Research At COMSATS

COMSATS Network Research Group (CNRG)

Dr. Osman Khalid

	Designation:	Associate Professor
	Email:	osman@cuiatd.edu.pk
	Phone No. :	N/A
	Role:	Faculty
	Research Interests:	Delay Tolerant Networks, Opportunistic Networks, Trust and Reputation Systems, Recommendation Systems, Disaster Response Systems

Academics/ Degrees

PhD North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND, USA 2014
MS (CE) Center for Advanced Studies in Islamabad (CASE), Pakistan 2008
BS(CS) COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan 2007

Profile/Bio

Tenured Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus, since April 11,2022-till date
Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan 2014 to to April 10,2022.
Aug. 2014 to Continued: Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Aug. 2009 to Aug. 2013: Lecturer at Department of Computer Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Apr. 2007 to Aug. 2009: Software developer at Electronic Technology Division, Askari Bank Limited, Islamabad, Pakistan
Jun. 2006 to Mar. 2007: System Administrator and Software developer at Electronic Technology Division, Askari Bank Limited, Islamabad, Pakistan
Apr. 2006 to Jun. 2006: Software developer at Soft-Tek Systems, Islamabad, Pakistan
Sep. 2005 to Mar. 2006: Visiting Faculty at Fatima Jinnah Women University, Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Projects

Establishment Of A Low Cost Cyber Physical Systems Facility For Research Design, And Development Of Tools For Infrastructure Improvement In Pakistan

Machine Learning Based Intrusion Detection In Internet Of Things (Iot) Using Ensemble Learning Stacking

Publications/Papers

2023

Journal

Naseem Us Sehar,Muhammad A. B. Fayyaz,O.Khalid,I.Khan,F. Rehman,Ali R. Ansari,Raheel Nawaz "Blockchain enabled data security in vehicular networks" , Scientific Reports ,Volume 13 ,Issue 1 ,Page 4412 , 2023

2022

Journal

M.M.Yaqoob,O.Khalid,I.Khan,W.Khurshid,Syed Zulqarnain,L. Liu,R. Nawaz "Adaptive Multi-Cost Routing Protocol to Enhance Lifetime for Wireless Body Area Network" , Computers, Materials & Continua ,Volume 72 ,Issue 1 ,Page 1089-1103 , 2022

K. Malik,A. Akhunzada,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,O.Khalid "Lightweight Internet of Things Botnet Detection Using One-Class Classification" , Sensors ,Volume 22 ,Issue 10 ,Page 3646 , 2022

O.Khalid "A hybrid group-based movie recommendation framework with overlapping memberships" , PLOS ONE , 2022

O.Khalid "A hybrid mask RCNN-based tool to localize dental cavities from real-time mixed photographic images" , PeerJ Computer Science , 2022

Adeel Ahmed,O.Khalid "Trust-aware denoising autoencoder with spatial-temporal activity for cross-domain personalized recommendations" , Neurocomputing ,Volume 511 ,Issue 1 ,Page 477-494 , 2022

2021

Journal

O.Khalid "xFogSim: A Distributed Fog Resource Management Framework for Sustainable IoT Services" , IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing , 2021

O.Khalid "On deep neural network for trust aware cross domain recommendations in E-commerce" , Expert Systems with Applications ,Volume 174 ,Issue 114757 ,Page 1-18 , 2021

2020

Journal

F. Rehman,O.Khalid,N. Haq,T. Maqsood,Dr. Mazhar Ali,R.Wasim,J.Shujah,S. Sarwar, S. A. Madani "A scalable model for real‐time venue recommendations using MapReduce" , Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience ,Volume 32 ,Issue 21 ,Page 5597 , 2020

O.Khalid "Modeling an Optimized Approach for Load balancing in Cloud" , IEEE Access , 2020

O.Khalid "An Enhanced Firefly Algorithm Using Pattern Search for Solving Optimization Problems" , IEEE Access , 2020

W.Khurshid,I.Khan,O.Khalid "A dynamic threshold calculation for congestion notification in IEEE 802.1Qbb" , IEEE Communication Letters ,Volume 24 ,Issue 4 ,Page 744 - 747 , 2020

O.Khalid "Study and analysis of mobility, security, and caching issues in CCN" , International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) ,Volume 10 ,Issue 2 ,Page 1438-1453 , 2020

Beenish Gul,O.Khalid,S. Mustafa,I.Khan,S.S.Hussain,DARREN DANCEY,RAHEEL NAWAZ "CPU and RAM Energy-Based SLA-Aware Workload Consolidation Techniques for Clouds" , IEEE Access ,Volume 8 ,Page 62990 - 63003 , 2020

2019

Journal

O.Khalid,I.Khan "Optimal Content Caching in Content-Centric Networks" , Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing ,Volume 2019 ,Page 15 , 2019

K.Bilal,O.Khalid "Nutshell—Simulation toolkit for Modeling Data Center Networks and Cloud Computing" , IEEE Access ,Volume 7 ,Page 19922 - 19942 , 2019

O.Khalid,I.Khan "Data offloading in IoT environments: modeling, analysis, and verification" , EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking ,Volume 1 ,Page 53 , 2019

Atta ur Rahman Khan,Raheel Nawaz,Dr. Usman Shahid,F. Rehman,O.Khalid,Rizwana Irfan "SocialRec: A Context-Aware Recommendation Framework With Explicit Sentiment Analysis" , IEEE Access ,Volume 7 ,Page 116295 - 116308 , 2019

2018

Journal

L. Wu, L. Nie, S. U. Khan, ,O.Khalid,D. Wu "A V2I communication based pipe model for adaptive urban traffic light scheduling" , Frontiers of Computer Science , 2018

K.Bilal,O.Khalid,A Erbad, S U Khan "Potentials, trends, and prospects in edge technologies: Fog, cloudlet, mobile edge, and micro data centers" , Computer Networks ,Volume 130 ,Page 94-120 , 2018

O.Khalid "An Optimal Ride Sharing Recommendation Framework for Carpooling Services" , IEEE Access ,Volume 6 ,Page 62296 - 62313 , 2018

O.Khalid,Samee U Khan "FogNetSim++: A Toolkit for Modeling and Simulation of Distributed Fog Environment" , IEEE Access ,Volume 6 ,Page 63570 - 63583 , 2018

Dr. Usman Shahid,O.Khalid "An Optimal Ride Sharing Recommendation Framework for Carpooling Services" , IEEE Access ,Volume 6 ,Page 62296 - 62313 , 2018

Book/Chapter

R.Jadoon,O.Khalid,WuYang Zhou "Performance Metrics for Traditional & Context-Aware Big Data Recommender Systems" , IET - Big Data Recommender Systems: Recent Trends and Advances, Book edited by Dr. Osman Khalid, Dr. Sami Ullah Khan and Dr. Albert Y. Zumaya , 2018

2017

Journal

F. Rehman,O.Khalid,Sajjad A. Madani "A comparative study of location-based recommendation systems" , The Knowledge Engineering Review ,Volume 2017 ,Page 1-30 , 2017

F. Rehman,O.Khalid,N. Haq,Atta ur Rehman,K.Bilal,Sajjad A. Madani "Diet-Right: A Smart Food Recommendation System" , KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems ,Volume 11 ,Issue 6 ,Page 2910-2925 , 2017

Conference

R.Jadoon,O.Khalid,Dr. Usman Shahid,Prof. Dr. WuYang Zhou "A Qualitative Comparison of Popular Middleware Distributions used in Grid Computing Environment" , 2nd IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communication Systems (IEEE ICCCS) , 2017

2016

Journal

M. U. S. Khan,Y. Huang, F. Zhang, R. Ranjan,O.Khalid,S. U. Khan, J. Cao, K. Li,B. Veeravalli, A. Zomaya "MacroServ: A Route Recommendation Service for Large-Scale Evacuations" , IEEE Transactions on Services Computing , 2016

T. Maqsood,O.Khalid,R. Irfan, S. A. Madani, S. U. Khan "Scalability Issues in Online Social Networks" , ACM Computing Surveys ,Volume 49 ,Issue 2 , 2016

Book/Chapter

K.Bilal,O.Khalid,U. Khan, S. Malik, S. U. Khan,A. Zomaya "Fault Tolerance in Cloud" , Encyclopedia on Cloud Computing , 2016

2015

Journal

R. Irfan,O.Khalid,M. U. S. Khan, C. Chira, R. Ranjan, ,F. Zhang, S. U. Khan, B. Veeravalli, ,K. Li, A. Y. Zomaya "MobiContext: A Context-aware Cloud-Based Venue Recommendation Framework" , IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing , 2015

O.Khalid,M. U. S. Khan, Y. Huang,S. U. Khan, A. Y. Zomaya "EvacSys: A Cloud-based Service for Emergency Evacuation" , IEEE Cloud Computing , 2015

Dr. Usman Shahid,O.Khalid "MacroServ: A Route Recommendation Service for Large-Scale Evacuations" , IEEE Transaction of Service Computing , 2015

Dr. Usman Shahid,O.Khalid,Rizwana Irfran "MobiContext: A Context-aware Cloud-based Recommendation Framework" , IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing , 2015

Book/Chapter

O.Khalid, Samee U Khan, Sajjad A Madani, Khizar Hayat, ,Lizhe Wang, Dan Chen, Rajiv Ranjan "Opportunistic Databank: A context Aware on-the-fly Data Center for Mobile Networks" , Handbook on Data Centers , 2015

Dr. Usman Shahid,O.Khalid "Fault Tolerance in the Cloud" , Encyclopedia on Cloud Computing, S. Murugesan and I. Bojanova, Eds., John Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ, USA, 2015, ISBN: 978-1-1188-2197-8, Chapter 24. , 2015

2014

Journal

K.Bilal,S. U. R. Malik,O.Khalid,A. Hameed, E. Alvarez,V. Wijaysekara, R. Irfan,S. Shrestha, D. Dwivedy,M. Ali, U. S. Khan,A. Abbas, N. Jalil, S. U. Khan "A Taxonomy and Survey on Green Data Center Networks" , Future Generation Computer Systems ,Volume 36 ,Page 89-109 , 2014

Dr. Usman Shahid,O.Khalid "OmniSuggest: A Ubiquitous Cloud based Context Aware Recommendation System for Mobile Social Networks" , IEEE Transactions on Services Computing ,Volume 7 ,Issue 3 ,Page 401-414 , 2014

2013

Journal

O.Khalid,Samee U Khan,S.Madani,K.Hayat,Majid I Khan,Nasro Min-Allah,Joanna Kolodziej,Lizhe Wang,Sherali Zeadally,Dan Chen "Comparative study of trust and reputation systems for wireless sensor networks" , Security and Communication Networks , 2013

O.Khalid,, M. U. S. Khan, S. U. Khan, A. Y. Zomaya "OmniSuggest: A Ubiquitous Cloud based Context Aware Recommendation System for Mobile Social Networks" , IEEE Transactions on Services Computing ,Volume 7 ,Issue 3 ,Page 401 - 414 , 2013

Book/Chapter

O.Khalid,S. U. Khan,S.Madani,K.Hayat,L. Wang, D. Chan, R. Ranjan "Opportunistic Databank: A Context-aware on-the-fly Data Center for Mobile Networks" , Handbook on Data Centers , 2013

2012

Conference

O.Khalid,Samee U Khan,Joanna Kolodziej,Limin Zhang,Juan Li,S.Madani,Lizhe Wang,Dan Chen "A Checkpoint Based Message Forwarding Approach for Opportunistic Communication" , Proceedings 26th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation , 2012

2011

Conference

O.Khalid,M. Junaid,S.Madani "Comparative Study on Mobile Wireless Sensor Network Testbeds" , IEEE International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology, Chengdu, China , 2011

Awards/ Appreciations

Awards

Awarded with scholarship by C OMSATS during Bachelors in Computer Sciences, 2002-04.
Awarded with scholarship by COMSATS for PhD in Computer Engineering, USA

COMSATS Network Research Group (CNRG)

Dr. Osman Khalid

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