Author:Mboweni, IV; Ramotsoela, DT; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Apr 2023The protection of critical infrastructure such as water treatment and water distribution systems is crucial for a functioning economy. The use of cyber-physical systems in these systems presents numerous vulnerabilities to attackers. To enhance ...Read more
Author:Kufakunesu, Rachel; Hancke, Gerhard P; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Aug 2022The concept of Internet of Things (IoT) has increased in prominence as the demand for device interconnectedness increases worldwide. Numerous technologies have been proposed to provide the required technology and network infrastructure. Low ...Read more
Author:Osifeko, MO; Hancke, GP; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Aug 2022Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET) is a type of network that facilitates communication between vehicles usually on highways or in any environment with vehicular traffic such as a parking space. The dynamic nature of vehicular movements makes ...Read more
Author:Mnguni, S; Mudali, P; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Adigun, MDate:Nov 2021Internet of Things (IoT) is a fast and rapidly growing environment with LoRa technology as a leading Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN). It is paramount important to understand the LoRaWAN limitations/drawbacks and capabilities in terms of ...Read more
Author:Marais, JM; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Hancke, GPDate:Dec 2022The scalability of long-range wide area networks (LoRaWANs) is known to be very sensitive to the presence of traffic from gateways (GWs) to end devices (downlink (DL) traffic). The protocol supports confirmed traffic, for which DL traffic is ...Read more
Author:Isong, B; Ratanang, T; Gasela, N; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2023This paper addresses the issues of fault tolerance (FT) and intrusion detection (ID) in the Software-defined networking (SDN) environment. We design an integrated model that combines the FT-Manager as an FT mechanism and an ID-Manager, as an ...Read more
Author:Kaya, SM; Isler, B; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Rasheed, J; AlShammari, ADate:Feb 2023Industrialization and rapid urbanization in almost every country adversely affect many of our environmental values, such as our core ecosystem, regional climate differences and global diversity. The difficulties we encounter as a result of ...Read more
Author:Rasheed, J; Waziry, S; Alsubai, S; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Jul 2022In the world of chaos, the pandemic has driven individuals around the globe to wear face masks for preventing the virus’s transmission, however, this has made it difficult to determine the gender of the person wearing a mask. Gender information ...Read more
Author:Machele, IL; Onumanyi, Adeiza J; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Kurien, AMDate:Mar 2024The deployment of isolated microgrids has witnessed exponential growth globally, especially in the light of prevailing challenges faced by many larger power grids. However, these isolated microgrids remain separate entities, thus limiting ...Read more
Author:Gbadamosi, SA; Hancke, GP; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Nov 2022In dense, interference-prone 5G narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) networks, device-to-device (D2D) communication can reduce the network bottleneck. We propose an interference-avoidance resource allocation for D2D-enabled 5G NB-IoT systems ...Read more
Author:Mbiada, AK; Isong, B; Lugayizi, F; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Jul 2022Computer programming is at the core of the computing discipline and its understanding and mastery are critical to a student’s success. However, its abstract nature makes it difficult to teach, learn, understand and assimilate. Moreover, most ...Read more
Author:Oyeniyi, AA; Ouahada, K; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Rimer, S; Alimi, KODate:Sep 2021The increasing integration of advanced information and communication tools in industrial control systems (ICS) has vastly increased the vulnerabilities and threats of intrusions into the various critical infrastructures which include the water ...Read more
Author:Mabunda, N; Ramotsoela, DT; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Dec 2022Water distribution systems/networks (WDS/WDN) use complex pipe networks to distribute water from reservoirs, tanks and rivers to consumers. Over the years, the water industry has deployed SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems ...Read more
Author:Mabunda, HD; Ramotsoela, DT; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Jun 2022Water distribution systems (WDS) are designed to supply potable water to businesses, industries and people in any area or location. Cyber-Physical systems (CPS) are used in water distribution systems and come with aided benefits, however, ...Read more
Author:Olatinwo, DD; Hancke, G; Myburgh, H; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Mar 2023Internet of things (IoT)-enabled wireless body area network (WBAN) is an emerging technology that combines medical devices, wireless devices, and non-medical devices for healthcare management applications. Speech emotion recognition (SER) is ...Read more
Author:Dheda, D; Cheng, L; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Feb 2022A predictive long short-term memory (LSTM) model developed on a particular water quality dataset will only apply to the dataset and may fail to make an accurate prediction on another dataset. This paper focuses on improving LSTM model tolerance ...Read more
Author:Ramson, SRJ; Vishnu, S; Kirubaraj, AA; Anagnostopoulos, T; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Feb 2022Municipal solid waste management remains a major problem in urban areas, leading to serious health and environmental issues.Consequently, trash bins are placed in many places to handle the municipal solid waste, but these bins can overflow, ...Read more
Author:Zhu, H; Ouahada, K; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MIDate:Oct 2021Smart homes are an integral component in developing smart cities. This paper studies the problem of real-time energy management of controllable loads for Internet of Things (IoT) connected homes with renewable energy generators and energy ...Read more
Author:Mboweni, IV; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Ramotsoela, DTDate:Oct 2021The confidentiality, integrity and availability of critical infrastructure is crucial for any economy to operate efficiently. Water distribution critical infrastructure is a target of many attackers who aim to penetrate the system for malicious ...Read more
Author:Adams, A; Abu-Mahfouz, Adnan MI; Hancke, GPDate:Nov 2023Transport systems are fundamental to supporting economic growth, and the need for smarter, safer, more efficient and climate neutral transport systems continues to grow. Maintenance and operation of transport infrastructure is expensive and ...Read more