• A survey of blockchain enabled cyber-physical systems 

      Rathore H.; Mohamed A.; Guizani M. ( MDPI AG , 2020 , Article Review)
      Cyber-physical systems (CPS) is a setup that controls and monitors the physical world around us. The advancement of these systems needs to incorporate an unequivocal spotlight on making these systems efficient. Blockchains ...
    • An integrated multiparametric system for infrastructure monitoring and earlywarning based on internet of things 

      Toauti, Farid; Crescini, Damiano; Galli, Alessio; Ben Mnaouer, Adel ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Our daily life strictly depends on distributed civil and industrial infrastructures in which Qatar and other heavily industrialized countries have large investments. Recently, fails in such infrastructures have incurred ...
    • Bootstrap-Based Quality Metric for Scarce Sensing Systems 

      Azmy S.B.; Zorba N.; Hassanein H.S. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      This paper considers Mobile Crowd-Sensing (MCS) systems that suffer from scarce participant availability due to small sample sizes in each sensing cycle. With such small sample sizes, a sample in error would dramatically ...
    • Design and realization of an open-source and modular smart meter 

      Sayed, Sawsan; Hussain, Tasnim; Gastli, Adel; Benammar, Mohieddine ( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2019 , Article)
      This paper presents the design of a modular and open-source smart meter for educational and research purposes. The smart meter monitors the energy consumption, uploads the data to a cloud server, and can be used to control ...
    • ECG Signal Reconstruction on the IoT-Gateway and Efficacy of Compressive Sensing under Real-Time Constraints 

      Al Disi, Mohammed; Djelouat, Hamza; Kotroni, Christos; Politis, Elena; Amira, Abbes; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Article)
      Remote health monitoring is becoming indispensable, though, Internet of Things (IoTs)-based solutions have many implementation challenges, including energy consumption at the sensing node, and delay and instability due to ...
    • Mesh Network-Based Device-To-Device Negotiation System for Energy Management 

      Mannan, Ahmed; Bader, Mohammed; Hijawi, Ula; Gastli, Adel; Hamila, Ridha ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Electric utilities encounter high-load demand during peak times leading to high losses in the power system. Recent research has targeted the improvement of efficient energy consumption at the demanding areas. Therefore, ...
    • Optimal Transport for Mobile Crowd Sensing Participants 

      Azmy S.B.; Zorba N.; Hassanein H.S. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Smart cities are becoming more complex and greater volumes of data are required for its efficient operation. Mobile Crowdsensing (MCS) is a paradigm that employs smartphones as instruments to collect data, where the ...
    • Performance Evaluation of No-Pairing ECC-Based KPABE on IoT Platforms 

      Hijawi, Ula; Unal, Devrim; Hamila, Ridha; Gastli, Adel; Ellabban, Omar ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      Internet of Things (IoT) networks operating in lightweight resource-constrained devices have been growing constantly in a wide range of areas. Such networks collect sensitive information over time that represent the users' ...
    • Qatar Green Schools Initiative: Energy Management System with Cost-Efficient and Lightweight Networked IoT 

      Hijawi, Ula; Gastli, Adel; Hamila, Ridha; Ellabban, Omar; Unal, Devrim ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      With the growing need of developing real-time energy management and automation systems, building energy efficiency is of large focus in recent research. In particular, school buildings require special attention to occupants' ...
    • Quality of Coverage: A Novel Approach to Coverage for Mobile Crowd Sensing Systems 

      Azmy S.B.; Zorba N.; Hassanein H.S. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) is an effective paradigm that utilizes the crowd as an extended instrument for the purpose of collecting data. However, utilizing the crowd comes with the risks stemming from the crowd's ...