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 Malaysia (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). 3 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 19 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