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Li, Meng (author), Chen, Yifei (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author), Hu, Donghui (author)Vehicular Digital Forensics (VDF) is essential to enable liability cognizance of accidents and fight against crimes. Ensuring the authority to timely gather, analyze, and trace data promotes vehicular investigations. However, adversaries crave the identity of the data provider/user, damage the evidence, violate evidence jurisdiction, and leak...journal article 2023
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Sharma, Bhawana (author), Sharma, Lokesh (author), Lal, C. (author), Roy, Satyabrata (author)Internet of Things (IoT) applications are growing in popularity for being widely used in many real-world services. In an IoT ecosystem, many devices are connected with each other via internet, making IoT networks more vulnerable to various types of cyber attacks, thus a major concern in its deployment is network security and user privacy. To...journal article 2023
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Sharma, Bhawana (author), Sharma, Lokesh (author), Lal, C. (author)IoT has gained immense popularity recently with advancements in technologies and big data. IoT network is dynamically increasing with the addition of devices, and the big data is generated within the network, making the network vulnerable to attacks. Thus, network security is essential, and an intrusion detection system is needed. In this...conference paper 2023
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Kumar, Anand (author), Singh, Karan (author), Shariq, Mohd (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Amin, Ruhul (author), Chaudhry, Shehzad Ashraf (author)In the era of the Internet of Communication Technologies (ICT), the Internet is becoming more popular and widely used across the world. Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) has become a prominent technology in healthcare systems for identifying tagged objects. The RFID tags are attached to the billions of different healthcare devices or...journal article 2023
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Marijan, Dusica (author), Lal, C. (author)As blockchain technology is gaining popularity in industry and society, solutions for Verification and Validation (V&V) of blockchain-based software applications (BC-Apps) have started gaining equal attention. To ensure that BC-Apps are properly developed before deployment, it is paramount to apply systematic V&V to verify their...review 2022
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Li, Meng (author), Chen, Yifei (author), Kumar, Neeraj (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author)Current connected and autonomous vehicles will contribute to various and green vehicular services. However, sharing personal data with untrustworthy Navigation Service Providers (NSPs) raises serious location concerns. To address this issue, many Location Privacy-Preserving Mechanisms (LPPMs) have been proposed. In addition, several...journal article 2022
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Sharma, Bhawana (author), Sharma, Lokesh (author), Lal, C. (author)IoT is widely used in many fields, and with the expansion of the network and increment of devices, there is the dynamic growth of data in IoT systems, making the system more vulnerable to various attacks. Nowadays, network security is the primary issue in IoT, and there is a need for the system to detect intruders. In this paper, we constructed...conference paper 2022
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Arbabi, Mohammad Salar (author), Lal, C. (author), Veeraragavan, Narasimha Raghavan (author), Marijan, Dusica (author), Nygard, Jan F. (author), Vitenberg, Roman (author)Continuously generated volumes of health data make healthcare a data-intensive domain. This data needs to be collected, stored, and shared among different healthcare actors for various purposes, such as reporting, analysis, collaborative research, and personalized healthcare services. However, the existing data storage and exchange solutions...journal article 2022
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Li, Meng (author), Zhu, Liehuang (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author)Traffic monitoring services collect traffic reports and respond to users' traffic queries. However, the reports and queries may reveal the user's identity and location. Although different anonymization techniques have been applied to protect user privacy, a new security threat arises, namely, n-by-1 jamming attack, in which an anonymous...journal article 2022
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Mohammadi, R. (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author)Nowadays, the number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks is growing rapidly. The aim of these type of attacks is to make the prominent and critical services unavailable for legitimate users. HTTP flooding is one of the most common DDoS attacks and because of its implementation in application layer, it is difficult to detect and...journal article 2022
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Li, Meng (author), Gao, Jianbo (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Fu, Chaoping (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author)Shortest distance queries over large-scale graphs bring great benefits to various applications, i.e., save planning time and travelling expenses. To protect the sensitive nodes and edges in the graph, a user outsources an encrypted graph to an untrusted server without losing the query ability. However, no prior work has considered the user...conference paper 2022
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Shariq, Mohd (author), Singh, Karan (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Khan, Tayyab (author)Internet of Things (IoT) technologies rapidly evolve and are used in many real-life applications. One of the core technologies used in various IoT applications is Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) technology. RFID wirelessly and uniquely identifies the tagged objects without a direct line of sight. However, the research community had...journal article 2022
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Li, Meng (author), Zhang, Mingwei (author), Gao, Jianbo (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author)Location-Based Services (LBSs) depend on a Service Provider (SP) to store data owners’ geospatial data and to process data users’ queries. For example, a Yelp user queries the SP to retrieve the k nearest Starbucks by submitting her/his current location. It is well-acknowledged that location privacy is vital to users and several prominent...conference paper 2022
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Mohammadi, Reza (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Sharma, Lokesh (author)In recent years, the explosive growth of the Internet has led to an increment in the number of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. HTTP Flooding is a critical DDoS attack that targets HTTP servers to prohibit users from receiving HTTP services. Moreover, it saturates the link bandwidth and consumes network resources. Because the...journal article 2022
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Li, Meng (author), Gao, Jianbo (author), Zhu, Liehuang (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author)Ride-Hailing Service (RHS) has drawn plenty of attention as it provides transportation convenience for riders and financial incentives for drivers. Despite these benefits, riders risk the exposure of sensitive location data during ride requesting to an untrusted Ride-Hailing Service Provider (RHSP). Our motivation arises from repetitive...journal article 2022
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Li, Meng (author), Zhu, Liehuang (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Martinelli, Fabio (author)Vehicular networks allow billions of vehicular users to be connected to report and exchange real-time data for offering various services, such as navigation, ride-hailing, smart parking, traffic monitoring, and vehicular digital forensics. Fifth generation (5G) is a new radio access technology with greater coverage, accessibility, and higher...journal article 2021
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Li, Meng (author), Zhu, Liehuang (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author)E-commerce platforms incorporate reputation systems that allow customers to rate suppliers following financial transactions. Existing reputation systems cannot defend the centralized server against arbitrarily tampering with the supplier’s reputation. Furthermore, they do not offer reputation access across platforms. Rates are faced with privacy...journal article 2021
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Chen, Yifei (author), Li, Meng (author), Zheng, Shuli (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author)Ride-Hailing Service (RHS) has motivated the rise of innovative transportation services. It enables riders to hail a cab or private vehicle at the roadside by sending a ride request to the Ride-Hailing Service Provider (RHSP). Such a request collects rider’s real-time locations, which incur serious privacy concerns for riders. While there are...conference paper 2021
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Kumar, Gulshan (author), Saha, Rahul (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, Mauro (author)Digital forensic in Internet-of-Thing (IoT) paradigm is critical due to its heterogeneity and lack of transparency of evidence processing. Moreover, cross-border legalization makes a hindrance in such process pertaining to the cloud forensic issues. This urges a forensic framework for IoT which provides distributed computing, decentralization...journal article 2021