Browsing by Author "Furqan, Haji Muhammad"
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Adaptive bit-loading in relay-aided cognitive radio network
Siddiqi, Muhammad Zain; Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Jabeen, Tayyaba; Ali, Zain; Sidhu, Guftaar Ahmad Sardar (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)In this work, we consider a joint power allocation and bit loading problem in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) based cognitive radio (CR) network. The objective is to maximize the end-to-end rate in a ... -
Adaptive OFDM-IM for enhancing physical layer security and spectral efficiency of future wireless networks
Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Hamamreh, Jehad; Arslan, Hüseyin (Hindawi Limited, 2018)In this paper, we propose algorithms for enhancing physical layer security and spectral efficiency of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) with Index Modulation (IM) systems. Particularly, different activation ... -
Deep learning-assisted detection of PUE and jamming attacks in cognitive radio systems
Aygül, Mehmet Ali; Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Nazzal, Mahmoud; Arslan, Hüseyin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020)Cognitive radio (CR)-based internet of things systems can be considered as an efficient solution for futuristic smart technologies. However, CRs are naturally vulnerable to two major security threats; primary user emulation ... -
An efficient security method based on exploiting channel state information (CSI)
Hamamreh, Jehad M.; Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Ali, Zain; Sidhu, Guftaar Ahmad Sardar (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)A channel amplitude quantization method that can effectively quantize the channel response using just one single threshold value is proposed in order to extract a random manipulating sequence with good secrecy properties. ... -
Enhancing physical layer security in AF relay-assisted multicarrier wireless transmission
Aman, Waqas; Sidhu, Guftaar Ahmad Sardar; Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Ali, Zain (Wiley, 2018)In this paper, we study the physical layer security problem in the dual-hop orthogonal frequency division multiplexing-based wireless communication system. First, we consider a single-user single-relay system and study a ... -
Enhancing physical layer security of OFDM systems using channel shortening
Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Hamamreh, Jehad M.; Arslan, Hüseyin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)This work presents a simple, spectral and power efficient scheme for providing secure OFDM communication system using channel shortening. The basic concept is to utilize a channel shortening technique, whose design is based ... -
Enhancing the security performance of ostbc using pre-equalicodization
Hamamreh, Jehad M.; Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Ali, Zain; Sidhu, Guftaar Ahmad Sardar (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)In this study, we first quantify the secrecy performance achieved by employing precoded orthogonal space time block coding (POSTBC) in order to use it as a benchmark for comparison purposes with a new proposed security ... -
FDD massive MIMO downlink channel estimation via selective sparse coding over AOA/AOD cluster dictionaries
Nazzal, Mahmoud; Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Arslan, Hüseyin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018)Sparse coding over a redundant dictionary has recently been used as a framework for downlink channel estimation in frequency division duplex massive multiple-input multiple-output antenna systems. This usage allows for ... -
Flexible guard structure for timing synchronization in coordinated networks
Kihero, Abuu Bakari; Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Arslan, Hüseyin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022)In this letter, a novel and flexible hybrid guard duration (HGD) based on zero tail (ZT) and cyclic prefix (CP) concepts is proposed for facilitating timing synchronization (TS) in coordinated multi-point (COMP) networks. ... -
Flexible physical layer security for joint data and pilots in future wireless networks
Zegrar, Salah Eddine; Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Arslan, Hüseyin (IEEE-Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2022)In this work, novel physical layer security (PLS) schemes are proposed for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) to secure both data and pilots in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. The majority of ... -
Iterative tap pursuit for channel shortening equalizer design
Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Nazzal, Mahmoud; Arslan, Hüseyin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018)In this work, an iterative tap pursuit algorithm for designing channel shortening equalizers is proposed. Similar to pursuit algorithms, a residual vector is initialized with a desired target impulse response, which is ... -
New physical layer key generation dimensions: Subcarrier indices/positions-based key generation
Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Hamamreh, Jehad M.; Arslan, Hüseyin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021)In this letter, novel algorithms for secret key generation from the wireless channel in multi-carrier systems are proposed for ensuring the confidentiality and authentication in wireless communication systems. The novelty ... -
On fair interference management in cognitive radio networks
Musab, Muhammad; Ali, Zain; Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Amanat, Irtiza; Jabeen, Tayyaba; Sidhu, Guftaar Ahmad Sardar (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)In this paper, we consider power optimization problem in cognitive radio (CR) networks. The aim is to protect the licensed primary users (PUs) from unequal performance degradation by secondary users (SUs). A min-max ... -
Optimizing D2D transmission for secure and reliable smart grid communication
Waqas, Muhammad; Ali, Zain; Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Sidhu, Guftaar Ahmad Sardar (IEEE Computer Society, 2017)Smart grid (SG) has been recognized as a promising solution to manage and distribute electricity in the next generation power systems. The large number of devices in power systems make the wired communication a non feasible ... -
Physical layer security designs for 5G and beyond
Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Hamamreh, Jehad M.; Arslan, Hüseyin (Institution of Engineering and Technology, 2020)Physical layer security (PLS) has emerged as a promising and powerful concept for securing future wireless technologies, including fifth generation (5G) and beyond networks, as it has the potential to solve many of the ... -
Primary user emulation and jamming attack detection in cognitive radio via sparse coding
Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Aygül, Mehmet Ali; Nazzal, Mahmoud; Arslan, Hüseyin (Springer, 2020)Cognitive radio is an intelligent and adaptive radio that improves the utilization of the spectrum by its opportunistic sharing. However, it is inherently vulnerable to primary user emulation and jamming attacks that degrade ... -
Secret key generation using channel quantization with SVD for reciprocal MIMO channels
Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Hamamreh, Jehad M.; Arslan, Hüseyin (IEEE, 2016)The generation of secret keys from reciprocal wireless channel by exploiting their randomness nature, is an emerging area of interest to provide secure communication. One of the main challenges in this domain is to increase ... -
Secure and reliable IoT communications using nonorthogonal signals' superposition with dual-transmission
Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Hamamreh, Jehad M.; Arslan, Hüseyin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020)Ensuring secure communication for internet of things (IoT) has drawn much attention because of the limitation in the use of conventional cryptographic techniques owing to the unique features of IoT devices such as low ... -
User association for enhancing physical layer security in heterogeneous network
Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Sidhu, Guftaar Ahmad Sardar; Arslan, Hüseyin (Springer, 2019)In this work, a fair user association scheme is proposed for heterogeneous networks aiming to enhance physical layer security (PLS). More specifically, the user association problem is formulated as a Nash bargaining problem ... -
User association techniques in future heterogeneous networks
Bakht, Khush; Furqan, Haji Muhammad; Ali, Zain; Sidhu, Guftaar Ahmad Sardar (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)The exponential increase in the demand of data rate and scarcity of the available spectrum have evolved to the more advanced network topology which efficiently utilizes the radio spectrum such as Heterogeneous Networks ...
