Awarded Grants
5/2020-7/2020; PI; $9000.0 ; CASA Summer Research Support ; A Novel Design for Secure Blockchain as an Anti-Censorship Infrastructure
5/2020; PI; $5,500;" New Online Course Development- Introduction to Software Security", SIU Center For Teaching Excellence.
10/2019 ; PI; $5,500; “New Online Course Development-Introduction to Machine Learning With Applications in Cybersecurity”, SIU Center For Teaching Excellence.
5/2019 - 12/2019 ; PI; $13664.18 ; SEMO Information Technology Committee ; New Blockchain Infrastructure
4/2019-9/2019; PI; $5,550.00; Mideast meets Midwest Research Committee; Studying the Landscape of Internet Censorship and Anti-Censorship in Middle East
Book Chapters
N. Rahimi. Entrepreneurship Opportunities in Cybersecurity, to appear in Role of ICT in Transforming Business & Management Practices. Apple Academic Press/ CRC Press. USA 2023.
N. Rahimi, S. Gudapati. The Emergence of Blockchain Technology in Healthcare and Insurance Industry. Blockchain Technology Solutions for Secure of IoT-based Health Systems. Elsevier Science. USA 2023.
N. Rahimi, B. Gupta; “Security Issues, Vulnerabilities and Defense Mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Network: State of the Art and Recommendation”, Security Issues in Internet of Things: Blockchain and Machine Learning to the rescue, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis, USA, 2021
N. Rahimi, P. Bhandari, I. Roy, B. Gupta, N. Debnath; “Blockchain Technology and its Emerging Applications”, Security and Trust Issues in Internet of Things: Blockchain to the rescue book. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.
Journal Articles
K. Maddali, S. Kaluvakuri, N. Rahimi, B. Gupta. A Comprehensive Study of Some Recent Proximity Awareness Models and Common-Interest Architectural Formulations Among P2P Systems. International Journal for Computers & Their Applications acceptance rate, 28(4), 179-192, 2021.
S. Kaluvakuri, K. Maddali , N. Rahimi, B. Gupta, N. Debnath. “Generalization of RC-Based Low Diameter Hierarchical Structured P2P Network Architecture”, IJCA, Vol. 27, No. 2, June 2020.
N. Rahimi, “Security Consideration in Peer-to-Peer Networks with a Case Study Application”, International Journal of Network Security & Its Applications (IJNSA), 12-21, 2020.
N. Rahimi, B. Gupta; “Android Security and Its Rooting-A Possible Improvement of Its Security Architecture”, Journal of Information Security, 10, 91-102, 2019.
N. Rahimi, J. Reed, B. Gupta; “On the Significance of Cryptography as a Service”, Journal of Information Security, Vol. 9, p.p. 242-256, 2018.
M. Praveen, K. Sinha, N. Rahimi, B. Gupta; “A Highly Secured Three Phase Symmetric Cipher Technique”, International Journal of Computers and Their Applications (IJCA), Volume 25, Number 4, 2018.
B. Gupta, A. Alyanbaawi, N. Rahimi, K. Sinha, Z.Liu; “Novel Low Latency Load Shared Multicore Multicasting Schemes – An Extension to Core Migration”, International Journal of Computers and Their Applications (IJCA), Volume 25, Number 3, 2018.
Peer Reviewed Publications
A. Gautam, N. Rahimi, “Viability of Machine Learning in Android Scareware Detection” to appear in Proceeding of the 36th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE), Virtual, March 2023.
S. Murad, N. Rahimi, “Fog computing with LDE-Based P2P: Enhancing Fog Computing Bandwidth and Security for IoT Scenarios”, to appear in Proceeding of the 36th International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE), Virtual, March 2023.
H. Broome, Y. Shrestha, N. Harrison, N. Rahimi. “SMS Malware Detection: A Machine Learning Approach” (pp. 7). Las Vegas, Nevada: IEEE CPS /The 2022 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence. December 2022
N. Rahimi. “A Study of the Landscape of Security Issues, Vulnerabilities, and Defense Mechanisms in Web Based Applications” (pp. 7). Las Vegas, Nevada: IEEE CPS /The 2021 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence. February 2022
I. Roy, N. Rahimi, S. Kaluvakuri, K. Maddali, B. Gupta (2021). “Design of Efficient Broadcast Protocol for Pyramid Tree-based P2P Network Architecture” (vol. 75, pp. 80-89). EPiC Series in Computing/ The 33rd International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering.
K. Maddali, S. Kaluvakuri, N. Rahimi, I. Roy, B. Gupta, N. Debnath; “On Designing Secured Communication Protocols along with Anonymity for CRT based Structured P2P Network Architecture”, Proceeding of the 33rd International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE), Virtual, October 2020.
I. Roy, N. Rahimi, S, K. Maddali, B. Gupta, N. Debnath; “Design of Efficient Broadcast Protocol for Pyramid Tree-based P2P Network Architecture”, Proceeding of the 33rd International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE), Virtual, October 2020.
N. Rahimi, N. Martin, “Challenges and Strategies for Online Teaching in Information Technology and Other Computing Programs”, In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education - ACM-Sigite (pp. 218-222). 2020
N. Rahimi, B. Gupta; “A Study of the Landscape of Internet Censorship and Anti-Censorship in Middle East”, proceedings of 35th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), San Diego, CA, March 2020.
N. Rahimi, J. Maynor B. Gupta; “Adversarial Machine Learning: Difficulties in Applying Machine Learning to Existing Cybersecurity Systems”, 35th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), San Diego, CA, March 2020.
N. Rahimi, B. Gupta; “Secured Data Lookup in LDE Based Low Diameter Structured P2P Network”, proceedings of 33rd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2018.
B. Gupta, N. Rahimi, K Maddali; “Design of Very Efficient Lookup Algorithms for a Low Diameter Hierarchical Structured Peer-to-Peer Network”, proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Porto, Portugal, July 2018.
B. Gupta, N. Rahimi, K Maddali; “Design of a New Hierarchical Structured Peer-to-Peer Network Based on Chinese Remainder Theorem”, proceedings of 33rd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications (CATA), Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2018.
B. Gupta, N. Rahimi; “Efficient Data Lookup in Non-DHT Based Low Diameter Structured P2P Network”, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Emden, Germany, July 2017.
N. Rahimi, B. Gupta; “A Modified Version of DVR-Based Multicasting with Security”, proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Emden, Germany, July 2017.
B. Gupta, N. Rahimi; “An Efficient Approach for Load-Shared and Fault-Tolerant Multicore Shared Tree Multicasting”, proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Emden, Germany, July 2017.
N. Rahimi, K. Sinha and B. Gupta; “LDEPTH: A low diameter hierarchical p2p network architecture”, proceedings of IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Poitiers, France, July 2016.
M. Zhu, N. Rahimi; “Experience towards Integrating Parallel and Distributed Computing Concepts at Different Levels of Undergraduate Courses”, proceedings of IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (PDPS), May 2015.
M. Zhu, N. Rahimi; “Promoting Teaching Effectiveness and Cultivating Interests in Parallel and Distributed Computing”, proceedings of EduPar Workshop in Conjunction with IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (PDPS), Hyderabad, India, May 2015.
N. Marhamati, P. Patel, Y. Althobaiti, E. S. Khorasani, N. Rahimi; “Revisiting Linguistic Approximation for Computing with Words”, proceedings of Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS) Conference, May 2013.
Y. Lee, N. Rahimi, S. Harvey; “A Pre-Kernel Agent Platform for Security Assurance”, proceedings of SSCI, IA IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Agents, IEEE Press, Paris, France, April 2011.
N. Rahimi, Y. C. Lee, M. Zargham; “An Agent-Based Architecture for High Performance Computing over the Internet”, proceedings of the International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Rome, Italy, 2010.
Presentations
33rd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications. (CATA), Las Vegas, March 2018. “Secured Data Lookup in LDE Based Low Diameter Structured P2P Network”.
Hackathon Dunn-Richmond Center on the SIU Campus, Carbondale IL, Feb 2018. “An Analytical Overview of Cryptography as a Service”.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Emden, Germany, July 2017. “Efficient Data Lookup in Non-DHT Based Low Diameter Structured P2P Network”.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Emden, Germany, July 2017. “A Modified Version of DVR-Based Multicasting with Security”.
IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Emden, Germany, July 2017. “An Efficient Approach for Load-Shared and Fault- Tolerant Multicore Shared Tree”.
Envision Healthcare Conf., Colorado, USA, April 2016. “Security Awareness at Healthcare Applications”.
Hackathon Dunn-Richmond Center on the SIU Campus, Carbondale IL, Feb 2015. “Traditional Internet Communication Security”.
SIU Research Town Hall Meeting, Carbondale IL, April 2013. “Development a Computerized Clinical Decision Support System to Facilitate Tobacco Interventions in Oral Healthcare”.