Awarded Grants
Rahimi, N. (COPI), "INtegrated Cyber Instructor Training Ecosystem (IN-CITE)," Sponsored by Department of Labor, Federal, $1,512,000.00. (May 2024 - May 2027).
Rahimi, N. (PI), "Computing Research Center," Sponsored by Jimmy A. Payne Foundation, Foundation, $32,000.00. (August 2024 - July 2025).
Rahimi, S. (PI), "Summer Grant for the Improvement of Instruction award for summer 2024," Sponsored by USM. $3,300.00. (June 2024 - August 2024).
Rahimi, N. (COPI), "Louis Stokes Mississippi Alliance for Minority Participation (LSMAMP) Pathways Alliance," Sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF), Federal, $75,716.00. (October 2023 - May 2024).
Rahimi, N. (PI), "A Novel Design for Secure Blockchain as an Anti-Censorship Architecture," Sponsored by College of Applied Sciences & Arts- Southern Illinois University, Other, $9,000.00. (August 2020).
Rahimi, N. (PI), "New Online Course Development-Intro to Machine Learning with Applications in Cybersecurity," Sponsored by Center for Teaching Excellence at Southern Illinois University, Other, $5,500.00. (May 2020).
Rahimi, N. (PI), "New Online Course Development-Introduction to Software Security," Sponsored by Center for Teaching Excellence at Southern Illinois University, Other, $5,500.00. (May 2020 )
Rahimi, N. (PI), "Studying the Landscape of Internet Censorship and Anti-Censorship in Middle East," Sponsored by Mideast meets Midwest project, Middle Eastern Studies at Missouri State University, State, $5,000.00. (June 2019).
Rahimi, n. (PI), "A Novel Secure Structured Hierarchical Blockchain Infrastructure," Sponsored by Information Technology at Southeast Missouri State University, Other, $13,664.18. (January 2019 ).
Book Chapters(italics represents student contributions)
Rahimi, N. N., Murad, S. A., Lee, S. B. (2024). Entrepreneurship Opportunities in Cybersecurity. Generating Entrepreneurial Ideas With AI (pp. 172--191). IGI Global.
Murad, s. A., Rahimi, N. (in press). Security Challenges in the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). Quality Assessment and Security in Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). CRC press Taylor and Fransis Group.
Rahimi, N., Murad, s. A, Lee, S. B. (2024). Entrepreneurship Opportunities in Cybersecurity. Generating Entrepreneurial Ideas With AI. IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/979-8-3693-3498-0.ch008
Rahimi, N., Gudapati, S. S. V. (2023). The Emergence of Blockchain Technology in Healthcare and Insurance Industry. Blockchain Technology Solutions for Secure of IoT-based Health Systems (pp. 167-182). Elsevier Science, Academic Press.
Rahimi, N., Roy, I., Gupta, B., Bhandari, P., Debnath, N. C. (2021). Blockchain technology and its emerging applications. Blockchain Technology for Data Privacy Management (1st ed., pp. 133--157). CRC Press.
Rahimi, N., Gupta, B. (2021). Security Issues, Vulnerabilities, and Defense Mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks: State of the Art and Recommendation. Integration of WSNs into Internet of Things (1st ed., pp. 1--15). CRC Press.
Journal Articles (italics represents student contributions)
Murad, S. A., Azmi, Z. R. M., Muzahid, A. J. M., Sarker, M. M. H., Miah, M. S. U., Bhuiyan, M. K. B., Rahimi, S. N., Bairagi, A. K. (2024). Priority based job scheduling technique that utilizes gaps to increase the efficiency of job distribution in cloud computing. Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 41, 100942. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.suscom.2023.100942 Priority-based-job-scheduling-technique-that-utilize_2024_Sustainable-Comput-1.pdf
Murad, S. A., Azmi, Z. R. M., Muzahid, A. J. M., Bhuiyan, M. K. B., Saib, M., Rahimi, N., Prottasha, N. J., Bairagi, A. K. (2024). SG-PBFS: Shortest gap-priority based fair scheduling technique for job scheduling in cloud environment. Future Generation Computer Systems, 150, 232--242.
Murad, S. A., Rahimi, N. (2024). Unveiling Thoughts: A Review of Advancements in EEG Brain Signal Decoding into Text. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems. arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.00726
Baluguri, A., Pasumarthy, V., Rahimi, N. (in press). Optimizing Network Security via Ensemble Learning: A Nexus with Intrusion Detection. Journal of Information Security (JIS).
Murad, S. A., Rahimi, N. (2024). Secure and Efficient Hierarchical P2P Fog Architecture: A Novel Approach for IoT. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 11(10), 18796-18807.
Williams, D., Rahimi, S., Smay, J., Hemmati, S. (2023). Optimizing Silver Nanowire Synthesis: Machine Learning Improves and Predicts Yield for a Polyol, Millifluidic Flow Reactor. Appl Nanosci.
Rahimi, N., Roy, I., Liu, Z., Gupta, B., Debnath, N. (2023). Secured Communication in Generalized Non DHT-based Pyramid Tree P2P Architecture. International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, 30(3), 235--246.
Roy, I., Mitra, R., Rahimi, N., Gupta, B. (2023). Efficient Non-DHT-Based RC-Based Architecture for Fog Computing in Healthcare 4.0. MDPI (Special Issue Cloud and Edge Computing Systems for IoT), 4(2), 131-149. https://www.mdpi.com/2624-831X/4/2/8
Roy, I., Rahimi, N., Gupta, B., Debnath, N. (2023). Infrastructure development of non DHT-based pyramid tree network architecture. Proceedings of 38th International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, 91, 116--123.
Roy, I., Rahimi, S., Liu, Z., Gupta, B., Debnath, N. (2023). On Generalization of Residue Class Based Pyramid Tree P2P Network Architecture. International Journal for Computers & Their Applications, 30(1), 54--65
Maddali, K., Kaluvakuri, S., Rahimi, N., Gupta, B. (2021). 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.
Swathi Kaluvakuri, Koushik Maddali, Nick Rahimi, Bidyut GuptaDebnath,, S. K., Maddali, K., Rahimi, N., Gupta, B., Debnath, N. (2020). Generalization of RC-based Low Diameter Hierarchical Structured P2P Network Architecture. International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, 27(2), 74.
Rahimi, N. (2020). Security Consideration In Peer-to-Peer Networks with a Case Study Application. International Journal of Network Security \& Its Applications (IJNSA), 12(2).
Rahimi, N., Nolan, J., Gupta, B. (2019). Android Security and Its Rooting—A Possible Improvement of Its Security Architecture. Journal of Information Security, 10(2), 91--102.
Praveen, M., Majumder, P., Sinha, K., Rahimi, N., Gupta, B. (2018). A Highly Secured Three-Phase Symmetric Cipher Technique. International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, 25(4), 143--152.
Rahimi, N., Reed, J. J., Gupta, B. (2018). On the Significance of Cryptography as a Service. Journal of Information Security, 9(4), 242--256.
Gupta, B., Alyanbaawi, A., Rahimi, N., Sinha, K., Liu, Z. (2018). Novel Low Latency Load Shared Multicore Multicasting Schemes – An Extension to Core Migration. International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, 25(3), 132-141.