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Fawad Nazir

at Electrical Engineering & Telecommunication Department

University of New South Wales, Australia

Research Assistant at National ICT Australia, Limited.

Email : fawad.nazir@nicta.com.au

Office Address : Bay 15, Locomotive Workshop, Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh,  NSW  1430, Australia

Office Phone # : +61 2 8374 5473

Office Fax #     : +61 2 8374 5200 

Home Address : 2/25 Hargrave Road, Auburn. NSW 2144, Australia

Home Phone # : +61 2 9749 7059

Please send me an email with reason, if you need my Mobile #. 

I graduated from National University of Science & Technology (NUST) institute of Information Technology (NIIT) Pakistan in Oct 2004 with a Bachelors of Information Technology (BIT). During my BIT I had an honor to be Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan scholar. Further more I graduated with honor degree and received NUST’s most prestigious award Rectors Gold Medal. Right after my graduation I was hired by the same university to work as a Research Assistant under the supervision of Dr. Arshad Ali in three different projects in collaboration with California Institute of Technology (Caltech) USA, Stanford University USA and Communication Technologies (Comtec) Japan. Due to my outstanding performance and understanding about network and network management in Feb 2005 I was invited Dr. Les Cottrell to peruse my research as postgraduate research students at Stanford University USA. I left NUST in Feb 2005 to pursue fame and fortune on the Left Coast of the U.S.A. I joined Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) as a research assistant to work with Network Monitoring team at SLAC Computing Services (SCS). During my one year stay at SLAC I participated in a wide range of projects and spend some fabulous moments of my life. In November 2005 I was part of the team lead my Dr. Les Cottrell who won SuperComputing Bandwidth Challenge for the maximum bandwidth utilization. I left USA in Feb 2006 and visited DERI, Ireland where I was invited to give a presentation and meet with researchers to discuss my research interests. Finally I arrived back to Pakistan by the Mid of Feb 2006 to join NUST. In April 2006, I was one of the only four lucky students who were awarded New South Global Scholarship to peruse my research in the state of NSW, Australia. I joined Department of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunication at University of New South Wales (UNSW) to pursue my PhD studies. I was given a top up scholarship by this department. After few weeks of my arrival in Sydney, Australia I was offered a research assistant position in National ICT Australia (NICTA), where I got yet another top up scholarship.

In the End I would like to thank Allah All Mighty from the core of my heart that he has given me power and guidance to achieve all this. Above all, I am one of the very very lucky people who get an opportunity to take care of their parents when they are in need. I am lucky to live in the awesome city of Australia i.e. Sydney with my father.

• Mobility Management and Security in All-IP Based Future Wireless Networks

• Context Aware Mobility Management Systems

• Mobility Enabled Protocol Stacks for wireless networks

• Issues in co-existence of mobility management protocols

Courses:

TELE4333: Wireless Data Communication Systems

COMP9334: Capacity Planning of Computer Systems and Networks

Tutoring:

TELE3013: Telecommunication Systems - I

TELE9303: Network Management

Recent Achievements:

Proposed a New Algorithm for Mobility Management based on the AND-Based Co-Existence (HIP + ~SLM) Concept.

Proposed a New Technique for Efficient End-to-End Link Selection in hetrogenoues wireless network.
 

Research Projects:

Current:

1. Context Aware Mobility Project (CAMP), At NICTA, in collaboration with Ericsson Research Nomadic Lab, Sweden

2. Dynamic Forecasting using Passive Network Measurement Data, At NICTA, in collaboration with Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, USA

Past:

1. Measurement and Analysis of the Global Grid and Internet End-to-End Performance (MAGGIE) At Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University, USA
2. Digital Divide using PingER At Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University, USA
3. Dynamically Forecasting Network Performance of Bulk Data Transfer Application using Passive Network Measurement At Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Stanford University, USA
4. MonALISA (Monitoring Agent using a Large Integrated Services Architecture) At National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Pakistan
5. Monitoring Agent for Intelligent Network Analysis (MOAINA) At Communication Technologies(Comtec), Japan
6. Topo-MIB (Network Topology Discovery MIB Development) National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Pakistan
7. End Host Monitoring Agent (EMA) National University of Science & Technology (NUST), Pakistan

Publication:

Under progress:

• A Review and Taxonomy of Mobility Enabled Protocol Stack for Future Wireless Networks, Under Progress.
• Using And-Based Co-Existence to Support Session Mobility in Host Identity Protocol (HIP), Under Progress.

• An Efficient Approach toward IP Network Topology Discovery for Large Multi-subnet Networks, Fawad Nazir,Mohsin Jameel, Tallat Hussain Tarar, Hamid Abbas Burki, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Arshad Ali, Hiroki Suguri, IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC'06) June 2006

• Anomalous Event Detection for Internet End-to-end Performance Measurements, R. Les Cottrell, Connie Logg, Mahesh Chhaparia (SLAC), Maxim Grigoriev (Fermilab), Felipe Haro (PUC), Fawad Nazir (NIIT), Mark Sandford (Loughborough University, IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symposium (NOMS), April 2006

 2005:

• Standardizing IP Network Topology Discovery through MIB Development, Arshad Ali, Faran Javed Chawla, Fawad Nazir*, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, Hamid Abbas Burki, and Tallat Hussain Tarar, The 2005 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'05: June 27-30, 2005, Las Vegas, USA) 
• An Intelligent Self-Learning Algorithm for IP Network Topology Discovery, Najeeb, Z. Nazir, F. Haider, S. Suguri, H. Ahmad, H.F. Ali, A, 14th IEEE Workshop on Local and Metropolitan Area Networks, (LANMAN 2005), Setpenber 2005.

2004:

• Single Snapshot exploratory approach for visualizing very large network topologies, Arshad Ali, Faran Javed Chawla, Fawad Nazir, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hamid Abbas Burki, Hiroki Suguri, Tallat Hussain Tarar, 3rd Annual Conference on Scalable Vector Graphics, Tokyo, Japan • Sept 7-10, 2004

• MoGiNMA: Autonomous Grid Node Monitoring Agent based on Grid Monitoring Architecture, Fawad Nazir, Arshad Ali, Farooq Ahmad, Fawad Nazir, Tallat Tarar, Hamid Abbas , IADIS International Conference, WWW/Internet 2004, Madrid, Spain 6-9 October 2004

• Process Maturity for Software Project Outsourcing, Fawad Nazir, Arshad Ali, Ashiq Anjum, Fawad Nazir, Tallat Tarar, Hamid Abbas , IADIS International Conference, WWW/Internet 2004, Madrid, Spain 6-9 October 2004

• District Special Data Infrastructure for Pakistan Educational System, Shahzad Khan, Ghulam Mustafa, Tayyab Ikram Shah, Fawad Nazir, International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organization Learning 29-30 October 2004

• An Ontology-Based Knowledge Management Architecture for Autonomous Resource Management in Grid Computing, Arshad Ali, Fawad Nazir, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hamid Abbas Burki, Hiroki Suguri, Tallat Hussain Tarar, International Conference on Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management and Organization Learning 29-30 October 2004

• Proactive Prediction Models in Grid Monitoring using Adaptive Decision making algorithms, Ashiq Anjum, Fawad Nazir, Nasir Rasul, Arshad Ali, Internetwokring 2004, May 13-14, 2004 Las Vegas, Nevada

• Grid Resource Information Sharing Using Ontologies , Fawad Nazir, Arshad Ali, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, Hamid Abbas Burki, Tallat Hussain Tarar, 12th Assurance System Symposium Tokyo, Japan July 6, 2004.

• MoGiNMA: A Negotiation Framework for Grid Node Monitoring Agent, Fawad Nazir, Arshad Ali, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, Hamid Abbas Burki, Tallat Hussain Tarar, 8th IEEE International Muti-topic conference (INMIC 2004) to be help in December 24-26 2004 at NUCES FAST, Lahore, Pakistan.
• Restriction of Network Topology Discovery within a Single Administrative Domain 1Sajjad Haider, 1Fawad Nazir, 2Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, 1Hamid Abbas Burki, 2Hiroki Suguri, 1Arshad Ali, The 2005 International Conference on Communications in Computing (CIC'05: June 27-30, 2005, Las Vegas, USA)

• A Distributed Services based conference planner application using Software Agents, Grid Services and Web Services, Arshad Ali, M. Omair Shafiq, Amina Tariq, Amna Basharat, H. Farooq Ahmad, Hiroki Suguri, Fawad Nazir, The fourth international Joint Conferecne on Autonomous Agents & Multi-agent Systems Utrecht University, The Netherlands July 2005
• Extensions to the Principal Component Analysis based Network Anomaly Detection using Neural Networks, Arshad Ali, Mr. Fawad Nazir, Mr. Hammad A Qureshi, Mr. S Azam H Bukhari, Dr. Waqar Mahmood US-Pakistan 4 Day Workshop on High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies 2004
• A Resource Monitoring and Management Middleware Infrastructure for Semantic Resource Grid, Fawad Nazir, Hafiz Farooq Ahmad, Hamid Abbas Burki1 Tallat Hussain Tarar, Arshad Ali, Hiroki Suguri, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Publisher: Springer-Verlag GmbH, ISSN: 0302-9743 ,Scientific Applications of Grid Computing: First International Workshop, SAG 2004, Beijing, China, September 20-24, 2004

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