Publication

Patents

1. A Method for Establishing an End-To-End Route for Traversing Data

1. • Inventors: Farhat Anwar, Aisha Hassan Abdalla Hasgim, Saiful Azad, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Waliu Adisa Shittu, Omer Mahmoud

   • Organization: MIMOS Berhad, Malaysia | Patent No: WO2013100752

2. Multibiometric based Personal Verification using the Fusion of Hand and Finger Stripe Geometry

   • Inventors: Farhat Anwar, Saiful Azad, Arafatur Rahman

   • Patent No: MY-151807-A

3. A System for Automated Lighting System

   • Inventors: Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, et al.

   • Registration No: PI2018000634 (2018)

4. A System for Controlling Street Lighting

   • Inventors: Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, et al.

   • Registration No: UI2018701046 (2018)

Copyrights

1. Vap Code: A Secure Graphical Password For Smart Devices

   • Details: Registration No. LY201700180 (Application Year: 2016)

2. TeKET: A Tree based Keyphrase Extraction Technique

   • Details: Registration No. LY2019002360 (Application Year: 2019)

Books

1. Practical Cryptography: Algorithms & Implementations using C++

   • Editors: Saiful Azad and Al-Sakib Khan Pathan

   • Publisher: CRC Press, USA (2014) | ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2

2. IPTV Delivery Networks: Next Generation Architectures for Live and Video-on-Demand Services

   • Editors: Suliman Mohamed Fati, Saiful Azad, and Al-Sakib Khan Pathan

   • Publisher: Wiley (2018) | ISBN: 978-1-119-39791-5

Journal Articles

1. S.C. Ghoshal, M.M. Hossain, B.C. Das, P. Roy, M.A. Razzaque, Saiful Azad, M.M. Hassan, C. Savaglio, G. Fortino, “VESBELT: An energy-efficient and low-latency aware task offloading in Maritime Internet-of-Things networks using ensemble neural networks,” Future Generation Computer Systems, vol. 161, pp. 572-585, 2024. [ISI Q1, IF 6.2]

2. Saiful Azad, M. Mahmud, K.Z. Zamli, M.S. Kaiser, S. Jahan, M.A. Razzaque, “iBUST: An intelligent behavioural trust model for securing industrial cyber-physical systems,” Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, vol. 238, no. 1, 2024. [ISI Q1, IF 8.5]

3. Saiful Azad, A.A. Neffati, M. Mahmud, M.S. Kaiser, M.R. Ahmed, J. Kamruzzaman, “UDTN-RS: a New Underwater Delay Tolerant Network Routing Protocol for Coastal Patrol and Surveillance,” IEEE Access, vol. 11, 2023. [ISI Q2, IF 3.9]

4. M.B.A. Miah, S. Awang, Saiful Azad, M.M. Rahman, “Keyphrases Concentrated Area Identification from Academic Articles as Feature of Keyphrase Extraction: A New Unsupervised Approach,” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, vol. 13, no. 1, 2022. [Scopus]

5. M.S. Kaiser, M. Mahmud, M.B.T. Noor, N.Z. Zenia, S. Al Mamun, K.M.A. Mahmud, Saiful Azad, et. al., “iWorksafe: Towards Healthy Workplaces During COVID-19 With an Intelligent Phealth App for Industrial Settings,” IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 13814-13828, 2021. [ISI Q1, IF: 4.680]

6. Kamal Z. Zamli, Md Abdule Kader, Saiful Azad, and Bestoun S. Ahmed, “Hybrid Henry Gas Solubility Optimization Algorithm with Dynamic Cluster-to-Algorithm Mapping for Search-based Software Engineering Problems,” Neural Computing and Applications, 2021. [ISI Q1, IF: 4.680]

7. M. Shamim Kaiser, Mufti Mahmud, Manan Binth Taj Noor, Nusrat Zerin Zenia, Shamim Al Mamun, K.M. Abir Mahmud, Saiful Azad, V.N. Manjunath Aradhya, Stephan Punitha, Thomson Stephan, Ramani Kannan, Mohammed Hanif, Tamanna Sharmeen, Tianhua Chen, Amir Hussain, “iWorkSafe: Towards Healthy Workplaces during COVID-19 with an Intelligent pHealth App for Industrial Settings,” IEEE Access, 2020. [ISI Q1, IF: 4.092]

8. Nurul Asyikin Zainal, Saiful Azad, and Kamal Z. Zamli, “An Adaptive Fuzzy Symbiotic Organisms Search Algorithm for General Optimization Problems,” IEEE Access, 2020. [ISI Q1, IF: 4.092]

9. Shah Samiur Rashid, Saiful Azad, Jalal K. C. A., Mohd Hasbi Bin Ab. Rahim, and Kamal Z. Zamli, “Implementation of a Deep Learning Neural Network Model for Partial Optimization of Cellulose Enzyme Production Process,” International Journal of Engineering and Technology, 2020. [Scopus]

10. Gollam Rabby, Saiful Azad, M. Mahmud, K.Z. Zamli, M.M. Rahman, “TeKET: a Tree-Based Unsupervised Keyphrase Extraction Technique,” Cognitive Computation, 2020. [ISI Q1, IF: 4.287]

11. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Taufiq A. Asyhari, Khoirul Anwar, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, “A Cyber-Enabled Mission-Critical System for Post-Flood Response: Exploiting TV White Space as Network Backhaul Links,” IEEE Access, 2019. [ISI Q1, IF: 4.092]

12. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Qusay Medhat Salih, A. Taufiq Asyhari, Saiful Azad, “Traveling distance estimation to mitigate unnecessary handoff in mobile wireless networks,” Annals of Telecommunications, 2019. [ISI Q3, IF: 1.552]

13. Saiful Azad, Noor Elya Afiqah Che Nordin, Nur Nadhirah Ab Rasul, Mufti Mahmud, and Kamal Z. Zamli, “A Secure Hybrid Authentication Scheme using PassPoints and Press Touch Code,” IEEE Access, 2019. [ISI Q1, IF: 4.092]

14. Dilara Ireen Swarna, Saiful Azad, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Arafatur Rahman, "Finding a suitable hop-to-hop busty traffic transmission approach for Underwater Acoustic Networks: handshake-based vs handshake-free MAC protocols," International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, InderScience Publishers, vol. 27, no. 3, Feb 2018. [ISI Q4, IF: 0.705]

15. Saiful Azad, Arafatur Rahman, and Muhammad Nomani Kabir, “An Expanding Neighbourhood Search Technique for Avalanche Search-and-Rescue Operations using Air Ground Collaborative Wireless Networks,” International Journal of Engineering & Technology, 2018. [Scopus]

16. M.R. Ghori, M.A.U. Rahman, Saiful Azad, N. Quosthoni, M.A. Majid, “Hybrid Communication Network Architecture for Palm Oil Supply Chain Traceability (POSCT) System,” Sindh University Research Journal, 2018. [WoS]

17. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Taufiq A. Asyhari, Khoirul Anwar, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, “Collab-SAR: A Collaborative Avalanche Search-And-Rescue Missions Exploiting Hostile Alpine Networks,” IEEE Access, 2018. [ISI Q1, IF: 3.24]

18. Muhammad Nomani Kabir, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Mohamed Mostafa A. Azim, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, “CoPCoNRF: A Model of Connection Probability for Communication Networks under Regional Failures,” International Journal of Critical Infrastructure Protection, Elsevier, 2018. [ISI Q3, IF: 1.5]

19. M.S.A. Noman Ranak, Saiful Azad, Safwan Fathi Bin Mohammad, Kamal Z. Zamli, and Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman, “An Analysis on Vulnerabilities of Password Retrying,” Advanced Science Letters, 2018. [WoS]

20. Tien Fui Yong, Saiful Azad, Mohammed Mostafizur Rahman, Kamal Z. Zamli, Gollam Rabby, “A Highly Accurate PDF-To-Text Conversion System for Academic Papers Using Natural Language Processing Approach,” Advanced Science Letters, 2018. [WoS]

21. Paolo Casari, Saiful Azad, Marco Zanforlin, and Michele Zorzi, “Underwater Delay-Tolerant Routing via Probabilistic Spraying,” IEEE Access, 2018. [ISI Q3, IF: 4.092]

22. Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, Saiful Azad, Rasib Khan, and Luca Caviglione, “Security mechanisms and data access protocols in innovative wireless networks,” International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2018. [ISI Q3, IF: 1.151]

23. M.S.A. Noman Ranak, Saiful Azad, Nur Nadiah Hanim Binti Mohd Nor, Kamal Z. Zamli, “Press touch code: A finger press based screen size independent authentication scheme for smart devices,” PLOS ONE, vol. 12, no. 10, 2017. [ISI Q1, IF: 2.81]

24. Saiful Azad, Md Arafatur Rahman, A. Taufiq Asyhari, Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, “Crowd Associated Network: Exploiting over Smart Garbage Management System,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 186–192, July 2017. [ISI Q1, IF: 10.435]

25. Saiful Azad, Musfiq Rahman, M.S.A. Noman Ranak, B.M.F. Kamal Ruhee, N. Nourin Nisa, Nazrul Kabir, Arafatur Rahman, Jasni M Zain, "VAP Code: A Secure Graphical Password for Smart Devices," Computers & Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, vol. 59, pp. 99–109, April 2017. [ISI Q3, IF: 1.57]

26. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Jahan Ali, Muhammad Nomani Kabir, and Saiful Azad, “A performance investigation on IoT enabled intra-vehicular wireless sensor networks,” International Journal of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering, 2017. [Scopus]

27. Saiful Azad, Khandaker Tabin Hasan, Dip Nandi, and Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, "A High-Throughput Routing Metric for Multi-Hop Underwater Acoustic Networks", Computers & Electrical Engineering, Elsevier, vol. 44, pp. 24–33, May 2015. [ISI Q3, IF: 1.57]

28. Saiful Azad, Paolo Casari, and Michele Zorzi, "Multipath Routing with Limited Cross-Path Interference in Underwater Networks," IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. 465–468, 2014. [ISI Q2, IF: 2.45]

29. Paolo Casari, Cristiano Tapparello, Federico Guerra, Federico Favaro, Ivano Calabrese, Giovanni Toso, Saiful Azad, Riccardo Masiero, Michele Zorzi, “Open-source Suites for the Underwater Networking Community: WOSS and DESERT Underwater,” IEEE Network, vol. 28, no. 5, pp. 38-46, 2014. [ISI Q1, IF: 7.23]

30. Saiful Azad, Paolo Casari, and Michele Zorzi, "The Underwater Selective Repeat Error Control Protocol for Multiuser Acoustic Networks: Design and Parameter Optimization," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, pp. 1-12, 2013. [ISI Q1, IF: 4.95]

31. Farhat Anwar, Aisha Hassan Abdalla, S.M. Sadakatul Bari, Md. Akhtaruzzaman, Mosharrof Hussain Masud, Jannatul Naeem, Saiful Azad, Md. Arafatur Rahman, "Enhancing Performance of MAODV Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Network using Integrated Multiple Metrics Technique (IMMT)," International Journal of Networks and Communications, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 1–6, 2012.

32. Saiful Azad, Arafatur Rahman, Farhat Anwar, "An Enhanced Link Repair Technique for MAODV Routing Protocol," IJCIT, Serial Publications, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1–13, 2011.

33. Md. Arafatur Rahman, Farhat Anwar, Saiful Azad, “Integrated Metric-Ad Hoc On-Demand Distance Vector: A Routing Protocol over Wireless Mesh Networks,” Journal of Computer Science, vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 511–518, 2009. [Scopus]

34. Farhat Anwar, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, “Multibiometric Systems Based Verification Technique,” EJSR, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 260–270, Jul. 2009. [Scopus]

35. Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Aisha H. Abdalla, Akhmad Unggul Priantoro, Omer Mahmoud, “Performance Comparison of Proactive and Reactive Multicast Routing Protocols over Wireless Mesh Networks,” IJCSNS, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 55–62, 2009.

36. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, “Performance Analysis of On-Demand Routing Protocols in Wireless Mesh,” Informatica Economică, vol. 13, no. 2, pp. 120–127, 2009.

37. Farhat Anwar, Saiful Azad, Md. Arafatur Rahman, and Mohammad Moshee Uddin, “Performance Analysis of Ad hoc Routing Protocols in Mobile WiMAX Environment,” IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 353–360, Sep. 2008. [Scopus]

38. Saiful Azad, Arafatur Rahman and Farhat Anwar, “A Performance Comparison of Proactive and Reactive Routing Protocols of Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET),” Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 891–896, 2007. [Scopus]

39. Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, “An Efficient Technique for Human Verification Using Finger Stripes Geometry,” International Journal of Soft Computing, vol. 2, no. 3, pp. 445–449, 2007. [Scopus]

Conference Articles

1. J. Islam, M. Ataullha and Saiful Azad, "PyBangla at BLP-2025 Task 2: Enhancing Bangla-to-Python Code Generation with Iterative Self-Correction and Multilingual Agents," Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Bangla Language Processing (BLP-2025), Mumbai, India, 2025, pp. 566-570. [Scopus]

2. A.A. Masud, A.A. Fahim, Saiful Azad and K.I.U. Ahmed, "Quality-Based Evidence Summarization for Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)," 2025 IEEE 7th International Conference on Sustainable Technologies For Industry 5.0 (STI), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2025, pp. 1-6. [Scopus]

3. P. Mahanta, I. Mahamud, N. Hasan, K.H. Emad and Saiful Azad, "EDNeuFTM: Enhanced Deep NeuroFusion Topic Modeling with NeuroCapsule," 2025 IEEE 7th International Conference on Sustainable Technologies For Industry 5.0 (STI), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2025, pp. 1-6. [Scopus]

4. M.H. Hasan, S. Podder, S. Abdullah, Saiful Azad, S.C. Das and M. Ataullha, "D-D3N: Dropout-Regularized Deep Neural Networks for Android Malware Detection," 2025 4th IEEE International Conference on Robotics, Automation, Artificial-intelligence and Internet-of-Things, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2025. [Scopus]

5. P. Mahanta, I. Mahamud, N. Hasan, K.H. Emad and Saiful Azad, "A Capsule-Based Model for Keyphrase Extraction from Short Texts Using Variational Inference and Transformer Embeddings," 2025 IEEE 7th International Conference on Sustainable Technologies For Industry 5.0 (STI), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2025, pp. 1-6. [Scopus]

6. S. Ahmed, S. Rahman, Saiful Azad, S. Wadith, "Enhancing CNN Model by Incorporating Upscaling and Downscaling Techniques for Image Classification," Proceedings of the 2024 6th International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information & Communication Technology (ICEEICT), 2024. [Scopus]

7. A. Mahanta, M.O.B. Nur, R. Islam, Saiful Azad, S. Wadith, M. Mahmud, M.S. Kaiser, "EHHGSO: Enhancing Hybrid Hugo Gas Solubility Optimization Algorithm Using Backtracking Technique," Proceedings of the 2023 5th International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Industry 5.0 (STI), 2023. [Scopus]

8. S. Rahman, K.H. Emad, Saiful Azad, M. Mahmud, M.S. Kaiser, "An Article Recommendation Technique from a Multi-Layer Reference Article Graph for Facilitating Chronological Learning," Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Trends in Computational and Cognitive Engineering (TCCE), 2022. [Scopus]

9. Saiful Azad, M. Ariful Hoque, N.A. Rimon, M.M.S. Habib, M. Mahmud, M.S. Kaiser, M.R. Karim, "A Reviewer Recommender System for Scientific Articles Using a New Similarity Threshold Discovery Technique," 2022 4th International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Industry 4.0 (STI), 2022. [Scopus]

10. V.G. Mohan, A.F.M. Ali, B.L. Vijayan, Saiful Azad, M.A.B. Ameedeen, "A Supervised Neural Network-based predictive model for petrochemical wastewater treatment dataset," First International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Information and Communication Technologies (ICEEICT), IEEE, 2022. [Scopus]

11. V.G. Mohan, M.A. Ameedeen, Saiful Azad, "A Supervised Learning Neural Network Approach for the Prediction of Supercapacitive Energy Storage Materials," Recent Trends in Mechatronics Towards Industry 4.0, vol. 1, pp. 849–858, 2022. [Scopus]

12. Saiful Azad, A.S. Saleh, M. Mahmud, M.S. Kaiser, M.S. Miah, "A Behavioral Trust Model for Internet of Healthcare Things Using an Improved FP-Growth Algorithm and Naïve Bayes Classifier," 3rd International Conference on Sustainable Technologies for Industry 4.0 (STI), IEEE, 2021. [Scopus]

13. M.B.A. Miah, S. Awang, Saiful Azad, "Region-based distance analysis of keyphrases: A new unsupervised method for extracting keyphrases feature from articles," International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems and 4th International Conference on Computational Science and Information Management (ICSECS-ICOCSIM), 2021. [Scopus]

14. M.S.U. Miah, J. Sulaiman, Saiful Azad, K.Z. Zamli, R. Jose, "Comparison of document similarity algorithms in extracting document keywords from an academic paper," International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems and 4th International Conference on Computational Science and Information Management (ICSECS-ICOCSIM), 2021. [Scopus]

15. V.N.M. Aradhya, M. Mahmud, M. Chowdhury, D.S. Guru, M.S. Kaiser, Saiful Azad, "Learning Through One Shot: A Phase by Phase Approach for COVID-19 Chest X-ray Classification," IEEE-EMBS Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Sciences (IECBES), 2020. [Scopus]

16. A.F.B. Welhendri, Saiful Azad, and M.S.A. Noman Ranak, “A Supervised Learning Neural Network Approach for the Prediction of Supercapacitive Energy Storage Materials," Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, 2020. [Scopus]

17. A.F.B. Welhendri, Saiful Azad, and M.S.A. Noman Ranak, “A Hybrid Screen Size Independent Authentication Scheme for Smart Devices," IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2020. [Scopus]

18. M.S.U. Miah, M.S. Tahsin, Saiful Azad, G. Rabby, M.S. Islam, S. Uddin, and M. Masuduzzaman, “A Geofencing-based Recent Trends Identification from Twitter Data," IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2020. [Scopus]

19. G. Rabby, Saiful Azad, P. Casari, K.Z. Zamli, M.M. Rahman, “A Flexible Keyphrase Extraction Technique for Academic Literature," Procedia Computer Science, 2018. [Scopus]

20. N.S.B.A. Halim, M.A. Rahman, Saiful Azad, M.N. Kabir, "Blockchain Security Hole: Issues and Solutions," International Conference of Reliable Information and Communication Technology (IRICT 2017): Recent Trends in Information and Communication Technology, pp. 739–746, May 2017.

21. Saiful Azad, L. Badia, A. Rahman, and J.M. Zain, "Raising fairness issue of vehicle routing problem," ICITE 2016, Singapore. [Scopus]

22. M.I.B. Ismail, M.A. Rahman, and Saiful Azad, "Exploiting Privacy-Policy and -Management Features on Social Networks: A User’s Perspective," ICCCE 2016, Malaysia. [Scopus]

23. A.M.H. Abbas, J. Ali, M.A. Rahman, and Saiful Azad, "Comparative Investigation on CSMA/CA-Based MAC protocols for Scalable Networks," ICCCE 2016, Malaysia. [Scopus]

24. S.Y. Liew, Saiful Azad, H.G. Goh, B.Y. Ooi, and A. Rahman, "A Store-and-delivery Based MAC Protocol for Air-ground Collaborative Wireless Networks for Precision Agriculture," The 3rd International Workshop on Internet of Things Technologies (IoTT 2015), Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 14–17, 2015. [Scopus]

25. M.A. Rahman, M.N. Kabir, J. Ali, and Saiful Azad, "On mitigating Hop-to-Hop Congestion Problem in IoT Enabled Intra-Vehicular Communication," Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems (ICSECS '15), Kuantan, Malaysia, Aug. 19–21, 2015. [Scopus]

26. Saiful Azad, P. Casari, K.T. Hasan, M. Zorzi, “MACA-APT: A MACA-based Adaptive Packet Train Transmission Protocol for Underwater Acoustic Networks,” Proc. of ACM WUWNet, Rome, Italy, Nov. 12–14, 2014. [Scopus]

27. M.R. Islam, Saiful Azad, and M.M. Morshed, "A Secure Communication Suite for Cluster-based Underwater Surveillance Networks", Proc. of the 1st International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology (ICEEICT 2014), Dhaka, Bangladesh. [Scopus]

28. E.H. Cherkaoui, Saiful Azad, P. Casari, L. Toni, N. Agoulmine, and M. Zorzi, “Packet Error Recovery in Multipath Underwater Networks using Reed-Solomon Codes,” Proc. MTS/IEEE OCEANS, Virginia, USA, Oct. 2012. [Scopus]

29. Saiful Azad, P. Casari, M. Zorzi, "Coastal Patrol and Surveillance Networks using AUVs and Delay-Tolerant Networking,” Proc. of MTS/IEEE OCEANS, Yeosu, South Korea, May 2012. [Scopus]

30. R. Masiero, Saiful Azad, F. Favaro, M. Petrani, G. Toso, F. Guerra, P. Casari, M. Zorzi, “DESERT Underwater: an NS-Miracle-based framework to DEsign, Simulate, Emulate and Realize Test-beds for Underwater Network Protocols,” Proc. of MTS/IEEE OCEANS, Yeosu, South Korea, May 2012. [Scopus]

31. M. Goetz, Saiful Azad, P. Casari, I. Nissen, M. Zorzi, “Jamming-Resistant Multi-path Routing for Reliable Intruder Detection in Underwater Networks,” Proc. of ACM WUWNet, Seattle, Washington, USA, Dec. 1–2, 2011. [Scopus]

32. Saiful Azad, P. Casari, F. Guerra, M. Zorzi, “On ARQ Strategies over Random Access Protocols in Underwater Acoustic Networks,” Proc. of IEEE/OES OCEANS, Santander, Spain, Jun. 2011. [Scopus]

33. Saiful Azad, P. Casari, C. Petrioli, R. Petroccia, M. Zorzi, “On the Impact of the Environment on MAC and Routing in Shallow Water Scenarios,” Proc. of IEEE/OES OCEANS, Santander, Spain, Jun. 2011. [Scopus]

34. F. Anwar, Saiful Azad, M.A. Rahman, S.M.S. Bari, M.M. Masud, “Improved link repair technique for multicast routing in Wireless Mesh Network,” Proc. of 4th International Conference on Mechatronics (ICOM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 17–19, 2011. [Scopus]

35. M. Ahmed, M.M. Uddin, Saiful Azad, S. Haseeb, “Performance Analysis on a Limited Resource Server: Fedora vs. Ubuntu Linux,” Proc. of the 2010 Spring Simulation Multiconference (SpringSim), Orlando, FL, USA, Apr. 12–15, 2010. [Scopus]

36. M.A. Rahman, F. Anwar, Saiful Azad, “Smart Card Design To Enhance Fare Collection For Public Transportation Sector In Bangladesh,” Proc. of International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems (ICSECS ’09), Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia, Oct. 19–21, 2009.

37. M.A. Rahman, Saiful Azad, F. Anwar, “Integrating Multiple Metrics to Improve the Performance of a Routing Protocol over Wireless Mesh Network,” Proc. of International Conference on Signal Processing Systems (ICSPS 2009), Singapore, pp. 784–787, 2009. [Scopus]

38. M.A. Rahman, Saiful Azad, F. Anwar, A.H. Abdalla, “A Simulation Based Performance Analysis of Reactive Routing Protocols in Wireless Mesh Networks,” Proc. of International Conference on Future Networks (ICFN 2009), Bangkok, Thailand, Mar. 7–9, 2009. [Scopus]

39. Saiful Azad, F. Anwar, M.A. Rahman, “Performance of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols in Mobile WiMAX Environment,” Trends in Communication Technologies and Engineering Science, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol. 33, Springer. [Scopus]

40. M.A. Rahman, Saiful Azad, F. Anwar, M.R. Islam, “Design of Smart Card for Automated Toll Collection at Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge in Bangladesh,” Proc. of 5th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2008), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec. 20–22, 2008. [Scopus]

41. M.R. Islam, M.A. Rahman, E. Hossain, Saiful Azad, “Rain Fade Analysis on Earth-Space Microwave Link in a Subtropical Region,” Proc. of 5th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2008), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec. 20–22, 2008. [Scopus]

42. M.A. Rahman, Saiful Azad, F. Anwar, “The Efficient Use of Lifetime to Enhance the Performance of AODV,” Proc. of 4th International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia at UNITEN (ICIMU ’08), Malaysia, Nov. 17–19, 2008.

43. Saiful Azad, M.A. Rahman, F. Anwar, “A Simulation and Analysis of Tree and Mesh based Multicast Routing Protocols in Wireless Mesh Networks,” Proc. of 4th International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia at UNITEN (ICIMU ’08), Malaysia, Nov. 17–19, 2008.

44. A. Rahman, F. Anwar, Saiful Azad, “A Simple and Effective Technique for Human Verification with Hand Geometry,” Proc. of International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '08), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 13–15, 2008. [Scopus]

45. Saiful Azad, M.M. Uddin, F. Anwar, M.A. Rahman, “Performance Evaluation of Wireless Routing Protocols in Mobile WiMAX Environment,” Proc. of IAENG International Conference on Communication Systems and Applications, Hong Kong, Mar. 19–21, 2008.

46. M.A. Rahman, Saiful Azad, S.M. Kamruzzaman and M.J. Rahman, “A Performance Comparison of Proactive and Reactive Routing Protocols of Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET),” Proc. of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Dec. 21–23, 2006.

Book Chapters

1. A. Bhowmik, S.M.R. Gafur, A. Rafid, Saiful Azad, M. Mahmud, M.S. Kaiser, "User Awareness for Securing Social Networks," Securing Social Networks in Cyberspace, pp. 3–15, 2021. [ISBN: 978-0-36-768173-9]

2. M.S.A. Noman Ranak, Saiful Azad, B.M.F. Kamal Ruhee, N. Nourin Nisa, Nazrul Kabir, M.M. Rahman, K.Z. Zamli, “IPTV Network Security: Threats and Countermeasures,” IPTV Delivery Networks: Next Generation Architectures for Live and Video-on-Demand Services, Wiley, 2018. [ISBN: 978-1-119-39791-5]

3. Saiful Azad, M. Rahman, K.T. Hasan, and D. Nandi, "Comparison of non-probing based routing metrics for a static Multi-Hop Underwater Acoustic Networks," Simulation Technologies in Networking and Communications: Selecting the Best Tool for the Test, CRC Press, USA. [ISBN: 978-1-48-222549-5]

4. S.S. Abdullah and Saiful Azad, “Classical Cryptographic Algorithms,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA. [ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2]

5. S.S. Abdullah and Saiful Azad, “Rotor Machine,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA. [ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2]

6. T. Islam, M.A. Kashem, and Saiful Azad, “Block Cipher,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA. [ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2]

7. E. Islam and Saiful Azad, “Data Encryption Standard,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA. [ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2]

8. A.U. Rahman, S.M. Miah, and Saiful Azad, “Advanced Encryption Standard,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA. [ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2]

9. N. Sultana and Saiful Azad, “Asymmetric Key Algorithms,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA. [ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2]

10. S. Andalib and Saiful Azad, “The RSA Algorithm,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA. [ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2]

11. H. Rahman and Saiful Azad, “Elliptic Curve Cryptography,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA. [ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2]

12. S.H. Mukta and Saiful Azad, “Secure Hash Algorithm,” Practical Cryptography: Algorithms and Implementations using C++, CRC Press, USA. [ISBN: 978-1-48-222889-2]

13. Saiful Azad, A. Rahman, and F. Anwar, “Performance Evaluation of Wireless Routing Protocols in Mobile WiMAX Environment,” Trends in Communication Technologies and Engineering Science, Editors: S.I. Ao, X. Huang, P.A. Wai, Springer, 2009. [Invited Book Chapter | ISBN: 978-1-4020-9492-7]

Datasets

1. Saiful Azad, M. Mahmud, M. A. Haque, N. A. Rimon, M. S. Habib, and M. M. Rahman, “ARData: A Comprehensive Dataset for Reviewer Selection and Expertise Matching for Article Evaluation,” Zenodo, Feb. 26, 2025. [DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14933523]

Extended Abstracts & Posters

1. Federico Favaro, Saiful Azad, Paolo Casari, Michele Zorzi, “On the Performance of Unsynchronized Distributed MAC Protocols in Deep Water Acoustic Networks,” WUWNet, Seattle, Washington, USA, Dec. 1–2, 2011. [Scopus]

2. Riccardo Masiero, Saiful Azad, Federico Favaro, Matteo Petrani, Giovanni Toso, Federico Guerra, Paolo Casari, Michele Zorzi, “DESERT Underwater: an NS-Miracle based framework to DEsign, Simulate, Emulate and Realize Test-beds for Underwater network protocols,” 9th Italian Networking Workshop, Courmayeur, Italy, Jan. 11–13, 2012.

Acknowledged In Works

1. Federico Favaro, Paolo Casari, Federico Guerra, Michele Zorzi, “Data Upload from a Static Underwater Network to an AUV: Polling or Random Access?,” Proc. of MTS/IEEE OCEANS, Yeosu, South Korea, May 2012.

2. Federico Favaro, Master's Thesis: "Studio Simulativo e Sviluppo di protocolli di accesso al mezzo per retiacustichesottomarine," University of Padova, Italy, 2011–2012.

3. Marco Zanforlin, Master's Thesis: "Progetto e simulazione di un algoritmo di instradamento per retimobilisottomarine a bassaconnettività," University of Padova, Italy, 2012–2013.