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Safdar H. Bouk (Ph.D.)
Research Assistant Professor
VMASC, Old Dominion University,
VA, USA.

Journal Publications

Safdar Hussain Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Kyung-Joon Park, and Yongsoon Eun, "Interest Broadcast Suppression Scheme for Named Data Wireless Sensor Networks" IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 51799-51809, 2019. [IEEE Access]

Muhammad Azfar Yaqub, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar Hussain Bouk, and Dongkyun Kim, "Towards energy efficient duty cycling in underwater wireless sensor networks," Multimedia Tools and Applications, November 28, 2018. [Early Access]

Safdar Hussain Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Rasheed Hussain, and Yongsoon Eun "Named Data Networking's Intrinsic Cyber-Resilience for Vehicular CPS" IEEE Access, vol. 6, pp. 60570-60585, 2018. [IEEE Xplore]

Ezedin Barka, Chaker A. Kerrache, Rasheed Hussain, Nasreddine Lagraa, Abderrahmane Lakas, and Safdar Hussain Bouk, "A Trusted Lightweight Communication Strategy for Flying Named Data Networking," Sensors 2018, no. 8, 2683. [Sensors]

B. Omoniwa, R. Hussain, M. A. Javed, Safdar Hussain Bouk and S. A. Malik, "Fog/Edge Computing-based IoT (FECIoT): Architecture, Applications, and Research Issues," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2018. [IEEE Xplore]

Qamas Gul, Luo Senlin, Pan Limin, Liu Wangtong, Rasheed Hussain, and Safdar Hussain Bouk, "SVPS: Cloud-Based Smart Vehicle Parking System Over Ubiquitous VANETs," Computer Networks, Vol. 138, pp. 18-30, 2018. [ScienceDirect]

Safdar Hussain Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Dongkyun Kim, Kyung-Joon Park, Yongsoon Eun, and Jaime Lloret, "LAPEL: hop Limit based Adaptive PIT Entry Lifetime for Vehicular Named Data Networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, no. 7, pp. 5546-5557, July 2018. [IEEE Xplore]

Rasheed Hussain, Safdar H. Bouk, Nadeem Javaid, Adil M. Khan, and Jooyoung Lee, “Realization of VANET-based Clouds Services Through Named Data Networking,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 168-175, August 2018. [IEEE Xplore]

Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar Hussain Bouk, Muhammad Azfar Yaqub, Dongkyun Kim, and Houbing Song, "DIFS: Distributed Interest Forwarder Selection in Vehicular Named Data Networks," IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 3076-3080, Sept. 2018. [IEEE Explore]

Safdar H. Bouk, H. Song, W. Ejaz, Syed H. Ahmed and D. B. Rawat, "IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Future Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Applications," in IEEE Access, vol. 5, pp. 27831-27835, 2017. [IEEE Explore]
Safdar H. Bouk, Syed H. Ahmed, Kyung-Joon Park, and Yongsoon Eun, "EDOVE: Energy and Depth Variance-Based Opportunistic Void Avoidance Scheme for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks," Sensors17, no. 10: 2212. Sensors

Zahid Wadud, Sajjad Hussain, Nadeem Javaid, Safdar H. Bouk, Nabil Alrajeh, Mohamad S. Alabed, Nadra Guizani, "An Energy Scaled and Expanded Vector-Based Forwarding Scheme for Industrial Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks with Sink Mobility," Sensors 17, no. 10: 2251. Sensors

Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar H. Bouk, Dongkyun Kim, Danda B. Rawat, and Houbing Song, “Named Data Networking for Software Defined Vehicular Networks,” IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 8, pp. 60-66, 2017. IEEE Explore

A. N. Alvi, M. A. Yaqub, N. Javaid, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar. H. Bouk, and Dongkyun Kim “An Improved IEEE 802.15.4 Superframe Structure with Minimum Delay and Maximum CFP Link Utilization” Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks (AHSWN), vol. 35, no. 1-2, p. 151-171, 2017. [OldCity]

Safdar H. Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Dongkyun Kim, and Houbing Song "Named Data Networking based ITS for Smart Cities," (SCI) IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 105-111, January 2017. IEEE Explore

Safdar Hussain Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, and Dongkyun Kim "Delay Tolerance in Underwater Wireless Communications: A Routing Perspective," Mobile Information Systems, vol. 2016, Article ID 6574697, 9 pages, 2016. MIS Site

Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar H. Bouk, M. A. Yaqub, Dongkyun Kim, Houbing Song, and Jaime Lloret “CODIE: Controlled Data and Interest Evaluation in Vehicular Named Data Networks” in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 65, No. 6, pp. 3954-3963, June 2016. IEEE Xplore

Syed Hassan Ahmed, M. A. Yaqub, Safdar H. Bouk, and Dongkyun Kim “SmartCop: Enabling Smart Traffic Violations Ticketing in Vehicular Named Data Networks” (SCI-E) Mobile Information Systems, Accepted in May. 2016, MIS Journal

Ahmad Naseem Alvi, Safdar H. Bouk, Syed H. Ahmed, Muhammad A. Yaqub, Mahasweta Sarkar, Houbing Song, "BEST-MAC: Bitmap-assisted Efficient and Scalable TDMA based WSN MAC protocol for Smart Cities" in IEEE Access, Vol. 4, No. , pp. 312-322, 2016. IEEE Xplore.

Safdar H. Bouk, Syed H. Ahmed, M.A. Yaqub, D. Kim, and M. Gerla, "DPEL: Dynamic PIT Entry Lifetime in Vehicular Named Data Networks" in IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 336-339, Feb. 2016. IEEE Xplore.

Safdar H. Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, and Dongkyun Kim, "Hierarchical and Hash based Naming with Compact Trie Name Management Scheme for Vehicular Content Centric Networks" ELSEVIER Computer Communications, Volume 71, 1 November 2015, Pages 73-83. ELSEVIER Link

Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar H. Bouk and Dongkyun Kim “RUFS: RobUst Forwarder Selection in Vehicular Content-centric Networks” IEEE Communications Letters, Volume 19, Issue 9, pp. 1616-1619, July, 2015. IEEE Xplore

Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar H. Bouk, and Dongkyun Kim “Target RSU Selection with Low Scanning Latency in WiMAX-enabled Vehicular Networks” ACM/Springer Mobile Networks & Applications (MONET), Volume 20, Issue 2, pp 239-250, April 2015. Springer

Safdar H. Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Babatunji and Dongkyun Kim "Outage Minimization Using Bivious Relaying Scheme in Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks" Wireless Personal Communications (WPC), Vol. 84, Iss. 4, pp. 2679-2692, October 2015. Journal Link

M. Akbar, N. Javaid, Z. A. Khan, U. Qasim, T. A. Alghamdi, S. N. Mohammad, Syed Hassan Ahmed, M. I. Khan, Safdar H. Bouk "Towards Network Lifetime Maximization: Sink Mobility Aware Multi-hop Scalable Hybrid Energy Efficient Protocols for Terrestrial WSNs" International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN), 2015. Hindawi-IJDSN

A. N. Alvi, Safdar H. Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, M. A. Yaqub, N. Javaid, and Dongkyun Kim “Enhanced TDMA based MAC Protocol for Adaptive Data Control in Wireless Sensor Networks” International Journal of communications and networks (JCN), 2015. IEEE Xplore

Safdar H. Bouk, G. Kim, Syed Hassan Ahmed and Dongkyun Kim "Hybrid Adaptive Beaconing in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks: A Survey" International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN), 2015. Hindawi-IJDSN

Ashfaq Ahmad, N. Javaid, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar H. Bouk, M. Ilahi, Dongkyun Kim, "COME: Cost Optimization with Multi-chaining for Energy efficient communication in Wireless Sensor Networks" International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, IJAHUC, Vol.20, No. 3, 2015. IJAHUC Link

[Invited Paper] Syed Hassan Ahmed, Dongkyun Kim, Safdar H. Bouk, and N. Javaid, “Error Control Based Energy Minimization for Cooperative Communication in WSN” ACM SigApp Applied Computing Review, ACR, Vol.14, No.3, pp. 54-64, September 2014.

N. Javaid, I. Israr, M. A, Khan, A. Javaid, Safdar H. Bouk, Z. A. Khan, “Analyzing Medium Access Techniques in Wireless Body Area Networks” Research Journal of Applied Sciences, Engineering and Technology, 7(3): 603-613, 2014.

Safdar H. Bouk, I. Sasase, S. H. Ahmed, N. Javaid, “Gateway Discovery Algorithm Based on Multiple QoS Path Parameters Between Mobile Node and Gateway Node” Journal of Communications and Networks, Vol. 14, No. 4, pp. 434-442, August 2012. IEEE Xplore.

Fudhiyanto P. Setiawan, Safdar H. Bouk, and Iwao Sasase, “An Optimum Multiple Metrics Gateway Selection Mechanism in MANET and Infrastructured Networks Integration” IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol.E92-B, No.08, pp. 2619-2627, Aug. 2009.

Safdar H. Bouk and Iwao Sasase, “IPv6 Autoconfiguration for Hierarchical MANETs with Efficient Leader Election Algorithm” Journal of Communication Networks (JCN), Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 248-260, June 2009.

Safdar H. Bouk and Iwao Sasase, “Energy Efficient and Stable Weight Based Clustering for Ad hoc Networks” IEICE Transactions on Communications, Vol.E92-B, No.09, pp. 2851-2863, September 2009.

Conference Publications

Muhammad Azfar Yaqub, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar Hussain Bouk, and Dongkyun Kim "Enabling Critical Content Dissemination in Vehicular Named Data Networks," in Proceedings of the ACM RACS, 2018.

Svetlana Ostrovskaya, Oleg Surnin, Rasheed Hussain, Safdar Hussain Bouk, JooYoung Lee, Narges Mehran, Syed Hassan Ahmed, and Abderrahim Benslimane, "Towards Multi-metric Cache Replacement Policies in Vehicular Named Data Networks ", in Proceedings of the IEEE 29th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications 2018 (PIMRC'18) , Bologna Italy, 2018.

Ahmad Naseem Alvi, Rahat Mehmood, M. Talha Ahmed, Malik Abdullah, Safdar H. Bouk, "Optimized GTS Utilization for IEEE 802.15.4 Standard", in Proceedings of the International conference on selected topics in Mobile and Wireless Networking, MoWNet'18, Tangier, Morocco, 2018, pp. 116-121.

Safdar Hussain Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Yongsoon Eun, and Kyung-Joon Park, "Maximum Information Coverage in Named DataVehicular Cyber-Physical Systems" in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'18), Kansas City, MO, USA, May 2018.

Safdar H. Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, and Dongkyun Kim "NDN Goes Deep: Foreseeing the Underwater Named Data Networks," ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, (ACM SAC), Marrakesh, Morocco, April 2017

M. A. Yaqub, Syed Hassan Ahmed, S. H. Bouk, and Dongkyun Kim “FBR: Fleet Based video Retrieval in 3G and 4G enabled Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, May 2016.

A. N. Alvi, S. H. Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, and M. A. Yaqub “Influence of Backoff Period in slotted CSMA/CA of IEEE 802.15.4” IFIP International Conference on Wired and Wireless Internet Communications (WWIC), Greece, 2016.

M. A. Yaqub, Syed Hassan Ahmed, S. H. Bouk, and Dongkyun Kim, "Interest Forwarding in Vehicular Information Centric Networks: A Survey" ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, (ACM SAC), Pisa, Italy, April 2016.

Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar H. Bouk, M. A. Yaqub, Dongkyun Kim, and Mario Gerla, "CONET: COntrolled Data Packets Propagation in Vehicular Named Data NETworks" IEEE CCNC, Las Vegas, USA, 2016.

Safdar Hussain Bouk, Myhammad Azfar Yaqub, Syed Hassan Ahmed, and Dongkyun Kim, "Evaluating Interest/Data Propagation in Vehicular Named Data Networks" ACM International Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent Systems, 2015, (RACS'15), Prague, Czech Republic, October 9-12, 2015.

Syed Hassan Ahmed, M. A. Yaqub, Safdar H. Bouk, and Dongkyun Kim "Towards Content-Centric Traffic Ticketing in VANETs: An Application Perspective" The 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Vehicles 2015, in the 7th ICUFN, July 7-10, Sapporo, Japan, 2015.

Syed Muhammad Sajjad, Safdar Hussain Bouk, Muhammad Yousaf, "Neighbor Node Trust based Intrusion Detection System for WSN" Procedia Computer Science, Volume 63, 2015, Pages 183-188.

[Invited Paper] Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar H. Bouk and Dongkyun Kim. "Adaptive Beaconing Schemes in VANETs: Hybrid Approach" ICOIN, Siem Reap, Cambodia, 2015.

Safdar H. Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed and Dongkyun Kim, “Vehicular Content Centric Network (VCCN): A Survey and Research Challenges” ACM SAC, Salamanca, Spain, 2015.

Safdar. H. Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed and Dongkyun kim, "Hierarchical and Hash-based Naming Scheme for Vehicular Information Centric Networks," IEEE International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, (ICCVE’14), Vienna, Austria, 3-7 November 2014, pp. 765-766. Download@IEEE Xplore.

Safdar H. Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed and Dongkyun Kim "Vehicular Information Centric Networking: Research Challenges" The Korean Institute of Communications and Information Workshop, (KICS), Jeju Island, Korea, 2014.

Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar. H. Bouk and Dongkyun kim, "Reducing Scanning Latency in WiMAX Enabled VANETs," ACM RACS, Baltimore, MD, USA. Oct 5-8, 2014. Download@ACM Digital Library.

M. A. Yaqub, A. N. Alvi, N. Javaid, Safdar H. Bouk, and S.H.Ahmed “EE-PBC: Energy Efficient Position Based Clustering for Strip Area WSN” In Proceedings of International Industrial Information System Conference, 2014, IIISC’14, January 21-24, 2014, Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Tauseef Shah, Mansoor Mustafa, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar H. Bouk, and Dongkyun Kim “Modified VIKOR based Distributed Clustering Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks” In Proceedings of IEEE Frontiers of Information Technology 2013, FIT’13, Dec 16-18, 2013, Islamabad, Pakistan.

B. Manzoor, N. Javaid, O. Rehman, Safdar H. Bouk, S. H. Ahmed, S. H. Park, and D. Kim, “Energy Aware Error Control in Cooperative Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks”, ACM RACS’2013, Montreal, Canada, Oct. 2013.

M.Mustafa, T.shah, Safdar H.Bouk, Syed H.Ahmed, N.javaid, “Distributed Multiple Criteria based Clustering Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks”, In proceedings of APWCS’13, Seoul, Korea. 22nd Aug. 2013.

Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar Hussain Bouk, Nadeem Javaid and Iwao Sasase, “Combined Human, Antenna Orientation in Elevation Direction and Ground Effect on RSSI in Wireless Sensor Networks”, 10th IEEE International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT’ 12), 2012, Pakistan.

Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar Hussain Bouk, Nadeem Javaid and Iwao Sasase, “RF Propagation Analysis of MICAz Mote’s Antenna with Ground Effect”, 15th IEEE International Multi Topic Conference (INMIC'12), 2012, Pakistan.

S. Hayat, N. Javaid, Z. A. Khan , A. Shareef , A. Mahmood, and Safdar H. Bouk, “Energy Efficient MAC Protocols in Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks”, 5th International Symposium on Advances of High Performance Computing and Networking (AHPCN-2012) in conjunction with 14th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-2012), 25-27 June, Liverpool, UK, 2012.

Javaid. N, Bibi. A, Dridi. K, Khan. Z. A, Bouk, S. H, “Modeling and Evaluating Enhancements in Expanding Ring Search Algorithm for Wireless Reactive Protocols”, 25th IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE2012), Montreal, Canada, 2012.

Ahmed, S.H, Bouk, S.H, Mehmood, A, Javaid. N, and Iwao, S, “Effect of Fast Moving Object on RSSI in WSN: An Experimental Approach”, Springer IMTIC, Jamshoro, Pakistan, 2012.

Javaid. N, Bibi. A, Bouk, S. H, Javaid. A, Sasase. I, “Modeling Enhancements in DSR, FSR, OLSR under Mobility and Scalability Constraints in VANETs”, 3rd International Workshop on Towards Smart Communications and Networks Technologies (SaCoNet2012) in conjunction with 48th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC2012), Ottawa, Canada, 2012.

Sagar. S, Javaid. N, Saqib. J, Khan. Z. A, Bibi. A, Bouk. S. H, “Analysis and Modeling Experiment Performance Parameters of Routing Protocols in MANETs and VANETs”, 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Communications and Networking (MultiCom-2012) in conjunction with 11th IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Communications (IUCC-2012), June, Liverpool, UK, 2012.

Alvi. A. N, Naqvi. S. S, Bouk. S. H, Javaid. N, Qasim. U, Khan. Z. A, “Evaluation of Slotted CSMA/CA of IEEE 802.15.4”, 3rd International Workshop on Advances in Sensor Technologies, Systems and Applications (ASTSA-2012) in conjunction with 7th IEEE International Conference on Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA 2012), Victoria, Canada, 2012.

Safdar H. Bouk and Iwao Sasase, “Multiple QoS Metrics Gateway Selection Scheme in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs)” in Proc. Of IEEE ICET, Islamabad, Pakistan, pp. 446-451, Oct. 2009.

I-Te Lin, Safdar Hussain Bouk and Iwao Sasase, "Hybrid relaying based cooperative communication with semi-distributed single relay selection," in Proc. Of The 12th Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC’09), Sendai, Japan, Sept. 2009.

Hidetoshi Kajikawa, Takero Fukuhara, Safdar H. Bouk, and Iwao Sasase, "Multipath routing protocol combined with least hop backup path and packet salvaging for MANETs," The 2009 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, Victoria, Canada, pp. 239-244, August 2009.

Safdar H. Bouk and Iwao Sasase, “Energy Efficient and Stable Weight Based Clustering for Ad hoc Networks.”2nd International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication Systems (ICSPCS’08), Gold Coast, Australia, pp. 1-10, December 2008.

Fudhiyanto P. Setiawan, Safdar H. Bouk and Iwao Sasase, “An Optimum Multiple Metrics Gateway Selection Mechanism in MANET and Infrastructured Networks Integration”, IEEE Wireless Communication and Network Conference (WCNC’08), Vegas, USA, pp.2229-2234, April 2008.

Hayato Kitamoto, Safdar H. Bouk and Iwao Sasase, “High Precision-Predictive Preemptive Ad hoc On-demand Distance Vector Routing in Ad hoc Networks.” 11th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC’08), Lapland, Finland, September 2008.

Safdar H. Bouk and Iwao Sasase, “Scalable IPv6 Address Autoconfiguration for Mobile Ad hoc Network with Hierarchical Topology Consisting Leader and Member nodes.” 1st International Conference on Communications and Electronics, Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2006

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