Farhat Anwar

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Curriculum Vitae

Personal Detail:
Name: Professor Dr. Farhat Anwar

Date of Birth: 5th February 1963
Marital Status: Married

Term Address:
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Faculty of Engineering,
International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM)
P.O. Box 10
50728 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected]
Educational Qualifications:
Ph.D. Dept. of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, Thesis Title:
University of Strathclyde, UK. Application of Cellular
Radio in the Field of RTI
Research topic: Development of a packet based
data-link protocol for cellular radio based RTI
implementation, 1995.
M.Sc. by Research Dept. of Applied Physics and Electronics, University 1st Class
of Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Research topic: Small scale LAN development for
PC communication, 1983.
B.Sc. (Hons.) Dept. of Applied Physics and Electronics, University 1st Class
of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1982.
H.S.C. (Higher Notre Dame Collage, Dhaka, Bangladesh, (Sub: 1st Division
Secondary Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English,
Certificate) Bengali), 1979.
S.S.C. (Secondary Dhanmondi Govt. Boys High School, Dhaka, 1st Division
School Certificate) Bangladesh (Sub: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry,
Biology, English, Bengali), 1977.
Scholarships:
Awarded Commonwealth Scholarship (1990) to pursue Ph.D. programme in the Department of
Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK.
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Career History:
Duration Job description and work experience
21st July 2009 –till Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, International
now Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Involved in teaching masters level and
undergraduate courses, supervising projects, thesis and research activities.
Consulting.
5th July 2002 – Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
20th July 2009 International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Involved in teaching masters
level and undergraduate courses, supervising projects, thesis and research
activities.
1st July 2003 – Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering, International Islamic University
30th June 2005 Malaysia (IIUM).
5th October 1999 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
4th July 2002 International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). Involved in teaching masters
level and undergraduate courses, supervising projects, thesis and research
activities.
28th December Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Physics & Electronics,
1995 - 3 October University of Dhaka, Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Tought masters level and
1999 undergraduate courses, supervised projects, thesis and research activities. Was
actively involved as adjunct faculty member and consultant in different private
universities in Bangladesh.
26th April 1988 – Lecturer in the Department of Applied Physics & Electronics, University of Dhaka,
5th December Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh. Tought undergraduate courses, supervised projects,
1995 thesis and research activities
November 1991 - Lab-Assistant in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, University
June 1994 of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, for the period of six terms. Courses covered:
Software Engineering (using C and Quick BASIC), Communications-2 (Analogue
and Digital Communications).
1st August 1988 – Adjunct Software tutor in a local computer institute. Involved in teaching
31st July 1989 programming using C and PASCAL.
1984 - 1988 Analyst Programmer, Unidev Computer Solutions Ltd. (CSL), Road No 32 (old),
Dhanmondi R/A, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
September 1984 - One month training as Instrument Trainee Engineer at Zia Fertilizer, Bangladesh.
October 1984 Where the training was involved in instrument maintenance and control of the
fertilizer industry. Specifically, maintenance and repairing of analogue control
units, solenoid valve and electronic measuring units.
Relevant Experience:
Research : I have been involved in research activities for more than twenty years concerning
simulation based investigation of computer data and voice communication over
Cellular Radio (specifically GSM) as well as Fixed Terrestrial Networks and
particularly in packet based protocol development for RTI/IVHS (Road Traffic
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Informatics and Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems) related data
communication and performance analysis. For system modelling I have been
using C, C++, SIMSCRIPT-II.5, NS-2, and QualNet extensively. I have
comprehensive knowledge on data-communication and telecommunication
networks, OSI and TCP/IP protocols for computer communication.
As a part of my present employment I am also directly involved with research
activities in my institution and also supervise PhD and M.Sc. thesis students in the
area of Cellular mobile network, Computer data network, Ad-hoc network, Sensor
Network and Intelligent Vehicle-Hiway Systems (IVHS).
During my M.Sc. degree I was involved in investigating and developing a small
scale Local Area Network (LAN) for micro-computers. My Ph.D. research
involved analysis and development of a packet based data-link protocol for
RTI/IVHS applications and cellular based mobile location tracking.
Teaching : As a lecturer I am currently involved in taking classes for the following master’s
level courses: Advanced Computer Communication Networks (ECE 6103),
Performance modeling of computer systems (ECE6101), and Wireless personal
communications ECE-7221. I also teach the following undergraduate courses:
Object oriented programming (with C++ and Java) (ECE1112), Performance
analysis (ECE4151), Data communications (ECE3121), Computer
Communication and Networks (ECE 3122) and associated Labs, and Hardware
systems design (ECE 3130).
In my previous employment I was involved in taking courses concerning
computer programming, analogue and digital telecommunications, analogue and
digital electronics, and corresponding labs. I was also involved in teaching
courses on “Data Structures and Algorithms” using C/C++ and Pascal
programming languages.
During 1995 to 1999 I used to give lectures regularly for the Bachelors and
Masters level as an adjunct and guest faculty member in different national and
private universities such as:
“Data Communication and Network” (CSC430), Computer Organization and
Architecture (CSC311) and Computer Simulation (CSC440) for The Independent
University of Bangladesh (IUB), Dhaka.
“Telecommunications and Computer Communications” (CIS208) for the
University of London in Centre for Computer Studies (CCS), Dhaka, Bangladesh,
(a recognized institute for tutoring the University of London’s External
Programme in BSc Computing and Infromation Systems).
“Simulation and Modeling” (MCS-105) for The National University of
Bangladesh in the Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Dhaka, Bangladesh.
I also worked as a Lab Assistant in the Department of Electronic & Electrical
Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, for the period of six terms
(1991-1994). Courses covered: Software Engineering (using C and Quick
BASIC), Communications-2 (Analogue and Digital Communications).
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Supervision I have supervised 2 thesis student in the Ph.D. level, 15 thesis students in the
M.Sc. level and 20 final year projects for the undergraduate students. Currently I
am supervising 1 Ph.D., 2 M.Sc. and 3 final year project students.
Ph.D supervision
Title Status Year
1. Dynamic adaptation of IP multitasking for Completed 2007
heterogeneous mobile system
2. An ANN based image compression for efficient Completed 2008
transmission over the Internet
3. QoS Provisioning of Multicast Routing in In Progress 2009
WiMax Wireless Mesh Network
4. Optimized Handover Scheme for Network In Progress 2010
Mobility
M.Sc. supervision
Title Status Year
1. A simulation based study of the communication Completed 1997
aspects of a banking automation system
2. Mapping PRMA over GSM, a simulation based Completed 1998
study.
3. A study on packet based protocol for RTI Completed 1998
applications in GSM environment
4. Protocol development of wireless LAN Completed 1999
5. Mobility management of GSM using reverse Completed 1999
virtual call setup algorithm
6. The application of MAN as a backbone for Completed 1999
mobile data communication
7. Cell planning in cellular (mobile) system Completed 1999
8. Traffic shaping and congestion control in a Completed 2001
diffserv domain
9. Effect of handoff on flow marking in a diffserv Completed 2002
edge router
10 Effect of handover latency in Mobile IPv6 with Completed 2004
fast handoff
11 An algorithm for default forwarding trunk Completed 2005
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splitting (DFTS) to enhance bandwidth utilization
12 Performance Study of Multicast Routing Completed 2007
Protocol Over MANET (MANET)
13 Performance Study of QoS (Quality of Service) Completed 2008
Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(MANETs)
14 A Comparative Study of Peer-To-Peer (p2p) Completed 2009
Query Routing Protocols
15 An Enhancement of Seamless IP Diversity Based Completed 2008
Generalized Mobility Architecture to Reduce
Handover Latency and Packet Loss Rate in High
Speed Mobile Nodes
16 Improving The Traffic Engineering for the Completed 2009
Internet Protocol with Multi-Protocol Label
Swirching
17 Development of a Multicast Routing Protocol for Completed 2009
Wireless Mesh Networks
18 An Alternative Unicast Routing Protocol for Completed 2009
IEEE 802.11s Wireless Mesh Network
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20 A Study on Energy Efficient Clustering Routing In progress 2010
Protocol for Large-Scale Wireless Sensor
Networks
21 An Investigation of Handoff Latency Reduction In progress 2010
Mechanism for Mobile Internet Protocol
Version6 (MIPv6)
M.Sc. Co-Supervision
Title Status Year
22. An Enhancement of Fault-Tolerant Routing Completed 2010
Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network
23. Hardware Implementation of Transmitter for 2x2 In progress 2010
MIMO Channel Sounder
24. A Diff-Serve Approach to Enhance QoS in In progress 2010
Mobile IPv6 Based Network

Final year project (Undergraduate) supervision
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Title Status Year
1. Signalling systems in cellular Completed 2001
telecommunications
2. GPS application, theory and its implementation in Completed 2001
GSM system
3. Analysis of data compression techniques Completed 2001
4. Analysis and application of wireless application Completed 2002
protocol (WAP), building a WAP-based IIUM
student information system
5. Analysis of general packet radio services (GPRS) Completed 2002
performance using NS2
6. Implementation of route guidance system in Completed 2002
intelligent transportation system
7. An investigation on multimedia networking Completed 2003
8. Efficient call setup procedure for cellular mobile Completed 2003
system
9. Technology roadmap editor Completed 2004
10. Development of digital road map and its Completed 2004
application in navigation system
11. QoS in mobile ad-hoc network Completed 2006
12 Performance study of mobile IP Completed 2006
13. Cell planning for wireless communication Completed 2006
systems
14 Performance study of Sensor networks Completed 2007
15 Performance study of P2P networks Completed 2007
16 Performance study of IP micro-mobility protocols Completed 2007
17 A study on protocol development, Completed 2008
implementation and analysis (Go-Back-N ARQ)
18 A study on protocol development, Completed 2008
implementation and analysis (Selective-Repeat
ARQ)
19 Educational Simulator for ARQ Protocols Completed 2008
20 Performance Analysis of Proactive Routing Completed 2008
Protocol in Mobile Ad-Hoc Network (AODV)
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21 Human Verification Using Biometric Techniques Completed 2009
22 QoS Enhancement for MPLS Protocol Completed 2009
23 Performance Analysis of Voice Over Internet Completed 2009
Protocol in WiMAX Environment
24 Application of Seamless IP Diversity for QoS Completed 2009
Enhancement in High Speed Mobiles
25 Proposing a New Metric for Enhancement of Completed 2010
AODV in Wireless Mesh Network
26 NLP (Natural Language Processing) Based Completed 2010
E-Doctor
27 Performance Study of VoIP Over Heterogeneous Completed 2010
Wireless Network
28 Performance analysis of Sensor Network Routing In Progress 2010
Protocol

Examiner Ph.D Examination
Title Status Year
1. Reliability benchmarking techniques in Next- Completed 2006
generation Internet Core-network
2. Increasing Services Quality of Multimedia Completed 2010
Streaming Uning Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Model

M.Sc. Examination
1. Voice over IP using RSVP and diffserv Completed 2001
2. A Design For Virus Prevention And Detection Completed 2002
Using Integrity Checking
3. Quality of Service (QoS)-Based Management of Completed 2002
Preempted Traffic in MPLS Networks
4. A computer algorithm to determine optimal link Completed 2003
redundancy of complex network
5. Performance study of mobile IPv6 extensions Completed 2005
6. Evaluation of decisions and parameters in a Completed 2005
Faded Information Field based complex adaptive
information system
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7. Characterization of content code communication Completed 2006
format in an Adaptive Faded Information Field
architecture
8. Performance Evaluation of Multimedia Data Completed 2007
Transmission Over IEEE 802.11 WLAN
9. A study of network traffic and information Completed 2007
discovery of a mobile agent based adaptive
information service system.
10. Development of a Distributed Self-Regenerative Completed 2009
Component Based Network Using Multi Agent
11. Performance Analysis of Swarm Intelligence- Completed 2009
Based Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc
Network and Wireless Mesh Networks
12. Collision-Free Routing and Scheduling Using Completed 2010
Multiple Transceivers for IEEE 802.16 Mesh
Network
13. Quality of Service Based Recovery Scheme in Completed 2010
MPLS Network
14. Multi-Channel Support for Data Gathering Trees In Progress 2010
in Wireless Sensor Networks

Course As a part my academic activities I am actively involved in developing courses and
development curriculum for the department. A list of courses I was involved in designing for
the ECE of IIUM includes:
For undergraduate Computer and Informations Engineering (CIE) programme:
1. Object Oriented Programming (with C++ and Java) (ECE-1112),
2. Object Oriented Programming (ECE 1211)
3. Data Communications (ECE-4111),
4. Computer Communications and Networks (ECE 4211)
5. Performance Analysis ECE-4317
For postdergraduate in Computer and Informations Engineering (CIE) and
Communications Engineering (CE) programme:
6. Advanced Computer Communication Networks (ECE-6103) (MSc)
7. Performance Modeling of Computer Systems ECE-6101(MSc)
8. Wireless Personal Communication Systems ECE-6227 (MSc)
In my previous employment I was responsible for designing the following
courses, “Data Communications and Computer Networks, for the 4th year BSc
and “Advanced Data Communications and Computer Networks” for the MSc
degree for the Applied Physics and Electronics Dept., University of Dhaka.
Software I have years of experience in customised software development from my previous
Development: job in CSL.
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Programming I have extensive working experience in programming with C, C++, Java, Pascal,
Languages & BASIC, SIMSCRIPT II.5, NS2. as well as 6502 & 8086/8088 assembly language
Operating and quite familiar with DOS, MS Windows, and UNIX operating systems.
Systems:
Computers : I am quite skilled working with IBM compatible PC, Apple Macintosh, VAX-
11/750 and SUN SPARC workstations.
Book Chapter:
Md. Saiful Azad , Farhat Anwar and Md. Arafatur Rahman, Performance of Ad Hoc Routing
Protocols in Mobile WiMAX Environment, Trends in Communication Technologies and
Engineering Science, Edited by Ping-Kong Alexander Wai, Xu Huang and Sio-Iong Ao, Lecture
Notes Electrical Engineering, Volume 33, Springer Netherlands, ISBN 978-1-4020-9492-7
(Print) 978-1-4020-9532-0 (Online), DOI 10.1007/978-1-4020-9532-0, 2009
Papers & Publications:
(a) Refereed International Journal

1) Zamree Che-Aron, Wajdi Al-Khateeb, and Farhat Anwar, An Enhancement of AODV Routing Protocol for
More Robust Wireless Sensor Network, International Journal of Computer and Network Security (IJCNS),
Vol. 2, No. 7, July 2010, ISSN Print: 2076-2739, ISSN Online: 2076-9199, pp. 18-26.
http://www.ijcns.org/papers/Vol.2_No.7/100705.pdf
2) Zamree Che-Aron, Wajdi Al-Khateeb, and Farhat Anwar, The Enhanced Fault-Tolerance Mechanism of
AODV Routing Protocol for Wireless Sensor Network, International Journal of Computer Science and
Network Security (IJCSNS), Vol.10, No.6, pp. 41-50, June 2010, ISSN 1738-7906.
http://paper.ijcsns.org/07_book/201006/20100606.pdf
3) Abdulazeez F. SALAMI, Farhat ANWAR and Akhmad Unggul PRIANTORO, An Investigation into
Clustering Routing Protocols for Wireless Sensor Networks, Sensors & Transducers Journal, Vol. 106, Issue
7, July 2009, pp. 48-61, ISSN 1726-5479.
http://www.sensorsportal.com/HTML/DIGEST/july_09/P_458.pdf
4) Arafatur RAHMAN, Saiful AZAD, Farhat ANWAR, Performance Analysis of On-Demand Routing
Protocols in Wireless Mesh Networks, Informatica Economică Journal, INFOREC Publishing House, vol.
13, no. 2/2009, ISSN 1453-1305, pp 120-127.
5) Md. Arafatur Rahman, Farhat Anwar, Md. Saiful Azad, Integrated metric-ad hoc on-demand distance
vector: A routing protocol over Wireless Mesh Networks, Journal of Computer Science, Science
Publications, USA, Vol 5, No.7, 2009, ISSN: 1549-3636, pp 511-518.
6) Farhat Anwar, Md. Arafatur Rahman and Md. Saiful Azad, Multibiometric Systems Based Verification
Technique, European Journal of Scientific Research (EJSR), Volume 34, Issue 2, 2009, ISSN 1450202x, pp
260-270. http://www.eurojournals.com/ejsr_34_2_13.pdf
7) Md. Saiful Azad, Farhat Anwar, Md. Arafatur Rahman, Aisha H. Abdalla, Akhmad Unggul Priantoro and
Omer Mahmoud, Performance Comparison of Proactive and Reactive Multicast Routing Protocols over
Wireless Mesh Networks, International Journal of Computer Science and Network Security (IJCSNS), June
2009, Vol. 9 No. 6, ISSN 1738-7906, pp. 55-62, http://paper.ijcsns.org/07_book/200906/20090608.pdf
8) Saiful Azad, Arafatur Rahman, Farhat Anwar, An Enhanced Link Repair Technique for MAODV Routing
Protocol, International Journal of Computing & Information Technology (IJCIT), Vol 2, No 1 (January -
June) 2010, ISSN: 0974-696X, (forthcoming,)
9) W.A. Shittu, Aisha-Hassan A. Hashim, F. Anwar, & W. Al-Khateeb, A Proposed QoS Multicast Routing
Framework for Next-Generation Wireless Mesh Network, International Journal of Computer Science and
Network Security (IJCSNS), September 2008, Vol. 8, No. 9, ISSN 1738-7906, pp. 280-284.
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10) Farhat Anwar, Md. Saiful Azad, Md. Arafatur Rahman, and Mohammad Moshee Uddin (2008),
Performance Analysis of Ad hoc Routing Protocols in Mobile WiMAX Environment, IAENG International
Journal of Computer Science, Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2008, ISSN 1819-656X (print version), ISSN
1819-9224 (online version), pp 353-360.
11) Omer Mahmoud, Farhat Anwar and Momoh Jimoh E. Salami (2008), Simulation and Analysis of an
Admission Control Mechanism for MPLS DS-TE, Computer Communications, Elsevier, Vol 31, Issue 10,
June 2008, ISSN 0140-3664, pp 2178 – 2184.
12) Saiful Azad, Arafatur Rahman and Farhat Anwar (2007), A Performance Comparison of Proactive and
Reactive Routing Protocols of Mobile Ad-hoc Network (MANET), Journal of Engineering and Applied
Sciences, Volume 2, Issue 5, May 2007, ISSN: 1816-949X (Print) ISSN: 1818-7803 (online), 891-896, 2007.
13) Arafatur Rahman, Saiful Azad and Farhat Anwar (2007), An Efficient Technique for Human Verification
Using Finger Stripes Geometry, International Journal of Soft Computing, 2 (3), ISSN: 1816-9503, pp 445-
449.
14) Aisha Hassan Abdalla, Farhat Anwar and Sufyan Al-Irhayim (2007), Mobility Support in IP Multicast:
Proposals Review and Evaluation, Journal of Mobile Multimedia, New Jersey, USA, Vol.3 No.1, March
2007, ISSN: 1550-4646, pp 3-14.
15) Mohammad Abdur Razzaque, Farhat Anwar and Shahida Rafique (2003), Mobility Management of GSM
using reverse virtual call setup algorithm, Dhaka University Journal of Science, July, 51(2), ISSN: 1022-
2502, pp. 189-196.
16) Md. Hasanuzzaman, M. Lutfar Rahman and F. Anwar (2002), Study on enhanced packet access and
transmission technique over GSM for RTI applications, The Dhaka University Journal of Science, January,
50(1), ISSN: 1022-2502, pp.47-54.
17) Farhat Anwar, Application of digital cellular radio for mobile location estimation, IIUM Engineering Journal
(IIUM-EJ), Volume 2, Number 2, April 2001, pp.13-20.
18) T. H. Morshed, A. Razzaque and F. Anwar, Cell Planning Considerations in Cellular Telephone Systems,
The Dhaka University Journal of Science, 49(1), January 2001, ISSN: 1022-2502, pp.1-8.
19) Anika Aziz and Farhat Anwar, Communication Link Utilization in ATM Automatic Banking Environment,
The Dhaka University Journal of Science, 47(1), January 1999, ISSN: 1022-2502, pp.15-23.

(b) Refereed Local Journal

20) A.H. Hashim, W.H. Hassan, M.Z. Arifin, A.T. Ahmad, W. Al-Khateeb, and F. Anwar (2009), An Approach
to Enhance Aggregated Source Specific Multicast Scheme, Sunway Academic Journal, Vol 5, 2008, ISSN:
1823-500X , pp 139-148.

21) Omer Mahmoud, Farhat Anwar and Momoh Jimoh E. Salami (2007), Learning Algorithm Effect on
Multilayer Feed-Forward Artificial Neural Network Performance on Image Coding, Journal of Engineering
Science and Technology (JESTEC), Vol. 2, No. 2, August 2007, ISSN : 1823-4690, pp 188-199.

(c) International conference papers (inclusive of the international conference papers published in the
conference proceedings)

22) Loay F. Hussien, Aisha-Hassan A. H., Farhat anwar, Omer Mahmoud, Omer Zakaria, Rashid A. Saeed,
Design of Robust Protocol to Enhance QoS in Mobile IPV6 Environment, International Conference on
Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE 2010), 11-13 May, 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
DOI: 10.1109/ICCCE.2010.5556771

23) Md. Arafatur Rahman and Farhat Anwar, Jannatul Naeem and Md. Sharif Minhazul Abedin, A Simulation
Based performance comparison of routing protocol on Mobile Ad-hoc Network (Proactive, Reactive and
Hybrid), International Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering (ICCCE 2010), 11-13
May, 2010, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. DOI: 10.1109/ICCCE.2010.5556751

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