Shah Nawaz Khan
Ph.D. Computer System Engineering
I help people engineer, architect & manage wireless telecommunications networks
With extensive experience of telco industry operations & research, I specialize in research, design, implementation, & optimization of cloud-native architectures defining modern-day wireless networks. My expertise lies in steering 5G/6G network architecture & evolution, RAN optimization, & cloud-native transformation. I work towards enabling AI-driven autnomous networks capable of elastic scalability & service assurance. I actively engage in the associated standardization work in ETSI, O-RAN & 3GPP
Researcher, Engineer
& Inventor
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.— Arthur C. Clarke
Hi, I am Shah Nawaz Khan. People also know me as Shah. I am an experienced telecommunications professional with a passion for driving innovation in the industry. With extensive experience in telco networks R&D, cloud-native transformation, and RAN standardization, I specialize in designing, architecting, and optimizing scalable systems that power modern wireless networks. My expertise lies in leveraging cutting-edge technologies and R&D to enhance network performance and reliability. I am always engaged in shaping the future of telecommunications through my contributions to industry advancements, standardization and research.
Education
Standards & Community
Active in O-RAN Alliance standardization — working groups, F2F meetings, and industry showcases.
Professional Experience
Master Researcher: Standardization & Technology
Ericsson delegate to O-RAN standardization in different standardization working groups. Backoffice support for covering RAN architecture, AI/ML based Optimizations, and policy based RAN control. Driving studies, customer engagements and standardization in alignment Ericsson business strategy
Senior Researcher: Management & Orchestration
Driving projects on zero-touch network automation, AI-driven networks, and Cloud-native transformation of telco networks. Back office support for CNCF, ETSI-NFV & 3GPP standardization teams. Driving research projects including demoes and prototypes
Expert Programmable 5G Networks
R&D on programmable, multi-tenant RAN and dynamic Spectrum sharing. Investigated RAN as a Service & Cloud-platform as a Service architectures for MVNOs. Executing EU Horizon 2020 research projects and ensuring deliverables. Demos & ICT project proposals submission for EU calls
Research Associate
EU FP7 and German DFG projects execution on Self-Organized Networks. Simulations and demos of cognitive radios with Radio Environment Maps. Teaching & advising MS/Graduate-level students on their final year dissertation
Project Associate - Software Defined Radio
Research work on cognitive, self-organizing networks. Worked on disjoint network service placement in cognitive radio Ad-hoc networks with failure-prone topology and/or environments. Demoes and Prototypes for projects driven by the International Graduate School on Mobile Communications
Lecturer: Computer Science
Teaching and supervising MS level graduate students and assisting with their final-year projects on wireless communication networks. Prepared & delivered courses on Wireless Sensor Networks, Graph Theory Applications, and Object Oriented Programming for Wireless Networks Simulations
Software Developer
Web development, Database-driven Software applications for delivering course work
Two decades spanning industry R&D and academia — from cognitive radio prototypes and EU FP7/H2020 research to cloud-native 5G/6G architecture and O-RAN standardization at Ericsson.— Career at a glance
Skills & Expertise
Telecom & Network Architecture
Cloud-Native Networks & Automation
AI / ML for Network Operation & Management
Standardization & Leadership
Research & Project Management
Programming & Systems Development
Innovation, IPR & Academics
Communication & Leadership
Awards, Funding
& Scholarships
Awards
Ericsson Key Contributor Award
This awards recognizes the awardee's potential to drive Ericsson's long-term strategic priorities, for being a role model and inspiration to others, for always acting with integrity and living Ericsson values. The award offers a multi-year financial incentive and a recognition of performance within Ericsson
Ericsson Key Contributor Award
This awards recognizes the awardee's potential to drive Ericsson's long-term strategic priorities, for being a role model and inspiration to others, for always acting with integrity and living Ericsson values. The award offers a multi-year financial incentive and a recognition of performance within Ericsson
Funding Secured
Funding for AI-NET-ANIARA Project
The core themes of this project included smart manufacturing, smart cities and AI/ML driven cloud platforms. I contributed to project strategy, consortium building, proposal writing and submission. In particular, I contributed to the areas of AI/ML based cloud platforms.
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Funding for AI@Edge Project
This project focused on architecting a Secure and reusable AI Platform for Edge Computing in Beyond 5G Networks with support for AI applications & models orchestration. I worked on project consortium building, conceptualization, proposal drafting and submission. Funding for this project was approved, and Ericsson Research contributed to its successful execution
More infoFunding for 5G-Carmen Project
This project focused on connected and automated road mobility in the EU using 5G Networks. The objective was to drive the research, implementation, and demonstration of 5G solutions for the cooperative, connected, and automated mobility. I was part of the consortium building, conceptual work, proposal writing and submission process.
More infoFunding for 5G-ESSENCE Project
As a follow-up of the 5G-SESAME project, this project expanded on Edge Cloud computing and Small Cell-as-a-Service concepts. I was involved in the project ideation, consortium building, proposal writing, submission and execution process. During project execution, I worked on a LightMANO framework aimed at lightweight virtualization and MANO solution for distributed & heterogeneous edge cloud platform including RAN and RAN service orchestration
More infoScholarships
Research scholarship under Carl Zeiss Stiftung project
Received funding for PhD phase research under Carl Zeiss Reseach program in TU Ilmeanu Germany
DFG Qualification program funding
Received scholarship for qualification program as prerequisite for receiving the Carl Zeiss Program funding
DAAD Summer Academy Scholarship
Received German DAAD scholarship for a three week Summer Academy on Wireless Communication at TU Ilmeanu
HEC Scholarship
Received scholarship for fully funded MS and PhD studies under HEC Pakistan scholarship programs
Patents
Inventions filed and granted across WIPO, EPO and USPTO.
Method & Application-Specific Network Entity for Handling of At Least One Application of the Service Type in a Communication Network
The present disclosure relates generally to methods, application-specific network entities, User Equipment (UE) and systems for handling of at least one application of the service type in a communication network. The present disclosure further relates to computer programs and carriers corresponding to the above methods and entities.
View FilingCoordination of Measurements between Radio Access Network Intelligent Controllers and Application Servers
The present disclosure relates to wireless communications, and in particular, to management of measurements associated with radio access network (RAN) intelligent controllers (RICs) and application servers.
View FilingMethods for Communcating Quality Parameters
The present disclosure relates to wireless communications, and in particular, to communication of parameters associated with quality of service or quality of experience
View FilingDynamic xApp Hosts
The present disclosure relates to a method of policy administration node of communicating with policy enforecement nodes in a communications network, and a policy administration node performing the method. In an aspect, a method of a policy administration node is provided of communicating with policy enforcement nodes in a communications network, the policy administration node being configured to provide the policy enforcement nodes with policies to be enforced for policy scope target devices identified to be withings the policy enforcement areas of the policy enforcement nodes
View FilingCommunication between xApps and E2 Nodes
The present disclosure relates to a method of a policy enforcement node of communicating with a radio access network node in a communications network, and a policy enforcement node performing the method. The present disclosure further relates to a method of a radio access network node of communicating with a policy enforcement node in a communications network, and a radio access network node performing the method.
View FilingA1 Policy Management
The present disclosure relates to a method of a policy administration node of communicating with a policy enforcement node in a communications network. In an aspect, a method of a policy administration node of communicating with a policy enforcement node in a communications network is provided, the policy administration node providing the policy enforcement node with policies based on which radio access network, RAN, performance objectives are defined.
View FilingOpen-Radio Access Network Node and Method Therein, In a Communications Network
A method performed by an Open Radio Access Network (O-RAN) node is provided. The method is for preventing a conflict caused by one or more applications in a Radio Access Network (RAN) of a communications network. The one or more applications is operating in the O-RAN node and communicates with an E2 node through a network interface. The E2 node is a RAN node that terminates the network interface.
View FilingOrchestration of Control Applications in the Open Radio Access Network
The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a network node for orchestration of control applications in an open radio access network, O-RAN. The method involves obtaining quality attributes of control applications executable on radio access network intelligent controller, RIC, platforms in the O-RAN, and obtaining at least one intent comprising fulfilment objectives for the quality attribute.
View FilingSystem for Orchestration of Control Applications in the Open Radio Access Network
The present disclosure relates to a method performed by a system for orchestration of control applications in an open radio access network, O-RAN. The method involves obtaining quality attributes of control applications executable on radio access network intelligent controller, RIC, platforms in the O-RAN, and obtaining at least one intent comprising fulfilment objectives for the quality attribute.
View FilingMethod for Managing QoS in a Communication Network Using Machine Learning
The method comprises receiving a QoS intent from a first node, the QoS intent comprising an identification of a wireless device to which the QoS intent applies and a QoS requirement for the identified wireless device. The method further comprises obtaining a specification of available QoS in the communication network and a specification of QoS policies in the communication network, using an ML model to determine, based on the received QoS intent and obtained specifications, at what time the at least one QoS requirement of the QoS intent can be fulfilled for the identified wireless device, and informing the first node of a result of the determination.
View FilingController, A Load Balancer and Methods Therein for Handling Failures or Changes of Processing Elements in a Virtual Network
A method and a controller for handling a failure or change of a processing element in a virtual network are provided. The processing element comprises a first stateless executable function that use a local state storage and a persistent state storage when executed on a host in the virtual network. The controller maintains the local state storage of the processing element upon removing the first stateless executable function from the processing element in response to the failure or change.
View FilingOrchestration of Virtualization Technology and Application Implementation
A virtual network function application is to be deployed in a multi-technology virtualization environment. The multi-technology virtualization environment comprises a plurality of virtualization technologies. The application exists in a plurality of application implementations. At least one of the virtualization technologies has a preferred one of the application implementations. The deployment comprises receiving a trigger for a deployment of the virtual network function application.
View FilingProjects & Demos
Prototypes and research systems built across industry and academia.
Edge Cloud SDN and NFV Orchestrator
Developed a joint hardware and software resources orchestrator that pro-actively scales (up/down) the hardware and software resources of K8s cluster in response to edge services’ deployment. Cloud comprised of heterogeneous hardware (x64 & ARM) and orchestrator to deploy services on the nodes in an architecture-aware manner. Services included RAN Rollout, Video encoding & streaming andWeb-hosting
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Realtime, Fine-Grained Spectrum Sharing Prototype
Developed prototype implementation of fine-grained spectrum sharing network where multiple RAN tenants are allocated a dynamic PRB quota at 1ms intervals (1 TTI in LTE). Showcased the cell and tenant throughput benefits of spectrum sharing among RAN tenants at a granular level. The demonstrated throughput was close to the theoretical maximum of the given radio bandwidth.
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MEC specific Lightweight SDN/NFV MANO Platform
Called LightMANO, the platform converges SDN/NFV and MANO stack at the network edge on top of a hybrid (ARM + x64) Kubernetes cluster consisting of Raspberry Pi, x86 Virtual Machines and Linux Hosts. The cluster served as 5G network edge hosting services (Video Streaming, Encoding) and access functions (Radio Access). Docker containers used as VNFs for WiFi and LTE Access provisioning.
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Distributed Resource Map for Cognitive Radio Networks
A database driven application that collected data from spectrum sensing algorithm at the MAC layer and developed a radio environment map for predictive channel access. Implemented learning algorithm for abstracting collected inputs into channel maps for secondary user access.
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Dynamic Spectrum Access Demo using Energy Sensing
A prototype Cognitive Radio ad hoc network where a cognitive Tx/Rx pair sensed the Primary User channels and selected the most valuable channel based on derived statistics of the Primary Users activities.
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crSimulator - A Cognitive Radio Network Simulation Framework
A simulation tool/model developed forOMNeT++ platform. This model can be used to test different aspects of Cognitive Radio ad hoc network including primary and secondary user network performance evaluation
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Publications
Peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and book chapters.
5G-EmPOWER: A Software-Defined Networking Platform for 5G Radio Access Networks
Tenant-Aware Slice Admission Control using Neural Networks-Based Policy Agent
RAN Orchestration: A New Approach to Spectrum Management in Multi-Tenant 5G Networks
On Edge Cloud Architecture and Joint Physical Virtual Resource Orchestration for SDN/NFV
Network Graphs Reflecting Transmission Policies
LightMANO: Converging NFV and SDN at the Edges of theNetwork
On Active, Fine-Grained RAN and Spectrum Sharing in Multi-Tenant 5G Networks
SDEC: A Platform for Software Defined Mobile Edge Computing Research and Experimentation
A Practical Architecture for Mobile Edge Computing
Virtualization of RF Spectrum Resources for 5G Networks
An Architecture for Spectrum Management and Coordinated Control in 5G Heterogeneous Networks
Hypernetworks basedRadio Spectrum Profiling in CognitiveRadioNetworks
Evolutionary hypernetworks based radio spectrum profiling in cognitive radio ad hoc networks
Evolving Hypernetworks based Channel Prediction for SecondaryAccess in Cognitive RadioAd hocNetworks
Database-assisted Coordinator-based Spectrum Mobility in Cognitive Radio Ad-hoc Networks
A Lightweight Message-based Inter-Component Communication Infrastructure
crSimulator: A discrete simulation model for cognitive radio ad hoc networks in OMNeT++
Distributed ResourceMap: A Database-drivenNetwork Support Architecture for Cognitive Radio Ad hocNetworks
An Architecture for Cognitive Radio Ad-Hoc Network Nodes
Self-Organized Disjoint Service Placement in Future Mobile Communication Networks
Distributed Spectrum Map for Cognitive Radio Ad hoc Networks
Increasing Network Lifetime and Data Transfer through Node Vulnerability Aware Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
A Robust and Energy Efficient Global Gradient Setup Mechanism for Gradient Based Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
A Cost Based Global Gradient Setup Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks
Towards Spectrum Sharing in Virtualized Networks: A Survey and an Outlook
Spectrum Aspects in 5G Networks
Let's Connect
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