Name

Dr Muhammad Altaf

Email

maltaf@comsats.edu.pk

Department

Electrical Engineering

Designation

Associate Professor(HEC Approved supervisor)

Highest Qualification / Degree awarding university

PhD, 2010, University of Essex UK

Distinctions / Awards

None

Conference papers

1. M. Altaf, E Khan and M. Ghanbari, “Affects of SP-Pictures on Bitstream Switching through Monotonically Decreasing Rate Schedulers for Streaming of H.264/AVC coded Video” in proceedings of IEEE international symposium on telecommunication, Tehran, Iran (2008).
2. M. Altaf, E Khan and M. Ghanbari, “Switching Frames for Constant Bit Rate Video Streams”, ACM 5th International Mobile Multimedia Communications.
3. M. Altaf, E Khan and M. Ghanbari, “Recommendations for Switching Frames in Mobile Video Streaming”, ACM 5th International Mobile Multimedia Communications.
4. M. Altaf, M. Fleury and M. Ghanbari “Error Resilience Performance for Wireless Conversational Servises”, ACM 5th International Mobile Multimedia Communications.
5. M. Altaf, E Khan and M. Ghanbari, “Recommendations for the Switching Frames in Bandwidth Limited Channels”, Third international conference on internet technologies and applications, Wrexham, United Kingdom.
6. R. Razavi, M. Fleury, M. Altaf, H. Samak, M. Ghanbari, “H.264 Video streaming with data partitioning and growth codes”, IEEE international conference on image processing, cairo, Egypt, Nov 7-11, 2009.
7. Nadia N. Qadri, M. Fleury, M. Altaf, M. Ghanbari, A. Liotta, “P2P Video Streaming with MDC over a Wireless Ad Hoc Network”, The 1st International IET Workshop on Wireless Multimedia Networking and Applications (WMNA'09), Wrexham, United Kingdom.
8. Nadia N. Qadri, M. Fleury, M. Altaf, M. Ghanbari, “P2P Layered Video Streaming over Wireless Ad Hoc Networks”, ACM 5th International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference, London, UK.
9. Nadia N. Qadri, M. Fleury, M. Altaf, M. Ghanbari, “Robust Video Communication over an Urban VANET”, The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2009), Marrakech Morocco.
10. Nadia N. Qadri, M. Fleury, M. Altaf, B. R. Rofoee, M. Ghanbari,“Resilient P2P Multimedia Exchange in a VANET”, IFIP Wireless Days 2009 sponsored by IEEE.
11. Nadia N. Qadri, M. Altaf, M. Fleury, M. Altaf, M. Ghanbari, “Multi-Path Video Streaming with Redundant Frames over a MANET”, ACM 7th International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology (FIT), Abbottabad, Pakistan.
12. Z. Saleem, N. Khan, W. Ishaq and M. Altaf, “Free space optical (FSO) link design under diverse weather conditions”, Proceeings of 5th WSEAS Int. conference on Microelectronic, Nanoelectronics and Optoelectronics, Prague, Czech republic, March 12-14, 2006, pp. 97-104

Journal publications

1. M. Altaf, E. Khan, M. Ghanbari and N.N. Qadri, “Efficient Bitstream switching for Streaming of H.264/AVC coded Video”, To be published in Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing .
2. M. Altaf, M. Fleury and M. Ghanbari, “Error Resilient Video Stream Switching for Mobile Wireless Channels”, To be published in Journal on Mobile Multimedia (JMM), Vol 5, No 4,  Rinton Press, New Jersey, USA.
3. Bahar Partov Poor, Martin Fleury, Muhammad Altaf and Mohammed Ghanbari, “Channel adaptive video stream switching for broadband wireless links”, Multimedia Systems, Springer, 2010
4. Nadia N. Qadri, M. Altaf,  M. Fleury, M. Ghanbari, “Emergency Video Multi-Path Transfer over Ad Hoc Wireless Networks” Journal of Communications (JCM, ISSN 1796-2021), Special Issue on Wireless Communications for Emergency Communications and Rural Wideband Services, Volume 4, Issue 5, June 2009, Academy Publisher. 
5. Nadia N. Qadri, A. Liotta, M. Altaf, M. Fleury, M. Ghanbari “Effective Video Streaming using Mesh P2P with MDC over MANETs”, Journal on Mobile Multimedia (JMM), Vol 5, No 4, 2009 Rinton Press, New Jersey, USA.
6. Nadia N. Qadri, M. Fleury, M. Altaf, M. Ghanbari, “Multi-Source Video Streaming in a Wireless Vehicular Ad Hoc Network”, for Special Issue of IET Communication Journal on Video Communication over Wireless Networks, Vol 4, Issue 11, pp. 1300-1311, July 2010.
7. Nadia N. Qadri, M. Altaf, M. Fleury, M. Ghanbari, “Robust Video Communication over an Urban VANET”, Journal of Mobile Information Systems, Vol 6, No. 3, pp. 259-280, IOS press, Sep 2010.
8. Nadia N. Qadri, M. Fleury, M. Altaf, B. R. Rofoee, M. Ghanbari “Resilient P2P Multimedia Transfer in a VANET”, Wireless Personal Communications by Springer, 2010 (In print but available on onlinefirst).
9. Saleem, N. Khan, W. Ishaq and M. Altaf, “Free space optical (FSO) link design under diverse weather conditions”, WSEAS transactions on electronics, Issue 4, vol 3, April 2006.

Subjects Teaching

1.      Digital Signal Processing

2.      Digital System Design