السجلات المعروضة 81 -- 100 من 7996

    • PredictPTB: an interpretable preterm birth prediction model using attention-based recurrent neural networks 

      AlSaad, Rawan; Malluhi, Qutaibah; Boughorbel, Sabri ( BioMed Central Ltd , 2022 , Article)
      Background: Early identification of pregnant women at risk for preterm birth (PTB), a major cause of infant mortality and morbidity, has a significant potential to improve prenatal care. However, we lack effective predictive ...
    • Privacy-preserving Deep-learning Models for Fingerprint Data using Differential Privacy 

      Mohammadi, Maryam; Sabry, Farida; Labda, Wadha; Malluhi, Qutaibah ( Association for Computing Machinery, Inc , 2023 , Conference Paper)
      Fingerprint recognition is a widely adopted biometric authentication method that leverages the unique characteristics of fingerprints to identify individuals. Its applications range from access control and authentication ...
    • Updating outsourced anatomized private databases 

      Nergiz, Ahmet Erhan; Clifton, Chris; Malluhi, Qutaibah M. ( Association for Computing Machinery , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      We introduce operations to safely update an anatomized database. The result is a database where the view of the server satisfies standards such as k-anonymity or l-diversity, but the client is able to query and modify the ...
    • LocationSpark: A distributed in-memory data management system for big spatial data 

      Tang, Mingjie; Yu, Yongyang; Malluhi, Qutaibah M.; Ouzzani, Mourad; Aref, Walid G. ( VLDB Endowment , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      We present LocationSpark, a spatial data processing system built on top of Apache Spark, a widely used distributed data processing system. LocationSpark offers a rich set of spatial query operators, e.g., range search, ...
    • Small data in iot: An mcs perspective 

      Azmy, Sherif B.; Sneineh, Ruslan Abu; Zorba, Nizar; Hassanein, Hossam S. ( Springer , 2019 , Book chapter)
      The unprecedented advances in wireless technology have led to the development of the IoT and numerous associated sub-paradigms, such as wireless sensor networks (WSNs), software-defined networks, mobile crowdsensing (MCS), ...
    • Optimized handover strategy with hybrid satisfaction mechanisms 

      Zorba, Nizar; Hassanein, Hossam S. ( Springer , 2015 , Article)
      One of the key features of cellular systems is the possibility to switch the connection over several cells while the user is moving. This handover between cells has been upgraded to tackle different operator/users' objectives, ...
    • A blockchain-based IoT networks-on-demand protocol for responsive smart city applications 

      Alkalbani, Mohamed; Hamdaoui, Bechir; Zorba, Nizar; Rayes, Ammar ( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      This paper proposes a distributed resource sharing protocol for enabling dynamic deployment of IoT networks on-demand in smart cities. The proposed protocol leverages Blockchain technology to: (i) enable distributed and ...
    • Impact of Users' Mobility on the Quality of Edge Sensing Systems 

      Naserallah, Omar; Azmy, Sherif B.; Zorba, Nizar; Hassanein, Hossam S. ( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2022 , Conference Paper)
      Edge sensing (ES) is rising as a potential solution for remote sensing challenges, as it exploits the proliferation of smartphones, leverages their embedded sensors to collect data from users' surrounding environments and ...
    • Experimental Delay Tests in Causal THz Channel Model 

      Wu, Zhaona; Umebayashi, Kenta; Lehtomäki, Janne; Zorba, Nizar ( Springer , 2024 , Article)
      In traditional radio propagation, the arrival time of the signal at the receiver from the transmitter is the propagation delay, which is given by the distance divided by the light speed, in the line of sight (LoS) scenario. ...
    • Uplink Cluster-Based Radio Resource Scheduling for HetNet mMTC Scenarios 

      Ramadan, Abdelrahman; Zorba, Nizar; Hassanein, Hossam S. ( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2022 , Conference Paper)
      Current telecommunication networks face a surge in the number of connected Machine-type Communication (MTC) devices, creating an unprecedented disproportionate demand for existing resources, especially when working with a ...
    • An Energy Saving Strategy for LTE-A Multiantenna Systems 

      Imran, Reema; Shukair, Mutaz; Zorba, Nizar; Verikoukis, Christos ( Springer , 2015 , Article)
      Long Term Evolution - Advanced (LTE-A) supports closed-loop Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) techniques to improve its performance, but in order to exploit multiuser (MU) MIMO channel capabilities, the design of an ...
    • Crowdsensing based prompt emergency discovery: A sequential detection approach 

      El Khatib, Rawan F.; Zorba, Nizar; Hassanein, Hossam S. ( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      The growth in the number of smart devices has mobilized the rise of CrowdSensing (CS) as an enabler of smart cities, where state-of-the-art technologies are utilized to improve citizens' quality of life. CS is a novel ...
    • CrowdDelegate: An MCS-based approach for improving retail labor cost-efficiency 

      Azmy, Sherif B.; Zorba, Nizar; Hassanein, Hossam S. ( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2019 , Conference Paper)
      Following the revolutionary changes the Internet of Things (IoT) has introduced to sensor networks, the Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) paradigm aims to utilize people and their smartphones as an extended instrument to sense. ...
    • IEEE 802.11ax based Medium Access Design for Wireless IoT-Blockchain Networks 

      Abyaneh, Arezou Zamanyzadeh; Zorba, Nizar; Hamdaoui, Bechir ( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2020 , Conference Paper)
      Blockchain technology has attracted the attention of many researchers in several different application fields. The use of blockchain in Internet of Things (IoT) and Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN) has been analyzed and ...
    • Resource Allocation in THz-based Subcarrier Index Modulation Systems for Mobile Users 

      Alzard, Mohannad; Althunibat, Saud; Umebayashi, Kenta; Zorba, Nizar ( Institution of Engineering and Technology , 2021 , Conference Paper)
      Subcarrier Index Modulation (SIM) has recently received a significant research efforts analyzing its different performance aspects. In this paper, performance analysis of SIM over TeraHertz (THz) frequency band is conducted ...
    • Adaptive Cooperative Network Coding based MAC protocol for device-to-device communication 

      Datsika, Eftychia; Antonopoulos, Angelos; Zorba, Nizar; Verikoukis, Christos ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      Device-to-Device (D2D) communication allows the direct connection of mobile devices in a cellular network. In D2D networking, cooperative communication is inherent due to the proximity of the devices that are able to ...
    • Blockchains for Scalable IoT Management, Access, and Accountability 

      Hamdaoui, Bechir; Rayes, Ammar; Zorba, Nizar; Song, Lingyang; Verikoukis, Christos ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Other)
      The articles in this special section focuses on blockchain for scalable Internet of Things (IoT) management, access, and accountability. The articles highlight new blockchain architectures and techniques that can be leveraged ...
    • Performance analysis of M2M communication networks for QoS-differentiated smart grid applications 

      Vardakas, John S.; Zorba, Nizar; Skianis, Charalabos; Verikoukis, Christos V. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      We study the performance of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications in Long Term Evolution Advanced (LTE-A) networks. The proposed analysis is applied to the random access procedure within LTE-A for the calculation of the ...
    • A Survey on Demand Response Programs in Smart Grids: Pricing Methods and Optimization Algorithms 

      Vardakas, John S.; Zorba, Nizar; Verikoukis, Christos V. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Article)
      The smart grid concept continues to evolve and various methods have been developed to enhance the energy efficiency of the electricity infrastructure. Demand Response (DR) is considered as the most cost-effective and ...
    • Crowd management 

      Hassanein, Hossam; Zorba, Nizar; Han, Shuai; Kanhere, Salil S.; Shukair, Mutaz ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Other)
      The articles in this special section focus on crowd management in areas that are increasingly experiencing growths in populations. In its 2018 Revision of the World Urbanization Prospects, the United Nations projects that ...