Research Publications

Following is the list our research papers.

Journal Papers


  1. Advances in relay networks: Performance and Capacity analysis of space-time analog network coding," accepted for publication in EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, December 10, 2010.

  2. Cooperative Network in wireless communications: bit-interleaved coded modulation with iterative decoding," Journal of Communications, vol. 5, no. 7, pp. 562-570, July, 2010.

  3. Performance Bounds for Bit-Interleaved Space-Time Coded Modulation with Iterative Decoding based Cooperative Network," Journal of Communications, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 297-306, April 2010. (ISSN : 1796-2021).

  4. Capacity and performance analysis of space-time block coded MIMO-OFDM systems over rician fading channel," International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol. 4, no. 15, pp. 974-979, 2009.

  5. Saeed Ehsan Awan, Nasir M. Mirza, Sikander M. Mirza, "Kinetic Modeling and Simulation of Fission Product Activity Released inside Containment Under Loss of Coolant Accident in a Typical MTR System". Applied Radiation and Isotopes, Vol 70, pp 2711-2719, (2012).

  6. Saeed Ehsan Awan, Sikander M. Mirza, Nasir M. Mirza, "Sensitivity analysis of fission product activity in primary coolant of typical PWRs" Progress in Nuclear Energy, Vol 53, pp 245-249, (2011).

  7. Sana Ullah, Saeed Ehsan Awan, Nasir M. Mirza, Sikander M. Mirza, "Source Term Evaluation for the Upgraded LEU Pakistan Research Reactor-1 Under Severe Accidents", Nuclear Engineering & Design, Vol 240, pp 3740-3750, (2010).

  8. Saeed Ehsan Awan, Nazma Ikram & Muhammad Ramzan , "Quantum defects in ternary and quaternary chalcopyrite compounds", Indus Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol 3(1): pp 623-629, (2006).

  9. Shahab Ahmad Niazi, Xiaoguang Zhang, Lixia Xi, Abid Munir, Muhammad Idrees Afridi,and Yousaf Khan, "A Viable Passive Optical Network Design for Ultrahigh Definition TV Distribution," Hindawi Publishing Corporation America ,Advances in OptoElectronics, Volume 2013, Article ID 219271.

  10. Shahab Ahmad Niazi, Xiaoguang Zhang, Lixia Xi, and Muhammad Idrees Afridi, "Simultaneous Generations of Independent Millimeter Wave and 10 Gbit/s Wired Signal by Single Electrode Modulator in TDM-PON Network," Journal of Optical Communication (Germany) , Vol.34, No.1, pp. 21-27, March 15, 2013.

  11. Shahab Ahmad Niazi, Xiaoguang Zhang, Lixia Xi, Yousaf Khan, and Muhammad Idrees Afridi, "A 32 Wavelength Hybrid Passive Optical Network Architecture by Applying QPSK Modulation in Downstream and Intensity Re-Modulation for Upstream Colorless Transmission," Journal of Convergence Information Technology (South Korea), Vol.8, No.3, pp. 201-208, February 15, 2013.

  12. Shahab Ahmad Niazi, Xiaoguang Zhang, Lixia Xi, Abid Munir, and Muhammad Idrees Afridi, "Co-existence generation of XG-PON and single carrier XLG-PON for ultra-high definition TV transmission with entirely passive optical plant," Springer Optoelectronics letters, Vol.9, No.3, May 1, 2013.

  13. Shahab Ahmad Niazi, Xiaoguang Zhang, Lixia Xi, Yousaf Khan, Abid Munir, and Muhammad Idrees Afridi, "A high capacity 512 split hybrid WDM/TDM-PON architecture Using DPSK downstream and intensity re-modulation for upstream colorless transmission," Journal of Computational Information Systems (Hong Kong) , Vol. 8, No. 23,pp. 9847-9854, December 1, 2012.

  14. Shahab Ahmad Niazi, Xiaoguang Zhang, Lixia Xi, and Muhammad Idrees,"The Available Options for Wavelength Group Selection and Transceiver Design for Next Generation PON Stage 2 (NG-PON2)" Journal of Optical Communication (Germany). DOI: 10.1515/joc-2013-0040, August 2013.

  15. Abid Munir, Xiangjun Xin, Chongxiu Yu , Daxiong Xu, Bo Liu, Abdul latif, Aftab Hussain, and Shahab Ahmad Niazi, "Numerical Analysis of Intermodal delay in few mode fibers for mode division multiplexing in optical fiber communication systems", Optoelectronics letters, Vol 8, No.2, 2012

  16. Muhammad Idrees Afridi, Jie Zhang, Yong-li Zhao, Abdul Latif, and Shahab Ahmad Niazi, "Single fiber colorless symmetric WDM-PON architecture using time interleaved remodulation technique for mitigating Rayleigh backscattering resilience," Optoelectronics Letters, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 38-41, January 1 2013.

  17. Muhammad Idrees Afridi, Jie Zhang, Yousaf Khan, Amjad Ali, Aftab Hussain, Yong-li Zhao, Shahab Ahmad Niazi, and Ahmad Muddassir Khan, "A full duplex broadcasting enabled centralized light source WDM-PON architecture," Journal of Computational Information Systems, Vol. 8, No. 21, pp. 8885-8890, November 1, 2012.

  18. Muhammad Idrees Afridi, Jie Zhang, Yousaf Khan, Jiwei Han, Aftab Hussain, and Shahab Ahmad Niazi, "Impact of Rayleigh backscattering on single /dual feeder fiber WDM-PON architectures based on array waveguide gratings," Frontier Of Optoelectronics, Vol.6, No.1, pp. 102-107, March 1,2013.

  19. Abid Munir, Xiangjun Xin, Bo Liu, Ashiq Hussain, Shahab Ahmad Niazi, Abdul latif, and Aftab Hussain, " Comprehesive Numerical Analysis of Mode Coupling in few Mode Fibers for Mode Multiplexed Transmission," Research Notes in Information Science, Vol.10, No.8, October, 2012.

  20. S. Hashim Bukhari, Bushra Rashid, “ZigBee Network based Healthcare Monitoring System”, World Engineering Congress 2013, Islamabad Pakistan.

  21. M. Inam-ur-rehman, S. Hashim Bukhari, “Comparative Analysis of Automatic EOG Artifacts Rejection Techniques from EEG signals”, International Conference on Advance Modeling and Simulations (ICAMS2011), 136-139.

  22. S. Hashim Bukhari, Muhammad Amin. “Performance of HTV SiR as Outdoor Insulation at72 cm of Hg”, 15th Asian Conference on Electrical Discharge (ACED 2010) Xian, China.

  23. Adeel Afridi, Sadiq Ullah, Imad Ali, Shahbaz Khan, “Design and Parametric Analysis Of Dual Band Frequency Reconfigurable Planer Dipole Using A Dual Band Artificial Ground Plane" IETE Journal of Research Volume 60 Issues No 1, Jan-Feb 2014

  24. Nasir Saleem, Usman Khan, Imad Ali “Implementation of Low Complexity CELP Coder and Performance Evaluation in terms of Speech Quality” International Journal of Computer Applications Volume 54– No.9, September 2012

Conference Papers

  1. Performance Comparison of BICM-ID and BILDPCM-ID based Cooperative Network," 2010 IEEE 72nd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2010-Fall, 69 September 2010, Ottawa, Canada.

  2. Asymptotic BER Bounds for BICM-ID based single-relay cooperative network over Nakagami-m fading channels," 25th Queen's Biennial Symposium on Communications 2010, Canada, May 12-14, 2010.

  3. SER analysis of hybrid FDMA-TDMA based user cooperation diversity over Nakagami fading channels," Proc. the 12th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC'09), Sendai Japan, Sep 7-10 2009.

  4. Asymptotic BER bounds for BICM based multiple relay cooperative network under AWGN and relay fading channels,"Proc. 4th International Conference on Communications and Networking (China-Com'09), Aug 26 09.

  5. Trace-based Analysis for Campus-wide Wireless LAN over Advanced Training System, Proc. 1st International conference on Future Information Network (ICFIN 2009), Beijing China, Oct 14-17 2009.

  6. Capacity and performance analysis of space-time block coded MIMO-OFDM systems over rician fading channel, Proc. MWON 2008, Bangkok.

  7. Sana Ullah, Saeed Ehsan Awan, Nasir M. Mirza, Sikander M. Mirza, "Modeling and Simulation of Release of Radioactivity from a Typical MTR Type Research Reactor under Accidental Conditions" IEEE 13th International Multitopic Conference, 2009. INMIC (2009).

  8. Saeed Ehsan Awan, Nazma Ikram & Muhammad Ramzan , "Study of Tetragonal Distortion in ternary and quaternary chalcopyrite compounds". Ist Kahmir International Science Conference Muzaffarabad (AJK), 20-21 Sep (2005)

  9. A novel solution based on cognitive heterogeneous networks for removing black spots in tetra coverage area. International conference on Information and communication technologies (ICICT 2013).

  10. Shafi, M., Iqbal, F., and Ali, I. , ''Face Pose Estimation using Distance Transform and Normalized Cross-Correlation'' International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications (ICSIPA), IEEE, November 2011.

Book Chapters

"Cooperative Networks," Recent Advances in Technologies, Maurizio A Strangio (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-017-9, INTECH September 2009,

Available at :

http://sciyo.com/articles/show/title/cooperativenetworks?PHPSESSID=ihio3utvpno9p9kcsaono9qs41.



S. Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Sajid Siraj, Channel Bonding in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks: Issues and Challenges, Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks: Applications, Architectures, and Challenges, This book is part of the Advances in Wireless Technologies and Telecommunication (AWTT) series, Editors: Mubashir Husain Rehmani and Yasir Faheem, IGI Global USA, 2014. DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6212-4.ch005

Available at:

http://www.igi-global.com/book/cognitive-radio-sensor-networks/102223