School of Information Sciences

Mai Abdelhakim

Visiting Assistant Professor

610 IS Building
412-624-9331

maia@pitt.edu

Institution of highest degree:
PhD, Michigan State University

Research Interests:

Cyber-physical systems security, wireless communications, and network design.

Publications:

Journal Papers:

  1. Mai Abdelhakim,Yuan Liang, Tongtong Li, “Mobile Access Coordinated Wireless Sensor Networks -- Design and Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, 2016.
  2. Mai Abdelhakim, Yuan Liang, Tongtong Li, “Mobile Coordinated Wireless Sensor Network: An Energy Efficient Scheme for Real-Time Transmissions,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 1663-1675, May 2016.
  3. Ahmed Alahmadi, Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Defense Against Primary User Emulation Attacks in Cognitive Radio Networks Using Advanced Encryption Standard,”IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 772-781, May 2014.
  4. Tongtong Li, Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, “N-Hop Networks: A General Framework for Wireless Systems,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 98-105, Apr. 2014.
  5. Mai Abdelhakim, Leonard Lightfoot, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Distributed Detection in Mobile Access Wireless Sensor Networks under Byzantine Attacks,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 950-959, Apr. 2014.
  6. Mai Abdelhakim, Mohammed Nafie, Ahmed Shalash, and Ayman Y. Elezabi, “Adaptive Bit Loading and Puncturing using Long Single Codewords in OFDM Systems,”Wireless Personal Communications Journal, vol. 71, pp. 1557-1576, Jul. 2013.

Conference Papers:

  1. Mai Abdelhakim, Leonard Lightfoot, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Reliable Communications over Multihop Networks Under Routing Attacks,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’15), Dec. 2015.
  2. Mai Abdelhakim, Zhaoxi Fang, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Hybrid Mobile Access Coordinated Wireless Sensor Networks — Design and Analysis,” IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP), invited paper, 2015.
  3. Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Throughput Analysis and Routing Security Discussions of Mobile Access Coordinated Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’14), 2014.
  4. Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Mobile Access Coordinated Wireless Sensor Networks -- Topology Design and Throughput Analysis,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’13), Dec. 2013.
  5. Ahmed Alahmadi, Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Mitigating Primary User Emulation Attacks in Cognitive Radio Networks Using Advanced Encryption Standard,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’13), Dec. 2013.
  6. Mai Abdelhakim, Leonard Lightfoot, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Architecture Design of Mobile Access Coordinated Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’13), Jun. 2013.
  7. Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Reliable OFDM System Design under Hostile Multi-tone Jamming,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’12), Dec. 2012.
  8. Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Reliable Cooperative Sensing in Cognitive Networks,” International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA’12), invited paper, Aug. 2012.
  9. Mai Abdelhakim, Leonard Lightfoot, Tongtong Li, “Reliable Data Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks Under Byzantine Attacks,” IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM’11), Nov. 2011. 
  10. Mai Abdelhakim, Lei Zhang, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Cooperative Sensing in Cognitive Networks under Malicious Attack,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP’11), May 2011.
  11. Mai Abdelhakim, Mohammed Nafie, Ahmed Shalash, and Ayman Y. Elezabi, “Adaptive Puncturing for coded OFDMA systems,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’09), Jun. 2009.
  12. Mai Abdelhakim, Mohammed Nafie, Ahmed Shalash, and Ayman Y. Elezabi, “Adaptive Puncturing and Rate Selection in Single-Codeword Turbo-Coded OFDMA,” IEEE Mobile WiMAX Symposium (MWS’09), Jul. 2009.

Patents:

Ahmed Alahmadi, Mai Abdelhakim,  Jian Ren,  Tongtong Li, “Method for Defense Against Primary User Emulation Attacks in Cognitive Radio Networks Using Advanced Encryption,” US Patent Application 20,150,156,012, Jun. 2015.

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