About

I am a fourth-year PhD student at UIUC, advised by Professor Radhika Mittal. My research focuses on resource management and coordination 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: Addressing the Coordination Vacuum in CBRS
To appear in HotMobile 2026
Taimoor Tariq, Radhika Mittal

Performance Isolation for 5G RAN Slicing Across Multiple Interfering Cells
To appear in NINeS 2026
Taimoor Tariq, Yongzhou Chen, Haitham Hassanieh, Radhika Mittal

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

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