Publications

Standardization effort

• Helped create and contribute to: NIST Multi-Domain Knowledge Planes for Service Federation for 5G & Beyond Public Working Group (MDKP-PWG)   https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/multi-domain-knowledge-planes-service-federation-5g-beyond-public-working-group 

• Contributed to: ITU-T Focus Group on Testbeds Federations for IMT-2020 and beyond (FG-TBFxG):  https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-T/focusgroups/tbfxg/Pages/default.aspx 

Industy Presentation at IEEE Globecom 2024, South Africa: https://globecom2024.ieee-globecom.org/ 

R.Chaparadza, Bob Bohn,Taesang Choi, Jeongyun Kim: Title of the Industry Presentation: New Ecosystem on Knowledge Plane (KP) Platforms Driven Networking and Multi-Domain KPs Federations & Business Opportunities in 5G/6G; Standards and AI/ML/GenAI for Autonomous Networks (ANs); Opportunities for Research/R&D Projects required by the industry

Tutorials/Talks

Conference Tutorials:

• Tutorial: Baek-Young Choi, and Venkat Rao Manavarthi, ’Building a Private 5G Testbed Using Open Source Platforms for Future Network Research,’ IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), Dubai, UAE, October 2024 

• Tutorial: Choi, Taesang, and Sejun Song, 'Multi-5G/6G/Autonomous/Networks/Federation:/Challenges,/Solutions,/And/PoC,' IEEE Future Network World Forum (FNWF), Baltimore, USA, November 2023

• Tutorial: Chaparadza, Ranganai, Baek-Young Choi, and Sejun Song, 'The Art Of Standardizations In Communications And Networking: Similarities, Differences, And Intricacies,' IEEE Future Network World Forum (FNWF), Baltimore, USA, November 2023

Talks:

• Baek-Young Choi, University of Beira Interior, Covilhã, Portugal, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, January 2025

• Baek-Young Choi, Workshop on AI for 6G, organized by IEEE Spain Signal PRocessing and Communications Joint Chapter, IEEE ComSoc WICE, University of Carlos III (UC3M), Madrid, Spain, January 2025

• Baek-Young Choi, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, August 2024

• Baek-Young Choi, National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan, IEEE ComSoc Disinguished Lecturer, August 2024

• Baek-Young Choi, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Tainan, Taiwan, IEEE ComSoc Disinguished Lecturer, August 2024

• Baek-Young Choi, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, IEEE ComSoc Disinguished Lecturer, August 2024

• Baek-Young Choi, IEEE ComSoc Bahrain and Karachi Section Chapters, Virtual Distinguished Lecture, July 2024 

• Baek-Young Choi, Seoul National University, Seoul, S. Korea, BK21 Expert Seminar, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, Summer 2024

• Baek-Young Choi, Yonsei University, Seoul, S. Korea, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, July 2024

• Baek-Young Choi, Kyunghee University, Seoul, S. Korea, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, July 2024

• Baek-Young Choi, Pusan National University, Pusan, S. Korea, BK21 Expert Seminar, IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer, Summer 2024

• Baek-Young Choi, IEEE ComSoc Young Professionals (YP), Webinar, Invited Speaker, June 2024

Journal/Conferences/Workshop Publications

1. Thanveer Sulthana, Ava Sharif Jourabchi, Sejun Song, Baek-Young Choi, "Sinema: Semantics-driven Intelligent Network Management using AI assistance," The 10th IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC), Washington D.C., USA, October, 2024

2. I. Almazyad, S. Elmadani, S. Hariri. “A 5G and Beyond Testbed for Cybersecurity Research and Education” 2024 21th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA). IEEE, 2024.

3. (Best paper award) Hisham Kholidy, "A Novel Blockchain Approach for Continuously Authenticating UAVs to achieve Zero Trust Principles in 5G-enabled UAVs", The 2024 Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration  (NeIC 2024) Conference. May 27 – 29, 2024, Tallinn, Estonia.  https://indico.neic.no/event/259/

4. (Best paper award) H. A. Kholidy, "A Smart Network Slicing Provisioning Framework for 5G-based IoT Networks," 2023 10th International Conference on Internet of Things: Systems, Management and Security (IOTSMS), San Antonio, TX, USA, 2023, pp. 104-110, doi: 10.1109/IOTSMS59855.2023.10325712.

5. H. A. Kholidy et al., "Toward Zero Trust Security IN 5G Open Architecture Network Slices," MILCOM 2022 - 2022 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Rockville, MD, USA, 2022, pp. 577-582, doi: 10.1109/MILCOM55135.2022.10017474.

6. Hisham A. Kholidy. Dynamic Network Slicing Orchestration in Open 5G Networks using Multi-Criteria Decision Making and Secure Federated Learning Techniques, 08 August 2024, PREPRINT (Version 1) available at Research Square [https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4745968/v1]

7. MM Badr, M Baza, A Rasheed, H Kholidy, S Abdelfattah, TS Zaman, "Comparative Analysis between Supervised and Anomaly Detectors Against Electricity Theft Zero-Day Attacks", 2024 International Telecommunications Conference (ITC-Egypt), 706-711

8. FM Mustafa, HA Kholidy, AF Sayed, MH Aly, FA Elmisery, "Optical fiber fronthaul segment in open radio access 5G networks: enhanced performance utilizing AFBG", Optical and Quantum Electronics 56 (6), 1014

9. AA Abushgra, HA Kholidy, A Berrouachedi, R Jaziri, "Innovative Routing Solutions: Centralized Hypercube Routing Among Multiple Clusters in 5G Networks", 20th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications.

10. HA Kholidy, A Berrouachedi, E Benkhelifa, R Jaziri, "Enhancing Security in 5G Networks: A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for Attack Classification", 20th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications.

11. HA Kholidy, K Disen, A Karam, E Benkhelifa, MA Rahman, AU Rahman, "Secure the 5G and Beyond Networks with Zero Trust and Access Control Systems for Cloud Native Architectures",  20th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications.

12. A Boualem, A Berrouachedi, M Ayaida, H Kholidy, E Benkhelifa, "A New Hybrid Cipher based on Prime Numbers Generation Complexity: Application in Securing 5G Networks", 20th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications.

13. (In submission) I. Almazyad, P.Satam, S. Hariri. “Federated Cybersecurity Testbed as a Service (FCTaaS): A framework to federate cybersecurity testbeds”, submitted to Future Generation Computer Systems

14. I. Almazyad, S. Shao, S. Hariri. “Anomaly Behavior Analysis of Smart Water Treatment Facility Service: Design, Analysis and Evaluation.” 20th IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, 2023. 

15. T. Ha, S. Shao, S. Hariri. “An Explainable Outlier Detection-based Data Cleaning Approach for Intrusion Detection” 20th IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications. 2023.

16. M. Lopez, S. Shao, S. Hariri, and S. Salehi. " Adaptive Learning Through Extreme Verification Latency Frameworks and Deep Neural Network." Submitted to the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications. 2023.

17. (In submission) M. W. U. Rahman, R. Nevarez, S. Hariri. “Semantically Enhanced Text Clustering Framework based on Transformer Embeddings and Autoencoder Fine-Tuning,” submitted to IEEE Transaction on Cybernetics.

18. M. Lopez, S. Shao, S. Hariri, and S. Salehi. "Machine Learning for Intrusion Detection: Stream Classification Guided by Clustering for Sustainable Security in IoT." ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2023, pp. 691-696. 2023. 

19. M. Rahman, M.M. Abrar, S. Shao, P. Satam, H. Gi. Copening, S. Salehi, and S. Hariri. "Efficient Implementation of Quantized Transformer Models on Resource-Constrained Edge Devices.”  22nd IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications. 2023. 

20. M. Mehrab Abrar, S. Hariri. “An Anomaly Behavior Analysis Framework for Securing Autonomous Vehicle Perception.” 20th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, 2023. 

21. Bohn, Robert B., Abdella Battou, Baek-Young Choi, Ranganai Chaparadza, Sejun Song, Tao Zhang, Taesang Choi, Hisham A. Kholidy, Moonkook Park, and SeungKyu Go. (2023) 2023. “NIST Multi-Domain Knowledge Planes for Service Federation for 5G & Beyond Public Working Group: Applications to Federated Autonomic Autonomous Networking”. IEEE Future Network World Forum 2023.

22. Kumari, Ranju, Sejun Song, and Baek-Young Choi. 2023. “AgNeSA: Agility-driven Non-Terrestrial Networks using Small Airborne Swarm”. In IEEE Future Network World Forum 2023. 

23. Lopez, Martin Manuel, Sicong Shao, Salim Hariri, and Soheil Salehi. 2023. “Machine Learning for Intrusion Detection: Stream Classification Guided by Clustering for Sustainable Security in IoT”. ACM. 

24. Shin, Sunae, Sejun Song, Manasa Leela Gummadavelly, and Baek-Young Choi. (2022) 2022. “SdBaSE: Software-defined Base Station for Energy-efficient Federated Cellular Networks”. 2022 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC). 

25. Kumari, Ranju, Faheed A.F. Alenezi, Sejun Song, and Baek-Young Choi. (2022) 2022. “ML-Defense: Machine Learning for building Dependable Federated Network System”. The 13th International Conference on ICT Convergence (ICTC). 

26. Park, Moonkook, Yoonwan Ma, and Taesang Choi. 2022. “OneVisionNFP - Design and Implementation of Agile Private Public 5G B5G Network Federation Platform”. IEEE. 

27. Ko, Seungyu, Sunghyun Na, and Taesang Choi. 2022. “Cloud MeshI5S - Design and Implementation of Agile Private Public 5G B5G Service Federation Platform”. IEEE. 

28. Elkotob, Muslim, Ranganai Chaparadza, Benoit Radier, Tayeb Ben Meriem, and Taesang Choi. 2022. “Testing of Federated Autonomics in 5G Multi-Operator Scenarios, As a Use Case for Testbeds Federations for 5G & Beyond”. IEEE. 

29. Bohn, Robert B., Ranganai Chaparadza, Muslim Elkotob, and Taesang Choi. 2022. “The Path to Cloud Federation through Standardization”. IEEE. 

30. Chaparadza, Ranganai, Muslim Elkotob, Benoit Radier, Tayeb Ben Meriem, Taesang Choi, Robert B. Bohn, Abdella Battou, and Tao Zhang. 2022. “The Era of Knowledge Plane (KP) Platforms Driven Networking—Anchor for Federation of Autonomic Autonomous Networks (ANs) Across Industry Sectors”. IEEE. 

31. Park, Moonkook, Yoonwan Ma, and Taesang Choi. 2022. “OneVisionNFP - Design and Implementation of Agile Private Public 5G B5G Network Federation Platform”. IEEE.