Publications

Books and Book Chapters

  1. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Exploiting Wireless Link Dynamics, Publisher: Shaker Verlag, Germany, ISBN 978-3-8440-1978-0, June 2013.

  2. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Lei Gao, Torsten Kempf, Olaf Landsiedel: Tools and Modeling Approaches for Simulating Hardware and Systems, chapter in book Modeling and Tools for Network Simulation, Springer, ISBN 978-3-642-12331-3, LNCS, 2010.

    3. ISI Indexed Journals

  3. Samar Abbas, Ahmed Ehsan, Saad Ahmed, Sheraz Ali Khan, Tariq M. Jadoon, Muhammad Hamad Alizai: ASHRAY: Enhancing Water-usage Comfort in Developing Regions using Data-driven IoT Retrofits, ACM Transactions on Cyber Physical Systems (TCPS), 2022.

  4. Saad Ahmed, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Martina Brachmann, Muhammad Hamad Alizai: A survey on program-state retention for transiently-powered systems, Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture, 102013, 2021.

  5. Saad Ahmed, Muhammad Nawaz, Abu Bakar, Naveed Bhatti, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Junaid Haroon Siddiqui, Luca Mottola:  Demystifying Energy Consumption Dynamics in Transiently-powered Computers, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2020.

  6. Saad Ahmed, Naveed Bhatti, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Junaid Haroon Siddiqui, Luca Mottola: Fast and Energy-efficient State Checkpointing for Intermittent Computing, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), 2020.

  7. Samar Abbas, Abu Bakar, Yasra Chandio, Khadija Hafeez, Ayesha Ali, Tariq M. Jadoon, Muhammad Hamad Alizai: Inverted HVAC: Greenifying Older Buildings, One Room at a Time, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 14(3-4), 2018.

  8. Yasra Chandio, Jó Ágila Bitsch, Affan A. Syed, Muhammad Hamad Alizai: Networking Wireless Energy in Embedded Networks, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 14(2), 2018.

  9. Muhammad Waqar Aziz, Farhan Naeem, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Khan Bahadar Khan: Automated Solutions for Crowd Size Estimation, Social Science Computer Review, 2017.

  10. Muhammad Hamad Alizai (single author): Practical and Self-Configurable Multihop Wireless Infrastructure – A Functional Perspective, Int. J. of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC), 24 (4), 2017.

  11. Naveed Bhatti, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Affan A. Syed, Luca Mottola: Energy Harvesting and Wireless Transfer in Sensor Network Applications: Concepts and Experiences, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), 12 (3), 2016.

  12. Zaafar Ahmed, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Affan A. Syed: InKeV: In-kernel Distributed Network Virtualization for DCN, ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), July 2016.

  13. Sheraz Ali Khan, Muhammad Moosa, Farhan Naeem, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Jong-Myon Kim: Protocols and Mechanisms to Recover Failed Packets in Wireless Networks: History and Evolution, IEEE Access (4), 2016.

  14. Waqaas Munawar, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Olaf Landsiedel, Klaus Wehrle: Modular Remote Reprogramming of Sensor Nodes, Int. J. of Sensor Networks (IJSNet), 19(3-4), 2015.

  15. Naveed Bhatti, Affan A. Syed, Muhammad Hamad Alizai: Laser based Energy Distribution Architecture for Decoupling Energy and Sensing Planes in WSN, Int. J. of Distributed Sensor Networks (IDJSN), 2015.

  16. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Klaus Wehrle: Probabilistic Location-Free Addressing Scheme for Multi-Hop Wirleless Networks, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), 41: 167-181, 2014.

  17. Ismet Aktas, Florian Schmidt, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Klaus Wehrle: Harnessing Cross Layer Design, Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks (Elsevier), 13(B): 444-461, 2014.

  18. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Hanno Wirtz, Bernhard Kirchen, Klaus Wehrle: Portable Wireless-Networking Protocol Evaluation, Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA, Elsevier), 36(4): 1230-1242, 2013.

  19. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Olaf Landsiedel, Klaus Wehrle: Exploiting the Burstiness of Intermediate Quality Wireless Links, Int. J. of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN), ID 212876, 2012.

    20. International Conferences and Workshops

  20. Muhammad Azmeer Zahid, Nauman Zaffar, Muhammad Hamad Alizai: Saving Natural Gas through Smart Water Heating, ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), Boston, 2022. (Acceptance Rate: 30%)

  21. Andrea Maioli, Luca Mottola, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Junaid Haroon Siddiqui: Discovering the Hidden Anomalies of Intermittent Computing, International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Delft, The Netherlands, 2021. (Acceptance Rate: 31%)

  22. Mikhail Afanasov, Naveed Bhatti, Dennis Campagna, Giacomo Caslini, Fabio Massimo Centonze, Koustabh Dolui, Andrea Maioli, Erica Barone, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Junaid Haroon Siddiqui, Luca Mottola: Battery-less Zero-maintenance Embedded Sensing at the Mithraeum of Circus Maximus, 17th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Yokohama, Japan, 2020. (Acceptance Rate: 20%)

  23. Samar Abbas, Ahmed Ehsan, Saad Ahmed, Sheraz Ali Khan, Tariq M. Jadoon, Muhammad Hamad Alizai: No-frills Water Comfort for Developing Regions, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Sydney, Australia, 2020. (Acceptance Rate: 22%)

  24. Saad Ahmed, Qurat ul Ain,  Junaid Haroon Siddiqui, Luca Mottola, Muhammad Hamad Alizai: Intermittent Computing with Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Scaling, International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Lyon, France, 2020. (Acceptance rate: 31%) Best Paper Candidate

  25. Adriano Branco, Luca Mottola, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Junaid H. Siddiqui: Intermittent Asynchronous Peripheral Operations, 17th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), NY, USA, 2019. (Acceptance rate: 19%) Best Paper Candidate

  26. Saad Ahmed, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Junaid Haroon Siddiqui, Luca Mottola: Efficient Intermittent Computing with Differential Checkpointing, ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, Tools and Theory of Embedded Systems (LCTES), Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 2019. (Acceptance rate: 31%)

  27. Saad Ahmed, Abu Bakar, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Junaid Haroon Siddiqui, Luca Mottola: The Betrayal of Constant Power × Time: Finding the Missing Joules of Transiently-Powered Computers, ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, Tools and Theory of Embedded Systems (LCTES), Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 2019. (Acceptance rate: 31%)

  28. Andrea Maioli, Luca Mottola, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Junaid Haroon Siddiqui: WiP: On Intermittence Bugs in the Battery-less Internet of Things, ACM SIGPLAN/SIGBED Conference on Languages, Compilers, Tools and Theory of Embedded Systems (LCTES), Phoenix, Arizona, United States, 2019.

  29. Hassan Iqbal, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Olaf Landsiedel, Zartash Afzal Uzmi: Scylla: Interleaving Multiple IoT Stacks on a Single Radio , 14th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Heraklion/Crete, Greece, 2018. (Acceptance Rate: 17%)

  30. Khadija Hafeez, Yasra Noman, Abu Bakar, Ayesha Ali, Affan A. Syed, Tariq M. Jadoon, Muhammad Hamad Alizai: Inverting HVAC for Energy Efficient Thermal Comfort in Populous Emerging Countries, 4th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Built Environments (BuildSys), Delft, The Netherlands, 2017. (Acceptance Rate: 31%) Audience Choice Award 

  31. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Qasim Raza, Yasra Chandio, Affan A. Syed, Tariq M. Jadoon: Simulating Intermittenly Powered Embedded Networks, ACM 13th International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), Graz, Austria, 2016.

  32. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Moosa Khattak, Dong Han, Ompraskash Gnawali, Affan A. Syed: Recycling Corrupt Packets over Multiple Hops, 12th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), Porto, Portugal, 2015. (Acceptance rate: 21.5%)

  33. Noshab Gul, Safi ur Rehman, Muhammad Hamad Alizai: Mathematical Modeling & Optimization Applied to Mine Planning and Design using Parallel Computing Paradigm, 1st National Conference on Mathematical Sciences, Malakand, Pakistan, 2014.

  34. Naveed Bhatti, Affan A. Syed, Muhammad Hamad Alizai: Sensors with Lasers: Building a WSN PowerGrid, 13th ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Berlin, Germany, 2014.

  35. Ismet Aktas, Matin Henze, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Kevin Moellering, Klaus Wehrle: Graph-based Redundancy Removal Approach for Multiple Cross-Layer Interactions, 6th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), Bangalore, India, 2014.

  36. Hanno Wirtz, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Klaus Wehrle: Fuzzy Logical Coordinates and Location Services for Scalable Addressing in Wireless Networks, 10th Annual Conference on Wireless On-Demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), Banff (Alberta), Canada, 2013.

  37. Ismet Aktas, Florian Schmidt, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Tobias Druener, Klaus Wehrle: CRAWLER: An Experimentation Platform for System Monitoring and Cross-Layer-Coordination, Thirteenth IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), San Fransisco, CA, USA, 2012.

  38. Florian Schmidt, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Ismet Aktas, Klaus Wehrle: Refector: Heuristic Header Error Recovery for Error-Tolerant Transmissions, 7th ACM International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), Tokyo, Japan, 2011.

  39. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Hanno Wirtz, Bernhard Kirchen, Tobias Vaegs, Omprakash Gnawali, Klaus Wehrle: TinyWifi: Making Network Protocol Evaluation Portable across Multiple Phy-Link Layers, 6th ACM WiNTECH in conjunction with ACM MobiCom, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 2011.

  40. Tobias Vaegs , Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Jó Ágila Bitsch Link, Klaus Wehrle: Efficient Power Management using Out-of-Band Signaling, 10th GI/ITG Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (FGSN), Paderborn, Germany, 2011.

  41. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Hanno Wirtz, Georg Kunz, Benjamin Grap, Klaus Wehrle: Efficient Online Estimation of Bursty Wireless Links, 16th IEEE International Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Corfu, Greece, 2011.

  42. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Tobias Vaegs, Olaf Landsiedel, Stefan Götz, Jó Ágila Bitsch Link, Klaus Wehrle: Probabilistic Addressing: Stable Addresses in Unstable Wireless Networks, 10th ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Chicago, IL, USA, 2011.

  43. Waqaas Munawar, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Olaf Landsiedel, Klaus Wehrle: Dynamic TinyOS: Modular and Transparent Incremental Code-Updates for Sensor Networks, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC),Cape Town, South Africa, 2010.

  44. Tobias Vaegs, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Klaus Wehrle: Probabilistic Addressing in Wireless Networks, 2nd IEEE Student Conference, TUHH, Germany, 2010.

  45. Raimondas Sasnauskas, Olaf Landsiedel, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Carsten Weise, Stefan Kowalewski, Klaus Wehrle: KleeNet: Discovering Insidious Interaction Bugs in Wireless Sensor Networks Before Deployment, 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Stockholm, Sweden, 2010.

  46. Jó Ágila Bitsch Link, Gregor Fabritius, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Klaus Wehrle: BurrowView: Seeing the world through the eyes of rats, 2nd International Workshop on Information Quality and Quality of Service for Pervasive Computing (IQ2S), in conjuction with IEEE PerCom, Mannheim, 2010.

  47. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Georg Kunz, Olaf Landsiedel, Klaus Wehrle: Promoting Power to a First Class Metric in Network Simulations, 23th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS), Hannover, 2010.

  48. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Olaf Landsiedel, Jó Ágila Bitsch Link, Stefan Goetz, Klaus Wehrle: Bursty Traffic over Bursty Links, 7th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys), Berkeley, California, USA, 2009.

  49. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Olaf Landsiedel, Klaus Wehrle: Modeling Execution Time and Energy Consumption in Sensor Node Simulation, PIK Journal’s special issue on energy aware systems, July 2009.

  50. Waqaas Munawar, Olaf Landsiedel, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Klaus Wehrle: Remote Incremental Adaptation of Sensor Network Applications,  8th GI/ITG KuVS Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (FGSN), Hamburg, Germany, 2009.

  51. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Olaf Landsiedel, Jó Ágila Bitsch Link, Stefan Goetz, Klaus Wehrle: Routing over Bursty Wirless Links, 8th GI/ITG KuVS Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (FGSN), Hamburg, 2009.

  52. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Olaf Landsiedel, Klaus Wehrle, Alexander Becher: Challenges in Short-term Wireless Link Quality Estimation, 7th GI/ITG Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (FGSN), Berlin, Germany, 2008.

  53. Raimondas Sasnauskas, Jó Ágila Bitsch Link, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Klaus Wehrle: Bug Hunting in Sensor Network Applications, 7th GI/ITG Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (FGSN), Berlin, Germany, 2008.

  54. Olaf Landsiedel, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Klaus Wehrle: When Timing Matters: Enabling Time Accurate & Scalable Simulation of Sensor Network Applications, 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), St. Louis, Missouri, USA, 2008.

  55. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Olaf Landsiedel, Klaus Wehrle; Accurate Timing in Sensor Network Simulation, 6th GI/ITG Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (FGSN), Aachen, Germany, 2007

    56. Posters and Demos

  56. Saad Ahmed, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Naveed A. Bhatti, Junaid H. Siddiqui, Lucal Mottola: Poster Abstract: Towards smaller checkpoints for better intermittent computing, Proceedings of the 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Porto, Portugal, 2018.

  57. Hassan Iqbal, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Zartash Afzal Uzmi, Olaf Landsiedel: Poster Abstract: Taming Link-layer Heterogeneity in IoT through Interleaving Multiple Link-Layers over a Single Radio, 15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Delft, The Netherlands, 2017.

  58. Saad Ahmed, Hassan Khan, Junad Haroon Siddiqui, Jó Ágila Bitsch, Muhammad Hamad Alizai: Poster Abstract: Incremental Checkpointing for Interruptible Computations, 14th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Standford University, CA, USA, 2016.

  59. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Bernhard Kirchen, Jó Ágila Bitsch Link, Hanno Wirtz, Klaus Wehrle: Poster Abstract:TinyOS Meets Wireless Mesh Networks, 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), Zurich, Switzerland, 2010. Best Abstract Award.

  60. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Tobias Vaegs, Olaf Landsiedel, Raimondas Sasnauskas, Klaus Wehrle: Statistical Vector based Point-to-Point Routing in Wireless Networks, 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Poster Program, Stockholm, Sweden, 2010.

  61. Raimondas Sasnauskas, Jó Bitsch, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Klaus Wehrle: Kleenet - Automatic Bug Hunting in Sensor Network Applications, 6th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (Sensys), Poster Program, Raleigh, USA, 2008.

    62. Thesis

  62. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Exploiting Wireless Link Dynamics, PhD Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 2012.

  63. Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Accurate Timing in Sensor Network Simulations, Master Thesis, RWTH Aachen University, Germany, 2007.