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Semantic Compression Trees: Multi-Resolution Knowledge Retrieval via Hierarchical Semantic Residuals
Junaid Farooq
Retrieval-augmented generation relies mostly on flat, fixed-granularity indexes: documents are cut into uniform chunks and retrieved by similarity, discarding the hierarchical stru…
Process-Aware Cross-Layer Adaptation for O-RAN-Enabled Industrial Systems
Elahe Delavari, Junaid Farooq, M. Majid Butt +1
Wireless networks increasingly support closed-loop industrial applications in which sensed data must be transmitted, processed, and converted into an action before physical process…
Temporally Encoded Double DQN for Proactive PRB Allocation in O-RAN Enabled Industrial Networks
Elahe Delavari, Xingqi Wu, Junaid Farooq
Fifth-generation (5G) wireless systems are increasingly adopted in smart manufacturing to support heterogeneous industrial workloads through services such as enhanced Mobile Broadb…
Jamming-Resilient PRB Reservation for Latency-Critical O-RAN Network Slicing
Elahe Delavari, Junaid Farooq
Open radio access network (O-RAN) architectures enable near real-time, software-driven control of network slicing through programmable xApps deployed on the near-real-time RAN Inte…
Differentiable Architecture Search for Adversarially Robust Quantum Computer Vision
Mohamed Afane, Quanjiang Long, Haoting Shen +4
Current quantum neural networks suffer from extreme sensitivity to both adversarial perturbations and hardware noise, creating a significant barrier to real-world deployment. Exist…
Cyber Resilience in Next-Generation Networks: Threat Landscape, Theoretical Foundations, and Design Paradigms
Junaid Farooq, Quanyan Zhu
The evolution of networked systems, driven by innovations in software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), open radio access networks (O-RAN), and cloud…
SCOUT: A Defense Against Data Poisoning Attacks in Fine-Tuned Language Models
Mohamed Afane, Abhishek Satyam, Ke Chen +3
Backdoor attacks create significant security threats to language models by embedding hidden triggers that manipulate model behavior during inference, presenting critical risks for…
Rao-Blackwellized Coverage Estimation in Poisson Networks: A High-Fidelity Hybrid Framework
Sunder Ram Krishnan, Junaid Farooq, Kumar Vijay Mishra +3
While stochastic geometry provides a powerful framework for the analysis of cellular networks, standard Monte Carlo simulations often suffer from slow convergence due to the stocha…
SQUASH: A SWAP-Based Quantum Attack to Sabotage Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks
Rahul Kumar, Wenqi Wei, Ying Mao +3
We propose a circuit-level attack, SQUASH, a SWAP-Based Quantum Attack to sabotage Hybrid Quantum Neural Networks (HQNNs) for classification tasks. SQUASH is executed by inserting…
ATP: Adaptive Threshold Pruning for Efficient Data Encoding in Quantum Neural Networks
Mohamed Afane, Gabrielle Ebbrecht, Ying Wang +2
Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) offer promising capabilities for complex data tasks, but are often constrained by limited qubit resources and high entanglement, which can hinder sca…
Next-Generation Phishing: How LLM Agents Empower Cyber Attackers
Khalifa Afane, Wenqi Wei, Ying Mao +2
The escalating threat of phishing emails has become increasingly sophisticated with the rise of Large Language Models (LLMs). As attackers exploit LLMs to craft more convincing and…
RefreshNet: Learning Multiscale Dynamics through Hierarchical Refreshing
Junaid Farooq, Danish Rafiq, Pantelis R. Vlachas +1
Forecasting complex system dynamics, particularly for long-term predictions, is persistently hindered by error accumulation and computational burdens. This study presents RefreshNe…
Deep Reinforcement Learning Based Placement for Integrated Access Backhauling in UAV-Assisted Wireless Networks
Yuhui Wang, Junaid Farooq
The advent of fifth generation (5G) networks has opened new avenues for enhancing connectivity, particularly in challenging environments like remote areas or disaster-struck region…
QoS Based Contract Design for Profit Maximization in IoT-Enabled Data Markets
Juntao Chen, Junaid Farooq, Quanyan Zhu
The massive deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, including sensors and actuators, is ushering in smart and connected communities of the future. The massive deployment of…
Zero Touch Coordinated UAV Network Formation for 360° Views of a Moving Ground Target in Remote VR Applications
Yuhui Wang, Junaid Farooq
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) with on-board cameras are widely used for remote surveillance and video capturing applications. In remote virtual reality (VR) applications, multipl…
Proactive and Resilient UAV Orchestration for QoS Driven Connectivity and Coverage of Ground Users
Yuhui Wang, Junaid Farooq
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are being successfully used to deliver communication services in applications such as extending the coverage of 5G cellular networks in remote areas…
Resilient UAV Formation for Coverage and Connectivity of Spatially Dispersed Users
Yuhui Wang, Junaid Farooq
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are a convenient choice for carrying mobile base stations to rapidly setup communication services for ground users. Unlike terrestrial networks, UAV…