Inam, Konstantinos Vandikas, Aneta Vulgarakis Feljan. May 2019.[PDF
Unified and distributed connectivity configuration across operators, US Patent App. 15/706,697, K Vandikas, I Fikouras, R Inam, A KARAPANTELAKIS, Q Li, L Mokrushin, A Vulgarakis Feljan. March 2019.[PDF
Method for traffic control entity for controlling vehicle traffic, US Patent App. 16/081,287, C Donovan, E Fersman, Rafia Inam, s Pierrel, V Tsiatsis. Jan 2019.[PDF
A Mobil Terminal, a Buffering Module, and Method Therein for Uploading a File in a Communication Network, US Patent App. 16/067, 187E Fersman, M Anneroth, R Inam, M Olsson, Jan 2019.[PDF
Associating Unit, A Mobile Terminal, And Mthods Therein For Setting Up Bearers, And Communicating in a Congested Communication Network, US Patent App. 16/070, 593, R Inam, E Fersman, J MAlmodin, S Pierrel, Jan 2019.[PDF
Communication Device, First Radio Node, Second Radio Node, and Methods Therein, for Determining Whether to Allow a First Vehicle to Overtake a Vehicle Platoon, US Patent App. 15/757,478, Rafia Inam, E Fersman, A Karapantelakis, K Vandikas. September 2018.[PDF
Dynamic Allocation of Radio Resources in a Wireless Networks, US Patent App. 15/738,907Leonid Mokrushin, Elena Fersman, Rafia Inam, Athanasios Karapantelakis, Maxim Teslenko. June 2018.[PDF
Dynamic allocation of radio resources in a wireless networks, WO 2017003334 A1Leonid Mokrushin, Athanasios KARAPANTELAKIS, Rafia Inam, Maxim TESLENKO, Elena Fersman. January 15 2017. [PDF
Methods and Systems For Providing Updates to and Receiving Data From Devices Having Short Range Wireless Communication Capabilities, US 14/736,842,Konstantinos Vandikas, Elena Fersman, Rafia Inam, Leonid Mokrushin, Leonid Mokrushin. Jun 11, 2015[PDF

White Papers


Trustworthy AI - What it means for Telecom

Jim Reno, Rafia Inam, Attila Ulbert

Ericsson White Paper, 2023


Artificial intelligence in next-generation connected systems 

Viktor Berggren, Rafia Inam, Leonid Mokrushin, Alberto Hata, Jaeseong Jeong, Swarup Mohalik, Julien Forgeat, Stefano Sorrentino 

Ericsson White Paper, Sep 2021

Explainable AI – how humans can trust AI

Rafia Inam, Ahmad Terra, Anusha Mujumdar, Elena Fersman, Aneta VulgarakisEricsson White Paper, April 2021

Technical / Popular Science reports:

Remote operation of vehicles with 5GRafia Inam, Athanasios Karapantelakis, Keven Wang, Nicolas Schrammar, Leonid Mokrushin, Aneta Vulgarakis, Elena Fersman, Viktor BerggrenEricsson Mobility Report (EMR'17), Kista, Sweden, June 2017.[PDF]
Improving Public Transport with 5GLeonid Mokrushin, Rafia Inam, Elena Fersman, Hongxin Liang, Keven Wang, AthanasiosKarapantelakis. Ericsson Mobility Report, On the Pulse of the Networked Society (EMR'15), Kista,Sweden, November 2015.[PDF]

Blog posts:


Four benefits of AI for Security, safety and transparency in telecomRafia Inam, Andrey shorov, Elif Ustundag Soykan, Jim Reno, Raquel BerlangaEricsson Blog Post , Sweden, Jan 2024[Available at]
5G Teleoperate Vehicles for Future Public TransportRafia Inam, Leonid Mokrushin, Elena Fersman, Keven Wang, Athanasios Karapantelakis, Nicolas Schrammar, Aneta Vulgarakis, Viktor Berggren. Research Blog Post , Sweden, June 2017. [Available at]
5G for Improving Urban TransportLeonid Mokrushin, Rafia Inam, Elena Fersman, Hongxin Liang, Keven Wang, AthanasiosKarapantelakis. Research Blog Post , Sweden, November 2015. [Available at]