NEWS
The book proposal is accepted by CRC Press, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, titled "Green Machine-Learning Protocols for Future Communication Networks"
Our paper made its place in the 50 most popular papers in IEEE Communication Surveys and Tutorials in the month of February and March 2021.
Paper is published in IEEE Communication Surveys & Tutorials (IEEE COMST), August 2020.
Serving as TPC member in ACM, 1st International Workshop on Nanoscale Computing, Communication, and Applications (NanoCoCoA), 2020.
Journal paper accepted in Elsevier, Adhoc Networks, "A cognitive radio-based fully blind multihop rendezvous protocol for unknown environments", 2020.
Serving as a Technical Program Committee member in 1st Mosharaka International Conference on 5G and Beyond Mobile Communications and Computing (MIC-5G&Beyond 2020).
Serving as a Technical Program Committee member in 14th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications, Elsevier (FCN), 2020.
IEEE membership rank has been elevated to Senior Member (August 2019).
Serving as a Technical Program Committee member in 14th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications, Elsevier (FCN), 2019.
Serving as a Technical Program Committee Co-chair and Publicity Chair for UBTCN workshop in IEEE INFOCOM, 2019.
Workshop proposal has been accepted on Ultra-High Broadband Terahertz Communication for 5G and Beyond Networks (UBTCN) in IEEE INFOCOM, 2019.
Appointed as Associate Editor for Elsevier Computer and Electrical Engineering Journal (August 2018)
Successfully defended PhD Thesis on 12th March, 2018.
PhD Thesis submitted on 22nd January, 2018.
Awarded with "Best student paper award" on 2nd December 2015 for the following paper:
S. Ghafoor, K. N. Brown and C. J. Sreenan, "Experimental evaluation of a software defined radio-based prototype for a disaster response cellular network," 2nd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Disaster Management (ICT-DM), Rennes, 2015, pp. 57-63.
Elsevier, Computer and Electrical Engineering Journal awarded "Best reviewer for 2013".
Elsevier, Computer and Electrical Engineering Journal awarded "Best reviewer for 2014".
The following paper is among the most cited article in Elsevier Computer and Electrical Engineering since 2012. [link]
Saim Ghafoor, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Sunghyun Cho, Sung-Han Park, "An effcient trajectory design for mobile sink in a wireless sensor network", Computers & Electrical Engineering, Volume 40, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2089-2100.