About

I am a fourth-year PhD student at UIUC, advised by Professor Radhika Mittal. My research focuses on resource management for multi-tenant networks while ensuring performance isolation.

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

Saving Private Cellular: The Coordination Vacuum in CBRS
HotMobile 2026
Taimoor Tariq, Radhika Mittal
Paper | Slides

Performance Isolation for 5G RAN Slicing Across Multiple Interfering Cells
NINeS 2026
Taimoor Tariq, Yongzhou Chen, Haitham Hassanieh, Radhika Mittal
Paper | Slides | Talk

Centralized Traffic Engineering for Networked Farm Applications
IEEE/ACM SEC 2025
Ammar Tahir, Yueshen Li, Jianli Jin, Changxin Zhang, Daniel Moon, Aganze Mihigo, Taimoor Tariq, Deepak Vasisht, Radhika Mittal
Paper

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

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

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