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COMSATS University Islamabad

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Dr. Tahir Maqsood
Associate Professor
Computer Science
Area of Interest
resource allocation, multi/manycore systems, reliable systems, Internet of Things, and mobile edge computing
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Biography

Tahir Maqsood received the M.Sc. degree in computer networks from Northumbria University, U.K., in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan, in 2017. He is currently an Assistant Professor with COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus, Pakistan. His research interests include resource allocation, multi/manycore systems, reliable systems, Internet of Things, edge computing, and applications of machine learning.

 

Funded Projects:

  • Ads and Malicious Content Observatory for Social Media, Co-PI, 11 Million rupees

 

PhD Thesis Supervision

Completed:

  1. Energy-efficient parallel scheduling techniques for Network-on-Chip based multicore systems (Co-Supervision, Bichi Bashir Yusuf, Fall 2021)
  2. Mobility prediction and computational offloading in mobile edge computing using machine learning techniques (Co-Supervision, Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman, In-progress)
  3. Reliability-aware task mapping for network-on-chip based multicore systems (Co-Supervision, Javid Ali, In-progress)

On-going:

  1. Towards Energy Efficient Cloud: A Green and Intelligent Migration of Traditional Energy Sources (Co-supervision, Syed Muhammad Mohsin)
  2. Leveraging machine learning for mobility aware service migration in edge computing systems, PhD Computer Science (Co-Supervision, Amra Sheikh, In-progress)

MS Thesis Supervision

Completed:

  1. Dynamic Threshold Calculation for Load Balancing in MEC (Arslan Qayyum, Spring 2022)
  2. Reliability-aware Computation Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing (Azra Ramzan, Spring 2022)
  3. Trend Forecasting of Cardino and Algorand Cryptocurrencies using Hybrid Machine Learning Model (Abdul Basit, Spring 2022)
  4. Mobility and User Preference Aware Content Caching in Mobile Edge Computing (Gul-E-Laraib, Fall 2021)
  5. Mobility Aware Computation Offloading in Vehicular Edge Computing (Ehtesham Ul Haq, Fall 2021)
  6. Mobility and user preferences aware content caching in mobile edge computing
    (MEC) using machine learning (Muhammad Yasir, Spring 2021)
  7. Intelligent mobility-aware multi-hop migration in mobile edge computing (Muhammad Hashim, Spring 2021)
  8. Communication-aware lifetime reliability optimization for network-on-chip based multicore systems (Naima Khalid, Completed 2019)
  9. Load balanced task scheduling for large scale computing systems (Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman, Co-supervision, Spring 2015)
  10. Comparative Study of dynamic task mapping algorithms for network-on-chip based systems (Sabeen Ali, Co-supervision, Spring 2015)

 

Selected Undergraduate Projects

  1. Parental Control App for Android
  2. Router and Switch Simulator Desktop App
  3. Braille to Text and Speech Converter App
  4. Take a Break, Android App
  5. Service Provider App
  6. Tutor Finder, Mobile and Web based application
  7. IoT based Smart Home application for Android
  8. Multiplayer Chess Game for Android
  9. MACDroid: Moblie Access Control for Android Phones
  10. ICT based Community Policing
  11. Multiplayer Card Game for Mobile
  12. Radio Network Planning Software for WiMAX
  13. pBook: Peer-to-Peer Mobile Social Network
  14. Remote Home Automation Using Mobile
  15. Location based Advertising
  16. Disabled People Assistant: A mobile application
  17. Personnel Tracking using GPS
  18. Robotic System Control using Mobile
  19. Evaluation of routing protocols for wireless sensor networks
  20. Configuration & Evaluation of VoIP System
  21. Traffic Congestion Control System
  22. Network Security & Monitoring System

 

Honors/Awards

  • Won HEC Indigenous merit Scholarship for Ph.D. (2013-2017)
  • Won COMSATS In-House PhD fellowship for Ph.D. (2012-2017)
  • Achieved Distinction in MSc course (2007)
  • Won Gold Medal for First Position in MCS, KASBIT, Karachi, Pakistan (2004) 

 

As Journal Reviewer

  • Transactions on Industrial Informatics
  • Cluster Computing
  • ACM Computing Surveys
  • Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)
  • IEEE Access
  • IEEE Systems
  • KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems
  • IT Professional Magazine
  • Journal of Systems Architecture

 

Publications

Journal Papers 0
1.
Waleed Afandi, Syed MAH Bukhari, Muhammad US Khan, Tahir Maqsood, Muhammad AB Fayyaz, A. R. Ansari, and R. Nawaz (2023), "Explainable YouTube Video identification using Sufficient Input Subsets", IEEE Access , pp: 33178 - 33188, Vol: 11, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3261562, Impact Factor: [IF: 3.745]
2.
Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman, Tahir Maqsood, Faisal Rehman, Saad Mustafa, Muhammad Amir Khan, Neelam Gohar, Abeer D. Algarni, and Hela Elmannai (2023), "Content Caching in Mobile Edge Computing Based on User Location and Preferences Using Cosine Similarity and Collaborative Filtering", Electronics , Vol: 12, Issue: 2, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12020284, Impact Factor: [IF: 2.69]
3.
Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman, Saad Mustafa, Hajira Abbasi, Tahir Maqsood, Faisal Rehman, Muhammad Amir Khan, Mushtaq Ahmed, Abeer D. Algarni, and Hela Elmannai (2023), "Cooperative Content Caching Framework Using Cuckoo Search Optimization in Vehicular Edge Networks", Applied Sciences, pp: 780, Vol: 13, Issue: 2, ISSN: https://doi.org/10.3390/app13020780, Impact Factor: [IF: 2.83]
4.
Bukhari, Syed M. A. H., Waleed Afandi, Muhammad U. S. Khan, Tahir Maqsood, Muhammad B. Qureshi, Muhammad A. B. Fayyaz, and Raheel Nawaz (2022), "E-Ensemble: A Novel Ensemble Classifier for Encrypted Video Identification", Electronics , Vol: 11, Issue: 24, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11244076, Impact Factor: [IF: 2.69]
(External URL)
5.
Syed Muhammad Mohsin, Tahir Maqsood, and Sajjad Ahmed Madani (2022), "Solar and Wind Energy Forecasting for Green and Intelligent Migration of Traditional Energy Sources", Sustainability , pp: 16317, Vol: 14, Issue: 23, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su142316317, Impact Factor: [IF: 3.88]
6.
Shamim Younas, Faisal Rehman, Tahir Maqsood, Saad Mustafa, Adnan Akhunzada, and Abdullah Gani (2022), "Collaborative Detection of Black Hole and Gray Hole Attacks for Secure Data Communication in VANETs", Applied Sciences , Vol: 12, Issue: 23, Impact Factor: IF: 2.83
(External URL)
7.
Ehzaz Mustafa, Junaid Shuja, Ali Imran Jehangiri, Sadia Din, Faisal Rehman, Saad Mustafa, Tahir Maqsood, and Abdul Nasir Khan (2022), "Joint wireless power transfer and task offloading in mobile edge computing: a survey", Cluster Computing
8.
Javid Ali, Naima Khalid, Tahir Maqsood, Sajjad A. Madani (2022), "Communication and Aging Aware Application Mapping for Multicore based Edge Computing Servers", Cluster Computing, Impact Factor: 2.040
9.
Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman; Ali Imran Jehangiri; Tahir Maqsood; Arif Iqbal Umar; Muhammad Amir Khan; N Z Jhanjhi; Mohammad Shorfuzzaman; Mehedi Masud (2022), "COME-UP: Computation Offloading in Mobile Edge computing with LSTM based User direction Prediction", Applied Sciences
10.
Waleed Afandi, Syed M. A. H. Bukhari, Muhammad U. S. Khan, Tahir Maqsood, Samee U. Khan (2022), "Fingerprinting Technique for YouTube Videos Identification in Network Traffic", IEEE Access
11.
Muhammad Yasir, Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman, Tahir Maqsood, Faisal Rehman. Saad Mustafa (2022), "CoPUP: content popularity and user preferences aware content caching framework in mobile edge computing", Cluster Computing
12.
Kainat Malik, Faisal Rehman, Tahir Maqsood, Saad Mustafa, Osman Khalid, and Adnan Akhunzada (2022), "Lightweight Internet of Things Botnet Detection Using One-Class Classification", Sensors
13.
Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman, Ali Imran Jehangiri, Tahir Maqsood, et al. (2022), "LiMPO: lightweight mobility prediction and offloading framework using machine learning for mobile edge computing", Cluster Computing
14.
M. U. Shahid Khan, Syed M.A.H Bukhari, Tahir Maqsood, Muhammad A B Fayyaz, Darren Dancey, Raheel Nawaz (2022), "SCNN-Attack: A Side-channel attack to identify YouTube Videos in a VPN and non-VPN network traffic", Electronics
15.
Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman, Ali Imran Jehangiri, Tahir Maqsood, et al. (2021), "Mobility-aware computational offloading in mobile edge networks: a survey", Cluster Computing
16.
Yusuf, Bichi Bashir, Tahir Maqsood, Faisal Rehman, and Sajjad A. Madani (2021), "Energy Aware Parallel Scheduling Techniques for Network-on-Chip Based Systems", IEEE Access
17.
Faisal Rehman, Osman Khalid, Nuhman ul Haq, Tahir Maqsood, Mazhar Ali, Raja Wasim Ahmad, Junaid Shuja, Shahzad Sarwar, and Sajjad Ahmad Madani (2020), "A scalable model for real-time venue recommendations using MapReduce", Concurrency Computation Practice and Experience
18.
S. K. Zaman, Tahir Maqsood, S. Mustafa, F. Rehman, A. R. Khan, J. Shujah (2019), "A Systems Overview of Commercial Data Centers: Initial Energy and Cost Analysis", International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering
19.
Saad Mustafa, Kinza Sattar, Junaid Shuja, Shahzad Sarwar, Tahir Maqsood, Sajjad A. Madani, and Sghaier Guizani (2019), "SLA-Aware Best Fit Decreasing Techniques for Workload Consolidation in Clouds", IEEE Access
20.
Bahadar, Nawab, Shakir Ullah, Ingrid Nyborg, & Tahir Maqsood (2019), "Community-Oriented Policing: Political, Institutional and Technical Reforms in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Police", Journal of Human Security
21.
Tahir Maqsood, Sajjad A. Madani, Bahadar Nawab, Shakir Ullah, Ingrid Nyborg (2019), "Role of ICT in Community-Oriented Policing in South Asia: Challenges and Opportunities", Journal of Human Security
22.
Hina Rafique, Munam Ali Shah, Saif Ul Islam, Tahir Maqsood, Suleman Khan, Carsten Maple (2019), "A Novel Bio-Inspired Hybrid Algorithm (NBIHA) for Efficient Resource Management in Fog Computing", IEEE Access
23.
Tahir Maqsood, Kashif Bilal, and Sajjad A. Madani (2019), "Congestion-Aware Core Mapping for Network-on-Chip based Systems using Betweenness Centrality", Future Generation Computer Systems
24.
Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman, Tahir Maqsood, Mazhar Ali, Kashif Bilal, Sajjad A. Madani, Atta ur Rehman Khan (2019), "A load balanced task scheduling heuristic for Large-scale Computing Systems", COMPUTER SYSTEMS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
25.
Tahir Maqsood, Nikos Tziritas, Sajjad A. Madani, and Samee U. Khan (2018), "Energy and Communication Aware Task Mapping for MPSoCs", Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
26.
Javid Ali, Raja Wasim Ahmad, Tahir Maqsood, Sajjad A. Madani (2018), "Network Selection in Heterogeneous Access Networks Simultaneously Satisfying User Profile and QoS", International Journal of Communication Systems
27.
Raja Wasim Ahmad, Abdullah Gani, Tahir Maqsood (2018), "An Enhancement of Code Analysis Based Energy Estimation Framework for Smartphone Applications", IEEE Systems Journal
28.
Tahir Maqsood, Nikos Tziritas, Sajjad A. Madani, and Samee U. Khan (2017), "Leveraging on Deep Memory Hierarchies to Minimize Energy Consumption and Data Access Latency on Single-Chip Cloud Computers", IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing
29.
Tahir Maqsood, Osman Khalid, Rizwana Irfan, Sajjad A. Madani, and Samee U. Khan (2016), "Scalability Issues in Online Social Networks", ACM Computing Surveys
30.
Tahir Maqsood, Sabeen Ali, Saif UR Malik, and Sajjad A. Madani (2015), "Dynamic task mapping for Network-on-Chip based systems", Journal of Systems Architecture
31.
Mehran Ajmal, Kashif Bilal, Tahir Maqsood, Sajjad A. Madani (2013), "Coordinated opportunistic routing protocol for wireless mesh networks", Computers and Electrical Engineering
Conference Papers 0
1.
Muhammad US Khan, Syed MAH Bukhari, Shazir A. Khan, and Tahir Maqsood (2021) "ISP can identify YouTube videos that you just watched", 2021 International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT)
2.
Qazi, Adiah, Faisal Rehman, Tahir Maqsood, Kwang-Man Ko, Yung-Wey Chong, and Saad Mustafa (2018) "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)
3.
Ali, Javid, Raja Wasim Ahmad, Tahir Maqsood, Junaid Shuja, Yungwey Chong, Soongohn Kim, and KwngMan Ko (2017) "Adaptive Opportunistic Routing over DTMANETS: Proposals and Issues", Advances in Computer Science and Ubiquitous Computing, pp. 1126-1133. Springer
4.
Kolodziej, Joanna, Magdalena Szmajduch, Tahir Maqsood, Sajjad A. Madani, Nasro Min-Allah, and Samee U. Khan (2013) "Energy-aware grid scheduling of independent tasks and highly distributed data", Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), 2013 11th International Conference
5.
Muhammad Usman Shahid Khan, Tahir Maqsood (2011) "CRN Survey and A Simple Sequential MAC Protocol for CRN Learning", 4th international conference on cognitive radio and advanced spectrum management

Experience

Associate Professor
COMSATS University Islamabad, Lahore Campus
May 2023 to Date

Assistant Professor
COMSATS University Islamabad
Sep 2011 to Date

Lecturer
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad
Aug 2007 to Sep 2011

Qualification

Ph.D. Computer Science
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Sep 2012 to Apr 2017