Research Outputs

    Patents

  1. Giovanni Russello, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Shujie Cui, and Steven Galbraith, A Method and System for Storing Data and Accessing Data, NZ Patent 738737, 2017.
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  2. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Qinwen Hu, and John Nevil Brownlee, Certificate Revocation System, NZ Patent 722960, 2016.
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    3. Refereed International Journals

  3. Qinwen Hu, Se-Young Yu, and Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Analysing Performance Issues of Open-source Intrusion Detection Systems in High-speed Networks, Journal of Information Security and Applications, 51:102426, 2020.
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  4. Yuqian Lu and Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Semantic Communications between Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems Towards Collaborative Automation for Smart Manufacturing, Journal of Manufacturing Systems, 55:348-359, 2020.
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  5. Muhammad Usman, Marwa Qaraqe, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, and Imran Shafique Ansari, Mitigating Distributed Denial of Service Attacks in Satellite Networks, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 31(6):e3936, 2020.
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  6. Muhammad Usman, Marwa Qaraqe, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Anteneh A. Gebremariam, Imran Shafique Ansari, Fabrizio Granelli, and Qammer H. Abbasi, A Business and Legislative Perspective of V2X and Mobility Applications in 5G Networks, IEEE Access, 8:67426-67435, 2020.
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  7. Shujie Cui, Sana Belguith, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Pramodya De Alwis, and Giovanni Russello, Collusion Defender: Preserving Subscribers’ Privacy in Publish and Subscribe Systems, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2019.
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  8. Manoranjan Mohanty, Ming Zhang, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, and Giovanni Russello, e-PRNU: Encrypted Domain PRNU-Based Camera Attribution for Preserving Privacy, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2019.
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  9. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Qinwen Hu, and Sherali Zeadally, Cybersecurity in Industrial Control Systems: Issues, Technologies, and Challenges, Computer Networks, 165:106946, 2019.
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  10. Cesar Bernardini, Samuel Marchal, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, and Bruno Crispo, PrivICN: Privacy-preserving Content Retrieval in Information-Centric Networking, Computer Networks, 149:13-28, 2019.
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  11. Qinwen Hu, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, and Nevil Brownlee, Checking Certificate Revocation Efficiently using Certificate Revocation Guard, Journal of Information Security and Applications, 48:102356, 2019.
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  12. Fateme Shirazi, Milivoj Simeonovski, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Michael Backes, and Claudia Díaz, A Survey on Routing in Anonymous Communication Protocols, ACM Computing Surveys, 51(3):51:1-51:39, 2018.
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  13. Shujie Cui, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, and Giovanni Russello, Multi-CDN: Towards Privacy in Content Delivery Networks, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2018. Department's Best Student Paper Award.
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  14. Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Imran Shafique Ansari, and Marwa Qaraqe, Security in Wireless Body Area Networks: From In-Body to Off-Body Communications, IEEE Access, 6:58064-58074, 2018.
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  15. Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Imran Shafique Ansari, Fabrizio Granelli, and Khalid Qaraqe, Technologies and Solutions for Location-Based Services in Smart Cities: Past, Present, and Future, IEEE Access, 6:22240-22248, 2018.
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  16. Qinwen Hu, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, and Nevil Brownlee, Effectiveness of Intrusion Detection Systems in High-speed Networks, International Journal of Information, Communication Technology and Applications, 4(1):1-10, 2018. One of the papers from ITNAC 2017 invited to this journal.
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  17. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, György Dán, Daniele Miorandi, and Imrich Chlamtac, Smart Meter Data Privacy: A Survey, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 19(4):2820–2835, 2017.
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  18. Cesar Bernardini, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, and Bruno Crispo, Security and Privacy in Vehicular Communications: Challenges and Opportunities, Vehicular Communications, 10:13-28, 2017.
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  19. Manoranjan Mohanty, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, and Giovanni Russello, 2DCrypt: Privacy-Preserving Image Scaling and Cropping in the Cloud, IEEE Transactions Information Forensics and Security, 11(11):2542-2555, 2016. Its review appeared in the IEEE COMSOC MMTC Communications - Review Letter (Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2017.
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  20. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Mihaela Ion, Giovanni Russello, and Bruno Crispo, ESPOONERBAC: Enforcing Security Policies in Outsourced Environments, Computers & Security, 35:2–24, 2013. One of three papers from ARES 2011 invited to this journal.
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    21. Invited Journals

  21. Muhammad Usman, Marwa Qaraqe, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, and Imran Shafique Ansari, Process Mining and User Privacy in D2D and IoT Networks, Informatik Spektrum, 42(5):340–342, 2019.
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    22. Book Chapters

  22. Mohammad Mustafa Helal and Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Towards Preserving Privacy and Security in Blockchain, In Essentials of Blockchain Technology, pages 99–120, CRC Press / Taylor & Francis, 2019.
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  23. Usman Raza, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Imran Shafique Ansari, and Mahesh Sooriyabandara, Integrating Public Safety Networks to 5G: Applications and Standards, In Enabling 5G Communication Systems to Support Vertical Industries, pages 233–251. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Chichester, UK, 2019.
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  24. Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, and Fabrizio Granelli, 5G and D2D communications at the Service of Smart Cities, In Transportation and Power Grid in Smart Cities: Communication Networks and Services, pages 147–169. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd Chichester, UK, 2018.
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  25. Manoranjan Mohanty, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, and Giovanni Russello, Preserving Privacy in Pre-classification Volume Ray-casting of 3D Images, In Data Security in Cloud Computing, Security, pages 45–64, Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2017.
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  26. Clemens Zeidler and Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Towards a Framework for Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing in Portable Clouds, In Helfert M., Ferguson D., Méndez Muñoz V., Cardoso J. (eds) Cloud Computing and Services Science. CLOSER 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 740. Springer, Cham, pages 273–293. Springer, 2016.
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  27. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar and Giovanni Russello, Automating Consent Management Lifecycle for Electronic Healthcare Systems, In Aris Gkoulalas-Divanis and Grigorios Loukides, editors, Medical Data Privacy Handbook, pages 361–387. Springer, 2015.
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    28. International Conferences and Workshops

  28. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar and Andrew Luxton-Reilly, A Case Study of a Cybersecurity Programme: Curriculum Design, Resource Management, and Reflections, In Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, SIGCSE '20, page 16–22, New York, NY, USA, 2020, ACM.
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  29. Lamine Aouad and Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Defender-centric Conceptual Cyber Exposure Ontology for Adaptive Cyber Risk Assessment, In The 17th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), SciTePress, 2020.
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  30. Sana Belguith, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Song Wang, Karina Mabell Gomez, and Giovanni Russello, SMART: Shared Memory Based SDN Architecture to Resist DDoS Attacks, In The 17th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), SciTePress, 2020.
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  31. Shujie Cui, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Steven Galbraith, Giovanni Russello, Secure and Practical Searchable Encryption: A Position Paper, The 22nd Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP), Auckland, New Zealand, July 2017.
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  32. Shujie Cui, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Steven Galbraith, Giovanni Russello, P-McDb: Privacy-preserving Search using Multi-cloud Encrypted Databases, The 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, June 2017.
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  33. Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Imran Shafique Ansari, Fabrizio Granelli, Towards Bootstrapping Trust in D2D using PGP and Reputation Mechanism, International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, May 2017.
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  34. Fatih Turkmen, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Yuri Demchenko, iGenoPri: Privacy-Preserving Genomic Data Processing with Integrity and Correctness Proofs, The 14th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), Auckland, New Zealand, December 2016.
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  35. Clemens Zeidler, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, CloudEFS: Efficient and Secure File System for Cloud Storage, The 14th Annual Conference on Privacy, Security and Trust (PST), Auckland, New Zealand, December 2016.
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  36. Qinwen Hu, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, and Nevil Brownlee. Certificate Revocation Guard (CRG): An Efficient Mechanism for Checking Certificate Revocation. The 41st Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Dubai, UAE, November 2016.
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  37. Gabriela Gheorghe, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Jean Lancrenon, Sankalp Ghatpande, SPARER: Secure Cloud-Proof Storage for e-Health Scenarios, The 3rd International Workshop on Software Assurance (SAW) in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), Salzburg, Austria, September 2016.
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  38. Manoranjan Mohanty, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Giovanni Russello, 3DCrypt: Privacy-Preserving Pre-Classification Volume Ray-Casting of 3D Images in the Cloud, The 13th International Conference on Security and Cryptography (SECRYPT), Lisbon, Portugal, July 2016.
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  39. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Cesar Bernardini, Bruno Crispo, PROTECTOR: Privacy-Preserving Information Lookup in Content-Centric Networks, International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016 (Acceptance rate: 39%).
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  40. Clemens Zeidler, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Privacy-preserving Data Sharing in Portable Clouds, International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), Rome, Italy, April 2016 (Acceptance rate: 37%).
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  41. Ryan K. L. Ko, Giovanni Russello, Richard Nelson, Shaoning Pang, Aloysius Cheang, Gill Dobbie, Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh, Sivadon Chaisiri, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Geoffrey Holmes, STRATUS: Towards Returning Data Control to Cloud Users, The 6th International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data (TrustData), Zhangjiajie, China, November 2015 (Invited paper).
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  42. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Giovanni Russello, Bruno Crispo, E-GRANT: Enforcing Encrypted Dynamic Security Constraints in the Cloud, The 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud) - Special Track on Security, Privacy and Trust, Rome, Italy, August 2015 (Acceptance rate: 55/178≈30%). Best Paper Award!
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  43. Milivoj Simeonovski, Fabian Bendun, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Michael Backes, Ninja Marnau, Peter Druschel, Oblivion: Mitigating Privacy Leaks by Controlling the Discoverability of Online Information, The 13th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), New York, USA, June 2015 (Acceptance rate: 33/157≈21%).
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  44. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Ashish Gehani, Bruno Crispo, Giovanni Russello, PIDGIN: Privacy-Preserving Interest and Content Sharing in Opportunistic Networks, In Proceedings of the 9th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Kyoto, Japan, June 2014 (Acceptance rate: 52/260=20%).
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  45. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Giovanni Russello, Bruno Crispo, Mihaela Ion, Supporting Complex Queries and Access Policies for Multi-user Encrypted Databases, In Proceedings of The 5th ACM Workshop on Cloud Computing Security Workshop (CCSW) in conjunction with the 20th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Berlin, Germany, November 2013 (Acceptance rate: 11/30≈36%).
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  46. Soudip Roy Chowdhury, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Sihem Amer-Yahia, Carlos Castillo, Tweet4act: Using Incident-Specific Profiles for Classifying Crisis-Related Messages, In Proceedings of The 10th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM), Baden-Baden, Germany, May 2013.
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  47. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Daniele Miorandi, A Holistic View of Security and Privacy Issues in Smart Grids, EIT ICT Workshop on Smart Grid Security (SmartGridSec), Berlin, Germany, December 2012.
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  48. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Giovanni Russello, ACTORS: A Goal-Driven Approach for Capturing and Managing Consent in e-Health Systems, In Proceedings of The 13th IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (POLICY), Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, July 2012.
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  49. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Mihaela Ion, Giovanni Russello, Bruno Crispo, Securing Data Provenance in the Cloud, IFIP WG 11.4 - Open Problems in Network Security (iNetSec), Lucerne, Switzerland, June 2011 (published by Springer in LNCS 2012).
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  50. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Giovanni Russello, Flexible and Dynamic Consent-Capturing, IFIP WG 11.4 - Open Problems in Network Security (iNetSec), Lucerne, Switzerland, June 2011 (published by Springer in LNCS 2012).
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  51. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Giovanni Russello, Bruno Crispo, Poster: ESPOONERBAC: Enforcing Security Policies in Outsourced Environments with Encrypted RBAC, In Proceedings of The 18th ACM conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), Chicago, Illinois, USA, October 2011.
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  52. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Mihaela Ion, Giovanni Russello, Bruno Crispo, ESPOON: Enforcing Encrypted Security Policies in Outsourced Environments, In Proceedings of The 6th IEEE International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), Vienna, Austria, August 2011 (Full paper acceptance rate: 20%).
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    53. Dissertations

  53. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, Privacy Preserving Enforcement of Sensitive Policies in Outsourced and Distributed Environments, Ph.D. thesis, University of Trento, Italy, December 2013.
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  54. Muhammad Rizwan Asghar, DRM Convergence: Interoperability between DRM Systems, M.Sc. thesis, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands, August 2009.
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