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Watermarking: A review of software and hardware techniques
( 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 ... -
Virtual Reality Glove for Falconry
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)This project is a virtual reality based game. Basically it's about hunting pray-using different types of falcons. And the main idea behind this project is to give more knowledge to the player about a cultural game in more ... -
SpiralSRA: A threat-specific security risk assessment framework for the cloud
( 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 ... -
Using Sparse Matrices to Prevent Information Leakage in Cloud Computing
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)Cloud computing represents the promise of outsourcing of scientific computing such as matrix multiplication. However, this can introduce new vulnerabilities such as information leakage. Cloud server intentionally or ... -
Virtual Reality Falconry: Simulation of a Traditional Qatari Sport Methodology and Techniques
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)This paper talks about the process of developing a game called 'Virtual Reality Falconry'. The game is a simulation of the traditional Qatari hunting sport. Falconry refers to the process of hunting wild preys in their ... -
Framework for Visualizing Browsing Patterns Captured in Computer Logs
( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2018 , Conference Paper)Research ProblemAn Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is used for preventing security breaches by monitoring and analyzing the data recorded in log files. An IDS analyst is responsible for detecting intrusions in a system ... -
Visualization as a mean of big data management: Using Qatar's electricity consumption data
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2018 , Conference Paper)Visualization as a mean of big data management is the new century revolution. Managing data has become a great challenge today, as the amount of raw data size is increasing rapidly. For data like electricity consumption, ... -
Robotic probe positioning system for structural health monitoring
( 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 ... -
Short survey of techniques for visualizing events recorded in logs
( 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 ... -
Deep learning for detection of routing attacks in the internet of things
( Atlantis Press , 2018 , Article)Cyber threats are a showstopper for Internet of Things (IoT) has recently been used at an industrial scale. Network layer attacks on IoT can cause significant disruptions and loss of information. Among such attacks, routing ... -
Dynamic security metrics for measuring the effectiveness of moving target defense techniques
( Elsevier Ltd , 2018 , Article)Moving Target Defense (MTD) utilizes granularity, flexibility and elasticity properties of emerging networking technologies in order to continuously change the attack surface. There are many different MTD techniques proposed ... -
Stateless Security Risk Assessment for Dynamic Networks
( 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 ... -
Secure smart contract-enabled control of battery energy storage systems against cyber-attacks
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) are an integral part of a sustainable and resilient smart grid. The security of such critical cyber-physical infrastructure is considered as a major priority for both industry and ... -
The role of EEG and EMG combined virtual reality gaming system in facial palsy rehabilitation - A case report
( Churchill Livingstone , 2019 , Article)Background The recovery rates for facial palsy are usually excellent; however, regularly patients present with problems with their fine facial movements that affect their emotional expressions. Objective To discover the ... -
CloudSafe: A tool for an automated security analysis for cloud computing
( 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 ... -
ThreatRiskEvaluator: A Tool for Assessing Threat-Specific Security Risks in the Cloud
( 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 ... -
Securing Aggregate Queries for DNA Databases
( 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 ... -
Empirical performance evaluation of QUIC protocol for Tor anonymity network
( 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 ... -
SOLD: A node-Splitting algorithm for R-tree based on Objects' Locations Distribution
( SAGE Publications Ltd , 2019 , Article)Spatial data indexing methods are of extreme importance as they massively build up as a result of the explosive growth in capturing data with spatial features. No matter how much the data size is, eventually it will reside ... -
Multi-Objective Security Hardening Optimisation for Dynamic Networks
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Conference Paper)Hardening the dynamic networks is a very challenging task due to their complexity and dynamicity. Moreover, there may be multi-objectives to satisfy, while containing the solutions within the constraints (e.g., fixed budget, ...
