Name

Personal

Contact #:  +92-91-9224769
Email: tabindasalam@sbbwu.edu.pk

tabindasalam@gmail.com
Address: Department of Computer Science, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University, Peshawar.

Experience

1. June 2007- Till date: Lecturer, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Women University Peshawar 
2. August 2005-May 2007: Lecturer City District College Peshawar 
3. June 2005-August 2005: internee in Khwendo Kor, Women and Children Development Programme 
4. April 2005-June 2005: Internee in University Computer Center Peshawar.

Qualification

Honor and Awards

1. HEC Approved Supervisor
2. Awarded PhD Scholarship under the Chinese Scholarship Council Program, by Govt. of China.
3. Highest CGPA in MS.
4. Awarded Merit scholarship for Graduate Studies by Agricultural University Peshawar.
5. Gold Medalist in MSc.
6. Secured 43^rd position is BISE Peshawar annual result.

College Topper of BS 4^th year

Memberships

• Elected member of Academic Council Since 2022 till date.
• Member of Board of Studies, Department of Computer Science
• Member, Board of Faculties, SBBWU.
• Member Board of Trustees, SBBWU.
• Management Committee member of BoT, SBBWU
• Member of HED’s Curriculum Review Committee
• Secretary of disciplinary committee of Computer Science Deptt

BoS member, City University of Science and Technology, Peshawar.

Graduate Students Postdocs Undergraduate Students Honor Students

1 PhD student, 3 MS students, 5 BS FYP groups

Service Activity

• Served as Lab In-charge (City campus of SBBWU)
• Served as video conference coordinator (2008-2012)
• Served as Internal GSC member of Computer Science Department from February, 2023 till February 2025.
• Served as University Advancement Office focal person from 2018 till 2023.
• Served as MSc SAR Team member
• Served as PhD (CS) SAR Team leader
• Served as BS Accreditation in-charge
• Served as Member of purchase committee
• Served as Focal person for PM laptop scheme
• Served as QEC focal person (Sep 2018-Jan 23)
• Served as Departmental Focal person for DELSI project of HEC
• Worked as an organizer in Women Employability summit 2019, at SBBWU, Peshawar.
• Core Committee member of Women Youth Career Conference, 6^th and 7^th December, 2022
• Alumni focal person
• Departmental Scholarship Committee member (2018 till date)
• Member of Board of Studies Department of Computer Science
• Secretary of disciplinary committee of Computer Science Deptt
• Elected member of Academic Council
• Departmental Computing Society focal person
• Departmental focal person for KPIT board, Science and Technology park: Placement of internees in the IT Park and the like
• Student Advisor (Sep 2018 till date)
• Publication of Alumni Diaries of CS alumni
• Publication of Self-support stories of CS students
• Advanced Studies Coordinator (Oct 22 till date)
• Reviewer of MS Thesis since 2018
• Reviewer of Journals/Conference papers and book chapter since 2018

Brief Statement of Research Interest

My research interests are related to the issues involved in managing the traffic in next generation networks. These include:

• Handovers in heterogeneous networks
• Device to device communications
• Social aware data offloading
• Wireless sensor networks
• Machine to machine communication
• Relays for Machine Type Communication (MTC)
• Data aggregation for massive MTC
• Machine type communication using millimeter wave NOMA transmission
• Optimal clustering in machine type communication networks
• Uplink caching in B5G networks
• Machine learning in MTC networks
• Information and Communication systems
• Privacy preservation of IoT data
• Intrusion Detection Systems

Privacy preservation of LMS data

Publications

Theses

      PhD

            Cooperative data aggregation and resource management in MTC networks

 MS

Seamless Vertical handovers in heterogeneous networks

Journal Publications

• Qazi Ejaz Ali, Abdul Haseeb Malik, Waheed Ur Rehman, Muhammad Haseeb, & Tabinda Salam. (2025). Security Issues and Research Opportunities in Wireless Body Area Networks. International Journal of Innovations in Science & Technology, 7(3), 1881–1894
• Malaika, Tabinda, et al. Optimized Mode Selection in D2D enabled B5G Networks: A Game Theory Approach. IJIST, Vol. 07, Issue 02. pp 1039-1054, May 2025.
• Mahtab, Tabinda, et al. ERMV: Efficient Revocation of Malicious Vehicles In VANETs. Journal of Hunan University. Vol. 52 No. 4. May, 2025. IF 1.080 (Category X)
• T. Salam et al., "Cooperative Dew Computing for Computational Offloading in Healthcare Monitoring," in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 170041-170056, 2024
• Q. Ejaz Ali, M. Hussain, I. Ahmad, W. Rehman, A. Haseeb Malik, T. Salam. HES: Hash-Based Efficient Secure Model For Vehicular Ad Hoc Network. July 2024. Pakistan Journal of Engineering Technology & Science 12(1):156-163
• Waheed ur Rehman, Mubarak Sufyan, Tabinda Salam, et. al. Cooperative Distributed Uplink Cache over B5G small cell networks. PLOS ONE 19 (4), e0299690, 2024.  

• Sidra Niaz, Fouzia Jabeen, Tabinda Salam, Shah Nazir. Statistical Methods in Computer Science: A Comparative Review of Inductive and Deductive Approaches. VAWKUM Transactions on Computer Sciences. 2023, 11 (1).
• Sufyan, M.M.AE., Rehman, W.U., Salam, T. et al. Duplication elimination in cache-uplink transmission over B5G small cell network. J Wireless Com Network 2021, 185 (2021).
• Haseeb K, Abbas N, Saleem MQ, Sheta OE, Awan K, et al. (2019) RCER: Reliable Cluster-based Energy-aware Routing protocol for heterogeneous Wireless Sensor Networks. PLOS ONE 14(9): e0222009. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0222009
• Sufyan MMAE, Rehman WU, Salam T, Al-Salehi AR, Ejaz Ali Q, et al. (2022) Distributed uplink cache for improved energy and spectral efficiency in B5G small cell network. PLOS ONE 17(5): e0268294. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268294
• I. Khan, X. Tao, G. M. S. Rahman, W. U. Rehman and T. Salam, "Advanced Energy-Efficient Computation Offloading Using Deep Reinforcement Learning in MTC Edge Computing," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 82867-82875, 2020,
• W. U. Rehman, T. Salam, A. Almogren, K. Haseeb, I. Ud Din and S. H. Bouk, "Improved Resource Allocation in 5G MTC Networks," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 49187-49197, 2020,
• T. Salam, W. U. Rehman and X. Tao, "Data Aggregation in Massive Machine Type Communication: Challenges and Solutions," in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 41921-41946, 2019.

T. Salam, W. U. Rehman and X. Tao, "Cooperative Data Aggregation and Dynamic Resource Allocation for Massive Machine Type Communication," in IEEE Access, vol.

• . PP, no. 99, pp. 1-1. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2791577.
• Tabinda Salam, Waheed ur Rehman, Xiaofeng Tao, Yu Chen, Ping Zhang. A Trust Framework for Machine Type Communication for Smart Aggregation. Sci China Inf Sci, 2017. 60: 100306.
• Rahat Ullah, Bo Liu, Qi Zhang , Yousaf Khan, Amjad Ali, Qinghua Tian, Feng Tian, M. Saad Khan, Tabinda Salam, Lijia Zhang, Xiangjun Xin. "Colorless WDM-PON using single side band carrier suppressed signals mitigating carrier rayleigh backscattering," in China Communications, vol. 13, no. 12, pp. 150-161, December 2016.
• Waheed ur Rehman, Tabinda Salam, Jin Xu, and Xiaofeng Tao: Capacity Enhancement in 60-GHz based D2D Networks by Relay Selection and scheduling, International Journal of Antennas and Propagation, 2015: pg. 1-15.

  International Conferences Publications

   

• Tabinda Salam, Waheed ur Rehman, Razaullah Khan, Israr Khan, Xiaofeng Tao. "Dynamic Resource Allocation and Mobile Aggregator Selection in Mission Critical MTC Networks". IEEE INFOCOM Workshop 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2018, pp. 1-6.
• T. Salam, W. u. Rehman and X. Tao, "Cooperative MTC Data Offloading with Trust Transitivity Framework in 5G Networks," GLOBECOM 2017 - 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, Singapore, 2017, pp. 1-7.
• Waheed ur Rehman, Tabinda Salam, Xiaofeng Tao:
  Vertex multi-coloring scheduling algorithm for concurrent transmission in 60-GHz networks. GLOBECOM 2014: 4751-4757.
• Waheed ur Rehman, Tabinda Salam, Xiaofeng Tao: Receiver based distributed relay selection scheme for 60-GHz networks. PIMRC 2014: 1585-1590.
• Waheed ur Rehman, Tabinda Salam, Xiaofeng Tao:
  Relay selection schemes in millimeter-wave WPANs. WPMC 2014: 192-197.
• Tabinda Salam, Mah-Rukh Fida and Muhammad Ali. Seamless Proactive Vertical Handover Algorithm. In proc. of 8th International Conference on information technology: new generations (ITNG). Las Vegas, USA. 94-99. 2011.
• Tabinda Salam, Samina Mushtaq, Taleaa Khalid, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Amin. Efficient vertical handover approaches for increased user satisfaction in next generation networks. In proc. of 1st International Conference on Computer Networks and Information Technology (ICCNIT), Bara Gali, Pakistan. 233-239. 2011
• Mah-Rukh Fida, Ameer Shakayb Arsalaan and Tabinda Salam. Evaluating Contact-Ignorant and History-Based Routing Protocols of Disrupted Mobile Networks. Frontiers of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. 19-21st December 2011.

Research Grants and Contracts

N/A

Other Research or Creative Accomplishments

• Panelist on WSIS Forum 2022 on “The Digital Access Technology for Poverty Alleviation and Recovery in Post Covid-19 Era” April 28, 2022. https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2022/Agenda/Session/309

• Paper Presentations:
  • 1st International Conference on Computer Networks and Information Technology (ICCNIT), Bara Gali, Pakistan, 2011.
  • IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM, Singapore, 2017

IEEE international conference on computer communication, INFOCOM 2018, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2018

Selected Professional Presentations

• An Introduction to Publishing with Emerald, 14^th December, 2011 (Attended through Video Conferencing)
• Cloud and Windows Azure, December 2011, (Attended through Video Conferencing)
• Seminars attended during PhD:

• Smart Home Technologies Towards Better Healthcare, 2015-12-22
• The Roles of Big Data and Cloud Computing in Smart Grid Communication Infrastructures, 2015-10-18
• Evolution of search engines: Towards understanding and serving users, 2015-10-20
• Market-Oriented Cloud Computing and Big Data Applications

2015-05-08   

• Understanding the Role of Social Media in Marketing

2016-02-11

• Mobility modeling for vehicular communication networks, 2016-08-26
• Vehicular ad hoc networks: research challenges & opportunities, 2016-06-16
• Sequential and Hierarchical Determinant Point Processes for Supervised Video Summarization, 2016-12-12
• Scalable Mobile Crowdsensing in Ubiquitous Cloud Environment
• Communication Infrastructures, 2016-09-09

• Attended “Google Business Group Peshawar’s Road Show” at SBBWUP (October 17, 2018)
• Attended Awareness Session of Gender Inclusive Durshal application form (KPITB) at SBBWUP (December 11, 2018) ?
• Attended Awareness session of Google Business Group’s annual conference BizFest 2018 at SBBWUP (December 07, 2018) ?
• Attended Awareness session of Google Developer Group’s annual conference DevFest 2019 at SBBWUP (October 07, 2019)
• Attended awareness session on “SKILLS4U Training Program by Tutors Gateway” at SBBWUP (May 13, 2019)
• Co-organizer, Women Employability summit 2019, at SBBWU, Peshawar
• Attended awareness session of Digital Khawateen by SKILLS4U for the students of SBBWU Peshawar (February 28, 2020)
• Organized One-day training workshop on graphic designing, at SBBWU, October, 23.
• Attended workshop on: Role of faculty as a Nation Builder: Developing Nation Builders and Entrepreneurs for the Future, at SBBWU, October, 23.
• Co-organizer for Aptech Media training of App development at SBBWU, March, 2023.
• Attended two-days training on Crafting the teacher’s mindset, at SBBWU, August, 2023.
• Facilitator for DevFest, 2023 and 2024 at Imsciences Peshawar.
• Participated in Global Volunteer Week, Generative AI Empowers Women to Shatter Glass Ceilings, at SBBWUP, 17^th September, 2024.
• Attended Seminar on Women Internet Safety and Empowerment, at SBBWUP, May, 2024.
• Guest at International Volunteer Day organized by Al-Khidmat Foundation on 04^th December, 2024.
• Attended Session on “SheLeads”: Women Leaders in Tech Industry, at Imsciences, Hayatabad, January, 2025.
• Participated in Industry-Academia Rendezvous on April 10, 2025, at HEC Peshawar.
• Lead Organizer “Redefine Possible: Celebration of International Women’s Day 2025”, in collaboration with Google Women Techmakers. 29^th April, 2025
• Received NAHE training at SBBWU, February to April, 2025.
• Attended Civil Defense training at SBBWU Peshawar on 12^th May 2025 and 19^th May, 2025.
• Lead Organizer “Solidarity with Palestinians: Peaceful Gaza Demonstration”. 19^th May, 2025.
• Lead Organizer “Civil Defense: The frontline of Community Safety”, at SBBWU on 10^th and 11^th September, 2025.