Dr Waqar Asif
Dr Waqar Asif is a Senior Lecturer in Cyber Security at University of West London, before this, he has worked as a Postdoctoral Research fellow at City University of London for three years after completing his PhD from the same institute. Dr Asif has been involved in multiple EU projects, where he has contributed as both a researcher and a developer, thus giving him a complete insight into how a research outcome could be integrated into a real-world solution.
Dr Asif likes to explore new technologies day in and day out and thus his area of interest is a constantly growing list. He has worked in communication protocols such as space time block codes and turbo codes. He also has interest in wireless sensor networks, Internet of Things, information privacy, information security, risk analysis, cryptography, blockchain, GDPR, data anonymization, social network analysis, authentical and access control approaches.
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Qualifications
BS Electrical (Telecommunication) Engineering (COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan)
MS Communication System Engineering (National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan)
PhD Information Engineering (City, University of London, London, UK)
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Research and publications
Articles
Waqar Asif, Muhammad Bilal Qasim, Syed Musa Raza Tirmzi, Usman Muhammad Khan, “Performance Evaluation of WiMAX (802.16) Using Different Encoding Schemes” (IJCSIS) International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2009.
Mahzeb Fiaz, Roomana Yousaf, Maryam Hanfi,Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan "Adding the Reliability on Tree Based Topology Construction Algorithms for Wireless SensorNetworks ", Wireless Personal Communication, DOI-10.1007/s11277-013-1334-2, July 2013 (Impact factor=0.979).
Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Adnan Iqbal, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, ” On the complexity of average path length for biological networks and patterns ”, International Journal of Biomathematics Vol. 7, No. 4(2014) (Impact factor= 0.633).
Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Adnan Iqbal,Waqar Asif, “Topology Control for Harvesting Enabled Wireless Sensor Networks: A Design Approach", Wireless Personal Communication, November 2014 (Impact factor=0.979).
Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Marios Lestas, “Combined Banzhaf &Diversity Index (CBDI), A Critical Node Detection Metric”, Journal of Network and Computer Applications,64, pp.76-88. 2016 (Impact factor = 5.273).
Waqar Asif, Marios Lestas, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, “Optimization based spectralpartitioning for node criticality assessment”. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 75, pp.279-292.2016 (Impact factor = 5.273).
Waqar Asif, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan and Marios Lestas, “Increasing user controllability on device specificprivacy in the Internet of Things”. Computer Communications, 116, pp.200-211. 2018 (Impact factor =2.766).
Nouman Ashraf, Muhammad Faizan,Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Adnan Iqbal, Marios Lestas,“Energy Management in Harvesting Enabled Sensing Nodes: Prediction and Control”, Journal of Networkand Computer Applications 132: 104-117 (2019) (Impact factor = 5.273).
Indranil Ghosh Ray, Rajesh K,Waqar Asif, Ashalatha Nayak, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, “R-PEKS: RBACEnabled PEKS for Secure Access of Cloud Data”, IEEE Access 7 (2019): 133274-133289 (Impact factor =4.098).
Syed Muhammad Danish, Marios Lestas, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Kaiwen Zhang,Waqar Asif, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, “Securing the LoRaWAN Join Procedure using Blockchains”, accepted for publication in Cluster Communication 2020 (Impact factor = 1.851).
Nouman Ashraf,Waqar Asif, Marios Lestas, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, “Aggregator Based Demand Response for the Smart Grid Using Blockchains: A Utility Function Approach”, ready for submission.
Book Chapter
M. Florea, C. Potlog, P. Pollner, D. Abel, O. Garcia, S. Bar, S. Naqvi and Waqar Asif, ”Challenges in Cybersecurity and Privacy - the European Research Landscape”, ISBN:9788770220880 e-ISBN:9788770220873 (2019)
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Conferences
Waqar Asif, Saad Qaisar, “Energy and Path Aware Clustering Algorithm (EPAC) for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks” ICCSA 2011, Part IV, LNCS 6785, pp. 133–147, 2011.
Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, "Variable Rate Adaptive Modulation(VRAM) for Introducing Small-World Model into WSNs"47th annual conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS) 2013, pp1-6, 2013.
Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan and Marios Lestas,”CBDI: Combined Banzhaf& Diversity Index for Finding Critical Nodes”, in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)2014, pp. 758–763, Dec 2014.
Waqar Asif, Marios Lestas, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, “Spectral partitioning for node criticality,” in IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (accepted for publication),July 2015.
Nouman Ashraf,Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Marios Lestas, Active energy management for harvesting enabled wireless sensor networks. In 13th Annual Conference on Wireless On-demand NetworkSystems and Services (WONS), 2017 (pp. 57-60).
Waqar Asif, Indranil Ghosh Ray, Shahzaib Tahir and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, “Privacy-preserving Anonymization with Restricted Search (PARS) on Social Network Data for Criminal Investigations”, published in 19th International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD) 2018.
Milan Markovic, David Corsar,Waqar Asif, Peter Edwards and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, “Towards Trans-parency of IoT Message Brokers”, published in the 7th International Provenance and Annotation Workshop,2018.
Waqar Asif, Indranil Ghosh Ray and Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, “An attack Tree Based Risk Evaluation Approach for The Internet of Things”, In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on the Internet of Things (p. 6). ACM.
Milan Markovic,Waqar Asif, David Corsar, Naomi Jacobs, Peter Edwards, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, CaitlinCottrill, Towards automated privacy risk assessments in IoT systems, accepted for publication in the 5thInternational Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things at the 2018.
Muntaha Saleem, Stefan Poslad, Waqar Asif:
Internet of Things: Smart Ubiquitous Architecture of Intelligent Transport System. EECS 2018: 88-99Syed Muhammad Danish, Marios Lestas,Waqar Asif, Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan: ALightweight Blockchain Based Two Factor Authentication Mechanism for LoRaWAN Join Procedure. ICC Workshops 2019: 1-6.
Syed Naqvi, Sean Enderby, Ian Williams,Waqar Asif, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Cristi Potlog, and MonicaFlorea, “Privacy-preserving Social Media Forensic Analysis for Preventive Policing of Online Activities”, at10th IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, NTMS2019: 1-6.
Akash Aggarwal,Waqar Asif, Habibul Azam, Milan Markovic, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan and Peter Ed-wards, “User Privacy Risk Analysis For The Internet of Things”, Accepted for publication at The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2019).
Ivan Garcıa-Magarino, Geraldine Gray, Rajarajan Muttukrishnan,Waqar Asif, “Agent-based IoT coordination for smart cities considering security and privacy”, Accepted for publication at The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IoTSMS 2019).
Aditya Shyam Bazari, Akash Aggarwal,Waqar Asif, Marios Lestas, Rajarajan Muttukrishnan “Node Criticality Assessment in a Blockchain Network”, Submitted to Blockchain-enabled Networked Sensor Systems(BlockSys 2019).
