Cyber Security Research Group (CSRG)

Ali:

• Proactive Self-Healing Approaches in Mobile   Edge Computing: A Systematic Literature Review, 2023, Computers.
• Unlocking the power of autonomous vehicles with   deep learning for traffic sign detection, 2023, SN Computer science.
• Nonlinear marine predator algorithm: a   cost-effective optimizer for fair power allocation in NOMA-VLC-B5G networks, 2022,   Expert Systems with Applications.
• A framework of dynamic selection method for   user classification in touch-based continuous mobile device authentication, 2022,   Journal of Information Security and Applications.
• Joint user grouping and power control using   whale optimization algorithm for NOMA uplink systems, 2022, PeerJ.
• Slicing-based enhanced method for   privacy-preserving in publishing big data, 2022, Computers, Materials and   Continua.
• Hybrid generalized normal distribution   optimization with sine cosine algorithm for global optimization, 2022, Proceedings   of 7th International Conference on Harmony Search, Soft Computing and   Applications: ICHSA 2022.
• Traffic flow forecasting using natural   selection based Hybrid Bald Eagle Search - Grey Wolf Optimization algorithm,   2022, PLoS one.
• Touch-based continuous mobile device   authentication: State-of-the-art, challenges and opportunities, 2021, Journal   of Network and Computer Applications.
• Trustworthy and efficient routing algorithm for   IoT-FinTech applications using Non-linear lévy Brownian generalized normal   distribution optimization, 2021, IEEE Internet of Things Journal.

Tawfik:

• AWUSON-DAVID, K., AL-HADHRAMI, T., ALAZAB,   M., SHAH, N. and SHALAGINOV, A., 2021. BCFL logging: an approach to acquire   and preserve admissible digital forensics evidence in cloud ecosystem. Future   Generation Computer Systems, 122, pp. 1-13. ISSN 0167-739X
• AL-SAREM, M., SAEED, F., AL-MEKHLAFI, Z.G.,   MOHAMMED, B.A., AL-HADHRAMI, T., ALSHAMMARI, M.T., ALRESHIDI, A. and   ALSHAMMARI, T.S., 2021. An optimized stacking ensemble model for phishing   websites detection. Electronics, 10 (11): 1285. ISSN 2079-9292
• AL-RIMY, B.A.S., MAAROF, M.A., ALAZAB, M.,   SHAID, S.Z.M., GHALEB, F.A., ALMALAWI, A., ALIMI, A.M. and AL-HADHRAMI, T.,   2021. Redundancy coefficient gradual up-weighting-based mutual information   feature selection technique for crypto-ransomware early detection. Future   Generation Computer Systems, 115, pp. 641-658. ISSN 0167-739X
• AWUSON-DAVID, K., THOMPSON, J., TUNER, K.   and AL-HADHRAMI, T., 2022. Facilitate security event monitoring and logging   of operational technology (OT) legacy systems. In: F. SAEED, F. MOHAMMED and   F. GHALEB, eds., Advances on intelligent informatics and computing: health   informatics, intelligent systems, data science and smart computing. Lecture   Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies . Cham: Springer,   pp. 461-472. ISBN 9783030987404
• FEW, C., THOMPSON, J., AWUSON-DAVID, K. and   AL-HADHRAMI, T., 2021. A case study in the use of attack graphs for   predicting the security of cyber-physical systems. In: 2021 International   Congress of Advanced Technology and Engineering (ICOTEN). IEEE. ISBN   9781665429665
• HVA_CPS Proposal: A Process for Hazardous   Vulnerability Analysis in Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems, Peer J computer   science,(Accepted).

Alex:

1) Analysis of Accelerometer Data for Personalised Mood Detection in Activities of Daily Living, PERCOM 2023 (accepted)

2) Analysis of accelerometer data for personalised abnormal behaviour detection in activities of daily living, UCAmI 2022

3) DIMS: A tool for setting up defects and impurities CASTEP calculations, Computational Materials Science 2022

4) IoT-Based Activities of Daily Living for Abnormal Behavior Detection: Privacy Issues and Potential Countermeasures, IEEE Internet of Things Magazine 2021

5) Fusion of Unobtrusive Sensing Solutions for Home-Based Activity Recognition and Classification Using Data Mining Models and Methods, Applied Sciences 2021.

Colin Wilmott:

Project 1: Mar 2023. Quantum Simuiation Algorithms for FinTech. Award from UK Quantum Computer and Simulation Hub. Total £100K for one year.

Project 2. July 2023. Quantum Predictive Sensing. Collaboration with Toyota and ETH Zurich.

During the collaboration “Predictive Sensing” will be investigated. We will investigate the usability of gate-based quantum computing for computer vision applications. In this context NTU will contribute by:

Aiding in selecting the right application for gate-based quantum computing in computer vision; Providing the background knowledge to select a quantum computing algorithm that has the potential to solve the computer vision task.

Omprakash:

N. Kumar, R. Chaudhary, O. Kaiwartya, N. Kumar. ChaseMe: A Heuristic Scheme for Electric

Vehicles Mobility Management on Charging Stations in a Smart City Scenario, IEEE

Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems , 23(9), 16048-16058, 2022.

2. PK. Kashyap, S. Kumar, A. Jaisawal, O. Kaiwartya, M. Kumar, U. Dohare. DECENT: Deep

Learning Enabled Green Computation for Edge Centric 6G Networks. IEEE Transactions on

Network and Service Management, 19(3),2163-2177, 2022.

3. A. Jaisawal, S. Kumar, O. Kaiwartya, PK Kashaya, E. Kanjo, N. Kumar, H. Song. Quantum

Learning Enabled Green Communication for Next Generation Wireless Systems. IEEE

Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 5(3), 1015-1028, 2021.

4. A. Jaisawal, S. Kumar, O. Kaiwartya, M. Prasad, N. Kumar, H. Song, Green computing in IoT:

Time slotted simultaneous wireless information and power transfer. Computer

Communications, Elsevier, 168(1), 155-169, 2021.

5. R. Yadav, W. Zhang, O. Kaiwartya, H. Song, S. Yu. Energy-latency tradeoff for dynamic

computation offloading in vehicular fog computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular

Technology, 69(12), 14198-14211, 2020.

6. A. Khaswaneh, O. Kaiwartya, LM. Abualigah, J. Lloret. Green Computing in Underwater

Wireless Sensor Networks Pressure Centric Energy Modeling, IEEE Systems Journal, 14(4),

4735-4745, 2020.

7. Y. Cao, T. Jiang, O. Kaiwartya, H. Shun, H. Zhou, R. Wang. Toward Pre-Empted EV Charging

Recommendation Through V2V-Based Reservation System IEEE Transactions on Systems,

Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 51(5), 30263039, 2019.

8. GK. Verma, BB. Singh, N. Kumar, O. Kaiwartya, MS. Obaidat PFCBAS: Pairing Free and

Provable Certificate-Based Aggregate Signature Scheme for the e-Healthcare Monitoring

System. IEEE Systems Journal, 14(2), 1704-1715, 2019.

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9. O. Kaiwartya, Y. Cao, J. Lloret, S. Kumar, N. Aslam, R. Kharel, AH. Abdullah,

Geometry-based Localization for GPS Outage in Vehicular Cyber Physical Systems. IEEE

Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 67(5): 3800-3812, 2018.

10. Y. Cao, H. Song, O. Kaiwartya, B. Zhou, Y. Zhuang, Y. Cao, H. Zhang, Mobile Edge

Computing for Big-Data-Enabled Electric Vehicle Charging IEEE Communications

Magazine, 56(3), 150-156, 2018.

11. O. Kaiwartya, AH. Abdullah, Y. Cao, J. Lloret, RR Shah, M. Prasad, S. Prakash, Virtualization

in wireless sensor networks: Fault tolerant embedding for internet of things, IEEE Internet of

Things Journal, 5(2), 571-580, 2017.

12. Y. Cao, O. Kaiwartya, R. Wang, T. Jiang, Y. Cao, N. Aslam, G. Sexton, Toward Efficient,

Scalable, and Coordinated On-the-Move EV Charging Management, IEEE Wireless

Communications, 24(2), 66-73, 2017.

13. O. Kaiwartya, AH. Abdullah, Y. Cao, RS. Rao, S. Kumar, DK.Lobiyal, IF Isnin, X. Liu, RR.

Shah, T-MQM: Testbed based Multi-metric Quality Measurement of Sensor Deployment for

Precision Agriculture-A Case Study, IEEE Sensors Journal, 24(2), 16(23), 8649-8664, 2016.

14. O. Kaiwartya, AH. Abdullah, Y. Cao, A. Altameem, M. Prasad, CT. Lin, X. Liu, Internet of

Vehicles: Motivation, Layered Architecture, Network Model, Challenges and Future Aspects,

IEEE Access, 4(1), 5356-5373, 2016.

Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers (12 representative papers, 2 for each year):

1. M. Aljaidi, N. Aslam, X. Chen, O. Kaiwartya, YA. Al-Gumaei, M. Khalid, A Reinforcement

Learning-based Assignment Scheme for EVs to Charging Stations, IEEE 95th Vehicular

Technology Conference: (VTC2022-Spring), Helsinki, Finland, 19-22 June 2022.

2. AU. Makarfi, R. Kharel, KM. Rabie, X. Li, OS. Badarneh, G. Nauryzbayev, S. Arzykulov, O.

Kaiwartya. Performance analysis of SWIPT networks over composite fading channels, IEEE

Eighth International Conference on Communications and Networking (ComNet),

Hammamet, Tunisia, 27-30 Oct 2020.

3. M Aljaidi, N Aslam, X Chen, O. Kaiwartya, YA Al-Gumaei. Energy-efficient EV charging

station placement for E-mobility, IECON 2020 The 46th Annual Conference of the IEEE

Industrial Electronics Society, Singapore, 18-21 Oct 2020.

4. A. Makarfi, K. Rabie, O. Kaiwartya, O. Badarneh, G. Nauryzbayev, R. Kharel. Physical Layer

Security in RIS-assisted Networks in Fisher-Snedecor Composite Fading, International

Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks and Digital Signal Processing,

CNSDSP, Porto, Portugal, 20-22 July 2020.

5. A. Makarfi, K. Rabie, O. Kaiwartya, O. Badarneh, X. Li, R. Kharel. Reconfigurable intelligent

surface enabled IoT networks in generalized fading channels, ICC 2020 - 2020 IEEE

International Conference on Communications (ICC), Dublin, Ireland, 7-11 June 2020.

6. A. Makarfi, K. Rabie, O. Kaiwartya, O. Badarneh, X. Li, R. Kharel. Physical layer security in

vehicular networks with reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, 2020 IEEE 91st Vehicular

Technology Conference (VTC2020-Spring), Antwerp, Belgium, 25-28 May 2020.

7. A. Makarfi, R. Kharel, K. Rabie, O. Kaiwartya, G. Nauryzbayev. Physical layer security in

vehicular communication networks in the presence of interference, 2019 IEEE Global

Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Waikoloa, HI, USA, 9-13 Dec 2019.

8. M. Aljaidi, N. Aslam, O. Kaiwartya. Optimal placement and capacity of electric vehicle

charging stations in urban areas: Survey and open challenges, 2019 IEEE Jordan

International Joint Conference on Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

(JEEIT), Amman, Jordan, 9-1a April 2019.

9. L Farhan, R Kharel, O. Kaiwartya, M. Quiroz-Castellanos, A Alissa, M. Abdulsalam. A

Concise Review on Internet of Things (IoT)-Problems, Challenges and Opportunities, 2018

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11th International Symposium on Communication Systems, Networks & Digital Signal

Processing (CSNDSP), Budapest, Hungary, 18-20 July 2018.

10. A. Aliyu, M. Tayyab, AH. Abdullah, UM. Joda, O. Kaiwartya. Mobile Cloud Computing:

Layered Architecture, 2018 Seventh ICT International Student Project Conference

(ICT-ISPC), Nakhonpathom, Thailand, 11-13 July 2018.

11. R. Kasana, S. Kumar, O. Kaiwartya. Towards location error resilient geographic routing for

VANETs, International Conference on Communication and Computing Systems (ICCCS),

Greater Noida, India, 5-6 May 2017.

12. A. Khatri, S. Kumar, O. Kaiwartya, AH. Abdullah. Optimizing energy consumption and

inequality in wireless sensor networks using NSGA-II, 2017 International Conference on

Computing, Communication and Automation (ICCCA), Gurgaon, India, 9-11 September

2016.

Isma:

Video steganalysis in the transform domain based on morphological structure of the motion vector maps, End-to-end image steganography using deep convolutional autoencoders

Xiaoqi:

[1] Asmau Wali, Oluwasegun Apejoye, Thejavathy Raja, Jun He and Xiaoqi Ma. A novel approach to identifying DDoS traffic in the Smart Home network via Exploratory Data Analysis, The Second International Conference on Applied Intelligence and Informatics (AII2022), Reggio Calabria, Italy, 1-3 September 2022.

[2] Asmau Wali, Oluwasegun Apejoye, Jun He and Xiaoqi Ma. An exploratory data analysis of the network behavior of hive home devices. 2021 8th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS), Gandia, Spain, 6-9 December 2021.

Adnan Kiani:

J. Shahid, R. Ahmad, A. K. Kiani, T. Ahmad “Data Privacy and Protection of IoHT-based Systems: Analysis, Policies, Compliance Issues and Suggestions” mdpi Applied Sciences 2022.

Zeln Ji, A. K. Kiani, Zhijin Qin, R. Ahmad “Power Optimization in Device-to-Device Communications: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach with Dynamic Reward”, IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, 2020.

A. Saboor, R. Ahmad A K. Kiani, W. Ahmad, M.M.Alam "Dynamic Slot Allocation using Non Overlapping Backoff Algorithm in 802.15.6 WBAN" Accepted in  IEEE Sensors , 2020.

Amna Riaz, A. K. Kiani, Shahzad Saleem, “Access Control for Fog/Cloud enabled IoTs”, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security, (IJCSIS), Vol. 17, No. 9, September, 2019.

Muhammad Atif, Siddique Latif, A. K. Kiani, Rizwan Ahmad,  Junaid Qadir, Adeel Baig, Hisao Ishibuchi, Waseem Abbas , "Soft Computing Techniques for Dependable Cyber-Physical Systems", IEEE Access, Vol. 7, ,pp 72030 – 720499, May, 2020.

Abdul Saboor, Rizwan Ahmad, A K. Kiani, Waqas Ahmad, Yannick Le Moullec, Muhammad Mahtab Alam,"On Research Challenges in Hybrid Medium Access Control Protocols for IEEE 802.15.6 WBANs", IEEE Sensors Journal, DOI 10.1109/JSEN.2018.288378618, pp. 1-13. , Nov, 2018.

M. Arif, A K. Kiani, J. Qadir, "Machine learning based optimized live virtual machine migration over WAN links." Telecommunication Systems  Sep, 2016 1-13

A.Riaz, A K. Kiani, Hafiz Farooq, J. Qadir, U. Younas, " Intrusion Detection Systems in Cloud Computing:  A Contemporary Review of Techniques and Solutions"  Journal of Information Science and Engineering-Special Issue on Cloud Computing and Security Jan, 2017.

Z. Riaz, , M. Arslan. Adnan K. Kiani, S. Azhar. , "CoSMoS: A BIM and Wireless Sensors based Integrated Solution for Worker Safety in Confined Spaces", Automation in Construction, Vol. 45, pp. 96-106, Sep, 2014.

Abdallah:

BIRD, J.J., NASER, A. and LOTFI, A., 2023. Writer-independent signature verification; evaluation of robotic and generative adversarial attacks. Information Sciences, 633, pp. 170-181. ISSN 0020-0255

NASER, A., LOTFI, A., MWANJE, M.D. and ZHONG, J., 2022. Privacy-preserving, thermal vision with human in the loop fall detection alert system. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. ISSN 2168-2291

NASER, A., LOTFI,

A. and ZHONG, J., 2022. Multiple thermal sensor array fusion towards enabling privacy-preserving human monitoring applications. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. ISSN 2327-4662

NASER, A., LOTFI, A. and ZHONG, J., 2022. Calibration of low-resolution thermal imaging for human monitoring applications. IEEE Sensors Letters. ISSN 2475-1472

NASER, A., LOTFI, A. and ZHONG, J., 2021. Towards human distance estimation using a thermal sensor array. Neural Computing and Applications. ISSN 0941-0643

NASER, A., LOTFI, A. and ZHONG, J., 2020. Adaptive thermal sensor array placement for human segmentation and occupancy estimation. IEEE Sensors Journal. ISSN 1530-437X