Dr M Arslan Usman
Faculties, deparments and locations
- Faculty of Engineering, Computing and the Environment
- Department of Computer Science
- Department of Networks and Digital Media
- School of Computer Science and Mathematics
- Penrhyn Road
Senior Lecturer
- Email:
- m.usman@kingston.ac.uk
About
I am a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science with academic responsibilities in Research, Teaching (FHEA) and Knowledge Exchange. I am a Wireless Comms technologist focused towards Multimedia Networks, actively involved in several wireless comms research projects globally and standardisation activities at WP5D of International Telecommunications Union (ITU), Switzerland. My global research journey spans several countries over a period of 12 years so far, starting from Blekinge Institute of Technology-Sweden to Wireless Multimedia and Networking (WMN) research group at Kingston University (KU). This journey also includes a year as a Wireless Pre-Sales Engineer at Nokia-West Central Africa (WCA) where I was working on the project 'Moving West Central Africa towards 4G' and 4 years at Wireless and Emerging Network Systems (WENS) Lab-South Korea.
I have 3 years of industrial R&D experience as a System Architect (KTP associate) with Pangea Connected UK and KU under the highly prestigious Knowledge Transfer Partnership Program from Innovate UK. The project I worked on was about delivering enriched video compression and data transfer over 5G networks for emergency services across the UK.
My research interests include 6G Wireless Networks, 5G and Beyond (B5G), Quality of Experience (QoE) in Medical and Entertainment Multimedia, AI-Assisted Decision Making Systems and Internet of Things (IoT). I am a reviewer for several prestigious journals and conferences including IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE VTC and IEEE GLOBECOM. I have had the pleasure of chairing 5G-RAT symposiums and workshops during GLOBECOM 2019 and 2022.
I am currently supervising 4 PhD students and actively looking for PhD applicants with outstanding research profiles.
Qualifications
- PhD in IT Convergence Engineering (Graduated in 2018 with Distinction)
- Masters in Signal Processing (Graduated in 2014)
- Bachelors in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications, Graduated in 2010)
- Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
- Agile Project Management Certified (Foundation and Practitioner)
- PEPLINK certified network engineer
Domains
Module Leader: CI4250 Computing Fundamentals (Level 4)
Module Leader: CI6415 Digital Entrepreneurship (Level 6)
Teacher: CI5250 Computing Systems (Level 5)
Teacher: CI6250 Internet Services and Protocols (Level 6)
Qualifications
- Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Courses taught
Funding and Grants:
- Seedcorn Funding Grant 2023 (PHASE-I): Feasibility and Proof of Concept (POC) for an adaptive wireless connectivity platform for emergency services in the UK (Collaborators, Partners: Wireless World Research Forum (WWRF), Switzerland and iScientia UK).
- Seedcorn Funding Grant 2024 (PHASE-II): Continuation of work from Seedcorn funding Phase-I.
- UKSPF Grant 2024: Dataset collection and preparation for an AI-Powered Cyber Security early warning system for wireless IoT Networks (Collaborators: Leo CyberSec UK)
Specialisms
- Quality of Experience (QoE) estimation, modelling and management for medical and entertainment videos
- Next generation wireless networks (5G and Beyond)
- AI-Assisted Decision Making Systems (Medical and Entertainment domain)
- Internet of Things (Medical-IoT)
- 6G Physical Layer
Scholarly affiliations
- Member of IEEE
- Member of IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc)
- Member of IEEE Young Professionals
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Standardisation Activities: I am actively involved in standardisation activities at ITU working party 5D (ITU-WP5D) involving defining the standards for IMT-2020 (5G) and IMT-2030 (6G). The activities include contribution towards vision, capabilities and evaluation of IMT-2020 and IMT-2030 candidates.
Independent Evaluation at ITU-WP5D: I am part of an independent evaluation group (IEG) that participates in evaluation of IMT-2020 (5G) candidate technologies for various KPIs including Reliability, Spectral Efficiency, Capacity Analysis etc.
Publications
A sequential-data approach for human gait parameter estimation and surgical event inference
Hamid, Shahzaib, Khosa, Ikramullah, Iftikhar, Muhammad Aksam, Usman, M. Rehan and Usman, M. Arslan, 2024, IEEE Access (12), pp 168791-168811
Threshold cryptography-based secure vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication in 5G-enabled intelligent transportation systems
Weerasinghe, Nuwan, Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Hewage, Chaminda, Pfluegel, Eckhard and Politis, Christos, 2023, Future Internet (15), 5, pp 157
The development and potential of a digital Out Of Home food environment monitoring platform
Hetz, Kathrin, Weerasinghe, Nuwan, Rippin, Holly, Wickramasinghe, Kremlin, Zhiteneva, Olga, Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Politis, Christos and Galea, Gauden, 2023, Nutrients (15), 18, pp 3887
Design, deployment and performance evaluation of an IoT based smart energy management system for demand side management in smart grid
Saleem, M. Usman, Usman, M. Rehan, Usman, M. Arslan and Politis, Christos, 2022, IEEE Access (10), pp 15261-15278
HVDC transmission line fault identification : a learning based UAV control strategy
Khan, Waheed A., Hamid, Shahzaib, Usman, M. Rehan, Raza, Ali, Usman, M. Arslan, Politis, Christos and Satrya, Gandeva Bayu, 2022, IEEE Access (10), pp 121561-121579
Link and system-level NOMA simulator : the reproducibility of research
Khan, Arsla, Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Usman, Muhammad Rehan, Ahmad, Muneeb and Shin, Soo-Young, 2021, Electronics (10), 19, pp e2388
Exploiting de-noising convolutional neural networks DnCNNs for an efficient watermarking scheme : a case for information retrieval
Rahim, Tariq, Khan, Saud, Usman, Muhammad Arslan and Shin, Soo Young, 2021, IETE Technical Review (38), 2, pp 245-255
Fault interruption scheme for HVDC system using SiC-MESFET and VCB based hybrid circuit breaker
Khan, Waheed A., Raza, Ali, Usman, M. Rehan, Hamid, Shahzaib, Rehman, Saif-Ur-, Usman, M. Arslan and Politis, Christos, 2021, IEEE Access (9), pp 157371-157383
QI-BRiCE : Quality Index for Bleeding Regions in Capsule Endoscopy Videos
Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Usman, Muhammad Rehan, Satrya, Gandeva Bayu, Muhammad Ashfaq, Khan, Politis, Christos, Philip, Nada and Shin, Soo Young, 2021, (67), 2, pp 1697-1712
Suitability of VVC and HEVC for video telehealth systems
Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Usman, Muhammad Rehan, Naqvi, Rizwan Ali, Mcphilips, Bernie, Romeika, Christopher, Cunliffe, Daniel, Politis, Christos and Philip, Nada, 2021, (67), 1, pp 529-547
Walsh–Hadamard transform based non–orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) and interference rejection combining in next-generation HetNets
Usman, M. Rehan, Usman, M. Arslan, Shin, Soo Young, Satrya, Gandeva Bayu, Naqvi, Rizwan A., Martini, Maria G. and Politis, Christos, 2021, Mathematics (9), 4, pp e348
A survey on contemporary computer-aided tumor, polyp, and ulcer detection methods in wireless capsule endoscopy imaging
Rahim, Tariq, Usman, Muhammad Arslan and Shin, Soo Young, 2020, Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics (85), pp 101767
Usman, Muhammad Arslan and Martini, Maria G., 2019, Computers in Biology and Medicine (113)
Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Seong, Chi-Hyeok, Lee, Man Hee and Shin, Soo Young, 2019, Multimedia Tools and Applications (78), 16, pp 22959-22975
Exploiting the spatio-temporal attributes of HD videos : a bandwidth efficient approach
Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Usman, Muhammad Rehan and Shin, Soo Young, 2018, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (28), 9, pp 2418-2422
Usman, Muhammad Rehan, Khan, Arsla, Usman, Muhammad Arslan and Shin, Soo Young, 2018, China Communications (15), 9, pp 160-177
A novel no-reference metric for estimating the impact of frame freezing artifacts on perceptual quality of streamed videos
Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Usman, Muhammad Rehan and Shin, Soo Young, 2018, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (20), 9, pp 2344-2359
Quality assessment for wireless capsule endoscopy videos compressed via HEVC : from diagnostic quality to visual perception
Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Usman, Muhammad Rehan and Shin, Soo Young, 2017, Computers in Biology and Medicine (91), pp 112-134
Channel resource allocation and availability prediction in hybrid access femtocells
Usman, Muhammad Rehan, Usman, Muhammad Arslan and Shin, Soo Young, 2017, Physical Communication (24), pp 112-122
Investigating reliability for URLLC in EUHT-5G a new IMT-2020 candidate technology
Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Weerasinghe, Nuwan, Ansari, Rafay, Usman, Muhammad Rehan and Politis, Christos(2022). In: 2022 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 04-08 Dec 2022 :Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Solar powered autonomous hex-copter for surveillance, security and monitoring
Hassan, Fahad, Usman, M. Rehan, Hamid, Shahzaib, Usman, M. Arslan, Politis, Christos and Satrya, G.B.(2021). In: 2021 IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Wireless and Mobile (APWiMob), 8-10 Apr 2021 :Bandung, Indonesia (Held online)
5G enabled mobile healthcare for ambulances
Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Philip, Nada Y. and Politis, Christos(2019). In: 2019 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps), 09-13 Dec 2019 :Waikoloa, HI, U.S.
Impact of denoising on watermarking : a perspective for information retrieval
Rahim, Tariq, Khan, Saud, Usman, Muhammad Arslan and Shin, Soo Young(2019). In: 2019 42nd International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), 01-03 Jul 2019 :Budapest, Hungary
UAV reconnaissance using bio-inspired algorithms : joint PSO and Penguin Search Optimization Algorithm (PeSOA) attributes
Usman, Muhammad Rehan, Usman, Arslan, Yaq, Muhammad Azfar and Shin, Soo Young(2019). 11-14 Jan 2019 : Las Vegas, U.S.
Using image steganography for providing enhanced medical data security
Usman, Arslan and Usman, Muhammad Rehan(2018). 12-15 Jan 2018 : Las Vegas, U.S.
An intrusion oriented heuristic for efficient resource management in end-to-end wireless video surveillance systems
Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Usman, Muhammad Rehan and Shin, Soo Young(2018). 12-15 Jan 2018 : Las Vegas, U.S.
A novel encoding-decoding scheme using Huffman coding for multimedia networks
Usman, Muhammad Rehan, Usman, Arslan and Shin, Soo Young(2018). 12-15 Jan 2018 : Las Vegas, U.S.
Impulse noise mitigation using precoded SCFDMA for uplink PLC systems
Khan, Arsla, Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Usman, Muhammad Rehan and Young, Soo(2017). In: 2017 7th IEEE International Conference on Control System, Computing and Engineering (ICCSCE), 24-26 Nov 2017 :Penang, Malaysia
On the performance of turbo coding in Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA)
Usman, Muhammad Rehan, Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Khan, Arslan and Shin, Soo Young(2017). In: 2017 Korean Institute of Communication Science Summer Conference, 22-24 Jun 2017 :Jeju, South Korea
Channel blocking analysis and availability prediction in cognitive radio networks
Usman, Muhammad Rehan, Usman, Muhammad Arslan and Shin, Soo Young(2017). In: 2017 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 26-29 Jan 2017 :Silicon Valley, U.S.
From smart to smarter cities : bridging the dimensions of technology and urban planning
Akaraci, Selin, Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Usman, Muhammad Rehan and Ahn, Dong Joon(2016). In: 2016 International Conference on Smart Green Technology in Electrical and Information Systems (ICSGTEIS), 06-08 Oct 2016 :Denpasar, Indonesia
On the performance of perfect and imperfect SIC in downlink non orthogonal multiple access (NOMA)
Usman, Muhammad Rehan, Khan, Arsla, Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Jang, Yun Seong and Shin, Soo Young(2016). In: 2016 International Conference on Smart Green Technology in Electrical and Information Systems (ICSGTEIS), 06-08 Oct 2016 :Denpasar, Indonesia
Swapped Huffman tree coding application for low-power wide-area network (LPWAN)
Jang, Yun Seong, Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Usman, Muhammad Rehan and Shin, Soo Young(2016). In: 2016 International Conference on Smart Green Technology in Electrical and Information Systems (ICSGTEIS), 06-08 Oct 2016 :Denpasar, Indonesia
A no reference method for detection of dropped video frames in live video streaming
Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Usman, Muhammad Rehan and Shin, Soo Young(2016). In: 2016 Eighth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 05-08 Jul 2016 :Vienna, Austria
On the performance of edge detection algorithms in wireless capsule endoscopy videos
Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Usman, Muhammad Rehan and Shin, Soo Young(2016). In: 2016 Korean Institute of Communications Society Conference, 22-24 Jun 2016 :Jeju, South Korea
Performance analysis of perfect and imperfect SIC for Downlink Non-Orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA)
Usman, Muhammad Rehan, Khan, Arslan, Usman, Muhammad Arslan and Shin, Soo Young(2016). In: 2016 Korean Institute of Communications Society Conference (KICS), 22-24 Jun 2016 :Jeju, South Korea
Priority based handover strategy in macro-femto two tier network
Usman, Muhammad Rehan, Usman, Muhammad Arslan and Shin, Soo Young(2016). In: 2016 Korea Institute of Communications and Information Sciences Winter Conference, 20 Jan 2016 :Pyeongchang, South Korea
Visual quality enhancement in wireless capsule endoscopy videos for efficient detection of bleeding regions in small colon
Usman, Muhammad Arslan, Usman, Muhammad Rehan and Shin, Soo Young(2016). In: 2016 Korea Institute of Communications and Information Sciences Winter Conference, 20 Jan 2016 :Pyeongchang, South Korea