Dr. Junaid Qadir
Assistant Professor (HEC Approved Supervisor)
Department of Electrical Engineering

I'm the director of the Cognet lab which operates under the PTCL, Cisco, NUST IP technology center of excellence situated at SEECS, NUST. I'm also an Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of SEECS, NUST since 2008.

I have research experience in wireless networks having worked in the area of routing in wireless mesh networks during my PhD studies under the supervision of Chun Tung Chou at the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia. Before my PhD studies, I worked actively in the networking industry for around 4 years where I gained hands-on experience working on the largest data networks in the country. Amongst other places, I have worked at PTCL’s Pakistan Internet Exchange (PIE) and at the national data networks of National Telecommunication Corporation (NTC).

I have completed my undergraduate degree from the Electrical Engineering department at the University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore in 2000.

Research Interest

I am broadly interested in computer networks and my specific research interest relates to cognitive radio networks in which machine learning techniques are applied to improve the performance of wireless networks.

Wireless networks have recently become very popular due to the flexibility they offer due to their untethered nature. However, despite its popularity, current wireless technologies are relatively inflexible since they cannot adapt to the environment to take autonomous decisions to optimize performance---in other words, the current wireless networks lack intelligence or cognitive ability.

In cognitive radio networks, each node is equipped with a radio that can 'think', i.e., it can intelligently adapt to the current operating conditions and adapt networking parameters to optimize performance. Cognitive radio networks is an exciting interdisciplinary domain which draws from the fields of networking, artificial intelligence, game theory, communications, systems theory, and mathematical optimization.

To find out more about our research, please visit the webpage of Cognet research group.

 

Journal Papers

Junaid Qadir, C.T. Chou, A. Misra, J.G. Lim, "Minimum Latency Boadcasting in Multi-Radio Multi-Channel Multi-Rate Wireless Meshes", IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 8, No. 11, pp. 1510-1523, Nov, 2008.

Chun Tung Chou, Archan Misra, Junaid Qadir, Joo Ghee Lim, "Advances and Challenges with Data Broadcasting in Wireless Mesh Networks", IEEE Communications Magazine Feature Topics on Wireless Mesh Networks, Volume 45, Issue 11, Vol. 45, No. 11, pp. 78-85, Nov, 2007.

C.T. Chou, A. Misra, Junaid Qadir, "Low latency broadcast in multirate wireless mesh networks", IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication (JSAC) Special Issue on Wireless Mesh Networks, Vol. 24, No. 11, pp. 2081 - 2091 , Nov, 2006.

Conference Papers

N Hassan, A Baig, J Qadir, "Recovery and bandwidth sharing techniques in MPLS networks", Proceedings of the High-Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Tecnologies (HONET), pp. 1, Dec, 2010, Pakistan.

Muhammad Fahad, Junaid Qadir, Adeel Baig, "Broadcasting in Cognitive Wireless Mesh Networks with Dynamic Channel Conditions", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies 2010, pp. 1, Oct, 2010, Pakistan.

1. Muhammad Zeeshan, Muhammad Fahad Manzoor and Junaid Qadir, "Backup Channel and Cooperative Channel Switching On-Demand Routing Protocol for Multi-Hop Cognitive Radio Ad Hoc Networks (BCCCS)", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies 2010, No. 1, pp. 1, Oct, 2010, Pakistan.

Salman Ali, Junaid Qadir and Adeel Baig, "Routing Protocols in Delay Tolerant Networks - A Survey", Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies 2010, No. 1, pp. 1, Oct, 2010, Pakistan.

Najmul Hassan. Adeel Baig, Junaid Qadir and Madeeha Owais, "Priority-based Allocation of Network Resources in Multi-class MPLS Networks", Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology 2009, pp. i, Dec, 2009, Pakistan Pakistan.

M. Ejaz Ahmed, Adeel Baig, and Junaid Qadir, "Channel assignment in cognitive radio networks: comparison and analysis", Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology 2009, pp. i, Dec, 2009, Pakistan Pakistan.

Muhammad Zeeshan Ahmad, Nabil Ur Rehman, Junaid Qadir, Adeel Baig, and Hammad Majeed, "Prediction-based Channel Zapping Latency Reduction Techniques for IPTV Systems. A Survey", Proceedings of the IEEE ICET conference 2009, pp. i, Oct, 2009, Pakistan.

Junaid Qadir, C.T. Chou, A. Misra, J.G. Lim, "Localized minimum-latency broadcasting in multi-radio multirate wireless mesh networks", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2008,, pp. i-i, Jun, 2008, Newport Beach, CA United States.

Junaid Qadir, C.T. Chou, A. Misra, J.G. Lim, "Localized minimum-latency broadcasting in multi-rate wireless mesh networks", Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 2007, pp. i, Jun, 2007, Espoo Finland.

Junaid Qadir, C.T. Chou, A. Misra, "Exploiting rate diversity for multicasting in multi-radio wireless mesh networks", Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 2006, pp. i, Nov, 2006, Tampa, Florida United States.

Junaid Qadir, C.T. Chou, A. Misra, "Low latency broadcast in multiradio multi-channel multi-rate wireless mesh networks", Proceedings of the IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON, pp. i, Sep, 2006, Reston, Virginia United States.

Books/Chapters Published

[Book]Junaid Qadir, "Efficient broadcasting for multi-radio mesh networks: Improving broadcast performance in multi-radio multi-channel multi-rate wireless mesh networks ", VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, ISBN 3639121740, Feb, 2009.

[Chapter]Junaid Qadir, C.T. Chou, A. Misra, "Handbook of Wireless Mesh & Sensor Networking/Broadcasting in Multirate Wireless Mesh Networks", McGraw-Hill Professional, ISBN 0071482563, Aug, 2008.

Assistant Professor (Electrical Engineering Department) , National University of Sciences and Technology
May 2008 – Present (4 years )

Teaching

I have taught the following courses in the past:

Fundamentals of ICT (Fall 2008)

Computer Networks (Spring 2009)

Advanced Computer Networks (Fall 2009, Fall 2010)

Signals and Systems (Spring 2010)

Cognitive Radio Networks (Summer 2010)