All Outputs (19)

PTAOD: A Novel Framework For Supporting Approximate Outlier Detection over Streaming Data for Edge Computing (2019)
Journal Article
Zhu, R., Yu, T., Tan, Z., Du, W., Zhao, L., Li, J., & Xia, X. (2020). PTAOD: A Novel Framework For Supporting Approximate Outlier Detection over Streaming Data for Edge Computing. IEEE Access, 8, 1475-1485. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2962066

Outlier detection over sliding window is a fundamental problem in the domain of streaming data management, which has been studied over 10 years. The key of supporting outlier detection is to construct a neighbour-list for each object. It is used for... Read More about PTAOD: A Novel Framework For Supporting Approximate Outlier Detection over Streaming Data for Edge Computing.

A Multi-attributes-based Trust Model of Internet of Vehicle (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Ou, W., Luo, E., Tan, Z., Xiang, L., Yi, Q., & Tian, C. (2019). A Multi-attributes-based Trust Model of Internet of Vehicle. In Network and System Security (706-713). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36938-5_45

Internet of Vehicle (IoV) is an open network and it changes in constant, where there are large number of entities. Effective way to keep security of data in IoV is to establish a trustworthy mechanism. Through transmission and dissemination of trust,... Read More about A Multi-attributes-based Trust Model of Internet of Vehicle.

O-ADPI: Online Adaptive Deep-Packet Inspector Using Mahalanobis Distance Map for Web Service Attacks Classification (2019)
Journal Article
Kakavand, M., Mustapha, A., Tan, Z., Foroozana, S., & Arulsamy, L. (2019). O-ADPI: Online Adaptive Deep-Packet Inspector Using Mahalanobis Distance Map for Web Service Attacks Classification. IEEE Access, 7, 167141-167156. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2953791

Most active research in Host and Network Intrusion Detection Systems are only able to detect attacks of the computer systems and attacks at the network layer, which are not sufficient to counteract SOAP/REST or XML/JSON-related attacks. In dealing wi... Read More about O-ADPI: Online Adaptive Deep-Packet Inspector Using Mahalanobis Distance Map for Web Service Attacks Classification.

Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) in Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Thomson, C., Wadhaj, I., Tan, Z., & Al-Dubai, A. (2019). Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) in Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Smart Internet of Things (SmartIoT). https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartIoT.2019.00037

In Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) the use of Mobile Sink Nodes (MSNs) has been proposed in order to negate the ”hotspot” issue. This where nodes closest to the sink node shall run out of energy fastest, affecting network lifetime. However, in using... Read More about Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) in Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node.

Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) A Dynamic Communication Threshold for Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Network (2019)
Journal Article
Thomson, C., Wadhaj, I., Tan, Z., & Al-Dubai, A. (2019). Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) A Dynamic Communication Threshold for Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Network. Sensors, 19(22), Article 4930. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19224930

The hotspot issue in wireless sensor networks, with nodes nearest the sink node losing energy fastest and degrading network lifetime, is a well referenced problem. Mobile sink nodes have been proposed as a solution to this. This does not completely r... Read More about Mobility Aware Duty Cycling Algorithm (MADCAL) A Dynamic Communication Threshold for Mobile Sink in Wireless Sensor Network.

Nowhere Metamorphic Malware Can Hide - A Biological Evolution Inspired Detection Scheme (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Babaagba, K. O., Tan, Z., & Hart, E. (2019). Nowhere Metamorphic Malware Can Hide - A Biological Evolution Inspired Detection Scheme. In Dependability in Sensor, Cloud, and Big Data Systems and Applications (369-382). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1304-6_29

The ability to detect metamorphic malware has generated significant research interest over recent years, particularly given its proliferation on mobile devices. Such malware is particularly hard to detect via signature-based intrusion detection syste... Read More about Nowhere Metamorphic Malware Can Hide - A Biological Evolution Inspired Detection Scheme.

Multi-miner's Cooperative Evolution Method of Bitcoin Pool Based on Temporal Difference Leaning Method (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Ou, W., Deng, M., Luo, E., Shi, W., Tan, Z., & Bhuiyan, M. (2019). Multi-miner's Cooperative Evolution Method of Bitcoin Pool Based on Temporal Difference Leaning Method. In 2019 International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData) (687-693). https://doi.org/10.1109/iThings/GreenCom/CPSCom/SmartData.2019.00131

Proof of Work (PoW) is used to provide a consensus mechanism for Bitcoin. In this mechanism, the process of generating a new block in the blockchain is referred to as mining. Such process is intentionally designed to be resource-intensive and time co... Read More about Multi-miner's Cooperative Evolution Method of Bitcoin Pool Based on Temporal Difference Leaning Method.

PFARS: Enhancing Throughput and Lifetime of Heterogeneous WSNs through Power-aware Fusion, Aggregation and Routing Scheme (2019)
Journal Article
Khan, R., Zakarya, M., Tan, Z., Usman, M., Jan, M. A., & Khan, M. (2019). PFARS: Enhancing Throughput and Lifetime of Heterogeneous WSNs through Power-aware Fusion, Aggregation and Routing Scheme. International Journal of Communication Systems, 32(18), Article e4144. https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.4144

Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consist of resource-starving nodes that face a challenging task of handling various issues such as data redundancy, data fusion, congestion control, and energy efficiency. In these networks, data fusion a... Read More about PFARS: Enhancing Throughput and Lifetime of Heterogeneous WSNs through Power-aware Fusion, Aggregation and Routing Scheme.

A Quality of Service-Aware Secured Communication Scheme for Internet of Things-Based Networks (2019)
Journal Article
Khan, F., Ur Rehman, A., Yahya, A., Jan, M. A., Chuma, J., Tan, Z., & Hussain, K. (2019). A Quality of Service-Aware Secured Communication Scheme for Internet of Things-Based Networks. Sensors, 19, Article 4321. https://doi.org/10.3390/s19194321

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology that aims to enable the interconnection of a large number of smart devices and heterogeneous networks. Ad hoc networks play an important role in the designing of IoT-enabled platforms due to thei... Read More about A Quality of Service-Aware Secured Communication Scheme for Internet of Things-Based Networks.

A Secured and Efficient Communication Scheme for Decentralized Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles (2019)
Journal Article
Yao, W., Yahya, A., Khan, F., Tan, Z., Rehman, A. U., Chuma, J. M., …Babar, M. (2019). A Secured and Efficient Communication Scheme for Decentralized Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles. IEEE Access, 7, 160889-160900. https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2019.2945610

The advancements in hardware technologies have driven the evolution of vehicular ad hoc networks into the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). The IoV is a decentralized network of IoT-enabled vehicles capable of smooth traffic flow to perform fleet managemen... Read More about A Secured and Efficient Communication Scheme for Decentralized Cognitive Radio-Based Internet of Vehicles.

A 3D Smooth Random Walk Mobility Model for FANETs (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Lin, N., Gao, F., Zhao, L., Al-Dubai, A., & Tan, Z. (2019). A 3D Smooth Random Walk Mobility Model for FANETs. In 2019 IEEE 21st International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications; IEEE 17th International Conference on Smart City; IEEE 5th International Conference on Data Science and Systems (HPCC/SmartCity/DSS). https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCC/SmartCity/DSS.2019.00075

The number of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) applications has increased over the past few years. Among all scenarios, UAV group consisting multi-UAVs is normally used to provide extensible communications. As a networking solution, Flying Ad Hoc Netw... Read More about A 3D Smooth Random Walk Mobility Model for FANETs.

A Learning-based Vehicle-Trajectory Generation Method for Vehicular Networking (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Zhao, L., Liu, Y., Al-Dubai, A., Tan, Z., Min, G., & Xu, L. (2019). A Learning-based Vehicle-Trajectory Generation Method for Vehicular Networking. . https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCC/SmartCity/DSS.2019.00082

With the rapid development of mobile applications, networking technologies have been constantly evolved to offer a more convenient way of sharing information and online-communication anytime and anywhere. Vehicular networks have the potential to beco... Read More about A Learning-based Vehicle-Trajectory Generation Method for Vehicular Networking.

Deriving ChaCha20 Key Streams From Targeted Memory Analysis (2019)
Journal Article
McLaren, P., Buchanan, W. J., Russell, G., & Tan, Z. (2019). Deriving ChaCha20 Key Streams From Targeted Memory Analysis. Journal of Information Security and Applications, 48, Article 102372. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jisa.2019.102372

There can be performance and vulnerability concerns with block ciphers, thus stream ciphers can used as an alternative. Although many symmetric key stream ciphers are fairly resistant to side-channel attacks, cryptographic artefacts may exist in memo... Read More about Deriving ChaCha20 Key Streams From Targeted Memory Analysis.

Reviving legacy enterprise systems with microservice-based architecture within cloud environments (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Habibullah, S., Liu, X., Tan, Z., Zhang, Y., & Liu, Q. (2019). Reviving legacy enterprise systems with microservice-based architecture within cloud environments. In Computer Science Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.5121/csit.2019.90713

Evolution has always been a challenge for enterprise computing systems. The microservice based architecture is a new design model which is rapidly becoming one of the most effective means to re-architect legacy enterprise systems and to reengineer th... Read More about Reviving legacy enterprise systems with microservice-based architecture within cloud environments.

A Comprehensive Survey of Security Threats and their Mitigation Techniques for next-generation SDN Controllers (2019)
Journal Article
Han, T., Jan, S., Tan, T., Usman, M., Jan, M., Khan, R., & Xu, Y. (2020). A Comprehensive Survey of Security Threats and their Mitigation Techniques for next-generation SDN Controllers. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 32(16), Article e5300. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.5300

Software Dened Network (SDN) and Network Virtualization (NV) are emerged paradigms that simplied the control and management of the next generation networks, most importantly, Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing, and Cyber-Physical Systems. Th... Read More about A Comprehensive Survey of Security Threats and their Mitigation Techniques for next-generation SDN Controllers.

Decrypting Live SSH Traffic in Virtual Environments (2019)
Journal Article
Mclaren, P., Russell, G., Buchanan, W. J., & Tan, Z. (2019). Decrypting Live SSH Traffic in Virtual Environments. Digital Investigation, 29, 109-117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diin.2019.03.010

Decrypting and inspecting encrypted malicious communications may assist crime detection and prevention. Access to client or server memory enables the discovery of artefacts required for decrypting secure communications. This paper develops the MemDe-... Read More about Decrypting Live SSH Traffic in Virtual Environments.

SmartEdge: An end-to-end encryption framework for an edge-enabled smart city application. (2019)
Journal Article
Jan, M. A., Zhang, W., Usman, M., Tan, Z., Khan, F., & Luo, E. (2019). SmartEdge: An end-to-end encryption framework for an edge-enabled smart city application. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 137, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2019.02.023

The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to transform communities around the globe into smart cities. The massive deployment of sensor-embedded devices in the smart cities generates voluminous amounts of data that need to be stored and processe... Read More about SmartEdge: An end-to-end encryption framework for an edge-enabled smart city application..

Urban data management system: Towards Big Data analytics for Internet of Things based smart urban environment using customized Hadoop (2019)
Journal Article
Babar, M., Arif, F., Jan, M. A., Tan, Z., & Khan, F. (2019). Urban data management system: Towards Big Data analytics for Internet of Things based smart urban environment using customized Hadoop. Future Generation Computer Systems, 96, 398-409. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2019.02.035

The unbroken amplfication of a versatile urban setup is challenged by huge Big Data processing. Understanding the voluminous data generated in a smart urban environment for decision making is a challenging task. Big Data analytics is performed to ob... Read More about Urban data management system: Towards Big Data analytics for Internet of Things based smart urban environment using customized Hadoop.

ARCA-IoT: An Attack-Resilient Cloud-Assisted IoT System (2019)
Journal Article
Javaid, S., Afzal, H., Babar, M., Arif, F., Tan, Z., & Jan, M. A. (2019). ARCA-IoT: An Attack-Resilient Cloud-Assisted IoT System. IEEE Access, 1-1. https://doi.org/10.1109/access.2019.2897095

Putting trust in the world of the Internet of Things, where served and serving entities are often unknown, is very hard especially when personal and business information is often being exchanged for providing and consuming services. Moreover, the iss... Read More about ARCA-IoT: An Attack-Resilient Cloud-Assisted IoT System.