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most citedQoS Based Contract Design for Profit Maximization in IoT-Enabled Data Markets

12 citations · 14 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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17 papers

cs.AI2026

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…

eess.SY2026

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…

cs.NI2026

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…

cs.NI2026

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…

quant-ph2026★ 1 cited

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…

cs.NI2025

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…

cs.CR2025

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…

cs.IT2025

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…

quant-ph2025

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…

quant-ph2025

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…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

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…

cs.LG2024

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…

cs.NI2023

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…

eess.SY2023★ 12 cited

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…

cs.RO2022

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…

cs.NI2022

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…

eess.SY2022

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…