Muhammad Usman Ilyas

Assistant Professor

PG Programme Director, PG Admissions Tutor 

Department of Computer Science

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

University of Birmingham - Dubai, UAE

Biography

He received an M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University (MSU), East Lansing, MI in 2007 and 2009, respectively, the M.S. in Computer Engineering from the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore in 2005 and an B.E. (Honors) in Electrical Engineering from the National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad in 1999. 

He is currently serving as Assistant Professor and PG Program Director & Admissions Tutor of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham Dubai, UAE. 

Before that, he served as Associate Professor (Computer and Network Engineering) at the College of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from 2016-2022. Before that, he was appointed Assistant Professor (Electrical Engineering) at the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan from 2011-2021. Before that he worked as a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at MSU from 2010 to 2011 under the joint supervision of Prof. Hayder Radha and Prof. Alex X. Liu and Research Assistant from 2004. He also worked for Quartics LLC, Irvine, CA as an Embedded Software Engineer in 2006 and 2008, Engro Chemical Ltd., Karachi, as an Information Systems Engineer from 1999 to 2000, and Avaz Networks / Communications Enabling Technologies, Islamabad, as a Design Engineer (SoC) from 2000 to 2002.

mail: m dot ilyas at bham dot ac dot uk

usman at ieee dot org


Memberships: 

Other Public Profiles: 

Google Scholar || DBLP || LinkedIn || University of Birmingham Dubai || NUST || WAVES Lab, MSU || IEEExplore || Mathematics Genealogy Project || Academia || ResearchGate

Education

PhD Electrical Engineering

Michigan State University

2009

MS Electrical Engineering

Michigan State University

2007

MS Computer Engineering

Lahore University of Management Sciences

2005

Research

(Funded Projects)

Projects

Teaching

University of Birmingham - Dubai

35391 LC Logical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science

37857 LM Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (x2)

37083 LM Security of Real-world Systems

30432 LI Security and Networks

37859 LM Visualization (x2)

University of Jeddah

CCCS 111 - Introduction to Programming (x8) – (YouTube playlist of videos, theory lectures and hands-on demos

CCCS 214 – Object Oriented Programming II (x2)

CPCS203 / CCCS220 / CCCS 121 – Object Oriented Programming I (x6)

CCCS 122 – Discrete Mathematics (x2)

CPCS 204 – Algorithms and Data Structures I (x2)

CPCS 211 – Digital Logic Design

CCCN 222 – Signals & Systems

CPIT 305 – Advanced Programming (x2)

CPCS 324 – Algorithms & Data Structures II

CPCS 371 – Computer Networks

CPIT 470 – Network Administration

CCAI 321 - Artificial Neural Networks (x2)

CPCS 331 – Artificial Intelligence

CPCS 505 – Advanced Computer Networks

CPIS 625 – Information Security Management

CPCS 683 – Advanced Artificial Intelligence 


National University of Sciences and Technology

EE232 - Signals & Systems (x2)

EE 800 – Stochastic Systems (x6)

CC 874 – Performance Modeling and Evaluation of Computer Networks (x1)

EE 879 – Network Performance Analysis (x2)

RM 898 – Research Methodology (x8)

CSE 444 – Mobile Communications (x3)

CSE 200 – Data Communication (x1)

EE 362 – Computer and Communication Networks (x1)

MATH 161 – Discrete Mathematics (x1)



Publications 

(in reverse chronological order)

Dissertation

D.1  Muhammad Usman Ilyas, "Analytical and Quantitative Characterization of Wireless Sensor Networks," Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Michigan State University, 2009. [Amazon, PDF]

Books

B.1   Muhammad Usman Ilyas, Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Awais Mehmood Kamboh, Muhammad Ali Alqarni, Introduction to Computer Science and Programming, Alshegrey Publishers, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, 2019, ISBN: 978603912478-8.

Journal Papers

J.1     I.R. Khan, S.T.A. Ali, A. Siddiq, M.M. Khan, M.U. Ilyas, S. Alshomrani, and S. Rahardja, "Automatic License Plate Recognition in Real-World Traffic Videos Captured in Unconstrained Environment by a Mobile Camera," MDPI Electronics, Vol. 11, No. 9, pp. 1408, April 28, 2022. ISSN: 2079-9292, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091408. [Impact Factor: 2.690]


J.2    Muhammad U. Ilyas, Soltan Abed Alharbi, “Machine Learning Approaches to Network Intrusion Detection for Contemporary Internet Traffic,” Springer Computing (COMP), Vol. 104, No. -, pp. 1061--1076, January 04, 2022, ISSN: 1074-5351, E-ISSN: 1099-1131, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-021-01050-5. [Impact Factor: 2.220]

J.3    Muhammad U. Ilyas, Muneeb Ahmad, Sajid Saleem, “Internet-of-Things-Infrastructure-as-a-Service: The Democratization of Access to Public Internet-of-Things Infrastructure,” Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), Vol. 33, No. 16, e4562, pp. --, November 10, 2020, E-ISSN: 1099-1131, DOI: 10.1002/dac.4562. [Impact Factor: 1.319]

J.4    Rida Amjad, Rehan Hafiz, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Muhammad Shahzad Younis, and Muhammad Shafique, “m-SAAC: Multi-Stage Adaptive Approximation Control to Select Approximate Computing Modes for Vision Application,” Elsevier Microelectronics Journal (MEJO), Vol. 91, pp. 84--91, September, 2019, ISSN: 0026-2692, E-ISSN:, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mejo.2019.07.010 [Impact Factor: 1.284]

J.5  Shahbaz Ali Khan, Sajid Saleem, Syed Ali Hassan, Muhammad U. Ilyas, “An Improved Data-Aided Linear Estimator of Modulation Index for Binary CPM Signals,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL), Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 780-784, May 2019, ISSN: 1070-9908, E-ISSN: 1558-2361, DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2019.2907797 [Impact Factor: 2.813] 

J.6 Muhammad U. Ilyas, Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Hayder Radha, Ahmed Al-Ghamdi and Asmaa Munshi, "An Analytical Model of the Small World Effect In D2D Wireless Networks," IEEE Access (ACCESS), Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 26558—26570, Feb 8, 2019, E-ISSN: 2169-3536, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2898221 [Impact Factor: 3.557]

J.7 Anwar Ghani, Husnain Naqvi, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Ali Hassan, “Energy Efficiency in Multipath Rayleigh Faded Wireless Sensor Networks using Collaborative Communication,” IEEE Access (ACCESS), Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 26558—26570, Feb 18, 2019, E-ISSN: 2169-3536, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2898565 [Impact Factor: 3.557]

J.8 Rubab Mehboob, Hassan Dawood, Hussain Dawood, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Ping Guo, and Ameen Banjar, “Live fingerprint detection using magnitude of perceived spatial stimuli and local phase information,” SPIE Journal of Electronic Imaging (JEI), Vol. 27, No. 5, pp. 053038-1 -- 053083-13, Oct 13, 2018, ISSN: 1017-9909, E-ISSN: 1560-229X, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.27.5.053038 [Impact Factor: 0.891]

J.9 Jawad Ahmed, Aqsa Malik, Muhammad U. Ilyas, and Jalal S. Alowibdi, “Instance Launch-time Analysis of OpenStack Virtualization Technologies with Control Plane Network Errors,” Springer Computing (COMP), pp. 1—26, May 28, 2018. Print ISSN: 0010-485X, E-ISSN: 1436-5057, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00607-018-0626-5 [Impact Factor: 1.589]

J.10 Saad Saleh, Junaid Qadir, Muhammad U. Ilyas, “Shedding Light on the Dark Corners of the Internet: A Survey of Tor Research,” Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), Vol. 114, pp. 1—28, Apr 14, 2018. ISSN: 1084-8045, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2018.04.002 [Impact Factor: 3.500]

J.11 Jaehoon Jeong, Yiwen Shen, Sangsoo Jeong, Sejun Lee, Hwanseok Jeong, Tae Oh, Taejoon Park, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Sang Son, David Du, “STMAC: Spatio-Temporal Coordination-Based MAC Protocol for Driving Safety in Urban Vehicular Networks," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 1520--1536, May, 2018. Print ISSN: 1524-9050, Online ISSN: 1558-0016, DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2017.2723946 [Impact Factor: 3.724]

J.12 Naumana Ayub, Mamoon Raja, Saad Saleh, Muhammad U. Ilyas, “MuGKeG: Secure Multi-channel Group Key Generation Algorithm for Wireless Networks,” Springer Wireless Personal Communications (WPC), Vol. 96, No. 3, pp. 4799--4818, October 2017, Print ISSN: 0929-6212, E-ISSN: 1572-834X, DOI:10.1007/s11277-017-4423-9. [Impact Factor: 0.951]

J.13 Nabila Shahid, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Jalal S. Alowibdi, Naif R. Aljohani, “Wordcloud Segmentation for Simplified Exploration of Trending Topics on Twitter,” IET Software (IET-SEN) – Special Issue on Advanced Software Engineering for Data Mining in Business, Health, Education and Social Networks (B-H-E-SN), Vol. 11, No. 5, pp. 214—220, Oct 2017. Print ISSN 1751-8806, Online ISSN: 1751-8814. [Impact Factor: 0.733]

J.14 Uzzam Javed, Azeem Iqbal, Saad Saleh, Syed Ali Haider and Muhammad U. Ilyas, “A Stochastic Model for Transit Latency in OpenFlow SDNs,” Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET), Vol. 113, February 11, 2017, pp. 218--229, ISSN: 1389--1286. [Impact Factor: 1.446]           

J.15 Aqsa Malik, Jawad Ahmed, Junaid Qadir and Muhammad U. Ilyas, “A Measurement Study of Open Source SDN Layers in OpenStack under Network Perturbation,” Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM), Vol. 102, Apr 1, 2017, pp. 139--149, ISSN: 0140-3664. [Impact Factor: 2.099]

J.16 Azeem Iqbal, Uzzam Javed, Saad Saleh, JongWon Kim, Jalal S. Alowibdi and Muhammad U. Ilyas, “Analytical Modeling of End-to-End Delay in OpenFlow Based Networks,” IEEE Access (ACCESS), Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 6859—6871, Dec 07, 2016, E-ISSN: 2169-353, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2636247 [Impact Factor: 1.270]

J.17 Faria Kalim, Jaehoon (Paul) Jeong and Muhammad U. Ilyas, “CRATER: A Crowd Sensing Application To Estimate Road Conditions,” IEEE Access (ACCESS), Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 8317--8326, Sep 8, 2016. E-ISSN: 2169-3536 2016, DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2016.2607719 [Impact Factor: 1.270]

J.18 M. Zubair Shafiq, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Alex X. Liu, and Hayder Radha, “Identifying Leaders and Followers in Online Social Networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication (JSAC) Special Issue on Emerging Technologies in Communication, Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 618-628, 20 Jun, 2013, ISSN: 0733-8716, E-ISSN: 1558-0008, DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2013.SUP.0513054 [Impact Factor: 3.412]

J.19 Muhammad U. Ilyas, M. Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu, and Hayder Radha, “A Distributed Algorithm for Identifying Information Hubs in Social Networks,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication (JSAC) Special Issue on Emerging Technologies in Communication, Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 629--640, 20 Jun, 2013, ISSN: 0733-8716, E-ISSN: 1558-0008, DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2013.SUP.0513055 [Impact Factor: 3.412]

J.20 Muhammad U. Ilyas and Hayder Radha, “A Dynamic Programming Approach to Maximize a Statistical Measure of Lifetime of Sensor Networks,” ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (ToSN), Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 18:1-18:21, May 2012. ISSN: 1550-4859, E-ISSN: 1550-4867, DOI: 10.1145/2140522.2140531 [Impact Factor: 1.9]

J.21 Muhammad U. Ilyas, Moonseong Kim and Hayder Radha, “On Enabling Cooperative Communication and Diversity Combination in IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Networks Using Off-the-shelf Sensor Motes,” ACM/Springer Wireless Networks (WiNet), Vol. 17, No. 5, pp. 1173--1189, Jun 12, 2011. ISSN: 1022-0038, E-ISSN: 1572-8196, DOI: 10.1007/s11276-011-0338-7 [Impact Factor: 1.088]

J.22 Syed A. Khayam, Shirish Karande, Muhammad U. Ilyas, and Hayder Radha, "Header Detection to Improve Multimedia Quality Over Wireless Networks," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM), Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 377--385, Feb, 2007. ISSN: 1520-9210, E-ISSN: 1941-0077, DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2006.889051 [Impact Factor: 1.935] 


Conference Papers

C.1  Muhammad U. Ilyas, Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Faisal Leghari, Shamyl Bin Mansoor, Ayesha Razzaque, Mohammed A. Alqarni, "CODI Bot: An Accessible Robot for New Coders," IEEE International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC'21), London, UK, December 2-4, 2021.

C.2 Muhammad U. Ilyas, Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Sajid Saleem, Jalal Alowibdi, "IoT-IaaS: A New Public Cloud Service to Unleash Innovation in the IoT Space," Research & Innovation Forum, April 24-26, 2019, Rome, Italy.

C.3  Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Sajid Saleem, Jalal Alowibdi, Mohammed Saeed Alkatheiri, "Emerging Computer Vision based Machine Learning Issues for Smart Cities," Research & Innovation Forum, April 24-26, 2019, Rome, Italy.      

C.4  Muneeba Sirshar, Sajid Saleem, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Mohammed Saeed Alkatheiri, Jalal Alowibdi, "Big Data Dimensionality Reduction For Wireless Sensor Networks Using Stacked Autoencoders," Research & Innovation Forum, April 24-26, 2019, Rome, Italy.

C.5  Muhammad U. Ilyas and Jalal Alowibdi, “Disease Tracking in GCC Region Using Arabic Language Tweets,” 27th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’18), Lyon, France, pp. 417 – 423, 23-27 April, 2018 ISBN: 978-1-4503-5640-4, DOI: 10.1145/3184558.3186357.

C.6  Muneeb Ahmed, Jalal. S. Alowibdi, Muhammad U. Ilyas, “vIoT: A First Step Towards a Shared, Multi-tenant IoT Infrastructure Architecture,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’17), Workshop on Flexible Networks (FLEXNET), Paris, France, May 21-25, 2017, ISBN: 978-1-5090-1525-2, E-ISSN: 2474-9133, DOI:  10.1109/ICCW.2017.7962675.

C.7  Mehreen Gillani, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Saad Saleh, Jalal Alowibdi and Naif Aljohani, Fahad S. Alotaibi, “Post Summarization of Microblogs of Sporting Events,” 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW’17), Perth, Australia, April 3-7, 2017, pp. 59 – 68, ISBN: 978-1-4503-4914-7, DOI: 10.1145/3041021.3054146.

C.8  Aris Cahyadi Risdianto, Phyo May Thet, Azeem Iqbal, Nurul Ainaa Muhamad Shaari, Hari Krishna Atluri, Galih Nugraha Nurkahfi, Apichart Wantamanee, Rifqy Hakimi, Uzzam Javed, Muneeb Ahmad, Chaodit Aswakul, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Teck Chaw Ling, Arumugam Paventhan, Eueung Mulyana, JongWon Kim, “Deploying and Evaluating OF@TEIN Access Center and its Feasibility for Access Federation,” Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Advanced Network (APAN’16), Vol.42 (2016): 34-40.

C.9  Saad Amin, Sohaib Ashraf, Mohammad Shahzeb Faisal, Muhammad Shahmeer Omar, Syed Ahsan Raza Naqvi, Syed Ali Hassan and Muhammad U. Ilyas, “Implementation and Evaluation of a Cooperative MAC Protocol for Smart Data Acquisition,” 83rd IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2016-Spring (VTC’16-Spring), Nanjing, China, May 15-18, 2016.

C.10  Afroze Ibrahim Baqapuri, Saad Saleh, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Muhammad Murtaza Khan, and Ali Mustafa Qamar, "Sentiment Classification of Tweets using Hierarchical Classification," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'16), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 23-27, 2016.

C.11         Haroon Raja, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Saad Saleh, Alex X. Liu, and Hayder Radha, "Detecting National Political Unrest on Twitter," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'16), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 23-27, 2016, E-ISBN: 978-1-4799-6664-6, E-ISSN: 1938-1883, DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2016.7511393.

C.12         Aris Cahyadi Risdianto, Namgon Lucas Kim, Junsik Shin, Jeongju Bae, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Teck Chaw Ling, Phyo May Thet, Parichat Panwaree, Chaodit Aswakul, Nguyen Huu Thanh, Azeem Iqbal, Uzzam Javed, Muhammad Usman Ilyas and Jongwon Kim, "A Community Efforts towards Open/Shared SDN-Cloud Virtual Playground," 40th APAN Network Research Workshop (APAN NRW'15), 10-14 August 2015, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

C.13         Saad Saleh, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Khawar Khurshid and Alex X. Liu and Hayder Radha, "IM Session Identification by Outlier Detection in Cross-Correlation Functions", Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS'15), Baltimore, MD United States, March 18-20, 2015.

C.14         Asim Jalwana, M. Murtaza Khan and Muhammad U. Ilyas, "Automatic Identification of CAPTCHA Schemes",  10th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC'14), Las Vegas, NV, United States, December 08-10, 2014.

C.15         Saad Saleh, Mamoon Raja, Muhammad Shahnawaz, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Khawar Khurshid, M. Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu, Hayder Radha and Shirish S. Karande, "Breaching IM Session Privacy Using Causality", IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’14), Austin, TX, USA, December 08-12, 2014.

C.16         Irfan Shah Bukhari, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Mamoon Raja, Saad Saleh, Muhammad Murtaza Khan, Ali Mustafa Qamar, M. Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu and Hayder Radha, “Predicting New Collaborations in Academic Citation Networks of IEEE and ACM Conferences,” 6th ASE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom’14), Stanford, CA, USA, May 27-31, 2014 [Acceptance rate: 11.99%].

C.17         Muhammad U. Ilyas, M. Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu and Hayder Radha, “Who are You Talking to? Breaching Privacy in Encrypted IM Networks,” 21st IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP’13), Göttingen, Germany, October 7-11, 2013.

C.18         M. Saqib Inayat, Ijlal Delawer, Muhammad Junaid, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Hassan K. Qureshi, and Zawar Shah, “Evaluating Spectrum Occupancy in Islamabad Using Long-range Ultra-wideband Spectrum Sensors,” IEEE 78th Vehicular Technology Conference 2013 – Fall (VTC’13-Fall) – Workshop on Wideband Mobile Cognitive Radio (WMCR) Communications and Networks, Las Vegas, NV, USA, September 2-5, 2013.

C.19         Mehwish Nasim, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Aimal Rextin, Nazish Nasim, “On Commenting Behavior of Facebook Users,” 24th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (Hypertext’13), pp. 179-183, Paris, France, May 1-3, 2013.

C.20         Alvina Anjum, and Muhammad U. Ilyas, “Activity Detection Using Smartphone Sensors,” IEEE Consumer Communication and Networking Conference (CCNC’13), pp. 914-919, Las Vegas, NV, USA, January 11-14, 2013.

C.21         Sohraab Soltani, Muhammad U. Ilyas, and Hayder Radha, "An Energy Efficient Link Layer Protocol For Power-Constrained Wireless Networks," 20th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN'11), Maui, Hawaii, July 31 - August 4, 2011.

C.22         Muhammad U. Ilyas and Hayder Radha, "Identifying Influential Nodes in Online Social Networks Using Principal Component Centrality," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'11), Kyoto, Japan, June 5-9, 2011.

C.23         Muhammad U. Ilyas, M. Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu, and Hayder Radha, “A Distributed and Privacy-Preserving Algorithm for Identifying Information Hubs in Social Networks,” 30th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'11), Shanghai, China, April 10 - 15, 2011.

C.24         Muhammad U. Ilyas and Hayder Radha, "A KLT-inspired Node Centrality for Identifying Influential Neighborhoods in Graphs," 44th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS'10), Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, March 17 - 19, 2010.

C.25         Muhammad U. Ilyas, Moonseong Kim and Hayder Radha, "Reducing Packet Losses in Networks of Commodity IEEE 802.15.4 Sensor Motes Using Cooperative Communication and Diversity Combination," 28th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'09), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 19 - 25, 2009.

C.26         Muhammad U. Ilyas, and Hayder Radha , "Modeling, Estimating and Predicting the Packet-level Bit Error Rate Process in IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPANs Using Hidden Markov Models," 43rd Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS'09), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, United States, March 18 - 20, 2009.

C.27         Muhammad U. Ilyas, and Hayder Radha, "Measurement Based Analysis and Modeling of the Error Process in IEEE 802.15.4 LR-WPANs," 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'08), Phoenix, AZ, United States, April 15 - 17, 2008.

C.28         Muhammad U. Ilyas, and Hayder Radha, "Measuring Packet-level Memory Length of 802.15.4 Wireless Channels with Relative Mutual Information," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'08), Beijing, China, May 19 - 23, 2008.

C.29         Muhammad U. Ilyas, and Hayder Radha, "Long Range Dependence of IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Channels," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'08), Beijing, China, May 19 - 23, 2008.

C.30         Muhammad U. Ilyas, and Hayder Radha, "A Channel Model for the Bit Error Rate Process in 802.15.4 LR-WPAN Wireless Channels," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'08), Beijing, China, May 19 - 23, 2008.

C.31         Muhammad U. Ilyas, and Hayder Radha, “On Measuring Memory Length of the Error Rate Process in Wireless Channels," 42nd Conference on Information Sciences & Systems (CISS'08), Princeton, NJ, United States, March 19 - 21, 2008.

C.32         Muhammad U. Ilyas, and Hayder Radha, “Bounding A Statistical Measure Of Network Lifetime For Wireless Sensor Networks," 41st Conference on Information Sciences & Systems (CISS'07), Baltimore, MD, United States, March 14 - 16, 2007.

C.33         Shirish Karande, Kiran Misra, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Hayder Radha, “Adaptive Network Coding With Noisy Packets,” 41st Conference on Information Sciences & Systems (CISS'07), Baltimore, MD, United States, March 14 - 16, 2007.

C.34         Muhammad U. Ilyas and Hayder Radha, "Increasing Network Lifetime Of An IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Network By Energy Efficient Routing," IEEE Conference on Communications (ICC'06), Istanbul, Turkey, June 11-15, 2006.

C.35         Syed A. Khayam, Shirish Karande, Muhammad U. Ilyas, and Hayder Radha, "Improving Wireless Multimedia Quality using Header Detection with Priors," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’06), Istanbul, Turkey, June 11-15, 2006.

C.36         Muhammad Usman Ilyas, and Hayder Radha, "End-to-End Channel Capacity of a Wireless Sensor Network Under Reachback," 40th Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS'06), Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, March 22 - 24, 2006.

C.37         Syed A. Khayam, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Klaus Poersch, Shirish Karande, and Hayder Radha, "A Statistical Receiver-based Approach for Improved Throughput of Multimedia Communications over Wireless LANs," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'05), Seoul, South Korea, May 16-20, 2005.

C.38         Muhammad U. Ilyas and Hayder Radha, "The Influence Mobility Model: A Novel Hierarchical Mobility Modeling Framework," IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC'05), March 2005.

C.39         Muhammad U. Ilyas and Shoab A. Khan, “A Clustering Heuristic Algorithm for Scheduling Periodic and Deterministic Tasks on a Multiprocessor System,” IEEE International Multitopic Conference 2001 (INMIC’01), Lahore, Pakistan, Dec 2001.