Head of Department (HoD)

Dr. Muhammad Najam ul Islam

Associate Professor ,

Department of Electrical Engineering

Email: najam@bahria.edu.pk

Phone: +92 51 926 3424

 

Short Biography

Muhammad Najam ul Islam is working as Associate Professor in the Electrical Engineering department of Bahria University, Islamabad since January 2011. Najam did his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Telecom ParisTech, France in 2010. During his doctoral studies, he was working at EURECOM, Sophia Antipolis on the research theme of flexible radios for multi-standard wireless communication devices. He received his Masters Degree in Embedded Systems from University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France, in 2006. Before moving to France, Najam completed his Masters in Computer Sciences from LUMS, Lahore in 2005.  He worked as adjunct faculty, research assistant and teaching assistant at LUMS in 2003 – 2004. Najam has also worked for NESCOM (1999 to 2003) as Assistant Manager. He joined NESCOM after completing his Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from UET, Lahore in 1999.

 Current Research Interests

* Baseband Architecture Design for Evolving Wireless Communication Standards

* Software Defined Radio

* Multi-core System Design

* FPGA Design and Implementation

* Performance Evaluation of Hardware Design Approaches

 Projects

* NEWCOM++, Represented EURECOM in the joint European Research Project and worked on Flexible Radio Platforms theme (2007-2010)

* Member of OpenAirInterface Team: http://www.openairinterface.org/

* IDROMel, French National Research Project

 Job Experience

Bahria University Islamabad, PakistanAssociate Professor(HOD), Electrical Engineering Department Jan 2011 – present
Eurecom, Sophia Antipolis, France

Research Engineer, Mobile Communications Department

 Oct 2006 – Sep 2010

RWTH, Aachen, Germany  

Visiting Scholar, Institute for Integrated Signal Processing Systems (ISS)

 Winter 2009 – 10

LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan

Adjunct Faculty, Computer Sciences Department

 Spring 2003

NESCOM, Islamabad, Pakistan

Assistant Manager (Technical)

 May 1999 – Aug 2003

LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan

Teaching Assistant, Computer Sciences Department

 2003 – 2004

LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan

Research Assistant, Multimedia Networking & Communications

 2003 – 2004

Education

Ph.D. Electrical Engineering

Telecom ParisTech, France

Dissertation: Flexible Baseband Architecture Design and Implementation for Existing and Future Wireless Communication Systems,

Supervised by Prof. Raymond Knopp and Prof. Renaud Pacalet

 Oct 2010
M.S. Electrical Engineering (Embedded Systems)

Ecole Polytechnique, University of Nice – Sophia Antipolis, France

 Sep 2006
M.S. Computer Sciences

Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan

 Mar 2005
B.Sc. Electrical Engineering (Electronics & Communications)

University of Engineering and Technology (U.E.T.) Lahore, Pakistan

 Apr 1999

Supervised Thesis

* Memory Subsystem Design for Multi-Core SDR Platform.

* Channel Estimation Schemes for Multi-Standard Transceiver Design.

* Secure Routing Mechanism for Secret Conventional Meeting using OLSR.

* Performance Analysis of IEEE802.15.4 MAC Protocol in Beacon Enable mode.

Teaching Experience

  • Graduate Courses:
    • Wireless Communications
    • Advanced Computer Architecture
    • Applied DSP
    • Research Methods in PhD studies
  • Under-Grad Courses:
    • Wireless and Mobile Communications
    • Computer Architecture
    • Digital Logic Design
    • Introduction to Computing

 Publications

  1. Umar Mujahid, M. Najam-ul-Islam, and M. Ali Shami, “RCIA: A New Ultralightweight RFID Authentication Protocol Using Recursive Hash,” International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, vol. 2015, Article ID 642180, 2015. doi:10.1155/2015/642180
  2. Ahsan Saadat, Muhammad Salman, Muhammad Asim Ajaz, Muhammad Najam-ul-Islam, “Matched Filter Based Timing and Frequency Synchronization for Multiple Input Multiple Output Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Systems”, Wireless Personal Communication (Springer Journal), Volume 79, Issue 3, November 2014.
  3. Umar Mujahid, M. Najam-Ul-Islam, ”Ultralightweight cryptography for passive RFID systems”, International Journal of Communication Networks and Information Security, Vol.6. no.3, 2014.
  4. Abdul Rehman, M. Najam-ul-islam, Umar Mujahid,” Performance Trade-Offs Among Optimized Beamforming Techniques for Smart Antenna System”, Bahria University Journal of Information and Communication Technologies (BUJICT), volume 7, Issue 1, December 2014.
  5. Umar Mujahid, M. Najam-ul-islam,”A novel pseudorandom number generator for passive RFID systems”, 17th IEEE-International multi topic conference (INMIC-2014), December 8 – 10, Karachi Pakistan.
  6. Qurat-Ul-Ain, Yusra, Umar Mujahid, M. Najam-ul-Islam,” Cryptanalysis of Mutual Ultralightweight Authentication Protocols: SASI & RAPP”, 8th IEEE international Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies (ICOSST-2014), December 17 – 19, Lahore Pakistan.
  7. Abdul Nawaz, Zahid, Mushtaq Ahmad, Haleem Farman, and Muhammad Najam-ul-Islam, “Performance Analysis Of Proactive And Reactive Routing Protocols In Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, Science International Journal, 26(4), 1539-1544, 2014.
  8. Kamran Bhatti, M. Najam-ul-Islam, et al., “Multi-Environment ASIC Design flow a new approach towards efficient lab sessions for students of electrical engineering”, International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), December 3 – 6, Dubai, December 2014.
  9. Kamran Bhatti, M. Najam-ul-Islam, et al., “Design & Analysis of a Small Signal Amplifier Circuit for Audio devices Using Mentor Graphics ASIC Design Tools”, International Conference on Emerging technologies in engineering, ICEET, March 20 – 21, 2014.
  10. Umar Mujahid, M. Najam ul Islam, et.al,” A novel ultralightweight mutual authentication protocol for low cost Passive RFID systems”, Malaysian Journal of Computer Science 2014.
  11. Rizwan Akbar, Emanuel Radoi, Stéphane Azou and Muhammad Najam-ul-Islam, “Low-complexity synchronization algorithms for orthogonally modulated IR-UWB systems”, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking (Springer) 2013, (2013:199) doi:10.1186/1687-1499-2013-199.
  12. Umar Mujahid, M. Najam-ul-islam, Jameel Ahmed, ”Ultralightweight cryptography for Passive RFID systems”, International cryptology e-print Archive, 2013/847.
  13. Umar Mujahid, M. Najam-ul islam, et.al,” Cryptanalysis of Ultralightweight RFID authentication protocol”, International cryptology e-print Archive, 2013/385.
  14. Zahid, Haleem Farman, Mushtaq Ahmad, Muhammad Najam-Ul-Islam and Huma Javed, “Performance Evaluation of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and UDP (User Datagram Protocol) over Destination Sequence Distance Vector (DSDV) for Random Waypoint Mobility Model”, World Applied Sciences Journal 20 (7): 910-916, 2012.
  15. Muhammad Zubair, Umar Mujahid, M. Najam ul Islam and Jameel Ahmed, “Cryptanalysis of RFID Ultra-lightweight Protocols and comparison between its Solutions Approaches”, Bahria University Journal of Information & Communication Technology (BUJICT), Vol. 5, Issue 1, 2012.
  16. Kamran Bhatti, M. Najam ul Islam, “Hands on training on Surface Mount Technology (SMT) Assembly Line for development of LED Based Lights”, 5th IEEE International conference on Engineering Education (ICEED), December 4 – 5, 2013, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
  17. Umar Mujahid, M. Najam-ul-islam, ”A novel Cryptanalysis of Ultralightweight RFID Authentication Protocol” 6th CHAOS-2013 International conference, Yeditepe University Istanbul Turkey (11-14 June 2013).
  18. Abubakar Ishfaq, Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad et al., “Efficient Implementation of 1024-bit SymmetricEncryption and Decryption Algorithm for Real Time Communication Systems”, IEEE SCOReD, Malaysia, December 5 – 6, 2012.
  19. Rao Naveed Bin Rais, Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad et al., “Analysis of TCP under Wireless Circumstances – A Performance Evaluation”, 10th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, December 14 – 16, 2012, Islamabad, Pakistan.
  20. Kamran Bhatti, Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad et al., “Curriculum design using mentor graphics higher education program (HEP) for ASIC Designing from synthesizable HDL to GDSII”, IEEE International Conference on Teaching, Assessment and Learning for Engineering (TALE), Hong Kong, August 20 – 23, 2012.
  21. Talha Naqash, Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad et al., “Mutual Authentication Protocol for LTE Based Mobile Networks”, IEEE International Conference of Open Source Systems and Technologies (ICOSST), December 20 – 22, 2012, Lahore, Pakistan.
  22. Talha Naqash, Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad et al., ”A Novel Mutual Authentication Protocol for H(e)NB and Mobile Devices Using S8 S-box”, IEEE International Conference of Open Source Systems and Technologies (ICOSST), December 20 – 22, 2012, Lahore, Pakistan.
  23. Muhstaq Ahmed, Umar Mujahid, Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad, “Enhancing MIMO Technology Performance”, International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Dec 2012.
  24. Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad, Raymond Knopp, et al. “Performance evaluation and guidelines for future flexible radio architectures”, DC.3 NEWCOM++ (Network of Excellence in Wireless Communications)), 7th Framework Program of European Commission (FP7-ICT-318306), 216715, 2010.
  25. Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad, Raymond Knopp, and Renaud Pacalet, “On the hardware design of front-end processings in the SDR systems”, SDR’09, Software Digital Radio, Technical Conference and Product Exposition, December 1- 4, 2009, Washington, USA.
  26. Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad, Raymond Knopp, and Renaud Pacalet, “Variable Length DFT Memory Organization Schemes for Communication Systems Applications”, 12th SAME Forum, September 22-23, 2009, Sophia Antipolis, France.
  27. Waseem Muhammad, Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad, et al., “A Static Verification Technique based on Boolean Data Dependency Analysis in Hardware Modules”, ECSI Conference on Design and Architectures for Signal and Image Processing, September 22 – 24, 2009, Sophia Antipolis, France.
  28. Zahid Irfan and Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad, “Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) Index Fore-cast using AR Spectral Analysis”, International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology, December 18-19, 2008. Islamabad, Pakistan.
  29. Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad, R. Rasheed, R. Pacalet, and R. Knopp, “Flexible Baseband Architectures for Future Wireless Systems”, 11th Euromicro Conference on DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN Architectures, Methods and Tools. September 3-5, 2008, Parma, Italy.
  30. Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad, Karim Khalfallah, Raymond Knopp, and Renaud Pacalet, “Reconfigurable DSP architectures for SDR applications”, 14th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), December 11-14, 2007, Marrakech, Morocco.
  31. Christian Bonnet, Raymond Knopp, Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad, et al. “Cognitive Radio Platform: From Achievable Performance to Architecture Design”, ETSI Software Defined Radio (SDR)/Cognitive Radio (CR) Workshop, February 9, 2007, Sophia-Antipolis, France.
  32. Najam-ul-Islam Muhammad and Wajahat Mateen, “Teaching Computer Networks: Phenomenographic Approach”, IADAT-e2004, International Conference on Education, July 2004, Bilbao, Spain.