Achieving energy fairness in multiuser uplink CR transmission. - Zain Ali 001; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu; Muhammad Waqas 002; Feifei Gao; Shi Jin 002 (WCNC, 2016)

User Association Techniques in Future Heterogeneous Networks. - Khush Bakht; Haji M. Furqan; Zain Ali 001; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu (FIT, 2017)

An Efficient Security Method Based on Exploiting Channel State Information (CSI). - Jehad M. Hamamreh; Haji M. Furqan; Zain Ali 001; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu (FIT, 2017)

Enhancing the Security Performance of OSTBC Using Pre-Equalicodization. - Jehad M. Hamamreh; Haji M. Furqan; Zain Ali 001; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu (FIT, 2017)

Optimizing D2D transmission for secure and reliable smart grid communication. - Muhammad Waqas 002; Zain Ali 001; Haji Muhammad Furqan; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu (WiMob, 2017)

Achieving Green Transmission With Energy Harvesting Based Cooperative Communication. - Zain Ali 001; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu; Shun Zhang 003; Ling Xing 001; Feifei Gao (IEEE Access, 2018)

Enhancing Physical Layer Security in AF Relay Assisted Multi-Carrier Wireless Transmission. - Waqas Aman; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu; Haji M. Furqan; Zain Ali 001 (CoRR, 2018)

On fair power optimization in nonorthogonal multiple access multiuser networks. - Zain Ali 001; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu; Muhammad Waqas 002; Feifei Gao (Trans. Emerg. Telecommun. Technol., 2018)

Enhancing physical layer security in AF relay-assisted multicarrier wireless transmission. - Waqas Aman; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu; Haji M. Furqan; Zain Ali 001 (Trans. Emerg. Telecommun. Technol., 2018)

Resource optimization for dual-hop device to device networks. - Muhammad Afaq Ahmad; Muhammad Waqas 002; Waleed Ahmad Khan; Zain Ali 001; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu (Telecommun. Syst., 2018)

Optimizing multi-user CR transmission under RF energy harvesting. - Zain Ali 001; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu; Muhammad Waqas 002; Feifei Gao (Phys. Commun., 2019)

A Joint Optimization Framework for Energy Harvesting Based Cooperative CR Networks. - Zain Ali 001; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu; Muhammad Waqas 002; Ling Xing 001; Feifei Gao (IEEE Trans. Cogn. Commun. Netw., 2019)

Power Allocation and User Assignment Scheme for beyond 5G Heterogeneous Networks. - Khush Bakht; Furqan Jameel; Zain Ali 001; Wali Ullah Khan; Imran Khan 006; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu; Jeong Woo Lee 001 (Wirel. Commun. Mob. Comput., 2019)

Resource Optimization for Cognitive Radio Based Device to Device Communication Under an Energy Harvesting Scenario. - Muhammad Waqas 002; Saleem Aslam; Zain Ali 001; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu; Qin Xin 001; Ju-wook Jang (IEEE Access, 2020)

Secure backscatter-enabled NOMA system design in 6G era. - Wali Ullah Khan; Zain Ali 001; Abd Ullah Khan; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu (Internet Technol. Lett., 2021)

Artificial intelligence techniques for rate maximization in interference channels. - Zain Ali 001; Wasay Farooq; Wali Ullah Khan; Mahmood Qureshi; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu (Phys. Commun., 2021)

Energy efficiency maximization for beyond 5G NOMA-enabled heterogeneous networks. - Wali Ullah Khan; Xingwang Li 001; Asim Ihsan; Zain Ali 001; Basem M. ElHalawany; Guftaar Ahmed Sardar Sidhu (Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl., 2021)

Deep Learning Based Power Optimizing for NOMA Based Relay Aided D2D Transmissions. - Zain Ali 001; Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu; Feifei Gao; Jing Jiang 026; Xiaoyan Wang 003 (IEEE Trans. Cogn. Commun. Netw., 2021)

Integration of Backscatter Communication with Multi-cell NOMA: A Spectral Efficiency Optimization under Imperfect SIC. - Wali Ullah Khan; Eva Lagunas; Asad Mahmood; Zain Ali 001; Symeon Chatzinotas; Björn E. Ottersten; Octavia A. Dobre (CAMAD, 2022)

Rate Splitting Multiple Access for Cognitive Radio GEO-LEO Co-Existing Satellite Networks. - Wali Ullah Khan; Zain Ali 001; Eva Lagunas; Symeon Chatzinotas; Björn E. Ottersten (GLOBECOM, 2022)

Deep-Q Reinforcement Learning for Fairness in Multiple-Access Cognitive Radio Networks. - Zain Ali 001; Zouheir Rezki; Hamid R. Sadjadpour (WCNC, 2022)

Cooperative backscatter NOMA with imperfect SIC: Towards energy efficient sum rate maximization in sustainable 6G networks. - Manzoor Ahmed; Zain Ali 001; Wali Ullah Khan; Omer Waqar; Muhammad Asif 005; Abd Ullah Khan; Muhammad Awais Javed; Fahd N. Al-Wesabi (J. King Saud Univ. Comput. Inf. Sci., 2022)

NOMA-Enabled Backscatter Communications for Green Transportation in Automotive-Industry 5.0. - Wali Ullah Khan; Asim Ihsan; Tu N. Nguyen 001; Zain Ali 001; Muhammad Awais Javed (IEEE Trans. Ind. Informatics, 2022)

Opportunities for Physical Layer Security in UAV Communication Enhanced with Intelligent Reflective Surfaces. - Wali Ullah Khan; Eva Lagunas; Zain Ali 001; Muhammad Awais Javed; Manzoor Ahmed; Symeon Chatzinotas; Björn E. Ottersten; Petar Popovski (IEEE Wirel. Commun., 2022)

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces Enhanced NOMA D2D Communications Underlaying UAV Networks. - Wali Ullah Khan; Eva Lagunas; Asad Mahmood; Zain Ali 001; Symeon Chatzinotas; Björn E. Ottersten (GLOBECOM (Workshops), 2023)

Deep-Q Learning for Distributed Spectrum Reuse Maximization in Underlay Cognitive Radio Systems. - Zain Ali 001; Zouheir Rezki; Hamid R. Sadjadpour (IEEE Commun. Lett., 2023)

Energy-Efficient Beamforming and Resource Optimization for STAR-IRS Enabled Hybrid-NOMA 6G Communications. - Muhammad Asif 005; Asim Ihsan; Wali Ullah Khan; Zain Ali 001; Shengli Zhang 001; Sissi Xiaoxiao Wu (IEEE Trans. Green Commun. Netw., 2023)

Integration of NOMA With Reflecting Intelligent Surfaces: A Multi-Cell Optimization With SIC Decoding Errors. - Wali Ullah Khan; Eva Lagunas; Asad Mahmood; Zain Ali 001; Muhammad Asif 005; Symeon Chatzinotas; Björn E. Ottersten (IEEE Trans. Green Commun. Netw., 2023)

Rate Splitting Multiple Access for Next Generation Cognitive Radio Enabled LEO Satellite Networks. - Wali Ullah Khan; Zain Ali 001; Eva Lagunas; Asad Mahmood; Muhammad Asif 005; Asim Ihsan; Symeon Chatzinotas; Björn E. Ottersten; Octavia A. Dobre (IEEE Trans. Wirel. Commun., 2023)

Maximization of Entanglement Sharing in Quantum Communication Networks with Fidelity Requirements. - Zain Ali 001; Zouheir Rezki; Hamid R. Sadjadpour (GLOBECOM, 2024)

CR-Enabled NOMA Integrated Non-Terrestrial IoT Networks with Transmissive RIS. - Wali Ullah Khan; Zain Ali 001; Asad Mahmood; Eva Lagunas; Syed Tariq Shah; Symeon Chatzinotas (GLOBECOM (Workshops), 2024)

A Survey on RIS Advances in Terahertz Communications: Emerging Paradigms and Research Frontiers. - Manzoor Ahmed; Abdul Wahid 011; Wali Ullah Khan; Feroz Khan; Asim Ihsan; Zain Ali 001; Khaled M. Rabie; Thokozani Shongwe; Zhu Han 001 (IEEE Access, 2024)

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Backscatter Communications: Augmenting Intelligence in Future Internet of Things. - Wali Ullah Khan; Eva Lagunas; Zain Ali 001; Asad Mahmood; Chandan Kumar Sheemar; Manzoor Ahmed; Kapal Dev; Symeon Chatzinotas; Björn E. Ottersten (IEEE Internet Things Mag., 2024)

Enhanced Learning-Based Hybrid Optimization Framework for RSMA-Aided Underlay LEO Communication With Non-Collaborative Terrestrial Primary Network. - Zain Ali 001; Wali Ullah Khan; Muhammad Asif 005; Asim Ihsan; Abdelrahman Elfikky; Khaled M. Rabie; Tauseef Ahmad Siddiqui; Symeon Chatzinotas; Octavia A. Dobre (IEEE Trans. Commun., 2025)

Hybrid Optimization for NOMA-Based Transmissive-RIS Mounted UAV Networks. - Zain Ali 001; Muhammad Asif 005; Wali Ullah Khan; Abdelrahman Elfikky; Asim Ihsan; Manzoor Ahmed; Ali Ranjha; Gautam Srivastava 001 (IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron., 2025)

Transmissive RIS-Empowered LEO-Satellite Communications With Hybrid-NOMA Under Residual Hardware Impairments. - Muhammad Asif 005; Xu Bao; Zain Ali 001; Asim Ihsan; Manzoor Ahmed; Xingwang Li 001 (IEEE Trans. Green Commun. Netw., 2025)