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18 papers
Automated Rule Mutation for Emerging Attack Variants using Infrastructure-Aware Technique Proximity
Sepehr Ghaffarzadegan, Boubakr Nour, Makan Pourzandi +2
Detection rules are typically crafted based on specific observations of an attack. While these rules are effective for particular attack instances, their coverage diminishes when a…
Evidence-Grounded Retrieval for Investigation Hunt Lead Generation from CTI Reports
Akash Prakash, Boubakr Nour, Makan Pourzandi +2
Threat hunting increasingly depends on converting unstructured knowledge (e.g., Cyber Threat Intelligence reports) into actionable hunt leads: concise, investigable hypotheses grou…
From Threat Intelligence to Detection: Knowledge-driven Enrichment and Template-based Rule Grounding for Automated Sigma Rule Generation
Sepehr Ghaffarzadegan, Boubakr Nour, Makan Pourzandi +2
Mechanisms for dynamically converting cyber threat intelligence (CTI) into actionable detection capabilities are necessary due to the rapid evolution of Advanced Persistent Threats…
Automated Attack Testflow Extraction from Cyber Threat Report using BERT for Contextual Analysis
Faissal Ahmadou, Sepehr Ghaffarzadegan, Boubakr Nour +3
In the ever-evolving landscape of cybersecurity, the rapid identification and mitigation of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) is crucial. Security practitioners rely on detailed t…
Unsupervised Data Splitting Scheme for Federated Edge Learning in IoT Networks
Boubakr Nour, Soumaya Cherkaoui
Federated Edge Learning (FEEL) is a promising distributed learning technique that aims to train a shared global model while reducing communication costs and promoting users' privac…
Communication and Computation O-RAN Resource Slicing for URLLC Services Using Deep Reinforcement Learning
Abderrahime Filali, Boubakr Nour, Soumaya Cherkaoui +1
The evolution of the future beyond-5G/6G networks towards a service-aware network is based on network slicing technology. With network slicing, communication service providers seek…
Matching-based Service Offloading for Compute-less Driven IoT Networks
Boubakr Nour, Soumaya Cherkaoui
With the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G networks, edge computing is offering new opportunities for business model and use cases innovations. Service providers can no…
A Network-based Compute Reuse Architecture for IoT Applications
Boubakr Nour, Soumaya Cherkaoui
The tremendous advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) increasingly involve computationally intensive services. These services often require more computation resources than ca…
Empowering Prosumer Communities in Smart Grid with Wireless Communications and Federated Edge Learning
Afaf Taik, Boubakr Nour, Soumaya Cherkaoui
The exponential growth of distributed energy resources is enabling the transformation of traditional consumers in the smart grid into prosumers. Such transition presents a promisin…
Networking and Computing in Biomechanical Research: Challenges and Directions
Spyridon Mastorakis, Andreas Skiadopoulos, Susmit Shannigrahi +3
Biomechanics is a scientific discipline that studies the forces acting on a body and the effects they produce. In this paper, we bring together biomechanists and networking researc…
Information-Centric Networking in Wireless Environments: Security Risks and Challenges
Boubakr Nour, Spyridon Mastorakis, Rehmat Ullah +1
Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has emerged as a paradigm to cope with the lack of built-in security primitives and efficient mechanisms for content distribution of today's In…
How Far Can We Go in Compute-less Networking: Computation Correctness and Accuracy
Boubakr Nour, Soumaya Cherkaoui
Emerging applications such as augmented reality and tactile Internet are compute-intensive and latency-sensitive, which hampers their running in constrained end devices alone or in…
An Experimental Analysis of Attack Classification Using Machine Learning in IoT Networks
Andrew Churcher, Rehmat Ullah, Jawad Ahmad +6
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…
Access Control Mechanisms in Named Data Networks: A Comprehensive Survey
Boubakr Nour, Hakima Khelifi, Rasheed Hussain +2
Information-Centric Networking (ICN) has recently emerged as a prominent candidate for the Future Internet Architecture (FIA) that addresses existing issues with the host-centric c…
CCIC-WSN: An Architecture for Single Channel Cluster-based Information-Centric Wireless Sensor Networks
Muhammad Atif Ur Rehman, Rehmat Ullah, Byung-Seo Kim +2
The promising vision of Information-Centric Networking (ICN) and of its realization, Named Data Networking (NDN), has attracted extensive attention in recent years in the context o…
Driving Path Stability in VANETs
Mohammed Laroui, Akrem Sellami, Boubakr Nour +3
Vehicular Ad Hoc Network has attracted both research and industrial community due to its benefits in facilitating human life and enhancing the security and comfort. However, variou…
A Federated Filtering Framework for Internet of Medical Things
Sunny Sanyal, Dapeng Wu, Boubakr Nour
Based on the dominant paradigm, all the wearable IoT devices used in the healthcare sector also known as the internet of medical things (IoMT) are resource constrained in power and…
IoT Virtualization: A Survey of Software Definition & Function Virtualization Techniques for Internet of Things
Iqbal Alam, Kashif Sharif, Fan Li +5
Internet of Things (IoT) and Network Softwarization are fast becoming core technologies of information systems and network management for next generation Internet. The deployment a…