On the integration of blockchain and sdn: Overview, applications, and future perspectives

A Rahman, A Montieri, D Kundu, MR Karim… - Journal of Network and …, 2022 - Springer
Blockchain (BC) and software-defined networking (SDN) are leading technologies which
have recently found applications in several network-related scenarios and have …

Service Function Chaining security survey: Addressing security challenges and threats

M Pattaranantakul, C Vorakulpipat, T Takahashi - Computer Networks, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Service function chaining (SFC) is a trending paradigm and it has attracted
considerable attention from both the industry and academia because of its potential to …

FUPE: A security driven task scheduling approach for SDN-based IoT–Fog networks

S Javanmardi, M Shojafar, R Mohammadi… - Journal of information …, 2021 - Elsevier
Fog computing is a paradigm to overcome the cloud computing limitations which provides
low latency to the users' applications for the Internet of Things (IoT). Software-defined …

Spike2vec: An efficient and scalable embedding approach for covid-19 spike sequences

S Ali, M Patterson - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Big …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the rapid global spread of COVID-19, more and more data related to this virus is
becoming available, including genomic sequence data. The total number of genomic …

PWM2Vec: An efficient embedding approach for viral host specification from coronavirus spike sequences

S Ali, B Bello, P Chourasia, RT Punathil, Y Zhou… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The family of coronaviruses comprises a diverse set of strains and variants
which cause diseases from the common cold to COVID-19. Moreover, they infect a wide …

A k-mer Based Approach for SARS-CoV-2 Variant Identification

S Ali, B Sahoo, N Ullah, A Zelikovskiy… - … and Applications: 17th …, 2021 - Springer
With the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) across the globe and its
continuous mutation, it is of pivotal importance to design a system to identify different known …

Effective and scalable clustering of SARS-CoV-2 sequences

S Ali, TE Ali, MA Khan, I Khan, M Patterson - Proceedings of the 5th …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
SARS-CoV-2, like any other virus, continues to mutate as it spreads, according to an
evolutionary process. Unlike any other virus, the number of currently available sequences of …

Robust representation and efficient feature selection allows for effective clustering of sars-cov-2 variants

Z Tayebi, S Ali, M Patterson - Algorithms, 2021 - mdpi.com
The widespread availability of large amounts of genomic data on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, as
a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, has created an opportunity for researchers to analyze …

Efficient approximate kernel based spike sequence classification

S Ali, B Sahoo, MA Khan, A Zelikovsky… - IEEE/ACM …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Machine learning (ML) models, such as SVM, for tasks like classification and clustering of
sequences, require a definition of distance/similarity between pairs of sequences. Several …

On-the-fly (D) DoS attack mitigation in SDN using Deep Neural Network-based rate limiting

A El Kamel, H Eltaief, H Youssef - Computer Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Software Defined Networking (SDN) has emerged as a promising paradigm offering
an unprecedented programmability, scalability and fine-grained control over forwarding …