Ghazanfar Ali Safdar

Selected Journal Papers

• J1: K. Kanwal, G. A. Safdar, M. Ur-Rehman and X. Yang, "Energy Management in LTE Networks," in IEEE Access, vol. 5, no. , pp. 4264-4284, 2017
• J2: T. S. Syed and G. A. Safdar, "History-Assisted Energy-Efficient Spectrum Sensing for Infrastructure-Based Cognitive Radio Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 3, pp. 2462-2473, March 2017
• J3: G. A. Safdar, M. Ur-Rehman, M. Muhammad, M. A. Imran and R. Tafazolli, "Interference Mitigation in D2D Communication Underlaying LTE-A Network," in IEEE Access, vol. 4, no. , pp. 7967-7987, 2016
• J4: Kanwal, K.; Safdar, G.A., "Reduced Early Handover for Energy Saving in LTE Networks," in Communications Letters, IEEE , vol.20, no.1, pp.153-156, Jan. 2016
• J5: Syed, T.S.; Safdar, G.A., "On the Usage of History for Energy Efficient Spectrum Sensing," in Communications Letters, IEEE , vol.19, no.3, pp.407-410, March 2015
• J6: Kpojime, H.O.; Safdar, G.A., "Interference Mitigation in Cognitive-Radio-Based Femtocells," in Communications Surveys & Tutorials, IEEE , vol.17, no.3, pp.1511-1534, 2015
• J7: Ghazanfar A Safdar, Faisal Tariq, Harold O Kpojime, “Threshold Power based UE admittance and Contention Free Resource allocation for Interference Mitigation in Cognitive Femtocells”, Wireless Personal Communications, pp. 1-16, 2016,doi:10.1007/s11277-016-3870-z
• J8: Hossain, M.S.; Tariq, F.; Safdar, G.A., "Enhancing cell-edge performance using multi-layer soft frequency reuse scheme," in Electronics Letters, vol.51, no.22, pp.1826-1828, 10 22 2015
• J9: Harold O. Kpojime, Ghazanfar A. Safdar, “Coverage Radius Bounds and Impact on SINR in blindly placed LTE Femtocells”, International Journal of WirelessInformation Networks, Volume 22, Issue 3, pp 262-271, 2015
• J10: Kpojime, H.O.; Safdar, G.A., "Efficacy of coverage radius-based power control scheme for interference mitigation in femtocells," in Electronics Letters, vol.50, no.8, pp.639-641, April 10 2014
• J11: Salah A. Albermany, Ghazanfar A. Safdar, “ Keyless Security in Wireless Networks”, Wireless Personal Communications, Volume 79, Issue 3, pp1713-1731, 2014
• J12: Safdar, G.A. and Neill, M.O. (2012) ‘A novel common control channel security framework for cognitive radio networks’, Int. J. Autonomous and Adaptive Communications Systems, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp.125–145
• J13: G. Epiphaniou, C. Maple, P. Sant and G. A. Safdar, "Effects of iterative block ciphers on quality of experience for Internet Protocol Security enabled voice over IP calls," in IET Information Security, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 141-148, Sept. 2012.
• J14: G. A. Safdar and M. P. O'Neill, “Performance analysis of novel randomly shifted certification authority authentication protocol for MANETs”, EURASIP Journal of Wireless Communication and Networking, 2009, Article 20
• J15: G. A. Safdar & W. G. Scanlon, “Performance analysis of improved IEEE 802.11 infrastructure power saving under time correlated channel errors”, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks (IJWIN), Vol. 15, No. 1, pp.36-42, 2008
• J16: G. A. Safdar & W. G. Scanlon, “Improved Power Saving Medium Access Protocol for IEEE 802.11e QoS enabled wireless Networks”, IET Communications Proceedings, Vol. 1, No. 4, pp.718-725, 2007
• J17: G.A. Safdar & W.G. Scanlon, "Performance analysis of an improved power-saving medium access protocol for IEEE 802.11 point coordination function WLAN," Communications, IEE Proceedings- , vol.153, no.5, pp.697-704, Oct. 2006

Selected Conference Papers

• C1: K. Kanwal, G. A. Safdar, "Growing Green With Improved Profit through Reduced Power Consumption in LTE Networks”, ICC '17, March 22 2017, Cambridge, United Kingdom, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3018896.3018910
• C2: W. Alhakami, A. Mansour and G. A. Safdar, "Performance analysis of a novel decentralised MAC protocol for cognitive radio networks," 2016 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile (APWiMob), Bandung, 2016, pp. 85-91
• C3: K. Kanwal, G. A. Safdar and S. Haxha, "Joint resource blocks switching off and bandwidth expansion for energy saving in LTE networks," 2015 21st International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC), Glasgow, 2015, pp. 1-6.
• C4: W. Alhakami, A. Mansour and G. A. Safdar, "Shared-Key Based Secure MAC Protocol for CRNs," 2014 Eighth International Conference on Next Generation Mobile Apps, Services and Technologies, Oxford, 2014, pp. 266-271.
• C5: G. A. Safdar, S. Albermany, N. Aslam, A. Mansour and G. Epiphaniou, "Prevention against threats to self co-existence - A novel authentication protocol for cognitive radio networks," 2014 7th IFIP Wireless and Mobile Networking Conference (WMNC), Vilamoura, 2014, pp. 1-6.
• C6: T. S. Syed, G. Epiphaniou and G. A. Safdar, "Dynamic adjustment of weighting and safety factors in playout buffers for enhancing VoIP quality," 2013 Science and Information Conference, London, 2013, pp. 810-815.
• C7: M. E. Aydin, G. A. Safdar and N. Aslam, "A Novel Learning-Based Spectrum Sensing Technique for Cognitive Radio Networks," 2013 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, Barcelona, 2013, pp. 505-510.
• C8: N. Aslam, W. Phillips and G. A. Safdar, "Worst case bounds of a cluster-based MAC protocol for wireless sensor networks," Wireless Telecommunications Symposium 2012, London, 2012, pp. 1-6.
• C9: E. Garcia-Palacios, N. Mehallegue and G. Ali Safdar, "Providing security and energy efficiency in wireless ad-hoc sensor networks through Secure Cluster-Head Election (SEC-CH-E)," 2012 35th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), Prague, 2012, pp. 47-51.
• C10: G. A. Safdar, "Analysis of time correlated channel model for simulation of packet data networks," 2011 Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference, Loughborough, 2011, pp. 1-4.
• C11: J. K. Notay and G. A. Safdar, "A Wireless Sensor Network based Structural Health Monitoring system for an airplane," The 17th International Conference on Automation and Computing, Huddersfield, 2011, pp. 240-245.
• C12: G. A. Safdar and M. O'Neill, "Common Control Channel Security Framework for Cognitive Radio Networks," VTC Spring 2009 - IEEE 69th Vehicular Technology Conference, Barcelona, 2009, pp. 1-5.
• C13: G. A. Safdar and M. McLoone, "Randomly Shifted Certification Authority Authentication Protocol for MANETs," 2007 16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit, Budapest, 2007, pp. 1-5.
• C14: C. McGrath, G. A. Safdar and M. McLoone, "Novel Authenticated Key Management Framework for Ad Hoc Network Security," 2006 IET Irish Signals and Systems Conference, Dublin, 2006, pp. 185-190.
• C15: G. A. Safdar, C. McGrath and M. McLoone, "Limitations of existing wireless networks authentication and key management techniques for MANETs," 2006 International Symposium on Computer Networks, Istanbul, 2006, pp. 101-105
• C16: G. A. Safdar and W. G. Scanlon, "Pointer controlled power saving medium access control protocol for IEEE 802.11 infrastructure networks," 2004 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (IEEE Cat. No.04TH8754), 2004, pp. 915-919 Vol.2.
• C17: C. McGrath, G. A. Safdar & M. O’Neill, “Identity based Public Key Exchange (IDPKE) for wireless ad hoc networks”, SECRYPT, pp. 167-170, 2007