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Adjunct Senior Lecturer Muhammad Waqas

Adjunct Senior Lecturer

Staff Member Details
Mobile: 0097336977074
Email: m.waqas@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Joondalup  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544

Muhammad is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering.

Background

Muhammad Waqas is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering. Muhammad Waqas received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Major in Wireless Communications) from the Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2009 and 2014, respectively. He received his PhD degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 2019. From Oct. 2019 to Mar. 2022, he was a Research Associate at the Faculty of Information Technology, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China.

Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Faculty of Engineering and Science, University of Greenwich, London, UK. He is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at the School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Australia. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Engineering, College of Information Technology, University of Bahrain, Bahrain.

His current research interests are in the areas of Wireless Communication, vehicular networks, Fog/Mobile Edge Computing, Internet of Things and Machine Learning. He has more than 100 research publications in reputed Journals and Conferences. He is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems and guest editor of Applied Sciences - MDPI. He is recognised as a Global Talent in the area of Wireless Communications by UK Research and Innovation and a Professional Member of Engineer Australia. He is a senior member of IEEE, a Professional Member of ACM, an IEEE Young Professional, a Member of the Pakistan Engineering Council and an approved supervisor by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan.

Professional associations

  • Senior IEEE member
  • Member of Pakistan Engineering Council (PEC)
  • Young Professional IEEE, Professional Member ACM
  • Approved PhD Supervisor by the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan
  • Associate Editor: International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems
  • Guest Editor: Special Issue “Blockchain and 6G Trustworthy Networking”, Applied Sciences, MDPI
  • Guest Editor: Special Issue “Joint Sensing and Communication for Edge Computing Networks, AETiC
  • Speaker: Seminar at the University of Bahrain on the Topic of “The Role of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Next Generation Wireless Communications/Network Security
  • Invited Speaker: The 11th International Conference on Computer and Communications Management, Nagoya, Japan, August 4-6, 2023
  • Invited Speaker, ICE CUBE, Quetta, Pakistan, 2021
  • Distinguish Speaker: ICE CUBE Conference, Quetta, Pakistan, 2021
  • Session Chair: International Conf. on Mechatronics, Robotics and Automation, China, 2020
  • Session Chair: International Conference on Innovation and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing and Technologies, Bahrain, 2022

Awards and recognition

  • 2021: Best Teacher Award, GIK Institute
  • 2021: Best Research Paper Award: Asia Symposium on Signal Processing, China
  • 2015 - 2019: Chinese Government Scholarship for PhD Studies

Research areas and interests

  • Wireless Communication
  • Vehicular Networks
  • Fog Computing / Mobile Edge Computing
  • Internet of Things
  • Information Theoretic Security

Research Outputs

2024

Journal Articles

  • Chen, L., Guo, C., Gong, B., Waqas, M., Deng, L., Qin, H. (2024). A Secure Cross-Domain Authentication Scheme Based On Threshold Signature For Mec. Journal of Cloud Computing, 13(1), article number 70. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13677-024-00631-x.
  • Zhang, J., Ning, Z., Waqas, M., Alasmary, H., Tu, S., Sheng, C. (2024). Hybrid Edge-cloud Collaborator Resource Scheduling Approach Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning and Multi-Objective Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Computers, 73(1), 192 - 205. https://doi.org/10.1109/TC.2023.3326977.
  • Gong, B., Guo, C., Guo, C., Guo, C., Sun, Y., Waqas, M., Chen, S. (2024). SLIM: A Secure and Lightweight Multi-Authority Attribute-Based Signcryption Scheme for IoT. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 19(Article in press), 1299 - 1312. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2023.3331566.

2023

Journal Articles

  • Zhang, J., Gong, B., Waqas, M., Tu, S., Chen, S. (2023). Many-Objective Optimization Based Intrusion Detection For In-Vehicle Network Security. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2023(Article in Press), TBD. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2023.3296002.
  • Yang, Y., Tu, S., Ali, H., Alasmary, H., Waqas, M., Nouman, M. (2023). Intrusion Detection Based on Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory with Attention Mechanism. Computers, Materials and Continua, 74(1), 801-815. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.031907.
  • Badshah, A., Waqas, M., Muhammad, F., Abbas, G., Abbas, ZH., Chaudhry, SA., Chen, S. (2023). AAKE-BIVT: Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange Scheme for Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Vehicles in Smart Transportation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(2), 1739-1755. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2022.3220624.
  • Ayaz, H., Waqas, M., Abbas, G., Abbas, Z., Bilal, M., Kwak, K. (2023). Improved Rate of Secret Key Generation Using Passive Re-Configurable Intelligent Surfaces for Vehicular Networks. Sustainability, 15(1), Article number342. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/su15010342.
  • Wang, Y., Wang, Y., Ning, Z., Rehman, SU., Waqas, M. (2023). A Cross-Domain Trust Model Of Smart City Iot Based On Self-Certification. Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 36(1), 981-996. https://doi.org/10.32604/iasc.2023.030091.
  • Kang, N., Ning, Z., Zhang, S., Rehman, SU., Waqas, M. (2023). Identity-Based Edge Computing Anonymous Authentication Protocol. Computers, Materials and Continua, 74(2), TBD. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2023.029711.
  • Xing, Y., Ye, T., Ullah, S., Waqas, M., Alasmary, H., Liu, Z. (2023). A computational offloading optimization scheme based on deep reinforcement learning in perceptual network. PLOS ONE, 18(2), Article number e0280468. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0280468.
  • Zhang, T., Gao, Z., Liu, Z., Hussain, SF., Waqas, M., Halim, Z., Li, Y. (2023). Infrared ship target segmentation based on Adversarial Domain Adaptation. Knowledge-Based Systems, 265(Article in press), Article number 110344. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2023.110344.
  • Ayaz, H., Waqas, M., Abbas, G., Abbas, ZH., Bilal, M. (2023). Multiple re-configurable intelligent surfaces based physical layer eavesdropper detection for V2I communications. Physical Communication, 58(Article in press), Article number 102074. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phycom.2023.102074.
  • Waqas, M., Tu, S., Wan, J., Mir, T., Alasmary, H., Abbas, G. (2023). Defense scheme against advanced persistent threats in mobile fog computing security. Computer Networks, 221(Article in press), Article number 109519. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2022.109519.
  • Zhang, T., Waqas, M., Fang, Y., Liu, Z., Halim, Z., Li, Y., Chen, S. (2023). Weakly-supervised butterfly detection based on saliency map. Pattern Recognition, 138(Article in press), Article number 109313. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2023.109313.
  • Zhang, J., Ning, Z., Ali, RH., Waqas, M., Tu, S., Ahmad, I. (2023). A Many-objective Ensemble Optimization Algorithm for the Edge Cloud Resource Scheduling Problem. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023(Article in press), 18 pages. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2023.3235064.
  • Bei, G., Zheng, G., Waqas, M., Tu, S., Chen, S. (2023). LCDMA: Lightweight Cross-domain Mutual Identity Authentication Scheme for Internet of Things. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 10(14), 12590-12602. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2023.3252051.
  • Tu, S., Badshah, A., Alasmary, H., Waqas, M. (2023). EAKE-WC: Efficient and Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange Scheme for Wearable Computing. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2023(Article in press), 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1109/TMC.2023.3297854.
  • Tu, S., Waqas, M., Badshah, A., Yin, M., Abbas, G. (2023). Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) Based on Pseudo-Siamese Stacked Autoencoders in Fog Computing. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 16(6), 4317 - 4327. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSC.2023.3319953.
  • Ayaz, H., Abbas, G., Waqas, M., Abbas, ZH., Bilal, M., Nauman, A., Jamshed, MA. (2023). Physical layer security analysis using radio frequency‐ fingerprinting in cellular‐V2X for 6G communication. IET Signal Processing, 17(5), Article number e12225. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1049/sil2.12225.
  • Sadia, H., Hassan, AK., Abbas, ZH., Abbas, G., Waqas, M., Han, Z. (2023). IRS-enabled NOMA communication systems: A network architecture primer with future trends and challenges. Digital Communications and Networks, 2023(Article in press), 33 pages. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcan.2023.09.002.
  • Dawood, M., Tu, S., Xiao, C., Alasmary, H., Waqas, M., Rehman, SU. (2023). Cyberattacks and Security of Cloud Computing: A Complete Guideline. Symmetry, 15(11), Article number 1981. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15111981.
  • Tahir, M., Halim, Z., Waqas, M., Tu, S. (2023). On The Effect Of Emotion Identification From Limited Translated Text Samples Using Computational Intelligence. International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 16(1), article number 107. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44196-023-00234-5.
  • Zhang, J., Gong, B., Waqas, M., Tu, S., Han, Z. (2023). A Hybrid Many-Objective Optimization Algorithm for Task Offloading and Resource Allocation in Multi-Server Mobile Edge Computing Networks. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 16(5), 3101 - 3114. https://doi.org/10.1109/TSC.2023.3268990.
  • Hammad, M., Badshah, A., Abbas, G., Alasmary, H., Waqas, M., Khan, W. (2023). A Provable Secure and Efficient Authentication Framework for Smart Manufacturing Industry. IEEE Access, 11(TBD), 67626-67639. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3290913.
  • Ullah, O., Khan, HU., Halim, Z., Anwar, S., Waqas, M. (2023). On Neuroevolution of Multi-Input Compositional Pattern Producing Networks: A Case of Entertainment Computing, Edge Devices, and Smart Cities. ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 2023(Article in press), 14 pages. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1145/3628430.
  • Haider, U., Waqas, M., Hanif, M., Alasmary , H., Qaisar, SM. (2023). Network load prediction and anomaly detection using ensemble learning in 5G cellular networks. Computer Communications, 197(Article in press), 141-150. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2022.10.017.
  • Wang, Q., Liu, Z., Zhang, T., Alasmary , H., Waqas, M., Halim, Z., Li, Y. (2023). Deep convolutional cross-connected kernel mapping support vector machine based on SelectDropout. Information Sciences, 626(Article in press), 694–709. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2023.01.004.
  • Suleman, M., Zaiwar , A., Waqas, M., Shanshan, T., Ali Hassan, S., Abbas, G. (2023). Cooperative Computational Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing for Vehicles: A Model-based DNN Approach. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 72(3), 3376-3391. https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2022.3217323.
  • Ullah, S., Abbas, G., Waqas, M., Abbas, ZH., Halim, Z. (2023). Multi‐hop emergency message dissemination through optimal cooperative forwarder in grid‐based 5G‐VANETs. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, 14(4), 4461–4476. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-023-04563-3.

Conference Publications

  • Abid, Q., Abbas, G., Ali, Z., Abbas, Z., Tu, S., Harrath, Y., Waqas, M. (2023). Distance Vector and Prominent Reliable Path Selection based Stochastic Routing in Distributed Internet of Things. 2023 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IWCMC 2023 (935-940). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/IWCMC58020.2023.10183066.
  • Tu, S., Ayaz, M., Arshad, A., Iftikhar, U., Harrath, Y., Waqas, M. (2023). Cloud-based Smart Parking System using Internet of Things. 2023 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, IWCMC 2023 (1377-1382). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/IWCMC58020.2023.10182770.

2022

Journal Articles

  • Badshah, A., Waqas, M., Abbas, G., Muhammad, F., Abbas, ZH., Vimal, S., Bilal, M. (2022). LAKE-BSG: Lightweight authenticated key exchange scheme for blockchain-enabled smart grids. Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, 52, Part C(August 2022), article number 102248. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seta.2022.102248.
  • Mir, T., Waqas, M., Tu, S., Fang, C., Ni, W., Mackenzie, R., Xue, X., Han, Z. (2022). Relay Hybrid Precoding in UAV-Assisted Wideband Millimeter-Wave Massive MIMO System. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, 2022(article in press), 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1109/TWC.2022.3154290.
  • Badshah, A., Waqas, M., Muhammad, F., Abbas, G., Abbas, ZH. (2022). A Novel Framework for Smart Systems Using Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Things. IT Professional: technology solutions for the enterprise, 24(3), 73 - 80. https://doi.org/10.1109/MITP.2022.3143658.
  • Wang, T., Liu, Z., Zhang, T., Hussain, SF., Waqas, M., Li, Y. (2022). Adaptive feature fusion for time series classification. Knowledge-Based Systems, 243(11 May 2022), article number 108459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.knosys.2022.108459.
  • Ashraf, MM., Waqas, M., Abbas, G., Baker, T., Abbas, ZH., Alasmary, H. (2022). FedDP: A Privacy-Protecting Theft Detection Scheme in Smart Grids Using Federated Learning. Energies, 15(17), Article number 6241. https://doi.org/10.3390/en15176241.
  • Pengge, C., Fenhua, B., Tao, S., Bei, G., Lei, Z., Lin, H., Zhengyuan, A., Talha, M., Shanshan, T., Waqas, M. (2022). SCCA: A slicing‑and coding‑based consensus algorithm for optimizing storage in blockchain‑based IoT data sharing. Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, 15(4), 1964-1978. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-022-01335-2.
  • Wang, Q., Liu, Z., Zhang, T., Tu, S., Li, Y., Waqas, M. (2022). A Framework of Lightweight Deep Cross-Connected Convolution Kernel Mapping Support Vector Machines. Journal on Artificial Intelligence, 4(1), 37-48. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.32604/jai.2022.027875.
  • Waqas, M., Bano, S., Hassan, F., Tu, S., Abbas, G., Abbas, Z. (2022). Physical Layer Authentication Using Ensemble Learning Technique in Wireless Communications. Computers, Materials and Continua, 73(3), 4489-4499. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.029539.
  • Zhang, Z., Zhang, T., Liu, Z., Zhang, P., Tu, S., Li, Y., Waqas, M. (2022). Fine-grained Ship Image Recognition Based on BCNN with Inception and AM-Softmax. Computers, Materials and Continua, 73(1), 1527-1539. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2022.029297.
  • Ullah, S., Abbas, G., Waqas, M., Abbas, Z., Khan, A. (2022). RSU assisted reliable relay selection for emergency message routing in intermittently connected VANETs. Wireless Networks: the journal of mobile communication, computation and information, 29(3), 1311-1332. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s11276-022-03159-7.
  • Islam, K., Ahmad, I., Habibi, D., Jiong , J., Waqas, M. (2022). Lifetime Maximization in Underwater Wireless Communication Networks. IEEE Sensors Journal, 22(15), 15549-15560. https://doi.org/10.1109/JSEN.2022.3186032.
  • Abbas, G., Sami, U., Waqas, M., Haq Abbas, Z., Muhammad, B. (2022). A position-based reliable emergency message routing scheme for road safety in VANETs. Computer Networks, 213(4 August 2022), article number 109097. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2022.109097.
  • Waqas, M., Tu, S., Halim, Z., Rehman, SU., Abbas, G., Abbas, Zu. (2022). The role of artificial intelligence and machine learning in wireless networks security: principle, practice and challenges. Artificial Intelligence Review, 55(2022), pages5215–5261. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10462-022-10143-2.

Conference Publications

  • Bai, X., Tu, S., Waqas, M., Wu, A., Zhang, Y., Yang, Y. (2022). Blockchain Enable IoT Using Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Novel Architecture to Ensure Security of Data Sharing and Storage. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (586-597). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06791-4_46.
  • Liu, Z., He, J., Zhang, T., Tang, R., Li, Y., Waqas, M. (2022). Infrared Ship Video Target Tracking Based on Cross-Connection and Spatial Transformer Network. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (100-114). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06788-4_9.
  • Tu, S., Huang, F., Zhang, S., Badshah, A., Alasmary, H., Waqas, M. (2022). Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-based Encryption for Securing IoT Devices in Fog Computing. Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems, CITS 2022 (1-7). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CITS55221.2022.9832996.
  • Bakhshad, S., Ponnusamy, V., Annur, R., Waqas, M., Alasmary, H., Tu, S. (2022). Deep Reinforcement Learning based Intrusion Detection System with Feature Selections Method and Optimal Hyper-parameter in IoT Environment. International Conference on Computer, Information and Telecommunication Systems (CITS) (1-7). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CITS55221.2022.9832976.
  • Saleem, O., Munawar, S., Tu, S., Ali, Z., Waqas, M., Abbas, G. (2022). Intelligent Task Offloading for Smart Devices in Mobile Edge Computing. International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC) (312-317). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IWCMC55113.2022.9825117.
  • Badshah, A., Waqas, M., Tu, S., Abbas, G. (2022). Enhancing Security in The Internet of Things Ecosystem using Reinforcement Learning and Blockchain. WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND MOBILE COMPUTING. INTERNATIONAL. 2022. (IWCMC 2022) (243 - 247). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/IWCMC55113.2022.9824557.

2021

Conference Publications

  • Wang, X., Badshah, A., Tu, S., Waqas, M. (2021). Blockchain-Based Security Management Platform. Proceedings 2021 2nd Asia Symposium on Signal Processing ASSP 2021 (118-121). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSP54407.2021.00026.
  • Wang, X., Badshah, A., Shanshan, T., Waqas, M. (2021). Blockchain Boundary Security Protection based on Trusted Computing. Proceedings 2021 2nd Asia Symposium on Signal Processing ASSP 2021 (227-231). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSP54407.2021.00042.
  • Ullah, S., Abbas, G., Waqas, M., Abbas, Zu., Tu, S. (2021). Position-based Vehicular Clustering for Emergency Messages Dissemination in Zone of Interest. Proceedings 2021 2nd Asia Symposium on Signal Processing ASSP 2021 (61-66). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ASSP54407.2021.00018.
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