Research At COMSATS

Scalable Processing and Analytics Research in Communications (SPARC) Lab

Dr. Faisal Rehman

	Designation:	Associate Professor
	Email:	frehman@cuiatd.edu.pk
	Phone No. :	N/A
	Role:	Faculty
	Research Interests:	Social Networks, Recommender Systems, Wireless Mesh Networks, GiS

Academics/ Degrees

PhD in Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan, 2017
MS (Computer Science), COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan, 2010
MIT, Sarhad University of Information Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan, 2003
B.Sc (Computer Science), University of Peshawar, 2001

Profile/Bio

PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

Jan. 2014 to continued: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Sep. 2010 to Jan. 2014: Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Sep. 2007 to Sep. 2010: System/Network Assistant, COMSATS IT Center, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
Jan. 2004 to Sep. 2007: Lecturer, Pine Hills Institute of Business and Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan (Affiliated with Agriculture University Peshawar)

Publications/Papers

2024

Journal

Latif U. Khan,E. Mustafa,J.Shujah,F. Rehman,K.Bilal,Zhu Han,Zhu Han,Choong Seon Hong,Choong Seon Hong "Federated learning for digital twin-based vehicular networks: Architecture and challenges" , IEEE Wireless Communications ,Volume 31 ,Issue 2 ,Page 156 - 162 , 2024

T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,J.Shujah,S.K.Zaman,Arslan Qayyum "Adaptive thresholds for improved load balancing in mobile edge computing using K-means clustering" , Telecommunication Systems ,Volume 86 ,Issue 3 ,Page 519-532 , 2024

Yasar Khan,S. Mustafa,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,J.Ali,R.Wasim,Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues "Content caching in mobile edge computing: a survey" , Cluster Computing , 2024

E. Mustafa,Junaid Shuja,F. Rehman,Ahsan Riaz "Deep Neural Networks meet computation offloading in mobile edge networks: Applications, taxonomy, and open issues" , Journal of Network and Computer Applications ,Volume 226 ,Page 103886 , 2024

2023

Journal

E. Mustafa,E. Mustafa,S. Mustafa,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,J.Shujah,K.Bilal,A. U. R. Khan "Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Online Computation Offloading in Wireless Powered Edge Networks" , Cluster Computing ,Volume 26 ,Issue 2 ,Page 1053-1062 , 2023

S.K.Zaman,S. Mustafa,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,Muhammad Amir Khan,H. Abbasi,M. Ahmed, A. D. Algarni, H. Elmannai "Cooperative Content Caching Framework Using Cuckoo Search Optimization in Vehicular Edge Networks" , Applied Science ,Volume 13 ,Issue 2 ,Page 780 , 2023

G. Laraib,S.K.Zaman,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,Muhammad Amir Khan,N. Gohar, A. D. Algarni, H. Elmannai "Content Caching in Mobile Edge Computing Based on User Location and Preferences Using Cosine Similarity and Collaborative Filtering" , Electronics ,Volume 12 ,Issue 2 ,Page 284 , 2023

U. Zukaib, M. Maray,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,N. Haq,A. U. R. Khan "Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on air quality analyzed through machine learning techniques" , PeerJ Computer Science ,Volume 9 ,Page e1270 , 2023

Naseem Us Sehar,Muhammad A. B. Fayyaz,O.Khalid,I.Khan,F. Rehman,Ali R. Ansari,Raheel Nawaz "Blockchain enabled data security in vehicular networks" , Scientific Reports ,Volume 13 ,Issue 1 ,Page 4412 , 2023

S.K.Zaman,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,S. Mustafa,Azra Ramzan,J.Shujah "Deadline-aware heuristics for reliability optimization in ubiquitous mobile edge computing" , International Journal of Data Science and Analytics , 2023

2022

Journal

Adil Adeel,Dr. Mazhar Ali,F. Rehman,J.Shujah,AN Khan,Tauqeer Khalid,Yaser Jararweh "A multi-attack resilient lightweight IoT authenticationscheme" , Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies , 2022

K. Malik,A. Akhunzada,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,O.Khalid "Lightweight Internet of Things Botnet Detection Using One-Class Classification" , Sensors ,Volume 22 ,Issue 10 ,Page 3646 , 2022

M. Yasir,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,S.K.Zaman "CoPUP: content popularity and user preferences aware content caching framework in mobile edge computing" , Cluster Computing ,Volume 26 ,Issue 1 ,Page 267 - 281 , 2022

A. Khan,H. A. Khattak,F. Rehman,A. Abbas,I. U. Din, S. Ali "Effective Task Scheduling in Critical Fog Applications" , Scientific Programming ,Volume 2022 ,Page 15 , 2022

S. Younas,F. Rehman,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,A. Akhunzada, A. Gani "Collaborative Detection of Black Hole and Gray Hole Attacks for Secure Data Communication in VANETs" , Applied Sciences ,Volume 12 ,Issue 23 ,Page 12448 , 2022

E. Mustafa,J.Shujah,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,AN Khan,S.K.Zaman,Ali Imran Jehangiri,Sadia Din "Joint wireless power transfer and task offloading in mobile edge computing: a survey" , Cluster Computing ,Volume 25 ,Issue 4 ,Page 2429-2448 , 2022

2021

Journal

B. B. Yusuf,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,S. A. Madani "Energy Aware Parallel Scheduling Techniques for Network-on-Chip Based Systems" , IEEE Access ,Volume 9 ,Page 38778 - 38791 , 2021

M. Junaid,A. Sohail, M. H. Alkinani, A. Ahmed, M. Ahmed,F. Rehman "Enhancing Cloud Performance Using File Format Classifications" , CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua ,Volume 70 ,Issue 2 ,Page 3985-4007 , 2021

2020

Journal

F. Rehman,O.Khalid,N. Haq,T. Maqsood,Dr. Mazhar Ali,R.Wasim,J.Shujah,S. Sarwar, S. A. Madani "A scalable model for real‐time venue recommendations using MapReduce" , Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience ,Volume 32 ,Issue 21 ,Page 5597 , 2020

2019

Journal

S.K.Zaman,A. R. Khan,J.Shujah,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,S. Mustafa "A Systems Overview of Commercial Data Centers: Initial Energy and Cost Analysis" , International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE) ,Volume 14 ,Issue 1 ,Page 42-65 , 2019

Atta ur Rahman Khan,Raheel Nawaz,Dr. Usman Shahid,F. Rehman,O.Khalid,Rizwana Irfan "SocialRec: A Context-Aware Recommendation Framework With Explicit Sentiment Analysis" , IEEE Access ,Volume 7 ,Page 116295 - 116308 , 2019

Book/Chapter

F. Rehman "Introduction to big data recommender systems — volume 1" , Big Data Recommender Systems: Volume 2 : Application Paradigms , 2019

2018

Conference

A. Qazi,F. Rehman,T. Maqsood,K. M. Ko, Y. W. Chong,S. Mustafa "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) , 2018

R.Wasim,S. H. A. Hamid, A. Gani, M. S. Obaidat,J.Shujah,F. Rehman,A. R. Khan "Performance assessment of dynamic analysis based energy estimation tools" , Proceedings of the 21st International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems , 2018

2017

Journal

F. Rehman,O.Khalid,Sajjad A. Madani "A comparative study of location-based recommendation systems" , The Knowledge Engineering Review ,Volume 2017 ,Page 1-30 , 2017

F. Rehman,O.Khalid,N. Haq,Atta ur Rehman,K.Bilal,Sajjad A. Madani "Diet-Right: A Smart Food Recommendation System" , KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems ,Volume 11 ,Issue 6 ,Page 2910-2925 , 2017

2012

Journal

F. Rehman,S.Madani "Mobile gateway discovery for wireless mesh networks" , World Applied Sciences Journal , 2012

Awards/ Appreciations

Best paper award, (Spects 2018 France)

Scalable Processing and Analytics Research in Communications (SPARC) Lab

Dr. Faisal Rehman

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