Weekly Report Detail (Post Doc)

Cosmas

March 31, 2022 - April 1, 2022

Papers

Title 1: Sensors-47352-2022, (Under Review).
Title 2: ICTE-D-21-00585, (under review).
Title 3: Access-2022-03435, (Under Review).
Title 4: TPWRS-00183-2022, (Under Review).
Title 5: ADHOC-D-22-00135, (Under Review).
Title 6: T-ITS-22-03-0721, (Awaiting AE Assignment)
Title 7: COMNET-D-22-00420, (With Editor).
Title 8: T-ITS-22-03-0723, (Awaiting Admin Processing)
Title 9: IoT-23106-2022, (Under review).
Title 10: ITSM-22-03-0051, (Under Review).
Title 11: ICTE-D-22-00143, (With Editor).
Title 11: SMT-2022-04-0039, (Pending Editor Assignment).
Title 12: Metaverse paper for creativia (Dong-Seong Kim and Cosmas) (In progress)

Project Progress

1. Nigerian Project:
a. Meeting with post master researchers and Professor
b. Drafted and got approval for the March and April Targets
c. submitted two papers on Metaverse (Under review)
d. Started receiving reply from various agencies and universities in Nigeria.
e. Nigerian Army University replied and awaiting further discussions before MOU
f. Prepared and submitted metaverse project proposal (April 2022 to March 2024)
2. NSL Activities:
a. Reviewed and reviewed 14 applications of prospective members with Dr. Rubina.
b. Successfully completed the recruitment examination and assignments to all prospective members of NSL
c. 5 papers have been completed and submitted to the lab for possible conference papers of new comers
d. 7 Winter intensive papers submitted to their target journals
e. Weekly paper meeting and seminar going on smoothly

3. Outstanding Review Comments of Previous Authors' Papers (Former NSL or Postdoc)
a. IEEE IoT Journal (Arslan) final minor corrections completed and uploaded to the IEEE author center: (doi: 10.1109/jiot.2022.3152929) (done)
b. IET Measurement paper returned with minor revision (Bushra) : (deadline is April 8, 2022)
c. IET Communications paper on edge computing (Sajjad) (in progress)

Monthly Goals

1. Winter Intensive Completion (Done)
2. Releasing of review comments to all NSL papers deadline is 2022.03.18 (done)
3. Consolidating on the Nigerian Project and Clarity of Target Project.
4. Hold the NSL Workshop on 2022.03.22 (done)
5. Secure a collaboration meeting with at least one agency or arm of government in Nigeria.
6. prepare and submit metaverse project proposal (done)

Annual Goals

1. Submission of three journal articles with at least two (2) Acceptance
2. 50% increase in the number of NSL graduate students' papers accepted in SCIE journals (Acceptance target of 18 papers minimum)
3. Attracting and Training of skilled international graduate students
4. Attend at least one (1) International Conference
5. Achieve at least one (1) International Collaboration (Africa or Nigeria) with ICTCRC.