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  • We Can Deliver Messages to Far Vehicles 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Artail, Hassan; Gerla, Mario (2024-02-28)
    Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) enable vehicles to communicate with each other but require efficient and robust routing protocols for their success. In this paper, we exploit the infrastructure of roadside units (RSUs) ...
  • SCORE: Data Scheduling at roadside units in vehicle ad hoc networks 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Artail, Hassan (IEEE, 2024-02-24)
    Data Acquisition and delivery in Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) is an important topic that has received very little attention. We proposed a system in which roadside units (RSUs) were exploited to satisfy the various ...
  • Finding a STAR in a Vehicular Cloud 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Artail, Hassan (2024-02-28)
    The strong capabilities that exist in a Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) has given birth to the concept of Vehicular Clouds, in which cloud computing services are hosted by vehicles that have sufficient resources to act ...
  • A Study of the Performance of a Cloud Datacenter Server 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Artail, Hassan; Saghir, Mazen A.R.; Hajj, Hazem; Awad, Mariette (2024-02-28)
    In a previous work, we presented a system which combines active solid state drives and reconfigurable FPGAs (which we called reconfigurable active SSD nodes, or simply RASSD nodes) into a storage-compute node that can be ...
  • A mathematical model to analyze the utilization of a cloud datacenter middleware 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Artail, Hassan; Saghir, Mazen; Hajj, Hazem; Awad, Mariette (2024-02-27)
    Cloud computing is the future paradigm that will dominate the visualization and processing of web data. Achieving high performance in storing and processing huge amounts of data in the cloud has been a major research concern ...
  • A Learning Management System Enhanced with Internet of Things Applications 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Wakim, Pilar (2024-02-27)
    A breakthrough in the development of online learning occurred with the utilization of Learning Management Systems (LMS) as a tool for creating, distributing, tracking, and managing various types of educational and training ...
  • COACT: a query interface language for collaborative databases 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Malluhi, Qutaibah M.; Ouzzani, Mourad; Tang, Mingjie; Gribskov, Michael; Aref, Walid G.; Prakash, Deo (2024-02-27)
    Data curation activities in collaborative databases mandate that collaborators interact until they converge and agree on the content of their data. In a previous work, we presented a cloud-based collaborative database ...
  • AUDIT: approving and tracking updates with dependencies in collaborative databases 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Malluhi, Qutaibah M.; Ouzzani, Mourad; Tang, Mingjie; Gribskov, Michael; Aref, Walid G. (2024-02-27)
    Collaborative databases such as genome databases, often involve extensive curation activities where collaborators need to interact to be able to converge and agree on the content of data. In a typical scenario, a member ...
  • HiMAC: Hierarchical Message Authentication Code for Secure Data Dissemination in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Hamie, Ali; Hamze, Mohamed (2024-02-27)
    Mobile ad-hoc networks are wireless self-organized networks in which mobile nodes can connect directly to each other. This fact makes such networks highly susceptible to security risks and threats, as malicious nodes can ...
  • Integrating technology into higher education: A case study in Lebanon 
    Hamzeh, Wael; Mershad, Khaleel; Vetokhin, Siarhei (2024-02-26)
    The higher education sector in Lebanon has undergone significant changes in the past twenty years, with a rapid increase in the number of higher education institutions that differ greatly in their missions, methodologies, ...
  • SURFER: A Secure SDN-Based Routing Protocol for Internet of Vehicles 
    Mershad, Khaleel (2024-02-27)
    Software-defined networking (SDN) is becoming the most dominant method for network management. By decoupling the control plane from the data plane, SDN provides a centralized view and more flexibility, scalability, and ...
  • LearnSmart: A framework for integrating internet of things functionalities in learning management systems 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Damaj, Abdulhadi; Wakim, Pilar; Hamieh, Ali (2024-02-27)
    A breakthrough in the development of online learning occurred with the utilization of Learning Management Systems (LMS) as a tool for creating, distributing, tracking, and managing various types of educational and training ...
  • A framework for controlling the operations of sensor networks from the cloud 
    Mershad, Khaleel (2024-02-26)
    Wireless sensor networks (WSN) have evolved as one of the most important research topics in the last decades. A new paradigm of combining WSN with cloud computing has led to what is called Sensor-Cloud, in which the cloud ...
  • Proof of accumulated trust: A new consensus protocol for the security of the IoV 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Cheikhrouhou, Omar; Ismail, Leila (2024-02-26)
    The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is a distributed network that enables vehicles to connect to each other and to various infrastructure and smart devices, in order to exchange data and provide important services. The highly ...
  • SDMS: smart database management system for accessing heterogeneous databases 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Hamieh, Ali (2024-02-26)
    Digital data are usually divided into structured and unstructured types. Although unstructured data are becoming a significant part of digital data, there are still a large number of organisations that save their data into ...
  • Cloud-Enabled High-Altitude Platform Systems: Challenges and Opportunities 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Dahrouj, Hayssam; Sarieddeen, Hadi; Shihada, Basem; Al-Naffouri, Tareq; Alouini, Mohamed-Slim (2024-02-26)
    Augmenting ground-level communications with flying networks, such as the high-altitude platform system (HAPS), is among the major innovative initiatives of the next generation of wireless systems (6G). Given HAPS quasi-static ...
  • PROACT: Parallel multi-miner proof of accumulated trust protocol for Internet of Drones 
    Mershad, Khaleel (2024-02-26)
    Several types of networks that comprise unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV or drone) are being utilized in important applications such as emergency response, environment and infrastructure monitoring, defense and security, and ...
  • DIAMOND: A tool for monitoring the participation of students in online lectures 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Said, Bilal (2024-02-26)
    The principle of traditional education has transformed fundamentally within the last few years. The growth of new computer and communication technologies has provided learners with access to a variety of quality online ...
  • A lightweight blockchain and fog-enabled secure remote patient monitoring system 
    Cheikhrouhou, Omar; Mershad, Khaleel; Jamil, Faisal; Mahmud, Redowan; Koubaa, Anis; Moosavi, Sanaz Rahimi (2024-02-23)
    IoT has enabled the rapid growth of smart remote healthcare applications. These IoT-based remote healthcare applications deliver fast and preventive medical services to patients at risk or with chronic diseases. However, ...
  • Lightweight blockchain solutions: Taxonomy, research progress, and comprehensive review 
    Mershad, Khaleel; Cheikhrouhou, Omar (2024-02-23)
    The proliferation of resource-constrained devices has become prevalent across various digital applications, including smart homes, smart healthcare, and smart transportation, among others. However, the integration of these ...

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