Research At COMSATS

Innovative Communication Technologies

Dr. Raja Wasim Ahmad

	Designation:	Assistant Professor
	Email:	wasimraja@cuiatd.edu.pk
	Phone No. :	03415874533
	Role:	Faculty
	Research Interests:	Mobile Application Energy Estimation, Network Energy Cost Monitoring, VM Migration, VM Placement based Load Balancing, Multimedia over Low Bandwidth Networks, MCC Offloading, IOT (Multimedia), Application Energy Profiling, Fog Computing, and VM Performance Monitoring, Decentralized Consensus for Edge Centric Computing

Academics/ Degrees

PhD
MS, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan, 2011
BS (CS), University of Azad jammu and Kashmir, Muzaaffarabad, Pakistan 2007

Profile/Bio

PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Jan 2018, till date: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Sep. 2011 to 2018 Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Sep. 2007 to 2009: Lecturer, Shaheen Model College, Muzzaffarabad, Pakistan

Publications/Papers

2024

Journal

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

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

2021

Journal

T. Khalid,AN Khan,Mudassar Aslam,Dr. Mazhar Ali,R.Wasim,MAK Abbassi,M Zuraiz,JJPC Rodrigues "A survey on privacy and access control schemes in fog computing" , International Journal of Communication Systems ,Volume 4181 ,Issue 4181 ,Page e4181 , 2021

2020

Journal

T. Irshad, R. Shan,R.Wasim "Multi-RAT Based Adaptive Quality of Service (QoS) Management in WBAN" , Malaysian Journal of computer Science ,Volume 33 ,Issue 4 , 2020

F. I. Ibrahim, M. H. N. M. Nasir, S. H. A. Hamid,R.Wasim,J. Iqbal "FSI Drivenergy: Mitigating Smartphone Enegry Consumption Using Fuzzy Inference" , Malysian Journal of Computer Science ,Volume 33 ,Issue 3 , 2020

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

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

2018

Journal

R.Wasim,R.shan,K.Bilal,A. R. Khan,J.Shujah,S. Sarwar, T. A. Altameem, S. A. Madani "An Investigation of Video Communication over Bandwidth Limited Public Safety Network" , Malaysian Journal of Computer Science ,Volume 31 ,Issue 2 ,Page 85-107 , 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

A. Rehman, M. M. Rathore, A. Paul, F. Saeed,R.Wasim "Vehicular traffic optimisation and even distribution using ant colony in smart city environment" , IET Intelligent Transport Systems ,Volume 12 ,Issue 7 ,Page 594-601 , 2018

M. M. U. Rathore, M. J. J. Gul,A. Paul, A. A. Khan,R.Wasim,J. JPC Rodrigues, S. Bakiras "Multilevel Graph-Based Decision Making in Big Scholarly Data: An Approach to Identify Expert Reviewer, Finding Quality Impact Factor, Ranking Journals and Researchers" , IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing ,Volume 9 ,Issue 1 ,Page 280 - 292 , 2018

Conference

R.Wasim,S. H. A. Hamid, A. Gani, M. S. Obaidat,J.Shujah,F. Rehman,A. R. Khan "Performance assessment of dynamic analysis based energy estimation tools" , Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems , 2018

2017

Journal

R.Wasim,A. Gani, S. H. Ab Hamid, A. Naveed, ,K. KO, J. JPC Rodrigues "A case and framework for code analysis–based smartphone application energy estimation" , International Journal of Communication Systems ,Volume 30 ,Issue 10 , 2017

R.Wasim,A. Gani, S. H. Ab Hamid, M. Shojafar,A. I. A. Ahmed, S. A. Madani, ,K. Saleem, J. JPC Rodrigues "A survey on energy estimation and power modeling schemes for smartphone applications" , International Journal of Communication Systems ,Volume 30 ,Issue 11 , 2017

J.Shujah,R.Wasim,A. Gani, A. I. A. Ahmed, A. Siddiqa, K. Nisar,S. U. Khan, A. Y. Zomaya "Greening emerging IT technologies: techniques and practices" , Journal of Internet Services and Applications ,Volume 8 ,Issue 1 ,Page 9-19 , 2017

R.Wasim,J. V. V. Sobral, J. J. P. C. Rodrigues,, N. Kumar, C. Zhu "Performance Evaluation of Routing Metrics in the LOADng Routing Protocol" , Journal of Communications Software and Systems ,Volume 13 ,Issue 2 ,Page 87-95 , 2017

J.Shujah,R.Wasim,S. Mustafa,Sajjad A. Madani "Analysis of Vector Code Offloading Framework in Heterogeneous Cloud and Edge Architectures" , IEEE Access ,Volume 5 ,Page 24542 - 24554 , 2017

R.Wasim "Decentralized Consensus for Edge-Centric Internet of Things: A Review, Taxonomy, and Research Issues" , IEEE Access ,Volume 6 ,Page 1513 - 1524 , 2017

R.Wasim "Cloud monitoring: A review, taxonomy, and open research issues" , Journal of Network and Computer Applications ,Volume 98 ,Page 11-26 , 2017

Conference

R.Wasim,R. S. Bashir, S. Saeed, Y. Lee, K. Ko, Y. Son "Online Cloud-Based Battery Lifetime Estimation Framework for Smartphone Devices" , Procedia Computer Science , 2017

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

R.Wasim "A methodology for impact evaluation of refactoring on external quality attributes of a software design" , FIT , 2017

2016

Journal

J.Shujah,A. Gani, S. Shamshirband,R.Wasim,K.Bilal "Sustainable Cloud Data Centers: A survey of enabling techniques and technologies" , Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews ,Volume 62 ,Page 195–214 , 2016

A. Yousafzai, A. Gani, R. Md Noor, A. Naveed,R.Wasim,V. Chang "Computational offloading mechanism for native and android runtime based mobile applications" , Journal of Systems and Software ,Volume 121 ,Page 28-39 , 2016

R.Wasim,S. U. R. Khan, S. P. Lee,A. Akhunzada, V. Chang "A survey on Test Suite Reduction frameworks and tools" , International Journal of Information Management ,Volume 36 ,Issue 6 ,Page 963-975 , 2016

2015

Journal

R.Wasim,A. Gani, S. H. Ab Hamid, M. Shiraz, A. Yousafzai, F. Xia "A survey on virtual machine migration and server consolidation frameworks for cloud data centers" , Journal of Network and Computer Applications ,Volume 52 ,Page 11-25 , 2015

M. Shiraz, A. Gani, A. Shamim, S. Khan,R.Wasim "Energy efficient computational offloading framework for mobile cloud computing" , Journal of Grid Computing ,Volume 13 ,Issue 1 ,Page 1-18 , 2015

R.Wasim,A. Gani, S. H. Ab Hamid, M. Shiraz,F. Xia, S. A. Madani "Virtual machine migration in cloud data centers: a review, taxonomy, and open research issues" , The Journal of Supercomputing ,Volume 71 ,Issue 7 ,Page 2473-2515 , 2015

R.Wasim, A. Gani, S. H. Ab Hamid, F. Xia, M. Shiraz "A Review on mobile application energy profiling: Taxonomy, state-of-the-art, and open research issues" , Journal of Network and Computer Applications ,Volume 58 ,Page 42-59 , 2015

2014

Journal

M. Shiraz, A. Gani, ,R.Wasim,S. A. A. Shah, A. Karim, Z. A. Rahman "A lightweight distributed framework for computational offloading in mobile cloud computing" , PloS one ,Volume 9 ,Issue 8 , 2014

Awards/ Appreciations

Won Best Paper Award (SPECT 2018 conference), France
Won Best Paper Presentation Award (PGRess Symposium 2015) (Cash Prize and Certificate)
Won GOT Award
Won BrightSpark Scholarship for Ph.D. ( 2013-2017)
Awarded Silver Medal: for securing 2nd position in MS(CS), Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
2^nd Position in intermediate (ICS)
COMSATS Merit scholarship for MS(CS)