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most citedRole of flow topology in wind-driven wildfire propagation

1 citations · 1 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.CR2025

When Quantum Federated Learning Meets Blockchain in 6G Networks

Dinh C. Nguyen, Md Bokhtiar Al Zami, Ratun Rahman +3

Quantum federated learning (QFL) is emerging as a key enabler for intelligent, secure, and privacy-preserving model training in next-generation 6G networks. By leveraging the compu…

cs.CR2025

A Joint Reconstruction-Triplet Loss Autoencoder Approach Towards Unseen Attack Detection in IoV Networks

Julia Boone, Tolunay Seyfi, Fatemeh Afghah

Internet of Vehicles (IoV) systems, while offering significant advancements in transportation efficiency and safety, introduce substantial security vulnerabilities due to their hig…

cs.CV2025

DiSa: Directional Saliency-Aware Prompt Learning for Generalizable Vision-Language Models

Niloufar Alipour Talemi, Hossein Kashiani, Hossein R. Nowdeh +1

Prompt learning has emerged as a powerful paradigm for adapting vision-language models such as CLIP to downstream tasks. However, existing methods often overfit to seen data, leadi…

physics.flu-dyn2024★ 1 cited

Role of flow topology in wind-driven wildfire propagation

Siva Viknesh, Ali Tohidi, Fatemeh Afghah +2

Wildfires propagate through intricate interactions between wind, fuel, and terrain, resulting in complex behaviors that pose challenges for accurate predictions. This study investi…

cs.CV2024

FlameFinder: Illuminating Obscured Fire through Smoke with Attentive Deep Metric Learning

Hossein Rajoli, Sahand Khoshdel, Fatemeh Afghah +1

FlameFinder is a deep metric learning (DML) framework designed to accurately detect flames, even when obscured by smoke, using thermal images from firefighter drones during wildfir…

cs.NI2022

LB-OPAR: Load Balanced Optimized Predictive and Adaptive Routing for Cooperative UAV Networks

Mohammed Gharib, Fatemeh Afghah, Elizabeth Serena Bentley

Cooperative ad-hoc UAV networks have been turning into the primary solution set for situations where establishing a communication infrastructure is not feasible. Search-and-rescue…

cs.NI2021

UAV-Assisted Communication in Remote Disaster Areas using Imitation Learning

Alireza Shamsoshoara, Fatemeh Afghah, Erik Blasch +2

The damage to cellular towers during natural and man-made disasters can disturb the communication services for cellular users. One solution to the problem is using unmanned aerial…

cs.NI2021

Fully-echoed Q-routing with Simulated Annealing Inference for Flying Adhoc Networks

Arnau Rovira-Sugranes, Fatemeh Afghah, Junsuo Qu +1

Current networking protocols deem inefficient in accommodating the two key challenges of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) networks, namely the network connectivity loss and energy lim…

cs.LG2020

Inverse Feature Learning: Feature learning based on Representation Learning of Error

Behzad Ghazanfari, Fatemeh Afghah, MohammadTaghi Hajiaghayi

This paper proposes inverse feature learning as a novel supervised feature learning technique that learns a set of high-level features for classification based on an error represen…

cs.LG2019

An Autonomous Spectrum Management Scheme for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Networks in Disaster Relief Operations

Alireza Shamsoshoara, Fatemeh Afghah, Abolfazl Razi +3

This paper studies the problem of spectrum shortage in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) network during critical missions such as wildfire monitoring, search and rescue, and disaste…

cs.IT2018

Optimal Relaying Beamforming in Multiple Access Broadcast Channel (MABC) Bidirectional Cognitive Radio Networks in Presence of Interferers

Mohammad Zaeri-Amirani, Fatemeh Afghah, Jonathan Ashdown

In this paper, a general cognitive radio system consisting of a set of users with different level of spectrum access including two primary transceivers and several types of seconda…

eess.SP2018

Inter-Satellite Communication System based on Visible Light

David Amanor, William Edmonson, Fatemeh Afghah

Future space missions will be driven by factors such as the need for reduced cost of spacecraft without diminished performance, new services and capabilities including reconfigurab…

cs.CR2017

A ReRAM Physically Unclonable Function (ReRAM PUF)-based Approach to Enhance Authentication Security in Software Defined Wireless Networks

Fatemeh Afghah, Bertrand Cambou, Masih Abedini +1

The exponentially increasing number of ubiquitous wireless devices connected to the Internet in Internet of Things (IoT) networks highlights the need for a new paradigm of data flo…