Additional Documents and Information:

• List of Undergraduate and Graduate Courses
• Additional/detailed information (work experience and projects)

Journal Publications:

1. Affan A. Syed, Wei Ye, and John Heidemann." Comparison and Evaluation of the T-Lohi MAC for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks." IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communication, V. 26 (N. 12), Pages 1731-1743, December, 2008.

Refereed Conference Publications:

1. Affan A. Syed, Wei Ye, and John Heidemann. "T-Lohi: A New Class of MAC Protocols for Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks", Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2008, Phoenix, AZ, USA. Pages 231-235, April 13-18 2008. A more extended version is available as a technical report ISI-TR-638, USC/Information Sciences Institute, April , 2007.
2. Affan Syed, Wei Ye, Bhaskar Krishnamachari, John Heidemann "Understanding spatio-temporal uncertainty in medium access with ALOHA protocols", in Proceedings of the Second ACM International Workshop on Underwater Networks (WUWNet). Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Pages 41-48, September 2007.
3. Jun Jung Hyun, Affan Syed, and Bhaskar Krishnamachari." Impact of Capture on Multihop Wireless Networks in an Optimal Rate Control Framework", Proceedings of Third Annual International Wireless Internet Conference (WICON) October 22-24, 2007, Austin, Texas, USA.
4. John Heidemann, Yuan Li, Affan Syed, Jack Wills, and Wei Ye. "Underwater Sensor Networking: Research Challenges and Potential Applications". Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Pages 228-235, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, IEEE. April, 2006.
   
5. Affan Syed, John Heidemann."Time Synchronization for High Latency Acoustic Networks", Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain. Pages 1-12, April 25-28, 2006. A substantially extended version of this is available as Technical Report ISI-TR-2005-602b.

Technical Reports/Posters/Demos/Unrefereed Publications:

1. Affan Syed, John Heidemann, Wei Ye. ""Tones for Real: Managing Multipath in Underwater Acoustic Wakeup", USC/ISI Technical Report ISI-TR-659.
3. Muhammad Omar Khan, Affan Syed, Wei Ye, John Heidemann, and Jack Wills. "Bringing Sensor Networks Underwater with Low-Power Acoustic Communications", demo presented at Sensys 08, Raleigh, NC, November 5th, 2008.
4. Affan Syed, Muhammad Omar Khan, Wei Ye, John Heidemann, and Jack Wills. "A Sensornet-inspired Underwater Acoustic Modem for Wake-up and Data", demo abstract at WUWNet 08, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 15, 2008.
5. Affan Syed, Wei Ye, and John Heidemann."Medium Access in Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks" , available as ISI Tech report ISI-TR-624, Oct 2006. This was also presented as a work in progress poster at the first WUWNET workshop in September 2006, at Marina del Rey, CA.

Code and Howto's:

Class Presentations:

1. "Prediction Based Routing (PBR)", for the Wireless Networking laboratory (EE579- SP2005) project (Best Project).
2. "Topology Control", Survey report for Advanced Topics in Networking and Distributed System (CS694- SP2004).
3. "Modeling Spatial Properties of Sensor Readings for Alternate Localization and Calibration Techniques",  Wireless Sensor Networks (EE599 - SP 2004), final project report (Best Project).

Undergrad Publications:

I have been doing a lot of undergrad research, and have got some of them published in conferences. Below is a list of these papers.

1.    Waheed Uz Zaman, Affan Ahmed, et al “Mobile IP based Mobility Management for 3G Networks”, published in the symposium proceedings of International Symposium on Wireless Systems and Networks (ISWSN’03)  Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, March 24-26, 2003.

2.    Waheed Uz Zaman, Affan Ahmed,  et al,.“ Modeling Of Processor Delay And Overall Reduction In Network Latencies For Real Time, Interactive Applications”, In proceedings of IEEE Student Conference (ISCON), pp. 76-79, Lahore, Pakistan, August, 2002.

3.      Adeel Abbas, Affan Ahmed “Object Oriented Parallel Processing”, In proceedings of IEEE Student Conference (ISCON), pp. 89-93, Lahore, Pakistan, August, 2002.

4.      Adeel Abbas, Arslan Ahmed, Affan Ahmed et al, “A Retargetable Tool Suite For The Design of Application Specific Instruction Set Processors Using a Machine Description Language”, In proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2002, Vol. 1 pp. 425-428, Phoenix, USA, May 2002

5.    Affan Ahmed, Adeel Abbas “BPDL - Processor definition language with support for cycle accurate DSP architectures”, In proceedings of 5th IEEE International Multi-Topic Conference, pp. 200-204, Lahore, Pakistan, Dec. 2001. (Best Student Paper of the conference)

Industry Experience:

• Summer Intern, Sensicast Systems, May to August 2004
  • Performed in depth analysis of the existing commercial wireless sensor networking platforms, to ascertain suitability for diverse applications. This involved devising and performing tests that exposed the strengths and weaknesses, both technical and commercial, of each platform.

     

• Design Engineer, Avaz Networks (now Quartics ), Oct 2001 to Dec 2002:

  • Member IP group:
    • Design and implementation of a standards compliant, security incorporated (CHAP/PAP) PPP module for the Avaz Network Packet Processor software stack.
    • Setup of a IPv6 LAN for testing of IPv6 compliant software. Also IPv4 to IPv6 code migration.
    • Modifying the DNS server for compatibility with the emerging SIP standard, i.e. support for SRV and NAPTR queries.
    • Small scale video capture and display application development on HandHelds, i.e. HP iPAQ, on the familiar distribution of Linux.
  • Member Hardware Design group:
    • Design and implementation of a Circular Buffer Assist in the DMA of the Avaz Networks Packet Processor ASIC.

Educational Experience:

• Simulation of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN): WSN Simulation with CSMA at MAC layer, One Phase Pull at network layer. (CS 551)
• WSN Project: Modeling of spatial properties in sensor networks & demonstrating their efficacy in applications such as sensor calibration and node localization. (EE 599)
• Edge Tracking in WSN: Implementing an edge tracking application on the TinyOS/Mica2 platform with simulation in TOSSIM. (CS694a)
• E-commerce Site: Design and development of a complete e-commerce site using HTML, JavaScript, Perl/PHP with mySql database. (CS 571)
• Network Queue Simulator: Simulated Markovian queues to study the effects of queuing, feedback and congestion. (EE 465)
 

Leadership/Organizations:

College House Captain: Coordinated social events and maintained general discipline within my house.