Dr. Waqar Mahmood received his bachelors degree from University of Engineering and Technology in 1989. Master and PhD degrees from Georgia Institute of Technology in 1992 and 1996, respectively.
Research Interests
Modeling, Control and Optimization
Discrete Event Systems
Communication Systems
Digital Signal Processing
Integrating Technology and Business Planning
Power Electronics
Publications
Journals
Fahad Samad, Waqar Mahmood, Arshad Ali, Umar Kalim, “Improved Security in IEEE 802.11 Wireless LANs”, WSEAS Transactions on Communications, Issue 12, vol. 5, December 2006.
M. A. Raza, W. Mahmood and A. Ali, “ Hybrid Control Architecture for Optical Burst Switching Networks”, WSEAS Transactions on Communications, Vol. 5, Issue 8, August 2006
Waqar Mahmood, Sarosh Hashmi, “Modeling Robotic Swarm Behavior with Collision Avoidance: A Discrete Event System Perspective”, WSEAS Transactions on Systems Issue 5, Volume 5, May 2006
Afnan Ullah Khan, Shehzad Khan, Waqar Mahmod, “MRST: A New Technique for Information Summarization”, Transactions on Engineering , computing and Technology, V4 February 2005 ISSN 1305-5313
Zuyuan He, Waqar Mahmood, Erin Sahinci, Nasir Ahmed and Yves Pradieu, “Analysis on the Effects of Fiber End Face Scratches on Return Loss Performance of Optical Fiber”, Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol 22. No. 12, pp 2749-2754, Dec 2004.
Zuyuan He, Chia-Chen Chang, Jun Bao, Wenxin Zheng, Erin Sahinci, Waqar Mahmood, “Measurement and modeling of spectral transmission tilt in WDM systems due to stimulated Raman scattering”, IEIEC Electronic Express, Sep 2004.
Elena Avram, Waqar Mahmood, Murat Ozer, “Quantification of Scattering From Fiber Surface Irregularities”, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology. Vol 20, No 4, April 2002.
IEEE Conferences
"The website census"Qadeer, Abdul Mahmood, Waqar Waheed, Abdul, Paper to appears in: Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, 2009. ICITST 2009. International Conference for
Publication Date: 9-12 Nov. 2009
On page(s): 1 - 6
Location: London, United Kingdom
ISBN: 978-1-4244-5647-5
Current Version Published: 2010-01-29
H. Jamal, G. Mustafa, W. Mahmood, and A. Waheed, “An Extensible Infrastructure for Benchmarking Multi-Core Processor based Systems,” SPECTS'09, Istanbul, Turkey, July 2009.
M. H. Jamal, A. Qadeer, A. Waheed, J. Ding, and W. Mahmood, “Virtual Machine Scalability on Multi-Core Processor based Servers for Cloud Computing Workloads,” NAS'09, Hunan, China, July 2009.
M. A. Raza and W. Mahmood, “Dynamic Resource Management in Hybrid Architecture for OBS Control Plane”, International Conference on Electrical Engineering 2007(in collaborattion with IEEE), University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan April 11-12 , 2007.
Muzammil Baig, Waqar Mahmood, “A Robust Technique of Anti Key-Logging using Key-Logging Mechanism, IEEE International Digital Eco System and Technologies Conference DEST 2007, Cairns, Australia, February 2007.
"A Fuzzy Model Reference Learning Controller Based Direct Field Oriented Control of Induction Machine" Rehman, H. Mahmood, W.
Engineering of Intelligent Systems, 2006 IEEE International Conference on
Noor Mustafa, Waqar Mahmood, Ahsan Ahmad Chaudhry, M. Ibrahim,"Pre-Scanning and Dynamic Caching for Fast Handoff at MAC layer in 802.11 Wireless LANs", IEEE International Workshop on Heterogeneous Multi-Hop Wireless and Mobile Networks 2005, Washington, DC, November 2005
Muhammad Adeel, Ahsan Ahmad Chaudhry, Ahmad Ali Iqbal, “Optimizing Congestion Window for CDMA2000 Packet Data Networks”, To Appear In Second International Conference on Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, IEE Mobility Conference 2005, Guangzhou China, November 2005.
Muhammad Adeel, Saqib Javed, Ahsan Ahmad Chaudhry, M. H. Zaidi, Waqar Mahmood, Ahmad Ali Iqbal, “A Comparative Analysis of Routing Protocols in GMPLS”, To Appear In The First IEEE IFIP International Conference in Central Asia on Internet, Next Generation of Mobile, Wireless and Optical Communications Networks, Bishkik, Kyrgyz Republic, September 2005.
M. Ibrahim Channa, Waqar Mahmood, Ahsan Ahmad Chaudhry, Noor Mustafa "A Multi-Priority Application Framework for Heterogeneous Ad Hoc Networks" In the proceedings of First IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies, Islamabad, Paksitan, September 2005
Chia-Chen Chang, Zuyuan He, George Senft, Nasir Ahemd, Erin Sahinci, and Waqar Mahmood ,” Evaluation on fiber boot of optical component by the nbend radius measurement in side pull test”, IEICE Electronic Express, Vol 2, No. 6, 205-210, Mar. 2005.
"Optimizing TCP Congestion Window for CDMA2000 Packet Data Networks" Adeel, M. Iqbal, A.A. Chaudhry, A. Mahmood, W. Mobile Technology, Applications and Systems, 2005 2nd International Conference on
G. Vachtsevanos, W. Mahmood, P. Wang, “Combined Cutting Stock and Assignment Optimization Based on Genetic Algorithms”, 7Th IEEE conference on Emerging Technologies and Facotory Automation”, Oct 1999, Vol. 1, pp 775-748.
S. Kim, Waqar Mahmood and George Vachtsevanos, ``An Operator's Model for Control and Optimization of Industrial Processes", IEEE International Conference on Control Application, Dearborn, Michigan, 1996.
Waqar Mahmood and George Vachtsevanos, ``Fuzzy Linguistic Modeling and Control of Manufacturing Systems", 4th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Paris, France, 1995
E. W. Kamen, G. Vachtsevanos, A. Doustmohammadi and Waqar Mahmood, “A Hybrid Analytical/Intelligent Approach to Modeling and Control of DEDS”, IEEE Symposium on Computer-Aided Control System Design, Tucson, Arizona, March 1994.
SPIE Conferences
Zuyuan He, Waqar Mahmood, Erin Sahinci, Nasir Ahmed, and Yves Pradieu, “Effects of Fiber Endface Scratches on Return Loss Performance of optical Interfaces”, Proceedings of SPIE, Boston MA, August 2002.
Waqar Mahmood, Murat Ozer, Elena Avram, “Surface Scratch and Pit Analysis on Optical Interfaces”, SPIE International Symposium on Convergence of IT and Communications. Denver Colarado, August, 2001
Iqbal M. Dar, Waqar Mahmood, George Vachtsevanos, ``Automated Piling Detection and Classification of Textile Fabrics", IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronics Imaging (EI,97), San Jose CA, 1997
Miscellaneous
M. Hasan Jamal, Abdul Waheed, Waqar Mahmood, “Manifold: A Benchmark for Multicore Processor based System”, First International Conference on Open Source Technologies, ICOST-2006, Lahore, Pakistan.
Sarosh Hashmi, Waqar Mahmood, “A Matrix based Approach for Modelling robotic Swarm Behavior”, 433-438, ICAI 2006, Las Vegas, USA.
Waqar Mahmood, Sarosh Hashmi, “Modeling Complex Emergent Discrete Event Systems: A Case Study in Robotic Swarm Motion”, 8th WSEAS International Conference on Automatic Control, Modeling and Simulation, ACMOS 06, Czech Republic, March 2006 pp. 117-122.
Muhammad Asif Raza, Waqar Mahmood, “New Control Architecture for Optical Burst Switching Networks”, 10th WSEAS Conference on Communications and Computers, July 2006, 534-326
Ejaz Ahmed, Kashan Samad, Waqar Mahmood, “Cluster-based Intrusion Detection (CBID) Architecture for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, AusCERT2006 R&D Stream Program, Information Technology Security Conference, May 2006, Australia.
Muhammad Adeel, Waqar Mahmood, Ahsan Ahmad Chaudhry, Rizwan Ahmad, "Multi-Layer Call Admission Architecture for Assured QoS in CDMA 2000 Packet Data Networks", To Appear in Third IASTED International Conference on Communication and Computer Networks, CCN 2005, Los Angeles USA, October 2005.
Kashan Samad, Ejaz Ahmed, Waqar Mehmood,”Simplified Clustering Approach for Intrusion Detection in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, 13th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (SoftCOM 2005), Split, Croatia, September 15-17, 2005
Muhammad Adeel, Waqar Mahmood, Ahsan Ahmad Chaudhry, “Mitigating Effects of Routing Inconsistencies on QoS in CDMA 2000 Packet Data Networks”, In the proceedings of 13th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks, SoftCOM 2005, Split, Croatia, September 2005.
Ahmad Ali Iqbal, Waqar Mahmood, Ejaz Ahmed, “TCP-DR a effective Protocol for Infrastructure Based Wireless Networks”, The 2005 International Conference on Wireless Networks (ICWN'05) ISBN: 1-932415-48-3, pp ICWN3055, Las Vegas, USA, June 27-30, 2005
Ahmad Ali Iqbal, Waqar Mahmood, Ejaz Ahmed, Kashan Samad, “Evaluation of Distributed Control Signaling Protocols in GMPLS”, The 4th International Conference on the Optical Internet (COIN 2005), Chongqing, China, May 29 - June 2, 2005
Afnan Ullah Khan, Shahzad Khan, Waqar Mahmood: “MRST: A New Technique For Information Summarization”. 249-252,The Third World Enformatika Conference, WEC'05, April 27-29, 2005, Istanbul, Turkey
Arshad Ali, Modood Ahmad Khan, S. Azam H. Bukhari and Waqar Mahmood, “ADAM: A Practical Approach for Detecting Network Anomalies Using PCA”, NCET 2004, Karachi, Pakistan.
Saiyed Azam H. Bukhari, Hammad Qureshi, Waqar Mahmood, Arshad Ali, Fawad Nazir," Extensions to the Principal Component Analysis based Network Anomaly Detection using Neural Networks"; High Capacity Optical Networks and Enabling Technologies 2004, Hotel Marriot-Islamabad, December 28-31, 2004.
Kashan Samad, Ejaz Ahmed, Waqar Mahmood, “Multi-layer Custer-based Intrusion Detection Architecture for Mobile Adhoc Networks using Mobile Agents”, HONET 2004, Islamabad, Pakistan
Hafiz Fahad, Shahzad Khan, Waqar Mahmood, “ Decentralized Intelligent Traffic Control Systems using Peer-Peer Model”, 2nd International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents 2004 at Massey University, New Zealand.
Ahmed A. Iqbal, Ejaz Ahmed, Waqar Mahmood, “Transport Layer Performance: Improvement in Infrastructure based Wireless Networks”, HONET 2004, Islamabd, Pakistan.
Y. Yang, E. Sahinci, Waqar Mahmood, “A New Algorithm on PMD Pulse Width Modulation”, International Journal on Light and Electron Optics (Optik), 2032170 optik, August 2003.
Y. Yang, E. Sahinci, Waqar Mahmood, “A New Optimization Algorithm on Pulse-Width Compression Using Polirization Controls”, Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC), Atlanta, GA USA, March 2003
C, Chang, G. Senft, Sahinci E, W. Mahmood., “Evaluation on Fiber Boot of Optical Component by Bead Radius Measurement in Side Pull Test”, OFC, March 2003, pp. 295-296
Yaguang Yang, Erin Sahinci, Waqar Mahmood, “A New Optimization Algorithm on Pulse-Width Compression Using Polarization Controls”, IEEE OSA Optical Fiber Communications (OFC) Conference, Atlanta Georgia, 2003.
Waqar Mahmood, “ Level 2 Optical Interface Standard”. IEC SC86B, Work Group 6, optical interconnecting devices and passive components, Annapolis USA, March 2001
Chia Chen Chang, Erin Sahinci, Zuyuan He, Yaguang Yang, Waqar Mahmood, “A Novel Approach to Determine Long Term Performance of Fiber Fusion Splice Protector”, The 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Vol XX, Orlando Florida, July 2002.
Yaguang Yang, Waqar Mahmood, Erin Sahinci, Chia Chen Chang, Zuyuan He, “An Optimal Filtering Method, for Fast Fiber Processes” The 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Vol XX, Orlando, Florida July 2002
Zuyuan He, Erin Sahinci, Chia Chen Chang, Yaguang Yang, Waqar Mahmood,” Troubleshooting of Fiber Optic Assembly Modules with Optical Reflectometries”, The 6th World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Vol X, Orlando, Florida July 2002
Waqar Mahmood, “ Level 2 Optical Interface Standard”. IEC SC86B, Work Group 6, optical interconnecting devices and passive components, London, UK March 2002.
Waqar Mahmood, “ Level 2 Optical Interface Standard”. IEC SC86B, Work Group 6, optical interconnecting devices and passive components, Florence Italy , October 2001
Waqar Mahmood, Yves Pradieu, Elena Avram, Andrei Csipkes, “ Level 2 Optical Interface Standard”. IEC SC86B, Work Group 6, optical interconnecting devices and passive components, Niece France, 2000
Waqar Mahmood and George Vachtsevanos, ``Intelligent Reconfiguration of Manufacturing Systems based on Fuzzy Objectives”, 9th IFAC Symposium on Information Control in Manufacturing, Nancy - Metz, France, 1998.
G. Vachtsevanos, S. Kim and W. Mahmood, “A Neuro-Fuzzy Implementation of an Operator’s Model”, Proceedings of the International Multidisciplinary Conference on Intelligent Systems: A Semiotic Perspective, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, October 20-23, 1996.
Waqar Mahmood and George Vachtsevanos, ”An Intelligent Approach to Modeling and Reconfigurable Control of Manufacturing Systems” 5th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, Kauai, Hawaii, 1996.
Waqar Mahmood, ``Modeling of Manufacturing Systems with emphasis on Fuzzy Modeling", Internal Report, Manufacturing Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1993.
Patents
US Patent # 6752536 (2004)
Method of simultaneously polishing a plurality of diverse fiber optic cable connectors
US Patent #6676307 (2004)
Method and System for Controlling Splice Attenuation
US Patent #6641472 (2003)
Polishing Pad Assembly for Fiber Optic Cable Connector Polishing Apparatus
US Patent #6341242: (2002)
System for Controlling a Process for Interconnection of Optical Fibers Including a Fuzzy Logic Control and Optimization Architecture
US Patent #6464410 (2002)
Attenuating Splice System and Method therefor using Estimation Algorithm and Closed Loop Intelligent Control
US Patent #6478482: (2002)
Attenuation Splice System and Method Therefor
US Patent #6396572: (2002)
Apparatus for Comparing Tensile or Compressive Stresses Imposed on Different Parts of Optical Fiber
US Patent # 6122936: (2000)
Apparatus for Integrating Steps of a Process for Interconnecting Optical Fiber
US Patent # 6039630: (2000)
Apparatus and method for calibrating pressure existing between optical fibers and a polishing pad during a polishing process
US Patent #6337737: (2002)
Fiber Bragg Gratings Based Strain Measurement Apparatus, System and Method
US Patent # 5936665: (1999)
Automated Apparatus for Counting Pilings in Textile Fabric
Applied: Polishing Fixture Assembly for a Fiber Optic Cable Connector Polishing Apparatus In Preparation: Web based System for Defect Tracking in Manufacturing Operation
