Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman

Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Distributed and Networked Systems at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, United Kingdom

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Computing & Mathematics at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. I earned my B.S degree in Electronics & Communication (majors in Embedded System & Wireless Communication) from the University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan in 2013, an M.S degree in Computer Science (Major in Wireless Communication) from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan in 2016, and a PhD degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Hongik University, South Korea in 2022. My research interests lie in the broader domains of cybersecurity and cyber-physical systems, encompassing distributed networking, computing, and security; Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing; networking, security, and computing for immersive technologies such as the Metaverse; network protocol design; and the Internet of Things (IoT). I approach the network as a large-scale computing system, focusing on developing efficient and secure protocols and frameworks for in-network computation to minimise backhaul traffic, reduce congestion and secure transmission.
Prior to starting my PhD, I worked as Software Architect in leading IT companies. I have 6+ years of software & application development experience in modern application development technologies such as C/C++, C#, AngularJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, Java, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, Dapper, SQL, MongoDB.
Apart from my research and development activities, I am a history buff and love to read history books and watch historical documentaries and seasons. My favourite historical personality is “Leonardo da Vinci”, an Italian polymath and widely considered one of the most diversely talented individuals ever to have lived. The following is his quote that is my favourite: “Learning never exhausts the mind”.


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Recent Updates (top 10).

  • August 12th, 2024: Paper entitled “INF-NDN IoT: An Intelligent Naming and Forwarding in Name Data Networking for Internet of Things" has been accepted in IEEE Access

  • August 11th, 2024: Paper entitled “Securing the IoT Ecosystem: ASIC-Based Hardware Realization of Ascon Lightweight Cipher" has been accepted in International Journal of Information Security

  • March 14th, 2024: Paper entitled “Securing the Metaverse: A Deep Reinforcement Learning and Generative Adversarial Network Approach to Intrusion Detection" has been accepted at WS-04 2ND WORKSHOP ON METAVERSE-BASED NETWORKING, COMPUTING AND SECURITY (METANCS) ICC 2024 held in Denver, CO, USA from 9–13 June 2024

  • December, 2023: Guest Editor of Sensors Special Issue on Super-giant and Hyperscale AI + Super Connected Network Technologies View

  • December 03, 2023: Technical Program Committee Member of 28th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT), to be held in Urbino, Italy (October 7-9, 2024)

  • March 08, 2023: Patent entitled "Clustered Stationary Vehicles-based Vehicular Networking and Computing System" has been granted

  • January 24th 2023: Paper entitled “An Analysis of Multicasting Optimisation Mechanisms for Intelligent Edge Computing with Low-Power and Lossy Networks" has been accepted at WS-11: Distributed and Intelligent Edge Computing for 6G Communications at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) to be held Glasgow, Scotland, 26-29 March, 2023 View

  • January 23rd 2023: Paper entitled “MIA-NDN: Microservice centric Interest Aggregation in Named Data Networking" has been accepted in Sensors (IF: 3.8) View

  • December 21st 2022: Paper entitled “Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting-Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces with Hardware Impairment and Phase Error" has been accepted at The 5th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication (ICAIIC 2023) to be held at Bali, Indonesia, 20th-23rd Febraury 2023 View

  • November 20th 2022: Session Chair in International Conference on Computing and Communication Networks (ICCCN-2022) View

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Education.

  • 2018-2022

    Ph.D. Electronics & Computer Engineering

    Majors: Wireless Communications & In-network Computations

    Thesis: Information-Centric Communication Frameworks for In-network Computations

    Advisor: Prof. Byung Seo Kim

    Department: Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering

    University: Hongik University, Republic of Korea

  • 2013-2016

    Master of Science in Computer Science MS(CS)

    Majors: Wireless Communications (MAC Protocol)

    Thesis: A Traffic Aware Multi Channel Cluster Tree Protocol for 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks

    Advisor: Prof. Yasir Faheem

    Department: Department of Computer Science

    University: COMSATS University, Islamabad Campus, Pakistan

  • 2009-2013

    Bachelor of Science Electronics & Communication BS(EC)

    Majors: Embedded System and Wireless Communications

    Thesis: An 89C52 Microcontroller Based Automated Car Washing System using Ultrasonic & Infrared Sensors

    Advisor: Mr. Ali Salman Rana

    Department: Department of Electronics & Communication

    University: Univerisity of Lahore, Lahore Campus, Pakistan

Research.

Distributed Networking and Computing, Network Protocol Design

Distributed Networking and Computing, Network Protocol Design

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Edge Computing, Mobile Edge Computing, Fog Computing, Vehicular Fog Computing, and Cloud Computing

Edge Computing, Mobile Edge Computing, Fog Computing, Vehicular Fog Computing, and Cloud Computing

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Metaverse-based Networking and Computing

Metaverse-based Networking and Computing

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Microservices-Centric Networking

Microservices-Centric Networking

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I am particularly interested in designing intellegent networking and computing protocols for contemporary as well as futuristic application such as Metaverse

Future Vertical Communication Networks/Information Centric Networking

Future Vertical Communication Networks/Information Centric Networking

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Professional Activities.

Hobbies.

Contact.

Email: atif_r at outlook dot com / m dot atif dot ur dot rehman at mmu dot ac dot uk Skype: atif_r at outlook dot com
  • Computing and Mathematics
  • Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchster, United Kingdom