Research At COMSATS

Cloud and Grid Computing (CGC)

Dr. Babar Nazir

	Designation:	Assistant Professor
	Email:	babarnazir@cuiatd.edu.pk
	Phone No. :	N/A
	Role:	Faculty
	Research Interests:	Research interest includes communication protocols for wireless sensor networks, resource management and job scheduling in grid/cloud computing, and parallel/ distributed computing. In specific it includes: Wireless Sensor Network QoS Aware Energy Efficient Routing Protocol for WSN QoS Aware Energy Efficient MAC Protocol for WSN Sleep Scheduling Schemes for WSN Routing Protocols for Mobile WSN Grid Computing Job Scheduling in economy based computational grid. Resource management in computational grid. Fault tolerance in computational grid Auction models for economy based computational grid. SLA issues in computation grid. Cloud Computing Resource management in clouds Job scheduling in clouds. Mobile Adhoc Network Bridge scheduling in bluetooth scaternet Routing in VANET and Bluetooth Networks.

Projects

Cloud Computing Infrastructure For Clinical Decision Support System

Dynamic Connectivity Restoration Protocol For Wireless Sensor And Actuator Networks

Publications/Papers

2020

Journal

S.S.Hussain,I.A.Khan,W.Jadoon,B.Nazir,Attiqa Rehman "Redesign and validation of a computer programming course using Inductive Teaching Method" , PLOS-One ,Volume 15 ,Issue 6 , 2020

2019

Journal

I.A.Khan,Ahmad Khan,B.Nazir,S.S.Hussain,F.G Khan,I.Khan "Urdu Translation: the Validation and Reliability of the 120-Item Big Five IPIP Personality Scale" , Current Psychology ,Volume 38 , 2019

B.Nazir "The Impact of the Implementation Cost of Replication in Data Grid Job Scheduling" , International Journal of Mathematical and Computational Applications ,Volume 23 ,Issue 2 , 2019

Adnan Anwar,Muhammad Amir Khan,Dr. Ayaz Ali,Dr. Aamir Shahzad,B.Nazir,I.A.Khan,W.Jadoon,Aqdas Naveed Malik,Naveed Shahzad,R.Jadoon "Quality of Service-Based Node Relocation Technique for Mobile Sensor Networks" , Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing ,Volume 2019 ,Issue 5043187 , 2019

I.A.Khan,S.S.Hussain,B.Nazir,W.Jadoon,I.Khan "Design and evaluation of a dynamic job search website for non-literate users of Pakistan" , New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia ,Volume 25 ,Issue 4 ,Page 12 , 2019

2018

Journal

W.Jadoon,Dr. Zia ur Rehman,I.A.Khan,B.Nazir,F.G Khan "Robust Face Recognition under Limited Training Sample Scenario using Linear Representation" , KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems ,Volume 12 ,Issue 7 , 2018

B.Nazir "A Dynamic Replication Aware Load Balanced Scheduling for Data Grids in Distributed Environments of Internet of Things" , International Journal of Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks , 2018

B.Nazir "Urdu Translation, Validation and Reliability of the 120 item Big Five IPIP Personality Scale" , Current Psychology , 2018

B.Nazir " QoS-aware VM placement and migration for hybrid cloud infrastructure" , Springer Journal of Supercomputing ,Volume 74 ,Issue 9 , 2018

2017

Journal

B.Nazir " Load Balancing in Computational Grids: Perspectives, Challenges, and Issues" , ELSEVIER International Journal of Network and Computer Applications, , 2017

B.Nazir "Search-based routing in wireless mesh network" , EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , 2017

B.Nazir "Congestion control algorithms in wireless sensor networks: Trends and opportunities" , Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences , 2017

B.Nazir "Dynamic and Adaptive Fault Tolerant Scheduling With QoS Consideration in Computational Grid" , IEEE Access , 2017

I.A.Khan,B.Nazir "Search-based routing in wireless mesh network" , EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking ,Volume 2017 ,Issue 36 ,Page 14 , 2017

I.A.Khan,B.Nazir,S.Khan "Load balancing in grid computing: Taxonomy, trends and opportunities" , Journal of Network and Computer Applications ,Volume 88 ,Page 99-111 , 2017

2016

Journal

F.G Khan,B.Nazir " Energy Efficient Routing Protocols in Wireless Sensor Networks: A survey" , International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS) ,Volume 14 ,Issue 06 ,Page 398-406 , 2016

B.Nazir "Fault tolerance in computational grids: perspectives, challenges, and issues" , SpringerPlus , 2016

2015

Journal

S. Mustafa,B.Nazir,A. Hayat,A. R. Khan,S. A. Madani "Resource management in cloud computing: Taxonomy, prospects, and challenges" , Computers & Electrical Engineering ,Volume 47 ,Page 186–203 , 2015

B.Nazir "A cross-layer approach for partition detection at overlay layer for structured P2P in MANETs" , Springer Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications ,Page 1-16 , 2015

2014

Journal

Sardar Bilal,A. R. Khan,Samee U Khan,S.Madani,B.Nazir,Mazliza Othman "Road Oriented Traffic Information System for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks" , Wireless Personal Communications , 2014

Irshad A Abbasi,B.Nazir,Aftab Abbasi,Sardar M Bilal,S.Madani "A traffic flow-oriented routing protocol for VANETs" , EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, 2014 ,Volume 2014 ,Issue 1 ,Page 1-14 , 2014

B.Nazir,S.Madani "A traffic flow-oriented routing protocol for VANETs" , July 2014 ,Volume 1 ,Issue 2014 ,Page 1-14 , 2014

B.Nazir,I.Khan "An Energy Efficient Simultaneous-Node Repositioning Algorithm For Mobile Sensor Networks " , Hindawi Scientific Journal of Computer Science ,Volume 2014 ,Issue 2014 , 2014

B.Nazir "Road Oriented Traffic Information System for Vehicular Ad hoc Networks" , March 2014 ,Volume 77 ,Issue 4 ,Page pp. 2497-2515 , 2014

B.Nazir,I.Khan "Congestion Control Algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks- Trends and Opportunities" , Journal of King Saud University-Computer and Information Sciences , 2014

Conference

B.Nazir "Providing Optimal Percentage Reduction in coverage for Mobile Sensor Networks" , 2014 , 2014

2013

Journal

B.Nazir "Adaptive checkpointing strategy to tolerate faults in economy based grid" , Journal The Journal of Supercomputing 50(1): 1-18 (2009) , 2013

S.Malik,B.Nazir,I.Khan "ARreliable Checkpoint Storage Strategy for Grid" , Springer journal of Computing 28 November 2012 , 2013

Mehran Ajmal,S.Madani,T. Maqsood,K.Bilal,B.Nazir,K.Hayat "Coordinated opportunistic routing protocol for wireless mesh networks" , Computers & Electrical Engineering, 12th August, 2013 , 2013

Rizwana Irfan,Gage Bickler,Samee U Khan,Joanna Kolodziej,Hongxiang Li,Dan Chen,Lizhe Wang,K.Hayat,S.Madani,B.Nazir,I.Khan,Rajiv Ranjan "Survey on social networking services" , IET Networks,2013 , 2013

2012

Conference

Paul Manuel,B.Nazir "Replication based fault tolerant job scheduling strategy for economy driven grid" , Journal The Journal of Supercomputing archive Volume 62 Issue 2, November 2012 Pages 855-873 , 2012

2011

Journal

B.Nazir,Halabi Hasbullah,S.Madani "Sleep/wake scheduling scheme for minimizing end-to-end delay in multi-hop wireless sensor networks" , EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking , 2011

B.Nazir "A reliable checkpoint storage strategy for grid" , 'Springer Journal of Computing ,Volume 2012 , 2011

Conference

B.Nazir "Low Latency Sleep/Wake Scheduling Scheme for Wireless Sensor Network" , EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking 2011, ,Volume 92 , 2011

2010

Conference

B.Nazir "Region-based Energy-aware cluster (REC) for efficient packet forwarding in WSN" , Information Technology (ITSim), 2010 International Symposium in , 2010

B.Nazir "Energy balanced clustering in wireless sensor network" , Information Technology (ITSim), 2010 International Symposium in ,Page 569-574 , 2010

2007

Conference

B.Nazir "Mobile Sink based Routing Protocol (MSRP) for Prolonging Network Lifetime in Clustered Wireless Sensor Network" , Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ICCAIE), 624-629 , 2007

B.Nazir " Fault tolerant job scheduling in computational grid" , Emerging Technologies, 2006. ICET'06. International Conference on Pages 708-713 , 2007

B.Nazir "QoS aware Interpiconet Scheduling in Bluetooth Scatternet (QIPS)" , Emerging Technologies, 2007. ICET 2007. International Conference on , 2007

B.Nazir,Kashif Zia "QoS aware Interpiconet Scheduling in Bluetooth Scatternet (QIPS)" , Emerging Technologies, 2007. ICET 2007. International Conference on , 2007

F.G Khan,A. Saeed,B.Nazir,K.Bilal,N. Ayub "Improved IP Network for Emergency Service" , IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies (ICET), Islamabad, Pakistan , 2007