Dr Awais Aziz Shah

  • Lecturer (School of Computing Science)

telephone: 01413301799
email: AwaisAziz.Shah@glasgow.ac.uk

308, Sir Alwyn Williams Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8RZ

Import to contacts

ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X

Biography

I am currently a lecturer within the school of computing science. I am a member of the Glasgow Systems Section (GLASS). My research is focused towards using Software-Defined Networks (SDN) and virtualisation technologies such as containers to virtualise the modern network infrastructures in achieving low-latency, high energy efficiency, Quality of Service (QoS) and optimal Virtual Network Functions (VNF) chain deployments.

During my PhD at the Telematics Lab, Politecnico di Bari, Italy, I developed an SDN-based hierarchical framework for the orchestration and management of VNFs in Optical Transport Networks. Through this work, in collaboration with industrial partners from Telco industry in Italy (SMOptics and Experis), I performed simulating large-scale optical nodes been monitored by multiple levels of SDN controllers and centeralised network service orchestrator (OSMANO) inside OpenStack Cloud. Furthermore, I have worked on developing a routing strategy for Transport Networks using SDN to ensure energy efficiency and at the same time QoS.  Moreover, I worked as a Research Fellow from December 2021 to September 2022 in the Communication, Sensing and Imaging group on several use cases under the umbrella of Scotland 5G testbed that includes orchestration of services on the 5G testbed using SDN and Internet of Things frameworks.

Research interests

Laboratory (netlab) website: http://netlab.dcs.gla.ac.uk

Research Interests:

  •     Software-Defined Networks (SDN)
  •     Network Function Virtualisation (NFV)
  •     Internet-of-Space Things
  •     Container networking
  •     Resilience and CyberSecurity 
  •     Cloud and Edge Computing 
  •     Anomaly detection in Networks
  •     Network Routing Algorithms

Research groups

Publications

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Jump to: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019
Number of items: 19.

2025

Holik, Filip, Mcilwraith, Kyle, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2025) In-Network GOOSE Encryption with eBPF-based Programmable Network Architecture. In: IEEE SmartGridComm 2025, Toronto, Canada, 29 Sep - 02 Oct 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Mahboob, Tahira, Holik, Filip, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2025) Adaptive Learning Feature Quantization for In-network FDI Detection in IEC 61850 Digital Substations. In: IEEE SmartGridComm 2025, Toronto, ON, Canada, 29 September - 2 October 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Holik, Filip, Cook, Marco M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5232-2381, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2025) Network-Wide Service Deployment Using Centrally Orchestrated, eBPF-Based Programmable Dataplanes. In: 2025 EuCNC & 6G Summit, Poznan, Poland, 03-06 Jun 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Yang, Jinming, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2025) Priority-Aware Task Offloading in UAV-Assisted Satellite MEC Networks. In: WS12: Workshop on AI-Driven Integration of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Network, Montreal, Canada, 08-12 Jun 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Holik, Filip, Cook, Marco M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5232-2381, Li, Xicheng, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2025) Programmable data planes for increased digital resilience in OT networks. IEEE Communications Magazine, (doi: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2400446) (Early Online Publication)

Holik, Filip, Cook, Marco M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5232-2381, Deol, Bikram Singh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5675-7499, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2025) Dashboard Orchestration of eBPF-based Programmable OT Networks. In: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2025), London, UK, 19-22 May 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Durci, Adrian, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2025) AI in Space: Evaluating ML Algorithms for Onboard Decision-Making in Nanosatellites. In: 2nd Workshop on AI-Driven Integration of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks (AITNTN 2025), London, UK, 19 May 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Li, Mingwei, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2024) Federated Learning with Sharpness-aware Minimisation for Intrusion Detection in Smart Grids. In: 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Cape Town, South Africa, 8-12 December 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Karkashina, Teodor, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2024) In-Network Real-Time Flow Classification Using Hierarchical Decision Trees. In: 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2024), Prague, Czech Republic, 28 - 31 Oct 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Meng, Ruofei, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Jamshed, Muhammad Ali and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2024) Federated Learning-based Intrusion Detection Framework for Internet of Things and Edge Computing backed Critical Infrastructure. In: WS23 ICC 2024 Workshop - IIUC6GB, Denver, CO, USA, 9–13 June 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

2023

Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Ansari, Shuja ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2071-0264, Jamshed, Muhammad Ali, Sambo, Yusuf ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8760-6800 and Ur Rehman, Masood ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6926-7983 (2023) The role of 6G and beyond for urban air mobility and utilising space systems for road to net-zero carbon. In: Imran, Muhammad Ali, Taha, Ahmad, Ansari, Shuja, Usman, Muhammad and Abbasi, Qammer H. (eds.) The Role of 6G and Beyond on the Road to Net-Zero Carbon. Series: IET telecommunications series (108). Institution of Engineering and Technology, pp. 37-59. ISBN 9781839537363 (doi: 10.1049/PBTE108E_ch3)

Yang, Jinming, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2023) A survey of energy optimization approaches for computational task offloading and resource allocation in MEC networks. Electronics, 12(17), 3548. (doi: 10.3390/electronics12173548)

2022

Abbas, Adeel, Khan, Muazzam A., Latif, Shahid, Ajaz, Maria, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Ahmad, Jawad (2022) A new ensemble-based intrusion detection system for Internet of Things. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 47(2), pp. 1805-1819. (doi: 10.1007/s13369-021-06086-5)

2021

Khan, Muhammad Almas, Khan, Muazzam A., Jan, Sana Ullah, Ahmad, Jawad, Jamal, Sajjad Shaukat, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Pitropakis, Nikolaos and Buchanan, William J. (2021) A deep learning-based intrusion detection system for MQTT enabled IoT. Sensors, 21(21), 7016. (doi: 10.3390/s21217016) (PMID:34770322) (PMCID:PMC8588509)

Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Piro, Giuseppe, Grieco, Luigi Alfredo and Boggia, Gennaro (2021) A quantitative cross-comparison of container networking technologies for virtualized service infrastructures in local computing environments. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 32(4), e4234. (doi: 10.1002/ett.4234)

2020

Petrosino, A., Sciddurlo, G., Grieco, G., Shah, A.A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Piro, G., Grieco, L.A. and Boggia, G. (2020) Dynamic management of forwarding rules in a T-SDN architecture with energy and bandwidth constraints. In: Grieco, L.A., Boggia, G., Piro, G., Jararweh, Y. and Campolo, C. (eds.) Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks. ADHOC-NOW 2020. Series: Lecture notes in computer science (12338). Springer: Cham, pp. 3-15. ISBN 9783030617462 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-61746-2_1)

Shah, A.A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Mussini, M., Nicassio, F., Parladori, G., Triggiani, F., Grieco, G., Iaffaldano, G. and Piro, G. (2020) A Real-time Simulation Framework for Complex and Large-scale Optical Transport Networks based on the SDN Paradigm. In: 2020 IEEE/ACM 24th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT), Prague, Czech Republic, 14-16 Sept 2020, ISBN 9781728173436 (doi: 10.1109/DS-RT50469.2020.9213701)

Shah, A. A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Piro, G., Grieco, L.A. and Boggia, G. (2020) A Review of Forwarding Strategies in Transport Software-defined Networks. In: 2020 22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Bari, Italy, 19-23 July 2020, ISBN 9781728184234 (doi: 10.1109/ICTON51198.2020.9203103)

2019

Shah, A.A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Piro, G., Grieco, L.A. and Boggia, G. (2019) A Qualitative Cross-comparison of Emerging Technologies for Software-defined Systems. In: 2019 Sixth International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS), Rome, Italy, 10-13 June 2019, pp. 138-145. (doi: 10.1109/SDS.2019.8768566)

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Jump to: Articles | Book Sections | Conference Proceedings
Number of items: 19.

Articles

Holik, Filip, Cook, Marco M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5232-2381, Li, Xicheng, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2025) Programmable data planes for increased digital resilience in OT networks. IEEE Communications Magazine, (doi: 10.1109/MCOM.001.2400446) (Early Online Publication)

Yang, Jinming, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2023) A survey of energy optimization approaches for computational task offloading and resource allocation in MEC networks. Electronics, 12(17), 3548. (doi: 10.3390/electronics12173548)

Abbas, Adeel, Khan, Muazzam A., Latif, Shahid, Ajaz, Maria, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Ahmad, Jawad (2022) A new ensemble-based intrusion detection system for Internet of Things. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 47(2), pp. 1805-1819. (doi: 10.1007/s13369-021-06086-5)

Khan, Muhammad Almas, Khan, Muazzam A., Jan, Sana Ullah, Ahmad, Jawad, Jamal, Sajjad Shaukat, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Pitropakis, Nikolaos and Buchanan, William J. (2021) A deep learning-based intrusion detection system for MQTT enabled IoT. Sensors, 21(21), 7016. (doi: 10.3390/s21217016) (PMID:34770322) (PMCID:PMC8588509)

Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Piro, Giuseppe, Grieco, Luigi Alfredo and Boggia, Gennaro (2021) A quantitative cross-comparison of container networking technologies for virtualized service infrastructures in local computing environments. Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 32(4), e4234. (doi: 10.1002/ett.4234)

Book Sections

Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Ansari, Shuja ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2071-0264, Jamshed, Muhammad Ali, Sambo, Yusuf ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8760-6800 and Ur Rehman, Masood ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6926-7983 (2023) The role of 6G and beyond for urban air mobility and utilising space systems for road to net-zero carbon. In: Imran, Muhammad Ali, Taha, Ahmad, Ansari, Shuja, Usman, Muhammad and Abbasi, Qammer H. (eds.) The Role of 6G and Beyond on the Road to Net-Zero Carbon. Series: IET telecommunications series (108). Institution of Engineering and Technology, pp. 37-59. ISBN 9781839537363 (doi: 10.1049/PBTE108E_ch3)

Petrosino, A., Sciddurlo, G., Grieco, G., Shah, A.A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Piro, G., Grieco, L.A. and Boggia, G. (2020) Dynamic management of forwarding rules in a T-SDN architecture with energy and bandwidth constraints. In: Grieco, L.A., Boggia, G., Piro, G., Jararweh, Y. and Campolo, C. (eds.) Ad-Hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks. ADHOC-NOW 2020. Series: Lecture notes in computer science (12338). Springer: Cham, pp. 3-15. ISBN 9783030617462 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-61746-2_1)

Conference Proceedings

Holik, Filip, Mcilwraith, Kyle, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2025) In-Network GOOSE Encryption with eBPF-based Programmable Network Architecture. In: IEEE SmartGridComm 2025, Toronto, Canada, 29 Sep - 02 Oct 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Mahboob, Tahira, Holik, Filip, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2025) Adaptive Learning Feature Quantization for In-network FDI Detection in IEC 61850 Digital Substations. In: IEEE SmartGridComm 2025, Toronto, ON, Canada, 29 September - 2 October 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Holik, Filip, Cook, Marco M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5232-2381, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2025) Network-Wide Service Deployment Using Centrally Orchestrated, eBPF-Based Programmable Dataplanes. In: 2025 EuCNC & 6G Summit, Poznan, Poland, 03-06 Jun 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Yang, Jinming, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2025) Priority-Aware Task Offloading in UAV-Assisted Satellite MEC Networks. In: WS12: Workshop on AI-Driven Integration of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Network, Montreal, Canada, 08-12 Jun 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Holik, Filip, Cook, Marco M. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5232-2381, Deol, Bikram Singh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0004-5675-7499, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2025) Dashboard Orchestration of eBPF-based Programmable OT Networks. In: IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM 2025), London, UK, 19-22 May 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Durci, Adrian, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2025) AI in Space: Evaluating ML Algorithms for Onboard Decision-Making in Nanosatellites. In: 2nd Workshop on AI-Driven Integration of Terrestrial and Non-Terrestrial Networks (AITNTN 2025), London, UK, 19 May 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Li, Mingwei, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2024) Federated Learning with Sharpness-aware Minimisation for Intrusion Detection in Smart Grids. In: 2024 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Cape Town, South Africa, 8-12 December 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Karkashina, Teodor, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X and Pezaros, Dimitrios P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2024) In-Network Real-Time Flow Classification Using Hierarchical Decision Trees. In: 20th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2024), Prague, Czech Republic, 28 - 31 Oct 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Meng, Ruofei, Shah, Awais Aziz ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Jamshed, Muhammad Ali and Pezaros, Dimitrios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0939-378X (2024) Federated Learning-based Intrusion Detection Framework for Internet of Things and Edge Computing backed Critical Infrastructure. In: WS23 ICC 2024 Workshop - IIUC6GB, Denver, CO, USA, 9–13 June 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Shah, A.A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Mussini, M., Nicassio, F., Parladori, G., Triggiani, F., Grieco, G., Iaffaldano, G. and Piro, G. (2020) A Real-time Simulation Framework for Complex and Large-scale Optical Transport Networks based on the SDN Paradigm. In: 2020 IEEE/ACM 24th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT), Prague, Czech Republic, 14-16 Sept 2020, ISBN 9781728173436 (doi: 10.1109/DS-RT50469.2020.9213701)

Shah, A. A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Piro, G., Grieco, L.A. and Boggia, G. (2020) A Review of Forwarding Strategies in Transport Software-defined Networks. In: 2020 22nd International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), Bari, Italy, 19-23 July 2020, ISBN 9781728184234 (doi: 10.1109/ICTON51198.2020.9203103)

Shah, A.A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1656-739X, Piro, G., Grieco, L.A. and Boggia, G. (2019) A Qualitative Cross-comparison of Emerging Technologies for Software-defined Systems. In: 2019 Sixth International Conference on Software Defined Systems (SDS), Rome, Italy, 10-13 June 2019, pp. 138-145. (doi: 10.1109/SDS.2019.8768566)

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Grants

Current:

COCOON: COoperative Cyber PrOtectiON for Modern Power Grids - HORIZON-CL3-2022-CS-01-01 - Horizon Europe Innovation Action (CoI)

ECO-INSIGHT: AI and IoT-enabled Sustainability Driven Recommender System for Carbon and Energy Footprint Monitoring -EPSRC IAA

Past:

ORBICULAR: Containerisation-Based Image Recognition Algorithms in CubeSats for Autonomous Surveillance of Geographical Locations - EPSRC IAA

 

Supervision

Future PhD Projects and RA Opportunities

Check out our lab webpages for PhD project ideas and opportunities:

Current PhD Student Supervision

  • Alshammary, Dhiab Muneef S
    Virtual Reality for Healthcare and Education: Exploring the Challenges and Benefits
  • Alshammary, Nasser Muneef S
    Virtual Reality for Contactless Sensing Modelling
  • Karkashina, Teodor
    A framework for designing and deploying heterogenous modular Network Functions for next generation networks
  • Yang, Jinming
    Energy Efficient NFV Orchestration using Machine Learning

Current RA Supervision

  • Harsh Vivek Shah
  • Arif, Muhammad
    Enhancing Privacy, Resilience and Resource Allocation in Big Data Processing at the Edge using Machine Learning
  • Karkashina, Teodor
    A framework for designing and deploying heterogenous modular Network Functions for next generation networks
  • Yang, Jinming
    Energy Efficient NFV Orchestration using Machine Learning

 

Previous RA Supervision

  • Li, Mingwei 

  • Durci, Adrian 

Teaching

  • Advanced Networked Systems H (Fall 2023; 2024; 2025)
  • Networks and Operating Systems Essentials 2 H (Fall 2023; 2024; 2025)
  • Secured Software Engineering H (Fall 2022;2023)
  • Advanced Professional Software Engineering H Apprenticeship Program (Fall 2022;2023)

 

 


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