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; $25500.0; Mideast meets Midwest Research Committee; Studying the Landscape of Internet Censorship and Anti-Censorship in Middle East

Journal Articles

  • 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), 12-2 (2020)

  • N. Rahimi, J. Nolen, and Gupta, B. (2019) Android Security and Its Rooting—A Possible Improvement of Its Security Architecture. Journal of Information Security, 10, 91-102. doi: 10.4236/jis.2019.102005.

  • N. Rahimi, J. Reed, B. Gupta;" On the Significance of Cryptography as a Service". Journal of Information Security, Scientific Research. 2018. DOI: 10.4236/jis.2018.94017

  • M. Praveen, K. Sinha, N. Rahimi, B. Gupta; “A Highly Secured Three Phase Symmetric Cipher Technique”, International Journal of Computers and Their Applications ,ISCA Publications, 2018.

  • B. Gupta, A. Alyanbaawi, N. Rahimi, K. Sinha, Z. Liu; "A Novel Low Latency Load Shared Multicore Multicasting Schemes". International Journal of Computers and Their Applications ,ISCA Publications, 2018.

Peer Reviewed Publications

  • K. Maddali, S. Kaluvakuri, N. Rahimi, B. Gupta, N. Debnath. 2020, November." On Designing Secured Communication Protocols along with Anonymity for CRT based Structured P2P Network Architecture." In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE 2020).

  • I. Roy, N. Rahimi, K. Maddali, S. Kaluvakuri, B. Gupta, N. Debnath. 2020, November." Design of Efficient Broadcast Protocol for Pyramid Tree-based P2P Network Architecture." In Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Computer Applications in Industry and Engineering (CAINE 2020) .

  • N. Rahimi and N. Martin, 2020, October. "Challenges and Strategies for Online Teaching in Information Technology and Other Computing Programs." In Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (pp. 218-222).

  • 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, 2020, 69, 60-68.

  • N. Rahimi, B. Gupta, " A Study of the Landscape of Internet Censorship and Anti-Censorship in Middle East. 35th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, CATA, 2020., 69, 60-68.

  • N. Rahimi, B. Gupta; “Secured Data Lookup in LDE Based Low Diameter Structured P2P Network”, 33rd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, CATA, 2018.

  • B. Gupta, N. Rahimi, K. SInha, "Efficient Any Source Capacity-Constrained Overlay Multicast in LDE-Based P2P Networks", 2018 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems (ANTS)

  • B. Gupta, N. Rahimi, K Maddali; “Design of Very Efficient Lookup Algorithms for a Low Diameter Hierarchical Structured Peer-to-Peer Network. Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), 2018

  • B. Gupta, N. Rahimi, K Maddali; “Design of a New Hierarchical Structured Peer-to-Peer Network Based on Chinese Remainder Theorem”, 33rd International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, CATA, 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.

  • B. Gupta and N. Rahimi; “A Modified Version of DVR-Based Multicasting with Security”, Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Informatics (INDIN), Emden, Germany, July 2017.

  • B. Gupta and N. Rahimi; “An Efficient Approach for Load-Shared and Fault-Tolerant Multicore Shared Tree Multicasting”, Proc. 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”, Proc. 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”, IEEE IPDPS conference, Jan 2015.

  • M. Zhu, N. Rahimi; “Promoting Teaching Effectiveness and Cultivating Interests in Parallel and Distributed Computing”, EduPar Workshop in Conjunction with IEEE IPDPS, Proceedings of IEEE IPDPS, Hyderabad, India, May 2015.

  • Marhamati N., Patel P., Althobaiti Y., Khorasani E. S., & N. Rahimi; “Revisiting Linguistic Approximation for Computing with Words”, 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”.