• A Practical Universal Consortium Blockchain Paradigm for Patient Data Portability on the Cloud Utilizing Delegated Identity Management 

      Sabir, Abdulbadi; Fetais, Noora ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      This paper presents a blockchain system that exploits the base modular features of the Hyperledger Fabric framework to allow for a new, patient-centric, practical data portability paradigm. The system empowers patients by ...
    • A Reconfigurable Multipurpose SoC Mobile Platform for metal detection 

      Al Rshid Abazeed, Omran; Mhaisen, Naram; Al-Hariri, Youssef; Nawaz, Naveed; Amira, Abbes ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Background and Objectives One of the key problems in mobile robotics is the ability to understand and analyze the surrounding environment in a useful way. This is especially important in dangerous applications where human ...
    • Almost BPXOR Coding Technique for Tolerating Three Disk Failures in RAID7 Architectures 

      Mhaisen, Naram; Punkar, Mayur; Wang, Yongge; Desmedt, Yvo; Malluhi, Qutaibah ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) storage architectures provide protection of digital infrastructure against potential disks failures. For example, RAID-5 and RAID-6 architectures provide protection against one ...
    • CloudSafe: A tool for an automated security analysis for cloud computing 

      An S.; Eom T.; Park J.S.; Hong J.B.; Nhlabatsi A.; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Cloud computing has been adopted widely, providing on-demand computing resources to improve performance and reduce operational costs. However, these new functionalities also bring new ways to exploit the cloud computing ...
    • Deep Reservoir Computing Based Random Vector Functional Link for Non-sequential Classification 

      Hu, Minghui; Gao, Ruobin; Suganthan, P. N. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)
      Reservoir Computing (RC) is well-suited for simpler sequential tasks which require inexpensive, rapid training, and the Echo State Network (ESN) plays a significant role in RC. In this article, we proposed variations of ...
    • Design and Implementation of a Threat-Specific Security Risk Assessment Tool 

      Nhlabatsi, Armstrong; Hussein, Alaa; Fetais, Noora; Khan, Khaled M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      Security threats posed to individual cloud computing clients vary depending on their specific security requirements. However, Cloud Providers apply generic security risk assessment approaches which result do not consider ...
    • DQN based Blockchain Data Storage in Resource-constrained IoT System 

      Lei, Boyi; Zhou, Jianhong; Ma, Maode; Niu, Xianhua ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2023 , Conference Paper)
      Applying blockchain technology in the Internet of Things (IoT) systems to realize massive data storage is a promising technology, which can eliminate the dependence of IoT on central servers and protect data security ...
    • Empirical performance evaluation of QUIC protocol for Tor anonymity network 

      Basyoni, Lamiaa; Erbad, Aiman; Alsabah, Mashael; Fetais, Noora; Guizani, Mohsen ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Tor's anonymity network is one of the most widely used anonymity networks online, it consists of thousands of routers run by volunteers. Tor preserves the anonymity of its users by relaying the traffic through a number of ...
    • Empowering users of cloud computing on data confidentiality 

      Khan, Khaled M.; Shaheen, Mahboob ( IEEE , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      Cloud networking is an integral part of interconnected data centres operated in cloud environment. Cloud users heavily rely on cloud networking to transmit to and receive data from data centres. In this context, we explore ...
    • An Enhanced Multi-Phase Stochastic Differential Evolution Framework for Numerical Optimization 

      Abdel-Nabi, Heba; Ali, Mostafa; Daoud, Mohammad; Alazrai, Rami; Awajan, Arafat; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)
      Real-life problems can be expressed as optimization problems. These problems pose a challenge for researchers to design efficient algorithms that are capable of finding optimal solutions with the least budget. Stochastic ...
    • Minimum Variance Embedded Random Vector Functional Link Network with Privileged Information 

      Ganaie, M. A.; Tanveer, M.; Malik, A. K.; Suganthan, P. N. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)
      A teacher in a school plays significant role in classroom while teaching the students. Similarly, learning via privileged information (LUPI) gives extra information generated by a teacher to 'teach' the learning algorithm ...
    • Situation Awareness Recognition Using EEG and Eye-Tracking data: a pilot study 

      Li, Ruilin; Cui, Jian; Gao, Ruobin; Suganthan, P. N.; Sourina, Olga; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)
      Since situation awareness (SA) plays an important role in many fields, the measure of SA is one of the most concerning problems. Using physiological signals to evaluate SA is becoming a popular research topic because of ...
    • A Testbed Implementation of a Biometric Identity-Based Encryption for IoMT-enabled Healthcare System 

      Aggarwal, Mahima; Zubair, Mohammed; Unal, Devrim; Al-Ali, Abdulla; Reimann, Thomas; ... more authors ( Association for Computing Machinery , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Historically, health data was stored locally on the hospital's server as patient health records, and we had to rely on the planned check-up during doctor's visits. Now, we can monitor health continuously and in real-time. ...
    • ThreatRiskEvaluator: A Tool for Assessing Threat-Specific Security Risks in the Cloud 

      Nhlabatsi A.; Hussein A.; Fernandez R.; Fetais N.; Hong J.; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      In cloud computing, security risks posed to individual clients are different based on their specific security requirements. In current practice, cloud providers usually apply generic protection mechanisms that may not be ...
    • Time Series Forecasting Using Online Performance-based Ensemble Deep Random Vector Functional Link Neural Network 

      Du, Liang; Gao, Ruobin; Suganthan, Ponnuthurai Nagaratnam; Wang, David Z.W. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference Paper)
      Time series forecasting remains a challenging task in data science while it is of great relevance to decision-making in various industries such as transportation, finance, electricity resource management, meteorology. ...
    • Using block cipher for confidentiality of images in cloud-based systems 

      Rihan, Rana Adnan; Khan, Khaled M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      This paper deals with outsourcing of computing to cloud servers where clients' images are computed and stored. It proposes a technique that obfuscates images before sending them to servers. Cloud servers can perform ...
    • Watermarking: A review of software and hardware techniques 

      Sleit, Azzam; Fetais, Noora ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Watermarking is a well-known technique traditionally used in banknotes and other documents to discourage counterfeiting. It usually consists of semi-transparent symbols embedded on paper. Similar concepts were applied to ...