Dr. Fahad Samad

Dr. Fahad Samad

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Last updated on 2010-12-31

Short Biography

Fahad Samad is a PhD student at the Communications and Distributed Systems Chair (Informatik 4) of RWTH Aachen University since April 2007. His doctoral studies are funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Germany and Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan.

He did his Masters in Computer Networks from National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

Research Interests:

  • Security and Privacy in Wireless Mesh Networks
  • RFID Systems Security
  • Security Issues in Pervasive Computing

Publications

CAD+: Detecting Colluding Nodes in Gray Hole Attacks. Lecture Notes in Informatics GI-Edition, vol. S-10, no. Informatiktage 2011. Presented at the Informatiktage 2011: Fachwissenschaftlicher Informatik-Kongress, Mar 25 - Mar 26, 2011. March 2011.
Adaptive Security Established on the Requirements and Resource Abilities of Network Nodes. Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Local Computer Network Conference, vol. 1. Presented at the 35th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN '10), Denver, Colorado, United States. October 2010.
PiCAT: Palliating Channel Assignment Assaults using Adjustable Trust in Wireless Mesh Networks. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2010), vol. 1, Aug 2 - Aug 5, 2010, Zurich, Switzerland. August 2010.
REALISM: Rendering Anonymity and Lightweight Security with Mobility in Wireless Ad hoc and Mesh Networks. The 5th ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet 2009), Tenerife, The Canary Islands, Spain. October 2009.
Protection based on Neighborhood-Trust in Clustered Wireless Mesh Networks. IEEE NGMAST 2009, vol. 1. Presented at the International Conference and Exhibition on Next Generation Mobil Applications, Services and Technologies, Cardiff, U.K.. September 2009.
Neighborhood Nodes Collaboration to Support QoS Routing in Wireless Mesh Networks. IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC 2009), Sousse, Tunisia. July 2009.
Handling Security Vulnerabilities in Clustered Wireless Mesh Networks. The 2nd International Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Networks Security in conjunction with IFIP NETWORKING 2009. Presented at the International Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Networks Security (MWNS 2009), Aachen, Germany. May 2009.
Controlling Physical Objects with Privacy using Secure RFID System. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility, and Security (NTMS 2008), Tangier, Morocco. November 2008.