Publications

Journals 

1. Muhammad Zubair Iftikhar, Kashif Imran, Muhammad Imran Akbar, Saim Ghafoor, "Optimal distributed generators allocation with various load models under load growth using a meta-heuristic technique", Elsevier Renewable Energy Focus, Volume 49, June 2024.

2. S. Ghafoor, "Book Reviews," in IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 59, no. 6, pp. 5-5, June 2021.

3. Saim Ghafoor, Noureddine Boujnah, Mubashir H. Rehmani, Alan Davy, "MAC Protocols for Terahertz Communication: A Comprehensive Survey", IEEE Communication Surveys & Tutorials, August 2020. 

4. Saim Ghafoor, Cormac J. Sreenan and Kenneth N. Brown , "A cognitive radio-based fully blind multihop rendezvous protocol for unknown environments". Elsevier Adhoc Networks, 2020. 

5. Saim Ghafoor, Noureddine Boujnah, Mubashir H. Rehmani, Alan Davy, "MAC Protocols for Terahertz Communication: A Comprehensive Survey". CoRR, abs/1904.11441, 2019.

6. Saim Ghafoor, Paul D. Sutton, Cormac J. Sreenan and Kenneth N. Brown, "Cognitive radio for disaster response networks: survey, potential, and challenges," in IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 5, pp. 70-80, October 2014.

7. Saim Ghafoor, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Sunghyun Cho, Sung-Han Park, "An efficient trajectory design for mobile sink in a wireless sensor network", Computers & Electrical Engineering, Volume 40, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2089-2100.

Conferences

1. Muhammad Absaruddin, Saim Ghafoor, and Mubashir Husain Rehmani, "Comparative Analysis of THz MAC protocol for Wireless Data Center", EAI WICON, December, 2023 (accepted)

2. Sean Ahearne, Niamh O’Mahony, Noureddine Boujnah, Saim Ghafoor, Alan Davy, Luis Gonzalez Guerrero, Cyril Renaud, "Integrating THz Wireless Communication Links in a Data Centre Network", IEEE 2nd 5G World Forum (5GWF), 2019. 

3. Noureddine Boujnah, Saim Ghafoor, Alan Davy. "Impact of channel errors and data aggregation on throughput in THz communications", ACM Nanocom 2019, Dublin, Ireland, Article 38, September 2019.

4. Noureddine Boujnah, Saim Ghafoor, and Alan Davy. "Modeling and Link Quality Assessment of THz Network Within Data Center". In European Conference on Networks and Communications (EuCNC): Wireless, Optical and Satellite Networks (WOS) (EuCNC2019 - WOS) , June 2019.

5. Saim Ghafoor, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan,"Cognitive Radio Policy based Adaptive Blind Rendezvous Protocols for Disaster Response", 12th International Conference on Cognitive Radio Oriented Wireless Networks (CROWNCOM), Lisbon, Portugal, September 2017.

6. Saim Ghafoor, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac 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. (Best Student Paper Award)

7. Mukesh Kumar Rathi, Saim Ghafoor and Jong-Kyu Lee,"Data dissemination in low duty-cycle multi-channel multi-hop wireless sensor networks," 2nd International Conference on Computer Engineering and Technology, Chengdu, 2010, pp. 258-262.

8. Saim Ghafoor, Sunghyun Cho, Park Sung Han, "Dynamic Trajectory Design of Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Network", 24th International Technical Conference on Circuits/Systems, Computers and Communication, ITC-CSCC 2009, July 2009.

Posters

1. Saim Ghafoor, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan, "Blind Rendezvous Protocols for Cognitive Radio Based Disaster Response" (Submitted)

2. Saim Ghafoor, Kenneth N. Brown and Cormac J. Sreenan, "A prototype for resuming services in a post disaster situation" Department of Computer Science, University College Cork, Ireland, 2016.