Dr. Sohail Abbas. Assistant Professor. Department of Computer Science University of Sharjah

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1 Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Sharjah Phone office:+971 (0) OFFICE Department of Computer Science University of Sharjah, P.O. Box 27272, Sharjah, UAE R E S E A R C H I N T E R E S T S General: Wireless Network Security. Specific: Cooperation Enforcement in Ad hoc Networks, Reputation and Trust based schemes, detection of identity based Attacks (Sybil, masquerading and replication), selfish or misbehavior node detection in routing and in IEEE MAC protocols in static and mobile ad hoc networks as well as in Internet of Things (IoT) environments. E D U C A T I O N L i v e r p o o l J o h n M o o r e s U n i v e r s i t y, Li v e r p o o l UK [ ] Ph.D. Mobile Ad Hoc Network Security Thesis: A Layered Security Approach for Cooperation Enforcement in MANET. Supervisors: Prof. Madjid Merabti, Dr. David Llewellyn-Jones U n i v e r s i t y o f P e s h a w a r, P a k i s t a n [ ] BCS (Hons) Computer Science Dissertation: Network Timer Server for STC, University of Peshawar. E X P E R I E N C E A S S I S T ANT P ROFESSOR De p a r t m e n t o f CS, Uni v e r s i t y o f S h a r j a h September 2016 Present A S S I S T ANT P ROFESSOR De p a r t m e n t o f CS & I T, U n i v e r s i t y o f M a l a k a n d April 2012 September 2016

2 R E S P O N S I B I L I T I E S Chairman/Incharge, Department of Software Engineering Teaching at undergraduate (BS) and graduate (MS/PhD) level Supervision of MS/PhD students research projects Curriculum design for MS/PhD (Networks courses) L E C TURER De p a r t m e n t o f CS & I T, University of M a l a k a n d March 2005 March 2012 R E S P O N S I B I L I T I E S Teaching at undergraduate (BS) level Convener, BCS Admission Committee Supervision of BS projects S UBJECTS TAUGHT G R A D U A T E L E V E L Wireless Networks Advanced Topics in Wireless Networks Advanced Networking Advanced Network Security Theory of Computation Advanced Operating System Information Security U N D E R G R A D E L E V E L Operating Systems Data Structures & Algorithms Automata Theory & Compiler Construction Object Oriented Analysis & Design Network Security Page 2

3 P R O F E S S I O N A L A C T I V I T I E S Head of Software Engineering Department, University of Malakand (Apr., 2014 Sept., 2016) Member of MS/M.Phil and Ph.D Admission Committee Member: (Nov., 2011 Sept., 2016) Member of various scrutiny committees Member of Board of Studies of various universities of the province Member of Graduate Study Committee, Deptt: of CS & IT, UoM Member of Board of Faculty of IT, UoM Member of Institutional Scholarships Award Committee (IASC), UoM R E S E A R C H & P U B L I C A T I O N S J O U R N A L S I. Ali, M. Faisal, S. Abbas, A Survey on Lightweight Authentication Schemes in Vertical Handover, International Journal of Cooperative Information System, October (IF: 1.0) M. U. Rahman, S. Abbas, A. Alam Investigating the Effects of Mobility Metrics in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, Asian Journal of Engineering, Sciences & Technology, p81-87, August, M. Faheem, S. Abbas, and S. Khan An Efficient and Reliable Core-Assisted Multicast Routing Protocol in Mobile Ad-Hoc Network, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA), Vol. 7, No. 5, May M. Fayaz, Z. U. Rahman, M. U. Rahman, and S. Abbas, Effect of Terrain Size and Pause Time on the Performance of Reactive Routing Protocols," in Jurnal Teknologi, vol. 78: 4-3, pp , Malaysia, (Scopus indexed) Sohail Abbas, Madjid Merabti, and David Llewellyn-Jones, On the Evaluation of Reputation and Trust based Schemes in Mobile Ad hoc Networks in Security and Communication Networks, Wiley publishers, vol. 8, pp , (IF: 1.067) Sohail Abbas, Madjid Merabti, and David Llewellyn-Jones, A Lightweight Sybil Attack Detection in MANETs in IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 7, pp , (IF: 3.882) Kashif Kifayat, Madjid Merabti, Qi Shi, Sohail Abbas, COMponent Based SECurity System (COMSEC) with QoS for Wireless Sensor Networks in Security and Communication Networks, Wiley publishers, vol. 6, pp , (IF: 1.067) Page 3

4 C O N F E R E N C E P A P E R S M. Faisal, I. Ali, H. U. Rehman, S. Abbas, "Localized Re-Authentication Scheme for Vertical Handover," accepted in Future of Information and Communications Conference (FICC), IEEE, M. U. Rahman, S. Abbas, and S. Latif, "Lightweight Detection of Malicious Nodes in Mobile Ad hoc Networks," accepted in International Conference on Communication Technologies, IEEE, S. Abbas and M. U. Rahman, "Simulation-based analysis of MANET routing protocols using group mobility model," in International Conference on Inventive Computation Technologies (ICICT). vol. 1: IEEE, M. U. Rahman, Z. U. Rahman, M. Fayaz, S. Abbas, and R. K. ShahSani, " Performance analysis of TCP/AQM under Low-Rate Denial-of-Service Attacks," in International Conference on Inventive Computation Technologies (ICICT). vol. 3: IEEE, M. U. Rahman, A. Alam, and S. Abbas, "Investigating the Impacts of Entity and Group Mobility Models in MANETs," in The International conference on Computing, Electronic and Electrical Engineering (ICE Cube), IEEE, Pakistan, S. Abbas, M. Merabti, and D.Llewellyn-Jones, "The Effect of Direct Interactions on Reputation Based Schemes in Mobile Ad hoc Networks," in The 5th IEEE PerNets workshop, in conjunction with IEEE CCNC conference, Nevada USA, S. Abbas, M. Merabti, and D.Llewellyn-Jones, "Identity-based Attacks against Reputation-based Systems in MANETs," in The 12th Annual Conference on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking & Broadcasting (PGNet). Liverpool, UK, S. Abbas, M. Merabti, and D.Llewellyn-Jones, "A Survey of Reputation Based Schemes for MANET," in The 11th Annual Conference on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking & Broadcasting (PGNet 2010), Liverpool, UK, S. Abbas, M. Merabti, and D.Llewellyn-Jones, "Deterring Whitewashing Attacks in Reputation Based Schemes for Mobile Ad hoc Networks," in The 3rd IFIP/IEEE Wireless Days, Venice Italy, S. Abbas, M. Merabti, and D.Llewellyn-Jones, "A Reputation Based Scheme to Deter Identity Based Attacks for Clustered MANETs," in The 10th Annual Conference on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting, Liverpool, UK, 2009, pp S. Abbas, M. Merabti, and D. Llewellyn-Jones, "Signal Strength Based Sybil Attack Detection in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks," in Second International Conference on Developments in e-systems Engineering (DESE), 2009, pp Page 4

5 T E C H N I C A L P R O G R A M C O M M I T T E E ( T P C ) M E M B E R TPC member of the IEEE CCNC conference 2016, 2017 and 2018, Nevada, USA. TPC member of IEEE Symposium on Computers & Informatics (ISCI) 2013, Malaysia. TPC member of IEEE Symposium on Wireless Telecommunications Applications (ISWTA) 2012, Indonesia. TPC member of the IEEE CCNC conference (WiP) 2012, USA. TPC member of the 12 th International conference of PGNet 2011, UK. Reviewer of Security and Communication Networks. Reviewer IET Wireless Sensor Systems. Reviewer Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering. Reviewer Mobile Networks and Applications Reviewer International Journal of Electronics and Communications. Reviewer International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks. F U N D E D R E S E A R C H P R O J E C T S A S P R I N C I P A L I N V E S T I G A T O R Sybil Attack Detection in Internet of Things Environment using Machine Learning o Funding amount: AED 20,000/- o Sponsored by University of Sharjah, UAE An Artificial Immune System Based General Intrusion Detection System o Funding amount: Rs.500,000/- o Sponsored by National ICT Research Outreach Program (NIROP), Pakistan, R E S E A R C H T O O L S Network Simulator (NS-2) C/C++ Java AWK, Otcl and Bash scripting Page 5

6 A W A R D S A L I S T O F A C H I E V E D A W A R D S Merit Scholarship for the last two semester in BCS (Hons) awarded by Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar Ph.D. Scholarship under Faculty Development Program from University of Malakand, sponsored by Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan 2008 Page 6