Publications

Books/Book Chapters

• [Book chapter] McNally, Michael G., Rezwana Rafiq, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, et al. "Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Telecommuting and Travel." Pandemic in the Metropolis. Springer, Cham, 2023. 217-232. [Book link]

Journals

• Sarawat Murtaza Sara, Ravi Chandra Thota, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Majid Bani-Yaghoub, Mohamed Nezar Abourraja, Gary Sutkin, "Patient Flow Modeling and Simulation to Study HAI Incidence in an Emergency Department", Elsevier Smart Health. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.smhl.2024.100467

• Rafiq, R., McNally, M. G., & Uddin, M. Y. S. (2022). "Telecommuting and Travel during COVID-19: An Exploratory Analysis across Different Population Geographies in the U.S.A." Transportation Research Record, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981221109182

• Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, and Rezwana Rafiq. "Characterizing Pandemic Waves: A Latent Class Analysis of COVID-19 Spread across US Counties." Pattern Recognition Letters (2022). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2022.08.017

• Rafiq R, McNally MG, Sarwar Uddin Y, Ahmed T. "Impact of working from home on activity-travel behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An aggregate structural analysis." Transp Res Part A Policy Pract. 2022;159:35-54. doi:10.1016/j.tra.2022.03.003

• Rezwana Rafiq, Tanjeeb Ahmed, and Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin. "Structural Modeling of COVID-19 Spread in Relation to Human Mobility" Elsevier Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2021): 100528.

• Steven Jacobs, Xikui Wang, Michael J Carey, Vassilis J Tsotras, Yusuf Sarwar Uddin. "BAD to the Bone: Big Active Data at its Core", The VLDB Journal, 2020.

• Nailah Alhassoun, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Nalini Venkatasubramanian. "Context-Aware Energy Optimization for Perpetual IoT-Based Safe Communities"  Elsevier Journal of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM), volume 22, pages 96-106, 2019.

• Mahmudur Rahman, Amatur Rahman, Afia Afrin, Hua-Jun Hong, Li-Wen Pan, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Cheng-Hsin Hsu, "An Adaptive IoT Platform on Budgeted 3G Data Plans", Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture, Volume 97, August 2019, Pages 65-76.

• Qiuxi Zhu, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Zhijing Qin, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, "Data collection and upload under dynamicity in smart community Internet-of-Things deployments", In Pervasive and Mobile Computing, Volume 42, 2017, pp. 166-186.

• Rahman, Mohammad Saifur; Uddin, Md Yusuf Sarwar; Hasan, Tahmid; Rahman, M Sohel; Kaykobad, M,  "Using Adaptive Heartbeat Rate on Long-lived TCP Connections", In IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON), 26(1), pp. 203-216.

• Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin and Rezwana Rafiq, "Citizen Assisted Environmental Pollution Measurement in Developing Cities," International Journal of Environmental Science and Development, vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 70-76, 2014.

• Md Yusuf S Uddin, Hossein Ahmadi, Tarek Abdelzaher, Robin Kravets. "Inter-contact Routing for Energy-constrained Disaster Response Networks", IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing. vol. 12, no. 10, pp. 1986-1998, Oct. 2013.

• Md Yusuf S Uddin, Md Mostofa Akbar, Salahuddin M Masum. "Hierarchical Numbering based Addressing and Stateless Routing Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 391 - 428,  September 2009.

Conferences

• Sarawat Murtaza Sara, Ravi Chandra Thota, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Majid Bani-Yaghoub, Mohamed Nezar Abourraja, Gary Sutkin, "Patient Flow Modeling and Simulation to Study HAI Incidents in an Emergency Department", accepted for presentation at 2024 IEEE/ACM international conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies (CHASE) (CHASE 2024), Wilmington, DE, June 19-21, 2024.

• Md Adnan Arefeen, Zhouyu Li, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Anupam Das. "MetaMorphosis: Task-oriented Privacy Cognizant Feature Generation for Multi-task Learning", accepted in the 8th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI 2023), San Antonio, TX, May 9-12, 2023.

• S. T. Nimi, M. A. Arefeen, M. Y. S. Uddin, B. Debnath, and S. Chakradhar, "Chimera: Context-Aware Splittable Deep Multitasking Models for Edge Intelligence," 2022 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), 2022, pp. 70-77, doi: 10.1109/SMARTCOMP55677.2022.00025

• Md Adnan Arefeen, Sumaiya Tabassum Nimi, and Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, "FrameHopper: Selective Processing of Video Frames in Detection-driven Real-Time Video Analytics", 18th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS' 22), May 30 - June 1, 2022, Los Angeles, CA.

• Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Rezwana Rafiq, "One Year into the Pandemic: Heterogeneity in COVID-19 Spread Patterns and Human Mobility Characteristics Across U.S. Counties", accepted for presentation in TRB (Transportation Research Board) Annual Meeting, Jan 9 -- 13, 2022, Washington DC.

• Rezwana Rafiq, Michael G McNally, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Tanjeeb Ahmed, "Flattening the Curve by Working from Home: Changes in Activity-Travel Behavior during the COVID-19 Pandemic", accepted for presentation in TRB (Transportation Research Board) Annual Meeting, Jan 9 -- 13, 2022, Washington DC.

• Rezwana Rafiq, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Tanjeeb Ahmed, "A Structural Analysis of COVID-19 Spread and Human Mobility in the Early Phase of the Pandemic", accepted for presentation in TRB (Transportation Research Board) Annual Meeting, Jan 9 -- 13, 2022, Washington DC.

• Md Adnan Arefeen, Sumaiya Tabassum Nimi, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Yugyung Lee, "TransJury: Towards Explainable Transfer Learning through Selection of Layers from Deep Neural Networks", 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData '21).

• Hang Nguyen, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian, "REAPS: Quasi-active Fault Tolerance for Big Data Publish-Subscribe Systems", 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData '21).

• Sumaiya Tabassum Nimi, Md Adnan Arefeen, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Yugyung Lee, "EARLIN: Early Out-of-Distribution Detection for Resource-efficient Collaborative Inference", The European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-PKDD 2021).

• Md Adnan Arefeen, Sumaiya Tabassum Nimi, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Zhu Li, "A Lightweight ReLU-Based Feature Fusion for Aerial Scene Classification", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2021). 

• Nailah Alhassoun, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Nalini Venkatasubramanian. "Multi-Network Provisioning for Perpetual Operations in IoT-Enabled Smart Spaces", IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2020), September 14 - 17, Bologna, Italy, 2020.

• Hang Nguyen, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Nalini Venkatasubramanian. "Multistage Adaptive Load Balancing for Big Active Data Publish Subscribe Systems", 13th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems (DEBS 2019), June 24–28, Darmstadt, Germany, 2019.

• Fangqi Liu, Qiuxi Zhu, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Cheng-Hsin Hsu.  "Cost-Effective Sensor Data Collection from Internet-of-Things Zones Using Existing Transportation Fleets", 5th IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2019), June 12--14, 2019, Washington DC, 2019.

• Qiuxi Zhu, Francoise Sailhan, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Valerie Issarny and Nalini Venkatasubramanian. "Multi-Sensor Calibration Planning in IoT-Enabled Smart Spaces", 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2019), July 7--10, Dallas, Texas, 2019.

• Md. Mobasshir Arshed Naved and Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin. "Adaptive Notifications Generation for Smartphone Users Based on their Physical Activities", International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security 2018 (NSysS 2018), Dec 18-20, Dhaka. [Best paper award]

• Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin and N. Venkatasubramanian. "Edge Caching for Enriched Notifications Delivery in Big Active Data". in 38th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2018), July 2 – 5, 2018, Vienna, Austria, 2018.

• Qiuxi Zhu, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Cheng-Hsin Hsu, "Spatiotemporal Scheduling for Crowd Augmented Urban Sensing", IEEE INFOCOM, 2018.

• Hua-Jun Hong, Pei-Hsuan Tsai, An-Chieh Cheng, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, and Cheng-Hsin Hsu, "Supporting Internet-of-Things Analytics in a Fog Computing Platform", 9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2017), Dec 11-14, 2017, Hong Kong. [Best paper award]

• Nailah Alhassoun, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, and Nalini Venkatasubramanian, "SAFER: An IoT-Based Perpetual Safe Community Awareness and Alerting Network", International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), Oct 23-25, 2017, Orlando, Florida.

• Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Vinay Setty, Ye Zhao, Roman Vitenberg, Nalini Venkatasubramanian. RichNote: Adaptive Selection and Delivery of Rich Media Notifications to Mobile Users. IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2016), June 27-30, 2016.

• Qiuxi Zhu, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Zhijing Qin, Nalini Venkatasubramanian. Upload Planning for Mobile Data Collection in Smart Community Internet-of-Things Deployments. 2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2016), May 18-20, 2016, St. Louis, Missouri. [Best paper nominee]

• Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, et al. The SCALE2 Multi-network Architecture for IoT-based Resilient Communities. 2nd IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP 2016), May 18-20, 2016, St. Louis, Missouri. 

• Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin. Low-overhead Range-based 3D Localization Technique for Underwater Sensor Networks, IEEE ICC, May 23-27, 2016, Malaysia.

• Mohammad Saifur Rahman, Md. Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, M. Sohel Rahman, and M. Kaykobad. Using Adaptive Heartbeat rate on Long-lived TCP Connections. International Conference on Networking Systems and Security (NSysS 2016), Jan 7-10, 2016, Dhaka.

• A S M Rizvi, Shamir Ahmed, Minhajul Bashir, Md. Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, "MediaServ: Subscription-based media crowdsourcing for collective events", 2016 International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision (ICIEV), pp. 897-902, 2016.

• Toufique Ahmed, Tanmoy Sen, Madhusudan Basak, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Simplified Processing of Video Data for Street Sensing Applications, International Conference on Informatics, Electronics and Vision (ICIEV), June 15-18, 2015, Kitakyushu, Japan.

• Ayon Sen, A. S. M. Sohidull Islam and Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin. MARQUES: Distributed Multi-Attribute Range Query Solution using Space Filling Curve on DHTs, International Conference on Networking Systems and Security 2015 (NSysS 2015), Dhaka.

• Farah Tanjeem, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin and A K M Ashikur Rahman, Wireless Media Access Depending on Packet Size Distribution over Error-prone Channels, International Conference on Networking Systems and Security 2015 (NSysS 2015), Dhaka.

• Md. Nazmus Sadat, Muhammad Tasnim Mohiuddin and Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, On Bounded Message Replication in Delay Tolerant Networks, International Conference on Networking Systems and Security 2015 (NSysS 2015), Dhaka.

• Sadia Shamma, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Towards Privacy-aware Photo Sharing using Mobile Phones, ICECE, Dhaka, 2014.

• Fatema Zohora, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin and Johra Moosa, "Not so Synchronous RPC: RPC with Silent Synchrony Switch for Avoiding Repeated Marshaling of Data", International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networks (ICDCN), India, January 2014. (Appeared in LNCS volume 8314)

• Shiguang Wang, Shaohan Hu, Shen Li, Liu Hengchang, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Tarek Abdelzaher, "MINERVA: Information-Centric Programming for Social Sensing", ICCCN13, September 2013.

• William Dron, Md Yusuf Uddin, Siguang Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Alice Leung, Arun Iyengar, "Caching for Non-independent Content: Improving Information Gathering in Constrained Networks", MILCOM 2013.

• Md Yusuf S Uddin, Md Tanvir Al Amin, Hieu Le, Tarek Abdelzaher, Boleslaw Szymanski, Tommy Nguyen, "On Diversifying Source Selection in Social Sensing", 9th International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS), Belgium, June 2012. (invited) (pdf)

• Fatemeh Saremi, Praveen Jayachandran, Forrest Iandola, Md Yusuf S Uddin, Tarek Abdelzaher, Aylin Yener, "On Schedulability and Time Composability of Multisensor Data Aggregation Networks", FUSION 2012, Singapore, June 2012.

• Md Yusuf Uddin, Hongyan Wang, Fatemeh Saremi, Guo-Jun Qi, Tarek Abdelzaher and Thomas Huang, "PhotoNet: a Similarity-aware Picture Delivery Service for Situation Awareness",  IEEE RTSS, Vienna, Austria, November 2011. (pdf)

•  Md Yusuf S Uddin, Ahmed Khurshid, Hee Dong Jung, Carl Gunter, Matthew Caesar, Tarek Abdelzaher, "Making DTNs Robust Against Spoofing Attacks with Localized Countermeasures," IEEE SECON, Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2011. (pdf)

• Md Yusuf S Uddin, Fatemeh Saremi, Tarek Abdelzaher, "End-to-End Delay Bound for Prioritized Data Flows in Disruption-tolerant Networks," IEEE Real-time Systems Symposium (RTSS), San Diego, CA, December 2010. (pdf)

• Md Yusuf S Uddin, Brighten Godfrey, Tarek Abdelzaher, "RELICS: In-network Realization of Incentives to Combat Selfishness in DTNs," In Proc. 18th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Kyoto, Japan, October 2010. (pdf) [Program code in ONE simulator is here]

• Nam Pham, Raghu Ganti, Md Yusuf S Uddin, Suman Nath, Tarek Abdelzaher. "Privacy-Preserving Reconstruction of Multidimensional Data Maps in Vehicular Participatory Sensing," EWSN 2010, Portugal, April 2010,

• Md Yusuf S Uddin, David Nicol, Tarek Abdelzaher, Robin Kravets. "A Post-disaster Mobility Model for Delay-tolerant Networking," Winter Simulation (WinterSim) , Austin, Texas, USA, December 2009 (invited). (pdf) [Program code in ONE simulator is here]

• Md Yusuf S Uddin, Hossein Ahmadi, Tarek Abdelzaher, Robin Kravets. "A Low-energy Multi-copy Inter-contact Routing Protocol for Disaster Response Networks," IEEE SECON, Rome, Italy, June 2009. (pdf)

• Md Ahsan Arefin, Md Yusuf S Uddin, Indranil Gupta, Klara Nahrstedt. "Q-Tree: a Multi-attribute Based Range Query Solution for Tele-immersive Framework", ICDCS 2009, Montreal, Canada, June 2009. (pdf)

• Qing Cao, Debessay Kassa, Nam Pham, Md Yusuf S Uddin, Tarek Abdelzaher. "Virtual Battery: an Energy Reserve Abstraction for Embedded Sensor Networks," RTSS 2008, Barcelona, Spain, November 2008. (pdf)

• Md Yusuf S Uddin, Md Mostofa Akbar. "Addressing Techniques in Sensor Networks: A Short Survey," International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (ICECE 2006), Dhaka, Bangladesh, December 2006.

• K. Raiyan Kamal, Md Yusuf S Uddin. "Parametrically Controlled Terrain Generation," 5th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and South-East Asia (Graphite 2007), December 2007, Perth, Australia.

• K. Raiyan Kamal, Md Yusuf S Uddin. "Repeated Magnification: A new Approach of Generating Artificial Mountain like Terrain", 4th International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and South-East Asia (Graphite 2006), December 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

• Md Yusuf S Uddin, Nilothpal Talukder, Md. Abul Kashem. "A Heuristic Approach to Solving the Distinct $p$-Center Problem", Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology 2005 (ICCIT05), December 2005, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

• Tanvir Al Amin, Imranul Hoque, Md Yusuf S Uddin. "Service Oriented Architecture for a Multichannel Network TV System", Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT05), December 2005, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Workshops

• Sumaiya Nimi, Adnan Arefeen, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Biplob Debnath, Srimat Chakradhar. "FactionFormer: Context-Driven Collaborative Vision Transformer Models for Edge Intelligence". 8th IEEE Workshop on Smart Service Systems (SmartSys), co-located with IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), Jun 26--29, 2023, Tennessee, USA.

• Mahmudur Rahman Hera, Amatur Rahman, Afia Afrin, Hua-Jun Hong, Pei-Hsuan Tsai, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Nalini Venkatasubramanian and Cheng-Hsin Hsu, "Adaptive Sensing Using Internet-of-Things with Constrained Communications", Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM), co-located with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware, Dec 11-15, 2017, Las Vegas.

• Mehrab Bin Morshed, Maruf Hasan Zaber, Md. Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, and Md Habibullah Bin Ismail. Phone-to-phone Video Data Spreading for Community Health Alerts. rHealth Workshop (co-located with NsysS 2016).

• Mohammad Saifur Rahman, M. Sohel Rahman, M. Kaykobad, Md. Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, "On Approaches to Detect Optimal Keep Alive Interval of TCP Connections", In Proceedings of Workshop on Design and Implementation of Emerging Computing Systems (WECS), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2013.

• S. K. K. Santu, S. Rahman, and Md. Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, "Forming a Jury Board: Selecting Least Connected Users in Social Networks". In Proceedings of Workshop on Advances in Data Management (WADM), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2013.

• William Dron, Alice Leung, Md Uddin, Shiguang Wang, Tarek Abdelzaher, Ramesh Govindan and John Hancock,  "Information Maximization in Ad Hoc Networks with Named Data Networking", IEEE Network Science Workshop, 2013.

Poster/Demos

• [Poster] Waleed Mubark, Shravan Kumar Kadaganchhi, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin. "Boosting Video Understanding throughput with Asynchronous DNN Inference". Presented in CAM Research-A-Thon Day, UMKC, April 2023 (2nd prize in research poster presentation)

• [Poster] Md Adnan Arefeen and Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin. "[Poster]Towards resource-efficient detection-driven processing of multi-stream videos" In Proceedings of the 27th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 843–845. 

• [Demo] Md Adnan Arefeen, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, "[DEMO] Cost-Effective Processing of Detection-driven Video Analytics at the Edge", The 3rd Workshop on Hot Topics in Video Analytics and Intelligent Edges (HotEdgeVideo'21), in conjunction with ACM MobiCom 2021.

• [Demo] Yu-Chen Hsieh, Hua-Jun Hong, Pei-Hsuan Tsai, Yu-Rong Wang, Qiuxi Zhu, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, and Cheng-Hsin Hsu, "Managed Edge Computing on Internet-of-Things Devices for Smart City Applications",  IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2018), Taipei, 2018. 

• [Demo] Steven Jacobs, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Michael Carey, Vagelis Hristidis, Vassilis Tsotras, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Yao Wu, Syed Safir, Purvi Kaul, Xikui Wang, Mohiuddin Qader, Yawei Li, "A BAD Demonstration: Towards Big Active Data", in Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (2017).

• [Demo] Mahmudur Rahman Hera, Amatur Rahman, Afia Afrin, Md Yusuf Sarwar Uddin, Nalini Venkatasubramanian. "AQBox: An Air Quality Measuring Box from COTS Gas Sensors," International Conference on Networking, Systems and Security (NSysS), Jan 5-8, 2017, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

• [Demo] Md Yusuf S Uddin, Md Tanvir Al Amin, Tarek Abdelzaher, Arun Iyegner, Ramash Govindan, "PhotoNet+: Outlier-resilient Coverage Maximization in Visual Sensing Application", IPSN 2012 (Demo).

• [Demo] Hongyan Wang, Md. Yusuf S Uddin, Guo-Jun Qi, Tom Huang, Tarek F. Abdelzaher, Guohong Cao, "PhotoNet: a Similarity-aware Picture Delivery Service for Situation Awareness",  IPSN (Demo) 2011.

• [Demo] Hieu Lay, et al, "Demo: Distilling Likely Truth from Noisy Streaming Data with Apollo", Sensys 2011. Seattle, WA.  

• [Poster] Md Yusuf S Uddin, Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman, Md Mostofa Akbar. "Hierarchical Numbering based Routing Technique for Wireless Networks," International Conference on Next Generation Wireless Systems (ICNEWS 2006), Dhaka, Bangladesh, January 2006.