Secure, Low-Power IoT Communication Using Edge-Coded Signaling

Introduction.- Edge-coded Signaling Techniques.- Timing and Robustness Analysis.- Doubling the ECS Data Rate.- Power Management.- Automatic Protocol Configuration.- Secure ECS Communication.- Domain Specific ECS Processor.- Application: Hardware Platform for IoT Sensor Networks.- Application: Body-Coupled Communication.

Shahzad Muzaffar is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He received the BS degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Electrical Engineering Department at the National University of Computer & Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan, in 2008. He received the MSc degree in Microsystems Engineering in 2015 and the PhD degree in Interdisciplinary Engineering in 2018, both from Khalifa University (Masdar Campus), in collaboration with MIT. From 2011 to 2013, he held the position of a senior development engineer in the ESD division of Mentor Graphics, Lahore, Pakistan. From 2009 to 2011, he was Design Engineer (Team Lead) at the Center for Excellence in FPGA/ASIC Research (CEFAR), National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. Since he joined the Masdar Institute in 2013, he has been a graduate research assistant with the Abu Dhabi - SRC Center of Excellence on Energy-Efficient Electronics Systems (ACE4S) where he has been the system design lead of one of two ACE4S technology demonstrators. He is the author of more than 10 refereed publications and book chapters and is the inventor of 5 US patents (pending). His awards include the best MSc thesis award at the Masdar Institute for the 2014 - 2015 academic year and a third best-paper prize at the 2017 Cyber Security Awareness Week, New York University, Abu Dhabi Campus.