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Dr Faisal Rehman

Dr Faisal Rehman

Associate Professor

Area of Interest: Recommendation Systems, Green Computing, and Computer Networks.

Email: [email protected]

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

Academics / Degrees

  • PhD in Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan, 2017
  • MS (Computer Science), COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan, 2010
  • MIT, Sarhad University of Information Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan, 2003
  • B.Sc (Computer Science), University of Peshawar, 2001

Profile / Bio

PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:

  • Jan. 2014 to continued: Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
  • Sep. 2010 to Jan. 2014: Lecturer, Department of Computer Science, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
  • Sep. 2007 to Sep. 2010: System/Network Assistant, COMSATS IT Center, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan
  • Jan. 2004 to Sep. 2007: Lecturer, Pine Hills Institute of Business and Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan (Affiliated with Agriculture University Peshawar)

Research Interests

  • Recommendation Systems
  • Green Computing
  • Computer Networks

Awards

Best paper award, (Spects 2018 France)

Journal Publications

1. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5831" title="Dr. Ehzaz Mustafa">E. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a> Lightweight heuristic IRS-enabled dueling DQN for digital twin-assisted vehicular edge computing, Expert Systems with Applications, 2026
2. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5831" title="Dr. Ehzaz Mustafa">E. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a> Deep Reinforcement Learning with Dueling DQN for Partial Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing, IEEE Access, 2025
3. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5831" title="Dr. Ehzaz Mustafa">E. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=646" title="Dr. Mazhar Ali">Dr. Mazhar Ali</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a> Deep Reinforcement Learning With Dueling DQN for Partial Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing , IEEE Access, 2025
4. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5831" title="Dr. Ehzaz Mustafa">E. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=526" title="Dr. Kashif Bilal">K.Bilal</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a> Deep Reinforcement Learning and SQP-driven task offloading decisions in vehicular edge computing networks, Computer Networks, 2025
5. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5831" title="Dr. Ehzaz Mustafa">E. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a> Computation offloading in vehicular communications using PPO-based deep reinforcement learning, The Journal of Supercomputing, 2025
6. Yasar Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=40" title="Dr. Javid Ali">J.Ali</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=750" title="Dr. Raja Wasim Ahmad">R.Wasim</a>,Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues Content caching in mobile edge computing: a survey, Cluster Computing, 2024
7. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5831" title="Dr. Ehzaz Mustafa">E. Mustafa</a>,Junaid Shuja,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,Ahsan Riaz Deep Neural Networks meet computation offloading in mobile edge networks: Applications, taxonomy, and open issues, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2024
8. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,Arslan Qayyum Adaptive thresholds for improved load balancing in mobile edge computing using K-means clustering, Telecommunication Systems, 2024
9. Latif U. Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5831" title="Dr. Ehzaz Mustafa">E. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=526" title="Dr. Kashif Bilal">K.Bilal</a>,Zhu Han,Zhu Han,Choong Seon Hong,Choong Seon Hong Federated learning for digital twin-based vehicular networks: Architecture and challenges, IEEE Wireless Communications, 2024
10. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a>,Azra Ramzan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a> Deadline-aware heuristics for reliability optimization in ubiquitous mobile edge computing, International Journal of Data Science and Analytics, 2023
11. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5831" title="Dr. Ehzaz Mustafa">E. Mustafa</a>,E. Mustafa,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=526" title="Dr. Kashif Bilal">K.Bilal</a>,A. U. R. Khan Reinforcement Learning for Intelligent Online Computation Offloading in Wireless Powered Edge Networks, Cluster Computing, 2023
12. Naseem Us Sehar,Muhammad A. B. Fayyaz,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=527" title="Dr. Osman Khalid">O.Khalid</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=25" title="Dr. Imran Ali Khan">I.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,Ali R. Ansari,Raheel Nawaz Blockchain enabled data security in vehicular networks, Scientific Reports, 2023
13. U. Zukaib, M. Maray,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=530" title="Dr. Nuhman Ul Haq">N. Haq</a>,A. U. R. Khan Impact of COVID-19 lockdown on air quality analyzed through machine learning techniques, PeerJ Computer Science, 2023
14. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=599" title="Dr. Muhammad Amir Khan ">Muhammad Amir Khan</a>,H. Abbasi,M. Ahmed, A. D. Algarni, H. Elmannai Cooperative Content Caching Framework Using Cuckoo Search Optimization in Vehicular Edge Networks, Applied Science, 2023
15. G. Laraib,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=599" title="Dr. Muhammad Amir Khan ">Muhammad Amir Khan</a>,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
16. S. Younas,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a>,A. Akhunzada, A. Gani Collaborative Detection of Black Hole and Gray Hole Attacks for Secure Data Communication in VANETs, Applied Sciences, 2022
17. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5831" title="Dr. Ehzaz Mustafa">E. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,Ali Imran Jehangiri,Sadia Din Joint wireless power transfer and task offloading in mobile edge computing: a survey, Cluster Computing, 2022
18. M. Yasir,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a> CoPUP: content popularity and user preferences aware content caching framework in mobile edge computing, Cluster Computing, 2022
19. K. Malik,A. Akhunzada,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=527" title="Dr. Osman Khalid">O.Khalid</a> Lightweight Internet of Things Botnet Detection Using One-Class Classification, Sensors, 2022
20. A. Khan,H. A. Khattak,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,A. Abbas,I. U. Din, S. Ali Effective Task Scheduling in Critical Fog Applications, Scientific Programming, 2022
21. Adil Adeel,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=646" title="Dr. Mazhar Ali">Dr. Mazhar Ali</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,Tauqeer Khalid,Yaser Jararweh A multi-attack resilient lightweight IoT authenticationscheme, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2022
22. M. Junaid,A. Sohail, M. H. Alkinani, A. Ahmed, M. Ahmed,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a> Enhancing Cloud Performance Using File Format Classifications, CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, 2021
23. B. B. Yusuf,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,S. A. Madani Energy Aware Parallel Scheduling Techniques for Network-on-Chip Based Systems, IEEE Access, 2021
24. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=527" title="Dr. Osman Khalid">O.Khalid</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=530" title="Dr. Nuhman Ul Haq">N. Haq</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=646" title="Dr. Mazhar Ali">Dr. Mazhar Ali</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=750" title="Dr. Raja Wasim Ahmad">R.Wasim</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,S. Sarwar, S. A. Madani A scalable model for real‐time venue recommendations using MapReduce, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2020
25. Atta ur Rahman Khan,Raheel Nawaz,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=647" title="Dr. Muhammad Usman Shahid Khan">Dr. Usman Shahid</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=527" title="Dr. Osman Khalid">O.Khalid</a>,Rizwana Irfan SocialRec: A Context-Aware Recommendation Framework With Explicit Sentiment Analysis, IEEE Access, 2019
26. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,A. R. Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a> A Systems Overview of Commercial Data Centers: Initial Energy and Cost Analysis, International Journal of Information Technology and Web Engineering (IJITWE), 2019
27. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=527" title="Dr. Osman Khalid">O.Khalid</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=530" title="Dr. Nuhman Ul Haq">N. Haq</a>,Atta ur Rehman,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=526" title="Dr. Kashif Bilal">K.Bilal</a>,Sajjad A. Madani Diet-Right: A Smart Food Recommendation System, KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems, 2017
28. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=527" title="Dr. Osman Khalid">O.Khalid</a>,Sajjad A. Madani A comparative study of location-based recommendation systems, The Knowledge Engineering Review, 2017
29. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=33" title="Dr. Sajad A. Madani">S.Madani</a> Mobile gateway discovery for wireless mesh networks, World Applied Sciences Journal, 2012

Conference Publications

1. A. Qazi,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,K. M. Ko, Y. W. Chong,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a> Network Optimization Through Traffic Patterns and Efficient Bandwidth Consumption in Large DCN, , 2018
2. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=750" title="Dr. Raja Wasim Ahmad">R.Wasim</a>,S. H. A. Hamid, A. Gani, M. S. Obaidat,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,A. R. Khan Performance assessment of dynamic analysis based energy estimation tools, , 2018

Books and Book Chapters

1. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5831" title="Dr. Ehzaz Mustafa">E. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a> UAVs and Federated Learning-Enabled Digital Twins of Vehicles in Dynamic Disaster Environments, , 2025
2. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a> Introduction to big data recommender systems — volume 1, , 2019
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