Nidal Nasser

Alfaisal University · College of Engineering

As the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) continue to be deployed for various mission-critical data acquisition, localized computing on the drone-acquired data for efficient analysis, without significantly impacting the limited resources on board the drone, has emerged as a formidable research challenge. In this article, we address this issue with a n...

Adoption of Software-Defined Networks(SDN) as a new networking paradigm, promises solutions for Quality of Service(QoS) management issues raised at the service providers level due to the massive increase in connected devices (e.g., Servers, Mobile devices, M2M, Things, etc.), traffic in between, and the diverse user and service demands (e.g., delay...

Network slicing is expected to be critical in the deployment of 5G mobile networks and systems. On top of a single physical infrastructure, the technology enables operators to operate several virtual networks. As the 5G commercialization was recently deployed, network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) will drive ne...

Space-air-ground-sea integrated networks (SAGSINs) are promising to offer ubiquitous Internet services across the globe while confronting research challenges such as security vulnerabilities, privacy leakage concerns, and difficulty in resource sharing. On one hand, emerging network slicing and network softwarization technologies can fulfill divers...

Network slicing is expected to be critical in the deployment of 5G mobile networks and systems. On top of a single physical infrastructure, the technology enables operators to operate several virtual networks. As the 5G commercialization was recently deployed, network function virtualization (NFV) and software-defined networking (SDN) will drive ne...

The exponential increase in Internet of Things devices on the Internet causes a deluge of traffic at the cloud. Most of the traffic data is redundant. However, fog computing solves the problems by processing data at the network’s edge. Lately, the fog layer is a target of cyberattacks, due to its resource constraints. In this paper, we proposed a l...

The concept of an intelligent pandemic response network is gaining momentum during the current novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) era. A heterogeneous communication architecture is essential to facilitate collaborative and intelligent medical analytics in the fifth generation and beyond (B5G) networks to intelligently learn and disseminate pandem...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) is a very contagious infection that has drawn the world’s attention. Modeling such diseases can be extremely valuable in predicting their effects. Although classic statistical modeling may provide adequate models, it may also fail to understand the data’s intricacy. An automatic COVID-19 detection system based on computed tom...

In today's networks, QoS provisioning becomes a major concern for service providers due to the massive increase in connected devices (e.g., mobile devices, servers, and Things), traffic in between, and the diverse service requirements (e.g., delay and bandwidth). Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises solution for such issues with its central n...

Realizing secure and private communications on the Internet of Things (IoT) is challenging, primarily due to IoT's projected vast scale and extensive deployment. Recent efforts have explored the use of blockchain in decentralized protection and privacy supported. Such solutions, however, are highly demanding in terms of computation and time require...

The Continuous increase in urban population causes enormous pressure on cities’ limited resources, including transport, energy, water, housing, public services, and others. Hence, the need to plan and develop smart cities based solutions for enhanced urban governance is becoming more evident. These solutions are motivated by innovations in Informat...

Due to the rapid growth of electronic documents, e.g., tweets, blogs, Facebook posts, snaps in different languages that use the same writing script, language categorization, and processing have great importance. For instance, to identify COVID-19 positive patients or people’s emotions on COVID-19 pandemic from tweets written in 35 different languag...

Despite the severity of the second wave of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the recent hope for vaccine roll-outs, many public and private institutions are forced to resume their activities subject to ensuring an adequate sterilization of their premises. The existing off-the-shelf drones for such environment sanitization have limited fl...

Due to the proliferation of the Internet of Things (IoT), the IoT devices are becoming utilized at the edge network at a much higher rate. Conventionally, the IoT devices lack the computation resources required for carrying out ultra-edge analytics. In this paper, we go beyond the typical edge analytics paradigm, which is mostly limited to user-sma...

Routing and topology control for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) are significantly important to achieve the following: 1) energy efficiency in resource constrained WSN and 2) High speed packet delivery. In this paper, we propose a framework for WSN which combines three design approaches: 1) clustering, 2) routing, and 3) topology control. In this fra...

Machine to Machine (M2M) communication networks starts to achieve widespread usability in different application domains. Thus, designing energy efficient, fault tolerant and secure clustering scheme is significantly important for the M2M area networks that comprise a large number of sensors. However, to the best of our knowledge, existing secure cl...

This paper proposes an energy efficient, fault tolerant, and cluster-based scheme for Mobile M2M area networks (EFM). This scheme selects the minimum number of active machine type communication MTC devices that provides network coverage of a cluster, thereby reduces the redundant data sensing. The MTC gateway and cluster heads (CHs) transmit specia...

This paper proposes a simple Wireless Sensor Network (WSN)-based water level and water quality monitoring system for fish ponds. The proposed architecture uses RGB color sensors and provides a low cost and real-time monitoring system to grow healthy fish and avoid anomalies such as overflow or low water level and the death or disease of fishes for...

Scheduling real-time and non-real time packets at the sensor nodes is significantly important to reduce processing overhead, energy consumptions, communications bandwidth, and end-to-end data transmission delay of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Most of the existing packet scheduling algorithms of WSN use assignments based on First-Come First-Served...

Designing energy efficient and reliable routing protocols for mobility centric Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) applications such as wildlife monitoring, battlefield surveillance and health monitoring is a great challenge due to the frequent change of the network topology. Existing cluster-based routing protocols such for LEACH-Mobile, LEACH-Mobile-E...

Localizing machine-type communication (MTC) devices or sensors is becoming important because of the increasing popularity of machine-to-machine (M2M) communication networks for location-based applications. These include such as health monitoring, rescue operations, vehicle tracking, and wildfire monitoring. Moreover, efficient localization approach...

In Beyond Fifth Generation (B5G) networks, Internet of Things (IoT) and massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) traffic are anticipated to be offloaded by multi-hop, Device-to-Device (D2D)-enabled relay networks. The relays offer an energy and spectral-efficient solution to the rising problem of spectrum scarcity and overloading of cellular base...

Multi-hop Device-to-Device (D2D) enabled relay networks are envisaged to be utilized by the Internet of Things (IoT) and massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC) traffic for the purpose of offloading data in Beyond Fifth Generation (B5G) networks. The emerging challenge of spectrum scarcity and overloading of cellular base stations can be addresse...

With the increase of data traffic in the global mobile network, the limitation in resources of data computing close to the edge is becoming an important issue to resolve. This article addresses the cloud radio access network (CRAN) in 5G HetNets architecture and proposes to take benefit of extra computing and storage resources in the edge to enable...

The articles in this special issue that focuses on smart Internet of Things (IoT) solutions for combating the COVID-19 pandemic.

Automated digital contact tracing is effective and efficient, and one of the non-pharmaceutical complementary approaches to mitigate and manage the epidemics like Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Despite the advantages of digital contact tracing, it is not widely used in the western world, including the US and Europe, due to strict privacy regu...

With the increased usage of Web 2.0 and data-affluent tools such as social media platforms and web blog services, the challenge of extracting public sentiment and disseminating personal health information has become more common than ever in the last decade. This paper proposes a novel model for Dengue disease detection based on social media posts a...

Recently, Molecular Communication (MC) has been recognized as an enabling technology for nanonetworks where MC is envisioned to enable nanorobots to achieve sophisticated and complex tasks in the human body for promising medical applications. Many MC methods that can be applied in the human body have been proposed and modeled in the literature. In...

Traditionally, the Internet of Things (IoT) devices, deployed on the ultra-edge of the network, lack computation, and energy resources. In this paper, we press on the need to go beyond the realms of traditional edge computing (e.g., limited to user-smartphones) and investigate how to incorporate intelligence into the ultra-edge IoT sensors. Among n...

Ultra-dense small cell networks (UD-SCNs) will be an integral part of next generation network (NGN). How to deal with serious interference is one of the important challenges in a UD-SCN. In this paper, the cooperative interference management problem for a UD-SCN is explored by allowing small cell base stations (SBSs) to collaborate with their neigh...

Recently, Molecular Communication (MC) has been recognized as an enabling technology for nanonetworks where MC is envisioned to enable nanorobots to achieve sophisticated and complex tasks in the human body for promising medical applications. Many MC methods that can be applied in the human body have been proposed and modeled in the literature. How...

Internet of Things (IoTs) is widely growing domain of the modern era. With the advancement in technologies, the use of IoTs devices also increases. However, security risks regarding service provisioning and data sharing also increases. There are many existing security approaches, although these approaches are not suitable for IoT devices due to the...

Despite significant performance gains, buffer-aided cooperative communication incurs an increased latency. It is generally handled by prioritizing relay-to-destination link selection. The contribution of this paper is twofold , firstly, we study the buffer threshold based buffer-aided relay selection scheme in Nakagami-m fading channels with non-ho...

Buffer-aided cooperative relaying is often investigated either using decode and forward (DF) or amplify and forward (AF) relaying rules. However, it is seldom investigated using the hybrid decode-amplify-forward (HDAF) relaying rule. In this work, the performance of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) based HDAF relaying rule is followed for buffer-aided c...

In recent times, different routing protocols have been proposed in the Internet of Things enabled Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (IoT-UWSNs) to explore the underwater environment for different purposes, i.e., scientific and military purposes. However, high Energy Consumption (EC), End to End (E2E) delay, low Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR) and min...

This article presents a knowledge mining model, where a city can plan its development based on existing knowledge during city expansion, for example, telecommunication resource allocation and crowd forecasts in a new region. Unlike most works that focused on Internet-of- Things (IoT) sensing, this study is aimed at urban planning by using harvested...

The intelligent Classroom Environment (iCE) promises to convey a rich and complex environment with the aim to achieve educational excellence and to provide world-class education in the university classroom environment. The classroom, the keystone for educational environments, is our first informational computer: a long-serving, complex, physical en...

The intelligent Classroom Environment (iCE) promises to convey a rich and complex environment with the aim to achieve educational excellence and to provide world-class education in the university classroom environment. The classroom, the keystone for educational environments, is our first informational computer: a long-serving, complex, physical en...

The evolved packet core (EPC) network is the mobile network standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project and represents the recent evolution of mobile networks providing high-speed data rates and on-demand connectivity services. Software-defined networking (SDN) is recently gaining momentum in network research as a new generation networki...

Recently emerging fourth generation networks, notably LTE-Advanced (LTE-A), are expected to meet the requirements of higher bit rates with excellent quality of service (QoS). The expansion and heterogeneity of these networks have made their operational cost higher, resulting in harder tasks for operators to remain competitive. Therefore, automatic...

ABSTRACT-The next generation of mobile broadband technologies, namely the Fifth Generation (5G), will include an integration of legacy technologies like the Long Term Evolution (LTE), the Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX), the Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi), etc. However, Quality of Service (QoS) details are not fully defined for t...

In the Era of the Internet of Things (IoT) the validity of sensing coverage is of utmost importance as it affects the reliability of sensing services. The presence of anchor misplacement poses a challenge on the validity of sensing coverage. This kind of challenge has generally been overlooked in sensing coverage research. In this paper, we investi...

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an evolving network architecture influenced by the increasing popularity in the deployment of network virtualization, cloud computing technologies, and the network ossification trend. It represents a new approach to managing, defining and building networks in order to fulfil the needs of the dynamic nature of pr...

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is rapidly flourishing in the global market due to its speed, coverage, relative ease of deployment, and consistency. However, Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning scheme is not fully defined for LTE, and it is left open for researchers to explore. In this paper, we propose a QoS provisioning technique for LTE. This techn...

The execution of sensing services within the Internet of Things (IoT) mandates considering IoT characteristics which include heterogeneity, scalability, dynamicity, randomness, and multiple ownership. In such environment new types of sensing coverage holes posed by anchor misplacement arise. The first type is actual coverage holes that have been fa...

Localization errors posed by anchor misplacement have generally been overlooked in localization research. Previous studies in this field were focused on measurement errors. In this paper, we study the effects of anchor node misplacement, in terms of distance rather than orientation, on the localization error. We propose a distributed and determinis...

Among the major challenges in 3GPP LTE-A (3rd Generation Partnership Project Long Term Evaluation) and beyond networks are the convergence of services towards IP technology, the quality of service (QoS) and the maintenance of multimedia flows transmitted on wireless networking for mobile and heterogeneous users. In this environment, multimedia serv...