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Dr Saad Mustafa

Associate Professor
Area of Interest: Cloud Computing, Mobile Edge Computing, and Application of ML in aforementioned areas
Email: saadmustafa@cuiatd.edu.pk
Phone: (92)992-383591-5
 
Academics/ Degrees
  • PhD, COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus
  • MS, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan, 2010
  • BCS(Hons.), COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan, 2007
 
Journal Publications
1. Yasar Khan,S. Mustafa,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,J.Ali,R.Wasim,Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues Content caching in mobile edge computing: a survey, Cluster Computing, 2024
2. T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,J.Shujah,S.K.Zaman,Arslan Qayyum Adaptive thresholds for improved load balancing in mobile edge computing using K-means clustering, Telecommunication Systems, 2024
3. S.K.Zaman,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,S. Mustafa,Azra Ramzan,J.Shujah Deadline-aware heuristics for reliability optimization in ubiquitous mobile edge computing, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 2023
4. S. Bashir,S. Mustafa,T. Maqsood,J.Shujah,R.Wasim,A. Alourani Multi-factor nature inspired SLA-aware energy efficient resource management for cloud environments, Cluster Computing, 2023
5. E. Mustafa,E. Mustafa,S. Mustafa,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,J.Shujah,K.Bilal,A. U. R. Khan Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Online Computation Offloading in Wireless Powered Edge Networks, Cluster Computing, 2023
6. U. Zukaib, M. Maray,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,N. Haq,A. U. R. Khan Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on air quality analyzed through machine learning techniques, PeerJ Computer Science, 2023
7. S.K.Zaman,S. Mustafa,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,Muhammad Amir Khan,H. Abbasi,M. Ahmed, A. D. Algarni, H. Elmannai Cooperative Content Caching Framework Using Cuckoo Search Optimization in Vehicular Edge Networks, Applied Science, 2023
8. G. Laraib,S.K.Zaman,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,Muhammad Amir Khan,N. Gohar, A. D. Algarni, H. Elmannai Content Caching in Mobile Edge Computing Based on User Location and Preferences Using Cosine Similarity and Collaborative Filtering, Electronics, 2023
9. S. Younas,F. Rehman,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,A. Akhunzada, A. Gani Collaborative Detection of Black Hole and Gray Hole Attacks for Secure Data Communication in VANETs, Applied Sciences, 2022
10. E. Mustafa,J.Shujah,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,AN Khan,S.K.Zaman,Ali Imran Jehangiri,Sadia Din Joint wireless power transfer and task offloading in mobile edge computing: a survey, Cluster Computing, 2022
11. S. H. H. Madni,J. Ali, H. A. Husnain,, M. H. Masum,S. Mustafa,J.Shujah,M. Maray ,S. Hosseini Factors Influencing the Adoption of IoT for E-Learning in Higher Educational Institutes in Developing Countries, Frontiers in Psychology, 2022
12. M. Yasir,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,S.K.Zaman CoPUP: content popularity and user preferences aware content caching framework in mobile edge computing, Cluster Computing, 2022
13. K. Malik,A. Akhunzada,T. Maqsood,S. Mustafa,F. Rehman,O.Khalid Lightweight Internet of Things Botnet Detection Using One-Class Classification, Sensors, 2022
14. Beenish Gul,O.Khalid,S. Mustafa,I.Khan,S.S.Hussain,DARREN DANCEY,RAHEEL NAWAZ CPU and RAM Energy-Based SLA-Aware Workload Consolidation Techniques for Clouds, IEEE Access, 2020
15. S. Mustafa,K. Sattar,J.Shujah,S. Sarwar,T. Maqsood,S. A. Madani, S. Guizani SLA-Aware Best Fit Decreasing Techniques for Workload Consolidation in Clouds, IEEE Access, 2019
16. S. Mustafa CPU–RAM-based energy-efficient resource allocation in clouds, The Journal of Supercomputing, 2019
17. S.K.Zaman,A. R. Khan,J.Shujah,T. Maqsood,F. Rehman,S. Mustafa A Systems Overview of Commercial Data Centers: Initial Energy and Cost Analysis, International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE), 2019
18. J.Shujah,A. Gani, K. Ko, K. So,S. Mustafa,S. A. Madani, M. K. Khan SIMDOM: A Framework for SIMD Instruction Translation and Offloading in Heterogeneous Mobile Architectures, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2018
19. S. Mustafa,K.Bilal,S. R. Malik,S. A. Madani SLA-Aware Energy Efficient Resource Management for Cloud Environments, IEEE Access, 2018
20. J.Shujah,R.Wasim,S. Mustafa,Sajjad A. Madani Analysis of Vector Code Offloading Framework in Heterogeneous Cloud and Edge Architectures, IEEE Access , 2017
21. AN Khan,J.Shujah,S. Mustafa Computation offloading Cost Estimation in Mobile Cloud Application Models, Wireless Personal Communication, Springer, 2017, 2017
22. S. Mustafa,B.Nazir,A. Hayat,A. R. Khan,S. A. Madani Resource management in cloud computing: Taxonomy, prospects, and challenges, Computers & Electrical Engineering, 2015
23. S. Mustafa,S.Madani,K.Bilal,K.Hayat,Samee U Khan Stable‐path multi‐channel routing with extended level channel assignment, International Journal of Communication Systems 25, no. 7, 2012
 
 
Profile/Bio
PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
  • 2010 to Continued: Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
  • Sept. 2007 to March 2008: Developer, DeeByte Software House
 
 
Awards
  • Secured 1st Position in MS (CS)
  • Secured 2nd Position in BS (CS)
  • “Institute Silver Medal” for 2nd position in BS (CS)
  • “Campus Silver Medal” for 2nd position in BS (CS)
  • COMSATS Scholarship for MS (CS)
  • COMSATS Scholarship for BS (CS)
  • 1st Prize in “Software Project Competition” at FIT
  • 1st Prize in “Quiz Competition” at NASCON