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Zartash Afzal Uzmi

Associate Professor
Ph.D. Stanford University, 2002
Restoration Routing and Traffic Engineering, Routing Protocols, Algorithms for Reliability in High Speed Communication Networks, Digital Switching and Transmission, Wireless Communication Systems
 Email: zartash [at] lums dot edu dot pk
Extension: 4425

Personal Web Page: http://suraj.lums.edu.pk/~zartash

Bio-Sketch

Zartash Uzmi received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford 2002. His graduate research is on Multi-user Detection for CDMA systems in which he devised schemes and algorithms for practica implementation of multi-user detectors. He has held positions at Nokia Research center, Bell Laboratories, and Hewlett Packard Company. He is on LUMS faculty since 2002. Dr Uzmi has several international publications, including papers in IEEE Globecom and ICC.


Research Interests

His research interests include Restoration Routing and Traffic Engineering, Routing Protocols in Wired and Wireless Networks, Algorithms for Reliability in High Speed Communication Networks, Digital Switching and Transmission, Wireless Communication Systems and Signal Processing for Communications.



Recent Publications of Zartash Afzal Uzmi

  • A Simulation Study of GELS for Ethernet over WAN

    Ilyas, S.M., Nazir, A., Bokhari, F.S., Uzmi, Z.A., and Farrel, A., In IEEE Globecom 2007, Washington D.C., USA, November 26-30, 2007.

  • Multi-Class QoS in 802.11 Networks using Gentle Decrease of Multiple Contention Windows

    Anjum, B., and Uzmi, Z.A., In Proceedings of IEEE Globecom 2007, Washington D.C., USA, November 26-39, 2007.

  • Inter-Domain Path Computation: Challenges and Solutions for Label Switched Networks
    Aslam, F., Uzmi, Z.A., and Farrel, A., In IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 45, no. 10, pp. 94-101, October 2007.
  • Inter-Domain Path Computation

    Uzmi, Z.A., Aslam, F., Pioro, M., and Farrel, A., In IEEE-ICC 2007, Glasgow, UK, June 2007.

  • Video Coding using Linear Compensation (VCLC)

    Mahmood, A., Uzmi, Z.A., and Khan, S.A., In International Conference on Communications, ICC 07, Glasgow, UK, June 24-27, 2007.

  • Connection Preemption in Multi-Class Networks
    Dogar, F.R., Aslam, L., Uzmi, Z.A., Kim, Y.C., and Abbasi, S., In IEEE Globecom, San Francisco, USA, November 2006.
  • Medium Access Control Issues in Sensor Networks

    Ali, M., Saif, U., Dunkels, A., Voigt, T., Römer, K., Langendoen, K., Polastre, J., and Zartash, U., In ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 33–36, April 2006.

  • Seamless Detection of Link and Node Failures in Label Switched Networks with Local Restoration

    Raza, S., Aslam, F., Baqai, S.M., and Uzmi, Z.A., In Proceedings of the National Conference on Communication (NCC-2006), New Delhi, India, January 2006.

  • A Restoration Routing Architecture for DiffServ Aware mpls Traffic Engineering

    Uzmi, Z.A., Dogar, F.R., and Baqai, S., In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Design of Reliable Communication Networks, Ischia (Naples), Italy, October 2005.

  • Online Routing of Bandwidth Guaranteed Paths with Local Restoration using Optimized Aggregate Information

    Raza, S., Aslam, F., and Uzmi, Z.A., In Proceedings of IEEE ICC, Seoul, Korea, May 16-20, 2005

  • Adaptive Multi-path on demand routing in mobile ad hoc networks

    Mateen, W., Raza, S., Uzmi, Z.A., and Baqai, S., In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Object-Oriented Real-time Distributed Computing, Seattle, Washington, May 2005.

  • A Mobility-Adaptive Energy-Efficient MAC Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

    Ali, M., and Uzmi, Z.A., In Proceedings of IPCCC (IWSEEASN), Phoenix, Arizona, April 7-9, 2005.

  • NPP: A Facility based Computation Framework for Registration Routing using Aggregate Network Usage Information

    Aslam, F., Raza, S., and Dogar F.R., Ahmad, I., and Uzmi, Z.A., In Proceedings of Quality of Service in Multi-Service IP Networks (QoS-IP), Catania, Italy, February 2-4, 2005.

  • Clustering IP Addresses using Longest Prefix Matching and Nearest Neighbor Algorithms
    Karim, A., Jami, S.A., Ahmad, I., Sarwar, M., and Uzmi, Z.A., In Proceedings of the Pacific Rim International Conference on AI (PRICAI 2004), Auckland, New Zealand, August 11-13, 2004.
  • Serving Dynamic Queries in Wireless Sensor Networks
    Ali, M., and Uzmi, Z.A., In Proceedings of CNSR 2004, Fredrickton, Canada, May 19-21, 2004.
  • Games Networks Play: A Game Theoretic Approach to Networks

    Rextin, A., Irfan, Z., and Uzmi, Z.A., In Proceedings of I-SPAN 2004, Hongkong, May 10-12, 2004.

  • The Pipeback Switch: High Performance Packet Switching with Guaranteed Delivery and Linear Buffer Complexity

    Raza, S., and Uzmi, Z.A., In Proceedings of ATNAC, 2004.

  • Performance Comparison of Ad Hoc Wireless Network Routing Protocols

    Naveed, H. and Uzmi, Z.A., In Proceeding of IEEE INMIC, 2004.