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23 papers
Effective Capacity Analysis of Joint Near and Far-Field Communication in 6G URLLC Networks
Humera Hameed, Waqas Aman, Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman +1
The emergence of 6G networks enables simultaneous near-field and far-field communications through extremely large antenna arrays and high carrier frequencies. While these regimes e…
Cyber Risk Assessment for Cyber-Physical Systems: A Review of Methodologies and Recommendations for Improved Assessment Effectiveness
Asila AlHarmali, Saqib Ali, Waqas Aman +1
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) integrate physical and embedded systems with information and communication technology systems, monitoring and controlling physical processes with minim…
Hybrid PLS-ML Authentication Scheme for V2I Communication Networks
Hala Amin, Jawaher Kaldari, Nora Mohamed +2
Vehicular communication networks are rapidly emerging as vehicles become smarter. However, these networks are increasingly susceptible to various attacks. The situation is exacerba…
Pathloss-based non-Line-of-Sight Identification in an Indoor Environment: An Experimental Study
Muhammad Asim, Muhammad Ozair Iqbal, Waqas Aman +2
This paper reports the findings of an experimental study on the problem of line-of-sight (LOS)/non-line-of-sight (NLOS) classification in an indoor environment. Specifically, we de…
Expanding Boundaries: Cross-Media Routing for Seamless Underwater and Aerial Communication
Waqas Aman, Flavio Giorgi, Giulio Attenni +5
The colossal evolution of wireless communication technologies over the past few years has driven increased interest in its integration in a variety of less-explored environments, s…
Location-based Physical Layer Authentication in Underwater Acoustic Communication Networks
Waqas Aman, Saif Al-Kuwari, Marwa Qaraqe
Research in underwater communication is rapidly becoming attractive due to its various modern applications. An efficient mechanism to secure such communication is via physical laye…
On the Downlink Coverage Performance of RIS-Assisted THz Networks
Waqas Aman, Nour Kouzayha, Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman +1
This letter provides a stochastic geometry (SG)-based coverage probability (CP) analysis of an indoor terahertz (THz) downlink assisted by a single reconfigurable intelligent surfa…
Energy Disaggregation & Appliance Identification in a Smart Home: Transfer Learning enables Edge Computing
M. Hashim Shahab, Hasan Mujtaba Buttar, Ahsan Mehmood +5
Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) or energy disaggregation aims to extract the load profiles of individual consumer electronic appliances, given an aggregate load profile of the…
Hand-breathe: Non-Contact Monitoring of Breathing Abnormalities from Hand Palm
Kawish Pervez, Waqas Aman, M. Mahboob Ur Rahman +2
In post-covid19 world, radio frequency (RF)-based non-contact methods, e.g., software-defined radios (SDR)-based methods have emerged as promising candidates for intelligent remote…
Countering Active Attacks on RAFT-based IoT Blockchain Networks
Hasan Mujtaba Buttar, Waqas Aman, M. Mahboob Ur Rahman +1
This paper considers an Internet of Thing (IoT) blockchain network consisting of a leader node and various follower nodes which together implement the RAFT consensus protocol to ve…
Underwater and Air-Water Wireless Communication: State-of-the-art, Channel Characteristics, Security, and Open Problems
Waqas Aman, Saif Al-Kuwari, Ambrish Kumar +2
We present a first detailed survey on underwater and air-water (A-W) wireless communication networks (WCNs) that mainly focuses on the security challenges and the countermeasures p…
Preventing Identity Attacks in RFID Backscatter Communication Systems: A Physical-Layer Approach
Ahsan Mehmood, Waqas Aman, M. Mahboob Ur Rahman +2
This work considers identity attack on a radio-frequency identification (RFID)-based backscatter communication system. Specifically, we consider a single-reader, single-tag RFID sy…
Securing the Insecure: A First-Line-of-Defense for Nanoscale Communication Systems Operating in THz Band
Waqas Aman, M. Mahboob Ur Rahman, Hassan T. Abbas +4
Nanoscale communication systems operating in Ter-ahertz (THz) band are anticipated to revolutionise the healthcaresystems of the future. Global wireless data traffic is undergoinga…
On the Effective Capacity of IRS-assisted wireless communication
Waqas Aman, M. Mahboob Ur Rahman, Shuja Ansari +4
We consider futuristic, intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS)-aided communication between a base station (BS) and a user equipment (UE) for two distinct scenarios: a single-input,…
On the Effective Capacity of an Underwater Acoustic Channel under Impersonation Attack
Waqas Aman, Zeeshan Haider, S. Waqas H. Shah +2
This paper investigates the impact of authentication on effective capacity (EC) of an underwater acoustic (UWA) channel. Specifically, the UWA channel is under impersonation attack…
Channel Impulse Response-based Physical Layer Authentication in a Diffusion-based Molecular Communication System
Sidra Zafar, Waqas Aman, Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman +2
Consider impersonation attack by an active malicious nano node (Eve) on a diffusion based molecular communication (DbMC) system---Eve transmits during the idle slots to deceive the…
Shared Secret Key Generation via Carrier Frequency Offsets
Waqas Aman, Aneeqa Ijaz, M. Mahboob Ur Rahman +2
This work presents a novel method to generate secret keys shared between a legitimate node pair (Alice and Bob) to safeguard the communication between them from an unauthorized nod…
Maximizing Secrecy Rate of an OFDM-based Multi-hop Underwater Acoustic Sensor Network
Waqas Aman, M. Mahboob Ur Rahman, Zeeshan Haider +3
In this paper, we consider an eavesdropping attack on a multi-hop, UnderWater Acoustic Sensor Network (UWASN) that consists of underwater sensors which report their sensed da…
Impersonation Detection in Line-of-Sight Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks
Waqas Aman, Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman, Junaid Qadir +2
This work considers a line-of-sight underwater acoustic sensor network (UWASN) consisting of underwater sensor nodes randomly deployed according to uniform distribution within…
Enhancing Physical Layer Security in AF Relay Assisted Multi-Carrier Wireless Transmission
Waqas Aman, Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu, Haji M. Furqan +1
In this paper, we study the physical layer security (PLS) problem in the dual hop orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based wireless communication system. First, we c…
Channel Impulse Response-based Distributed Physical Layer Authentication
Ammar Mahmood, Waqas Aman, M. Ozair Iqbal +2
In this preliminary work, we study the problem of {\it distributed} authentication in wireless networks. Specifically, we consider a system where multiple Bob (sensor) nodes listen…
Enhancing Physical Layer Security in Dual-Hop Multiuser Transmission
Waqas Aman, Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu, Tayyaba Jabeen +2
In this paper, we consider the Physical Layer Security(PLS) problem in orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) based dual-hop system which consists of multiple users,…
A Framework for Analysis and Comparison of Dynamic Malware Analysis Tools
Waqas Aman
Malware writers have employed various obfuscation and polymorphism techniques to thwart static analysis approaches and bypassing antivirus tools. Dynamic analysis techniques, howev…