Muhammad Kashif khattak

Assistant Professor (Ph.D.)

Muhammad Kashif khattak

Assistant Professor (Ph.D.)

Research Area: Augmenting the Performance of Network Switches and Routers
About Me

Dr. Muhammad Kashif Khattak has received his Master in Computer Science and Technology degree from Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan, in 2008 and Ph.D. degree from School of Computer Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China in 2020. Dr. Kashif has served as System Engineer at General Post Office Kohat Cantt from 2009 to 2012. He has also served as Head of the institution at Southern Punjab Redeemers College, Taunsa Sharif from Aug 2020 to Feb 2022. Currently, he is serving as Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science and Information Techology, University of Pooch Rawalakot, AJK. Prior to his current role, he has served as IPFP Fellow Assistant Professor for one year at the same university. Dr. Kashif has published six research articles in well reputed international HEC recognized “W” category journals, including IEEE Systems Journal, IEEE Communications Letter, IEEE Access, Sensors, Physical Communications etc. He has also reviewed several research papers for top computer science journals such as IEEE Networks and IEEE Access. His research interests include but not limited to data center networks, designing and programming network switches and routers, data plane programmability, FPGAs, and ASICs.

Degree Major University Start Date End Date
Ph.D. Augmenting the Performance of Network Switches and Routers Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, PR China September 2015 June 2020
Designation Organization Duration
Assistant Professor (TTS) University of Poonch Rawalakot, AJK February 2023 - November -0001
IPFP Fellow (Assistant Professor) University of Poonch Rawalakot, AJK February 2022 - February 2023
Principal SPRC, Taunsa, Affiliated with Ghazi University, DG Khan. August 2020 - February 2022
Title Description Sponsoring Agency Amount Year
Designation Department Organization From Date To Date
Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science and Information Technology UPR, AJK February, 2022
Description Year DOI
Fahad Saeed, Amjad Mehmood, Muhammad Faran Majeed, Carsten Maple, Khalid Saeed, Muhammad Kashif Khattak, Huihui Wang, Gregory Epiphaniou Smart delivery and retrieval of swab collection kit for COVID-19 test using autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Drones, also known as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), are one of the highly emerging technologies of the modern day. Due to their small size, flying capabilities, and complex machinery, drones can be deployed in diverse fields, including agriculture, sports, entertainment, parcel delivery, disaster management, search and rescue, emergency medicine, and healthcare. In case of medical emergency, timely delivery of the required emergency kit is very important. This is often not possible in many un 2021 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phycom.2021.101373
Muhammad Faran Majeed, Irshad Ahmed Abbasi, Sikandar Ali, Elfatih Elmubarak Mustafa, Ibrar Hussain, Khalid Saeed, Muhammad Faisal Abrar, Mah E No, Muhammad Kashif Khattak, From Digital Divide to Information Availability: A Wi-Fi-Based Novel Solution for Information Dissemination 2021 https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6698246
Muhammad Kashif Khattak, Hamza Fahim, Muhammad Faran Majeed, Eid Rehman, Shumaila Javaid Lookaside: Augmenting the Performance of Packet Processing Pipeline The network switches and routers need to forward the network packets at a line-rate. The underlying hardware and software implementations may limit the performance of these packet processing devices. In this paper, we propose a novel model, called Lookaside, to increase the performance of the network switches by extracting the payload from the packet and storing it in a nearby standard memory, such as dynamic random access memory (DRAM), before the packet is sent for processing. We know that the 2020 10.1109/JSYST.2020.3000999
Muhammad Kashif Khattak, Yazhe Tang, Hamza Fahim, Eid Rehman, Muhammad Faran Majeed Effective routing technique: Augmenting data center switch fabric performance Today, data center networks (DCNs) are built using multi-tier architecture. These large-scale networks face many challenges, such as security, delay, low throughput, loops, link oversubscription, TCP Incast and Outcast, etc. In this paper, a TCAM (Ternary Content Addressable Memory) based routing technique is proposed, augmenting the routing capabilities of multi-tier architectures in large scale networks. The routing complexities in these architectures are rectified and improved by implementing 2020 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2973932
Hamza Fahim, Wei Li, Shumaila Javaid, Mian Muhammad Sadiq Fareed, Gulnaz Ahmed, Muhammad Kashif Khattak Fuzzy logic and bio-inspired firefly algorithm based routing scheme in intrabody nanonetworks An intrabody nanonetwork (IBNN) is composed of nanoscale (NS) devices, implanted inside the human body for collecting diverse physiological information for diagnostic and treatment purposes. The unique constraints of these NS devices in terms of energy, storage and computational resources are the primary challenges in the effective designing of routing protocols in IBNNs. Our proposed work explicitly considers these limitations and introduces a novel energy-efficient routing scheme based on a fu 2019 https://doi.org/10.3390/s19245526
Muhammad Kashif Khattak, Yazhe Tang, Umer Sadiq Khan TOSwitch: Programmable and high-throughput switch using hybrid switching chips The future of networking switches and routers foresees in two key features: Programmability and Throughput. In this letter, we propose a Traffic Offload Switch (TOSwitch) model for such a versatile switch, using different breeds of switching chips, an ASIC and an FPGA, to achieve the above two key features. Our TOSwitch model is useful in many real-world use cases. The TOSwitch gives line-rate throughput and low latency for current and future network protocols. In our simulation on Xilinx Zynq 7 2019 10.1109/LCOMM.2019.2944812
Fuzzy logic and bio-inspired firefly algorithm based routing scheme in intrabody nanonetworks H Fahim, W Li, S Javaid, MM Sadiq Fareed, G Ahmed, MK Khattak Sensors 19 (24), 5526, 2019
Smart delivery and retrieval of swab collection kit for COVID-19 test using autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles F Saeed, A Mehmood, MF Majeed, C Maple, K Saeed, MK Khattak, Physical Communication 48, 101373, 2021
From Digital Divide to Information Availability: A Wi-Fi-Based Novel Solution for Information Dissemination MF Majeed, IA Abbasi, S Ali, EE Mustafa, I Hussain, K Saeed, MF Abrar, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2021, 2021
Effective routing technique: Augmenting data center switch fabric performance Muhammad Kashif Khattak, Yazhe Tang, H Fahim, E Rehman, MF Majeed IEEE Access 8, 37372-37382, 2020
TOSwitch: Programmable and high-throughput switch using hybrid switching chips Muhammad Kashif Khattak, Yazhe Tang, US Khan IEEE Communications Letters 23 (12), 2266-2270, 2019
Lookaside: Augmenting the Performance of Packet Processing Pipeline Muhammad Kashif Khattak, H Fahim, MF Majeed, E Rehman, S Javaid IEEE Systems Journal 15 (3), 3561-3564 2020