Syed Ali Khayam

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Ph.D.
Michigan State University (MSU), December 2006
Electrical Engineering

M.S.
Michigan State University (MSU), May 2003
Electrical Engineering

B.E.
National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), November 1999
Computer Engineering

Email: khayamsy located at egr dot msu dot edu

 Research Interests

Modeling and simulation of complex network phenomena, performance evaluation of network architectures and protocols, detection and spread prevention of self-propagating malicious codes, cross-layer protocol/application design for wireless networks.

 Publications

Ph.D. Dissertation

• Syed Ali Khayam, "Wireless Channel Modeling and Malware Detection using Statistical and Information-Theoretic Measures," December 2006.

M.S. Thesis

• Syed Ali Khayam, "Analysis and Modeling of Errors and Losses over 802.11b LANs," May 2003.

Book Chapter(s)

• Syed Ali Khayam and Hayder Radha, "MAC layer Wireless Channel Modeling," Multimedia over Wireless and IP Networks: Compression, Networking, and Systems, eds. Mihaela van der Schaar and Philip, Chou, Publisher: Elsevier/Academic Press, March 2007.

Journal Papers

• Syed Ali Khayam and Hayder Radha, "Maximum-Likelihood Header Estimation: A Cross-Layer Methodology for Wireless Multimedia," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.

• Syed Ali Khayam and Hayder Radha, "Modeling Worm Propagation over Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks," to appear in SAE Transactions. (invited paper)

• Syed Ali Khayam, Hayder Radha, Selin Aviyente, and John R. Deller, Jr., "Markov and Multifractal Wavelet Models for Wireless MAC-to-MAC Channels," Elsevier Performance Evaluation Journal, vol. 64, no. 4, pp. 298-314, May 2007.

• Syed Ali Khayam, Shirish Karande, Muhammad Usman Ilyas, and Hayder Radha, "Header Detection to Improve Multimedia Quality over Wireless Networks," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 377-385, February 2007.

• Syed Ali Khayam and Hayder Radha, "Using Signal Processing Techniques to Model Worm Propagation over Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 164-169, March 2006. (wormblog's reference to this paper)

• Syed Ali Khayam and Hayder Radha, "Linear-Complexity Models for Wireless MAC-to-MAC Channels," ACM/Kluwer Wireless Networks (WINET) - Special Issue on Selected Papers from MSWiM'03, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 543-555, September 2005.

• Syed Ali Khayam, Shirish Karande, Hayder Radha, and Dmitri Loguinov, "Performance Analysis and Modeling of Errors and Losses over 802.11b LANs for High-Bitrate Real-Time Multimedia," EURASIP Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol.18, no.7, pp. 575-595, 2003.

Selected Conference/Workshop/Magazine Papers

• Syed Ali Khayam and Hayder Radha, "Using Session-Keystroke Mutual Information to Detect Self-Propagating Malicious Codes,"  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2007.

• Syed Ali Khayam and Hayder Radha, "On the Impact of Ignoring Markovian Channel Memory on the Analysis of Wireless Systems,"  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2007.

• Shirish Karande, Syed Ali Khayam, Yongju Cho, Kiran Misra, Hayder Radha, Jae-Gon Kim, and Jin-Woo Hong, "On Channel State Inference and Prediction using Observable Variables in 802.11b Networks,"  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2007.

• Yongju Cho, Syed Ali Khayam, and Hayder Radha, "A Multi-Tier Model for BER Prediction over Wireless Residual Channels,"  to appear in International Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2007.

• Syed Ali Khayam, Shirish Karande, Muhammad Usman Ilyas, and Hayder Radha, "Improving Wireless Multimedia Quality using Header Detection with Priors," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2006.

• Syed Ali Khayam and Hayder Radha, "Constant-Complexity Models for Wireless Channels," IEEE Infocom, April 2006.

• Syed Ali Khayam and Hayder Radha, "Modeling Worm Propagation over Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks," SAE 2006 World Congress, April 2006.

• Aparna Gurijala and Syed Ali Khayam, "Encryption Effects on Compression Efficiency of Still Images," SPIE Newsroom, February 2006. (invited paper)

• Aparna Gurijala, Syed Ali Khayam, Hayder Radha, and John R. Deller, Jr., "On Encryption-Compression Trade-off of Pre/Post-Filtered Images," SPIE Conference on Mathematics of Data/Image Coding, Compression, and Encryption VIII (MDICCE), August 2005.

• Syed Ali Khayam and Hayder Radha, "A Topologically-Aware Worm Propagation Model for Wireless Sensor Networks," IEEE ICDCS International Workshop on Security in Distributed Computing Systems (SDCS), June 2005. (wormblog's reference to this paper)

• Syed Ali Khayam, Selin Aviyente, and Hayder Radha, "On Long-Range Dependence in High-Bitrate Wireless Residual Channels," International Conference on Information Sciences and Systems (CISS), March 2005. (Erratum: The A_j,k random variables defined in equation (6) of the original proceedings paper are not uniformly distributed.)

• Syed Ali Khayam, Muhammad U. Ilyas, Klaus Pörsch, Shirish Karande, and Hayder Radha, "A Statistical Receiver-based Approach for Improved Throughput of Multimedia Communications over Wireless LANs," IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2005.

• Syed Ali Khayam and Hayder Radha, "Analyzing the Spread of Active Worms over VANET," ACM Mobicom International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET), October 2004. (technical report) (wormblog's reference to this paper)

• Syed Ali Khayam and Hayder Radha, "Markov-based Modeling of Wireless Local Area Networks," ACM Mobicom International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems (MSWiM), September 2003.

• Shirish Karande, Syed Ali Khayam, Michael Krappel, and Hayder Radha, "Cross-Layer Protocol Design for Real-Time Multimedia Applications over 802.11b Networks," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), July 2003.

• Shirish Karande, Syed Ali Khayam, Michael Krappel, and Hayder Radha, "Analysis and Modeling of Errors at the 802.11b Link-Layer," IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), July 2003.

• Muhammad Usman Ilyas, Syed Ali Khayam, M. Omer Suleman, and S. Masud, "A Configurable Platform for Simulating Multiprocessor based System on Chip," International Symposium on Wireless Systems and Networks (ISWSN), May 2003.

• Syed Ali Khayam, Shoab A. Khan, and Sohail Sadiq, "A Generic Integer Programming Approach to Hardware/Software Codesign," IEEE International Multi-Topic Conference (INMIC), December 2001.

Technical Reports

• Syed Ali Khayam, "The Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT): Theory and Application," DCT Tutorial, WAVES-TR-ECE802.602, 2003. revised February 2005; fixed errata pointed out by Hamza Fraz; Thanks Hamza :)

Other Publications

• Syed Ali Khayam, "A Critique of the HEC Faculty Hiring Program," Virtual Think Tank of Pakistan - National Policy Dialogue Series (VTTP-NPDS), October 2004.

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Professional Services & Affiliations

• Session Chair: IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2007, Computer and Communications Network Security Symposium

• Reviewer (Journal) - IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications & Networking (JWCN), Elsevier Performance Evaluation Journal, Journal of Communications & Networks (JCN)

• Reviewer (Conference) - IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2007, IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) 2007, IEEE Wireless Communications & Networking Conference (WCNC) 2006

• Student Member - IEEE, ACM

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Resume

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 Downloads

802.11b bit-error traces and Model Parameters at 2, 5.5 and 11 Mbps

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 Linux Nightmares

• DLink DWL-650 802.11b Wireless Card in RedHat 7.1

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