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CheckMate: LLM-Powered Approximate Intermittent Computing SenSys 2025
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Conferences (14)
- Abdur-Rahman Ibrahim Sayyid-Ali, Abdul Rafay, Muhammad Abdullah Soomro, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, and Naveed Anwar Bhatti, "CheckMate: LLM-Powered Approximate Intermittent Computing", In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (ACM SenSys), May 2025. (Core Rank: A*)
- Ahmed Najeeb, Muhammad Rafay, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, and Naveed Anwar Bhatti, "Glitch in Time: Exploiting Temporal Misalignment of IMU For Eavesdropping", In Proceedings of the 20th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS), August 2025. (Core Rank: A)
- Muhammad Sangeen, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, and Kashif Kifayat, "PortScout: A Communication Flow-Based Approach to Detect Port Scanning Evasion Attacks", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2025.
- Muhammad Abdullah Soomro, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, and Naveed Anwar Bhatti, "Approxify: Automating Energy-Accuracy Trade-Offs in Batteryless IoT Devices", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), March 2025. (Core Rank: B)
- Sunder Ali Ali Khowaja, Ik Hyun Lee, Parus Khuwaja, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Keshav Singh, Kapal Dev, "FLEXFL: Flexible Federated Learning for Customized Network Architectures in 6G", IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), March 2025. (Core Rank: B)
- Chaudhry, Hassan Habib, Ramish Majeed Raja, Muhammad Azmeer Zahid, Nauman Zaffar, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, and Naveed Anwar Bhatti, "From Waste to Watts: A Self-Sustaining Water Heating System Powered by a Thermoelectric Generator", In Proceedings of the 10th BuildSys, December 2024.
- Mikhail Afanasov, Naveed Anwar 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", 18th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), November 2020. (Core Rank: A*) [Teaser], [Video Presentation]
- Hafiz Areeb Asad, Erik Henricus Wouters, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Luca Mottola, Thiemo Voigt, "On Securing Persistent State in Intermittent Computing", 8th International Workshop on Energy Harvesting and Energy-Neutral Sensing Systems (ENSsys ’20), November 2020. [Video Presentation]
- Saad Ahmed, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Junaid Haroon Siddiqui and Luca Mottola, "Efficient Intermittent Computing with Differential Checkpointing", 20th ACM SIGPLAN / SIGBED 2019 Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), June 2019. (Core Rank: B)
- Saad Ahmed, Abu Bakar, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Junaid Haroon Siddiqui and Luca Mottola, "The Betrayal of Constant Power × Time: Finding the Missing Joules of Transiently-Powered Computer", 20th ACM SIGPLAN / SIGBED 2019 Conference on Languages, Compilers, and Tools for Embedded Systems (LCTES), June 2019. (Core Rank: B)
- Naveed Anwar Bhatti and Luca Mottola, "HarvOS: Efficient Code Instrumentation for Transiently-powered Embedded Devices", 16th ACM/IEEE Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2017), April 2017. (Core Rank: A) [Video Presentation]
- Naveed Anwar Bhatti and Luca Mottola, "Efficient State Retention for Transiently-powered Embedded Sensing", International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN 2016), Feb 2016. (Core Rank: B)
- Osama Haq, Zainab Abaid, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Zaafar Ahmed and Affan A. Syed, "SDN-inspired, Real-time Botnet Detection and Flow-blocking at ISP and Enterprise-level", IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2015), June 2015.
Transactions and Journals (11)
- Chaudhry, Hassan Habib, Ramish Majeed Raja, Muhammad Azmeer Zahid, Nauman Zaffar, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, and Naveed Anwar Bhatti, " Usage-centered, efficient, and sustainable: an IoT-driven transformation of water heaters", Data-Centric Engineering (DCE), Cambridge Core, Nov 2024. (Impact Factor = 2.4) (SJR = Q1) (HJRS = X) (PDF)
- Muhammad Sangeen, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Kashif Kifayat, Abeer Abdullah Alsadhan and Haoda Wang, " Blind-trust: Raising awareness of the dangers of using unsecured public Wi-Fi networks", Computer Communications, Elsevier, July 2023. (Impact Factor = 5.047) (SJR = Q1) (HJRS = W)
- Kashif Javed, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Mohammad Imran, " MOPTIC-SM: Sleep mode-enabled multi-optimized intermittent computing for Transiently Powered Systems", Journal of Systems Architecture, Elsevier, Feb 2023. (Impact Factor = 5.836) (SJR = Q1) (HJRS = W) (PDF)
- Dileep Kumar Soother, Sanaullah Mehran Ujjan, Kapal Dev, Sunder Ali Khowaja, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Tanweer Hussain, " Towards soft real-time fault diagnosis for edge devices in industrial IoT using deep domain adaptation training strategy", Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, November 2021. (Impact Factor = 3.734) (SJR = Q1) (HJRS = W)
- Ali Akbar Shah, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Kapal Dev, B.S Chowdhry, " MUHAFIZ: IoT-based Track Recording Vehicle for the Damage Analysis of the Railway Track", IEEE Internet of Things Journal, March 2021. (Impact Factor = 9.936) (SJR = Q1) (HJRS = W) (PDF)
- Saad Ahmed, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Martina Brachmann, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, " A Survey on Program-state Retention for Transiently-powered Systems", Journal of Systems Architecture, Elsevier, Jan 2021. (Impact Factor = 2.552) (SJR = Q1) (HJRS = W) (PDF)
- Saad Ahmed, Muhammad Nawaz, Abu Bakar, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Junaid Haroon Siddiqui, Luca Mottola, " Demystifying Energy Consumption Dynamics in Transiently-powered Computers", ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), November 2020. (Impact Factor = 1.4) (SJR = Q2) (HJRS = W) (PDF)
- Saad Ahmed, Naveed Anwar 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), November 2020. (Impact Factor = 1.4) (SJR = Q2) (HJRS = W) (PDF)
- Syeda Sundus Zehra, Rehan Qureshi, Kapal Dev, Saleem Shahid, Naveed Anwar Bhatti, " Comparative Analysis of Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks", Wireless Personal Communications, Springer, May 2020. (Impact Factor = 1.2) (SJR = Q1) (HJRS = X) (PDF)
- Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Hamad Alizai, Affan A. Syed and Luca Mottola, " Energy Harvesting and Wireless Transfer in Sensor Network Applications: Concepts and Experiences", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), April 2016. (Impact Factor = 2.322) (SJR = Q2) (HJRS = W)
- Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Affan A. Syed and Hamad Alizai, " Laser based Energy Distribution Architecture for Decoupling Energy and Sensing Planes in WSN", International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN), July 2015. (Impact Factor = 1.787) (SJR = Q2) (HJRS = X)
Posters (3)
- Saad Ahmed, Muhammad Hamad Alizai, Junaid Haroon Siddiqui, Naveed Anwar Bhatti and Luca Mottola, " Towards smaller checkpoints for better intermittent computing", IPSN 2018, April 2018.
- Naveed Anwar Bhatti and Luca Mottola, " Compiler-assisted Automatic Checkpointing for Transiently-powered Embedded Devices", EWSN 2017, Feb 2017.
- Naveed Anwar Bhatti, " Back To The Future: Sustainable Transiently Powered Embedded Systems", IPSN, April 2016. Best PhD Forum Presentation