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most citedUnmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges

2.4k citations · 2.8k across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

cs.LG2025

A Client-level Assessment of Collaborative Backdoor Poisoning in Non-IID Federated Learning

Phung Lai, Guanxiong Liu, NhatHai Phan +3

Federated learning (FL) enables collaborative model training using decentralized private data from multiple clients. While FL has shown robustness against poisoning attacks with ba…

cs.CR2023

Genetic Algorithm-Based Dynamic Backdoor Attack on Federated Learning-Based Network Traffic Classification

Mahmoud Nazzal, Nura Aljaafari, Ahmed Sawalmeh +8

Federated learning enables multiple clients to collaboratively contribute to the learning of a global model orchestrated by a central server. This learning scheme promotes clients'…

cs.CR2023

Multi-Instance Adversarial Attack on GNN-Based Malicious Domain Detection

Mahmoud Nazzal, Issa Khalil, Abdallah Khreishah +2

Malicious domain detection (MDD) is an open security challenge that aims to detect if an Internet domain is associated with cyber-attacks. Among many approaches to this problem, gr…

cs.LG2023★ 3 cited

Semi-decentralized Inference in Heterogeneous Graph Neural Networks for Traffic Demand Forecasting: An Edge-Computing Approach

Mahmoud Nazzal, Abdallah Khreishah, Joyoung Lee +3

Prediction of taxi service demand and supply is essential for improving customer's experience and provider's profit. Recently, graph neural networks (GNNs) have been shown promisin…

cs.AR2023

IMA-GNN: In-Memory Acceleration of Centralized and Decentralized Graph Neural Networks at the Edge

Mehrdad Morsali, Mahmoud Nazzal, Abdallah Khreishah +1

In this paper, we propose IMA-GNN as an In-Memory Accelerator for centralized and decentralized Graph Neural Network inference, explore its potential in both settings and provide a…

cs.LG2022

Heterogeneous Randomized Response for Differential Privacy in Graph Neural Networks

Khang Tran, Phung Lai, NhatHai Phan +5

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are susceptible to privacy inference attacks (PIAs), given their ability to learn joint representation from features and edges among nodes in graph dat…

cs.CR2022

An Adaptive Black-box Defense against Trojan Attacks (TrojDef)

Guanxiong Liu, Abdallah Khreishah, Fatima Sharadgah +1

Trojan backdoor is a poisoning attack against Neural Network (NN) classifiers in which adversaries try to exploit the (highly desirable) model reuse property to implant Trojans int…

cs.LG2022

How to Backdoor HyperNetwork in Personalized Federated Learning?

Phung Lai, NhatHai Phan, Issa Khalil +2

This paper explores previously unknown backdoor risks in HyperNet-based personalized federated learning (HyperNetFL) through poisoning attacks. Based upon that, we propose a novel…

cs.CL2021★ 4 cited

Adversarial Attacks and Defenses for Social Network Text Processing Applications: Techniques, Challenges and Future Research Directions

Izzat Alsmadi, Kashif Ahmad, Mahmoud Nazzal +4

The growing use of social media has led to the development of several Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing(NLP) tools to process the unprecedented amount of social…

cs.CV2021★ 7 cited

Smart Traffic Monitoring System using Computer Vision and Edge Computing

Guanxiong Liu, Hang Shi, Abbas Kiani +5

Traffic management systems capture tremendous video data and leverage advances in video processing to detect and monitor traffic incidents. The collected data are traditionally for…

cs.CR2021

A Synergetic Attack against Neural Network Classifiers combining Backdoor and Adversarial Examples

Guanxiong Liu, Issa Khalil, Abdallah Khreishah +1

In this work, we show how to jointly exploit adversarial perturbation and model poisoning vulnerabilities to practically launch a new stealthy attack, dubbed AdvTrojan. AdvTrojan i…

cs.CR2020

ManiGen: A Manifold Aided Black-box Generator of Adversarial Examples

Guanxiong Liu, Issa Khalil, Abdallah Khreishah +5

Machine learning models, especially neural network (NN) classifiers, have acceptable performance and accuracy that leads to their wide adoption in different aspects of our daily li…

cs.LG2020★ 6 cited

Using Single-Step Adversarial Training to Defend Iterative Adversarial Examples

Guanxiong Liu, Issa Khalil, Abdallah Khreishah

Adversarial examples have become one of the largest challenges that machine learning models, especially neural network classifiers, face. These adversarial examples break the assum…

cs.LG2019

Using Intuition from Empirical Properties to Simplify Adversarial Training Defense

Guanxiong Liu, Issa Khalil, Abdallah Khreishah

Due to the surprisingly good representation power of complex distributions, neural network (NN) classifiers are widely used in many tasks which include natural language processing,…

cs.LG2019★ 2 cited

ZK-GanDef: A GAN based Zero Knowledge Adversarial Training Defense for Neural Networks

Guanxiong Liu, Issa Khalil, Abdallah Khreishah

Neural Network classifiers have been used successfully in a wide range of applications. However, their underlying assumption of attack free environment has been defied by adversari…

cs.LG2019★ 5 cited

GanDef: A GAN based Adversarial Training Defense for Neural Network Classifier

Guanxiong Liu, Issa Khalil, Abdallah Khreishah

Machine learning models, especially neural network (NN) classifiers, are widely used in many applications including natural language processing, computer vision and cybersecurity.…

cs.NI2018

A Hybrid RF-VLC System for Energy Efficient Wireless Access

Abdallah Khreishah, Sihua Shao, Ammar Gharaibeh +3

In this paper, we propose a new paradigm in designing and realizing energy efficient wireless indoor access networks, namely, a hybrid system enabled by traditional RF access, such…

cs.NI2018

Hierarchical Capacity Provisioning for Fog Computing

Abbas Kiani, Nirwan Ansari, Abdallah Khreishah

The concept of fog computing is centered around providing computation resources at the edge of network, thereby reducing the latency and improving the quality of service. However,…

cs.RO2018★ 2.4k cited

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Survey on Civil Applications and Key Research Challenges

Hazim Shakhatreh, Ahmad Sawalmeh, Ala Al-Fuqaha +6

The use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is growing rapidly across many civil application domains including real-time monitoring, providing wireless coverage, remote sensing, sea…

cs.IT2018

Optimal Placement of a UAV to Maximize the Lifetime of Wireless Devices

Hazim Shakhatreh, Abdallah Khreishah

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider downlin…

cs.IT2017

Maximizing Indoor Wireless Coverage Using UAVs Equipped with Directional Antennas

Hazim Shakhatreh, Abdallah Khreishah

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used to provide wireless coverage during emergency cases where each UAV serves as an aerial wireless base station when the cellular network g…

cs.IT2017★ 46 cited

The Indoor Mobile Coverage Problem Using UAVs

Hazim Shakhatreh, Abdallah Khreishah, Issa Khalil

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks are not operational due to natural disasters. They can also be used to supplemen…

cs.IT2017★ 8 cited

Providing Wireless Coverage to High-rise Buildings Using UAVs

Hazim Shakhatreh, Abdallah Khreishah, Bo Ji

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider an Air-…

cs.IT2017★ 113 cited

Efficient 3D Placement of a UAV Using Particle Swarm Optimization

Hazim Shakhatreh, Abdallah Khreishah, Ayoub Alsarhan +3

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can be used as aerial wireless base stations when cellular networks go down. Prior studies on UAV-based wireless coverage typically consider an Air-…