Publications

• Prashant Modekurthy, Dali Ismail, Mahbubur Rahman and Abusayeed Saifullah; "Extending Coverage through Integrating Multiple Low-Power Wide-Area Networks: A Latency Minimizing Approach"; in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing; pp. 1–18, 2024.
• Mahbubur Rahman and Abusayeed Saifullah; "Transparent and Tamper-Proof Event Ordering in the Internet of Things Platforms"; in IEEE IoT Journal; pp. 1–14, 2022.
• Mahbubur Rahman, Dali Ismail, Venkata Prashant Modekurthy, and Abusayeed Saifullah; "LPWAN in the TV White Spaces: A Practical Implementation and Deployment Experiences"; in ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems; pp. 1–-25, 2021.
• Mahbubur Rahman and Abusayeed Saifullah; "Integrating Low-Power Wide-Area Networks for Enhanced Scalability and Extended Coverage"; in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking; pp. 1-14; 2020.
• Mahbubur Rahman and Abusayeed Saifullah; "A Comprehensive Survey on Networking over TV White Spaces"; in Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing; pp. 1--30; 2019.
• Mahbubur Rahman*, Abusayeed Saifullah*, Dali Ismail, Chenyang Lu, Jie Lu, and Ranveer Chandra;”Low-Power Wide-Area Network over White Spaces”; in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking; pp. 1--14; 2018. *First co-author. Michael E. Conrad Outstanding Publication Award (Individual).

• Mahbubur Rahman and Abusayeed Saifullah; "Boosting Reliability and Energy-Efficiency in Indoor LoRa"; in ACM/IEEE IoTDI '23 (The 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation); pp. 1–14, 2023.
• Sezana Fahmida, Venkata Prashant Modekurthy, Mahbubur Rahman, and Abusayeed Saifullah; "Handling Coexistence of LoRa with Other Networks through Embedded Reinforcement Learning"; in ACM/IEEE IoTDI '23 (The 8th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation); pp. 1–14, 2023.
• Mahbubur Rahman and Pushpen B. Goala; "Enabling Massive Scalability in Low-Power Wide-Area Networks"; in IEEE ICESS '22 (The 18th IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems); pp. 1–-8, 2022. Best Paper Award.
• Venkata Modekurthy, Dali Ismail, Mahbubur Rahman, and Abusayeed Saifullah; "Low-latency in-band integration of multiple low-power wide-area networks"; In RTAS '21 (The 27th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium); CPS-IoT Week 2021; pp. 1--13; 2021.
• Sezana Fahmida, Venkata Modekurthy, Mahbubur Rahman, Abusayeed Saifullah, and Marco Brocanelli; "Long-Lived LoRa: Prolonging the Lifetime of a LoRa Network"; in IEEE ICNP '20 (The 28th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols); pp. 1--12; 2020.
• Mahbubur Rahman, Dali Ismail, Venkata Prashant Modekurthy, and Abusayeed Saifullah; “Implementation of LPWAN over White Spaces for Practical Deployment”, In ACM/IEEE IoTDI ’19 (The 4th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation); pp. 1--12; 2019.
• Mahbubur Rahman and Abusayeed Saifullah; "Integrating Low-Power Wide-Area Networks in White Spaces"; in ACM/IEEE IoTDI '18 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation); pp. 255-260; 2018.
• Venkata Prashant Modekurthy, Dali Ismail, Mahbubur Rahman, and Abusayeed Saifullah. "A Utilization-Based Approach for Schedulability Analysis in Wireless Control Systems"; in IEEE ICII '18 (The 1st IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet); pp. 1--10; 2018. Best Paper Award.
• Mahbubur Rahman*, Abusayeed Saifullah*, Dali Ismail, Chenyang Lu, Jie Liu, and Ranveer Chandra, “Enabling Reliable, Asynchronous, and Bidirectional Communication in Sensor Networks over White Spaces”, in ACM SenSys ’17 (15th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems); pp. 1--14; 2017. * First co-author.
• Mahbubur Rahman*, Dali Ismail*, Abusayeed Saifullah*, and Sanjay Madria;“RnR: Reverse & Replace Decoding for Collision Recovery in Wireless Sensor Networks”, in IEEE SECON ’17 (The 14th IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication and Networking); pp. 1--9; 2017. * First co-author.
• Mahbubur Rahman*, Abusayeed Saifullah*, Dali Ismail, Chenyang Lu, Ranveer Chandra, and Jie Liu, “SNOW: Sensor Network over White Spaces”, in ACM SenSys ’16 (14th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems); pp. 272--285; 2016. * First co-author. Best Paper Award Nominee.

• Venkata Modekurthy, Mahbubur Rahman and Abusayeed Saifullah; "Towards Mixed Criticality Industrial Wireless Sensor-Actuator Network"; in ICDCN '23 (In IoST 5G&B workshop of The 24th International Conference On Distributed Computing And Networking); pp. 1–6, 2023. Best Paper Award.
• Dali Ismail, Mahbubur Rahman, and Abusayeed Saifullah; Low-Power Wide Area Networks: Opportunities, Challenges, and Directions; in SCC '18 (NSF Workshop on Smart and Connected Communities: Technological Foundations, Challenges and Opportunities); pp. 1--6; 2018 .
• Dali Ismail, Mahbubur Rahman, Venkata Modekurthy, and Abusayeed Saifullah, "Work-in-Progress: Utilization Based Schedulability Analysis for Wireless Sensor-Actuator Networks”, in IEEE RTAS ‘17 (The 23rd IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium); 2017.

• Pushpen Bikash Goala and Mahbubur Rahman; "Towards Highly Scalable Hardware-Based Implementation of Low-Power Wide-Area Networks"; in CUNY Graduate Center; 2022.
• Mahbubur Rahman, Dali Ismail, and Abusayeed Saifullah; "Demo Abstract: Enabling Inter-SNOW Concurrent P2P Communications"; in ACM/IEEE IoTDI '18 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation); 2018.[Demo poster]
• Dali Ismail, Mahbubur Rahman, and Abusayeed Saifullah; "Demo Abstract: Implementing SNOW on Commercial Off-The-Shelf Devices"; in ACM/IEEE IoTDI '18 (ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation); 2018.
• Dali Ismail, Mahbubur Rahman, Venkata Modekurthy, and Abusayeed Saifullah; "Poster: Exploiting White Spaces for Low-Power Long-Range Communication"; in MetroCAD '18 (1st Metro Detroit Workshop on Connected and Autonomous Driving); 2018.

• Mahbubur Rahman; "Low-Power Wide-Area Network Design"; PhD Thesis; Wayne State University; pp. 1--227; August 2020.

Funding

• Google CyberNYC Instituitional Research Grant ($100,000); Years: 2024--
• RFCUNY Startup Grant ($150,000); Years: 2020--

Students/Teaching/Services

• Wireless Networks and Signals
• Data Communications/Computer Networks
• Operating Systems Principles
• Computer Architecture and Organization

• PC member, ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys) 2025, 2022-shadow
• PC Member, ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2024, 2018-poster
• PC Member, IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS) 2024-BP
• PC Member, IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA) 2025
• PC member, International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP) 2023, 2024
• PC member, IEEE International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems (ICESS) 2020, 2021, 2022

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
• IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal
• ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems
• ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
• ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems