Profile

Muhammad Ziad Nayyer is a full time Ph.D. student at Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology (CIIT), Lahore working under the supervision of Prof. Syed Asad Hussain. He is an active member of Communication Networks Research Center (CNRC). He received his MS degree in Computer Science from Government College University (GCU), Lahore, Pakistan in 2011.

Research Summary  

Cloudlet federation for resource optimization
Mobile devices face resource scarcity challenge due to limited resources such as power, storage and computation. Cloud computing has provided means to offload compute intensive tasks to its resource rich environment addressing resource scarcity challenges. However, users are unable to exploit its full potential due to challenges of distance, bandwidth, and seamless connectivity between remote cloud and mobile devices. The cloudlet based solution is widely used to address these challenges. Cloudlet is a mini cloud in the closer proximity having rich computing resources and stable Internet connection. With the increase in devices and workload, the cloudlet based solution has to deal with resource scarcity challenges by forwarding the requests to resource extensive remote cloud. Hence, there is a need to address the resource scarcity challenge at cloudlet level keeping the request from being forwarded to the remote cloud.

Publications:

1. Muhammad Ziad Nayyer, 2012. Analysis of AODV Over Increased Density and Mobility in Intelligent Transportation System, IJCSI Volume 9, Issue 5, September 2012.

1. Muhammad Ziad Nayyer, 2012. Intelligent Transportation System: Analysis of AODV, Academic Publication (LAP), ISBN (978-3-659-13536-1), EAN: 9783659135361

Research Interests:

Cloud Computing, VM Migration, Mobile Cloud Computing, Cloud Federation, Mobile Edge Computing, Fog Computing, Cloudlet Computing

Tools Explored:

DevStack, QemuKVM, Jellyfish, Ajenti, Scalr, Ovirt, OSQuery, PsDash, PsUtil, CloudSim, VSphere, ESXi, VCenter Server.