• Optimal sizing of a stand-alone hybrid PV-WT-BT system using artificial intelligence based technique 

      Hussain, Shahbaz; Alammari, Rashid; Iqbal, Atif; Shikfa, Abdullatif ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      Nowadays, conventional energy system is being replaced by renewable energy system. Especially, PV systems and wind energy systems are gaining much attention due to their future sustainability and eco-friendly nature. ...
    • Optimizing Energy-Distortion Trade-off for Vital Signs Delivery in Mobile Health Applications 

      Almarridi A.; Kharbach S.; Yaacoub E.; Mohamed A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      Healthcare is considered a top priority worldwide, considering the swift increase in the number of chronic patients who require continuous monitoring. This motivates the researchers to develop scalable remote health ...
    • Paillier's encryption: Implementation and cloud applications 

      Nassar, Mohamed; Erradi, Abdelkarim; Malluhi, Qutaibah M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      Paillier's additive homomorphic encryption is increasingly used in recent research in the field of cloud secure outsourcing and privacy-preserving computation in addition to other cryptographic tools such as garbled circuits. ...
    • 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' ...
    • Proportionally fair approach for tor's circuits scheduling 

      Basyoni L.; Erbad A.; Mohamed A.; Refaey A.; Guizani M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      The number of users adopting Tor to protect their online privacy is increasing rapidly. With a limited number of volunteered relays in the network, the number of clients' connections sharing the same relays is increasing ...
    • 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' ...
    • QuicTor: Enhancing Tor for Real-Time Communication Using QUIC Transport Protocol 

      Basyoni L.; Erbad A.; Alsabah M.; Fetais N.; Mohamed A.; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)
      In the past decades, the internet has emerged as the fastest way to access information. However, this revolutionary information age comes with its own set of challenges. The privacy of Internet users is at increasing risk ...
    • Real-time robotic avatar control using fuzzy gaze-classification for people with disability 

      Qidwai, Uvais; Shakir, Mohamed; Bahameish, Mariam ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Robotic control with gaze-classification has been an area of interest for quite some time. In this paper, a novel solution of implementing sensing system with intelligent visualization has been presented. Such a system can ...
    • Real-Time Scheduling for Electric Vehicles Charging/Discharging Using Reinforcement Learning 

      Mhaisen, N.; Fetais, N.; Massoud, Ahmed ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      With the increase in Electric Vehicles (EVs) penetration, their charging needs form an additional burden on the grid. Thus, charging coordination is necessary for safe and efficient EV use. The scheduling of EVs is especially ...
    • Reasoning about security policies of services using answer set programming 

      Asuncion, Vernon; Khan, Khaled M.; Erradi, Abdelkarim; Alhazbi, Saleh ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper, we propose a formal framework for checking the consistency of security policies of services using Answer Set Programming (ASP). We illustrate that the formalisation of security policies of the service providers ...
    • RES-EV: Identifying EV-Households under High AC Load Using a Residual-Based Model 

      Aly, Hussein; Al-Ali, Abdulaziz; Al-Ali, Abdulla; Malluhi, Qutaibah ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2024 , Conference Paper)
      This paper introduces a novel residual-based model to identify households with Battery Electric Vehicles (EVs) under high Air Conditioning (AC) load. The considerable energy demands of AC units can obscure charging events ...
    • Retinal image enhancement using Laplacian pyramidal multi-scaling 

      Khan, Sharifuzzaman; Qidwai, Uvais; Muhammad, Hamed; Qidwai, Umair ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      Early detection of retinal diseases is important to avoid complications and permanent vision loss. In this paper retinal neovascularization and molecular degeneration has been emphasized. Neovascularization is in form of ...
    • Robotic probe positioning system for structural health monitoring 

      Qidwai U.; Ijaz A.; Akbar A. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Structural health Monitoring (SHM) is a very critical component for sustainable civil and mechanical structures in modern urban settings. The sky-scrappers and huge bridges in modern metropolis today are essential aspects ...
    • Securing Aggregate Queries for DNA Databases 

      Nassar, Mohamed; Malluhi, Qutaibah; Atallah, Mikhail; Shikfa, Abdullatif ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Article)
      This paper addresses the problem of sharing person-specific genomic sequences without violating the privacy of their data subjects to support large-scale biomedical research projects. The proposed method builds on the ...
    • Short survey of techniques for visualizing events recorded in logs 

      Fernandez R.; Fetais N. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Nowadays, data is being generated in large volumes and the users are left with a staggering amount of textual data that needs to be transformed into information to derive some knowledge from it. However, transforming and ...
    • 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 ...
    • SpiralSRA: A threat-specific security risk assessment framework for the cloud 

      Nhlabatsi A.; Hong J.B.; Kim D.S.; Fernandez R.; Fetais N.; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Conventional security risk assessment approaches for cloud infrastructures do not explicitly consider risk with respect to specific threats. This is a challenge for a cloud provider because it may apply the same risk ...
    • Stateless Security Risk Assessment for Dynamic Networks 

      Hong J.B.; Yusuf S.E.; Kim D.S.; Khan K.M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      Emerging networking technologies, such as cloud and Software Defined Networking, provide flexibility, elasticity and functionalities to change the network configurations over time. However, changes also impose unpredictable ...
    • 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 ...
    • Traffic Analysis Attacks on Tor: A Survey 

      Basyoni L.; Fetais N.; Erbad A.; Mohamed A.; Guizani M. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      The Tor anonymity network is one of the most popular and widely used tools to protect the privacy of online users. Tor provides defenses against multiple adversarial activities aiming to identify or trace the users. Traffic ...