IoT Lab

27/03/2022

We are pleased to share that Dr. Syed Waqas Haider Shah (ITU alumnus) has won the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Fellowship for a Post-Doc by the European Commission.

MSCA is among the world's most competitive and prestigious research and innovation fellowships. Dr. Waqas will be working with Joerg Widmer (IEEE Fellow), a Research Professor and Research Director at IMDEA Networks in Madrid, Spain. The proposed research is on Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)-enabled millimeter-wave communication for 6G cellular networks. It is a unique scientific advance because it capitalizes on communication theory, machine learning, and practical experimentation (using a large testbed with tens of 60 GHz off-the-shelf devices) to propose new networking models to design and characterize 6G cellular networks.

03/01/2022

Our Ph.D. student has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. His research topic was QoS Provisioning in D2D enabled Future Cellular Networks. Core findings of the thesis are (among others):

1) Mode selection mechanism critically affects the achievable QoS performance of a D2D communication link; therefore, designing efficient estimators for the underlying wireless channel features has paramount importance.
2) Benefits of using overlay D2D communication over underlay D2D communication diminishes as the quality of underlying wireless channel features (used for mode selection) deteriorates.
3) If a relay device (in the case of relay-assisted D2D communication) operates under stricter QoS constraints then QoS constraints imposed at the transmitting device become irrelevant.
4) QoS performance of a D2D communication link can be enhanced by employing retransmission schemes at the cost of extra bandwidth. To this end, this thesis proposes a novel framework for truncated HARQ-enabled D2D communication, which provides a suitable tradeoff between QoS and bandwidth in different network conditions for both overlay and underlay settings.

This thesis resulted in the following journal publications:

1) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8651358
2) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9502007
3) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8977527
4) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ett.4339

We wish Dr. Syed Waqas Haider Shah the very best for his future endeavours.

Syed Waqas Haider

03/01/2022

Our Ph.D. student has successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis. His research topic was QoS Provisioning in D2D enabled Future Cellular Networks. Core findings of the thesis are (among others):

1) Mode selection mechanism critically affects the achievable QoS performance of a D2D communication link; therefore, designing efficient estimators for the underlying wireless channel features has paramount importance.
2) Benefits of using overlay D2D communication over underlay D2D communication diminishes as the quality of underlying wireless channel features (used for mode selection) deteriorates.
3) If a relay device (in the case of relay-assisted D2D communication) operates under stricter QoS constraints then QoS constraints imposed at the transmitting device become irrelevant.
4) QoS performance of a D2D communication link can be enhanced by employing retransmission schemes at the cost of extra bandwidth. To this end, this thesis proposes a novel framework for truncated HARQ-enabled D2D communication, which provides a suitable tradeoff between QoS and bandwidth in different network conditions for both overlay and underlay settings.

This thesis resulted in the following journal publications:

1) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8651358
2) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=9502007
3) https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=8977527
4) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ett.4339

We wish Dr. Syed Waqas Haider Shah the very best for his future endeavours.

Information Technology University Syed Waqas Haider

29/10/2019

Congratulations to our PhD Scholar Waqas Haider on securing Commonwealth Split-site Scholarship (worth 50,000 GBP). The selection rate for this highly competitive scholarship is less than 1%.

For exchange year 2019-2020, Waqas will be hosted by the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge in the UK. His supervisor will be Prof. Jon. Crowcroft.

At ITU, Waqas’ supervisor is Dr. Adnan Noor Mian. His subject area of research is Device-to-Device Communication in Future Cellular Networks (5G and beyond).

We wish him well for his academic pursuits!
Zaheer Sarwar Hajira Kureshi Faisal Kamran Buraira Riaz Ahmed

18/02/2019

Another Achievement:
Pleased to inform that the work of our Ph.D. student Syed Waqas Haider Shah has been accepted in IEEE Wireless Communication Letters (WCL), entitled "On the Impact of Mode Selection on Effective Capacity of Device-to-Device Communication". IEEE WCL is one of the top-tier journals of the wireless communication domain with the impact factor of 3.096.

Information Technology University Umar Saif Zaheer Sarwar Faisal Kamran Tauseef Tauqeer Farzana Shahid

28/04/2018

https://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/the-networked-society-blog/2018/04/17/cellular-networks-deliver-industrial-iot-connectivity/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Social_Paid&utm_campaign=Blog_IIoT_Cellular_Global_BA%20Networks_201804126

Manufacturers may not need to know all the in-and-outs of networks and wireless technology, but I think they should know this much: cellular provides one simple, wireless solution to IoT and a full…

07/03/2018

ITU IoT Lab initiates R&D work in long range IoT.

One group of lab has recently started working in LoRaWAN technology. This is a new network technology that is designed for low power devices to communicate over long distances. It can be used to send low data rate messages up to tens of km. The figure shows some of the LoRaWAN devices, readily available in market, procured by IoT lab to have real experiments with this technology.

17/10/2017

Wi-Charge’s technology is unique in its ability to deliver useful power over long distances efficiently and safely. Power is delivered over distances using infrared beams of light. The system consists of two units:

1) The transmitter unit – connected to a power source (standard AC, DC or USB), delivers power to receivers anywhere in its vicinity. The transmitter emits focused, safe infrared beams that carry power to receivers.
2) The receiver unit – captures the light from the transmitter and converts it to electrical power using a photo-voltaic cell, just like the way that solar panels convert sunlight into electricity.

https://www.wi-charge.com/

11/09/2017

ITU IoT research group first meeting held today. The director ITU IoT Lab Dr. Adnan Noor Mian discussed the objectives and vision of the research group. Each member of the group briefly presented his/her work. The group plans to hold meeting each week. In near future such meetings will be open for all.

25/08/2017

Rizwan defending his MS Thesis on the security of the famous IoT COAP protocol in front of Dr. Tauseef Tauqeer and Dr. Khurram Bhatti. The thesis is done under the guidance of director IoT lab Dr. Adnan Noor Mian