• Using thermochromic ink for medical simulations 

      Alsalemi, Abdullah; Aldisi, Mohammed; Alhomsi, Yahya; Ahmed, Ibrahim; Bensaali, Faycal; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2017 , Article)
      Background: In medical simulation and training, blood is used to exhibit its different behaviors in context. In some cases, blood color differential is an imperative visual effect to ensure high-fidelity training and ...
    • Role updating in information systems using model checking 

      Hu, Jinwei; Khan, Khaled M.; Zhang, Yan; Bai, Yun; Li, Ruixuan ( Springer London , 2017 , Article)
      The role-based access control (RBAC) has significantly simplified the management of users and permissions in information systems. In dynamic environments, systems are constantly undergoing changes, and accordingly, the ...
    • Data confidentiality in cloud-based pervasive system 

      Khan, Khaled M.; Shaheen, Mahboob; Wang, Yongge ( Association for Computing Machinery , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Data confidentiality and privacy is a serious concern in pervasive systems where cloud computing is used to process huge amount of data such as matrix multiplications typically used in HPC. Due to limited processing ...
    • PriviPK: Certificate-less and secure email communication 

      AlSabah, Mashael; Tomescu, Alin; Lebedev, Ilia; Serpanos, Dimitrios; Devadas, Srini ( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)
      We introduce PriviPK, an infrastructure that is based on a novel combination of certificateless (CL) cryptography and key transparency techniques to enable e2e email encryption. Our design avoids (1) key escrow and deployment ...
    • Survey of Information Visualization Techniques for Enhancing Visual Analysis 

      Fernandez, Rachael; Fetais, Noora ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      Visualization of data helps to transform a problem into a perceptual task that is easier to comprehend. It helps users to perceive patterns from large amount of data in order to make informed decisions. When visualization ...
    • ECG encryption and identification based security solution on the Zynq SoC for connected health systems 

      Zhai, Xiaojun; Ait Si Ali, Amine; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal ( Academic Press Inc. , 2017 , Article)
      Connected health is a technology that associates medical devices, security devices and communication technologies. It enables patients to be monitored and treated remotely from their home. Patients' data and medical records ...
    • An Interactive Visualization Web Solution for Electricity Consumption in Qatar 

      Soliman, Engy; Shalaby, Salma; Fetais, Noora ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Conference Paper)
      The amount of raw data related to electricity companies is increasing rapidly with the increase of construction sites, population and Qatar preparation for 2022 world cup. A question arises from this situation is: How can ...
    • Context-aware RAON middleware for opportunistic network 

      Lau, G.; Al-Sabah, M.; Jaseemuddin, M.; Razavi, H.; Bhuiyan, M. ( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)
      Application development and deployment on Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANET) is a major challenge in the widespread use of MANET. The increasing D2D communication in 5G networks has renewed interest in an effective middleware ...
    • Enabling broadcast communications in presence of jamming via probabilistic pairing 

      Pietro, Roberto Di; Oligeri, Gabriele ( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)
      This paper presents a thorough analysis of Freedom of Speech (FoS): a lightweight, fully distributed, and probabilistic protocol that assures the delivery of a message to be broadcast notwithstanding the presence of a ...
    • Compressive sensing based electronic nose platform 

      Djelouat, Hamza; Ait Si Ali, Amine; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal ( Elsevier , 2017 , Article)
      Electronic nose (EN) systems play a significant role for gas monitoring and identification in gas plants. Using an EN system which consists of an array of sensors provides a high performance. Nevertheless, this performance ...
    • Prediction of infarction volume and infarction growth rate in acute ischemic stroke 

      Kamran, Saadat; Akhtar, Naveed; Alboudi, Ayman; Kamran, Kainat; Ahmad, Arsalan; ... more authors ( Nature Publishing Group , 2017 , Article)
      The prediction of infarction volume after stroke onset depends on the shape of the growth dynamics of the infarction. To understand growth patterns that predict lesion volume changes, we studied currently available models ...
    • Substring search over encrypted data 

      Shikfa, Abdullatif ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Our data, be it personal or professional, is increasingly outsourced. This results from the development of cloud computing in the past ten years, a paradigm that shifts computing to a utility. Even without realizing it, ...
    • Virtual Reality Game for Falconry 

      Fetais, Noora; Lotfi Kharbach, Sarah; Ahmad, Nour Moslem Haj; Ahmad, Salma Salah ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Traditions and culture play a major role in our society, as they are the source of a person's pride and honor. One of Qatar's National Vision 2030 pillars that relates to the social development aims at preserving Qatar's ...
    • 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 ...
    • Smart Grid Cybersecurity: Standards and Technical Countermeasures 

      Hussain S.; Meraj M.; Abughalwa M.; Shikfa A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Cybersecurity in smart grids is of critical importance given the heavy reliance of modern societies on electricity and the recent cyberattacks that resulted in blackouts. The evolution of the legacy electric grid to a ...
    • Challenges and Mitigation of Cyber Threat in Automated Vehicle: An Integrated Approach 

      Al Mamun A.; Abdullah Al Mamun M.; Shikfa A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      The technological development of automated vehicles opens novel cybersecurity threats and risks for road safety. Increased connectivity often results in increased risks of a cyber-security attacks, which is one of the ...
    • SLiFi: Exploiting Visible Light Communication VLC to Authenticate WiFi Access Points 

      Amin, Hafsa; Asadulla, Faryal; Jaffar, Aisha; Oligeri, Gabriele; Al-Sabah, Mashael ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      This work presents an effective and efficient solution (SLiFi) to the evil twin attack in wireless networks. The evil twin is a rogue Wifi Access Point (AP) that pretends to be an authentic one by using the same network ...
    • 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 ...
    • Image Stitching System With Scanning Microscopy for Histopathological Applications 

      Akbar, Muhammad Ali ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Histopathological analysis of biopsy or surgical specimen is a common clinical practice for diagnostic purposes. Essentially, the process involves slicing the biopsy or surgical sample into very thin slices, placing them ...
    • A resource provisioning framework for bioinformatics applications in multi-cloud environments 

      Senturk, Izzet F.; Balakrishnan, P.; Abu-Doleh, Anas; Kaya, Kamer; Malluhi, Qutaibah; ... more authors ( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)
      The significant advancement in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) have enabled the generation of several gigabytes of raw data in a single sequencing run. This amount of raw data introduces new scalability challenges in ...