Curriculum Vitae

Personal Detail:

Name: Professor Dr. Farhat Anwar Date of Birth: 5th February 1963 Marital Status: Married

Term Address: Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, International Islamic University (IIUM) P.O. Box 10 50728 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Tel: (603) 6196 4578/ 4530 Fax: (603) 6196 4488/ 4853 e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] Educational Qualifications:

Ph.D. Dept. of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Thesis Title: University of Strathclyde, UK. Application of Cellular Radio in the Field of RTI Research topic: Development of a packet based data-link protocol for cellular radio based RTI implementation, 1995.

M.Sc. by Research Dept. of Applied Physics and Electronics, University 1st Class of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Research topic: Small scale LAN development for PC communication, 1983.

B.Sc. (Hons.) Dept. of Applied Physics and Electronics, University 1st Class of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1982.

H.S.C. (Higher Notre Dame Collage, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (Sub: 1st Division Secondary Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English, Certificate) Bengali), 1979.

S.S.C. (Secondary Dhanmondi Govt. Boys High School, Dhaka, 1st Division School Certificate) Bangladesh (Sub: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English, Bengali), 1977.

Scholarships: Awarded Commonwealth Scholarship (1990) to pursue Ph.D. programme in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.

1 Career History:

Duration Job description and work experience

21st July 2009 –till Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, International now Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Involved in teaching masters level and undergraduate courses, supervising projects, thesis and research activities. Consulting.

5th July 2002 – Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 20th July 2009 International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Involved in teaching masters level and undergraduate courses, supervising projects, thesis and research activities.

1st July 2003 – Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering, International Islamic University 30th June 2005 Malaysia (IIUM).

5th October 1999 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, 4th July 2002 International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Involved in teaching masters level and undergraduate courses, supervising projects, thesis and research activities.

28th December Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Physics & Electronics, 1995 - 3 October University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Tought masters level and 1999 undergraduate courses, supervised projects, thesis and research activities. Was actively involved as adjunct faculty member and consultant in different private universities in Bangladesh.

26th April 1988 – Lecturer in the Department of Applied Physics & Electronics, University of Dhaka, 5th December Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Tought undergraduate courses, supervised projects, 1995 thesis and research activities

November 1991 - Lab-Assistant in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University June 1994 of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, for the period of six terms. Courses covered: Software Engineering (using C and Quick BASIC), Communications-2 (Analogue and Digital Communications).

1st August 1988 – Adjunct Software tutor in a local computer institute. Involved in teaching 31st July 1989 programming using C and PASCAL.

1984 - 1988 Analyst Programmer, Unidev Computer Solutions Ltd. (CSL), Road No 32 (old), Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

September 1984 - One month training as Instrument Trainee Engineer at Zia Fertilizer, Bangladesh. October 1984 Where the training was involved in instrument maintenance and control of the fertilizer industry. Specifically, maintenance and repairing of analogue control units, solenoid valve and electronic measuring units.

Relevant Experience:

Research : I have been involved in research activities for more than twenty years concerning simulation based investigation of computer data and voice communication over Cellular Radio (specifically GSM) as well as Fixed Terrestrial Networks and particularly in packet based protocol development for RTI/IVHS (Road Traffic

2 Informatics and Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems) related data communication and performance analysis. For system modelling I have been using C, C++, SIMSCRIPT-II.5, NS-2, and QualNet extensively. I have comprehensive knowledge on data-communication and telecommunication networks, OSI and TCP/IP protocols for computer communication.

As a part of my present employment I am also directly involved with research activities in my institution and also supervise PhD and M.Sc. thesis students in the area of Cellular mobile network, Computer data network, Ad-hoc network, Sensor Network and Intelligent Vehicle-Hiway Systems (IVHS).

During my M.Sc. degree I was involved in investigating and developing a small scale Local Area Network (LAN) for micro-computers. My Ph.D. research involved analysis and development of a packet based data-link protocol for RTI/IVHS applications and cellular based mobile location tracking.

Teaching : As a lecturer I am currently involved in taking classes for the following master’s level courses: Advanced Computer Communication Networks (ECE 6103), Performance modeling of computer systems (ECE6101), and Wireless personal communications ECE-7221. I also teach the following undergraduate courses: Object oriented programming (with C++ and Java) (ECE1112), Performance analysis (ECE4151), Data communications (ECE3121), Computer Communication and Networks (ECE 3122) and associated Labs, and Hardware systems design (ECE 3130).

In my previous employment I was involved in taking courses concerning computer programming, analogue and digital telecommunications, analogue and digital electronics, and corresponding labs. I was also involved in teaching courses on “Data Structures and Algorithms” using C/C++ and Pascal programming languages.

During 1995 to 1999 I used to give lectures regularly for the Bachelors and Masters level as an adjunct and guest faculty member in different national and private universities such as:

“Data Communication and Network” (CSC430), Computer Organization and Architecture (CSC311) and Computer Simulation (CSC440) for The Independent University of Bangladesh (IUB), Dhaka.

“Telecommunications and Computer Communications” (CIS208) for the University of London in Centre for Computer Studies (CCS), Dhaka, Bangladesh, (a recognized institute for tutoring the University of London’s External Programme in BSc Computing and Infromation Systems). “Simulation and Modeling” (MCS-105) for The National University of Bangladesh in the Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Dhaka, Bangladesh.

I also worked as a Lab Assistant in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, for the period of six terms (1991-1994). Courses covered: Software Engineering (using C and Quick BASIC), Communications-2 (Analogue and Digital Communications).

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Supervision I have supervised 2 thesis student in the Ph.D. level, 15 thesis students in the M.Sc. level and 20 final year projects for the undergraduate students. Currently I am supervising 1 Ph.D., 2 M.Sc. and 3 final year project students.

Ph.D supervision

Title Status Year

1. Dynamic adaptation of IP multitasking for Completed 2007 heterogeneous mobile system

2. An ANN based image compression for efficient Completed 2008 transmission over the Internet

3. QoS Provisioning of Multicast Routing in In Progress 2009 WiMax Wireless Mesh Network

4. Optimized Handover Scheme for Network In Progress 2010 Mobility

M.Sc. supervision

Title Status Year

1. A simulation based study of the communication Completed 1997 aspects of a banking automation system

2. Mapping PRMA over GSM, a simulation based Completed 1998 study.

3. A study on packet based protocol for RTI Completed 1998 applications in GSM environment

4. Protocol development of wireless LAN Completed 1999

5. Mobility management of GSM using reverse Completed 1999 virtual call setup algorithm

6. The application of MAN as a backbone for Completed 1999 mobile data communication

7. Cell planning in cellular (mobile) system Completed 1999

8. Traffic shaping and congestion control in a Completed 2001 diffserv domain

9. Effect of handoff on flow marking in a diffserv Completed 2002 edge router

10 Effect of handover latency in Mobile IPv6 with Completed 2004 fast handoff

11 An algorithm for default forwarding trunk Completed 2005

4 splitting (DFTS) to enhance bandwidth utilization

12 Performance Study of Multicast Routing Completed 2007 Protocol Over MANET (MANET)

13 Performance Study of QoS (Quality of Service) Completed 2008 Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)

14 A Comparative Study of Peer-To-Peer (p2p) Completed 2009 Query Routing Protocols

15 An Enhancement of Seamless IP Diversity Based Completed 2008 Generalized Mobility Architecture to Reduce Handover Latency and Packet Loss Rate in High Speed Mobile Nodes

16 Improving The Traffic Engineering for the Completed 2009 Internet Protocol with Multi-Protocol Label Swirching

17 Development of a Multicast Routing Protocol for Completed 2009 Wireless Mesh Networks

18 An Alternative Unicast Routing Protocol for Completed 2009 IEEE 802.11s Wireless Mesh Network

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20 A Study on Energy Efficient Clustering Routing In progress 2010 Protocol for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor Networks

21 An Investigation of Handoff Latency Reduction In progress 2010 Mechanism for Mobile Internet Protocol Version6 (MIPv6)

M.Sc. Co-Supervision

Title Status Year

22. An Enhancement of Fault-Tolerant Routing Completed 2010 Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network

23. Hardware Implementation of Transmitter for 2x2 In progress 2010 MIMO Channel Sounder

24. A Diff-Serve Approach to Enhance QoS in In progress 2010 Mobile IPv6 Based Network

Final year project (Undergraduate) supervision

5 Title Status Year

1. Signalling systems in cellular Completed 2001 telecommunications

2. GPS application, theory and its implementation in Completed 2001 GSM system

3. Analysis of data compression techniques Completed 2001

4. Analysis and application of wireless application Completed 2002 protocol (WAP), building a WAP-based IIUM student information system

5. Analysis of general packet radio services (GPRS) Completed 2002 performance using NS2

6. Implementation of route guidance system in Completed 2002 intelligent transportation system

7. An investigation on multimedia networking Completed 2003

8. Efficient call setup procedure for cellular mobile Completed 2003 system

9. Technology roadmap editor Completed 2004

10. Development of digital road map and its Completed 2004 application in navigation system

11. QoS in mobile ad-hoc network Completed 2006

12 Performance study of mobile IP Completed 2006

13. Cell planning for wireless communication Completed 2006 systems

14 Performance study of Sensor networks Completed 2007

15 Performance study of P2P networks Completed 2007

16 Performance study of IP micro-mobility protocols Completed 2007

17 A study on protocol development, Completed 2008 implementation and analysis (Go-Back-N ARQ)

18 A study on protocol development, Completed 2008 implementation and analysis (Selective-Repeat ARQ)

19 Educational Simulator for ARQ Protocols Completed 2008

20 Performance Analysis of Proactive Routing Completed 2008 Protocol in Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (AODV)

6 21 Human Verification Using Biometric Techniques Completed 2009

22 QoS Enhancement for MPLS Protocol Completed 2009

23 Performance Analysis of Voice Over Internet Completed 2009 Protocol in WiMAX Environment

24 Application of Seamless IP Diversity for QoS Completed 2009 Enhancement in High Speed Mobiles

25 Proposing a New Metric for Enhancement of Completed 2010 AODV in Wireless Mesh Network

26 NLP (Natural Language Processing) Based Completed 2010 E-Doctor

27 Performance Study of VoIP Over Heterogeneous Completed 2010 Wireless Network

28 Performance analysis of Sensor Network Routing In Progress 2010 Protocol

Examiner Ph.D Examination

Title Status Year

1. Reliability benchmarking techniques in Next- Completed 2006 generation Internet Core-network

2. Increasing Services Quality of Multimedia Completed 2010 Streaming Uning Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Model

M.Sc. Examination

1. Voice over IP using RSVP and diffserv Completed 2001

2. A Design For Virus Prevention And Detection Completed 2002 Using Integrity Checking

3. Quality of Service (QoS)-Based Management of Completed 2002 Preempted Traffic in MPLS Networks

4. A computer algorithm to determine optimal link Completed 2003 redundancy of complex network

5. Performance study of mobile IPv6 extensions Completed 2005

6. Evaluation of decisions and parameters in a Completed 2005 Faded Information Field based complex adaptive information system

7 7. Characterization of content code communication Completed 2006 format in an Adaptive Faded Information Field architecture

8. Performance Evaluation of Multimedia Data Completed 2007 Transmission Over IEEE 802.11 WLAN

9. A study of network traffic and information Completed 2007 discovery of a mobile agent based adaptive information service system.

10. Development of a Distributed Self-Regenerative Completed 2009 Component Based Network Using Multi Agent

11. Performance Analysis of Swarm Intelligence- Completed 2009 Based Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Network and Wireless Mesh Networks

12. Collision-Free Routing and Scheduling Using Completed 2010 Multiple Transceivers for IEEE 802.16 Mesh Network

13. Quality of Service Based Recovery Scheme in Completed 2010 MPLS Network

14. Multi-Channel Support for Data Gathering Trees In Progress 2010 in Wireless Sensor Networks

Course As a part my academic activities I am actively involved in developing courses and development curriculum for the department. A list of courses I was involved in designing for the ECE of IIUM includes:

For undergraduate Computer and Informations Engineering (CIE) programme:

1. Object Oriented Programming (with C++ and Java) (ECE-1112), 2. Object Oriented Programming (ECE 1211) 3. Data Communications (ECE-4111), 4. Computer Communications and Networks (ECE 4211) 5. Performance Analysis ECE-4317 For postdergraduate in Computer and Informations Engineering (CIE) and Communications Engineering (CE) programme:

6. Advanced Computer Communication Networks (ECE-6103) (MSc) 7. Performance Modeling of Computer Systems ECE-6101(MSc) 8. Wireless Personal Communication Systems ECE-6227 (MSc) In my previous employment I was responsible for designing the following courses, “Data Communications and Computer Networks, for the 4th year BSc and “Advanced Data Communications and Computer Networks” for the MSc degree for the Applied Physics and Electronics Dept., University of Dhaka.

Software I have years of experience in customised software development from my previous Development: job in CSL.

8 Programming I have extensive working experience in programming with C, C++, Java, Pascal, Languages & BASIC, SIMSCRIPT II.5, NS2. as well as 6502 & 8086/8088 assembly language Operating and quite familiar with DOS, MS Windows, and UNIX operating systems. Systems:

Computers : I am quite skilled working with IBM compatible PC, Apple Macintosh, VAX- 11/750 and SUN SPARC workstations.

Book Chapter:

Md. Saiful Azad , Farhat Anwar and Md. Arafatur Rahman, Performance of Ad Hoc Routing Protocols in Mobile WiMAX Environment, Trends in Communication Technologies and Engineering Science, Edited by Ping-Kong Alexander Wai, Xu Huang and Sio-Iong Ao, Lecture Notes Electrical Engineering, Volume 33, Springer Netherlands, ISBN 978-1-4020-9492-7 (Print) 978-1-4020-9532-0 (Online), DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-9532-0, 2009

Papers & Publications: (a) Refereed International Journal

1) Zamree Che-Aron, Wajdi Al-Khateeb, and Farhat Anwar, An Enhancement of AODV Routing Protocol for More Robust Wireless Sensor Network, International Journal of Computer and Network Security (IJCNS), Vol. 2, No. 7, July 2010, ISSN Print: 2076-2739, ISSN Online: 2076-9199, pp. 18-26. http://www.ijcns.org/papers/Vol.2_No.7/100705.pdf 2) Zamree Che-Aron, Wajdi Al-Khateeb, and Farhat Anwar, The Enhanced Fault-Tolerance Mechanism of AODV Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network, International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security (IJCSNS), Vol.10, No.6, pp. 41-50, June 2010, ISSN 1738-7906. http://paper.ijcsns.org/07_book/201006/20100606.pdf 3) Abdulazeez F. SALAMI, Farhat ANWAR and Akhmad Unggul PRIANTORO, An Investigation into Clustering Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks, Sensors & Transducers Journal, Vol. 106, Issue 7, July 2009, pp. 48-61, ISSN 1726-5479. http://www.sensorsportal.com/HTML/DIGEST/july_09/P_458.pdf 4) Arafatur RAHMAN, Saiful AZAD, Farhat ANWAR, Performance Analysis of On-Demand Routing Protocols in Wireless Mesh Networks, Informatica Economică Journal, INFOREC Publishing House, vol. 13, no. 2/2009, ISSN 1453-1305, pp 120-127. 5) Md. Arafatur Rahman, Farhat Anwar, Md. Saiful Azad, Integrated metric-ad hoc on-demand distance vector: A routing protocol over Wireless Mesh Networks, Journal of Computer Science, Science Publications, USA, Vol 5, No.7, 2009, ISSN: 1549-3636, pp 511-518. 6) Farhat Anwar, Md. Arafatur Rahman and Md. Saiful Azad, Multibiometric Systems Based Verification Technique, European Journal of Scientific Research (EJSR), Volume 34, Issue 2, 2009, ISSN 1450202x, pp 260-270. http://www.eurojournals.com/ejsr_34_2_13.pdf 7) Md. Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Aisha H. Abdalla, Akhmad Unggul Priantoro and Omer Mahmoud, Performance Comparison of Proactive and Reactive Multicast Routing Protocols over Wireless Mesh Networks, International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security (IJCSNS), June 2009, Vol. 9 No. 6, ISSN 1738-7906, pp. 55-62, http://paper.ijcsns.org/07_book/200906/20090608.pdf 8) Saiful Azad, Arafatur Rahman, Farhat Anwar, An Enhanced Link Repair Technique for MAODV Routing Protocol, International Journal of Computing & Information Technology (IJCIT), Vol 2, No 1 (January - June) 2010, ISSN: 0974-696X, (forthcoming,) 9) W.A. Shittu, Aisha-Hassan A. Hashim, F. Anwar, & W. Al-Khateeb, A Proposed QoS Multicast Routing Framework for Next-Generation Wireless Mesh Network, International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security (IJCSNS), September 2008, Vol. 8, No. 9, ISSN 1738-7906, pp. 280-284.

9 10) Farhat Anwar, Md. Saiful Azad, Md. Arafatur Rahman, and Mohammad Moshee Uddin (2008), Performance Analysis of Ad hoc Routing Protocols in Mobile WiMAX Environment, IAENG International Journal of Computer Science, Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2008, ISSN 1819-656X (print version), ISSN 1819-9224 (online version), pp 353-360. 11) Omer Mahmoud, Farhat Anwar and Momoh Jimoh E. Salami (2008), Simulation and Analysis of an Admission Control Mechanism for MPLS DS-TE, Computer Communications, Elsevier, Vol 31, Issue 10, June 2008, ISSN 0140-3664, pp 2178 – 2184. 12) Saiful Azad, Arafatur Rahman and Farhat Anwar (2007), A Performance Comparison of Proactive and Reactive Routing Protocols of Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET), Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2007, ISSN: 1816-949X (Print) ISSN: 1818-7803 (online), 891-896, 2007. 13) Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad and Farhat Anwar (2007), An Efficient Technique for Human Verification Using Finger Stripes Geometry, International Journal of Soft Computing, 2 (3), ISSN: 1816-9503, pp 445- 449. 14) Aisha Hassan Abdalla, Farhat Anwar and Sufyan Al-Irhayim (2007), Mobility Support in IP Multicast: Proposals Review and Evaluation, Journal of Mobile Multimedia, New Jersey, USA, Vol.3 No.1, March 2007, ISSN: 1550-4646, pp 3-14. 15) Mohammad Abdur Razzaque, Farhat Anwar and Shahida Rafique (2003), Mobility Management of GSM using reverse virtual call setup algorithm, Dhaka University Journal of Science, July, 51(2), ISSN: 1022- 2502, pp. 189-196. 16) Md. Hasanuzzaman, M. Lutfar Rahman and F. Anwar (2002), Study on enhanced packet access and transmission technique over GSM for RTI applications, The Dhaka University Journal of Science, January, 50(1), ISSN: 1022-2502, pp.47-54. 17) Farhat Anwar, Application of digital cellular radio for mobile location estimation, IIUM Engineering Journal (IIUM-EJ), Volume 2, Number 2, April 2001, pp.13-20. 18) T. H. Morshed, A. Razzaque and F. Anwar, Cell Planning Considerations in Cellular Telephone Systems, The Dhaka University Journal of Science, 49(1), January 2001, ISSN: 1022-2502, pp.1-8. 19) Anika Aziz and Farhat Anwar, Communication Link Utilization in ATM Automatic Banking Environment, The Dhaka University Journal of Science, 47(1), January 1999, ISSN: 1022-2502, pp.15-23.

(b) Refereed Local Journal

20) A.H. Hashim, W.H. Hassan, M.Z. Arifin, A.T. Ahmad, W. Al-Khateeb, and F. Anwar (2009), An Approach to Enhance Aggregated Source Specific Multicast Scheme, Sunway Academic Journal, Vol 5, 2008, ISSN: 1823-500X , pp 139-148.

21) Omer Mahmoud, Farhat Anwar and Momoh Jimoh E. Salami (2007), Learning Algorithm Effect on Multilayer Feed-Forward Artificial Neural Network Performance on Image Coding, Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (JESTEC), Vol. 2, No. 2, August 2007, ISSN : 1823-4690, pp 188-199.

(c) International conference papers (inclusive of the international conference papers published in the conference proceedings)

22) Loay F. Hussien, Aisha-Hassan A. H., Farhat anwar, Omer Mahmoud, Omer Zakaria, Rashid A. Saeed, Design of Robust Protocol to Enhance QoS in Mobile IPV6 Environment, International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE 2010), 11-13 May, 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DOI: 10.1109/ICCCE.2010.5556771

23) Md. Arafatur Rahman and Farhat Anwar, Jannatul Naeem and Md. Sharif Minhazul Abedin, A Simulation Based performance comparison of routing protocol on Mobile Ad-hoc Network (Proactive, Reactive and Hybrid), International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE 2010), 11-13 May, 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DOI: 10.1109/ICCCE.2010.5556751

10 24) Che-Aron, Z; Al-Khateeb, W.F.M.; Anwar, F., An Enhancement of Fault-Tolerant Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network, International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '10), 11-13 May 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DOI: 10.1109/ICCCE.2010.5556790

25) Z. Che-Aron, W.F.M. Al-Khateeb, and F. Anwar, The Enhanced Fault-Tolerant AODV Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network , 2010 International Conference on Computer Research and Development (ICCRD 2010), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 7 - 10, 2010, pp 105-109.

26) Saiful Azad, Arafatur Rahman and Farhat Anwar, A New Link Repair Technique for MAODV Routing Protocol, The 2010 IAENG International Conference on Communication Systems and Applications (ICCSA’10), Hong Kong, 17-19 March, 2010. (accepted)

27) Che-Aron, Z.; Al-Khateeb, W. F. M.; Anwar, F., ENFAT-AODV: The Fault-Tolerant Routing Protocol for High Failure Rate Wireless Sensor Networks, 2010 2nd International Conference on Future Computer and Communication. pp. V667-471. DOI: 10.1109/ICFCC.2010.5497747.

28) Seyyed Masoud Seyyedoshohadaei, Sabira Khatun, Borhanuddin Mohd Ali, Mohamed Othman, Farhat Anwar, An Integrated Scheme to Improve Performance of Fast Mobile IPv6 Handover in IEEE 802.16e Network, Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE 9th Malaysia International Conference on Communications (MICC 2009) 15 -17 December 2009,Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

29) Md. Arafatur Rahman, Farhat Anwar and Md. Saiful Azad, Smart Card Design to Enhance Fare Collection for Public Transportation Sector in Bangladesh, Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering & Computer Systems 2009 (ICSECS’09), October 19-21, Kuantan, Malaysia, 2009, pp 458- 462.

30) Md. Arafatur Rahman, Md. Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, "Intergating Multiple Metrics to Improve the Performance of a Routing Protocol over Wireless Mesh Networks," icsps, pp.784-787, 2009 International Conference on Signal Processing Systems, May 15-17, 2009, , pp 784-787.

31) Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, and Aisha Hassan Abdalla, A Simulation Based Performance Analysis of Reactive Routing Protocols in Wireless Mesh Networks, 2009 International Conference on Future Networks (ICFN 2009), March 7-9, 2009, Bangkok, , pp 268-272. DOI: 10.1109/ICFN.2009.64

32) Md. Rafiqul Islam, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Farhat Anwar and Md. Mahfujur Rashid, Performance Investigation of Earth-to-Satellite Microwave Link Due to Rain Fade in Bangladesh, 11th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology (ICCIT 2008), 25-27 December, 2008, Khulna, Bangladesh.

33) W. A. Shittu, B.G. Bajoga, F. Anwar and M.J.E. Salami, Prediction of Received Signal Power and Propagation Path Loss in Open/Rural Environments using modified Free-Space Loss and Hata Models, 2008 IEEE International RF and Microwave Conference, 2 – 4th December, 2008, Malaysia, pp 286-290.

34) Naimah Yaakob, Farhat Anwar, Zeldi Suryady, An Integration of Mobile Motion Prediction with Dedicated Solicitation Message for Seamless Handoff Provisioning in High Speed Wireless Environment, International Conference on Electronic Design (ICED 2008), 1-3 December 2008, Penang, Malaysia.

35) Naimah Yaakob, Farhat Anwar, Zeldi Suryady, On the Effectiveness of Movement Prediction in Reducing Handover Latency and Packet Loss Rate in SIGMA, 4th International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia at UNITEN (ICIMU’ 2008), 17th – 19th November 2008, Malaysia, pp 250- 254.

36) Md. Arafatur Rahman, Md. Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, The Efficient Use of Lifetime to Enhance the Performance of AODV, 4th International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia at UNITEN (ICIMU’ 2008), 17th – 19th November 2008, Malaysia.

37) Md. Saiful Azad, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Farhat Anwar, A Simulation and Analysis of Tree and Mesh based Multicast Routing Protocols in Wireless Mesh Networks, 4th International Conference on Information Technology and Multimedia at UNITEN (ICIMU’ 2008), 17th – 19th November 2008, Malaysia.

11 38) Md. Arafatur Rahman, Md. Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar and Md. Rafiqul Islam, Design of Smart Card for Automated Toll Collection at Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge in Bangladesh, 5th International Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering(ICECE 2008), December 20-22, 2008 Dhaka, Bangladesh.

39) Nur Idawati Md Enzai, Farhat Anwar, Evaluation Study of QoS-Enabled AODV, International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '08), 13-15 May 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

40) Naimah Yaakob, Farhat Anwar, Zeldi Suryady, Aisha Hassan Abdalla, Investigating Mobile Motion Prediction in Supporting Seamless Handover for High Speed Mobile Node, International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '08), 13-15 May 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

41) Md. Arafatur Rahman, Farhat Anwar, Md. Saiful Azad, A Simple and Effective Technique for Human Verification with Hand Geometry, International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '08), 13-15 May 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

42) Ahmad Taqiyuddi, Muaz Zainal Arifin, Aisha Hassan Abdalla, Farhat Anwar, Sufyan Al-Irhayim, A Comparative Study of Source Specific Multicast and Aggregated Source Specific Multicast, International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '08), 13-15 May 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

43) Md. Saiful Azad, Mohammad Moshee Uddin, Farhat Anwar and Md. Arafatur Rahman, Performance Evaluation of Wireless Routing Protocols in Mobile WiMAX Environment, IAENG International Conference on Communication Systems and Applications, Hong Kong, 19-21 March, 2008.

44) Naimah Bt. Yaakob and Farhat Anwar, Qualitative Study on Seamless IP Mobility Protocols in High Speed Mobile Nodes, World Engineering Congress, 5-9 August 2007, Penang, Malaysia. Pp 17-21

45) Wan Fariza binti Wan Abdul Rahman, Farhat Anwar and Mamun Reaz, Comparative Study of Distributed Hash Table (DHT) Query Routing Protocols in Peer-To-Peer (P2p) Networks, World Engineering Congress, 5-9 August 2007, Penang, Malaysia. Pp 11-16

46) Naimah Bt. Yaakob and Farhat Anwar, Seamless Handover Mobility Schemes over High Speed Wireless Environment”, International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics (ICEEI2007), 17-19 June 2007, Bandung, .

47) Nur Idawati Md Enzai, Farhat Anwar & Zeldi Suryady, Analyzing the Effect of HELLO Messages in QoS- AODV, International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics (ICEEI2007), 17-19 June 2007, Bandung, Indonesia.

48) Zeldi Suryady, Farhat Anwar, Nur Idawati Md.Enzai, Performance Evaluation of Tree and Mesh Based Multicast Routing Protocols in MANET, International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics (ICEEI2007), 17-19 June 2007, Bandung, Indonesia.

49) Wan Fariza binti Wan Abdul Rahman, Farhat Anwar and Mamun Reaz, Performance Evaluation on Peer-to- peer (P2P) Distributed Hash Table (DHT) Protocols, International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics (ICEEI2007), 17-19 June 2007, Bandung, Indonesia.

50) Omer Mahmoud, Farhat Anwar and Momoh Jimoh E. Salami, Investigating the Effect of Learning Algorithm on the Performance of MFFANN in Image Compression, 3rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Engineering and Technology, 22-24 November 2006, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.

51) Zeldi Suryady, Farhat Anwar and Aisha Hassan Abdalla, A Review of Multicast Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, International Conference on ICT for the Muslim World (ICT4M 2006), 21-23 November 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

52) Zeldi Suryady, Farhat Anwar and Aisha Hassan Abdalla, Performance Analysis of Tree-based Ad-hoc On- Demand Multicast Routing Protocols, International Conference on ICT for the Muslim World (ICT4M 2006), 21-23 November 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

12 53) Nur Idawati Md Enzai1, Farhat Anwar and Aisha Abdalla, Qualitative Evaluation of On-Demand Quality of Service Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks, International Conference on ICT for the Muslim World (ICT4M 2006), 21-23 November 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

54) Nur Idawati Md Enzai1, Farhat Anwar and Aisha Abdalla, Evaluation Study of QoS-AODV Routing Protocol, International Conference on ICT for the Muslim World (ICT4M 2006), 21-23 November 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

55) Zeldi Suryady, Farhat Anwar and Aisha Hassan Abdalla, Performance Analysis of Multicast Ad-hoc On- demand Distance Vector (MAODV) Routing Protocol, International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '06), 9-11 May 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 361-367.

56) Omer Mahmoud and Farhat Anwar, Performance Evaluation of an Improved Admission Control for Differentiated MPLS-TE Tunnels, International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '06), 9-11 May 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 274-279.

57) Aisha Hassan1, Farhat Anwar1, Sufyan Al-Irhayim, Evaluation of MIPv6 Approach to Provide Multicast to Mobile Nodes, International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '06), 9-11 May 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 309-314.

58) Muhammad A. F. Mudathir, Sulaiman Syed, Aisha Hassan, Farhat Anwar, QoS Challenges in Mobile Environment, International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '06), 9-11 May 2006, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 380-383.

59) Sajid Hassan, Chishti, Farhat Anwar, Chandran Elamvazuthi, Web-Based Management of Key Performance Indicators, The 7th International Conference on Information Integration and Web- based Applications & Services (iiWAS2005), 19-21 September 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, ISBN 3- 85403-196-3.

60) Aisha Hassan Abdalla, Farhat Anwar, Sajid Hassan,Evaluation of Mobile IP Extension to Support Seamless Mobility, International Science Congress (ISC) 2005, 3-6 August 2005, TWTC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

61) Aisha H. A. Hashim, Farhat Anwar, Shaffiah Mohd , Hatina Banun Liyakthalikhan and Sajid Hassan, Performance Evaluation of Hierarchical Mobile IP, The second international conference on Mechatronics (ICOM’05), 10th-12th May 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 1038-1044.

62) Sajid Hassan, Mohammad Ahsan Chishti, Farhat Anwar, Chandran Elamvazuthi, Web based documentation system for dynamic roadmaps, The second international conference on Mechatronics (ICOM’05), 10th-12th May 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, pp. 1095-1102.

63) Aisha H. A. Hashim, Farhat Anwar, Shaffiah Mohd and Hatina Banun Liyakthalikhan, Mobility Issues in Hierarchical Mobile IP, SETIT 2005, 3rd International Conference On Sciences of Electronic, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications, March 27-31, 2005 , Susa, Tunisia, March, 2005

64) Sajid Hassan, Mohammad Ahsan Chishti, Farhat Anwar, Chandran Elamvazuthi, Technology Roadmap Composer: Web Based Tool for Technology Development, MMU International Symposium on Infromation and Communications Technologies 2004 (M2USIC 2004), Malaysia, 7th-8th October 2004, pp. 17-20.

65) “Cellular Radio based vehicular location finding”, F. Anwar, First International Conference on Mechatronics – ICOM’01, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 12-13 February, 2001, pp. 362-374.

66) “An Enhanced Packet Based Protocol For RTI Applications”, Md. Hasanuzzaman, M. Lutfar Rahman and F. Anwar, International Conference on Computer and Information. Technology (ICCIT’98), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 18-20 December, 1998, pp.17-21

67) “Implementing PRMA over GSM - a simulation based study”, M.H. Rahman and F. Anwar, International Conference on Computer and Information. Technology (ICCIT’98), Dhaka, Bangladesh, 18-20 December, 1998, pp.22-27.

68) “A packet based data-link protocol for implementing RTI related services using cellular radio”, F. Anwar and J. Dunlop; IEEE VTC-1994 Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, 8-10 Jun 1994, pp. 1311-1315.

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(d) National conference papers

69) Zeldi Suryady and Farhat Anwar, Delivery Ratio and Latency of On-Demand Multicast Routing Protocols for Ad-Hoc Networks, Conference on IT Research & Applications (CITRA) 2007, 4-5 April 2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

70) Nur Idawati Md Enzai, Farhat Anwar and Aisha Abdalla, AODV with QoS Extensions: A Simulation Study, Conference on IT Research & Applications (CITRA) 2007, 4-5 April 2007, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

71) Mohammad Ahsan Chishti, Sajid Hassan, Farhat Anwar, Chandran Elamvazuthi, Expediting the development of a web-based project management system: the open source way, Malaysian Science and Technology Congress 2005 (MSTC 2005), 18th-20 April 2005, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

72) Mohammad Ahsan Chishti1, Sajid Hassan, Harlina Suparjo, Farhat Anwar, Chandran Elamvazuthi, Fast- Tracking Web Portal Development: The Open Source Way, Malaysian Science and Technology Congress, 5th-7th October 2004, Seri Kembangan, Malaysia. Invited Speaker to Seminar & Panels:

External Panel for postgraduate seminar, Faculty of Information & Communication Technology (FTMK), University Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM), 10 June 2010, Melaka, Malaysia.

Topology & Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks, Wireless Sensor Technology Seminar, Penang, Malaysia, 3 June 2010.

Performance Analysis, Research Methodology module, 12 February 2010, Faculty of Engineering IIUM.

Routing Issues in Ad-hoc Networks, The Workshop on Global Trends In High Performance Research Network, Faculty of Engineering IIUM, Co-Sponsored by Malaysia Research & Education Network (MYREN), 18-19 Dec, 2006.

Workshop Participation:

National Wireless Communications Technology Roadmap Workshop, 17 November 2008, MIMOS, Malaysia.

Islamization of Knowledge, 19 March 2010, Kulliyyah of Engineering, IIUM.

Other Current and Previous Activities: Recent activities in IIUM Malaysia:

Postgraduate academic advisor for ECE, faculty of Engineering, IIUM, June 2010-present Member of curriculum revision committee for the Master of Science in Computer and Information Engineering (MSCIE) program, ECE, Faculty of engineering, IIUM,2010. Member of the Engineering faculty board meeting (2009). Member of the accreditation committee, Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng.) in Communication Engineering (CE) programme, Faculty of engineering, IIUM, 2008-9.

14 Member of the accreditation committee, Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng.) in Computer and Information Engineering (CIE) programme, Faculty of engineering, IIUM, 2007-8. Internal Reviewer for the Computer and Information Engineering (CIE) programme, ECE, Faculty of engineering, IIUM,2007- 2008. Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), form 1st July 2003 to 30th June 2005. Co-ordinator of the Computer Networking Research (CNR) Group, from 2004 till now. Member of board of studies: Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng.) in Communication Engineering programme, Faculty of engineering, IIUM, 2005. Member of board of studies: Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng.) in Computer and Information Engineering (CIE) programme, Faculty of engineering, IIUM, 2005. Actively contributed in the course and curriculam development for the post-graduate level Communication Engineering programme established in ECE department. Member of the accreditation committee, Bachelor of Engineering (B. Eng.) in Computer and Information Engineering (CIE) programme, Faculty of engineering, IIUM, 2002. Chairman, ECE postgraduate committee (2001-2003). Student advisor, Computer and Information Engineering (CIE) programme (2001-2003). Department representative to the board meeting of the Engineering faculty (for the session 2001- 2002).

Previous activities During 1995 - 1999 : Member of the technical evaluation committee of Bangladesh Education and Research Network (BERNET), an Internet Service Project of the University Grants Commission (UGC) of Bangladesh to interconnect 11 national universities with Internet. Member of the Internet Connection and facilities committee for the science Faculty of the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Member of the Internet Installation committee of the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Apart from that I was also involved as a committee member in the University Prospectus Development project and University Admission committee.

Professional Activities:

1. Technical committee members of International Conference on Control, Robotics and Cybernetics ICCRC2011, March 19-20, 2011, New Delhi, India. http://www.iccrc.org/com.htm 2. 2011 International Conference on Network Communication and Computer (ICNCC 2011), March 19-20, 2011, New Delhi, India. http://www.icncc.org/com.htm 3. Technical committee members of 2011 International Conference on Telecommunication Technology and Applications (ICTTA 2011), May 13-14, 2011, Sydney, Australia. http://www.ictta.org/com.htm 4. Technical committee members of 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC 2011), Singapore, February 26-28, 2011. http://www.icmlc.org/com.htm

15 5. Technical committee members of 2011 International Conference on Computer Communication and Management - ICCCM 2011, Sydney, Australia, May 13 - 14, 2011. http://www.icccm.org/cfp.htm 6. Technical committee member of 2011 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC 2011), Singapore, February 26-28, 2011. http://www.icmlc.org/com.htm 7. Technical committee member of 2011 International Conference on Applied Physics and Mathematics - ICAPM 2011, Chenni, India, April 29 - 30, 2011. http://www.icapm.org/com.htm 8. The 2011 International Conference on Traffic and Logistic Engineering (ICTLE 2011), Chenni, India, April 29 - 30, 2011. http://www.ictle.org/com.htm 9. Program Committee Member of The First International Conference on Computer Science and Information Technology (COSIT-2011), January 2 ~ 4, 2011. Bangalore, India. http://coneco2009.com/cosit/program.html 10. Technical committee members of the INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, ROBOTICS AND AEROSPACE (ICMERAS 2010), December 2-4,2010, Bucharest, Romania. http://www.allconferences.com/conferences/2010/20100804160353/ 11. The Second International Conference on Networks & Communications (NetCoM - 2010), December 27 - 29, 2010, Chennai, India. http://airccse.org/netcom/netcom.html 12. Reviewer, The 4th World Engineering Congress 2010 (WEC2010), 2-5 August 2010, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia 13. Technical committee members of the 2nd International Conference on Software Technology and Engineering (ICSTE 2010), Puerto Rico, USA. October 3-5, 2010. http://www.icste.org/com.htm 14. Technical committee members of the 2nd International Conference on Mechanical and Electronics Engineering (ICMEE 2010), Kyoto, , August 1-3, 2010. http://www.icmee.org/com.htm 15. Technical committee members of the International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE’10), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 11-13, 2010. http://www.iiu.edu.my/iccce/10/ 16. Program Committee Member, The Second International Workshop on Computer Networks & Communications (CoNeCo-2010), Ankara, Turkey, June 26-28, 2010. http://airccse.org/coneco/coneco2010. 17. Technical committee member, 2010 The International Conference on Industrial and Intelligent Information (ICIII 2010), Bangkok, Thailand, April 23 - 25, 2010. http://iciii.org/com.htm 18. Technical committee member of 2010 International Conference on Systems Engineering and Modeling (ICSEM 2010), Bangkok, Thailand, April 23 - 25, 2010, http://www.ijcte.org/icsem/com.htm 19. Technical committee member of The 2nd International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC 2010), Bangalore, India, February 9-11, 2010, http://www.icmlc.org/com.htm 20. Technical committee member, The 2010 International Conference on Data Storage and Data Engineering (DSDE 2010), Bangalore, India, February 9-10, 2010. http://www.iacsit.org/dsde/com.htm

16 21. Session Chair (Routing Protocol 1 & 2) MICC'09 (9th IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications 2009), 14 - 17 December 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, http://www.i-cerg.net/micc2009/ 22. Technical program committee member of MICC'09 (9th IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications 2009), 14 - 17 December 2009, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, http://www.i-cerg.net/micc2009/ 23. Reviewer for The International Conference on Electrical Engineering and Informatics 2009 (ICEEI 2009), Bangi, Malaysia, 5-9th August 2009. http://www.ftsm.ukm.my/iceei2009/ 24. Program Commitee Member of The First International Conference on Networks & Communications (NetCoM-2009), 27-29 December 2009, Chennai, India. www.airccse.org/nc/netcom2009 25. Technical committee member of 2009 International Conference on computer AND NETWORK TECHNOLOGY (iCCNT 2009) Chennai, India, July 24-26, 2009. http://www.iccnt.org/com.htm 26. Technical committee member of 2009 International Conference on Mechanical and Electronics Engineering (ICMEE 2009) Chennai, India, July 24-26, 2009. http://www.icmee.org/com.htm 27. IPC member, 2nd International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA), Fes, Morocco, Oct 21-23, 2009. 28. IPC member, The First International Workshop on Wireless, Mobile Networks & Applications (WiMoA-2009) (Co-located with CIT 2009), October 11-14, 2009, . http://airccse.org/wimoa/program.html 29. Technical committee member of 2009 International Conference on Software Technology and Engineering (ICSTE 2009), June 27-29, 2009, Chennai, India. http://www.icste.org/ 30. Program Committee Member, The First International Workshop on Computer Networks & Communications (CoNeCo-2009), Dong Hoi City, , April 1~3 2009. http://www.coneco2009.com/program_committee. 31. Program Commitee Member of The First International Workshop on Wireless & Mobile Networks (WiMoN-2009) Co-located with ISADS'2009, March 23-25, 2009, Athens, Greece. http://airccse.org/wimprogram.html 32. Contributor of the National Wireless Communications Technology Roadmap 2008 Version 1.0, Prepared by MIMOS BHD for the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Malaysia, 2008. 33. Reviewer for Information Technology Journal, 2008. 34. Technical committee members of International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '08), 13-15 May 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 35. Session Chair, International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '08), 13-15 May 2008, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 36. Reviewer for IIUM Engineering Journal, 2008. 37. Technical review panel members of 1st International Conference on Electronic Design (ICED 2008), 1-3, December 2008, Penang, Malaysia. 38. IPC member, 2nd International Conference on Software, Knowledge, Information Management and Applications (SKIMA), Kathmandu, Nepal, 18-21 March 2008. 39. Reviewer for International Conference on Intelligent & Advanced Systems 2007. 40. Reviewer for Elsevier Computer Communications Journal, 2007.

17 41. Contributor, National Wireless Communications Technology Roadmap prepared by Prepared by MIMOS BHD on behalf of Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Malaysia, 2006 42. Organizing committee member for The Workshop on Global Trends In High Performance Research Network, Faculty of Engineering IIUM, Co-Sponsored by Malaysia Research & Education Network (MYREN), 18-19 Dec, 2006. 43. Reviewer for Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (Elsevier Journal), 2006. 44. Reviewer for International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology (IJIPT), 2006 45. Organizing committee member for The International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '06), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 9-11 May 2006. 46. Session Chair, International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '06), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 9-11 May 2006. 47. Reviewer for The International Conference on Computer & Communication Engineering (ICCCE '06), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 9-11 May 2006. 48. Organizing committee member for The 2nd International Cinference on Mechatronics (ICOM’05), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 10-12 May, 2005. 49. Reviewer for Joint IEEE Malaysia International Conference on Communications and IEEE International Conference on Networks (MICC-ICON 2005), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 16–18 November 2005 50. Reviewer for Biological Procedures Online (Journal), 2005. 51. Reviewer for First International Conference on Mechatronics – ICOM’01, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 12-13 February, 2001. 52. Editorial Committee member for the National Conference on Computer and Information Systems (NCCIS’97), December 9-10, 1997, Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Research Grants: 1. A New Multi-biometric based Algorithm for Human Verification FRGS Grant (IIUM/504/RES/G/14/3/05/FRGS 0207-50) Amount: RM 81,000

2. Hardware Implementation of A Real Time Image Compression System for Next Generation Mobile Communications eScienceFund (Project ID: 01-01-08-SF0022) Amount: RM 77,000

3. The Design of 13.56 MHz RFID Reader Employing Silterra Technology eScienceFund (ID: 01-01-02-SF0369) Amount: RM 358,000

4. Development of Seamless IP-Based Communication Architecture with EnhancedQuality of Service (QoS) for High Speed Mobile Nodes IFRG Grant (IIUM/504/RES/G/14/3/06/IFRG 0701-12) Amount: RM 15,000

5. An Investigation on Performance of Dht-Based Query Routingprotocols to Improve Qos in Peer-To-Peer (P2p) Computer Networks

18 IFRG Grant (IIUM/504/RES/G/14/3/06/IFRG 0701-11) Amount: RM 15,000

6. Development of a Robust and Scalable Routing Protocol for Wireless Mesh Networks IIUM Research Endowment Grant (Type B) IIUM/504/RES/G/14/3/07/EDW B 0803-95 Amount: RM 10,000

7. Network Architecture and Hybrid Multicast Routing Protocol Design for Next-Generation Wireless Mesh Networks IIUM Research Endowment Grant (Type B) IIUM/504/RES/G/14/3/07/EDW B 0903-238 Amount: RM 20,000

Consultancy: • Research Services on Wimax Mesh Protocol Design For Mimos’ Wireless Communications Lab (Mimos Berhad, Company No. : 336183-H) For Network Layer Amount: RM 115,200

Awards:

• Bronze Medal inMalaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2010 for “Design and Implimentation of a Robust Mobile Multicast-Enabled Router”, 04 - 06 February 2010, Putra World Trade Center (PWTC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. • Silver Medal in IRIIE 2010 for “Multibiometric Based Personal Verification Using the Fusion of Hand and Finger Stripe Geometry”, 26-27th January 2010, IIUM. • Silver Medal in IRIIE 2010 for “An Enhancement of Fault-Tolerant Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network”, 26-27th January 2010, IIUM. • Bronze Medal in IRIIE 2010 for “Design and Implimentation of a Robust Mobile Multicast- Enabled Router”, 26-27th January 2010, IIUM. • Bronze Medal in KERIE 2009 for “A Novel Network Architecture and Hybrid QoS Multicast Routing Protocol for Next-Generation Wireless Mesh Network”, 21 January 2009, IIUM. • Gold Medal in KERIE 2007 for “An efficient Approach to provide multicast for mobile users”, 12-13 December 2007, IIUM. • Silver Medal in KERIE 2007 for “IPv6 Address Management Using Open LDAP”, 12-13 December 2007, IIUM. • Bronze Medal in KERIE 2007 for “Performance Study of Enhanced QoS Routing Protocols for MANET”, 12-13 December 2007, IIUM. • Bronze Medal in KERIE 2007 for “An Enhancement Of Seamless IP Diversity Based Generalized Mobility Architecture (SIGMA) To Reduce Handover Latency And Packet Loss Rate In High Speed Mobile Nodes”, 12-13 December 2007, IIUM. • Silver Medal in KERIE 2006 for “An Optimized Approach for Transferring Artifcial Neural Network Compression Based Images” 5-6 December, 2006, IIUM. • Silver Medal in KERIE 2005 for “Image Compression Using Back Propagation Neural Network with Adaptive Learning Algorithm”, 21-22 November 2005, IIUM. Professional membership: Member of IEEE Member of ACM Member of IAENG

19 Member of IACSIT Recreational Interests: Electronics, photography, chess, Classical music and classical guitar. Language Skills: English - Fluent Bengali - Fluent French - Rudimentary

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