Publications – Parallel Computing and Networks Research Lab

Journal Publications

Muhammad Azhar Iqbal, Muhammad Aleem, Muhammad Ibrahim, Saleem Anwar and Muhammad Arshad Islam, “Amazon Cloud computing platform EC2 and VANET simulations,” International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Inderscience, 2017 (ISI Impact factor 0.705) (Accepted, In Press).
Muhammad Azhar Iqbal, Bin Dai, Muhammad Arshad Islam, Muhammad Aleem and Nguyen-Son Vo, “Topology-Based Flow-Oriented Adaptive Network Coding-Aware Routing Scheme for VANETs”, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 2017 (ISI Impact factor 0.452) (Accepted, In Press)
Muhammad Aleem, Radu Prodan, Muhammad Arshad Islam, Muhammad Azhar Iqbal, “On the Parallel Programmability of JavaSymphony for Multi-cores and Clusters”, International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Inderscience, 2017 (ISI Impact factor 0.705) (Accepted, In Press).
Asra Ishtiaq, Salma Hussain Abbasi, Muhammad Aleem, Muhammad Arshad Islam, “User tracking mechanisms and counter measures”, International Journal of Applied Mathematics Electronics and Computers, ISSN 2147-8228, GIF 0.665, Volume 5, Issue 2, July 2017, pp. 33—40.
Badri Munier, Muhammad Aleem, Muhammad Arshad Islam, Muhammad Azhar Iqbal, Waqar Mehmood, “A Fast Implementation of Minimum Spanning Tree Method and Applying it to Kruskal’s and Prim’s Algorithms “, Sukkur IBA Journal of Computing and Mathematical Sciences ( P-ISSN: 2520-0755), Vol: 1, No: 1, Pages: 58-66, 2017 (Extended Version).
Sana Aurangzeb, Muhammad Aleem, Muhammad Azhar Iqbal and Muhammad Arshad Islam, “Ransomware: A Survey and Trends”, Journal of Information Assurance and Security, (ESCI – Thomson Reuters Indexed), ISSN: 1554-1010, Volume 12, Issue 2, 2017, pp.048—058.
“Analysis of Cognitive Radio Enabled Flooding for Opportunistic Networks” ( Arshad Islam, Marcel Waldvogel) To appear Int’l J. of Communications, Network and System Sciences
“A survey and tutorial of wireless relay network protocols based on network coding” (Ahmed Hassan Mohammed, Bin Dai, Benxiong Huang, Muhammad Azhar, Guan Xu, Peng Qin, Shui Yu) in Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), 2013, 36 (2): 593–610.
“Reactive routing evaluation using modified 802.11a with realistic vehicular mobility” (Muhammad Azhar Iqbal, Furong Wang, Xie Xu, Sarah M. Eljack, A. Hassan) in Journal Annals of Telecommunications (Springer), 66:643–656, 2011
“Survey of network coding-aware routing protocols in wireless networks” (Muhammad Azhar Iqbal, Bin Dai, Benxiong Huang, A. Hassan, Shui Yu) in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2011, 34(6): 1956-1970.

Conference Publications

Uzair Bin Nisar, Muhammad Aleem, Muhammad Azhar Iqbal, and Nguyen-Son Vo, “Jumbler: A lock-contention aware thread scheduler for multi-core parallel machines,” 2017 International Conference on Recent Advances in Signal Processing, Telecommunications & Computing (SigTelCom), Da Nang, 2017, pp. 77-81, 2017.
Mateen, M. A. Iqbal, M. Aleem and M. A. Islam, “A hybrid approach for spam detection for Twitter”, 14th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST), Islamabad, Pages: 466-471, doi: 10.1109/IBCAST.2017.7868095, 2017.
Muhammad Arshad Islam, Muhammad Azhar Iqbal, Muhammad Aleem and Zahid Halim, “Analysing connectivity patterns and centrality metrics for opportunistic networks,” 2017 International Conference on Communication, Computing and Digital Systems (C-CODE), Islamabad, Pakistan, 2017, pp. 64-70. doi: 10.1109/C-CODE.2017.7918903.
Badri Munir, Muhammad Aleem, Muhammad Arshad Islam, Muhammad Azhar Iqbal, Waqar Mehmood, “A Fast Implementation of Minimum Spanning Tree method and Applying it to Kruskal’s and Prim’s Algorithms”, International Conference on Computing and Mathematical Sciences – ICCMS’2017, Pages: 10-15, 2017, Sukkur Pakistan, 2017.
Shagufta, Muhammad Aleem, Muhammad Arshad Islam and Muhammad Azhar Iqbal, “A Comparative Study of Heterogeneous Processor Simulators”, International Journal of Computer Applications, Vol: 148, No: 12, Pages: 5-12, 2016 (HEC recognized Y-category Journal, Ulrich Periodical Directory), 2016.
“USING JAVA FOR PROGRAMMING HETEROGENEOUS MANYCORE PARALLEL COMPUTERS” (Muhammad Aleem, Radu Prodan and Cristian Bologa) In 3rd International Conference on Theory and Practice in Modern Computing 2014, pages 15 – 17, July 2014, Lisbon, Portugal
“Genetic programming based degree constrained spanning tree extraction” (M Babar, Z. Waqas, Z Halim, MA Islam) Digital Information Management (ICDIM), Islamabad 2013, 241 – 246.
“The JavaSymphony Extensions for Parallel GPU Computing” (Muhammad Aleem, Radu Prodan, and Thomas Fahringer.) In Proceedings of the 41st International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP ’12). September 2012, IEEE Computer Society, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
“Analyzing History Quality for Routing Purposes in Opportunistic Network using Max-Flow” ( Arshad Islam, Marcel Waldvogel) Wireless Engineering and Technology, Vol. 3 No. 3, 2012, pp. 132-141. doi: 10.4236/wet.2012.33020.
“Scheduling JavaSymphony applications on many-core parallel computers” (Muhammad Aleem, Radu Prodan, and Thomas Fahringer) In Proceedings of the 17th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar’11), volume 6852 of LNCS, pages 167-179. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, Bordeaux France, 2011.
“Optimizing Message Delivery in Mobile-Opportunistic Networks” ( Arshad Islam, Marcel Waldvogel) in Baltic Conference on Future Internet and Communication BCFIC Riga February, 2011.
“Questioning Flooding as a Routing Benchmark in Opportunistic Networks” ( Arshad Islam, Marcel Waldvogel) in Baltic Conference on Future Internet and Communication BCFIC Riga February, 2011.
“”On the Evaluation of JavaSymphony for heterogeneous multi-core clusters” (Muhammad Aleem, Radu Prodan, and Thomas Fahringer) In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms, volume 6586 of LNCS, pages 23-30. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, Ischia-Naples Italy, 2010
“I Seek for Knowledge: Exploiting Social Properties in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks” (Sebastian Belle, Arshad Islam, Marcel Waldvogel) in IFIP Wireless Days 2008 Dubai, United Arabs of Emirates November, 2008.
“Reality-Check for DTN Routing Algorithms” ( Arshad Islam, Marcel Waldvogel) in International Workshop on Delay/Disruption Tolerant Mobile Networks organized under International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems on June 17-20, 2008 in Beijing China.
“HYPHEN – A File Replication Strategy Analyzer on P2P Networks” ( Arshad Islam, M. Mehboob Yasinn) in Communication in Computing CIC’04 Las Vegas June, 2004
“Network Coding for Two-Way Relaying over AWGN Channels Using Soft Detection” (Ahmed Hassan M. Hassan, Bin Dai, Huang Benxiong, Azhar Iqbal) in Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM), 2011. 1-5.
“Joint design of channel coding and network coding of different channel models for wireless networks” (Ahmed Hassan M. Hassan, Bin Dai, Huang Benxiong, Azhar Iqbal) in Proceedings of IEEE 3rd International Conference on Communication Software and Networks (ICCSN), 2011. 46-51.
“Curvelet-based Image Compression with SPIHT” (Muhammad Azhar Iqbal, Muhammad Younas Javed, Usman Qayyum) in Proceedings of International Conference on Convergence of Information Technology (ICCIT’07), 2007, 961-96.

Technical Reports

“JavaSymphony: A Programming and Execution Environment for Parallel and Distributed Many-core Environments” (M. Aleem, R. Prodan, M. Berger, S. Hofbauer, H. Jordan, H. Fard, P. Thoman, T. Vitvar, T. Fahringer), pages 33, Standortagentur Tirol, Innsbruck, Austria.

Books

“Computer Network Simulation Using OMNeT++ (A Practical Approach)”, by Muhammad Azhar Iqbal, Muhammad Arshad Islam, Muhammad Aleem, Hasan Murtaza (Accepted by HEC Pakistan, In-press)
“A Java-based Programming and Execution Environment for Many-core Parallel Computers” by Aleem, Muhammad, Leopold-Franzens Universitaet Innsbruck (Austria), 2012, 172 pages; UMI No. 3730752, ProQuest LLC, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, 2015.
“On the evaluation of JavaSymphony for heterogeneous multi-core clusters”. by Muhammad Aleem, Radu Prodan, and Thomas Fahringer. In Proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heterogeneous Platforms, volume 6586 of LNCS, pages 23-30. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, Ischia-Naples Italy, 2010.(Book chapter).
“Scheduling JavaSymphony applications on many-core parallel computers”. Muhammad Aleem, Radu Prodan, and Thomas Fahringer. In Proceedings of the 17th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EuroPar’11), volume 6852 of LNCS, pages 167-179. Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, Bordeaux France, 2011. (Book chapter).