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JOURNAL PAPERS

• M. Golmaryami, R. Taheri, Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, P. Xiao. SETTI: A Self-Supervised AdvErsarial Malware DeTection ArchiTecture in an IoT Environment, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), pp. 1-20, May 2022. (IF = 3.989)


• Z. Pooranian, M. Conti, H. Haddadi, R. Tafazolli. Online Advertising Security: Issues, Taxonomy, and Future Directions, IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (COMST), pp. 1-31, October 2021. (IF = 25.249)


• M. Golec, R. Ozturac, Z. Pooranian, S. Singh Gill, R. Buyya. iFaaSBus: A Security and Privacy based Lightweight Framework for Serverless Computing using IoT and Machine Learning, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), pp. 1-8, July 2021. (IF = 10.215)


• Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, S. Garg, R. Taheri, R. Tafazolli. LEVER: Secure Deduplicated Cloud Storage with Encrypted Two-Party Interactions in Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), Vol. PP, pp. 1-10, August 2020. (IF = 9.112)


• R. Taheri, R. Javidan, M. Shojafar, Z. Pooranian, A. Miri, M. Conti. On Defending Against Label Flipping Attacks on Malware Detection Systems, Springer, Neural Computing and Applications (NCAA), pp. 1-23, March 2020. (IF = 4.774)


• R. Taheri, R. Javidan, Z. Pooranian. Adversarial Android Malware Detection for Mobile Multimedia Applications in IoT Environments, Springer, Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), pp. 1-12, February 2020. (IF = 2.313)


• R. Taheri, M. Ghahremani, R. Javidan, M. Shojafar, Z. Pooranian, M. Conti. Similarity-based Android Malware Detection Using Hamming Distance of Static Binary Features, Elsevier, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Vol. 105, pp. 230-247, April 2020. (IF = 6.125)


• P.G. Vineuza, Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, M. Conti, R. Buyya. FOCAN: A Fog-supported Smart City Network Architecture for Management of Applications in the Internet of Everything Environments, Elsevier, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Vol. 132, pp. 274-283, October 2019. (IF = 2.296)


• M. Shojafar, Z. Pooranian, M. Sookhak, R. Buyya. Recent advances in cloud data centers toward fog data centers, Wiley, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CPE), pp. 1-4, April 2019. (IF = 1.447)


• Z. Pooranian, J. H. Abawajy, Vinod P., M. Conti. Scheduling Distributed Energy Resource Operation and Daily Power Consumption for a Smart Building to Optimize Economic and Environmental Parameters, In (MDPI) Energies, Vol. 11, May 2018. (IF = 2.702)


• P.G. Vineuza, Z. Pooranian, Sh. Shamshirband, J. H. Abawajy, M. Conti. Fog over Virtualized IoT: New Opportunity for Context-Aware Networked Applications and a Case Study, In (MDPI) Applied Sciences, Vol. 7, December 2017. (IF = 2.474)


• M. Shojafar, Z. Pooranian, P.G. Vineuza, E. Baccarelli. FLAPS: bandwidth and delay-efficient distributed data searching in Fog-supported P2P content delivery networks, Springer, Journal of Supercomputing (SUPE), pp. 1-22, June 2017. (IF = 2.469)


• P.G. Vineuza, M. Shojafar, H. Mostafaei, Z. Pooranian, E. Baccarelli. P_SEP: A Prolong Stable Election Routing Algorithm for Energy-limited Heterogeneous Fog-supported Wireless Sensor Networks, Springer, Journal of Supercomputing (SUPE), Vol. 73, No. 2, pp. 733-755, February 2017. (IF = 2.469)


• Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, J. H. Abawajy, A. Abraham. An Efficient Meta-heuristic Algorithm for Grid Computing, Springer, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization (JOCO), Vol. 30, pp. 413-434, October 2015. (IF = 0.990)


• M. Shojafar, Z. Pooranian, M. R. Meybodi, M. Singhal. ALATO: An Efficient Intelligent Algorithm for Time Optimization in an Economic Grid Based on Adaptive Stochastic Petri Net, Springer, Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing (JIMS), Vol. 26, No. 5, pp. 641-658, August 2015. (IF = 4.311)


• M. Shojafar, J. H. Abawajy, Z. Delkhah, A. Ahmadi, Z. Pooranian, A. Abraham. An Efficient and Distributed File Search in Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks, Springer, Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (PPNA), Vol. 8, pp. 120-136, January 2015. (IF = 2.793)


• Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, B. Javadi, A. Abraham. Using Imperialist Competition Algorithm for Independent Task Scheduling in Grid Computing, IOS Press, Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems (JIFS), Vol. 27, No. 1, December 2014. (IF = 1.851)


• Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, R. Tavoli, M. Singhal, A. Abraham. A Hybrid Metaheuristic Algorithm for Job Scheduling on Computational Grids, Informatica, (Special Issue: Grid, Cloud and Sky Applications for Knowledge-based), Vol. 37, No. 2, pp.157-164, May 2013. (IF = 1.928)


• M. Shojafar, Z. Pooranian, J. H. Abawajy, M. R. Meybodi. An Efficient Scheduling Method for Grid Systems Based on a Hierarchical Stochastic Petri Net, Journal of Computing Science and Engineering (JCSE), Vol.7, No.1, pp.44-52, March 2013.


• Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, J. H. Abawajy, M. Singhal. GLOA: A New Job Scheduling Algorithm for Grid Computing, International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI), Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 59-64, March 2013. (IF = 2.561)

CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOP PAPERS

• B. Roshan, Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, R. Tafazolli. A Heterogenous IoT Attack Detection through Deep Reinforcement Learning: A Dynamic ML Approach, The 58th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications, (IEEE ICC'23), Rome, Italy, 28 May - 01 June 2023.


• P. Haji Mirzaee, M. Shojafar, Z. Pooranian, P. Asef, H. Cruickshank, R. Tafazolli. FIDS: A Federated Intrusion Detection System for 5G Smart Metering Network, The 17th IEEE International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking, (IEEE MSN 2021), Exeter, UK, 13-15 December 2021.


• S. Soltani, M. Shojafar, H. Mostafaei, Z. Pooranian, R. Tafazolli. Link Latency Attack in Software-Defined Networks, The 17th IEEE International Conference on Network and Service Management (IEEE CNSM 2021), pp.1-7, 25-29 October 2021.


• M. Shojafar, R. Taheri, Z. Pooranian, R. Javidan, A. Miri, Y. Jararweh. Automatic Clustering of Attacks in Intrusion Detection Systems, The 16th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2019), Abu Dhabi, UAE, pp.1-8, 3-7 November 2019.


• Z. Pooranian, K-Ch. Chen, Ch-Mu. Yu, M. Conti. RARE: Defeating Side Channels based on Data-Deduplication in Cloud Storage, The 7th International workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications (IEEE INFOCOM 2018 workshop: CCSNA 2018), Honolulu, USA, pp.444-449, 16-19 April 2018.


• Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, P.G. Vineuza, L. Chiaraviglio, M. Conti. A Novel Distributed Fog-based Networked Architecture to Preserve Energy in Fog Data Centers, The 14th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems (IEEE MASS 2017), Orlando, FL, USA, pp. 605-609, 22-25 October 2017.


• Z. Pooranian, N Nikmehr, S Najafi-Ravadanegh, H Mahdin, J Abawajy. Economical and Environmental Operation of Smart Networked Microgrids Under Uncertainties Using NSGA-II, The 24th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks (IEEE SOFTCOM), Split, Croatia, pp. 1-6, 22-24 September 2016.

BOOK CHAPTER

• M. Shojafar, Z. Pooranian, M. Shojafar, A. Abraham. LLLA: New Efficient Channel Assignment Method in Wireless Mesh Networks, Springer LNCS, Vol. 237, pp 143-152, January 2014.