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Integrating Generative AI with Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis Course Homework
2024 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE)
Year: 2024 | Conference Paper |
This innovative practice full paper describes how to integrate generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis (CS2) homework at Oklahoma State University. Data Structures and Algorithm Analysis (CS2) course covers extremely important knowledge and skills of becoming a computer scientist. However, students might fail to meet the learning outcomes of CS2 course, ...Show More
Data-Driven Channel Acquisition with Pilot Decontamination in IRS-Aided Communication Systems
Majumder Haider;Imtiaz Ahmed;Md. Zoheb Hassan;Mohammad Matin;Cong Pu
2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)
Year: 2024 | Conference Paper |
This paper aims to enhance the cascaded channel estimation process of intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided communication systems while considering the detrimental effect of pilot signal contamination. When the transmitter is equipped with massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) antennas, and the IRS consists of a large number of reflecting elements, it is practically infeasible to all...Show More
Chebyshev Polynomial and Private Blockchain Based Cross-Domain Authentication Protocol for IoD Networks
2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)
Year: 2024 | Conference Paper |
With the maturity of Internet of Things (IoT), one of its descendants, Internet of Drones (IoD) has reached far beyond its proposers' vision in the recent decade. The IoD paradigm inherits the advantages of its predecessor, however, it also has its own unique challenges due to the drone's limited resources as well as the large scale deployment of services. As drones might be deployed for critical ...Show More
A Lightweight Aggregate Authentication Protocol for Internet of Drones
2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC)
Year: 2024 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (3)
The Internet of Drones (IoD), an innovative aerial-ground communication architecture, has quickly became the driving force for various civilian applications (e.g., body temperature detecting drones during the global pandemic of coronavirus disease). In the IoD, a fleet of drones are deployed over an area of interest, collect task-specific data, and then deliver them to the ground station for furth...Show More
A Lightweight and Anonymous Application-Aware Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for the Internet of Drones
The drone technology has continuously been evolving since the beginning of the first decade of the 21st century with exceptional growth over the last several years. To pave the way for an interoperable aerial-ground communication platform, the Internet of Drones (IoD) framework has emerged to systematically organize a batch of drones to collect multiple application-specific data simultaneously and...Show More
GAN-Based Channel Estimation for IRS-Aided Communication Systems
Majumder Haider;Imtiaz Ahmed;Ahmed Rubaai;Cong Pu;Danda B. Rawat
This paper proposes a generative adversarial network (GAN) based channel estimation scheme for intelligent reflecting surface (IRS)-aided single-input multiple-output (SIMO) communication systems. The proposed novel GAN-based deep learning technique is efficient to estimate channels in IRS-aided wireless communication systems with high accuracy. The generator of GAN can reproduce data whose distri...Show More
liteGAP: Lightweight Group Authentication Protocol for Internet of Drones Systems
Cong Pu;Clare Warner;Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo;Sunho Lim;Imtiaz Ahmed
Over the past few years, the synergic usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (later drones) and Internet of Things (IoT) has successfully transformed into the Internet of Drones (IoD) paradigm, where the data of interest is gathered and delivered to the Zone Service Provider (ZSP) by drones for substantial additional analysis. Considering the sensitivity of collected information and the impact of infor...Show More
Resource-Efficient and Data Type-Aware Authentication Protocol for Internet of Things Systems
2023 5th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems and Applications (TPS-ISA)
Year: 2023 | Conference Paper |
In recent years, Internet of Things (IoT) technology has become an essential part of civil and commercial sectors, which are eager to realize their digital transformation. Generally, IoT devices are deployed to gather various information from their surroundings. Nevertheless, disclosing/compromising IoT devices' data to/by unauthorized entities during transmission might compromise the objectives o...Show More
Privacy-Preserving and Fault-Tolerant Data Aggregation Protocol for Internet of Drones
2023 IEEE Conference on Dependable and Secure Computing (DSC)
Year: 2023 | Conference Paper |
As drones are becoming an indispensable part of society, the idea of Internet of Drones (IoD) has became a commercial reality. In the IoD framework, drones are dispatched to incessantly collect target information in the task region, and intermittently report the observations to a nearby ground station. Then, the ground station summarizes and combines drone observations to reduce the amount of data...Show More
A Featherweight Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Internet of Drones Applications
2023 IEEE 34th Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC)
Year: 2023 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
The Internet of Drones (IoD) will have revolutionized civil and commercial applications, in much the similar way that the Internet of Things (IoT) transformed the way information is exchanged with other devices and systems over the Internet. The drones are generally considered to have constrained resources, which make them less compatible with complicated algorithms and more prone to attacks. More...Show More
Deep Learning Assisted Channel Estimation for Cell-Free Distributed MIMO Networks
Imtiaz Ahmed;Md. Zoheb Hasan;Ahmed Rubaai;Kamrul Hasan;Cong Pu;Jeffrey H. Reed
2023 19th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob)
Year: 2023 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
Pilot contamination poses a critical challenge for channel estimation in dense cell-free (CF) distributed multiple-input multiple-output (CF-DMIMO) wireless networks. State-of-the-art channel estimation schemes require inversion of a high-dimensional channel covariance matrix, which is practically infeasible for dense CF-DMIMO networks owing to the requirement of large storage and high dimensional...Show More
Bilinear Pairing and PUF Based Lightweight Authentication Protocol for IoD Environment
2022 IEEE 19th International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS)
Year: 2022 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (7)
As the popularity growth of drones is witnessed in various fields, people start attaching importance to the Internet of Drones (IoD) paradigm. In the IoD, the regional aviation administration (i.e., Zone Service Providers (ZSPs)) regulates the usage of vast yet limited airspace and provides necessary services (i.e., supplemental data services) for various drone applications. In order to create a s...Show More
SecureIoD: A Secure Data Collection and Storage Mechanism for Internet of Drones
2022 23rd IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM)
Year: 2022 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (8)
Thanks to rapid advancements in microprocessors, battery technologies, and lightweight materials, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, have received signif-icant interest in the past few years. As drone-related commercial and civilian applications are flourishing, Internet-of-Drones (IoD) is moving into the fast lane and quickly becoming a highly anticipated network paradigm,...Show More
Mitigating Routing Misbehavior in the Internet of Drones Environment
2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference: (VTC2022-Spring)
Year: 2022 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (5)
Despite initially made for military purposes, drones have presented themselves to consumers, and the drone industry is expected to witness a significant growth during the forecast period. As the number of drones in the sky keeps growing, a fleet of drones and stationary zone service providers (ZSPs) can form an airborne network which is termed the Internet of Drones (IoD). In order to achieve the ...Show More
Low Complexity Resource Allocation for Multiuser Uplink Communication Systems
Neelanjana Subin Ferdous;Imtiaz Ahmed;Umma Hany;Lutfa Akter;Ramesh Annavajjala;Cong Pu
2022 45th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP)
Year: 2022 | Conference Paper |
In this paper, we address a practical and large-dimensional problem of joint design of modulation and coding scheme (MCS) and transmit power allocation for an uplink massive multi-antenna system serving multiple users. We propose to jointly optimize the MCS and the transmit power for all the active users in a centralized approach. For this purpose, we formulate a joint MCS and power allocation pro...Show More
A Reinforcement Learning Based Service Scheduling Algorithm for Internet of Drones
2022 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)
Year: 2022 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (2)
Originally invented by the military for warfighting, drones have broken through adamant barriers established by traditional commercial and civilian industry and are quickly becoming an accepted part of mainstream. In order to enable drone technology to reach its full potential and integrate heterogeneous drones into existing workflows, Internet of Drones (IoD) has been proposed as a future aerial-...Show More
Drone Helps Privacy: Sky Caching Assisted $k$-Anonymity in Spatial Querying
Hema Naga Sai Sudha Jagarlapudi;Sunho Lim;Jinseok Chae;Gyu Sang Choi;Cong Pu
As wireless and mobile devices are prevalent and resource-rich, users can frequently query point-of-interests and enjoy diverse location-based services (LBSs) in infrastructure-based wireless networks. However, users often trade their location privacy with services by sharing their location information with an LBS server, without knowing that the server can fully be trusted. In this article, we pr...Show More
A Lightweight and Anonymous Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks
Cong Pu;Haleigh Zerkle;Andrew Wall;Sunho Lim;Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo;Imtiaz Ahmed
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Cited by: Papers (20)
As a major building block of Healthcare 4.0, wireless body area networks (WBANs) play an important role in collecting patient’s real-time physical phenomena through small wearable or implantable intelligent medical devices and communicating with remote medical experts using short-range wireless communication techniques. However, the challenges of securing information access are partly evidenced by...Show More
A Lightweight and Privacy-Preserving Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Internet of Drones Environment
Cong Pu;Andrew Wall;Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo;Imtiaz Ahmed;Sunho Lim
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
Cited by: Papers (63)
With accelerated advances in various technologies, drones, better known as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), are increasingly commonplace and consequently have a more pronounced impact on society. For example, Internet of Drones (IoD), a new communication paradigm offering fundamental navigation assistance and access to information, has widespread applications ranging from agricultural drones in fa...Show More
Dynamic Resource Allocation for IRS Assisted Energy Harvesting Systems With Statistical Delay Constraint
In this paper, we develop centralized and distributed dynamic resource allocation schemes for an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided energy harvesting (EH) system that optimize transmit power of a source node and phase-shift of passive reflecting elements of IRS. The source node randomly harvests renewable energy from the surrounding environment and performs data transmission with the harve...Show More
Defending against Flooding Attacks in the Internet of Drones Environment
2021 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM)
Year: 2021 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (16)
Even though drones are still in the infancy period in terms of widespread adoption and use, they have already pierced through solid conventional barriers in various domains of industry. As the usage of drones is becoming commonplace, a next generation aerial communication paradigm, Internet of Drones (IoD), has been proposed to further explore drone technology in a broad scope. IoD relies on the m...Show More
A Stochastic Packet Forwarding Algorithm in Flying Ad Hoc Networks: Design, Analysis, and Evaluation
Over the past decade, unmanned airborne vehicles (UAVs; widely known as drones) are quickly being deployed in various civilian as well as military applications. Drones can self-organize into a connected swarm (Flying Ad Hoc Networks– FANETs) to complete various challenging missions. As the primary building block of Internet-of-Drones (IoD), FANETs have an important role to play in governing the au...Show More
A Novel Blockchain-Based Trust Management Scheme for Vehicular Networks
2021 Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS)
Year: 2021 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (16)
Recent advancements in embedded sensing system, wireless communication technologies, big data, and artificial intelligence have fueled the development of Internet of Vehicles (IoV), where vehicles, road side unit (RSUs), and smart devices seamlessly interact with each other to enable the gathering and sharing of information on vehicles, roads, and their surrounds. As a fundamental component of IoV...Show More
With the continuous miniaturization of sensors and processors and ubiquitous wireless connectivity, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also referred to as drones, are finding many new uses in enhancing our life and paving the way to the realization of Internet of Drones (IoD). In the IoD, a myriad of multisized and heterogeneous drones seamlessly interact with Zone Service Providers (ZSPs) to achiev...Show More
Lightweight Digital Signature Solution to Defend Micro Aerial Vehicles Against Man-In-The-Middle Attack
2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering (CSE)
Year: 2020 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (14)
Micro aerial vehicles, a.k.a. drones, have become an integral part of a variety of civilian and military application domains, including but not limited to aerial surveying and mapping, aerial surveillance and security, aerial inspection of infrastructure, and aerial delivery. Meanwhile, the security and privacy of drones are gaining significant attention due to both financial and strategic informa...Show More
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