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Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman

Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman

Assistant Professor

Area of Interest: Mobile Edge Networks, Cloud Computing

Email: [email protected]

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

Academics / Degrees

  • PhD, Computer Science.  Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan.
  • MS, Computer Science.  COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad
    Campus.
  • BS, Telecommunication and
    Networking. COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus.

Profile / Bio

  • Lecturer
    in Department of Computer Science at CUI Abbottabad. February. 2015 – Till
    date.
  • Departmental
    Operating Officer in Department of Computer Science at,
  • CUI
    Abbottabad. February. 2016 – January. 2022.
  • Visiting
    Lecturer in Department of Computer Science at, CUI Abbottabad. Sep. 2014 –
    Feb 2015.
  • Research
    Assistant in Department of Computer Science at, COMSATS University
    Islamabad CUI Abbottabad. Sep. 2012 – July 2014.
  • Network
    & System support Officer at District Office of Accounts, Abbottabad, Govt.
    of Pakistan. In a project of PIFRA under NIP-Batch 2011. April. 2011 –
    Mar. 2012.

Associations

  • Professional
    Member Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).2015-2016.

Research Interests

  • Computer
    Networks
  • Scheduling
    and Resource Management in Cloud/FOG/Edge Computing systems
  • Data Center
    Systems
  • Social
    Informatics
  • Machine Learning
  • Big Data
    Analytics

Awards

  • COMSATS
    Merit Scholarship (Category A Holder), during graduate MS Program.
  • Received
    appreciations letters 5 times from Director CUI, Abbottabad from 2016 to
    2022.
  • Awardee
    Prime Minister National Laptop Scheme 2012-2013.

Students Supervised

  • Computation
    offloading in Vehicular Edge Networks and Internet of Things considering
    Group Mobility (Co-Supervision, Adnan Saleem)
  • Trend
    forecasting of Cardino and Algorand Cryptocurrencies using Hybrid Machine
    Learning Model (Co-Supervision, Abdul Basit)
  • Mobility
    aware task offloading in Mobile Edge Computing (Co-Supervision, Arsalan
    Qayyum)
  • Reliability-aware
    Computation Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing (Co-Supervision, Azra
    Ramzan)
  • Mobility-aware
    Content caching in Mobile Edge Computing (Co-Supervision, Muhammad Yasir)
  • Mobility
    aware multi-hop offloading in Mobile Edge Networks (Co-Supervision, Hashim
    Ali Abbasi)
  • Mobility
    Aware Computation Offloading For Vehicular Internet of Things (Co-Supervision,
    Ehtisham Ul Haq)
  • A
    Co-operative Content Caching using Cuckoo Search Optimization Algorithm in
    Vehicular Edge Networks. (Co-Supervision, Hajira Abbasi)

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=701" title="Muhammad Mateen Yaqoob">M.M.Yaqoob</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a> Federated learning for heart disease detection and classification in edge enabled IoMT-based healthcare: taxonomy, challenges, and opportunities, Computing, 2025
3. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5831" title="Dr. Ehzaz Mustafa">E. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a> An Ensemble Approach for Speaker Identification from Audio Files in Noisy Environments, Applied Sciences, 2024
4. <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
5. <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
6. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5831" title="Dr. Ehzaz Mustafa">E. Mustafa</a>,Ehzaz Mustafa,Ehtisham Khan Jadoon,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,Mohammad Ali Humayun,Mohammed Maray An Ensembled Framework for Human Breast Cancer Survivability Prediction Using Deep Learning, Diagnostics, 2023
7. Haseeb Ullah Atiq,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=599" title="Dr. Muhammad Amir Khan ">Muhammad Amir Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,Zulfiqar Ahmad,Asad Ali Shaikh,Amal Al-Rasheed Reliable Resource Allocation and Management for IoT Transportation Using Fog Computing, Electronics, 2023
8. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=599" title="Dr. Muhammad Amir Khan ">Muhammad Amir Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,Sehrish Nadeem,Noor ul Amin,Zulfiqar Ahmad,Jawaid Iqbal,Ajab Khan,Abeer D. Algarni,Hela Elmannai Runtime Management of Service Level Agreements through Proactive Resource Provisioning for a Cloud Environment, Electronics, 2023
9. <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
10. 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
11. A. Safi, Z. Ahmad, A. I. Jehangiri, R. Latip,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=599" title="Dr. Muhammad Amir Khan ">Muhammad Amir Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,R. M. Ghoniem A Fault Tolerant Surveillance System for Fire Detection and Prevention Using LoRaWAN in Smart Buildings, Sensors, 2022
12. <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
13. 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
14. <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=599" title="Dr. Muhammad Amir Khan ">Muhammad Amir Khan</a>,A. I. Jehangiri, A. I. Umar, M. A. Khan,N. Z. Jhanjhi, M. Shorfuzzaman, M. Masud COME-UP: Computation Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing with LSTM Based User Direction Prediction, Applied Sciences, 2022
15. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>, A. I. Jehangiri,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=530" title="Dr. Nuhman Ul Haq">N. Haq</a>,A. I. Umar,Z. Ahmad, I. B. Dhaou, M. F. Alsharekh LiMPO: lightweight mobility prediction and offloading framework using machine learning for mobile edge computing, Cluster Computing, 2022
16. Z. Ahmad, A. I. Jehangiri, M. A. Ala’anzy,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,M. Othman, R. Latip,A. I. Umar Scientific Workflows Management and Scheduling in Cloud Computing: Taxonomy, Prospects, and Challenges, IEEE Access, 2021
17. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,A. I. Jehangiri,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,Z. Ahmad, A. I. Umar,E. Alanazi, W. Alasmary Mobility-aware computational offloading in mobile edge networks: a survey, Cluster Computing, 2021
18. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=451" title="Dr. Iftikhar Khan">I.A.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=691" title="Dr. Syed Sajid Hussain">S.S.Hussain</a>,T. Iqbal,S. F. Ahmed, Y. Jararweh, K. Ko. PreDiKT‐OnOff: A complex adaptive approach to study the impact of digital social networks on Pakistani students' personal and social life, Concurrency and Computation Practice & Experience, 2020
19. <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=646" title="Dr. Mazhar Ali">Dr. Mazhar Ali</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=526" title="Dr. Kashif Bilal">K.Bilal</a>,S. A. Madani, A. R. Khan A load balanced task scheduling heuristic for large-scale computing systems, International Journal of Computer Systems Science & Engineering, 2019
20. <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
21. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=475" title="Dr. Atta ur Rehman Khan">A. R. Khan</a>,S. R. Malik,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,S. A. Madani Performance analysis and formal verification of task scheduling heuristics for makespan optimization and workflow distribution in Large-scale Computing Systems, Computer Systems Science & Engineering, 2017

Conference Publications

1. <a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=475" title="Dr. Atta ur Rehman Khan">A. R. Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a> Impact of Mobility on Energy and Performance of Clustering-Based Power-Controlled Routing Protocols, , 2015
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