Muhammad Shahzad

A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Application-Specific TCP Congestion-Control

Xing, J., & Shahzad, M. (2025, November 15).

A Reinforcement Learning Framework for Application-Specific TCP Congestion-Control

ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:2505.07042.

Dockless Electric Scooters Worldwide: Tools, Methods, and Longitudinal Analysis

Khan, H. A., & Shahzad, M. (2025, November 15).

Ladder: A Convergence-based Structured ${$DAG$}$ Blockchain for High Throughput and Low Latency

22nd USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 25), 779–794.

Orcas: A DAG-based Consensus Approach with Linear Communication Overhead

Hua, Y., Liu, X., Xu, H., Zhang, C., Shi, G., Li, K., … Liu, G. (2025, November 19). (Vol. 11). Vol. 11.

Characterizing Power Usage in Zero Reserved Power Data Centers to Enable Planned Maintenance

Khan, H. A., & Shahzad, M. (2024, June 3). 2024 23RD IFIP NETWORKING CONFERENCE, IFIP NETWORKING 2024, pp. 50–58.

Contactless soil moisture estimation using radiofrequency signals

Khan, U. M., & Shahzad, M. (2024, August).

Dockless Electric Scooters Worldwide: Methods and Analysis

Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems, 697–700.

FruitSight: A Millimeter Wave Radar Based Approach to Detect Occluded Fruits

Shiraz, Z., Khan, U. M., & Shahzad, M. (2024, September 23).

FruitSight: A Millimeter Wave Radar Based Approach to Detect Occluded Fruits

2024 IEEE 21st International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), 270–278.

Leveraging the Movements of Occupants to Generate Indoor Maps Using RF Signals

Khan, U. M., & Shahzad, M. (2024, June 4).

Leveraging the Movements of Occupants to Generate Indoor Maps Using RF Signals

2024 IEEE 25th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM), 319–328.

Per-Flow Packet Loss Measurement without Probing

2023 32nd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 1–10.

A Distributed & Lightweight Framework to Secure IoT Networks Against Network Layer Attacks

A Distributed & Lightweight Framework to Secure IoT Networks Against Network Layer Attacks. 2022 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 1–9.

A Distributed & Lightweight Framework to Secure IoT Networks Against Network Layer Attacks

Adina, P., & Shahzad, M. (2022, July 1).

Characterizing the Availability and Latency in AWS Network From the Perspective of Tenants

Iqbal, H., Singh, A., & Shahzad, M. (2022, February 23). IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

Characterizing the availability and latency in aws network from the perspective of tenants

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 30(4), 1554–1568.

Contactless Monitoring of PPG Using Radar

Khan, U. M., Rigazio, L., & Shahzad, M. (2022, September 6). Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.

Contactless monitoring of PPG using radar

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 6(3), 1–30.

Digital Twins in Built Environments: An Investigation of the Characteristics, Applications, and Challenges. Buildings, 12 (2), Article 2

Digital twins in built environments: an investigation of the characteristics, applications, and challenges

Buildings, 12(2), 120.

Dissecting cloud gaming performance with DECAF

Abstract Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGMETRICS/IFIP PERFORMANCE Joint International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, 13–14.

Enhanced Machine Learning Sketches for Network Measurements

Wang, H., Lin, H., Zhong, Z., Yang, T., & Shahzad, M. (2022, July 1). IEEE Transactions on Computers.

Enhanced machine learning sketches for network measurements

IEEE Transactions on Computers, 72(4), 957–970.

Estimating soil moisture using RF signals

Khan, U. M., & Shahzad, M. (2022, October 14). Proceedings of the 28th Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing And Networking.

Estimating soil moisture using RF signals

Proceedings of the 28th annual international conference on mobile computing and networking, 242–254.

Left or Right: A Peek into the Political Biases in Email Spam Filtering Algorithms During US Election 2020

Iqbal, H., Khan, U. M., Khan, H. A., & Shahzad, M. (2022, April 25). Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022.

Left or right: A peek into the political biases in email spam filtering algorithms during us election 2020

Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2022, 2491–2500.

RMS: Removing Barriers to Analyze the Availability and Surge Pricing of Ridesharing Services

Khan, H. A., Iqbal, H., Shahzad, M., & Jin, G. (2022, April 28). CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

RMS: Removing Barriers to Analyze the Availability and Surge Pricing of Ridesharing Services

Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–18.

Using RF Signals to Generate Indoor Maps

Khan, U. M., Venkatnarayan, R. H., & Shahzad, M. (2022, May 12). ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, Vol. 19.

A cancelable biometric authentication system based on feature-adaptive random projection

Journal of Information Security and Applications, 58, 102704.

Accurately Decoding MIMO Streams in VLC

Venkatnarayan, R. H., & Shahzad, M. (2021, July 1).

Accurately Decoding MIMO Streams in VLC

2021 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 1–10.

Alignment-free cancelable fingerprint templates with dual protection

Pattern Recognition, 111, 107735.

An IoT-oriented privacy-preserving fingerprint authentication system

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 9(14), 11760–11771.

Characterizing the Performance of QUIC on Android and Wear OS Devices

Ganji, A., & Shahzad, M. (2021, July 1).

Characterizing the performance of quic on android and wear os devices

2021 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 1–11.

Dissecting Cloud Gaming Performance with DECAF

Iqbal, H., Khalid, A., & Shahzad, M. (2021, December 14). Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems.

Dissecting cloud gaming performance with decaf

Proceedings of the ACM on Measurement and Analysis of Computing Systems, 5(3), 1–27.

A WiFi-based Home Security System

Zhang, S., Venkatnarayan, R. H., & Shahzad, M. (2020, December 1).

A wifi-based home security system

2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 129–137.

Bimodal affect recognition based on autoregressive hidden Markov models from physiological signals

Akbulut, F. P., Perros, H. G., & Shahzad, M. (2020, May 26). Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine.

Bimodal affect recognition based on autoregressive hidden Markov models from physiological signals

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 195, 105571.

Characterizing the Impact of TCP Coexistence in Data Center Networks

Ganji, A., Singh, A., & Shahzad, M. (2020, November 1).

Characterizing the impact of TCP coexistence in data center networks

2020 IEEE 40th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 388–398.

Choosing TCP variants for cloud tenants--a measurement based approach

2020 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 1–9.

Distributed and Privacy Preserving Routing of Connected Vehicles to Minimize Congestion

Boob, S., Mahmood, S., & Shahzad, M. (2020, December 1).

Distributed and privacy preserving routing of connected vehicles to minimize congestion

2020 IEEE 17th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), 220–228.

Effective classification algorithms and feature selection for bio-medical data using IoT

2020 Seventh International Conference on Information Technology Trends (ITT), 42–47.

GAFOR: genetic algorithm based fuzzy optimized re-clustering in wireless sensor networks

Mathematics, 9(1), 43.

Leveraging polarization of WiFi signals to simultaneously track multiple people

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 4(2), 1–24.

RFMap: Generating Indoor Maps using RF Signals

Khan, U. M., Venkatnarayan, R. H., & Shahzad, M. (2020, April 1).

RFMap: Generating indoor maps using RF signals

2020 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 133–144.

Recognizing Human Gestures Using Ambient Light

2020 IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech), 420–428.

Robust Method for Semantic Segmentation of Whole-Slide Blood Cell Microscopic Images

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2020(1), 4015323.

SF-Sketch: A Two-Stage Sketch for Data Streams

Liu, L., Shen, Y., Yan, Y., Yang, T., Shahzad, M., Cui, B., & Xie, G. (2020, April 15). IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.

SF-sketch: A two-stage sketch for data streams

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 31(10), 2263–2276.

C slim

Sim, H., Paul, A. K., Tilevich, E., Butt, A. R., & Shahzad, M. (2019, January 4). (Vol. 1). Vol. 1.

Cslim: automated extraction of iot functionalities from legacy c codebases

Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking, 421–426.

Enhancing indoor inertial odometry with wifi

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 3(2), 1–27.

FID-sketch: An accurate sketch to store frequencies in data streams

World Wide Web, 22(6), 2675–2696.

Large Scale Characterization of Software Vulnerability Life Cycles

Shahzad, M., Shafiq, M. Z., & Liu, A. X. (2019, January 18). IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing.

Large scale characterization of software vulnerability life cycles

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 17(4), 730–744.

Measuring Distance Traveled by an Object using WiFi-CSI and IMU Fusion

2019 IEEE 27th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 1–2.

Poster: A framework to secure IoT networks against network layer attacks

2019 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking), 1–2.

Poster: Characterizing the performance of WiFi in dense IoT deployments

2019 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking), 1–2.

WiFi based Multi-User Gesture Recognition

Venkatnarayan, R. H., Mahmood, S., & Shahzad, M. (2019, November 21). IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

WiFi based multi-user gesture recognition

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 20(3), 1242–1256.

Augmenting user identification with WiFi based gesture recognition

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2(3), 1–27.

Empowering sketches with machine learning for network measurements

Proceedings of the 2018 Workshop on Network Meets AI & ML, 15–20.

FID-sketch: an accurate sketch to store frequencies in data streams

World Wide Web, 22(6), 2675–2696.

Gesture recognition using ambient light

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2(1), 1–28.

Identifying and Estimating Persistent Items in Data Streams

Dai, H., Shahzad, M., Liu, A. X., Li, M., Zhong, Y., & Chen, G. (2018, September 28). IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

Identifying and estimating persistent items in data streams

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 26(6), 2429–2442.

Impacts & detection of network layer attacks on IoT networks

Impacts & detection of network layer attacks on IoT networks. Proceedings of the 1st ACM MobiHoc Workshop on Mobile IoT Sensing, Security, and Privacy, 1–6.

IoTm: A Lightweight Framework for Fine-Grained Measurements of IoT Performance Metrics

2018 IEEE 26th International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 12–22.

Multi-User Gesture Recognition Using WiFi

Venkatnarayan, R. H., Page, G., & Shahzad, M. (2018, June 10).

Multi-user gesture recognition using WiFi

Proceedings of the 16th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, 401–413.

Recognizing Gestures with Ambient Light

Proceedings of the 10th on Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students Workshop, 19–21.

Sizing buffers of iot edge routers

Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking, 55–60.

Towards Composing Access Control Policies

2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 1–6.

A Shifting Framework for Set Queries

Yang, T., Liu, A. X., Shahzad, M., Yang, D., Fu, Q., Xie, G., & Li, X. (2017, August 17). IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

A shifting framework for set queries

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 25(5), 3116–3131.

Behavior based authentication for touch screen devices

Samuel, A., & Shahzad, M. (2017, March).

Behavior based authentication for touch screen devices

Samuel, A., & Shahzad, M. (2017, May).

Continuous Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things

Shahzad, M., & Singh, M. P. (2017, March 1). IEEE Internet Computing, Vol. 21, pp. 86–90.

Continuous authentication and authorization for the internet of things

IEEE Internet Computing, 21(2), 86–90.

Device-Free Human Activity Recognition Using Commercial WiFi Devices

Wang, W., Liu, A. X., Shahzad, M., Ling, K., & Lu, S. (2017, March 10). IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

Device-free human activity recognition using commercial WiFi devices

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 35(5), 1118–1131.

Fast and Accurate Tracking of Population Dynamics in RFID Systems

Shahzad, M., & Liu, A. X. (2017, June 1).

Fast and accurate tracking of population dynamics in RFID systems

2017 IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 836–846.

Position and orientation agnostic gesture recognition using WiFi

Proceedings of the 15th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, 252–264.

RFID protocol design, optimization, and security for the internet of things

IET.

Recognizing Keystrokes Using WiFi Devices

Ali, K., Liu, A. X., Wang, W., & Shahzad, M. (2017, March 10). IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

Recognizing keystrokes using WiFi devices

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 35(5), 1175–1190.

Rectangular hash table: Bloom filter and bitmap assisted hash table with high speed

Yang, T., Yin, B., Li, H., Shahzad, M., Uhlig, S., Cui, B., & Li, X. (2017, December 1).

Rectangular hash table: Bloom filter and bitmap assisted hash table with high speed

2017 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (Big Data), 837–846.

SF-sketch: A Fast, Accurate, and Memory Efficient Data Structure to Store Frequencies of Data Items

Yang, T., Liu, L., Yan, Y., Shahzad, M., Shen, Y., Li, X., … Xie, G. (2017, April 1).

SF-sketch: Slim-fat-sketch with GPU assistance

CoRR.

SF-sketch: a two-stage sketch for data streams

ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:1701.04148.

Sf-sketch: A fast, accurate, and memory efficient data structure to store frequencies of data items

2017 IEEE 33rd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 103–106.

A shifting bloom filter framework for set queries

Yang, T., Liu, A. X., Shahzad, M., Zhong, Y., Fu, Q., Li, Z., … Li, X. (2016, January 1). Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment.

A stochastic frame based approach to RFID tag searching

Wang, A. L., Shahzad, M., & Liu, A. X. (2016, May 1).

A stochastic frame based approach to RFID tag searching

2016 IFIP Networking Conference (IFIP Networking) and Workshops, 153–161.

Accurate and Efficient Per-Flow Latency Measurement Without Probing and Time Stamping

Shahzad, M., & Liu, A. X. (2016, August 11). IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

Accurate and efficient per-flow latency measurement without probing and time stamping

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 24(6), 3477–3492.

Behavior Based Human Authentication on Touch Screen Devices Using Gestures and Signatures

Shahzad, M., Liu, A. X., & Samuel, A. (2016, December 7). IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing.

Behavior based human authentication on touch screen devices using gestures and signatures

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 16(10), 2726–2741.

CRII: CSR: Pervasive Gesture Recognition Using Ambient Light

NSF Award Number 1565609. Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, 15(1565609), 65609.

CSR: Small: Collaborative Research: Scalable Fine-Grained Cloud Monitoring for Empowering IoT

NSF Award Number 1616273. Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering, 16(1616273), 16273.

Fast and Reliable Detection and Identification of Missing RFID Tags in the Wild

Shahzad, M., & Liu, A. X. (2016, August 12). IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

Fast and reliable detection and identification of missing RFID tags in the wild

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 24(6), 3770–3784.

Finding persistent items in data streams

Dai, H., Shahzad, M., Liu, A. X., & Zhong, Y. (2016, November 1). Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment.

Finding persistent items in data streams

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment, 10(4), 289–300.

Gait recognition using wifi signals

Proceedings of the 2016 ACM international joint conference on pervasive and ubiquitous computing, 363–373.

Multi-Category RFID Estimation

Liu, X., Li, K., Liu, A. X., Guo, S., Shahzad, M., Wang, A. L., & Wu, J. (2016, September 22). IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking.

Multi-category RFID estimation

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 25(1), 264–277.

A shifting bloom filter framework for set queries

ArXiv Preprint ArXiv:1510.03019.

Expecting the unexpected: Fast and reliable detection of missing RFID tags in the wild

2015 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 1939–1947.

Fairness Matters: Identification of Active RFID Tags with Statistically Guaranteed Fairness

Shahzad, M., & Liu, A. X. (2015, November 1).

Fairness matters: Identification of active RFID tags with statistically guaranteed fairness

2015 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 279–290.

Keystroke recognition using wifi signals

Proceedings of the 21st annual international conference on mobile computing and networking, 90–102.

Statistical and learning algorithms for the design, analysis, measurement, and modeling of networking and security systems

Michigan State University.

Understanding and modeling of wifi signal based human activity recognition

Proceedings of the 21st annual international conference on mobile computing and networking, 65–76.

Fast and accurate estimation of RFID tags

IEEE/ACM Transactions On Networking, 23(1), 241–254.

Noise can help: Accurate and efficient per-flow latency measurement without packet probing and time stamping

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 42(1), 207–219.

In-execution dynamic malware analysis and detection by mining information in process control blocks of Linux OS

Information Sciences, 231, 45–63.

Probabilistic optimal tree hopping for RFID identification

ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, 41(1), 293–304.

Secure unlocking of mobile touch screen devices by simple gestures: You can see it but you can not do it

Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Mobile computing & networking, 39–50.

A large scale exploratory analysis of software vulnerability life cycles

2012 34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), 771–781.

Every bit counts: Fast and scalable RFID estimation

Proceedings of the 18th annual international conference on Mobile computing and networking, 365–376.

Evaluation of rice germplasm against Xanthomonas oryzae causing bacterial leaf blight

Pak. J. Bot.

In-execution dynamic malware analysis and detection by mining information in process control blocks of Linux OS

Information Sciences, 231, 45–63.

In-execution malware detection using task structures of linux processes

2011 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 1–6.

A hybrid GA-PSO fuzzy system for user identification on smart phones

Proceedings of the 11th Annual conference on Genetic and evolutionary computation, 1617–1624.

Image coprocessor: A real-time approach towards object tracking

2009 International Conference on Digital Image Processing, 220–224.

Iterative learning fuzzy inference system

6th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences & Technology, 169–176.