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Conferences (13)
- 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.
- 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)
- Naveed Anwar Bhatti, Affan A. Syed and Hamad Alizai, "Energy Harvesting and Wireless Transfer in Sensor Network Applications: Concepts and Experiences", ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), April 2016. (Impact Factor = 2.322)
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