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We are thankful to be welcome on these lands in friendship. The lands we are situated on are covered by the Williams Treaties and are the traditional territory of the Mississaugas, a branch of the greater Anishinaabeg Nation, including Algonquin, Ojibway, Odawa and Pottawatomi. These lands remain home to many Indigenous nations and peoples.

We acknowledge this land out of respect for the Indigenous nations who have cared for Turtle Island, also called North America, from before the arrival of settler peoples until this day. Most importantly, we acknowledge that the history of these lands has been tainted by poor treatment and a lack of friendship with the First Nations who call them home.

This history is something we are all affected by because we are all treaty people in Canada. We all have a shared history to reflect on, and each of us is affected by this history in different ways. Our past defines our present, but if we move forward as friends and allies, then it does not have to define our future.

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Selected Publications

2022-2024

  • Journals and Technical Reports (2022-2024)
    1. Sabeel, S. S. Heydari, K. El-Khatib and K. Elgazzar, “Unknown, Atypical, and Polymorphic Network Intrusion Attacks: A Survey”, IEEE Transactions on Network and System Management, 2023, Early Access Digital Object Identifier: 10.1109/TNSM.2023.3298533.
    2. Keith, A., Sangarapillai, T., Almehmadi, A. and El-Khatib, K., 2023. A Blockchain-Powered Traffic Management System for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Applied Sciences, 13(19), 10950.
    3. Ibrahim, Sara Al Hajj, and Khalil El-Khatib. "To segment or not to segment: COVID-19 detection for chest X-rays." Informatics in Medicine Unlocked 40 (2023): 101280.
    4. Miri, Farimasadat, Amir Javadpour, Forough Ja’fari, Arun Kumar Sangaiah, and Richard Pazzi. "Improving resources in internet of vehicles transportation systems using markov transition and TDMA protocol." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2023).
    5. Assayag, Yuri, Horácio Oliveira, Eduardo Souto, Raimundo Barreto, and Richard Pazzi. "Adaptive Path Loss Model for BLE Indoor Positioning System." IEEE Internet of Things Journal (2023).
    6. Bertanha, Mauricio, Richard W. Pazzi, and Khalil El-Khatib. "ECKN: An Integrated Approach for Position Estimation, Packet Routing, and Sleep Scheduling in Wireless Sensor Networks." Sensors 23.13 (2023): 6133.
    7. S. A. Astaneh, S. Shah Heydari, S. Taghavi-Motlagh and A. Izaddoost, “Trade-offs between Risk and Operational Cost in SDN Failure Recovery Plan”, Future Internet, 2022, 14(9):263
    8. Whelan, J., Almehmadi, A., & El-Khatib, K. (2022). Artificial intelligence for intrusion detection systems in unmanned aerial vehicles. Computers and Electrical Engineering, 99, 107784.
  • Conference Papers (2022-2024)
    1. Fateme Mazloomi, Shahram Shah Heydari and Khalil El-Khatib, “Trust-based knowledge sharing among federated learning servers in vehicular edge computing”, 13th ACM Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications, Montreal, Canada, October 29 – November 2, 2023.
    2. Ali Hasan Karwani and Shahram Shah Heydari, “Enterprise Application Outage Prediction Using XGBoost and LSTM”, proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Analytics for Service and Application Management, pp 196-200, Niagara Falls, Canada, 30 October 2023.
    3. Ulya Sabeel, Shahram shah Heydari, Khalil El-Khatib and Khalid Elgazzar, “Analyzing the Quality of Synthetic Adversarial Cyberattacks”, proceedings of 19th International Conference on Network and Service Management (CNSM 2023), pp. 294-298, Niagara Falls, Canada, 30 October - 2 November 2023.
    4. L. Johnston and R. W. Pazzi, "Keeping Information Alive: Hovering Information and Floating Content Paradigms for Vehicular Networks,"  18th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS), 2022, pp. 291-297
    5. Farimasadat Miri, Alireza Namanloo, Allan M. de Souza, Richard Pazzi “A Novel Short-term Vehicle Location Prediction using Temporal Graph Neural Networks”. 14th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM), 2022, to appear.

2019 - 2021

  • Journals and Technical Reports (2019-2021)
    1. R. Chauhan, U. Sabeel, A. Izaddoost and S. Shah Heydari, “Polymorphic Adversarial Cyberattacks using WGAN”, Journal of  Cybersecurity and Privacy, 2021, vol. 1, no.4, p767-792.
    2. I. Ellawindy, S. Shah Heydari, “Crowdsourcing Framework for QoE-Aware SD-WAN”, Future Internet. 2021; 13(8):209. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi13080209
    3. Yuri Assayag, Horácio Oliveira, Eduardo Souto, Raimundo Barreto, Richard Pazzi. (2021). Indoor Positioning System Using Synthetic Training and Data Fusion. IEEE Access Journal. 9: 115687-115699.
    4. James Curzon, Tracy Ann Kosa, Rajen Akalu, and Khalil El-Khatib. "Privacy and Artificial Intelligence." IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (2021).
    5. U. Sabeel, S. Shah Heydari, K. Elgazzar and K. El-Khatib, "Building an Intrusion Detection System to Detect Atypical Cyberattack Flows," IEEE Access Journal, vol. 9, pp. 94352-94370, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3093830
    6. João Junior, Moysés Lima, Leandro Balico, Richard Pazzi, Horácio Oliveira. (2021). Routing with Renewable Energy Management in Wireless Sensor Networks. Journal of Sensors. 21(13): 4376.
    7. A. A. Nasiri, F. Derakhshan and S. Shah Heydari, "Distributed Virtual Network Embedding for Software-Defined Networks Using Multiagent Systems," IEEE Access Journal, vol. 9, pp. 12027-12043, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3050922
    8. Rocha, Thiago, Eduardo Souto, and Khalil El-Khatib. "Functionality-based mobile application recommendation system with security and privacy awareness." Computers & Security, 97 (2020): 101972.
    9. Brandon Laughlin, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, and Khalil El-Khatib. "A service architecture using machine learning to contextualize anomaly detection." Journal of Database Management (JDM) 31, no. 1 (2020): 64-84.
    10. Assayag, Y; Oliveira, H; Souto, E; Barreto, R; Pazzi, R. (2020). Indoor Positioning System Using Dynamic Model Estimation. Journal of Sensors. 20(24)
    11. Alencar, M; Barreto, R; Fernandes, H; Souto, E; Pazzi, R. (2020). DARE: A decentralized association rules extraction scheme for embedded data sets in distributed IoT devices. International Journal of Distributed sensor Networks 16.10 (2020)
    12. Monteiro A*, Souto E, Pazzi R, Nogueira M. (2019). Context-aware network selection in heterogeneous wireless networks. Computer Communications. 135: 1-15.
    13. Akabane A*, Immich R, Pazzi R, Madeira E, Villas L. (2019). Exploiting Vehicular Social Networks and Dynamic Clustering to Enhance Urban Mobility Management. Journal of Sensors. 19(16): 1-18.
    14. Ramiro Liscano, Nadra Ben Otman, Dixit Sharma, Shahram Shah Heydari, “Fixed Node Assisted Collection Tree Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Journal of Sensor Networks, vol. 31, no.3, pp. 133-144, 2019
    15. Thiago Rocha, Eduardo Souto, and Khalil El-Khatib. "Techniques to detect data leakage in mobile applications." International Journal of Security and Networks 14, no. 3 (2019): 146-157.
  • Conference Papers (2019-2021)
    1. Ulya Sabeel, Shahram shah Heydari, Khalid Elgazzar and Khalil El-Khatib,"CVAE-AN: Atypical Attack Flow Detection Using Incremental Adversarial Learning" in the proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (Globecom 2021),7-11 December 2021, Madrid, Spain.
    2. Ali Hassan, Shahram Shah Heydari, “TCP Congestion Avoidance in Data Centres using Reinforcement Learning”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Communications Technology (ICACT2021), Feb. 7-10, 2021, Phoenix Park, Pyeongchang, South Korea.
    3. Farimasadat Miri, Alireza A. Namanloo, Richard Pazzi and Miguel Vargas Martin. (2021). A Novel Short-term Post-accident Traffic PredictionModel. Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems. International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2021), 3rd International Workshop on Urban Computing, United States (1-8)
    4. Ladeira, L; Souza, A; Silva, T; Pazzi, R; Villas L. (2020). PONCHE: Personalized and Context-Aware Vehicle Rerouting Service. IEEE 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD). IEEE 13th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), (211-218)
    5. Arppe, David F. and Zaman, Loutfouz and Pazzi, Richard W. and El-Khatib, Khalil. (2020). UniNet: A Mixed Reality Driving Simulator. Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2020. Graphics Interface, (37-55)
    6. Ravi Chauhan*, Shahram Shah Heydari, “Polymorphic Adversarial DDoS attack on IDS using GAN”, International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC): MLNGSN Workshop, 20-22 October 2020, Montreal, Canada.
    7. Jason Whelan, Abdulaziz Almehmadi, Jason Braverman, and Khalil El-Khatib. "Threat Analysis of a Long Range Autonomous Unmanned Aerial System." In 2020 International Conference on Computing and Information Technology (ICCIT-1441), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2020
    8. Jason Whelan, Thanigajan Sangarapillai, Omar Minawi, Abdulaziz Almehmadi, and Khalil El-Khatib. "Novelty-based Intrusion Detection of Sensor Attacks on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles." In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks, pp. 23-28. 2020
    9. Oksana Kilik, Abdulaziz Almehmadi, and Khalil El-Khatib. "Eye Gaze-Based Human Error Prevention System: Experts vs. Non-Experts." In 13th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, pp. 1-7. 2020.
    10. Omar Minawi, Jason Whelan, Abdulaziz Almehmadi, and Khalil El-Khatib. "Machine Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System for Controller Area Networks." In Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications, pp. 41-47. 2020.
    11. Bamdad Vafaie, Mahboubeh Shamsi, Morteza Sargolzaei Javan, and Khalil El-Khatib. "A New Statistical Method for Anomaly Detection in Distributed Systems." In 2020 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2020.
    12. Wesllen Sousa Lima, Eduardo Souto, Khalil El-Khatib, Roozbeh Jalali, and Joao Gama. "Human activity recognition using inertial sensors in a smartphone: An overview." Sensors 19, no. 14 (2019): 3213.
    13. James Curzon, Abdulaziz Almehmadi, and Khalil El-Khatib. "A survey of privacy enhancing technologies for smart cities." Pervasive and Mobile Computing 55 (2019): 76-95.
    14. Felipe Lobo, Danilo Grael, Horacio Oliveira, Leandro Villas, Abdulaziz Almehmadi, and Khalil El-Khatib. "Cooperative localization improvement using distance information in vehicular ad hoc networks." Sensors 19, no. 23 (2019): 5231.
    15. Brandon Laughlin, Christopher Collins, Karthik Sankaranarayanan, and Khalil El-Khatib. "A visual analytics framework for adversarial text generation." In 2019 IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec), pp. 1-10. IEEE, 2019.
    16. Safwan Alam, Roozbeh Jalali, Chirag Surti, Daniel Hoornweg, and Khalil El-Khatib. "Ridesharing Architecture for Patterned Commute Traffic." In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications, pp. 17-22. 2019.
    17. Kevin Yardy, Abdulaziz Almehmadi, and Khalil El-Khatib. "Detecting Malicious Driving with Machine Learning." In 2019 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2019.
    18. Ulya Sabeel, Shahram Shah Heydari, Harsh Mohanka, Yassmine Bendhaou, Khalid Elgazzar and Khalil El-Khatib, “Evaluation of Deep Learning in Detecting Unknown Network Attacks”, Proceedings of 2019 International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking (SmartNets), 17-19 December 2019, Sharm El Sheik, Egypt.
    19. Ibtihal Ellawindy and Shahram Shah Heydari, “QoE-Aware Multimedia Streaming in SD-WANs”, in Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft) PVE-SDN workshop, 24 June 2019, Paris,France.

2016-2018

  • Journals and Technical Reports (2016-2018)
    1. Ali A. Haghighi, Shahram Shahbazpanahi, Shahram Shah Heydari,” Stochastic QoE-aware Optimization in Cloud-Based Content Delivery Networks, IEEE Access, vol.6, pp. 32662-32672, 2018.
    2. Balico L*, Loureiro A, Nakamura E, Barreto R, Pazzi R, Oliveira H. (2018). Localization prediction in vehicular ad hoc networks. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials. 20(4): 2784--2803.
    3. Furquim, G.; Filho, G.P.R.; Jalali, R.; Pessin, G.; Pazzi, R.W.; Ueyama, J. How to Improve Fault Tolerance in Disaster Predictions: A Case Study about Flash Floods Using IoT, ML and Real Data. Sensors 2018, 18, 907.
    4. Akabane A*, Immich R, Pazzi R, Madeira E, Villas L. (2018). Distributed egocentric betweenness measure as a vehicle selection mechanism in vanets: A performance evaluation study. Sensors. 18(8): 2731
    5. Jalali R, Koohi-Fayegh S, El-Khatib K, Hoornweg D, Li H. Investigating the potential of ridesharing to reduce vehicle emissions. Urban Planning. 2017;2(2), pp 26-40.
    6. Ali A. Haghighi, Shahram Shah Heydari, and Shahram ShahbazPanahi. "Dynamic QoS-Aware Resource Assignment in Cloud-based Content-Delivery Networks." IEEE Access, vol.6, pp. 2298–2309, 2017.
    7. Alireza Izaddoost and Shahram Shah Heydari, “Risk-Adaptive Strategic Network Protection in Disaster Scenarios”, IEEE/KACS Journal of Communication and Networks, vol.19, no. 5, pp. 508-519, October 2017.
    8. Sanaz Khakpour,  Richard W. Pazzi, and Khalil El-Khatib. "Using clustering for target tracking in vehicular ad hoc networks." Vehicular Communications 9 (2017): pp 83-96.
    9. Eduardo Luengo, Shahram Shah Heydari, Khalil El-Khatib, “SDN-based Wireless User management System”, Telecommunication Systems Journal, Springer, Vol. 65, No. 4, pp. 755-769, August 2017.
    10. Abdulaziz Almehmadi and Khalil El-Khatib. "On the possibility of insider threat prevention using intent-based access control (IBAC)." IEEE Systems Journal 11.2 (2017): 373-384.
    11. Pazzi, R.W.; Boukerche, A.; Grande, R.; Mokdad, L. “A Clustered Trail-Based Data Dissemination Scheme for Duty Cycle Enabled Wireless Sensor Networks”. Springer Wireless Networks 23(1), pages 177-192, 2017.
    12. Titus Okathe, Shahram Shah Heydari, Vijay Sood, Orane Cole, Khalil El-Khatib, “Middleware for Smart Critical Infrastructure Networks Intercommunication”, International Journal On Smart Sensing And Intelligent Systems Vol. 9, No. 3, pp.1261-1286, September 2016.
    13. Saeed A. Astaneh and Shahram Shah Heydari, “Optimization of SDN Flow Operations in Multi-Failure Restoration Scenarios”, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 13, No. 3, September 2016, pp. 421-432.
    14. Souza, E.L.; Nakamura, E.F.; Pazzi, R.W., “Target Tracking for Sensor Networks: A Survey”. ACM Computing Surveys, 49(2), 30 pages, 2016.
    15. M Peng, W Shi, JP Corriveau, R Pazzi, Y Wang. “Black hole search in computer networks: State-of-the-art, challenges and future directions”. Elsevier’s Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing – JPDC, 88: 1-15 (2016)

    16. Oluwadamilola Adenuga-Taiwo and Shahram Shah Heydari, “Security Analysis of ONOS Software-Defined Network Platform”, http://hdl.handle.net/10155/685, UOIT Technical Report, 2016.

  • Conference Papers (2016-2018)
    1. Santos F*, Rodrigues D, Silva T, Loureiro A, Pazzi R, Villas L. (2018). Context-aware Vehicle Route Recommendation Platform: Exploring Open and Crowdsourced Data. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), (1--7)
    2. Akabane A*, Immich R, Pazzi R, Madeira E, Villas L. (2018). TRUSTed: A Distributed System for Information Management and Knowledge Distribution in VANETs. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), (1--6)
    3. Lima M, Oliveira H, Pazzi R. (2018). A Novel RSSI-based Algorithm for Detect and Bypass Routing Holes in Wireless Sensor Networks. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), (00986--00989)
    4. Ahmed Dauda, Scott Mclean, Abdulaziz Almehmadi, and Khalil El-Khatib. "Big Data Analytics Architecture for Security Intelligence." In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Security of Information and Networks, pp. 1-4. 2018.
    5. A. T. Akabane, R. L. Gomes, R. W. Pazzi, E. R. M. Madeira, L. A. Villas. “APOLO: A Mobility Pattern Analysis Approach to Improve Urban Mobility”. 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’17).
    6. T. Nikolovski, R. W. Pazzi. “A Lightweight and Efficient Approach (LEA) for Hovering Information protocols.” In Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications, Miami Beach, USA, November 21-25, 2017
    7. Sousa, Wesllen, Eduardo Souto, Jonatas Rodrigres, Pedro Sadarc, Roozbeh Jalali, and Khalil El-Khatib. "A comparative analysis of the impact of features on human activity recognition with smartphone sensors." In Proceedings of the 23rd Brazillian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web, pp. 397-404. 2017.
    8. Ali A. Haghighi, Shahram Shahbazpanahi, Shahram Shah Heydari, “MDP Modeling of Resource Provisioning in Virtualized Content-Delivery Networks”, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP2017), October 10-13, 2017, Toronto, Canada
    9. Orane Cole and K. El-Khatib, “'A Privacy Enhanced Facial Recognition Access Control System using Biometric Encryption”, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensors Systems (DCOSS), 2017.
    10. M. Bertanha and R. W. Pazzi, “JLPR: Joint Range-Based Localization Using Trilateration and Packet Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Sinks”.  In Proceedings of the 22th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), pp.  646 – 651. 2017
    11. A. T. Akabane, R. W. Pazzi, E. R. M. Madeira, L. A. Villas. “Modeling and Prediction of Vehicle Route Based on Hidden Markov Model”. In Proceedings of the 86th IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2017-Fall, 2017
    12. T. Nikolovski, R. W. Pazzi, A. T. Akabane, L. A. Villas. “Efficient Encounter-based Event Dissemination Protocol (E-BED) for Urban and Highway Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks”. In Proceedings of the 22th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Greece, 2017.
    13. Roozbeh Jalali, Seama Koohi-Fayegh, Khalil El-Khatib, Daniel Hoornweg, and Heng Li. "Investigating the potential of ridesharing to reduce vehicle emissions." Urban Planning 2, no. 2 (2017): 26-40.
    14. Nadra Ben Othman, Ramiro Liscano, Shahram Shah Heydari, “An Analysis of the Collector Tree Protocol (CTP) in Mobile Sensing Environments”, in Proceedings of 2017 IEEE 28th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 08-13 October 2017, Montreal, QC, Canada.
    15. Titus Okathe, Khalil El-Khatib, Stephen Marsh, Shahram S. Heydari and Timothy Storer, “Scalable Light-Weight Peer-to-Peer Risk Communication Framework for Critical Infrastructures Management”, In Proceedings of The Seventh International Conference on Mobile Services, Resources, and Users (MOBILITY 2017) June 25 - 29, 2017, Venice, Italy. (Best Paper Award)
    16. Eduardo Luengo, Shahram Shah Heydari, Khalil El-Khatib, “OpenFlow-based Wireless User Management System for Improved User QoE”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2016), 23-27 May 2016, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
    17. P. L. do Nascimento, R. W. Pazzi, D. L. Guidoni and L. A. Villas, "Characterizing GPS outages: Geodesic Dead Reckoning solution for VANETs and ITS," 2016 IEEE 15th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), Cambridge, MA, 2016, pp. 18-21.
    18. P. L. do Nascimento, R. W. Pazzi, D. L. Guidond and L. A. Villas, "A geodesic dead reckoning solution for vehicular networks," 2016 8th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM), Medellin, 2016, pp. 1-6.
    19. M. Bertanha and R. W. Pazzi. “LOGR: Joint Localization and Geographic Routing-based Data Dissemination in Wireless Sensor Networks with Mobile Sinks. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications, Malta, 2016, pp. 83-90
    20. T. Nikolovski and R. W. Pazzi. “Delay Tolerant and Predictive Data Dissemination Protocol (DTP-DDP) for urban and highway vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs)”. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications, Malta, 2016, pp. 67-74.
    21. A. Almehmadi, K. El-Khatib, “Intention-based Trust Re-evaluation,” PST2016. 14th International Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust, PST 2016, Auckland, New Zealand.
    22. J Lacroix, K. El-Khatib, R. Akalu, “Vehicular Digital Forensics: What Does My Vehicle Know About Me?,” ACM. Sixth ACM International Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications (DIVANet’16), Malta.
    23. A. T. Akabane, R. W. Pazzi, E. R. M. Madeira and L. A. Villas, "CARRO: A context-awareness protocol for data dissemination in urban and highway scenarios," 2016 8th IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM), Medellin, 2016, pp. 1-6.
    24. R. Jalali, Z. Hills, K. El-Khatib K, R. Pazzi, D. Hoornweg and K. Myers, “Evaluating the Effect of Electric Vehicles on the Smart Grid,” IARIA. Vehicle 2016, Spain.
    25. K. Jaisingh, K. El-Khatib and R. Akalu, “Paving the Way for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS): Privacy Implications of Vehicle Infotainment and Telematics Systems,” ACM. Sixth ACM International Symposium on Design and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications (DIVANet’16), Malta.
    26. S. Alam and K. El-Khatib, “Phishing Susceptibility Detection through Social Media Analytics”, SIN 2016.
    27. R. Jalali, A. Dauda, K. El-khatib, C. McGregor and C. Surti. “An architecture for Health Data Collection Using Of-the-shelf Health Sensors.” 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications IEEE MeMeA 2016.

2013-2015

  • Journals and Technical Reports (2013-2015)
    1. Hamzeh Khazaei,  Carolyn McGregor, J. Mikael Eklund, and Khalil El-Khatib. "Real-time and retrospective health-analytics-as-a-service: a novel framework." JMIR medical informatics 3, no. 4 (2015).
    2. Souza, E.L.; Pazzi, R.W.; Nakamura, E.F., “A prediction-based clustering algorithm for tracking targets in quantized areas for wireless sensor networks”. Springer Wireless Networks, 21(7), pp. 2263-2278, 2015.
    3. Villas, L., Guidoni, D., Maia, G., Pazzi, RW., Ueyama, J., Loureiro, A. “An energy efficient joint localization and synchronization solution for wireless sensor networks using unmanned aerial vehicle”. Springer Wireless Networks, 21(2), pp. 485-498. February 2015.
    4. Garrett Hayes, Hamzeh Khazaei, Khalil El-Khatib, Carolyn McGregor and Mikael Eklund. “Design and Analytical Model of a Platform-as-a-Service Cloud for Healthcare.” Journal of Internet Technology (JIT), Vol 16 No 1, January 2015.
    5. Villas, L., Boukerche, A., Maia, G., Pazzi, RW., Loureiro, AAF. “DRIVE: An efficient and robust data dissemination protocol for highway and urban vehicular ad hoc networks”. Elsevier Computer Networks, 75, 381-394, December 2014.
    6. Alireza Izaddoost and Shahram Shah Heydari, “Enhancing Network Service Survivability in Large-Scale Failure Scenarios”, IEEE/KACS Journal of Communication and Networks VOL. 16, NO. 5, October 2014.
    7. Pazzi, R. W.; Boukerche, A. "PROPANE: A Progressive Panorama Streaming Protocol to Support Interactive 3D Virtual Environment Exploration on Graphics Constrained Devices". ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMCCAP), 11(1), article 5, 22 pages, September 2014.
    8. Filho, G.P.R.; Ueyama, J.; Villas, L.A.; Pinto, A.R.; Gonçalves, V.P.; Pessin, G.; Pazzi, R.W.; Braun, T. NodePM: A Remote Monitoring Alert System for Energy Consumption Using Probabilistic Techniques. Sensors 2014, 14, 848-867, 2014.
    9. Abrougui, K.; Boukerche, A.; Pazzi, R.; Almulla, M., "A Scalable Bandwidth-Efficient Hybrid Adaptive Service Discovery Protocol for Vehicular Networks with Infrastructure Support," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 13(7), pp. 1424-1442, 2014.
  • Conference Papers (2013-2015)
    1. Eduardo Luengo, Christopher Weber, Shahram Shah Heydari, and Khalil El-Khatib. "Design and Implementation of a Software-Defined Integrated Wired-Wireless Network Testbed." in Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access, pp. 47-52. ACM, 2015.
    2. G. P. R. Filho, J. Ueyama, B. S. Faiçal, G. Pessin, C. M. de Farias, R. W. Pazzi, D. L. Guidoni, L. A. Villas:, "An Energy-Aware System for Decision-Making in a Residential Infrastructure Using Wireless Sensors and Actuators," In Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA), pp. 9-16. (September 2015)
    3. W. S. Lima, E. Souto, T. Rocha, R. W. Pazzi and F. Pramudianto, "User activity recognition for energy saving in smart home environment," In Proceedings of the Twentieth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’15), pp. 751-757. (July 2015)
    4. Balico, L.; Oliveira, H.; Souza, E.; Pazzi, RW. “On the Performance of Localization Prediction Methods for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks.” In Proceedings of the Twentieth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’15), pp. 359-364. (July 2015)
    5. Balico, L.; Oliveira, H.; Barreto, R.; Loureiro, A.; Pazzi, R. “A Prediction-based Routing Algorithm for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks”. In Proceedings of the Twentieth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC’15), pp. 365 – 370. (July 2015)
    6. Saeed Akhavan Astaneh and Shahram Shah Heydari, “Multi-Failure Restoration with Minimal Flow Operations in Software Defined Networks”, Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN 2015), Kansas City, Missouri, USA, March 24-27, 2015
    7. J. Conway-Beaulieu, A. Athaide, R. Jalali, and K. El-Khatib. “Smartphone-based Architecture for Smart Cities.” In Proceedings of the 5th ACM Symposium on Development and Analysis of Intelligent Vehicular Networks and Applications (pp. 79-83). 2015.
    8. H. Subedar and K. El-Khatib. “Privacy and security concerns for health data collected using off-the-shelf health monitoring devices.” The 2015 IEEE 11th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 
    9. K. R. S. Barbosa; E. Souto; E. Feitosa, and K. El-Khatib. “Identifying and Classifying Suspicious Network Behavior Using Passive DNS Analysis.” The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Computer and Information Technology; Ubiquitous Computing and Communications; Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing; Pervasive Intelligence and Computing (CIT/IUCC/DASC/PICOM).
    10. Sanaz Khakpour, Richard W. Pazzi, and Khalil El-Khatib. 2014. A prediction based clustering algorithm for target tracking in vehicular ad-hoc networks. In Proceedings of the fourth ACM international symposium on Development and analysis of intelligent vehicular networks and applications, pages 39-46, November 2014.
    11. R. Jalali, Khalil El-khatib, Carolyn McGregor. Smart city architecture for community level services through the internet of things, 18th International Conference on Intelligence in Next Generation Networks, 2015
    12. Alireza Izaddoost, Shahram Shah Heydari, “Topology-based Proactive Network Protection in Large-scale Failure Scenarios”, Proceedings of The 9th International Conference on Future Networks and Communications (FNC-2014), Niagara Falls, Canada, 2014.
    13. Souza, E.L.; Pazzi, R.W.; Nakamura, E.F., "A distributed tracking algorithm for target interception in face-structured sensor networks,", 2014 IEEE 39th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), pp.470,473, 8-11 Sept. 2014.
    14. Alireza Izaddoost, Shahram Shah Heydari, “Proactive Risk Mitigation for Communication Network Resilience in Disaster Scenarios”, Proceedings of the Workshop on Resilient ICT for Management of Mega Disasters (RITMAN 2014), 16-19 June 2014, Sydney, Australia
    15. A. Almehmadi and K. El-Khatib: On the Possibility of Insider Threat Detection Using Physiological Signal Monitoring." SIN 2014: 223
    16. H. Khazaei, C. McGregor, M. Eklund, K. El-Khatib and A. Thommandram. Toward a Big Data Healthcare Analytics System: a Mathematical Modeling Perspective. IEEE 10th World Congress on Services (DSS 2014), Alaska, USA, July 2014.
    17. Titus Okathe, Shahram Shah Heydari, Vijay Sood and Khalil El-Khatib, “Unified Multi-Critical Infrastructure Communication Architecture”,  27th Queen's Biennial Symposium on Communications, Kingston, Canada, 2014.
    18. Alexander Keller, Titus Okathe, Roozbeh Jalali, Bryan Pham, Khalil El-Khatib, Richard Pazzi, Stephen Marsh, Shahram Shah Heydari and Timothy Storer, “Using VANET for Critical Infrastructure Situational Awareness in Smart Cities”, The 2nd International Workshop on Vehicular Traffic Management for Smart Cities (VTM 2014), Seoul, South Korea, May 18, 2014.
    19. Dixit Sharma, Ramiro Liscano and Shahram Shah Heydari, “Enhancing Collection Tree Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks”, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Emerging Ubiquitous Systems and Pervasive Networks, Niagara Falls, Canada, 2013.
    20. Abdullah Al-Shehri and Shahram Shah Heydari, “Predictive Filtering for Adjacency-Based Localization in MANET”, Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, pp.448-453, 2013.
    21. G. Hayes and K. El-Khatib, “Securing Modbus Transactions Using Hash-Based Message Authentication Codes and Stream Transmission Control Protocol”, ICCIT-2013.
    22. A. Almehmadi and K. El-Khatib, “The State of the Art in Electroencephalogram and Access Control,” ICCIT-2013.
    23. A. Almehmadi, M. Bourque, K. El-Khatib: A Tweet of the Mind: Automated Emotion Detection for Social Media Using Brain Wave Pattern Analysis. SocialCom 2013: 987-991
    24. S. Khakpour, R. W. Pazzi, and K. El-Khatib, "A distributed clustering algorithm for target tracking in vehicular ad-hoc networks." Proceedings of the third ACM international symposium on Design and analysis of intelligent vehicular networks and applications. ACM, 2013.
    25. Matar, Y., Villas, L., Pazzi, R. W., “Dual-mode optimum distance routing scheme for vehicular ad hoc networks.” In Proceedings of the third ACM international symposium on Design and analysis of intelligent vehicular networks and applications, pp 15-22, Nov. 2013.

2010-2012

  • Journals and Technical Reports (2010-2012)
    1. Ammar Musheer, Oleg Sotnikov and Shahram Shah Heydari, “Multiuser Simulation-Based Virtual Environment for Teaching Computer ‎Networking Concepts”, International Journal on Advances in Intelligent systems, vol 1&2, no.5, July 2012, pp. 76-88.
    2. Tracy Ann Kosa, Khalil El-Khatib, Stephen Marsh, “Measuring Privacy”, Journal of Internet Services and Information Security Special Edition on International Federation for Information Processing on Trust Management. (JISIS), 1(4):60–73, November 2011.
    3. Sk. Md. Mizanur Rahman, K. El-Khatib, “Private Key Agreement and Secure Communication for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks,” Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Volume 70, Issue 8, August 2010, pp. 858-870.
    4. Khalil El-Khatib, “Impact of Feature Reduction on the Efficiency of Wireless Intrusion Detection Systems,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Volume 21 No. 8. August 2010, pp. 1143-1149.
  • Conference Papers (2010-2012)
    1. Alireza Izaddoost and Shahram Shah Heydari, “Preventive Network Protection in Probabilistic Large-Scale Failure Scenarios”, IEEE Globecom Workshop on Management of Emerging Networks and Services, Anaheim, California, December 2012
    2. Md. Mustafizur Rahman and Shahram Shah Heydari, “Performance Evaluation of LTE EPC Self- Healing Solutions”, IEEE Globecom Workshop on Management of Emerging Networks and Services, Anaheim, California, December 2012
    3. Z.M. Faizul Islam, Mitchell Romanuik, Shahram Shah Heydari and Mazda Salmanian “OLSR-based Coarse Localization in Tactical ‎MANET Situational Awareness Systems”, IEEE ICC Workshop on Smart Communications in Network Technologies, Ottawa, Canada, June 2012
    4. Daniel Da Silva, Tracy Ann Kosa, Stephen Marsh and Khalil El-Khatib, “Examining Privacy in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks,” DIVAnet’12, the second ACM international symposium on Design and analysis of intelligent vehicular networks and applications.
    5. Alireza Izaddoost and Shahram Shah Heydari, “Analyzing Network Failures in Disaster Scenarios using a Travelling Wave Probabilistic Model”, Proceedings of the 26th Queen's Biennial Symposium on Communications, pp. 138-141, 2012.
    6. Alireza Izaddoost and Shahram Shah Heydari, “A Probabilistic Model for Network ‎Survivability in Large Scale Failure Scenarios”, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE’12), Montreal, Canada, May 2012.
    7. Md. Mustafizur Rahman and Shahram Shah Heydari, “A Self-healing Approach for LTE Evolved Packet ‎Core”, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE’12), Montreal, Canada, May 2012.
    8. Anand Dersingh, Z.M. Faizul Islam, Shahram Shah Heydari, Md. Mustafizur Rahman, “OLSR-based ‎Topology Discovery for Mobile Situational Awareness Systems”, 2nd ‎International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies, pp. 418-425, Niagara Falls, Canada, September 2011‎
    9. Y. Gahi, M. Guennoun, Z. Guennoun, K. El-Khatib, “Encrypted Processes for Oblivious Data Retrieval”, the 6th IEEE International Conference on Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, 2011.
    10. Sk. Md. Mizanur Rahman, Md. Mehedi Masud, C. Adams, K. El-Khatib, H. T. Mouftah, E.Okamoto: Cryptographic security models for eHealth P2P database management systems network. PST 2011: 164-173.
    11. J. Aljabi, J. Abu Rub, and Khalil El-Khatib, “RFID Privacy Concerns in the Healthcare Sector,” ICITeS'2011.
    12. M. Singh, F. Qureshi, and K. El-Khatib, “Negotiating Privacy Preferences in Video Surveillance Systems,” The Twenty-fourth International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA/AIE 2011).
    13. Y. Gahi, M. Guennoun, and K. El-Khatib, “A Secure Database System using Homomorphic Encryption Schemes,” The Third IEEE International Conference on Advances in Databases, Knowledge, and Data Applications, DBKDA 2011.
    14. J. Lee and K. El-Khatib, “A Privacy-Enabled Architecture for an RFID-based Location Monitoring System”, PASSAT 2010.
    15. Shahram Shah Heydari and Supreet Baweja, “Lightweight Reliable Overlay Multicasting in Large-scale P2P Networks”, Canadian Conference on Computer Science & Software Engineering (C3S2E’10), 19-21 May 2010, Montreal, Canada.