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Asad Rehman, Ph.D.


Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Mathematics


Education

Ph.D., Telecommunications, University of Oporto (Portugal)
M.Sc., Telecommunications Engineering, University of Sunderland (United Kingdom)

Practice Areas

  • Software-defined networking.
  • Fault-tolerance and reliability of future networks.

Research Interests

  • Cloud and Edge Computing.
  • Virtual Networks.
  • Service Assurance.
  • 5G and Beyond 5G (B5G) Networks.

Publications and Media Placements

Journal Paper:  A. U. Rehman, R. L. Aguiar, and João Paulo Barraca, Title: Fault-Tolerance in the Scope of Cloud Computing, 2022, IEEE Access, Vol10, PP  63422 – 63441.

Conference Paper:  A. U. Rehman, R. L. Aguiar, and J. P. Barraca, Testing Virtual Network Functions Auto-Scaling using Open-source Management and Orchestration, 12th conference on telecommunications, Telecoms Conference (ConfTELE), Leiria, Portugal, pp. 1-6, February 2021, DOI: 10.1109 ConfTELE50222.2021.9435471.

Journal Paper:  A. U. Rehman, R. L. Aguiar, and João Paulo Barraca, Title: Network Functions Virtualization (NFV): The Long Road to Commercial Deployments, 2019, IEEE Access, Vol 7, PP  60439 – 60464.

Conference Paper: João Barraca Filipe, Flavio Meneses, A. U. Rehman, R. L. Aguiar, and Daniel Corujo, Title: A Performance Comparison of Containers and Unikernels for Reliable 5G Environments. Design of Reliable Communication and Networks (DRCN)- 15th IEEE International Conference, Coimbra, Portugal, pp. 16-23, March 2019.

Journal Paper:  A. U. Rehman, R. L. Aguiar, and João Paulo Barraca, Title: Fault-Tolerance in the Scope of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), 2019, IEEE Access, Vol 7, PP  124474 – 124490.

Conference Paper:  A. U. Rehman, R. L. Aguiar, and João Paulo Barraca, Title: A Proposal for Fault-tolerant and Self-healing Hybrid SDN Control Network. Inforum2017- 9º Simpósio de Informática, Aveiro, Portugal, pp. 99-106, October 2017.

Conference Poster:  A. U. Rehman, João Barraca Filipe, R. L. Aguiar, Daniel Corujo, and João Paulo Barraca, Title: Shaping Future Reliable and Critical Communications Using Virtualization Technologies. Encontro Ciencia, Lisbon, Portugal, July 2018.

Conference Poster:  A. U. Rehman, R. L. Aguiar, and João Paulo Barraca, Title: Reliability in Software Defined Networks. 10th Map-tele workshop, Aveiro, Portugal, September 2017.

Refereeing Journals:

IEEE IoT Journal.
IEEE Access.
IEEE Network Magazine.
Springer Nature, The Journal of Supercomputing.
Wiley, Concurrency And Computation-practice & Experience.
Oxford Academic Journal of Cybersecurity.

Certificate of Excellence (Elsevier and IEEE):

Certificate of excellence, ethics.
Certificate of excellence, research data management.
Certificate of excellence, social impact.
Certificate of excellence, making academia-industry collaboration.
Certificate of completion, author workshop.
Certificate of excellence, funding.

Professional Organizations and Associations

  • Entrepreneurship Exchange Community, IEEE.
  • Smart Cities Community, IEEE.
  • Big Data Community, IEEE.
  • Cloud Computing, IEEE Computer Society Technical Community.
  • Rebooting Computing, IEEE Computer Society Task Force.
  • IEEE Communications Society.
  • IEEE Software Defined Networks Community.
  • IEEE Future Networks Community.