Rjoub, G., Bentahar, J., Abdul Wahab, O., Mizouni, R., Song, A., Cohen, R., Otrok, H., & Mourad, A. (2023). A Survey on Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 20(4), 5115-5140.
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Abdul Wahab, Omar

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Omar Abdul Wahab (58)
- Journal articles (30)
- 2023
Journal article Journal article Arisdakessian, S., Abdul Wahab, O., Mourad, A., & Otrok, H. (2023). Coalitional Federated Learning: Improving Communication and Training on Non-IID Data with Selfish Clients. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 16(4), 2462-2476.Journal article Abusitta, A., de Carvalho, G. H. S., Abdul Wahab, O., Halabi, T., Fung, B. C. M., & Al Mamoori, S. (2023). Deep learning-enabled anomaly detection for IoT systems. Internet of Things, 21, 100656 (13 pages).Journal article Wehbi, O., Arisdakessian, S., Abdul Wahab, O., Otrok, H., Otoum, S., Mourad, A., & Guizani, M. (2023). FedMint: Intelligent Bilateral Client Selection in Federated Learning with Newcomer IoT Devices. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 15 pages.
- 2022
Journal article Bataineh, A. S., Bentahar, J., Mizouni, R., Abdul Wahab, O., Rjoub, G., & El Barachi, M. (2022). Cloud computing as a platform for monetizing data services: A two-sided game business model. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 19(2), 1336-1350.Journal article Abdul Wahab, O., Rjoub, G., Bentahar, J., & Cohen, R. (2022). Federated against the cold: A trust-based federated learning approach to counter the cold start problem in recommendation systems. Information Sciences, 601, 189-206.Journal article Abdul Wahab, O. (2022). Intrusion detection in the IoT under data and concept drifts: Online deep learning approach. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 9(20), 19706-19716.Journal article Rjoub, G., Abdul Wahab, O., Bentahar, J., Cohen, R., & Bataineh, A. S. (2022). Trust-augmented deep reinforcement learning for federated learning client selection. Information Systems Frontiers.Journal article Rjoub, G., Abdul Wahab, O., Bentahar, J., & Bataineh, A. (2022). Trust-driven reinforcement selection strategy for federated learning on IoT devices. Computing.
- 2021
Journal article Mourad, A., Tout, H., Abdul Wahab, O., Otrok, H., & Dbouk, T. (2021). Ad hoc vehicular fog enabling cooperative low-latency intrusion detection. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 8(2), 829-843.Journal article Rjoub, G., Bentahar, J., Abdul Wahab, O., & Saleh Bataineh, A. (2021). Deep and reinforcement learning for automated task scheduling in large-scale cloud computing systems. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 33(23), e5919-e5919.Journal article Abdul Wahab, O., Mourad, A., Otrok, H., & Taleb, T. (2021). Federated machine learning: Survey, multi-level classification, desirable criteria and future directions in communication and networking systems. IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 23(2), 1342-1397.Journal article Halabi, T., Abdul Wahab, O., Al Mallah, R., & Zulkernine, M. (2021). Protecting the internet of vehicles against advanced persistent threats: A Bayesian Stackelberg game. IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 70(3), 970-985.Journal article Abdul Wahab, O., Bentahar, J., Otrok, H., & Mourad, A. (2021). Resource-aware detection and defense system against multi-type attacks in the cloud: Repeated Bayesian Stackelberg game. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 18(2), 605-622.
- 2020
Journal article Abdul Wahab, O., Cohen, R., Bentahar, J., Otrok, H., Mourad, A., & Rjoub, G. (2020). An endorsement-based trust bootstrapping approach for newcomer cloud services. Information Sciences, 527, 159-175.Journal article Rjoub, G., Bentahar, J., & Abdul Wahab, O. (2020). BigTrustScheduling: Trust-aware big data task scheduling approach in cloud computing environments. Future Generation Computer Systems, 110, 1079-1097.Journal article Hammoud, A., Mourad, A., Otrok, H., Abdul Wahab, O., & Harmanani, H. (2020). Cloud federation formation using genetic and evolutionary game theoretical models. Future Generation Computer Systems, 104, 92-104.Journal article St-Onge, C., Kara, N., Abdul Wahab, O., Edstrom, C., & Lemieux, Y. (2020). Detection of time series patterns and periodicity of cloud computing workloads. Future Generation Computer Systems, 109, 249-261.Journal article Arisdakessian, S., Abdul Wahab, O., Mourad, A., Otrok, H., & Kara, N. (2020). FoGMatch: An intelligent multi-criteria IoT-fog scheduling approach using game theory. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 28(4), 1779-1789.Journal article El Mensoum, I., Abdul Wahab, O., Kara, N., & Edstrom, C. (2020). MuSC: A multi-stage service chains embedding approach. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 159, 102593-102593.Journal article Abdul Wahab, O., Bentahar, J., Otrok, H., & Mourad, A. (2020). Optimal load distribution for the detection of VM-based DDoS attacks in the cloud. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 13(1), 114-129.
- 2019
Journal article Abdul Wahab, O., Kara, N., Edstrom, C., & Lemieux, Y. (2019). MAPLE: A machine learning approach for efficient placement and adjustment of virtual network functions. Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 142, 37-50.Journal article Hammoud, A., Otrok, H., Mourad, A., Abdul Wahab, O., & Bentahar, J. (2019). On the detection of passive malicious providers in cloud federations. IEEE Communications Letters, 23(1), 64-67.
- 2018
Journal article Abdul Wahab, O., Bentahar, J., Otrok, H., & Mourad, A. (2018). Towards trustworthy multi-cloud services communities: A trust-based hedonic coalitional game. IEEE Transactions on Services Computing, 11(1), 184-201.
- 2016
Journal article Abdul Wahab, O., Bentahar, J., Otrok, H., & Mourad, A. (2016). A Stackelberg game for distributed formation of business-driven services communities. Expert Systems With Applications, 45, 359-372.Journal article Abdul Wahab, O., Mourad, A., Otrok, H., & Bentahar, J. (2016). CEAP: SVM-based intelligent detection model for clustered vehicular ad hoc networks. Expert Systems With Applications, 50, 40-54.
- 2015
Journal article Abdul Wahab, O., Bentahar, J., Otrok, H., & Mourad, A. (2015). A survey on trust and reputation models for Web services: Single, composite, and communities. Decision Support Systems, 74, 121-134.
- 2014
Journal article Abdul Wahab, O., Otrok, H., & Mourad, A. (2014). A cooperative watchdog model based on Dempster–Shafer for detecting misbehaving vehicles. Computer Communications, 41, 43-54.Journal article Abdul Wahab, O., Otrok, H., & Mourad, A. (2014). A Dempster–Shafer based tit-for-tat strategy to regulate the cooperation in VANET using QoS-OLSR protocol. Wireless Personal Communications, 75(3), 1635-1667.
- 2013
Journal article Abdul Wahab, O., Otrok, H., & Mourad, A. (2013). VANET QoS-OLSR: QoS-based clustering protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks. Computer Communications, 36(13), 1422-1435.
- 2023
- Conference papers (23)
- 2024
Conference paper Abdul Wahab, O. (2024, November). Dynamic Threat Intelligence Coalitions for Improved Cyber Defense Capabilities [Paper]. IEEE 13th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet 2024), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Conference paper Simão, M., Prado, F., Abdul Wahab, O., & Avila, A. (2024, December). TempCharBERT: Keystroke Dynamics for Continuous Access Control Based on Pre-trained Language Models [Paper]. IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS 2024), Rome, Italy.
- 2023
Conference paper Abdul Wahab, O. (2023, December). A max-min security game for coordinated backdoor attacks on federated learning [Paper]. IEEE International Conference on Big Data (BigData 2023), Sorrento, Italy.Conference paper Rjoub, G., Bentahar, J., & Abdul Wahab, O. (2023, June). Explainable Trust-aware Selection of Autonomous Vehicles Using LIME for One-Shot Federated Learning [Paper]. International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2023), Marrakesh, Morocco.Conference paper Arisdakessian, S., Abdul Wahab, O., Mourad, A., & Otrok, H. (2023, February). Towards Instant Clustering Approach for Federated Learning Client Selection [Paper]. International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2023), Honolulu, HI, USA.Conference paper Wehbi, O., Abdul Wahab, O., Mourad, A., Otrok, H., Alkhzaimi, H., & Guizani, M. (2023, June). Towards Mutual Trust-Based Matching For Federated Learning Client Selection [Paper]. 2023 International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2023), Marrakesh, Morocco.
- 2022
Conference paper Farhat, P., Arisdakessian, S., Abdul Wahab, O., Mourad, A., & Ould-Slimane, H. (2022, May). Machine learning based container placement in on-demand clustered fogs [Paper]. International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2022), Dubrovnik, Croatia.
- 2021
Conference paper Rjoub, G., Abdul Wahab, O., Bentahar, J., & Bataineh, A. S. (2021, August). Improving autonomous vehicles safety in snow weather using federated YOLO CNN learning [Paper]. 17th International Conference on Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems.Conference paper Abijaude, J. W., Santiago, L., de Lima Sobreira, P., Abdul Wahab, O., & Greve, F. (2021, July). IoTCocoa - an IoT platform to assist gourmet cocoa production [Paper]. IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications (LATINCOM 2019), Shenzhen, China.Conference paper Abusitta, A., Halabi, T., & Abdul Wahab, O. (2021, August). ROBUST: Deep learning for malware detection under changing environments [Paper]. 1st Workshop on Adverse Impacts and Collateral Effects of Artificial Intelligence Technologies (AIofAI 2021), Montréal, Qc, Canada (13 pages).Conference paper Abusitta, A., Abdul Wahab, O., & Fung, B. C. M. (2021, July). VirtualGAN: Reducing mode collapse in generative adversarial networks using virtual mapping [Paper]. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2021), Shenzhen, China (6 pages).
- 2020
Conference paper Bataineh, A. S., Bentahar, J., Abdul Wahab, O., Mizouni, R., & Rjoub, G. (2020, December). A game-based secure trading of big data and IoT services: blockchain as a two-sided market [Paper]. Service-Oriented Computing, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.Conference paper Halabi, T., Abdul Wahab, O., & Zulkernine, M. (2020, April). A game-theoretic approach for distributed attack mitigation in intelligent transportation systems [Paper]. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2020), Budapest, Hungary.Conference paper Rjoub, G., Abdul Wahab, O., Bentahar, J., & Bataineh, A. (2020, December). A trust and energy-aware double deep reinforcement learning scheduling strategy for federated learning on IoT devices [Paper]. Service-Oriented Computing, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.Conference paper Abusitta, A., Aïmeur, E., & Abdul Wahab, O. (2020, August). Generative adversarial networks for mitigating biases in machine learning systems [Paper]. 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2019), Santiago de Compostela, Spain (11 pages).
- 2019
Conference paper Rjoub, G., Bentahar, J., Abdul Wahab, O., & Bataineh, A. (2019, August). Deep smart scheduling: A deep learning approach for automated big data scheduling over the cloud [Paper]. 7th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2019), Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2017
Conference paper Abdul Wahab, O., Bentahar, J., Otrok, H., & Mourad, A. (2017, June). I know you are watching me: Stackelberg-based adaptive intrusion detection strategy for insider attacks in the cloud [Paper]. IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2017), Honolulu, HI, USA.Conference paper Taghavi, M., Bentahar, J., Otrok, H., Abdul Wahab, O., & Mourad, A. (2017, June). On the effects of user ratings on the profitability of cloud services [Paper]. IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2017), Honolulu, HI, USA (8 pages).
- 2016
Conference paper Abdul Wahab, O., Bentahar, J., Otrok, H., & Mourad, A. (2016, June). How to distribute the detection load among virtual machines to maximize the detection of distributed attacks in the cloud? [Paper]. IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2016), San Francisco, CA, USA.
- 2015
Conference paper El Khatib, A., Mourad, A., Otrok, H., Abdul Wahab, O., & Bentahar, J. (2015, October). A cooperative detection model based on artificial neural network for VANET QoS-OLSR protocol [Paper]. IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Wireless Broadband (ICUWB 2015), Montreal, QC, Canada.Conference paper Abdul Wahab, O., Bentahar, J., Otrok, H., & Mourad, A. (2015, August). Misbehavior detection framework for community-based cloud computing [Paper]. 3rd International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2015), Rome, Italy.Conference paper Abdul Wahab, O. (2015, November). Towards business-oriented services communities: A Stackelberg game theoretical model [Paper]. LABEX CIMI Pluridisciplinary Workshop on Game Theory, Université Toulouse 3 – Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France.
- 2014
Conference paper Abdul Wahab, O., Hachami, M. O., Zaffari, A., Vivas, M., & Dagher, G. G. (2014, July). DARM: a privacy-preserving approach for distributed association rules mining on horizontally-partitioned data [Paper]. Proceedings of the 18th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium, Porto, Portugal.
- 2024
- Book chapters (1)
- 2022
Book chapter Abdul Wahab, O. (2022). An optimized K-means clustering approach on top of MapReduce. In Peter, J. D., Fernandes, S. L., & Alavi, A. H. (eds.), Disruptive Technologies for Big Data and Cloud Applications (Vol. 905, pp. 19-25).
- 2022
- Patents (1)
- 2021
Patent Abdul Wahab, O., Kara N, N., Edstrom, C., & Lemieux, Y. (2021). Machine learning method for adaptive virtual network functions placement and readjustment. (Patent no. US11303722).
- 2021
- Reports (1)
- 2020
Report Abusitta, A., Abdul Wahab, O., & Halabi, T. (2020). Deep learning for proactive cooperative malware detection system. (Report n° G-2020-23 EIW12).
- 2020
- Theses (2)
- 2018
Thesis Abdul Wahab, O. (2018). Game-theoretic foundations for forming trusted coalitions of multi-cloud services in the presence of active and passive attacks [Ph.D. Thesis, Concordia University].
- 2013
Thesis Abdul Wahab, O. (2013). Cooperative clustering models for vehicular ad hoc networks [Master's Thesis, Lebanese American University].
- 2018