Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman

Dr Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman

Lecturer in Distributed and Networked Systems

My profile

Biography

I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Computing & Mathematics at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. I earned my B.S degree in Electronics & Communication (majors in Embedded System & Wireless Communication) from the University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan in 2013, an M.S degree in Computer Science (Major in Wireless Communication) from COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan in 2016, and a PhD degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering from Hongik University, South Korea in 2022. My research interests are in the broader areas of Distributed Networking and Computing, Edge/Fog/Cloud Computing, Network Protocol Design, Wireless/Mobile Communication, Networking & Computing for Metaverse, Future Vertical Communication Networks, Information-Centric Networking, Microservices Distribution and Networking, Internet of Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Networks and beyond 5th generation communication. In my research, I consider the network as giant computing machinery and develop efficient protocols and frameworks to support in-network computations aiming to reduce backhaul traffic and congestion control. While utilizing the network to compute the requests, I primarily focus on the stringent latency requirements of end-user/devices and reduce the latency to meet the deadline time.

Prior to starting my PhD, I worked as Software Architect in leading IT companies. I have 6+ years of software & application development experience in modern application development technologies such as C/C++, C#, AngularJS, TypeScript, JavaScript, Swift, Java, ASP.NET, Entity Framework, Dapper, SQL, MongoDB.

Apart from my research and development activities, I am a history buff and love to read history books and watch historical documentaries and seasons. My favourite historical personality is “Leonardo da Vinci”, an Italian polymath and widely considered one of the most diversely talented individuals ever to have lived. The following is his quote that is my favourite: “Learning never exhausts the mind”.

Get in touch

JD E149 John Dalton Building
Office hours: Tuesday 11:00-12:30 and Wednesday 15:00-16:30 (Virtual)

Impact

Professional Services

  • Lead Guest Editor: Special Issue on Challenges and Opportunities in Metaverse-based Communication and Networking, IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (IEEEComSoc)
  • Technical Program Committee Member: 4th International
    Conference on Information Technology for Social Good (GoodIT 2024)
  • Guest Editor: Special Issue on Super-giant and Hyperscale AI + Super Connected Network Technologies, MDPI Sensor (ICGHIT)
  • Associate Editor: Springer Wireless Personal Communication Journal (WPC)
  • General Chair: IEEE ICC 2024 2nd Workshop on Metaverse-based Networking, Computing, and Security (MetaNC) 
  • Technical Program Committee Member: 28th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications (DS-RT 2024)
  • Founding Member: IEEE Special Interest Group on Metaverse (Sigmeta)
  • General Chair: IEEE ICC 2023 Workshop on Metaverse-based Networking and Computing (MetaNC) 
  • Session Chair: International Conference on Computing and Communication Networks (ICCCN), November 19-20, 2022
  • Technical Program Committee Member: ACM MOBICOM-2nd Workshop on Networked Sensing Systems for a Sustainable Society (NET4us 2023)
  • Technical Program Committee Member: Emerging technologies track at the Second International Conference of Smart Systems and Emerging Technologies (SmartTech)
  • Technical Program Committee Member: The Seventeenth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications June 18 - July 22, 2021, Nice, France (ICWMC 2021)
  • Technical Program Committee Member: The Sixteenth International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Communications June 28 - July 02, 2020, Athens, Greece (ICWMC 2020)
  • Guest Editor: MDPI Electronics Special Issue on New Challenges in 5G Networks Design (MDPI)

Invited Talks/International Meetings/Presentations

  • Guest Lecture: Metaverse and the Rise of Next Generation of Immersive Applications, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 11-Dec-2023
  • Invited Talk: The Art of Software Development: What skills should you have in this fast era of technological advancement organized by Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, UK.
  • Invited Talk: The Art of Programming and Misconceptions organized by the Department of Electronics & Communication, The University of Lahore, Lahore, Pakistan.
  • International Meeting: 2020 - IEEE Communications Systems Integration and Modeling Technical Committee Meeting
  • International Meeting: 2019 - ICNRG Interim Meeting in MACAUs
  • International Meeting: Korea-Hungary Joint Research Project Kickoff Meeting

Projects

  • Researcher: Establishment of Big Data and Control Center open lab for Autonomous Driving Pilot Testing, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy
  •  Researcher: Brain Korea 21, Research Team for Super-Distributed Autonomous Computing Service Technologies, BK21, National Research Foundation of Korea

  • Researcher: Research on Augmented Reality Framework using Future Internet Paradigms for 5G & Beyond, Korea-Hungary Joint Research Program, National Research Foundation of Korea, 2019.01- 2020.12

  • Researcher: Research on Information-Centric Wireless Edge Networking (ICWEN) Technology for High Reliability and Low Delay Communications, Mid-career Researcher Program, National Research Foundation of Korea

  • Researcher: Analysis of Technologies and Algorithms for Low-Power Optimal Operation of the Small IoT Devices, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), South Korea

  • Researcher: Research on Algorithm for Low-Power Optimal Operation in Distributed & Cooperative Network Environments, Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI), South Korea

Teaching

Why study an Advanced Computer Networks course?

The advanced computer networks course focuses on technical aspects of networking, covering recent developments in the field such as 5G/6G, artificial intelligence for smart networks, unmanned aerial and autonomous vehicle networks, and softwarized and information-centric networking. The course emphasizes network topologies, routing algorithms, security protocols, mobility management, and network maintenance areas. The students will acquire crucial skills for careers in various domains, including the telecommunication industry, cybersecurity, cloud computing, network engineering, and system administration while studying these core areas.

POSTGRADUATE (MS/MSc) - UNIT LEADER

  1. MSc-Advanced Computer Networks  (Autumn’22 - present) 

UNDERGRADUATE (BS/BSc)

  1. BSc- Distributed Computing (Spring’2024 - Present)

UNDERGRADUATE (BS/BSc) - PERSONAL TUTOR

  1. BSc-Graduate Skills (Autumn’22 - present)
  2. BSc-Team Projects (Spring’2023 - present)

Supervision

PhD

Abima Obim Abima,  Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. 

MS/MSc

n=3

Degree Apprenticeship

n=4

BS/BSc

n=5

Prospective Graduate Students

I am always looking for highly motivated graduate students committed to conducting research in distributed networking and computing, intelligent networks, edge cloud computing, networking, and computing for Metaverse, wireless/mobile networking, and networking. Ideal candidates should be self-driven, adaptable, and passionate about academic exploration and research.

Research outputs

  • Journal articles

    Khalid, W., Rehman, M.A.U., Van Chien, T., Kaleem, Z., Lee, H., Yu, H. (2024) 'Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Physical Layer Security in 6G-IoT: Designs, Issues, and Advances.' IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 11(2) pp. 3599-3613.

    Fayyaz, S., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Khalid, W., Kim, B.S. (2023) 'SHM-NDN: A seamless hybrid mobility management scheme for named data mobile ad hoc networks.' Internet of Things (Netherlands), 24

    Zafar, W.U.I., Rehman, M.A.U., Jabeen, F., Ullah, R., Abbas, G., Khan, A. (2023) 'Decentralized Receiver-based Link Stability-aware Forwarding Scheme for NDN-based VANETs.' Computer Networks, 236

    Rehman, M.A.U., Salah Ud Din, M., Mastorakis, S., Kim, B.S. (2023) 'FoggyEdge: An Information-Centric Computation Offloading and Management Framework for Edge-Based Vehicular Fog Computing.' IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Magazine, 15(5) pp. 78-90.

    Fayyaz, S., Rehman, M.A.U., Din, M.S.U., Biswas, M.I., Bashir, A.K., Kim, B.S. (2023) 'Information-centric mobile networks: a survey, discussion, and future research directions.' IEEE Access, 11pp. 40328-40372.

    Imran, M., Din, M.S.U., Rehman, M.A.U., Kim, B.S. (2023) 'MIA-NDN: Microservice-Centric Interest Aggregation in Named Data Networking.' Sensors, 23(3)

    Salah ud din, M., Ur Rehman, M.A., Ullah, R., Park, C.W., Kim, D.H., Kim, B.S. (2022) 'Improving resource-constrained IoT device lifetimes by mitigating redundant transmissions across heterogeneous wireless multimedia of things.' Digital Communications and Networks, 8(5) pp. 778-790.

    Imran, M., Ibrahim, M., Din, M.S.U., Rehman, M.A.U., Kim, B.S. (2022) 'Live virtual machine migration: A survey, research challenges, and future directions.' Computers and Electrical Engineering, 103pp. 108297-108297.

    Zafar, W.U.I., Rehman, M.A.U., Jabeen, F., Ghouzali, S., Rehman, Z., Abdul, W. (2022) 'Context-aware pending interest table management scheme for NDN-based VANETs.' Sensors, 22(11) pp. 4189-4189.

    Din, M.S.U., Rehman, M.A.U., Kim, B.S. (2021) 'CIDF-WSN: A collaborative interest and data forwarding strategy for named data wireless sensor networks.' Sensors, 21(15)

    Zafar, W.U.I., Rehman, M.A.U., Jabeen, F., Kim, B.S., Rehman, Z. (2021) 'Context-aware naming and forwarding in ndn-based vanets.' Sensors, 21(14)

    Imran, M., Rehman, M.A.U., Kim, B.S. (2021) 'Information-centric edge computing: A survey.' IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing, 10(3) pp. 250-258.

    Rehman, M.A.U., Ullah, R., Kim, B.S., Nour, B., Mastorakis, S. (2021) 'CCIC-WSN: An Architecture for Single-Channel Cluster-Based Information-Centric Wireless Sensor Networks.' IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 8(9) pp. 7661-7675.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M., Kim, B.S. (2021) 'Suggestions on Future Research Directions of Autonomous Vehicles based on Information-Centric Micro-Service.' The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication,

    Fayyaz, S., Rehman, M.A.U., Salahuddin, M., Kim, B.S. (2021) 'Survey on Producer Mobility in Information Centric Networks.' Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers, 58(2) pp. 43-51.

    Ullah, R., Rehman, M.A.U., Naeem, M.A., Kim, B.S., Mastorakis, S. (2020) 'ICN with edge for 5G: Exploiting in-network caching in ICN-based edge computing for 5G networks.' Future Generation Computer Systems, 111pp. 159-174.

    Din, M.S.U., Rehman, M.A.U., Ullah, R., Park, C.W., Kim, B.S. (2020) 'Towards network lifetime enhancement of resource constrained iot devices in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks.' Sensors (Switzerland), 20(15) pp. 1-23.

    Naeem, M.A., Rehman, M.A.U., Ullah, R., Kim, B.S. (2020) 'A Comparative Performance Analysis of Popularity-Based Caching Strategies in Named Data Networking.' IEEE Access, 8pp. 50057-50077.

    Ur Rehman, M.A., Kim, D., Choi, K., Ullah, R., Kim, B.S. (2019) 'A statistical performance analysis of named data ultra dense networks.' Applied Sciences (Switzerland), 9(18)

    Ullah, R., Rehman, M.A.U., Kim, B.S. (2019) 'Hierarchical name-based mechanism for push-data broadcast control in information-centric multihop wireless networks.' Sensors (Switzerland), 19(14)

    Rehman, M.A.U., Ullah, R., Kim, B.S. (2019) 'NINQ: Name-integrated query framework for named-data networking of things.' Sensors (Switzerland), 19(13)

    Ullah, R., Rehman, M.A.U., Kim, B.S. (2019) 'Design and Implementation of an Open Source Framework and Prototype for Named Data Networking-Based Edge Cloud Computing System.' IEEE Access, 7pp. 57741-57759.

  • Conference papers

    Biswas, I., Al-Khalidi, M., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Kim, B.S., Bashir, A.K. (2023) 'An analysis of multicasting optimisation mechanisms for intelligent edge computing with low-power and lossy networks.' In WS-11: Distributed and Intelligent Edge Computing for 6G Communications at IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC). Glasgow, Scotland, 26/3/2023 - 29/3/2023. IEEE,

    Khalid, W., Ur Rehman, M.A., Van Chien, T., Yu, H. (2023) 'Simultaneously Transmitting and Reflecting-Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces with Hardware Impairment and Phase Error.' pp. 654-656.

    Salah ud din, M., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Imran, M., Nadeem Ali, M., Kim, B.S. (2022) 'A Testbed Implementation of Microservices-based In-Network Computing Framework for Information-Centric IoV.' In 7th IEEE/IEIE International Conference on Consumer Electronics-Asia (ICCE-Asia). SONO CALM, Yeosu, South Korea, 26/10/2022 - 28/10/2022.

    Salah ud din, M., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Imran, M., Jung, E.S., Kim, B.S. (2021) 'Robust Data Forwarding Scheme for NDN based Single Radio Wireless Sensor Networks.' In Summer Conference of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea. Jeju, South Korea, 18/8/2021 - 21/8/2021.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M., Salah Ud Din, M., Imran, M., Fayyaz, S., Kim, B.S. (2021) 'ndnCSIM - A Microservices based Compute Simulator for NDN.' In Summer Conference of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea. Jeju, South Korea, 18/8/2021 - 21/8/2021.

    Salah ud din, M., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Fayyaz, S., Jin, H.D., Kim, B.S. (2021) 'PEN-WSN: Power Efficient Named Data Networking Enabled Cluster based WSN.' In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology. Jeju, South Korea, 13/1/2021 - 15/1/2021.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M., Salah ud din, M., Fayyaz, S., Jin, H.D., Kim, B.S. (2021) 'Integrating Information-Centric Wireless Sensor Network to the Internet: A Softwarized Approach.' In Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology. Jeju Island, South Korea, 13/1/2021 - 15/1/2021.

    Dóka, J., Nagy, B.G., Rehman, M.A.U., Kim, D.H., Kim, B.S., Toka, L., Sonkoly, B. (2020) 'AR over NDN: Augmented reality applications and the rise of information centric networking.' pp. 44-45.

    Salah ud din, M., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Ullah, R., Jin, H.D., Kim, B.S. (2020) 'Energy Efficient Cluster-head Declaration Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks.' In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology. Hanoi, Vietnam, 5/2/2020 - 7/2/2020.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M., Kim, D., Jin, H.D., Kim, B.S., Ali, R. (2020) 'A Cluster-based Namespace Design for Single Channel Information-Centric Wireless Sensor Networks in Smart City.' In Proceedings of 8th International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology. Hanoi, Vietnam, 5/2/2020 - 7/2/2020.

    Ur Rehman, M.A., Ullah, R., Kim, B.S. (2019) 'A compact NDN architecture for cluster based information centric wireless sensor networks.' pp. 163-164.

    Ullah, R., Ur Rehman, M.A., Kim, B.S., Sonkoly, B., Tapolcai, J. (2019) 'On Pending Interest Table in Named Data Networking based Edge Computing: The Case of Mobile Augmented Reality.' 2019-July. pp. 263-265.

    Ullah, R., Ur Rehman, M.A., Kim, B.S., Hwang, S.O. (2019) 'RAPEL: Robust and Adaptive method for PIT Entry Lifetime in Wireless Content-Centric Networks.' 2019-July. pp. 346-351.

    Ullah, R., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Kim, B.S. (2019) 'Named Data Networking with Edge Computing for 5G Radio Access Network.' In Conference on Korean Network Operations and Management (KNOM). Daegu, Republic of Korea, 30/5/2019 - 31/5/2019.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M., Ullah, R., Kim, B.S. (2019) 'Caching in Named Data Networking with an Open Source Edge Computing Framework.' In Conference on Korean Network Operations and Management (KNOM). Daegu, Republic of Korea, 30/5/2019 - 31/5/2019.

    Ullah, R., Rehman, M.A.U., Kim, B.S. (2019) 'Poster: A testbed implementation of NDN-based edge computing for mobile augmented reality.'

    Ullah, R., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Kim, B.S. (2019) 'Push-based Data Broadcast Control for Information Centric Internet of Things.' In Proceedings of International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 16/1/2019 - 18/1/2019.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M., Kim, D., Choi, K.M., Kim, B.S. (2019) 'A Performance Analysis of Named Data Networking using Multiple Linear Regression.' In Proceedings of International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 16/1/2019 - 18/1/2019.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M., Ullah, R., Mah, S.H., Kim, B.S. (2019) 'An In-Network Query Structure for Information Centric Sensor Networks.' In Proceedings of International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 16/1/2019 - 18/1/2019.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M., Mah, S.H., Faheem, Y., Kim, B.S. (2018) 'MMHW: A Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Heterogenous Wireless Sensor Network.' In Korean Society of Electronics Engineers Autumn Conference. Incheon, South Korea, 23/11/2018 - 24/11/2018.

    Ahn, C.H., Park, Y.M., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Kim, B.S. (2018) 'Implementation of Wireless Remote System for 3D- Ptinter using OctoPrint.' In Korean Society of Electronics Engineers Autumn Conference. Incheon, South Korea, 23/11/2018 - 24/11/2018.

    Asif Rehman, R., Ullah, R., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Kim, B.S. (2018) 'Caching and Forwarding in Named Data Networking based MANETs.' In Conference on Korean Network Operations and Management (KNOM). Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, 10/5/2018 - 11/5/2018.

  • Presentations

    Atif Ur Rehman, M. (2021) Integrating Information-Centric Wireless Sensor Network to the Internet: A Softwarized Approach. [Presentation] 9th International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology, Jeju, South Korea,13/1/2021.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M. (2019) On Pending Interest Table in Named Data Networking based Edge Computing. [Presentation] 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks, Zagreb, Croatia,3/7/2019.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M. (2019) Caching in Named Data Networking with an Open Source Edge Computing Framework. [Presentation] Conference on Korean Network Operations and Management (KNOM), Daegu, Republic of Korea,30/5/2019.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M. (2019) An In-Network Query Structure for Information Centric Sensor Networks. [Presentation] 7th International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.,1/2019.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M. (2019) Push-based Data Broadcast Control for Information Centric Internet of Things. [Presentation] 7th International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.,1/2019.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M. (2019) A Performance Analysis of Named Data Networking using Multiple Linear Regression. [Presentation] 7th International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.,1/2019.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M. (2018) MMHW: A Multi-Channel MAC Protocol for Heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Network. [Presentation] Korean Society of Electronics Engineers Autumn Conference, Incheon, South Korea,23/11/2018.

  • Patents

    Atif Ur Rehman, M., Khalil Afzal, M., Ullah, R., Kim, B.S. Method to communication in Cluster-based Information-Centric Wireless Networks.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M., Fayyaz, S., Salah ud din, M., Kim, B.S. (2023) Clustered Stationary Vehicles-based Vehicular Networking and Computing System.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M., Fayyaz, S., Kim, B.S. (2022) Method for Enabling Seamless Hybrid Mobility Management in Named Data Mobile Networks.

    Ullah, R., Kim, D.H., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Kim, B.S. (2021) Method for Push-based Data Broadcast Control in Information-Centric Internet of Things.

    Ullah, R., Kim, D.H., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Kim, B.S. (2021) Method for enabling Information Centric Networking-based Edge Computing in 5G Networks.

    Ullah, R., Jin, H.D., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Kim, B.S. (2021) Integration System of Named Data Networking-based Edge Cloud Computing for Internet of Things.

  • Posters

    Imran, M., Salah ud din, M., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Kim, Y.C., Kim, B.S. (2021) 'An Overview of Live VM Migration Techniques in Cloud Data Center.' [Poster] In Summer Conference of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea. Date viewed 30/6/2021.

    Salah ud din, M., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Jin, H.D., Park, C.W., Kim, B.S. (2020) 'Energy Efficient Data Transmission in Cluster Based Heterogenous Wireless Sensor Networks.' [Poster] In Summer Conference of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea. Date viewed 19/8/2020.

    Fayyaz, S., Atif Ur Rehman, M., Salah ud din, M., Kim, B.S. (2020) 'Seamless Producer Mobility in Named Data Mobile AdHoc Networks.' [Poster] In Summer Conference of the Institute of Electronics Engineers of Korea. Date viewed 19/8/2020.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M., Ullah, R., Kim, B.S. (2018) 'Named Query Framework for Named Data Networking of Things.' [Poster] In Named Data Networking Community Meeting 2018 (NDNComm). Date viewed 19/9/2018.

    Atif Ur Rehman, M., Ullah, R., Kim, B.S. (2018) 'Naming Schemes in Information-Centric Networking.' [Poster] In Korean Network Operations and Management (KNOM). Date viewed 10/5/2018.