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Prof. Dr. Ghalib Shah

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Dr.Ghalib Shah

Biography

Dr. Ghalib A. Shah is a IEEE Senior Member, Professor and Sultan Qaboos IT Co-Chair at UET Lahore. He joined Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, UET Lahore in 2012 and established Internet of Things (IoT) Lab, where he received many research grants from HEC and ICT R & D Fund and several projects are in progress at this Lab. He started his academic carrier at College of E&ME, National University of Sciences & Technology Islamabad as an Assistant Professor in 2007 and served for three years. He has been at School of Computer Science, Australian National University as a visiting fellow during 2009-10. Later, Dr Shah moved to Center for Advanced Research in Engineering (CARE), Islamabad as a member Technical Staff and led various networking projects for one year. He then joined the Next Generation Wireless Networks Lab, Koc University, Istanbul as a Research fellow and produced significant research publications in well reputed conferences and journals. His research interests are in the area of wireless networking protocols for cognitive radio networks, multimedia communication and IoT. Dr Shah received his B.Sc. degree with major Math and M.Sc degree in Computer Science from Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan, Pakistan in 1997 and 2000 respectively and PhD degree in computer engineering from Middle East Technical University, Ankara Turkey in January 2007.

Research Interest

 

IoT Cyber Security

 The recent technological advancements such as the emergence of cyber physical systems or the so called Internet of Things (IoT) has amplified the scope of cyber security across multidisciplinary domains. In the era of 5th generation warfare, cyber-security provisioning is vital for the emerging economies to reduce their dependencies on developed countries which cannot be truly realized without being technologically independent in the subject matter. Cyber-security can redefine the crucial strategic advantages for the nation-states at international forefronts, and also ensure the competitive advantage for the local industries, dynamically varying businesses and other public or private organizations. Specifically my focus is on the security of devices in cyber physical systems and the multi-prong security strategies to deal with latent data breaches of IoT devices as well as their users.

I am leading the IoTSecLab whose fundamental objective is to devise and develop tools, processes and patentable security solutions while also offering the expert level technical workshops/trainings on specialized IoT hardware. Multiple research and development projects are in progress that includes development of next generation IoT Firewall, IoT Vulnervaility scanner and secure implementation of OneM2M framework. In these projects, we will develop and implement security methodologies and frameworks to counter threats which are specific to IoT such as software vulnerabilities, device cloning, firmware attacks, malicious substitution of devices, elevation of things privilege, privacy threats to device users, as well as other kind of traditional and emerging threats including the stealth attacks, zero day attacks, advanced persistent threats (APT), DDoS and malwares attacks. 

Cognitive Radio Ad hoc and Sensor Networks

Optimization of cross-layer spectrum, medium access and routing protocol to jointly achieve the high throughput with certain reliability and latency constraints. Multimedia Wireless Networks Designing a multi-hop cross-layer framework to jointly optimize the medium access, routing and source rate to support Quality of Service (QoS) requirement of multimedia applications. Wireless Sensor/Actor Networks Designing energy efficient protocols supporting QoS for diverse nature applications ranging from lesser reliable real-time (Multimedia or mission-oriented) to highly reliable demanding (Smart grids, industrial monitoring and control systems). Software Defined Networks Designing cross-layer QoS and Quality of Experience (QoE) mechanisms at control plane in software defined networks. Distributed Systems Cloud Infrastructure Optimization, Virtualization and Search Management.

Publications

TitleAuthorJournal / Conference VolumeCategory

2016

Adaptive and Cognitive Communication Architecture for Next-generation PPDR Systems Ozgur Ergul, Ghalib A. Shah and Ozgur B. Akan IEEE Communication Magazine, Apr 2016. International Journal

2014

SCEEM: A Spectrum aware Clustering for Efficient Multimedia Routing in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks Ghalib A. Shah, Ozgur B. Akan IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 63, no. 7, pp. 3369-3380, Sep 2014. International Journal

2013

Exploiting Cross-layer design for QoS Data Delivery of Smart Grid Applications using Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks Ghalib A. Shah, Vehbi C. Gungor, Ozgur B. Akan IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol 9, no 3, pp. 1477-1485, Aug 2013. International Conference
Cognitive Adaptive Medium Access Control in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks Ghalib A. Shah, Ozgur B. Akan IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2013. International Conference
A Spectrum-aware Clustering for Efficient Multimedia Routing in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks,” to appear in Proc. Ghalib. A. Shah, O. B. Akan IEEE ICC'13, Hungary, June 2013. International Conference

2012

Cross-layer Framework for QoS Support in Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks Ghalib A. Shah, Weifa Liang, Ozgur B. Akan IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. 1442-1455, Oct 2012. International Journal
A Cross-layer design for QoS support in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks for Smart Grid Applications Ghalib A. Shah, Vehbi C. Gungor, Ozgur B. Akan IEEE ICC'12, pp. 1398-1402, Canada, Jun 2012. International Journal
CSMA-based Bandwidth Estimation for Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks Ghalib A. Shah, Ozgur B. Akan In Proc. of IFIP/IEEE NTMS'12, pp. 1-5, May 2012 (invited paper). International Journal

2011

Actor Directed Connectivity Based Localization (CBL) Muazzam A. Khan, Muhammad Sher, Cory C. Beard Wireless Sensor Actor Networks (WSAN),” International Journal
Reliable Event Response Framework for Wireless Sensor Actor networks Ghalib A. Shah, Mehwish Hassan in Proc. of IEEE AINA?11, pp. 396-401, 2011. International Journal
MAC (QEMAC) Protocol based on IEEE 802.11e for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks Adeel Shahzad,Ghalib A. Shah IEEE NISS’12, pp. 200-204, Oct. 2011. International Journal
Adaptive Pull Push based Event tracking in Wireless Sensor Actor Networks Ghalib A. Shah, Muslim Bozyigit and Demet Aksoy International Journal of Wireless Information Network (IJWIN), vol. 18, pp. 24-38, 2011. International Journal
A Reactive QoS Routing Protocol for MANET", Ad hoc & Sensor Muhammad O. Farooq, Ghalib A. Shah Wireless Networks, vol. 13, no. 1-2, pp. 13-38, 2011. International Journal

2010

"A Multievent Congestion Control Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks," Faisal B. Hussain, Yalcin Cebi, Ghalib A. Shah EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, vol. Dec 2008. -- International Journal
MR-LEACH: Multi-hop Routing with Low Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy Muhammad O. Farooq, Abdul B. Dogar, Ghalib A. Shah Proc. of IEEE SENSORCOMM, pp. 262-268, Jun 2010. International Journal

2007

RAT: Routing by Adaptive Targeting in Wireless Sensor/Actor Networks Ghalib A. Shah, Muslim Bozyigit and Demet Aksoy in Proc. of IEEE COMSWARE'07, pp. 1-9, 2007. International Conference
Exploiting Energy-aware Spatial Correlation in Wireless Sensor Networks Ghalib A. Shah and Muslim Bozyigit In Proc. of IEEE SensorWare'07, 2007. International Conference

2006

Real-Time Coordination and Routing in Wireless Sensor and Actor Networks Ghalib A. Shah, Ozgur B. Akan, Muslim Bozyigit, Buyurman Baykal in Proc. of NEW2AN'06 (Springer LNCS), vol 4003, pp 365-383, June 2006. International Journal