Using active learning to understand the videoconference experience: A case study (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Videoconferencing is becoming ubiquitous, especially so during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, user experience of a videoconference call can be variable. To better understand and classify the performance of videoconference call systems, this paper re... Read More about Using active learning to understand the videoconference experience: A case study.

Reliable data analysis through blockchain based crowdsourcing in mobile ad-hoc cloud (2019)
Journal Article

Mobile Ad-hoc Cloud (MAC) is the constellation of nearby mobile devices to serve the heavy computational needs of the resource constrained edge devices. One of the major challenges of MAC is to convince the mobile devices to offer their limited resou... Read More about Reliable data analysis through blockchain based crowdsourcing in mobile ad-hoc cloud.

Venue2Vec: An efficient embedding model for fine-grained user location prediction in geo-social networks (2019)
Journal Article

Geo-Social Networks (GSN) significantly improve location-aware capability of services by offering geo-located content based on the huge volumes of data generated in the GSN. The problem of user location prediction based on user-generated data in GSN... Read More about Venue2Vec: An efficient embedding model for fine-grained user location prediction in geo-social networks.

Privacy and security for resource-constrained IOT devices and networks: Research challenges and opportunities (2019)
Journal Article

© 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. With the exponential growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cyber-physical systems (CPS), a wide range of IoT applications have been developed and deployed in recent years. To match the he... Read More about Privacy and security for resource-constrained IOT devices and networks: Research challenges and opportunities.

IoT forensics: Amazon Echo as a use case (2019)
Journal Article

Internet of Things (IoT) are increasingly common in our society, and can be found in civilian settings as well as sensitive applications, such as battlefields and national security. Given the potential of these devices to be targeted by attackers, th... Read More about IoT forensics: Amazon Echo as a use case.

Time-aware distributed service recommendation with privacy-preservation (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 As a promising way to extract insightful information from massive data, service recommendation has gained ever-increasing attentions in both academic and industrial areas. Recently, the Locality-Sensitive Hashing (LSH) technique is introduced... Read More about Time-aware distributed service recommendation with privacy-preservation.

Behavior rhythm: A new model for behavior visualization and its application in system security management (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 IEEE. The widespread use of social media, cloud computing, and Internet of Things generates massive behavior data recorded by system logs, and how to utilize these data to improve the stability and security of these systems becomes more and mo... Read More about Behavior rhythm: A new model for behavior visualization and its application in system security management.

Guest Editorial: Privacy, data assurance, security solutions for Internet of Things (PASS4IoT) (2018)
Journal Article

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) is unleashing the next wave of innovations due to its inherent capability of connecting billions of devices together, which bridges the gap between the physical world and cyber world. In recent years, the success... Read More about Guest Editorial: Privacy, data assurance, security solutions for Internet of Things (PASS4IoT).

Dynamic Security Risk Evaluation via Hybrid Bayesian Risk Graph in Cyber-Physical Social Systems (2018)
Journal Article

© 2014 IEEE. Cyber-physical social system (CPSS) plays an important role in both the modern lifestyle and business models, which significantly changes the way we interact with the physical world. The increasing influence of cyber systems and social n... Read More about Dynamic Security Risk Evaluation via Hybrid Bayesian Risk Graph in Cyber-Physical Social Systems.

Local spatial obesity analysis and estimation using online social network sensors (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Elsevier Inc. Recently, the online social networks (OSNs) have received considerable attentions as a revolutionary platform to offer users massive social interaction among users that enables users to be more involved in their own healthcare. T... Read More about Local spatial obesity analysis and estimation using online social network sensors.

MIAEC: Missing data imputation based on the evidence Chain (2018)
Journal Article

© 2013 IEEE. Missing or incorrect data caused by improper operations can seriously compromise security investigation. Missing data can not only damage the integrity of the information but also lead to the deviation of the data mining and analysis. Th... Read More about MIAEC: Missing data imputation based on the evidence Chain.

Lightweight cryptography methods (2017)
Journal Article

While our conventional cryptography methods, such for AES (encryption), SHA-256 (hashing) and RSA/Elliptic Curve (signing), work well on systems which have reasonable processing power and memory capabilities, these do not scale well into a world with... Read More about Lightweight cryptography methods.

Indoor localization based on hybrid Wi-Fi hotspots (2017)
Journal Article

Most existing indoor localization algorithms based on Wi-Fi signals mainly rely on wireless access points (APs), i.e. hotspots, with fixed deployment, which are easily affected by the non-line of sight (NLOS) factors and the multipath effect. There... Read More about Indoor localization based on hybrid Wi-Fi hotspots.

Securing the Internet of Things (2017)
Book

Securing the Internet of Things provides network and cybersecurity researchers and practitioners with both the theoretical and practical knowledge they need to know regarding security in the Internet of Things (IoT). This booming field, moving from s... Read More about Securing the Internet of Things.

A comparative study of android users’ privacy preferences under the runtime permission model (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© Springer International Publishing AG 2017. Android users recently were given the ability to selectively grant access to sensitive resources of their mobile devices when apps request them at runtime. The Android fine-grained runtime permission model... Read More about A comparative study of android users’ privacy preferences under the runtime permission model.

Industrial wireless sensor networks 2016 (2017)
Journal Article

The industrial wireless sensor network (IWSN) is the next frontier in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), which is able to help industrial organizations to gain competitive advantages in industrial manufacturing markets by increasing productivi... Read More about Industrial wireless sensor networks 2016.

Password pattern and vulnerability analysis for web and mobile applications (2016)
Journal Article

Text⁃based passwords are heavily used to defense for many web and mobile applications. In this paper, we investigated the patterns and vulnerabilities for both web and mobile applications based on conditions of the Shannon entropy, Guessing entropy a... Read More about Password pattern and vulnerability analysis for web and mobile applications.

The internet of things: a survey (2014)
Journal Article

© 2014, Springer Science+Business Media New York. In recent year, the Internet of Things (IoT) has drawn significant research attention. IoT is considered as a part of the Internet of the future and will comprise billions of intelligent communicating... Read More about The internet of things: a survey.

QoS-Aware scheduling of services-oriented internet of things (2014)
Journal Article

The Internet of Things (IoT) contains a large number of different devices and heterogeneous networks, which make it difficult to satisfy different quality of service (QoS) requirements and achieve rapid services composition and deployment. In additio... Read More about QoS-Aware scheduling of services-oriented internet of things.

Compressed sensing signal and data acquisition in wireless sensor networks and internet of things (2013)
Journal Article

The emerging compressed sensing (CS) theory can significantly reduce the number of sampling points that directly corresponds to the volume of data collected, which means that part of the redundant data is never acquired. It makes it possible to creat... Read More about Compressed sensing signal and data acquisition in wireless sensor networks and internet of things.