• A Blockchain-Enabled Privacy-Preserving Verifiable Query Framework for Securing Cloud-Assisted Industrial Internet of Things Systems 

      Rahman, Mohammad Saidur; Khalil, Ibrahim; Moustafa, Nour; Kalapaaking, Aditya Pribadi; Bouras, Abdelaziz ( IEEE Computer Society , 2022 , Article)
      Advanced Industrial Internet-of-Things (IIoT), such as smart grids, 5G-enabled unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), and supply chain 4.o, can be used to facilitate smart management. Nevertheless, IIoT systems generate huge ...
    • A hierarchical, autonomous, and forecasting cloud IDS 

      Kholidy, Hisham A.; Erradi, Abdelkarim; Abdelwahed, Sherif; Baiardi, Fabrizio ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      Cloud computing supports distributed service oriented paradigm, multi-domain and multi-users administrative infrastructure. Due to the distributed nature of the cloud environment, it has high intrusion prospects and suspect ...
    • A Parallel Random Forest Algorithm for Big Data in a Spark Cloud Computing Environment 

      Chen, Jianguo; Li, Kenli; Tang, Zhuo; Bilal, Kashif; Yu, Shui; ... more authors ( IEEE Computer Society , 2017 , Article)
      With the emergence of the big data age, the issue of how to obtain valuable knowledge from a dataset efficiently and accurately has attracted increasingly attention from both academia and industry. This paper presents a ...
    • A probabilistic multi-tenant model for virtual machine mapping in cloud systems 

      Wang, Zhuoyao; Hayat M.M.; Ghani N.; Shaban K.B. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      A novel probabilistic multi-tenant model is developed to characterize the service performance of cloud systems. The model considers essential cloud-system characteristics including virtualization, multi-tenancy and ...
    • Addressing Cloud Computing in Enterprise Architecture: Issues and Challenges 

      Khan, Khaled; Gangavarapu, Narendra ( Cutter Consortium , 2009 , Article)
      This article discusses how the characteristics of cloud computing affect the enterprise architecture in four domains: business, data, application and technology. The ownership and control of architectural components are ...
    • Cloud, Fog, and Edge Computing: A Software Engineering Perspective 

      Al-Qamash A.; Soliman I.; Abulibdeh R.; Saleh M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Cloud, Fog, and Edge Computing paradigms have been introduced for data-driven organizations in order to facilitate data computation and processing in an easier manner. Considering that there has been a huge increase in the ...
    • Digital Innovation Dynamics Influence on Organisational Adoption: The Case of Cloud Computing Services 

      El-Haddadeh, Ramzi ( Springer New York LLC , 2019 , Article)
      Digital innovative technologies have enabled organisations to create opportunities to support their competitive advantage. In this regard, realising the dynamics influencing the adoption of these technologies becomes ...
    • Efficient datacenter resource utilization through cloud resource overcommitment 

      Dabbagh, Mehiar; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen; Rayes, Ammar ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      We propose an efficient resource allocation framework for overcommitted clouds that makes great energy savings by 1) minimizing PM overloads via resource usage prediction, and 2) reducing the number of active PMs via ...
    • 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 ...
    • Exploiting Task Elasticity and Price Heterogeneity for Maximizing Cloud Computing Profits 

      Dabbagh, Mehiar; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen; Rayes, Ammar ( IEEE Computer Society , 2018 , Article)
      This paper exploits cloud task elasticity and price heterogeneity to propose an online resource management framework that maximizes cloud profits while minimizing energy expenses. This is done by reducing the duration ...
    • HA-CIDS: A hierarchical and autonomous IDS for cloud systems 

      Kholidy, Hisham A.; Erradi, Abdelkarim; Abdelwahed, Sherif; Baiardi, Fabrizio ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      Cloud computing is an attractive model that provides the delivery of on-demand computing resources over the Internet and on a pay-for-use basis. However, while intruders may exploit clouds for their advantage, most IDS ...
    • Human–Computer Interaction and Participation in Software Crowdsourcing 

      Khan, Habib Ullah; Ali, Farhad; Ghadi, Yazeed Yasin; Nazir, Shah; Ullah, Inam; ... more authors ( Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) , 2023 , Article)
      Improvements in communication and networking technologies have transformed people’s lives and organizations’ activities. Web 2.0 innovation has provided a variety of hybridized applications and tools that have changed ...
    • Online risk assessment and prediction models for Autonomic Cloud Intrusion srevention systems 

      Kholidy, Hisham A.; Erradi, Abdelkarim; Abdelwahed, Sherif; Yousof, Ahmed M.; Ali, Hisham Arafat ( IEEE , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      The extensive use of virtualization in implementing cloud infrastructure brings unrivaled security concerns for cloud tenants or customers and introduces an additional layer that itself must be completely configured and ...
    • Optimizing Clinical Workflow Using Precision Medicine and Advanced Data Analytics 

      Zhai, Kevin; Yousef, Mohammad S.; Mohammed, Sawsan; Al-Dewik, Nader I.; Qoronfleh, M. Walid ( MDPI , 2023 , Article)
      Precision medicine—of which precision prescribing is a core component—is becoming a new frontier in today’s healthcare. Both artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) have the potential to enhance our understanding ...
    • Predictive Autoscaling of Microservices Hosted in Fog Microdata Center 

      Abdullah, Muhammad; Iqbal, Waheed; Mahmood, Arif; Bukhari, Faisal; Erradi, Abdelkarim ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      Fog computing provides microdata center (MDC) facilities closer to the users and applications, which help to overcome the application latency and response time concerns. However, guaranteeing specific service-level objectives ...
    • Present landscape of quantum computing 

      Hassija, Vikas; Chamola, Vinay; Saxena, Vikas; Chanana, Vaibhav; Parashari, Prakhar; ... more authors ( John Wiley and Sons Inc , 2020 , Other)
      Quantum computing is currently a topic of interest that harnesses the phenomena of quantum mechanics. It can address several scientific challenges and generate new business opportunities. Recently, for the first time in ...
    • Reducing data center energy consumption through peak shaving and locked-in energy avoidance 

      Alanazi, Sultan; Dabbagh, Mehiar; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen; Zorba, Nizar ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)
      The grid company enforces high penalties for the peak power demands of cloud data centers. These penalties result in high electricity bills that can be avoided by relying on the servers' uninterruptible power supply (UPS) ...
    • Regional failure survivability for cloud networking services using post fault restoration 

      Gu, Feng; Shaban, Khaled; Ghani, Nasir; Hayat, Majeed; Assi, Chadi (2013 , Conference Paper)
      Cloud computing services are being adopted to expand applications across dispersed data-center sites. As these new paradigms require active data exchange, they impose further virtual network (VN) mappings over operator ...
    • Release-time aware VM placement 

      Dabbagh, Mehiar; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Guizani, Mohsen; Rayes, Ammar ( IEEE , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      Consolidating virtual machines (VMs) on as few physical machines (PMs) as possible so as to turn into sleep as many PMs as possible can make significant energy savings in cloud centers. Although traditional online bin ...
    • Role of contextual properties in enterprise service migration to cloud computing 

      Khan, Khaled M.; Malluhi, Qutaibah ( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2013 , Article Review)
      This paper attempts to identify the role of contextual properties of enterprise systems architecture in relation to service migration to cloud computing. In a cloud-based service architecture, the shift of ownership, scope, ...