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 Dr. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman (ডঃ এ. কে. এম. আশিকুর রহমান)


Associate Professor

  •  Contact:

    • Department of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh

  •  Telephone:

    • Office: 880 2 9665650, Extension 6498
    Cell: 01556329138 (Serious calls plz
    Residence: 880 2 9665650, Extension 7959

  •  Email: ashikur AT cse DOT buet DOT ac DOT bd, penguinswimming AT gmail DOT com (help me in avoiding spam!)

  •  Homepage: http://teacher.buet.ac.bd/ashikur

  •  Research Area:

    • Architecture, Compilers and Parallel Computing
    Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
    Software Engineering
    Systems and Networking

  •  Research Interest:

  • Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks
    • Routing:The path problem and relavent optimisation criteria.
      • Location-based routing, Power-aware routing, QoS routing.
    • Medium Access Control Layer Issues: Enhancing reliability,
      • Reliable unicast, multicast and broadcast transmission, Collision avoidance.
    • Power Optimisation: Topology control for energy-efficiency.
    • Capacity Analysis: Performance bounds and Capacity limit.
  • Back-end optimisation of Compiler
    • Loop optimisation: Loop Fusion and Fission, scalar optimization, alias analysis.
  • Neural Network
    • Image compression
  • Thin Client Architecture
    • Optimising thin clients
    • Thin clients on small wireless devices
    • Server-Based Computing

      জীবনে নিজের পরিবারের চেয়ে বেশী গুরুত্বপূর্ণ আর কিছুই নেই। তাদেরকে তাদের প্রাপ্যসময়টুকু দিন

    •  Academic Background:

    • Ph.D. 2001-2006 Department of Computing Science, University of Alberta, Canada.

    • M.Sc. 1999-2001 Department of CSE, Bangladesh Univ. of Engg. and Technology (BUET)

    • B.Sc. 1993-1998 Department of CSE, Bangladesh Univ. of Engg. and Technology (BUET).

    • H.S.C. 1989-1991 Faujdarhat Cadet College

    • S.S.C. 1987-1989 Faujdarhat Cadet College

    •  Selected Publications:

      • red line My h-index is 6, i10-index is 4. To know the acceptance rate
      and significance of various CS networking conferences
      please see networking conference statistics and then computer
      science conference rankings.             Warning: Bureaucracy of publishing
      in high-ranked conferences is a serious waste of time
      and an impediment to creativity.

      Book

      1. Ashikur Rahman, "Routeless Routing and MAC-Aided Protocols for Adhoc Wireless Network" , June 05, 2009, Publisher: VDM Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-639-15707-9.

      Journal

        1. Ashikur Rahman, Xue Liu and Fanxin Kong" A Survey on Geographic Load Balancing based Data Center Power Management in the Smart Grid Environment ", IEEE Communication Surveys & Tutorials, Accepted for publication, 2013, Journal Impact Factor: 5.49

      2. Md. Ehtesamul Haque and Ashikur Rahman, " On Constructing Interference-Aware k-Fault Resistant Topologies for Wireless Ad hoc networks ", Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks( (AHSWN) , To Appear 2012.

      3. Syed Rafiul Hussain, Subrata Saha and Ashikur Rahman,SAAMAN: Scalable Address Autoconfiguration in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks ",Journal of Network and System Management ( JNSM ), Volume 9, Issue 3(2011), Page 394, DOI: 10.1007/s10922-010-9187-4, Springer ISSN: 1064-7570.

      4. P. Gburzynski, B. Kaminska, and A. Rahman. "On Reliable One-way Transmission of Data over Simple Wireless Channels." , Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications (JCSNC),  Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 409853, 14 pages.

      5. Ashikur Rahman and Pawel Gburzynski, "MAC-Assisted Topology Control for Ad-hoc Wireless Network", ACM/Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), 19(9):955-976.

      6. A. Rahman, M. Ahmed and S. Zerin "Analysis of Minimum-Energy Path-Preserving Graphs for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks ", in Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2009.

      7. A. Rahman, M.E. Hoque, F. Rahman, S. K. Kundu, and P. Gburzynski, "Enhanced Partial Dominant Pruning (EPDP) Based Broadcasting in Ad hoc Wireless Networks ", Journal of Networks, Vol 4, No 9 (2009), 895-904, Nov 2009 doi:10.4304/jnw.4.9.895-904

      Conferences

      1. Jianguo Yao, Xue Liu, Wenbo He and Ashikur Rahman, " Dynamic Control of Electricity Cost with Power Demand Smoothing and Peak Shaving for Distributed Internet Data Centers " , The 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2012) June 18-21, 2012 Macau, China. (Acceptance rate 13%).

      2. Tandra Chakraborty, Fazlay Rabbi, Aungon Nag Radon, and Ashikur Rahman. " Load and energy aware topology control in wireless ad-hoc networks." In IEEE GLOBECOM , California, USA, 3-8 December 2012. To Appear, Acceptance rate 37%.

      3. Ashikur Rahman, Carey Williamson. " Delta Graphs for Wireless ad hoc networks." the 9th Annual IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON 2012), June 18-21, 2012 Seoul, South Korea (Acceptance ratio: 68 out of 250+).

      4. Md. Ehtesamul Haque and Ashikur Rahman, "Fault Tolerant Interference-Aware Topology Control for Ad hoc Wireless Networks", 10th International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless ( Adhoc-NOW 2011 ) July 18-20, 2011 Paderbon, Germany.

      5. Ashikur Rahman, Carey Williamson. Delta-Graphs: Flexible Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Poster paper, Proceedings of IFIP Performance 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2011. Official version appears in ACM Performance Evaluation Review (PER), Vol. 39, No. 2, page 75, September 2011.

      6. Ashikur Rahman, Hanan Shpungin, Carey Williamson. Poster paper, Proceedings of IFIP Performance 2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands, October 2011. Official version appears in ACM Performance Evaluation Review (PER), Vol. 39, No. 2, page 76, September 2011.

      7. Harichandan Roy, Shuvo Kumar De, Md. Maniruzzaman, and Ashikur Rahman, "Fault Tolerant Power-Aware Topology Control for Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks", In IFIP Networking, Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS)( Networking 2010 ), Chennai, India, May 11 -15, 2010. 12 pages (Acceptance Rate 23.7%).

      8. S.M. Rifat Ahsan, Mohammad Saiful Islam, Naeemul Hassan, and Ashikur Rahman, "Exploiting packet distribution for tuning RTS threshold in IEEE 802.11", In 25th Biennial Symposium on communications( QBSC 2010 ), Kingston, Canada, May 11 -15, 2010.

      9. Nashid Shahriar, Syed Ashker Ibne Mujib, Arup Raton Roy, and Ashikur Rahman, "Iterative route discovery in AODV ", In 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications ( AINA 2010 ), April 20-23, 2010, Perth, Western Australia. 7 pages.

      10. Subrata Saha, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Ashikur Rahman, "RBP: Reliable Broadcasting Protocol in Large Scale Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", In 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications ( AINA 2010 ), April 20-23, 2010, Perth, Western Australia. 8 pages.

      11. Syed Rafiul Hussain, Subrata Saha and Ashikur Rahman, "An Efficient and Scalable Address Autoconfiguration in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", 8th International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless ( Adhoc-NOW 2009 ) September 22-25, Murcia, Spain.

      12. Md. Tanvir Al Amin, Sukarna Barua, Sudip Vhaduri, and Ashikur Rahman, "Load Aware Broadcast in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009), June 14-18, Dresden, Germany. (Acceptance Rate 34.9%)

      13. Chowdhury Sayeed Hyder, Ashikur Rahman and Masud Hasan, "On the Longest Vulnerable Path inside Sensor Network from Boundary Regions", 5th IEEE-GCC Conference, March 2009, Kuwait City, Kuwait, to appear.

      14. Tamanna Afroze, Saikat Sarkar, Aminul Islam and Asikur Rahman, " More Stable Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol" , The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Industrial electronics and Applications (ICIEA), 25-27th May 2009 Xi'an, China, pp 150-155.

      15. P. Gburzynski, B. Kaminska, and A. Rahman. "Reliable Data Transmission over Simple Wireless Channels: a Case Study." In Proceedings of 11th EuroMicro Conference on Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD 2008), September 3-5, 2008, Parma, Italy, pp 817-824.

      16. M. Ahmed, M. Shariar, S. Zerin, and A. Rahman " Analysis of Minimum-Energy Path-Preserving Graphs for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks ", In Proceedings of SPECTS 2008, Edinburgh, UK, June 2008.

      17. M.E. Hoque, F. Rahman, S. K. Kundu, A. Rahman, and P. Gburzynski, " Enhanced Partial Dominant Pruning (EPDP) Based Broadcasting in Ad hoc Wireless Networks ", In Proceedings of SPECTS 2008, Edinburgh, UK, June 2008.

      18. Ashikur Rahman, Pawel Gburzynski and Bozena Kaminska, "Enhanced Dominant Pruning-based Broadcasting in Untrusted Ad-hoc Wireless Networks", In Proceedings of International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007), Glagow, Scotland, June 2007, pp. 3389-3394. (Acceptance rate 39%)

        Ashikur Rahman and Pawel Gburzynski, "MAC-Assisted Broadcast Speedup in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks", In Proceedings of ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conferences- IWCMC 2006 Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks, Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada, July 3 - 6, 2006.

      19. Ashikur Rahman and Pawel Gburzynski, "Hidden problems with the hidden node problem ", In Proceedings of, 23rd Biennial Symposium on Communications- QBSC 2006, May 29- June 1, Kingston, Canada 2006. [Citation count: 30]

      20. Ashikur Rahman and Pawel Gburzynski, "On Constructing Minimum-Energy Path-Preserving Graph for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2005, May 16-20, Seoul, Korea, 2005. (Acceptance Rate 35%) [Citation count: 10]

      21. A. Rahman, W. Olesinski and P. Gburzynski, "Controlled Flooding in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks", In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Adhoc Networks- IWWAN 2004, June 1-3, Oulu, Finland, 2004. [Citation count: 21]

        A. Rahman and P. Gburzynski, "MAC Support for Broadcast Based Adhoc Forwarding Schemes", In Proceedings of 22nd Biennial Symposium on Communications- QBSC 2004, May 31- June 3, Kingston, Canada 2004.

      22. Ashikur Rahman, "Thin Clients Via Shadow Objects", In Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology - ICACT, 2004, Volume: 2, page(s): 1072- 1077, ISBN: 89-5519-119-7.

      23. W. Olesinski, A. Rahman and P. Gburzynski, "TARP: A Tiny Ad-hoc Routing Protocol for Wireless Networks", In Proceedings of The Australian Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference - ATNAC'2003, Decmeber 8-10, Melborne, Australia 2003. [Citation count: 7]

      24. A. Rahman and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, "A New Approach for Compressing Color Images using Neural Network", Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation - CIMCA'2003 , Vienna, Austria, 2003. [Citation count: 10]

      25. A. Rahman, "An Object Reconstruction Based Approach to Thin Client Computing", Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology - ICCIT'2003, December 19-21, 2003, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh.

      26. A. Rahman and Chowdhury Mofizur Rahman, "Image Compression Using Neural Network", Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Dhaka, 2001.

      27. A. Rahman and M. Kaykobad, "A new map method for minimizing Boolean Expressions", pp 193-198, Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Dhaka 1999.

      28. A. Rahman and M. Kaykobad, "Minimizing area cost of on-chip cache memories", Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, December 8-20, 1998, Dhaka.

      29. A. Rahman and M. Kaykobad, "Seek time in replicated two-headed disk systems", pp. 15-20, Proceedings of National Conference on Computer and Information Systems, December 9-10, 1997, Dhaka, Bangladesh.



    •  Journal Papers:

      • 7. Md. Ehtesamul Haque, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, On Construction of Interference-Aware k-Fault Resistant Topologies for Wireless Ad hoc networks. Ad Hoc & Sensor Wireless Networks (AHSWN), 2012
      6. Syed Rafiul Hussain, Subrata Saha , and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, SAAMAN: Scalable Address Autoconfiguration in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. Journal of Network and System Management ( JNSM ), Springer ISSN: 1064-7570., Volume 9, Issue 3:394, DOI: 10.1007/s1, 2011
      5. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, and C. Williamson, Delta-Graphs: Flexible Topology Control in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. ACM Performance Evaluation Review (PER), 39(2), :75, 2011
      4. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, M. Ahmed , and S. Zerin, Analysis of Minimum-Energy Path-Preserving Graphs for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks. Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, 2009
      3. S.M. Masum, A.A. Ali, Md. Mostofa Akbar, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, A Consensus based Exclusion Algorithm for Mobile Ad hoc Networks. Elsevier Science,
      2. P. Gburzynski, B. Kaminska, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, On Reliable One-way Transmission of Data over Simple Wireless Channels. Journal of Computer Systems, Networks, and Communications (JCSNC),, 2009(409853),
      1. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, and Pawel Gburzynski, MAC-Assisted Topology Control for Ad-hoc Wireless Network. ACM/Wiley International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), 19(9), :955-976.,

    •  Conference Papers:

      • 31. J. Yao, X. Liu, W. He, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, Dynamic Control of Electricity Cost with Power Demand Smoothing and Peak Shaving for Distributed Internet Data Centers. In Proceedings of 32nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Macau, China., 2012
      30. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, and C. Williamson, Delta Graphs for Wireless ad hoc networks. In Proceedings of IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (IEEE SECON), Seoul, South Korea, 2012
      29. Md. Ehtesamul Haque, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, Fault Tolerant Interference-Aware Topology Control for Ad hoc Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of 10th International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless ( Adhoc-NOW), Paderbon, Germany, 2011
      28. S. Saha, S.R. Hussain, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, RBP: Reliable Broadcasting Protocol in Large Scale Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In Proceedings of 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications ( AINA ), Perth, Western Australia, 2010
      27. Nashid Shahriar, S. A. I. Mujib, A. R. Roy, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, Iterative route discovery in AODV. In Proceedings of 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications ( AINA 2010 ), IEEE Computer Society Washington, DC, USA, Perth, Western Australia, pages 392-399, 2010
      26. S.M.R. Ahsan, M.S. Islam, N. Hassan, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, Exploiting packet distribution for tuning RTS threshold in IEEE 802.11. In Proceedings of 25th Biennial Symposium on communications( QBSC 2010 ), Kingston, Canada, 2010
      25. H. Roy, S.K. De, Md. Maniruzzaman, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, Fault Tolerant Power-Aware Topology Control for Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of IFIP Networking, Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS)( Networking ), Chennai, India, 2010
      24. Md.T.A. Amin, S. Barua, S. Vhaduri, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, Load Aware Broadcast in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2009),, Dresden, Germany., 2009
      23. T. Afroze, S. Sarkar, A. Islam, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, More Stable Ad-hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing Protocol. In Proceedings of The Fourth IEEE International Conference on Industrial electronics and Applications (ICIEA), Xian, China, pages 150-155, 2009
      22. S.R. Hussain,, S. Saha , and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, An Efficient and Scalable Address Autoconfiguration in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks. In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Ad hoc Networks and Wireless ( Adhoc-NOW), Murcia, Spain., 2009
      21. M. Ahmed,, M. Shariar, S. Zerin, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, Analysis of Minimum-Energy Path-Preserving Graphs for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks (Conference. In Proceedings of SPECTS 2008, Edinburgh, UK, 2008
      20. P. Gburzynski,, B. Kaminska, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, Reliable Data Transmission over Simple Wireless Channels: a Case Study. In Proceedings of 11th EuroMicro Conference on Digital System Design Architectures, Methods and Tools (DSD 2008), Parma, Italy, pages 817-824, 2008
      19. M.E. Hoque, F. Rahman, S. K. Kundu, A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, and P. Gburzynski, Enhanced Partial Dominant Pruning (EPDP) Based Broadcasting in Ad hoc Wireless Networks (Conference. In Proceedings of SPECTS 2008, Edinburgh, UK, 2008
      18. Md. E. Hoque, F. Rahman, S. K. Kundu, A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, and P. Gburzynski, Enhanced partial dominant pruning (EPDP) based broadcasting in ad hoc wireless networks. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS, Edinburgh, UK, pages 143-150, 2008
      17. M. Ahmed, M. Shahriar, S. Zerin, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, Analysis of minimum-energy path preserving graphs for ad hoc wireless networks. In Proceedings of International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems SPECTS, Edinburgh, UK, pages 114-121, 2008
      16. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, P. Gburzynski, and B. Kaminska, Enhanced Dominant Pruning-based Broadcasting in Untrusted Ad-hoc Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of International Conference on Communications (ICC 2007), Glagow, Scotland, pages 3389-3394, 2007
      15. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, and P. Gburzynski, Hidden problems with the hidden node problem. In Proceedings of 23rd Biennial Symposium on Communications- QBSC 2006,, Kingston, Canada, 2006
      14. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, and P. Gburzynski, MAC-Assisted Broadcast Speedup in Ad-Hoc Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of In Proceedings of ACM International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conferences- IWCMC 2006 Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks,, Sheraton Wall Centre, Vancouver, Canada,, 2006
      13. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, and P. Gburzynski,, On Constructing Minimum-Energy Path-Preserving Graph for Ad-hoc Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2005,, Seoul, South Korea, 2005
      12. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, W. Olesinski, and P. Gburzynski, Controlled Flooding in Wireless Ad-hoc Networks. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Adhoc Networks- IWWAN, Oulu, Finland, 2004
      11. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, and P. Gburzynski,, MAC Support for Broadcast Based Adhoc Forwarding Schemes. In Proceedings of 22nd Biennial Symposium on Communications- QBSC 2004, Kingston, Canada, 2004
      10. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, An Object Reconstruction Based Approach to Thin Client Computing. In Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Computer and Information Technology - ICCIT,2003,, Jahangirnagar University, Bangladesh., 2003
      9. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, and C.M. Rahman, A New Approach for Compressing Color Images using Neural Network. In Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation, Vienna, Austria, 2003
      8. W. Olesinski, A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, and P. Gburzynski, TARP: A Tiny Ad-hoc Routing Protocol for Wireless Networks. In Proceedings of Australian Telecommunications Networks and Applications Conference - ATNAC2003,, Melborne, Australia, 2003
      7. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, and C.M. Rahman, Image Compression Using Neural Network. In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 2001
      6. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, and M. Kaykobad, A new map method for minimizing Boolean Expressions. In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1999
      5. M. Kaykobad, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, A new map method for minimizing Boolean Expression. In Proceedings of Proceedings of International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, pages 193-196, 1999
      4. M. Kaykobad, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, Minimizing Area Cost of On-Chip Cache Memories. In Proceedings of An International Conference on Computer and Information Technology, pages 63-68, 1998
      3. M. Kaykobad, and A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, Seek Time in Replicated Two Headed Disk Systems. In Proceedings of National Conference on Computer and Information Systems, pages 15-20,1-6, 1997
      2. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, and M. Kaykobad, Seek time in replicated two-headed disk systems. In Proceedings of National Conference on Computer and Information Systems, Dhaka, Bangladesh., pages 15-20, 1997
      1. A.K.M. Ashikur Rahman, Thin Clients Via Shadow Objects. In Proceedings of 6th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Communication Technology - ICACT, pages Volume: 2, page(s): ,

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