MUHAMMAD SAJID HAROON  received a B.Sc. degree in electronics engineering from the International Islamic University Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2007, and an M.S. degree in electrical engineering from the COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan, in 2013. He completed his Ph.D. degree at the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology,  Pakistan, in 2020. With six years of practical experience in Operations and Maintenance within the commercial cellular network sector, he has a proven track record. Furthermore, he has made significant contributions to the field of wireless communication by publishing numerous impactful research articles in renowned journals. He is currently a postdoc researcher at Hanyang University, Ansan, South Korea.  His research interests include interference mitigation in cellular networks, 5G and 6G cellular networks, stochastic processes, aerial jammers, complex problems, Optimization, and metaheuristics algorithms.

Journal Publications (Cumulative I.F = 65.752)

1. Abbas, Z.H., Haroon, M.S., Muhammad, F., Abbas, G. and Li, F.Y., 2020. Enabling Soft Frequency Reuse and Stienen's Cell Partition in Two-Tier Heterogeneous Networks: Cell Deployment and Coverage Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. IF = 6.8

2. Haroon, M.S., Chae, S.H. and Jeon, S.W., 2023. Outage analysis for multi-radio heterogeneous networks in the presence of aerial jammers. ICT Express. IF= 5.4

3.     Abbas, Z.H., Haroon, M.S., Abbas, G. and Muhammad, F., 2020. SIR analysis for non-uniform HetNets with joint decoupled association and interference management. Computer Communications. IF =  6

4.     Muhammad, F., Haroon, M.S., Abbas, Z.H., Abbas, G., and Kim, S. 2019. Uplink Interference Management for HetNets Stressed by Clustered Wide-Band Jammers. IEEE Access. IF = 3.9

5.     Abbas, Z.H., Abbas, G., Haroon, M.S. and Muhammad, F., S. 2019. Analysis of Interference Management in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks in the Presence of Wideband Jammers. IEEE Com. Letters. IF= 4.1

6.   Haroon, M.S., Muhammad, F., Abbas, Z.H., Abbas, G., Ahmed, N. and Kim, S., 2020. Proactive Uplink Interference Management for Nonuniform Heterogeneous Cellular Networks. IEEE Access. IF= 3.9

7.   Haroon, M.S., Muhammad, F., Abbas, G., Abbas, Z.H., Hassan, A.K., Waqas, M. and Kim, S., 2020. Interference management in ultra-dense 5G networks with excessive drone usage. IEEE Access, 8, pp.102155-102164. IF= 3.9

8.   Arif, M., Wyne, S., Navaie, K., Haroon, M.S. and Qureshi, S., 2020. Clustered jamming in aerial HetNets with decoupled access. IEEE Access, 8, pp.142218-142228. IF= 3.9

9.   Arif, M., Wyne, S., Navaie, K., Haroon, M.S. and Qureshi, S., 2020. Dual connectivity in decoupled aerial HetNets with reverse frequency allocation and clustered jamming. IEEE Access, 8, pp.221454-221467. IF= 3.9

10.  Arif, M., Kim, W. and Haroon, M.S., 2021. Coverage probability of aerial heterogeneous networks disrupting dual connectivity in the Presence of Jammers. AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications, p.154073. IF = 3.2

11.  Haroon, M.S., Abbas, Z.H., Abbas, G. and Muhammad, F., 2019. Coverage analysis of ultra-dense heterogeneous cellular networks with interference management. Wireless Networks, pp.1-13. IF= 3

12.  Haroon, M.S., Abbas, Z.H., Muhammad, F. and Abbas, G., 2019. Coverage analysis of cell‐edge users in heterogeneous wireless networks using Stienen's model and RFA scheme. International Journal of Communication Systems, p.e4147. IF= 2.1

13.  Abbas, Z.H., Abbas, G., Haroon, M.S., Muhammad, F., and Kim, S. 2019. Proactive Uplink Interference Mitigation in HetNets Stressed by Uniformly Distributed Wide-band Jammers. MDPI Electronics. IF= 2.9

14.  Qasim, M., Haroon, M.S., Imran, M., Muhammad, F. and Kim, S., 2020. 5G cellular networks: Coverage analysis in the presence of inter-cell interference and intentional jammers. Electronics, 9(9), p.1538. IF= 2.9

15.  Haroon, M.S., Abbas, Z.H., Muhammad, F. and Abbas, G., 2019. Analysis of coverage-oriented small base station deployment in heterogeneous cellular networks. Physical Communication. IF= 2.2

16.  Ghonaim, S.M., Khan, S., Althobiani, F., Alghaffari, S., Khan, S., Irfan, M., Haroon, M.S. and Muhammad, F., 2023. Interference mitigation in intentional jammers aided non-uniform heterogeneous cellular networks. Plos one, 18(6), p.e0287709. IF= 3.752

17.   Saqib, N.U., Haroon, M.S., Jeon, S.W.,  2020. THz Communications: A Key Enabler for Future Cellular Networks . IEEE Access,   IF= 3.9

Conference Publications

1.   Haroon, M.S., Abbas, Z.H., Abbas, G. and Muhammad, F., 2018, November. Analysis of interference mitigation in heterogeneous cellular networks using soft frequency reuse and load balancing. In 2018 28th International Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference (ITNAC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

2. Haroon, M.S., Ahmad, S. and Khan, J.A., 2014, January. LLR-based Erasure Decoding of SFH-MFSK in the presence of tone jamming. In Proceedings of 2014 11th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences & Technology (IBCAST) Islamabad, Pakistan, 14th-18th January, 2014 (pp. 453-457). IEEE.

3. Saqib, N.U., Haroon, M.S., Song, H.G. and Jeon, S.W., 2021. Capacity Analysis for mmWave Communication Systems Based on 3D Spatial Propagation Models. 한국통신학회 학술대회논문집, pp.572-573. 

4. Haroon, M.S., Saqib, N.U., Song, H.G. and Jeon, S.W., 2021. mmWave Path-loss, Joint Rain and Gas losses Effect Analysis Based on ITU Street Canyons Scenarios. 한국통신학회 학술대회논문집, pp.570-571.