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Discrete Human Activity Recognition and Fall Detection by Combining FMCW RADAR Data of Heterogeneous Environments for Independent Assistive Living (2021)
Journal Article
Saeed, U., Shah, S. Y., Shah, S. A., Ahmad, J., Alotaibi, A. A., Althobaiti, T., …Abbasi, Q. H. (2021). Discrete Human Activity Recognition and Fall Detection by Combining FMCW RADAR Data of Heterogeneous Environments for Independent Assistive Living. E

Human activity monitoring is essential for a variety of applications in many fields, particularly healthcare. The goal of this research work is to develop a system that can effectively detect fall/collapse and classify other discrete daily living act... Read More about Discrete Human Activity Recognition and Fall Detection by Combining FMCW RADAR Data of Heterogeneous Environments for Independent Assistive Living.

Classification of Citrus Plant Diseases Using Deep Transfer Learning (2021)
Journal Article
Zia Ur Rehman, M., Ahmed, F., Attique Khan, M., Tariq, U., Shaukat Jamal, S., Ahmad, J., & Hussain, I. (2022). Classification of Citrus Plant Diseases Using Deep Transfer Learning. Computers, Materials & Continua, 70(1), 1401-1417. https://doi.org/10.3260

In recent years, the field of deep learning has played an important role towards automatic detection and classification of diseases in vegetables and fruits. This in turn has helped in improving the quality and production of vegetables and fruits. Ci... Read More about Classification of Citrus Plant Diseases Using Deep Transfer Learning.

A New Ensemble-Based Intrusion Detection System for Internet of Things (2021)
Journal Article
Abbas, A., Khan, M. A., Latif, S., Ajaz, M., Shah, A. A., & Ahmad, J. (2022). A New Ensemble-Based Intrusion Detection System for Internet of Things. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 47, 1805-1819. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-021-06086-5

The domain of Internet of Things (IoT) has witnessed immense adaptability over the last few years by drastically transforming human lives to automate their ordinary daily tasks. This is achieved by interconnecting heterogeneous physical devices with... Read More about A New Ensemble-Based Intrusion Detection System for Internet of Things.

Detection of COVID-19 Using Transfer Learning and Grad-CAM Visualization on Indigenously Collected X-ray Dataset (2021)
Journal Article
Umair, M., Khan, M. S., Ahmed, F., Baothman, F., Alqahtani, F., Alian, M., & Ahmad, J. (2021). Detection of COVID-19 Using Transfer Learning and Grad-CAM Visualization on Indigenously Collected X-ray Dataset. Sensors, 21(17), Article 5813. https://doi.org

The COVID-19 outbreak began in December 2019 and has dreadfully affected our lives since then. More than three million lives have been engulfed by this newest member of the corona virus family. With the emergence of continuously mutating variants of... Read More about Detection of COVID-19 Using Transfer Learning and Grad-CAM Visualization on Indigenously Collected X-ray Dataset.

Blockchain technology for the industrial Internet of Things: A comprehensive survey on security challenges, architectures, applications, and future research directions (2021)
Journal Article
Latif, S., Idrees, Z., e Huma, Z., & Ahmad, J. (2021). Blockchain technology for the industrial Internet of Things: A comprehensive survey on security challenges, architectures, applications, and future research directions. Transactions on Emerging Teleco

The blockchain has emerged as an innovative and powerful technology that shows the tremendous potential to enhance the smart industrial frameworks by providing encryption, immutable storage, and decentralization. In the past few years, several applic... Read More about Blockchain technology for the industrial Internet of Things: A comprehensive survey on security challenges, architectures, applications, and future research directions.

Wireless Channel Modelling for Identifying Six Types of Respiratory Patterns With SDR Sensing and Deep Multilayer Perceptron (2021)
Journal Article
Saeed, U., Shah, S. Y., Zahid, A., Ahmad, J., Imran, M. A., Abbasi, Q. H., & Shah, S. A. (2021). Wireless Channel Modelling for Identifying Six Types of Respiratory Patterns With SDR Sensing and Deep Multilayer Perceptron. IEEE Sensors Journal, 21(18), 20

Contactless or non-invasive technology has a significant impact on healthcare applications such as the prediction of COVID-19 symptoms. Non-invasive methods are essential especially during the COVID-19 pandemic as they minimise the burden on healthca... Read More about Wireless Channel Modelling for Identifying Six Types of Respiratory Patterns With SDR Sensing and Deep Multilayer Perceptron.

Infrared Sensing Based Non-Invasive Initial Diagnosis of Chronic Liver Disease Using Ensemble Learning (2021)
Journal Article
Rehman, M. U., Najam, S., Khalid, S., Shafique, A., Alqahtani, F., Baothman, F., …Ahmad, J. (2021). Infrared Sensing Based Non-Invasive Initial Diagnosis of Chronic Liver Disease Using Ensemble Learning. IEEE Sensors Journal, 21(17), 19395-19406. https:

The liver is a vital human body organ and its functionality can be degraded by several diseases such as hepatitis, fatty liver disease, and liver cancer and so forth. Hence, the early diagnosis of liver diseases is extremely crucial for saving human... Read More about Infrared Sensing Based Non-Invasive Initial Diagnosis of Chronic Liver Disease Using Ensemble Learning.

An Efficient Approach Based on Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning for Satellite Image Classification (2021)
Journal Article
Alkhelaiwi, M., Boulila, W., Ahmad, J., Koubaa, A., & Driss, M. (2021). An Efficient Approach Based on Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning for Satellite Image Classification. Remote Sensing, 13(11), Article 2221. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13112221

Satellite images have drawn increasing interest from a wide variety of users, including business and government, ever since their increased usage in important fields ranging from weather, forestry and agriculture to surface changes and biodiversity m... Read More about An Efficient Approach Based on Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning for Satellite Image Classification.

Design of Portable Exoskeleton Forearm for Rehabilitation of Monoparesis Patients Using Tendon Flexion Sensing Mechanism for Health Care Applications (2021)
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Imtiaz, M. S. B., Babar Ali, C., Kausar, Z., Shah, S. Y., Shah, S. A., Ahmad, J., …Abbasi, Q. H. (2021). Design of Portable Exoskeleton Forearm for Rehabilitation of Monoparesis Patients Using Tendon Flexion Sensing Mechanism for Health Care Application

Technology plays a vital role in patient rehabilitation, improving the quality of life of an individual. The increase in functional independence of disabled individuals requires adaptive and commercially available solutions. The use of sensor-based t... Read More about Design of Portable Exoskeleton Forearm for Rehabilitation of Monoparesis Patients Using Tendon Flexion Sensing Mechanism for Health Care Applications.

A novel CNN-LSTM-based approach to predict urban expansion (2021)
Journal Article
Boulila, W., Ghandorh, H., Khan, M. A., Ahmed, F., & Ahmad, J. (2021). A novel CNN-LSTM-based approach to predict urban expansion. Ecological Informatics, 64, Article 101325. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2021.101325

Time-series remote sensing data offer a rich source of information that can be used in a wide range of applications, from monitoring changes in land cover to surveillance of crops, coastal changes, flood risk assessment, and urban sprawl. In this pap... Read More about A novel CNN-LSTM-based approach to predict urban expansion.

Granular Data Access Control with a Patient-Centric Policy Update for Healthcare (2021)
Journal Article
Khan, F., Khan, S., Tahir, S., Ahmad, J., Tahir, H., & Shah, S. A. (2021). Granular Data Access Control with a Patient-Centric Policy Update for Healthcare. Sensors, 21(10), Article 3556. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21103556

Healthcare is a multi-actor environment that requires independent actors to have a different view of the same data, hence leading to different access rights. Ciphertext Policy-Attribute-based Encryption (CP-ABE) provides a one-to-many access control... Read More about Granular Data Access Control with a Patient-Centric Policy Update for Healthcare.

A Lightweight Chaos-Based Medical Image Encryption Scheme Using Random Shuffling and XOR Operations (2021)
Journal Article
Masood, F., Driss, M., Boulila, W., Ahmad, J., ur Rehman, S., Jan, S. U., Qayyum, A., & Buchanan, W. J. (2022). A Lightweight Chaos-Based Medical Image Encryption Scheme Using Random Shuffling and XOR Operations. Wireless Personal Communications, 127, 140

Medical images possess significant importance in diagnostics when it comes to healthcare systems. These images contain confidential and sensitive information such as patients’ X-rays, ultrasounds, computed tomography scans, brain images, and magnetic... Read More about A Lightweight Chaos-Based Medical Image Encryption Scheme Using Random Shuffling and XOR Operations.

Application of Artificial Neural Network in Predicting Flashover Behaviour of Outdoor Insulators under Polluted Conditions (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sajjad, U., Arshad, Ahmad, J., & Shoaib, S. (2021). Application of Artificial Neural Network in Predicting Flashover Behaviour of Outdoor Insulators under Polluted Conditions. In 2021 IEEE Conference of Russian Young Researchers in Electrical and Electro

Safe and reliable delivery of power through transmission lines mainly depends on the quality condition of the high voltage insulators. In the last few decades, demand in polymeric insulator has been dramatically increased due to their advanced perfor... Read More about Application of Artificial Neural Network in Predicting Flashover Behaviour of Outdoor Insulators under Polluted Conditions.

A Hybrid Deep Random Neural Network for Cyberattack Detection in the Industrial Internet of Things (2021)
Journal Article
Huma, Z. E., Latif, S., Ahmad, J., Idrees, Z., Ibrar, A., Zou, Z., …Baothman, F. (2021). A Hybrid Deep Random Neural Network for Cyberattack Detection in the Industrial Internet of Things. IEEE Access, 9, 55595-55605. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2021

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) refers to the use of traditional Internet of Things (IoT) concepts in industrial sectors and applications. IIoT has several applications in smart homes, smart cities, smart grids, connected cars, and supply ch... Read More about A Hybrid Deep Random Neural Network for Cyberattack Detection in the Industrial Internet of Things.

An Experimental Analysis of Attack Classification Using Machine Learning in IoT Networks (2021)
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Churcher, A., Ullah, R., Ahmad, J., Ur Rehman, S., Masood, F., Gogate, M., Alqahtani, F., Nour, B., & Buchanan, W. J. (2021). An Experimental Analysis of Attack Classification Using Machine Learning in IoT Networks. Sensors, 21(2), Article 446. https://d

In recent years, there has been a massive increase in the amount of Internet of Things (IoT) devices as well as the data generated by such devices. The participating devices in IoT networks can be problematic due to their resource-constrained nature,... Read More about An Experimental Analysis of Attack Classification Using Machine Learning in IoT Networks.

Detecting the Security Level of Various Cryptosystems Using Machine Learning Models (2020)
Journal Article
Shafique, A., Ahmed, J., Boulila, W., Ghandorh, H., Ahmad, J., & Rehman, M. U. (2021). Detecting the Security Level of Various Cryptosystems Using Machine Learning Models. IEEE Access, 9, 9383-9393. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3046528

With recent advancements in multimedia technologies, the security of digital data has become a critical issue. To overcome the vulnerabilities of current security protocols, researchers tend to focus their efforts on modifying existing protocols. Ove... Read More about Detecting the Security Level of Various Cryptosystems Using Machine Learning Models.

A blockchain-based architecture for secure and trustworthy operations in the industrial Internet of Things (2020)
Journal Article
Latif, S., Idrees, Z., Ahmad, J., Zheng, L., & Zou, Z. (2021). A blockchain-based architecture for secure and trustworthy operations in the industrial Internet of Things. Journal of Industrial Information Integration, 21, Article 100190. https://doi.org/1

The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) plays an important role in the industrial sector, where secure, scalable, and easily adopted technologies are being implemented for the smart industry. The traditional IIoT architectures are generally based on... Read More about A blockchain-based architecture for secure and trustworthy operations in the industrial Internet of Things.

Prediction of Critical Flashover Voltage of High Voltage Insulators Leveraging Bootstrap Neural Network (2020)
Journal Article
Niazi, M. T. K., Arshad, Ahmad, J., Alqahtani, F., Baotham, F. A., & Abu-Amara, F. (2020). Prediction of Critical Flashover Voltage of High Voltage Insulators Leveraging Bootstrap Neural Network. Electronics, 9(10), Article 1620. https://doi.org/10.3390/e

Understanding the flashover performance of the outdoor high voltage insulator has been in the interest of many researchers recently. Various studies have been performed to investigate the critical flashover voltage of outdoor high voltage insulators... Read More about Prediction of Critical Flashover Voltage of High Voltage Insulators Leveraging Bootstrap Neural Network.

EEG-Based Neonatal Sleep-Wake Classification Using Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network (2020)
Journal Article
Abbasi, S. F., Ahmad, J., Tahir, A., Awais, M., Chen, C., Irfan, M., …Chen, W. (2020). EEG-Based Neonatal Sleep-Wake Classification Using Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network. IEEE Access, 8, 183025-183034. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2020.3028182

Objective: Classification of sleep-wake states using multichannel electroencephalography (EEG) data that reliably work for neonates. Methods: A deep multilayer perceptron (MLP) neural network is developed to classify sleep-wake states using multichan... Read More about EEG-Based Neonatal Sleep-Wake Classification Using Multilayer Perceptron Neural Network.

Privacy-Preserving Wandering Behavior Sensing in Dementia Patients Using Modified Logistic and Dynamic Newton Leipnik Maps (2020)
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Shah, S. A., Ahmad, J., Masood, F., Shah, S. Y., Pervaiz, H., Taylor, W., …Abbasi, Q. H. (2021). Privacy-Preserving Wandering Behavior Sensing in Dementia Patients Using Modified Logistic and Dynamic Newton Leipnik Maps. IEEE Sensors Journal, 21(3), 366

The health status of an elderly person can be identified by examining the additive effects of aging along disease linked to it and can lead to the ’unstable incapacity’. This health status is essentially determined by the apparent decline of independ... Read More about Privacy-Preserving Wandering Behavior Sensing in Dementia Patients Using Modified Logistic and Dynamic Newton Leipnik Maps.