Research Activities

 Conference /Journal Papers Publications:

• Sharma, D.P., Beigi-Mohammadi, N., Geng, H., Dixon, D., Madro, R., Emmenegger, P., Tobar, C., Li, J. and Leon-Garcia, A.,  "Statistical and Machine Learning Models for Predicting Fire and Other Emergency Events in the City of Edmonton",   IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 56880-56909, 2024, doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3390089. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10504282

• He, X.; Lashkari, A.H.; Vombatkere, N.; Sharma, D.P. Authorship Attribution Methods, Challenges, and Future Research Directions: A Comprehensive Survey. Information 2024, 15, 131. https://doi.org/10.3390/info15030131

• Niktabe, S., Lashkari, A.H. and Sharma, D.P. Detection, characterization, and profiling DoH Malicious traffic using statistical pattern recognition. Int. J. Inf. Secur. 23, 1293–1316 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-023-00790-z

• D. P. Sharma, B. Kaur, F. Shoeleh, M. Erfani, DP. Le, A. H. Lashkari, and A. A. Ghorbani , "Adaptive User Profiling with Online Incremental Machine Learning for Security Information and Event Management ",  The Fifteenth International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies  (SECURWARE 2021 ), Athens, Greece, 2021, pp 82-87. [download link]

• D. P.  Sharma, S. Y.  Enoch, J. H.  Cho, T. J. Moore, F. F. Nelson, H. Lim,  and D. S.  Kim,  "Dynamic Security Metrics for Software-Defined Network-based Moving Target Defense", Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2020.102805 

• J.H. Cho, D. P. Sharma, H. Alavizadeh, S. H. Yoon, N. Ben-Asher, T. J. Moore, D. S. Kim, H. Lim, and F. F. Nelson,  "Toward Proactive, Adaptive Defense: A Survey on Moving Target Defense'', in  IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Jan, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/COMST.2019.2963791  

• C. Dishington, D. P. Sharma, D. S. Kim, J. Jin-Hee, T. J. Moore and F. F. Nelson, "Security and Performance Assessment of IP Multiplexing Moving Target Defence in Software Defined Networks," 2019 18th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications/13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE), Rotorua, New Zealand, 2019, pp. 288-295. DOI: 10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2019.00046

• D. P. Sharma, J. Cho, T. J. Moore, F. F. Nelson, H. Lim and D. S. Kim, "Random Host and Service Multiplexing for Moving Target Defense in Software-Defined Networks," ICC 2019 - 2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Shanghai, China, 2019, pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2019.8761496 

• D. P. Sharma, D. S. Kim, S. Yoon, H. Lim, J. Cho and T. J. Moore, "FRVM: Flexible Random Virtual IP Multiplexing in Software-Defined Networks," 2018 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications/ 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE), New York, NY, 2018, pp. 579-587. DOI: 10.1109/TrustCom/BigDataSE.2018.00088 

• Dilli P.  Sharma. " Mobile Agent-Based Authentication: A Model for User Authentication in a Distributed System". International Journal of Computer Applications 112(13):20-25, February 2015. DOI: 10.5120/19727-1397

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Workshops and Conferences : 

•  Talked on Flexible Random Virtual IP Multiplexing for Moving Target Defense in Software-Defined Networks in the Departmental Postgraduate Conference, September 5-6, 2019, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

• Talked on Moving Target Defenses and Their Applications in the Internet of Things in International Workshop on the Internet of Things Cybersecurity and Safety, 8-10 August 2019, Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. 

• Presented a paper on Security and Performance Assessment of IP Multiplexing Moving Target Defence in Software-Defined Networks in 18th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications / 13th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE), 5 – 8 August 2019, Novotel Lakeside Rotorua, New Zealand.

• Worked as an organizing member (volunteer) the 24th Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP 2019), 3-5 July 2019, Christchurch, New Zealand.

•  Attended 25th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM CCS’18), 15-19, October 2018, Toronto, Canada.

• Presented a paper on FRVM: Flexible Random Virtual IP Multiplexing in Software-Defined Networks in 17th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications/ 12th IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE), July 31-August 3, 2018, New York, USA.

• Attended the International Workshop on the Internet of Things Cybersecurity and Safety, 17-19 July 2018, The University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand.

• Attended an International Workshop on Soft Computing and Applications (ISCA’15), March 25-27, 2015, New Delhi, India.

• Attended a workshop on high-performance and Parallel Computing Methods and Algorithms for Material Defects, Organized by the Institute for Mathematical Sciences (IMS), Department of Mathematics, National University of Singapore (NUS), February 9-13, 2015, Singapore.

• Participated as a team coach in an International Programming Contest 2014, Organized by Bangladesh University, on December 27, 2014, in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Services Computing

• IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering

•  IEEE Access 

• The Computer Journal

• Journal of Network and Computer Applications

Editor & Author

• A Guest Editor of the Electronic Research Archive  Journal for special issues in Intelligent Computing in Remote Sensing Image Analysis and Applications​ (AimsPress)​. 

• Author of the textbooks:

  • JAVA Programming with Advanced Features, First Edition, ISBN: 9 78 9937 30 2203, Buddha Academic Publishers and Distributers, Kathmandu Nepal, 2013 

  • Data Structure and Algorithms a Practical Approach, Second Edition, ISBN: 9 78 9937 870214, KEC Publication, Kathmandu, 2014

  • Computer Programming with C, First Edition, ISBN: 9 78 9937 870245, KEC Publication, Kathmandu 2013