Research At COMSATS

Research in Information and Cyber Security

Dr. Tahir Maqsood

	Designation:	Assistant professor
	Email:	tmaqsood@cuiatd.edu.pk
	Phone No. :	N/A
	Role:	Faculty
	Research Interests:	Network on Chips, Large Scale Computing, Task Scheduling, MEC, IoTs

Academics/ Degrees

PhD, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad
M.Sc, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK, 2007
MCS, Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari Institute of Tech. Karachi, Pakistan, 2004
BS(CS) Preston Institute of Mgmt. Science & Tech. Karachi, Pakistan, 2001

Profile/Bio

Aug. 2007 to Continued: Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad
May 2005 to Aug. 2005: Software Engineer, e-BizSoft Inc. Karachi, Pakistan
Sep. 2001 to Sep. 2002: Programmer, Synergy Computers (Pvt) Ltd. Karachi, Pakistan
Jan. 1999 to Apr. 2005; Computer Programmer, Inspectorate of Army Stores, Karachi, Pakistan

Projects

Research, Infrastructure And Human Resource Development For Cyber Physical System In Pakistan

Mathematical Modeling And Simulation Of Data Intensive Maize Growth

Ads And Malicious Content Observatory For Social Media

Publications/Papers

2024

Journal

T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,J.Shujah,S.K.Zaman,Arslan Qayyum "Adaptive thresholds for improved load balancing in mobile edge computing using K-means clustering" , Telecommunication Systems ,Volume 86 ,Issue 3 ,Page 519-532 , 2024

Yasar Khan,S. Mustafa,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,J.Ali,R.Wasim,Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues "Content caching in mobile edge computing: a survey" , Cluster Computing , 2024

2023

Journal

J.Ali,T. Maqsood,N. Khalid, S. A. Madani "Communication and aging aware application mapping for multicore based edge computing servers" , Cluster Computing ,Volume 26 ,Issue 1 ,Page 223–235 , 2023

S. Bashir,S. Mustafa,T. Maqsood,J.Shujah,R.Wasim,A. Alourani "Multi-factor nature inspired SLA-aware energy efficient resource management for cloud environments" , Cluster Computing ,Volume 26 ,Issue 2 ,Page 1643-1658 , 2023

E. Mustafa,E. Mustafa,S. Mustafa,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,J.Shujah,K.Bilal,A. U. R. Khan "Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Online Computation Offloading in Wireless Powered Edge Networks" , Cluster Computing ,Volume 26 ,Issue 2 ,Page 1053-1062 , 2023

S.K.Zaman,S. Mustafa,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,Muhammad Amir Khan,H. Abbasi,M. Ahmed, A. D. Algarni, H. Elmannai "Cooperative Content Caching Framework Using Cuckoo Search Optimization in Vehicular Edge Networks" , Applied Science ,Volume 13 ,Issue 2 ,Page 780 , 2023

G. Laraib,S.K.Zaman,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,Muhammad Amir Khan,N. Gohar, A. D. Algarni, H. Elmannai "Content Caching in Mobile Edge Computing Based on User Location and Preferences Using Cosine Similarity and Collaborative Filtering" , Electronics ,Volume 12 ,Issue 2 ,Page 284 , 2023

S.K.Zaman,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,S. Mustafa,Azra Ramzan,J.Shujah "Deadline-aware heuristics for reliability optimization in ubiquitous mobile edge computing" , International Journal of Data Science and Analytics , 2023

2022

Journal

S.K.Zaman, A. I. Jehangiri,T. Maqsood,J.Shujah,N. Haq,A. I. Umar,Z. Ahmad, I. B. Dhaou, M. F. Alsharekh "LiMPO: lightweight mobility prediction and offloading framework using machine learning for mobile edge computing" , Cluster Computing ,Volume 26 ,Issue 1 ,Page 99 - 117 , 2022

S.K.Zaman,T. Maqsood,Muhammad Amir Khan,A. I. Jehangiri, A. I. Umar, M. A. Khan,N. Z. Jhanjhi, M. Shorfuzzaman, M. Masud "COME-UP: Computation Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing with LSTM Based User Direction Prediction" , Applied Sciences ,Volume 12 ,Issue 7 ,Page 3312 , 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

M. Yasir,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,S.K.Zaman "CoPUP: content popularity and user preferences aware content caching framework in mobile edge computing" , Cluster Computing ,Volume 26 ,Issue 1 ,Page 267 - 281 , 2022

S. Younas,F. Rehman,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,A. Akhunzada, A. Gani "Collaborative Detection of Black Hole and Gray Hole Attacks for Secure Data Communication in VANETs" , Applied Sciences ,Volume 12 ,Issue 23 ,Page 12448 , 2022

E. Mustafa,J.Shujah,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,AN Khan,S.K.Zaman,Ali Imran Jehangiri,Sadia Din "Joint wireless power transfer and task offloading in mobile edge computing: a survey" , Cluster Computing ,Volume 25 ,Issue 4 ,Page 2429-2448 , 2022

2021

Journal

S.K.Zaman,A. I. Jehangiri,T. Maqsood,J.Shujah,Z. Ahmad, A. I. Umar,E. Alanazi, W. Alasmary "Mobility-aware computational offloading in mobile edge networks: a survey" , Cluster Computing ,Volume 24 ,Page 2735-2756 , 2021

B. B. Yusuf,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,S. A. Madani "Energy Aware Parallel Scheduling Techniques for Network-on-Chip Based Systems" , IEEE Access ,Volume 9 ,Page 38778 - 38791 , 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

2019

Journal

S.K.Zaman,A. R. Khan,J.Shujah,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,S. Mustafa "A Systems Overview of Commercial Data Centers: Initial Energy and Cost Analysis" , International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE) ,Volume 14 ,Issue 1 ,Page 42-65 , 2019

S.K.Zaman,T. Maqsood,Dr. Mazhar Ali,K.Bilal,S. A. Madani, A. R. Khan "A load balanced task scheduling heuristic for large-scale computing systems" , International Journal of Computer Systems Science & Engineering ,Volume 34 ,Issue 2 ,Page 1-12 , 2019

R.Wasim,A. Naveed, J. JPC Rodrigues, A. Gani, S. A. Madani,J.Shujah,T. Maqsood,S. Saeed "Enhancement and assessment of a code-analysis-based energy estimation framework" , IEEE Systems Journal ,Volume 13 ,Issue 1 ,Page 1052-1059 , 2019

T. Maqsood,S. A. Madani,Khattak,S. Ullah, I. Nyborg "Role of ICT in Community-Oriented Policing in South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities" , Journal of Human Security ,Volume 15 ,Issue 2 , 2019

H. Rafique, M. A. Shah, S. U. Islam,T. Maqsood,S. Khan, C. Maple "A Novel Bio-Inspired Hybrid Algorithm (NBIHA) for Efficient Resource Management in Fog Computing" , IEEE Access ,Volume 7 ,Page 115760 - 115773 , 2019

Khattak,Shakir.U,Ingrid Nyborg,T. Maqsood "Community-Oriented Policing: Political, Institutional and Technical Reforms in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Police" , Journal of Human Security ,Volume 15 ,Issue 2 ,Page 41-53 , 2019

S. Mustafa,K. Sattar,J.Shujah,S. Sarwar,T. Maqsood,S. A. Madani, S. Guizani "SLA-Aware Best Fit Decreasing Techniques for Workload Consolidation in Clouds" , IEEE Access ,Volume 7 ,Page 135256 - 135267 , 2019

2018

Journal

T. Maqsood,K.Bilal,Sajjad A. Madani "Congestion-aware core mapping for Network-on-Chip based systems using betweenness centrality" , Future Generation Computer Systems ,Volume 82 ,Page 459-471 , 2018

T. Maqsood,N Tziritas, T Loukopoulos, S A Madani,S U Khan, C Z Xu, A Y Zomaya "Energy and communication aware task mapping for MPSoCs" , Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing ,Volume 121 ,Page 71-89 , 2018

J.Ali,R.Wasim,T. Maqsood,J. JPC Rodrigues,N. Haq,S.Sarwar, T. Iqbal, S. A. Madani "Network selection in heterogeneous access networks simultaneously satisfying user profile and QoS" , International Journal of Communication Systems ,Volume 31 ,Issue 13 ,Page e3730 , 2018

Conference

A. Qazi,F. Rehman,T. Maqsood,K. M. Ko, Y. W. Chong,S. Mustafa "Network Optimization Through Traffic Patterns and Efficient Bandwidth Consumption in Large DCN" , 2018 Second World Conference on Smart Trends in Systems, Security and Sustainability (WorldS4) , 2018

2017

Journal

S.K.Zaman,A. R. Khan,S. R. Malik,AN Khan,T. Maqsood,S. A. Madani "Performance analysis and formal verification of task scheduling heuristics for makespan optimization and workflow distribution in Large-scale Computing Systems" , Computer Systems Science & Engineering ,Volume 32 ,Issue 3 , 2017

T. Maqsood,N. Tziritas, T. Loukopoulos,S. A. Madani, S. U. Khan "Leveraging on Deep Memory Hierarchies to Minimize Energy Consumption and Data Access Latency on Single-Chip Cloud Computers" , IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing , 2017

Conference

J.Ali,R.Wasim,T. Maqsood,J.Shujah "Adaptive Opportunistic Routing over DTMANETS: Proposals and Issues" , Advances in Computer Science and Ubiquitous Computing , 2017

2016

Journal

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

2015

Journal

T. Maqsood,S. Ali, S. U. R. Malik, S. A. Madani "Dynamic Task Mapping for Network-on-Chip based Systems" , Journal of Systems Architecture, August 2015 ,Volume 61 ,Issue 7 ,Page 293-306 , 2015

2013

Journal

Mehran Ajmal,S.Madani,T. Maqsood,K.Bilal,B.Nazir,K.Hayat "Coordinated opportunistic routing protocol for wireless mesh networks" , Computers & Electrical Engineering, 12th August, 2013 , 2013

Conference

Joanna Kolodziej,Magdalena Szmajduch,T. Maqsood,S.Madani,Nasro Min-Allah,Samee U Khan "Energy-aware Grid Scheduling of Independent Tasks and Highly Distributed Data" , Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), 2013 11th International Conference on , 2013

2012

Conference

Dr. Usman Shahid,T. Maqsood "CRN Survey and A Simple Sequential MAC Protocol for CRN Learning" , COCORA 2012, The Second International Conference on Advances in Cognitive Radio , 2012

Awards/ Appreciations

Achieved DISTINCTION in M.Sc Computer Networks, Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Secured FIRST POSITION (Gold Medal) in Master in Computer Science Department (2002-2004), Khadim Ali Shah Bukhari Institute of Technology, Karachi
Secured SECOND POSITION in Bachelors in Computer Science Department (2002-2004), Preston Institute of Management Science & Tech. Karachi