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

1. Abid Jamal, Muhammad Umar Javed, Nabil Alrajeh, Safdar Hussain Bouk, Nadeem Javaid, "Blockchain based Reputation Management, Data Storage and Distributed Revocation in Vehicular Energy Networks in Smart Health Care Systems," Cluster Computing, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-1, 2023.

2. Arshid Ali, Laiq Khan, Nadeem Javaid, Safdar Hussain Bouk, Abdulaziz Aldegheishem, and Nabil Alrajeh, "Mitigating Anomalous Electricity Consumption in Smart Cities using an AI-based Stacked-Generalization Technique," IET Renewable Power Generation, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-1, 2023.

3. Safdar Hussain Bouk and Syed Hassan Ahmed Shah, "Named-Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control: An Application of NDN," IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 100-104, 2022.

4. Safdar Hussain Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Yongsoon Eun, and Kyung-Joon Park, "Multimodal Named Data Discovery with Interest Broadcast Suppression for Vehicular CPS," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 1877-1891, 2021.

5. Sangrez Khan, Ahmad Naseem Alvi, M. Awais Javed, Safdar H. Bouk, "An enhanced superframe structure of IEEE 802.15.4 standard for adaptive data requirement," Computer Communications, vol. 169, no. x, pp. 59-70, 2021.

6. Sangrez Khan, Ahmad Naseem Alvi, Mohammad Zubair Khan, Muhammad Awais Javed, Omar H. Alhazmi, Safdar Hussain Bouk, "A novel superframe structure and optimal time slot allocation algorithm for IEEE 802.15. 4–based Internet of things," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 16, no. 12, pp. 1550147720984645, 2020.

7. Shalli Rani, N. Saravanakumar, Sivaram Rajeyyagari, V. Porkodi, and Safdar Hussain Bouk , "QoS aware cross layer paradigm for urban development applications in IoT," Wireless Networks, vol. X, no. X, pp. 12, 2020.

8. Waheed Ur Rehman, Tabinda Salam, Ahmad Almogren, Khalid Haseeb, Ikram Ud Din, and Safdar Hussain Bouk, "Improved Resource Allocation in 5G MTC Networks," IEEE Access, vol. 8, no. 0, pp. 2169-3536, 2020.

9. Safdar Hussain Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Kyung-Joon Park, and Yongsoon Eun, "Efficient Data Broadcast Mitigation in Multisource Named-Content Discovery for Vehicular CPS," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. X, no. X, pp. 1-1, 2019.

10. Safdar Hussain Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Rasheed Hussain, Kyung-Joon Park, and Yongsoon Eun, "Interest Broadcast Suppression Scheme for Named Data Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Access, vol. 7, no. X, pp. 51799 - 51809, 2019.

11. Syed Hassan Ahmed, Ali K. Bashir, Mohamed Elhoseny, Wael Guibene, and Safdar Hussain Bouk, "Editorial: Research on Efficient Data Forwarding in Vehicular Networks," Mobile Information Systems, vol. 2019, no. X, pp. 2, 2019.

12. 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, 2018.

13. 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," IEEE Internet of Things, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-1, 2018.

14. 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, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 2683, 2018.

15. 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, vol. 0, no. X, pp. 1–23, 2018.

16. 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, no. X, pp. 60570-60585, 2018.

17. 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, 2018.

18. 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, no. X, pp. 18-30, 2018.

19. 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, 2018.

20. 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, vol. 35, no. 3, pp. 151-171, 2017.

21. Safdar H. Bouk, H. Song, W. Ejaz, Syed H. Ahmed and D. B. Rawat, "Editorial: Future Networks: Architectures, Protocols, and Applications," IEEE Access, vol. 5, no. X, pp. 2169-3536, 2017.

22. 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," Sensors, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 2212, 2017.

23. 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, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 2251, 2017.

24. 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.

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

26. A. N. Alvi, Safdar H. Bouk, S. H. Ahmed, M. A. Yaqub, M. Sarkar and H. Song, "BEST-MAC: Bitmap-Assisted Efficient and Scalable TDMA-Based WSN MAC Protocol for Smart Cities," IEEE Access, vol. 4, no. X, pp. 312-322, 2016.

27. Syed Hassan Ahmed, M. A. Yaqub, Safdar H. Bouk, and Dongkyun Kim, "SmartCop: Enabling Smart Traffic Violations Ticketing in Vehicular Named Data Networks," Mobile Information Systems, vol. 2016, no. X, pp. 12, 2016.

28. Safdar H. Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, and Dongkyun Kim, "Delay Tolerance in Underwater Wireless Communications: A Routing Perspective," Mobile Information Systems, vol. 2016, no. X, pp. 9, 2016.

29. 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," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 6, pp. 3954-3963, 2016.

30. Safdar H. Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Babatunji Omoniwa, and Dongkyun Kim, "Outage Minimization Using Bivious Relaying Scheme in Vehicular Delay Tolerant Networks," Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 84, no. 4, pp. 2679–2692, 2015.

31. Safdar Hussain Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, and Dongkyun Kim , "Hierarchical and hash based naming with Compact Trie name management scheme for Vehicular Content Centric Networks," Computer Communications, vol. 71, no. C, pp. 73-83 , 2015.

32. Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar Hussain Bouk, and Dongkyun Kim, "RUFS: RobUst Forwarder Selection in Vehicular Content-centric Networks," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 1616-1619, 2015.

33. Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar Hussain Bouk and Dongkyun Kim, "Target RSU Selection with Low Scanning Latency in WiMAX-enabled VANETs," Mobile Networks and Applications, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 239-250, 2015.

34. Ahmed Naseem Alvi, Safdar H. Bouk, S. H. Ahmed, M. A. Yaqoob, N. Javaid, and Dongkyun Kim, "Enhanced TDMA based MAC Protocol for Adaptive Data Control in Wireless Sensor Networks," Journal of Communications and Networks, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 247-255, 2015.

35. Safdar Hussain Bouk, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Dongkyun Kim, and Mario Gerla, "DPEL: Dynamic PIT Entry Lifetime in Vehicular Named Data Networks," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 336-339, 2015.

36. Ashfaq Ahmad, N. Javaid, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar H. Bouk, M. Ilahi, Dongkyun Kim, "COME: cost optimisation with multi-chaining for energy efficient communication in wireless sensor networks," International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 186-198, 2015.

37. Safdar Hussain Bouk, Gwanghyeon Kim, Syed Hassan Ahmed, and Dongkyun Kim, "Hybrid Adaptive Beaconing in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks: A Survey," International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 2015, no. X, pp. 1, 2015.

38. 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,, vol. 2015, no. X, pp. 16 , 2015.

39. 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, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 603-613, 2014.

40. 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, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 55-64 , 2014.

41. 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, 2012.

42. 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. 9, pp. 2851-2863, 2009.

43. Safdar H. Bouk and Iwao Sasase , "IPv6 Autoconfiguration for Hierarchical MANETs with Efficient Leader Election Algorithm," Journal of Communications and Networks, vol. 11, no. 3, pp. 248-260, 2009.

44. 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. 8, pp. 2619-2627, 2009.