About me

I am a third-year PhD student at UIUC, advised by Professor Radhika Mittal. My research primarily focuses on resource-management for multi-cell deployments in 5G Networks.

Prior to UIUC, I did my undergraduate from Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan where I worked with Professor Zafar Ayyub Qazi, on challenges related to the design of control plane architecture for 5G.

Publications

1. Enabling Emerging Edge Applications Through a 5G Control Plane Intervention.
   ACM CoNEXT 2022, Rome, Italy.
   Mukhtiar Ahmad, Ali Nawazish, M Taimoor Tariq, Basit Iqbal, Taqi Raza, Zafar Ayyub Qazi.
   Paper | Code

2. Neutrino: A Fast and Consistent Edge-based Cellular Control Plane.
   IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2022.
   Mukhtiar Ahmad, Ali Nawazish, M Taimoor Tariq, Usman Jafri, Adnan Abbass, Mashal Abbas, Zartash Uzmi, Zafar Qazi.
   Paper | Code

3. Fast Failure Detectors for 5G Edge Deployments (Poster).
   Student Research Competition, SOSP 2021.
   M Taimoor Tariq, Maha Kamal, Vafa Batool.