Publications

2020

ACM IMWUT '20 & UbiComp '20	Leveraging Polarization of WiFi Signals to Simultaneously Track Multiple People Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad, Sangki Yun, Christina Vlachou, Kyu-Han Kim Download: [paper]
IPSN '20	RFMap: Generating Indoor Maps using RF Signals Usman M. Khan, Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
ICDCS '20	Characterizing the Impact of TCP Coexistence in Data Center Networks Anirudh Ganji, Anand Singh, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
PICom '20	Recognizing Human Gestures Using Ambient Light BEST PAPER AWARD Shakir Mahmood, Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
MASS '20	Distributed and Privacy Preserving Routing of Connected Vehicles to Minimize Congestion Surabhi R. Boob, Shakir Mahmood, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
MASS '20	A WiFi-based Home Security System Shaohu Zhang, Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
ICCCN '20	Choosing TCP Variants for Cloud Tenants – A Measurement based Approach Anirudh Ganji, Anand Singh, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
IEEE TPDS '20	SF-sketch: A Two-stage Sketch for Data Streams Lingtong Liu, Yulong Shen, Yibo Yan, Tong Yang, Muhammad Shahzad, Bin Cui, Gaogang Xie Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.402 Download: [paper]
IEEE TPDS '20	SF-sketch: A Two-stage Sketch for Data Streams Lingtong Liu, Yulong Shen, Yibo Yan, Tong Yang, Muhammad Shahzad, Bin Cui, Gaogang Xie Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.402 Download: [paper]
Elsevier CMPB '20	Bimodal Affect Recognition based on Autoregressive Hidden Markov Models from Physiological Signals Fatma Patlar Akbuluta, Harry G. Perros, Muhammad Shahzad Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.424 Download: [paper]
IFIP Networking '20	Distributed and Privacy Preserving Routing of Connected Vehicles to Minimize Congestion (Extended Abstract) Surabhi Boob, Shakir Mahmood, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]

2019

IEEE TMC '19	WiFi based Multi-User Gesture Recognition Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Shakir Mahmood, Muhammad Shahzad Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 4.474 Download: [paper]
ACM IMWUT '19 & UbiComp '19	Enhancing Indoor Inertial Odometry with WiFi Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
IEEE TDSC '19	Large Scale Characterization of Software Vulnerability Life Cycles Muhammad Shahzad, Zubair Shafiq, Alex X. Liu Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 4.41 Download: [paper]
ICCCN '19	Characterizing the Performance of WiFi in Dense IoT Deployments Anirudh Ganji, Griffin Page, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
ICNP '19	Demo: Measuring Distance Traveled by an Object using WiFi-CSI and IMU Fusion BEST DEMO AWARD Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
IFIP Networking '19	A Framework to Secure IoT Networks Against Network Layer Attacks (Extended Abstract) Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Prasesh Adina, Shakir Mahmood, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
IFIP Networking '19	Characterizing the Performance of WiFi in Dense IoT Deployments (Extended Abstract) Anirudh Ganji, Griffin Page, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
ComNet-IoT '19	CSlim: Automated Extraction of IoT Functionalities from Legacy C Codebases Hyogi Sim, Arnab K. Paul, Eli Tilevich, Ali R. Butt, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]

2018

ACM IMWUT '18 & UbiComp '18	Augmenting User Identification with WiFi Based Gesture Recognition Shaohu Zhang, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
ACM IMWUT '18 & UbiComp '18	Gesture Recognition Using Ambient Light Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
MobiSys '18	Multi-User Activity Recognition Using WiFi Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Griffin Page, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
ICNP '18	IoTm: A Lightweight Framework for Fine-grained Measurements of IoT Performance Metrics Anirudh Ganji, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
IEEE/ACM ToN '18	Identifying and Estimating Persistent Items in Data Streams Haipeng Dai, Muhammad Shahzad Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.11 Download: [paper]
WWW Journal '18	FID-Sketch: an Accurate Sketch to Store Frequencies in Data Streams Tong Yang, Haowei Zhang, Hao Wang, Muhammad Shahzad, Qin Xin, Xue Liu, Xiaoming Li Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 1.405 Download: [paper]
ICC '18	Towards Composing Access Control Policies Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
EdgeSys '18	Sizing Buffers of IoT Edge Routers Jamal Ahmad Khan, Muhammad Shahzad, Ali R. Butt Download: [paper]
Mobile IoT SSP '18	Impacts and Detection of Network Layer Attacks on IoT Networks Prasesh Adina, Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]
NetAI '18	Empowering Sketches with Machine Learning for Network Measurements Tong Yang, Lun Wang, Yulong Shen, Muhammad Shahzad, Qun Huang, Xiaohong Jiang, Kun Tan, Xiaoming Li Download: [paper]
ACM S3 '18	Recognizing Gestures With Ambient Light Raghav H. Venkatnarayan, Muhammad Shahzad Download: [paper]

2017

MobiSys '17	Position and Orientation Agnostic Gesture Recognition Using WiFi Aditya Virmani, Muhammad Shahzad Acceptance rate: 18.1% Download: [paper]
BigData '17	Rectangular Hash Table: Bloom Filter and Bitmap Assisted Hash Table with High Speed Tong Yang, Binchao Yin, Hang Li, Muhammad Shahzad, Steve Uhlig, Bin Cui, Xiaoming Li Download: [paper]
IEEE IC '17	Continuous Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things (invited; not peer-reviewed) Muhammad Shahzad, Munindar P. Singh Impact factor at the time of publishing: 1.4 Download: [paper]
ICDE '17	SF-sketch: A Fast, Accurate, and Memory Efficient Data Structure to Store Frequencies of Data Items (Extended Abstract) Tong Yang, Lingtong Liu, Yibo Yan, Muhammad Shahzad, Yulong Shen, Xiaoming Li, Bin Cui, Gaogang Xie Download: [paper]
IEEE/ACM ToN '17	A Shifting Framework for Set Queries Tong Yang, Alex Liu, Muhammad Shahzad, Yang Dongsheng, Qiaobin Fu, Gaogang Xie, Xiaoming Li Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.376 Download: [paper]
IEEE JSAC '17	Device-free Human Activity Recognition Using Commercial WiFi Devices Wei Wang, Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad, Kang Ling, Sanglu Lu Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.672 Download: [paper]
IEEE JSAC '17	Recognizing Keystrokes Using WiFi Devices Kamran Ali, Alex X. Liu, Wei Wang, Muhammad Shahzad Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 3.672 Download: [paper]
VLDB '17	Finding Persistent Items in Data Streams Haipeng Dai, Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu, Yuankun Zhong Download: [paper]
ICDCS '17	Fast and Accurate Tracking of Population Dynamics in RFID Systems Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Acceptance rate: 16.9% Download: [paper]

2016

IEEE TMC '16	Behavior Based Human Authentication on Touch Screen Devices Using Gestures and Signatures Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu, Arjmand Samuel Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 2.456 Download: [paper]
IEEE/ACM ToN '16	Multi-category RFID Estimation Xiulong Liu, Keqiu Li, Alex X. Liu, Song Guo, Muhammad Shahzad, Ann L. Wang, Jie Wu Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 2.186 Download: [paper]
IEEE/ACM ToN '16	Fast and Reliable Detection and Identification of Missing RFID Tags in the Wild Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 2.186 Download: [paper]
IEEE/ACM ToN '16	Accurate and Efficient Per-flow Latency Measurement without Probing and Time Stamping Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Impact factor at the time of acceptance: 2.186 Download: [paper]
UbiComp '16	Gait Recognition Using WiFi Signals Wei Wang, Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad Acceptance rate: 23.9% Download: [paper]
IFIP Networking '16	A Stochastic Frame Based Approach to RFID Tag Searching Ann L. Wang, Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Acceptance rate: 26.5% Download: [paper][slides]
VLDB '16	A Shifting Bloom Filter Framework for Set Queries Tong Yang, Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad, Yuankun Zhong, Qiaobin Fu, Zi Li, Gaogang Xie, Xiaoming Li Acceptance rate: 14.5% Download: [paper]

2015

ICNP '15	Fairness Matters: Identification of Active RFID Tags with Statistically Guaranteed Fairness Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Acceptance rate: 38/187 = 20.3% Download: [paper][slides]
MobiCom '15	Understanding and Modeling of WiFi Signal Based Human Activity Recognition Wei Wang, Alex X. Liu, Muhammad Shahzad, Kang Ling, Sanglu Lu Acceptance rate: 38/207 = 18.4% Download: [paper][slides]
MobiCom '15	Keystroke Recognition Using WiFi Signals Kamran Ali, Alex X. Liu, Wei Wang, Muhammad Shahzad Acceptance rate: 38/207 = 18.4% Download: [paper][slides]
INFOCOM '15	Expecting the Unexpected: Fast and Reliable Detection of Missing RFID Tags in the Wild Muhammad Shahzad, Alex X. Liu Acceptance rate: 316/1640 = 19.3% Download: [paper][slides]