Mahmoud Elkhodr

Central Queensland University · Department of Electrical Engineering

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings connectivity to about every objects found in the physical space. It extends connectivity to everyday objects. From connected fridges, cars and cities, the IoT creates opportunities in numerous domains. However, this increase in connectivity creates many prominent challenges. This paper provides a survey of some o...

The Internet of Things (IoT) connects everyday objects including a vast array of sensors, actuators, and smart devices, referred to as “things” to the Internet, in an intelligent and pervasive fashion. This connectivity gives rise to the possibility of using the tracking capabilities of things to impinge on the location privacy of users. Most of th...

The Internet of Things (IoT) was of a vision in which all physical objects are tagged and uniquely identified using RFID transponders or readers. Nowadays, research into the IoT has extended this vision to the connectivity of Things to anything, anyone, anywhere and at anytime. The IoT has grown into multiple dimensions, which encompasses various n...

In the era of digital healthcare, biomedical data sharing is of paramount importance for the advancement of research and personalised healthcare. However, sharing such data while preserving user privacy and ensuring data security poses significant challenges. This paper introduces BioChainReward (BCR), a blockchain-based framework designed to addre...

This study explores the use of the Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tool ChatGPT in higher education. Amidst the potential benefits and the risk of misuse, this research investigates the tool's role as a classroom aid and its impact on learning outcomes and experiences. Three case studies involving undergraduate and postgraduate ICT stude...

With the development of the Internet, covert timing channel attacks have increased exponentially and ranking as a critical threat to Internet security. Detecting such channels is essential for protection against security breaches, data theft, and other dangers. Current methods of CTC detection have shown low detection speeds and poor accuracy. This...

Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a dynamic condition that affects cognitive capabilities and functioning. It is a challenging disease to detect, particularly in its early stages. Early diagnosis of AD is the key for its treatment and slowing of its progress. This paper argues and clearly shows the benefits of using cognitive tests for efficient and earl...

Early detection of Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is vital for adequate control. Machine learning techniques have gained much attraction due to their efficiency in predicting AD using cognitive tests. Ensemble machine learning models are helpful in improving the robustness of the learning system via combining multiple machine learning models. This paper...

In this study, an effective local minima detection and definition algorithm is introduced for a mobile robot navigating through unknown static environments. Furthermore, five approaches are presented and compared with the popular approach wall-following to pull the robot out of the local minima enclosure namely; Random Virtual Target, Reflected Vir...

COVID-19 as a global pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the entire world. Projecting the future spread of the virus in relation to its characteristics for a specific suite of countries against a temporal trend can provide public health guidance to governments and organizations. Therefore, this paper presented an epidemiological comparison...

The widespread presence of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) is increasing in recent years. Women with GDM have to continuously monitor their blood glucose levels to reduce pregnancy risks. Existing practices in Australia comprise monitoring the blood glucose levels by taking readings at least three times a day and then manually sending the readi...

This paper proposes a novel identity management framework for Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing-based personalized healthcare systems. The proposed framework uses multimodal encrypted biometric traits to perform authentication. It employs a combination of centralized and federated identity access techniques along with biometric based con...

Cross-site scripting is a vulnerability in Web applications that can be exploited by injecting malicious script codes such as JavaScript into a Web application. A cross-site scripting technique allows an authorised user to inject malicious codes into a Web application and perform malicious activities. This paper analyses the traditional methods use...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a network of heterogeneous networks encompassing various forms of communications form the current traditional communication models to ubiquitous and pervasive machine to machine communications. In such an ever expanding, dynamic, and complex environment, it becomes vital to know the origin or the source of data and w...

The IoT is described as a smart interactive environment where devices communicate together ubiquitously sometimes in the background, performing functions on behalf of the users and offering many advanced services to them. Examples range from simple smart home applications such as ambient intelligence and remote controlling functionalities to more a...

Smart home researches have emerged in recent years as a popular field of study in pervasive computing to suggest a solution that can be beneficial for impaired individuals and elderly on their daily life basis. Location tracking accuracy is a major research challenge in smart homes that needs much further investigation. This paper presents a review...

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings connectivity to about every object found in the physical space. It extends connectivity not only to mobile and wearable devices but also to everyday objects. From connected fridges and cars to fully interconnected smart cities, the IoT creates opportunities in numerous domains. This paper briefly highlights the p...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a paradigm that facilitates autonomous communications among various IoT devices with minimal human intervention. This raises many security challenges, which are critical and must be addressed to allow for the wide deployment of IoT. Trust must be provisioned among the various heterogeneous IoT devices. In this paper,...

This Chapter provides several comparable studies of some of the major evolving and enabling wireless technologies in the Internet of Things (IoT). Particularly, it focuses on the ZigBee, 6lowpan, Bluetooth Low Energy, LTE, and the different versions of Wi-Fi protocols including the IEEE 802.11ah. The studies, reported in this chapter, evaluate the...

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to revolute communications on the Internet. The IoT enables numerous business opportunities in fields as diverse as e-health, smart cities, smart homes, among many others. It incorporates multiple long-range, short-range, and personal area wireless networks and technologies into the designs of IoT applications....

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings connectivity to about every objects found in the physical space. It extends connectivity not only to computer and mobile devices but also to everyday objects. From connected fridges, cars and cities, the IoT creates opportunities in numerous domains. This chapter briefly surveys some IoT applications and the impa...

The Internet of Things (IoT) enables numerous business opportunities in fields as diverse as e-health, smart cities, smart homes, among many others. The IoT incorporates multiple long-range, short-range, and personal area wireless networks and technologies into the designs of IoT applications. Localisation in indoor positioning systems plays an imp...

The Internet of Things (IoT) promises to revolute communications on the Internet. The IoT enables numerous business opportunities in fields as diverse as e-health, smart cities, smart homes, among many others. It incorporates multiple long-range, short-range, and personal area wireless networks and technologies into the designs of IoT applications....

With the ubiquitous diffusion of the IoT, Cloud Computing, 5G and other evolved wireless technologies into our daily lives, the world will see the Internet of the future expand ever more quickly. Driving the progress of communications and connectivity are mobile and wireless technologies, including traditional WLANs technologies and low, ultra-powe...

The Internet of Things (IoT) incorporates multiple long-range, short-range, and personal area wireless networks and technologies into the designs of IoT applications. This enables numerous business opportunities in fields as diverse as e-health, smart cities, smart homes, among many others. This research analyses some of the major evolving and enab...

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings connectivity to about every objects found in the physical space. It extends connectivity not only to computer and mobile devices but also to everyday objects. From connected fridges, cars and cities, the IoT creates opportunities in numerous domains. This chapter briefly surveys some IoT applications and the impa...

This Chapter provides several comparable studies of some of the major evolving and enabling wireless technologies in the Internet of Things (IoT). Particularly, it focuses on the ZigBee, 6lowpan, Bluetooth Low Energy, LTE, and the different versions of Wi-Fi protocols including the IEEE 802.11ah. The studies, reported in this chapter, evaluate the...

The Internet of Things is an emerging research area promising many interesting solutions to various problems encountered in various domains. The ever-expanding networks of sensors, actuators and smart devices on the Internet of Things, will raise interesting challenges for service and network management. This paper explores these challenges and exp...

Although some people might willingly reveal their location information in order to obtain location-based services, few would be comfortable having their locations collected and profiled by the billions of things envisioned in the Internet of Things (IoT), at all time and in all situations. The diffusion of wireless communication networks and the te...

The Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to transform our daily lives and societies. This is, at least in part, due to its massively distributed and ubiquitous nature. To realize the benefits of the IoT, security and privacy issues associated with the use of the IoT need to be identified and addressed properly. In this paper, our focus is on...

The goal of this chapter is to discuss the challenges of generic security protocols and platforms for securing Electronic Health Records (EHR) in general and for their adoption in shared care environments in particular. The chapter introduces various methods and security solutions based on existing protocols, discusses their potentials, and describ...

Mobile banking (m-banking) is considered to be one of the most important mobile commerce applications currently available. The ubiquitous access to data with no place restrictions helps to promote this technology. The security and privacy of sensitive financial data is one of the main concerns in acceptance of these systems in Australia. It is spec...

The goal of Internet of Things (IoT) research is to extend computing and connectivity to anything, anyone, anywhere and anytime. While there are apparent benefits in using IoT systems, the convergence of technologies has begun to challenge the privacy of users. Powered by location based services, these systems have the potential to enable a systema...

There are clear advantages in using ubiquitous health (U-health) monitoring systems. They help with improving the quality of care and the availability of data. In such a system, healthcare professionals can remotely access a patient's Electronic Health Records (EHR), over the Internet, anywhere and anytime using various communication devices. Among...

Remote health monitoring systems help in improving the quality of care and offer a solution for people who require monitoring from home. These systems collect relevant data and transmit them to the healthcare provider, to be stored on their servers in the form of patients' Electronic Health Records (EHRs). With such a system, healthcare professiona...

There are clear advantages in using remote monitoring systems for elderly care. They help with improving the efficiency in providing higher quality of care. These systems collect relevant data and transmit them to the healthcare provider, to be stored on their servers in the form of patients' Electronic Health Records (EHRs). The EHR may then be us...

Problem statement: It is important to secure the transmission of patient’s EHR in remote health monitoring systems. Security is among the main issues that need to be realized for the adaption of this monitoring technology. The face of healthcare is changing as ubiquitous computing technologies are being incorporated into the existing infrastructure...

To achieve higher levels of efficiency and to improve the quality of care, remote monitoring systems for elderly offer interesting solutions. The data collected by the monitoring system are transmitted to the healthcare provider and stored on the healthcare provider's server in the form of patients' Electronic Health Records (EHR). It is important...