Search Results for author: Aiman Erbad

Found 33 papers, 2 papers with code

Multi-Agent DRL for Queue-Aware Task Offloading in Hierarchical MEC-Enabled Air-Ground Networks

no code implementations5 Mar 2025 Muhammet Hevesli, Abegaz Mohammed Seid, Aiman Erbad, Mohamed Abdallah

Mobile edge computing (MEC)-enabled air-ground networks are a key component of 6G, employing aerial base stations (ABSs) such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and high-altitude platform stations (HAPS) to provide dynamic services to ground IoT devices (IoTDs).

Edge-computing Management

A Multi-Agent DRL-Based Framework for Optimal Resource Allocation and Twin Migration in the Multi-Tier Vehicular Metaverse

no code implementations26 Feb 2025 Nahom Abishu Hayla, A. Mohammed Seid, Aiman Erbad, Tilahun M. Getu, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Mohsen Guizani

Although multi-tier vehicular Metaverse promises to transform vehicles into essential nodes -- within an interconnected digital ecosystem -- using efficient resource allocation and seamless vehicular twin (VT) migration, this can hardly be achieved by the existing techniques operating in a highly dynamic vehicular environment, since they can hardly balance multi-objective optimization problems such as latency reduction, resource utilization, and user experience (UX).

Deep Reinforcement Learning

Slicing for AI: An Online Learning Framework for Network Slicing Supporting AI Services

no code implementations20 Oct 2024 Menna Helmy, Alaa Awad Abdellatif, Naram Mhaisen, Amr Mohamed, Aiman Erbad

The forthcoming 6G networks will embrace a new realm of AI-driven services that requires innovative network slicing strategies, namely slicing for AI, which involves the creation of customized network slices to meet Quality of service (QoS) requirements of diverse AI services.

A Blockchain-based Reliable Federated Meta-learning for Metaverse: A Dual Game Framework

no code implementations7 Aug 2024 Emna Baccour, Aiman Erbad, Amr Mohamed, Mounir Hamdi, Mohsen Guizani

A blockchain-based cooperative coalition formation game is crafted, grounded on a reputation metric, user similarity, and incentives.

Meta-Learning

Multi-UAV Multi-RIS QoS-Aware Aerial Communication Systems using DRL and PSO

no code implementations16 Jun 2024 Marwan Dhuheir, Aiman Erbad, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Mohsen Guizani

Our system model considers a UAV swarm that navigates an area, providing wireless communication to ground users with RIS support to improve the coverage of the UAVs.

Decision Making Deep Reinforcement Learning

LEMDA: A Novel Feature Engineering Method for Intrusion Detection in IoT Systems

no code implementations20 Apr 2024 Ali Ghubaish, Zebo Yang, Aiman Erbad, Raj Jain

Feature engineering can solve these issues; hence, it has become critical for IDS in large-scale IoT systems to reduce the size and dimensionality of data, resulting in less complex models with excellent performance, smaller data storage, and fast detection.

Computational Efficiency Feature Engineering +1

Meta Reinforcement Learning for Strategic IoT Deployments Coverage in Disaster-Response UAV Swarms

no code implementations20 Jan 2024 Marwan Dhuheir, Aiman Erbad, Ala Al-Fuqaha

Our simulation results prove that our introduced approach is better than the three state-of-the-art algorithms in providing coverage to strategic locations with fast convergence.

Decision Making Disaster Response +1

Adaptive ResNet Architecture for Distributed Inference in Resource-Constrained IoT Systems

no code implementations21 Jul 2023 Fazeela Mazhar Khan, Emna Baccour, Aiman Erbad, Mounir Hamdi

Hence, for dynamic systems, it is necessary to have a resilient DNN with an adaptive architecture that can downsize as per the available resources.

Zero-touch realization of Pervasive Artificial Intelligence-as-a-service in 6G networks

no code implementations21 Jul 2023 Emna Baccour, Mhd Saria Allahham, Aiman Erbad, Amr Mohamed, Ahmed Refaey Hussein, Mounir Hamdi

In this context, we introduce a novel platform architecture to deploy a zero-touch PAI-as-a-Service (PAIaaS) in 6G networks supported by a blockchain-based smart system.

Federated Learning

LLHR: Low Latency and High Reliability CNN Distributed Inference for Resource-Constrained UAV Swarms

no code implementations25 May 2023 Marwan Dhuheir, Aiman Erbad, Sinan Sabeeh

Our system model deals with real-time requests, aiming to find the optimal transmission power that guarantees higher reliability and low latency.

Physical Layer Security in Satellite Communication: State-of-the-art and Open Problems

no code implementations9 Jan 2023 Nora Abdelsalam, Saif Al-Kuwari, Aiman Erbad

Satellite communications emerged as a promising extension to terrestrial networks in future 6G network research due to their extensive coverage in remote areas and ability to support the increasing traffic rate and heterogeneous networks.

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Trajectory Path Planning and Distributed Inference in Resource-Constrained UAV Swarms

no code implementations21 Dec 2022 Marwan Dhuheir, Emna Baccour, Aiman Erbad, Sinan Sabeeh Al-Obaidi, Mounir Hamdi

The deployment flexibility and maneuverability of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) increased their adoption in various applications, such as wildfire tracking, border monitoring, etc.

Collaborative Inference Deep Reinforcement Learning

RL-DistPrivacy: Privacy-Aware Distributed Deep Inference for low latency IoT systems

no code implementations27 Aug 2022 Emna Baccour, Aiman Erbad, Amr Mohamed, Mounir Hamdi, Mohsen Guizani

In this paper, we present an approach that targets the security of collaborative deep inference via re-thinking the distribution strategy, without sacrificing the model performance.

Privacy Preserving Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Motivating Learners in Multi-Orchestrator Mobile Edge Learning: A Stackelberg Game Approach

no code implementations25 Sep 2021 Mhd Saria Allahham, Sameh Sorour, Amr Mohamed, Aiman Erbad, Mohsen Guizani

Therefore, it is crucial to motivate edge devices to become learners and offer their computing resources, and either offer their private data or receive the needed data from the orchestrator and participate in the training process of a learning task.

Energy-Efficient Multi-Orchestrator Mobile Edge Learning

no code implementations2 Sep 2021 Mhd Saria Allahham, Sameh Sorour, Amr Mohamed, Aiman Erbad, Mohsen Guizani

The heterogeneity in edge devices' capabilities will require the joint optimization of the learners-orchestrator association and task allocation.

Federated Learning for UAV Swarms Under Class Imbalance and Power Consumption Constraints

no code implementations23 Aug 2021 Ilyes Mrad, Lutfi Samara, Alaa Awad Abdellatif, Abubakr Al-Abbasi, Ridha Hamila, Aiman Erbad

The usage of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in civil and military applications continues to increase due to the numerous advantages that they provide over conventional approaches.

Federated Learning

Client Selection Approach in Support of Clustered Federated Learning over Wireless Edge Networks

no code implementations16 Aug 2021 Abdullatif Albaseer, Mohamed Abdallah, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Aiman Erbad

Extensive experiments show that the proposed approach lowers the training time and accelerates the convergence rate by up to 50% while imbuing each client with a specialized model that is fit for its local data distribution.

Federated Learning Scheduling

Communication-Efficient Hierarchical Federated Learning for IoT Heterogeneous Systems with Imbalanced Data

4 code implementations14 Jul 2021 Alaa Awad Abdellatif, Naram Mhaisen, Amr Mohamed, Aiman Erbad, Mohsen Guizani, Zaher Dawy, Wassim Nasreddine

Federated learning (FL) is a distributed learning methodology that allows multiple nodes to cooperatively train a deep learning model, without the need to share their local data.

Federated Learning

Emotion Recognition for Healthcare Surveillance Systems Using Neural Networks: A Survey

no code implementations13 Jul 2021 Marwan Dhuheir, Abdullatif Albaseer, Emna Baccour, Aiman Erbad, Mohamed Abdallah, Mounir Hamdi

Recognizing the patient's emotions using deep learning techniques has attracted significant attention recently due to technological advancements.

Emotion Recognition Survey

Efficient Real-Time Image Recognition Using Collaborative Swarm of UAVs and Convolutional Networks

no code implementations9 Jul 2021 Marwan Dhuheir, Emna Baccour, Aiman Erbad, Sinan Sabeeh, Mounir Hamdi

We formulate the model as an optimization problem that minimizes the latency between acquiring images and making the final decisions.

Decision Making

Fine-Grained Data Selection for Improved Energy Efficiency of Federated Edge Learning

no code implementations20 Jun 2021 Abdullatif Albaseer, Mohamed Abdallah, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Aiman Erbad

Specifically, we consider a problem that aims to find the optimal user's resources, including the fine-grained selection of relevant training samples, bandwidth, transmission power, beamforming weights, and processing speed with the goal of minimizing the total energy consumption given a deadline constraint on the communication rounds of FEEL.

Distributed CNN Inference on Resource-Constrained UAVs for Surveillance Systems: Design and Optimization

no code implementations23 May 2021 Mohammed Jouhari, Abdulla Al-Ali, Emna Baccour, Amr Mohamed, Aiman Erbad, Mohsen Guizani, Mounir Hamdi

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted great interest in the last few years owing to their ability to cover large areas and access difficult and hazardous target zones, which is not the case of traditional systems relying on direct observations obtained from fixed cameras and sensors.

Decision Making

Pervasive AI for IoT applications: A Survey on Resource-efficient Distributed Artificial Intelligence

no code implementations4 May 2021 Emna Baccour, Naram Mhaisen, Alaa Awad Abdellatif, Aiman Erbad, Amr Mohamed, Mounir Hamdi, Mohsen Guizani

The confluence of pervasive computing and artificial intelligence, Pervasive AI, expanded the role of ubiquitous IoT systems from mainly data collection to executing distributed computations with a promising alternative to centralized learning, presenting various challenges.

Recommendation Systems Scheduling

Threshold-Based Data Exclusion Approach for Energy-Efficient Federated Edge Learning

no code implementations30 Mar 2021 Abdullatif Albaseer, Mohamed Abdallah, Ala Al-Fuqaha, Aiman Erbad

Then, the problem is formulated as joint energy minimization and resource allocation optimization problem to obtain the optimal local computation time and the optimal transmission time that minimize the total energy consumption considering the worker's energy budget, available bandwidth, channel states, beamforming, and local CPU speed.

Analysis and Optimal Edge Assignment For Hierarchical Federated Learning on Non-IID Data

no code implementations10 Dec 2020 Naram Mhaisen, Alaa Awad, Amr Mohamed, Aiman Erbad, Mohsen Guizani

Distributed learning algorithms aim to leverage distributed and diverse data stored at users' devices to learn a global phenomena by performing training amongst participating devices and periodically aggregating their local models' parameters into a global model.

Edge-computing Federated Learning

Compress or Interfere?

no code implementations27 Jun 2020 Alaa Awad Abdellatif, Lutfi Samara, Amr Mohamed, Mohsen Guizani, Aiman Erbad, Abdulla Al-Ali

Rapid evolution of wireless medical devices and network technologies has fostered the growth of remote monitoring systems.

Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems: A Survey

no code implementations10 Feb 2020 Deval Bhamare, Maede Zolanvari, Aiman Erbad, Raj Jain, Khaled Khan, Nader Meskin

In this work, we have a close look at the shift of the ICS from stand-alone systems to cloud-based environments.

Cryptography and Security Networking and Internet Architecture Systems and Control Systems and Control

QoE-Aware Resource Allocation for Crowdsourced Live Streaming: A Machine Learning Approach

no code implementations20 Jun 2019 Fatima Haouari, Emna Baccour, Aiman Erbad, Amr Mohamed, Mohsen Guizani

This can be achieved by advocating a geo-distributed cloud infrastructure to allocate the multimedia resources as close as possible to viewers, in order to minimize the access delay and video stalls.

BIG-bench Machine Learning

Feasibility of Supervised Machine Learning for Cloud Security

no code implementations23 Oct 2018 Deval Bhamare, Tara Salman, Mohammed Samaka, Aiman Erbad, Raj Jain

As a result of this, researchers prefer to generate datasets for training and testing purpose in the simulated or closed experimental environments which may lack comprehensiveness.

BIG-bench Machine Learning Cloud Computing

When A Small Leak Sinks A Great Ship: Deanonymizing Tor Hidden Service Users Through Bitcoin Transactions Analysis

1 code implementation23 Jan 2018 Husam Al Jawaheri, Mashael Al Sabah, Yazan Boshmaf, Aiman Erbad

We investigate the feasibility of deanonymizing users of Tor hidden services who rely on Bitcoin as a payment method by exploiting public information leaked from online social networks, the Blockchain, and onion websites.

Cryptography and Security

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