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School of Engineering, Information Technology and Physical Sciences

Dr Muhammad Usman - Research

Research publications

Journals

  1. Waheed, X. He, M. Ikram, M. Usman, S. S. Hashmi, and M. Usman, “Security and Privacy in IoT Using Machine Learning and Blockchain: Threats & Countermeasures”, ACM Computing Surveys, Accepted for publication on 20 July 2020 (In press).
  2. M. Usman, M. A. Jan, X. He, and J. Chen, “A Survey on Big Multimedia Data Processing and Management in Smart Cities”, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 52, No. 03, July 2019.
  3. M. Usman, M. A. Jan, X. He, and J. Chen, “A Survey on Representation Learning Efforts in Cyber Security Domain”, ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 52, No. 06, November 2019.
  4. M. Usman, M. A. Jan, A. Jolfaei, M. Xu, X. He, D. Puthal, and J. Chen, “DaaC: A Distributed and Anonymous Data Collection Framework based on Multi-Level Edge Computing Architecture”, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 16, No. 09, pp: 6114-6123, September 2020.
  5. T. Han, S. R. U. Jan, Z. Tan, M. Usman, M. A. Jan, R. Khan, and Y. Xu, “A Comprehensive Survey of Security Threats and Their Mitigation Techniques for Next-Generation SDN Controllers”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley Publications, Vol. 32, No. 16, August 2020.
  6. M. Usman, M. A. Jan, X. He, and J. Chen, “A Privacy-Preserving-based Data Collection and Analysis Framework for IoMT Applications”, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol. 37, No. 06, pp: 1222-1230, June 2019.
  7. M. Usman, M. A. Jan, and A. Jolfaie, “SPEED: A Deep Learning Assisted Privacy-Preserved Framework for Intelligent Transportation Systems”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Accepted for publication on 17 September 2020 (In press).
  8. J. Malik, A. Akhunzada, I. Bibi, M. Talha, M. A. Jan, and M. Usman, “Security-aware Data-driven Intelligent Transportation Systems”, IEEE Sensors Journal, Accepted for publication on 29 July 2020 (In press).
  9. M. Usman, A. Jolfaei, and M. A. Jan, “"RaSEC: An Intelligent Framework for Reliable and Secure Multi-Level Edge Computing in Industrial Environments”, IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications, Vol. 56, No. 04, pp: 4543-4551, August 2020.
  10. K. S. Sahoo, D. Puthal, M. Tiwary, M. Usman, B. Sahoo, Z. Wen, B. P. S. Sahoo, and R. Ranjan, “ESLMB: An Efficient Switch Migration based Load Balancing for Multi-Controller SDN in IoT”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 07, No. 07, pp: 5852-5860, July 2020.
  11. M. Usman, M. A. Jan, and D. Puthal, “PAAL: A Framework based on Authentication, Aggregation and Local Differential Privacy for Internet of Multimedia Things”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 07, No. 04, pp: 2501-2508, April 2020.
  12. R. Khan, M. Zakarya, Z. Tan, M. Usman, M. A. Jan, and M. Khan, “PFARS: Enhancing Throughput and Lifetime of Heterogeneous WSNs through Power-aware Fusion, Aggregation and Routing Scheme”, International Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley Publications, Vol. 32, No. 18, November 2019.
  13. M. Usman, M. A. Jan, X. He, and P. Nanda, “QASEC: A Secured Data Communication Scheme for Mobile Ad-hoc Networks”, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 109, pp: 604-610, August 2020.
  14. M. A. Jan, W. Zhang, M. Usman, Z. Tan, F. Khan, and E. Luo, “SmartEdge: An End-to-End Encryption Framework for an Edge-enabled Smart City Application”, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier, Vol. 137, pp: 1-10, May 2019.
  15. M. Usman, M. A. Jan, X. He, and J. Chen, “A Mobile Multimedia Data Collection Scheme for Secured Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, Vol. 07, No. 01, pp: 274-284, March 2020.
  16. M. Usman, X. He, K. Lam, M. Xu, M. M. Bokhari, and J. Chen, “Error Concealment for Cloud-based and Scalable Video Coding of HD Videos”, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, Vol. 07, No. 04, pp: 975-987, December 2019.
  17. M. A. Jan, M. Usman, X. He, and A. Rehman, “SAMS: A Seamless and Authorized Multimedia Streaming Framework for WMSN-based IoMT”, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Vol. 06, No. 02, pp: 1576-1583, April 2019.
  18. S. R. U. Jan, M. A. Jan, R. Khan, H. Ullah, M. Alam, and M. Usman, “An Energy-Efficient and Congestion Control Data-Driven Approach for Cluster-based Sensor Networks”, Mobile Networks and Applications, Springer, Vol. 24, No. 04, pp: 1295-1305, August 2019.
  19. M. A. Jan, F. Khan, M. Alam and M. Usman, “A Payload-based Mutual Authentication Scheme for Internet of Things”, Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, Vol. 92, pp: 1028-1039, March 2019.
  20. F. Khan, A. Rahman, M. Usman, Z. Tan and D. Puthal, “Performance of Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks using Hybrid Automatic Repeat request: stop-and-Wait”, Mobile Networks and Applications, Springer, Vol. 23, No. 03, pp: 479-488, June 2018.
  21. M. Usman, M. A. Jan, X. He and M. Alam, “Performance Evaluation of High Definition Video Streaming over Mobile Ad Hoc Networks”, Signal Processing, Elsevier, Vol. 148, pp: 303-313, May 2018.
  22. M. Usman, N. Yang, M. A. Jan, X. He, M. Xu and K. Lam, “A Joint Framework for QoS and QoE for Video Transmission over Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 17, No. 04, pp: 746-759, 15 April 2018.
  23. N. Yang, M. Usman, X. He, M. A. Jan and L. Zhang, “Time Frequency Filter Bank: A Simple Approach for Audio and Music Separation”, IEEE Access, Vol. 05, pp: 27114-27125, October 2017.
  24. M. A. Jan, P. Nanda, M. Usman and X. He, “PAWN: A Payload-based Mutual Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley Publications, Vol. 29, No. 17, September 2017.
  25. M. Usman, M. A. Jan and X. He, “Cryptography-based Secure Data Storage and Sharing using HEVC and Public Clouds”, Information Sciences, Elsevier, Vol. 387, pp: 90-102, August 2016.
  26. M. Usman, X. He, K. Lam, M. Xu, M. M. Bokhari and J. Chen, “Frame Interpolation for Cloud-based Mobile Video Streaming”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 18, No. 05, pp: 831-839, March 2016.

Conferences

  1. M. Usman, M. A. Jan, X. He and P. Nanda, “Data Sharing in Secure Multimedia Wireless Sensor Networks”, 15th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communication, pp: 590-597, August 2016.
  2. M. Usman, X. He, M. Xu and K. Lam, “Survey of Error Concealment Techniques: Research Directions and Open Issues”, 31st IEEE Picture Coding Symposium, pp: 233-238, June 2015.

Professional memberships and associations

  • IEEE
  • Australian Computer Society

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