Waqar Asif
Category: Faculty May 14, 2016
Last updated on March 6th, 2020
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name Waqar Asif
Email waqar.asif@gmail.com
Phone +92-51-9260002
Research Areas Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks
Publications 10
AFFILIATIONS
Designation Lecturer
Department Department of Electrical Engineering
University Bahria University Islamabad Campus
QUALIFICATION
DEGREE PASSING YEAR MAJORS UNIVERSITY
Ph.D (Electrical Engineering) In Progress City University, London UK
MS (Communication System Engineering) 2012 SEECS, NUST
BS (Telecom Engineering) 2009 COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad
INDUSTRIAL & TEACHING EXPERIENCE
DESIGNATION FROM TO ORGANIZATION
Lecturer Jan 16 Present BAHRIA UNIVERSITY, ISLAMABAD
Research Assistant Dec 13 Jul 15 FREDERICK RESEARCH CENTER, FREDERICK UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS
Research Assistant Jan 12 Dec 13 SEECS, NUST
Teaching Assistant Feb 11 Jun 11 SEECS, NUST
Teaching Assistant Feb 09 Jan 09 CIIT, ISLAMABAD
Intern Jul  08 Sep 08 PTCL
Intern Jul  07 Aug 07 NATIONAL ENGINEERING & SCIENTIFIC COMMISSION
PUBLICATIONS
Conference Publications

1. Waqar Asif, Saad Qaisar, “Energy and Path Aware Clustering Algorithm (EPAC) for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks” ICCSA 2011, Part IV, LNCS 6785, pp. 133–147, 2011.

2. Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, “Variable Rate Adaptive Modulation (VRAM) for Introducing Small-World Model into WSNs”47th annual conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) 2013, pp1-6, 2013.

3. Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Muttukrishnan Rajarajanz and Marios Lestas, ”CBDI: Combined Banzhaf & Diversity Index for Finding Critical Nodes”, ,” in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM) 2014, pp. 758–763, Dec 2014.

4. Waqar Asif, Marios Lestas, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, “Spectral partitioning for node criticality,” in IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (accepted for publication), Jul 2015.

Journal Publications:

1. Waqar Asif, Muhammad Bilal Qasim, Syed Musa Raza Tirmzi, Usman Muhammad Khan, “Performance Evaluation of WiMAX (802.16) Using Different Encoding Schemes” (IJCSIS) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2009.

2. Mahzeb Fiaz, Roomana Yousaf, Maryam Hanfi, Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan “Adding the Reliability on Tree Based Topology Construction Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks “, Wireless Personal Communication, DOI- 10.1007/s11277-013-1334-2, July 2013 (Impact factor= 0.979).

3. Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Adnan Iqbal, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, ” On the complexity of average path length for biological networks and patterns ”, International Journal of Biomathematics Vol. 7, No. 4 (2014) (Impact factor= 0.633)

4. Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Adnan Iqbal, Waqar Asif, “Topology Control for Harvesting Enabled Wireless Sensor Networks: A Design Approach”, Wireless Personal Communication, November 2014 (Impact factor= 0.979).

5. Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Marios Lestas, “Combined Banzhaf & Diversity Index (CBDI), A Critical Node Detection Metric”, accepted for publication at Journal of Network and Computer Applications. (Impact factor = 2.229)

6. Waqar Asif, Marios Lestas, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, ”Optimization Based Spectral Partitioning for Node Criticality Assessment”, Under review at Transactions on Network Science and Engineering.

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Achievements

  • Secured NUST funded tuition fee waiver for MS leading to PhD program.
  • Secured a fully-funded scholarship for 18 months under the Erasmus Mundus STRoNG TiES project for grooming my research capabilities at The Frederick University Cyprus.
  • Represented NUST at the International Exhibition & Conference on Higher Education, held at Riyadh-KSA in April 2012.
  • 3rd Position in Second Semester of BS.
  • 1st Position in Third Semester of BS.
  • 3rd Position in Fourth Semester of BS.
  • 2nd Position in Fifth Semester of BS.

Professional Membership

  • Pakistan Engineering Council