Dr. Farhan Masud    

M.Sc. (QAU, ISLAMABAD), MSCS (GCU, LAHORE), PhD (UTM, MALAYSIA) 
Assistant Professor

Mobile #: +92-0318-4611900
email: fmasud@uvas.edu.pk

Biography

Dr. Farhan Masud is currently an Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Computer Science. He received M.Sc. degree in Computer Science (1999) from Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, MS in Computer Science (2014) from Government College University (Pakistan) and PhD degree (2019) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (Malaysia). Areas of his research include wireless sensor networks, especially wireless body area networks, internet of things, including medium access control (MAC) mechanisms, routing protocols, cross layer design, quality of service (QOS) provisioning and energy efficiency.

Area of Interest

  • Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBANs)
  • Internet of Things (IOT)
  • Business Applications

Publications:

  • Farhan Masud, Abdul Hanan Abdullah, Gaddafi Abdul-Salaam (2019) Emergency traffic adaptive MAC protocol for wireless body area networks based on prioritization. PLOS ONE 14(12): e0225518. doi://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0225518.  (IF=2.776, Q1) (Accepted: 06 November 2019; Published: 02 December 2019)
  •   Ishfaq, M. K., Rahman, T. A., Himdi, M., Chattha, H. T., Saleem, Y., Khawaja, B. A., & Farhan Masud, "Compact Four-Element Phased Antenna Array for 5G Applications," in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 161103-161111, 2019. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2949149. (IF=4.098, Q1) (Accepted: 08 October 2019; Published: 23 October 2019)
  • Farhan Masud, Abdul Hanan Abdullah, Ayman Altameem, Gaddafi Abdul-Salaam, and Farkhana Muchtar. (2019). Traffic Class Prioritization-Based Slotted-CSMA/CA for IEEE 802.15.4 MAC in Intra-WBANs. Sensors. 2019, 19, 466. (IF: 3.031, Q1) (Accepted: 18 January 2019; Published: 23 January 2019).
  • Farhan Masud, Abdul Hanan Abdullah, Gaddafi Abdul-Salaam, and Muhammad Kamran Ishfaq. (2018). Emergency Traffic MAC Protocols in Wireless Body Area Networks. Adhoc & Sensor Wireless Networks. 2018 41. (IF: 0.948, Q4) (Accepted: February 17, 2018; Published: 02 May 2018).
  • Farhan Masud, Abdul Hanan Abdullah, Gaddafi Abdul-Salaam, and Fasee Ullah. (2017). Traffic Adaptive MAC Protocols in Wireless Body Area Networks. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2017. 14 pages. (IF: 1.396, Q3) (Accepted 19 October 2016; Published 12 January 2017).
  • Muhammad Anwar, Abdul Hanan Abdullah, Ayman Altameem, Kashif Naseer Qureshi, Farhan Masud, Muhammad Faheem, Yue Cao and Rupak Kharel. (2018). Green Communication for Wireless Body Area Networks: Energy Aware Link Efficient Routing Approach. Sensors. 18(10). p.3237. (IF: 3.031, Q1) (Accepted: 20 September 2018; Published: 26 September 2018).
  • Farkhana Muchtar, Abdul Hanan Abdullah, Suhaidi Hassan and Farhan Masud. (2018). Energy conservation strategies in Host Centric Networking based MANET: A review. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. 111. 77-98. (IF: 5.273, Q1) (Accepted 19 March 2018; Published 21 March 2018).
  • Muhammad Anwar, Abdul Hanan Abdullah, Rd. Rohmat Saedudin, Farhan Masud and Fasee Ullah, 2018. CAMP: Congestion Avoidance and Mitigation Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks. International Journal of Integrated Engineering, Vol. 10 No. 6 (2018) p. 59-65. (Master List) (Accepted August 05, 2018; Published August 24, 2018).
  • Fasee Ullah, Abdul Hanan Abdullah, Gaddafi Abdul-Salaam, Marina Md Arshad and Farhan Masud. (2017). CDASA-CSMA/CA: Contention Differentiated Adaptive Slot Allocation CSMA-CA for Heterogeneous Data in Wireless Body Area Networks. KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS). 11(12). 5835-5854. (IF: 0.711, Q4) (Accepted September 15, 2017; Published December 31, 2017).

Program Coordinator

  • Organized workshop on “Data Analysis Methodologies” from March 04-10, 2014 at University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore in collaboration with Jackson State University under Pakistan-US Science and Technology ProjectEstablishing a Bio-statistical Consulting Center in Pakistan
  • Organized workshop on “Biostatistics and Data Analysis Concepts” from May 07-11, 2012 at University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences Lahore in collaboration with Jackson State University under Pakistan-US Science and Technology ProjectEstablishing a Bio-statistical Consulting Center in Pakistan

Training/Workshop/Seminar Participation

  • Participated in Workshop on “How to Publish in High Impact Publications" on 19th – 20th December, 2018 at Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia organized by Postgraduate Student Society – School of Electrical Engineering (PGSS-SEE), Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.
  • Participated in Seminar on “How to Find Research Gaps and Good Research Objectives" on 9th December, 2018 at Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia organized by Postgraduate Student Society – School of Computing (PGSS-SC) in collaboration with School of Postgraduate Studies (SPS), Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.
  • Participated in Seminar on “Characteristics of Good Literature Review and Research Methodology" on 5th December, 2018 at Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia organized by Postgraduate Student Society – School of Computing (PGSS-SC) in collaboration with School of Postgraduate Studies (SPS), Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.
  • Participated in Seminar on “Overcoming Writing Block" on 5th December, 2018 at Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia organized by Postgraduate Student Society – School of Computing (PGSS-SC) in collaboration with School of Postgraduate Studies (SPS), Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.
  • Participated in Seminar on “How to Publish in High Impact Publications" on 2nd December, 2018 at Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia organized by Postgraduate Student Society – School of Computing (PGSS-SC) in collaboration with School of Postgraduate Studies (SPS), Universiti Tecknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia.