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Selected Refereed Papers


  1. B. Jafarian, N. Yazdani, M. Sayad Haghighi, "Using attentive temporal GNN for dynamic trust assessment in the presence of malicious entities", in Expert Systems with Applications, 2025.
  2. G. Ebrahimpour, M. Sayad Haghighi, "Is Bitcoin Future as Secure as We Think? Analysis of Bitcoin Vulnerability to Bribery Attacks Launched through Large Transactions", in ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security, 2024.
  3. Y. Zhang, X. Zhu, D. He, M. Xue, S. Ji, M. Sayad Haghighi, S. Wen, Z. Peng, "Detecting Union Type Confusion in Component Object Model", in USENIX Security Symposium, 2023.
  4. M. Sayad Haghighi, F. Farivar, A. Jolfaei, A.B. Asl, W. Zhou, "Cyber Attacks via Consumer Electronics: Studying the Threat of Covert Malware in Smart and Autonomous Vehicles", in IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 2023.
  5. X. Hu; H. Cai; M. Alazab; W. Zhou; M. Haghighi; S. Wen, "Federated Learning in Industrial IoT: A Privacy-Preserving Solution That Enables Sharing of Data in Hydrocarbon Explorations", in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2023.
  6. H. A. Ghiassirad, F. Farivar, M. A. Shoorehdeli, M. Sayad Haghighi, "Building Robust Neural Networks under Adversarial Machine Learning Attacks by using Biologically-inspired Neurons," in Information Sciences, 2023.
  7. F. Gaolei, L. Yu, M. Alazab, S. Wen, M. Sayad Haghighi, G. Hu, "Digging the Underlying Layers of Intelligent Transportation Systems Network by Mobile Crowdsourcing," in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence, 2022.
  8. I. Mirzadeh, M. Sayad Haghighi, A. Jolfaei, "Filtering Malicious Messages by Trust-aware Cognitive Routing in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2022.
  9. T. Wang, H. Ke, A. Jolfaei, S. Wen, M. Sayad Haghighi, S. Huang, "Missing Value Filling Based on the Collaboration of Cloud and Edge in Artificial Intelligence of Things," in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2022.
  10. W. Zhou, Y. Ding, A. Jolfaei, M. Sayad Haghighi, S. Wen, "A Privacy-Preserving Approach to Identify COVID-19 Infection Origins via Volunteered Share of Health Data Records by Mobile Users," in IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022.
  11. H. Alghafari, M. Sayad Haghighi, A. Jolfaei, "High Bandwidth Green Communication with Vehicles by Decentralized Resource Optimization in Integrated Access Backhaul 5G Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 2022.
  12. M. Ebrahimi, M. H. Tadayon, M. Sayad Haghighi, A. Jolfaei, "A Quantitative Comparative Study of Data-Oriented Trust Management Schemes in Internet of Things," in ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems, 2022.
  13. G. Ebrahimpour, M. S. Haghighi, M. Alazab, "Can Blockchain be Trusted in Future Industry 4.0? Study of a Novel Misleading Attack on Bitcoin", in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2022.
  14. H. Alghafari, M. S. Haghighi, "Decentralized joint resource allocation and path selection in multi-hop integrated access backhaul 5G networks", in Computer Networks, 2022.
  15. L. Li, J. Long, W. Zhou, A. Jolfaei, M.S. Haghighi, "Joint Optimization of Energy Consumption and Data Transmission in Smart Body Area Networks", in Sensors, 2022.
  16. F. Farivar, M. Sayad Haghighi, A. Jolfaei, S. Wen, "Covert Attacks through Adversarial Learning: Studying the Effect of Lane Keeping Attacks on the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles", in IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics , 2021.
  17. D. Wang, S. Wen, A. Jolfaei, M. Sayad Haghighi, S. Nepal, Y. Xiang, "On the Neural Backdoor of Federated Generative Models inEdge Computing", in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology , 2021.
  18. M. Ebrahimi, M. Sayad Haghighi, A. Jolfaei, N. Shamaeian, M. H. Tadayon, "A Secure and Decentralized Trust Management Scheme for Smart Health Systems", in IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2021.
  19. S. Kouroshnezhad, A. Peiravi, M.S. Haghighi, A. Jolfaei, "Energy-efficient drone trajectory planning for the localization of 6G-enabled IoT devices", in IEEE Internet of Things Journal , 2020.
  20. F. Farivar, M. Sayad Haghighi, A. Jolfaei, S. Wen, "On the security of networked control systems in smart vehicle and its adaptive cruise control", in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems , 2021.
  21. X. Zhu, S. Wen, A. Jolfaei, M. Sayad Haghighi, S.Camtepe, Y.Xiang, "Vulnerability detection in SIoT applications: A fuzzing method on their binaries", in IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 2020
  22. M. Sayad Haghighi, M. Abdollahi, "Protecting Cyber Physical Systems against Malicious Intruders: A General Detection and Compensation Strategy", in The 17th International ISC Conference on Information Security and Cryptology , 2020.
  23. M. Sadegh Sadeghi Garmaroodi, F. Farivar, M. Sayad Haghighi, M. Aliyari Shoorehdeli, A. Jolfaei, "Detection of anomalies in industrial iot systems by data mining: Study of christ osmotron water purification system," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal , 2020.
  24. F. Farivar, M. Sayad Haghighi, A Jolfaei, M Alazab, "Artificial intelligence for detection, estimation, and compensation of malicious attacks in nonlinear cyber physical systems and industrial IoT," in IEEE transactions on industrial informatics , 2019.
  25. M. Sayad Haghighi, Z. Aziminejad, "Highly Anonymous Mobility-Tolerant Location-based Onion Routing for VANETs", in IEEE Internet of Things Journal , 2019.
  26. S. Barchinezhad, M. Sayad Haghighi,"Compensation of Linear Attacks to Cyber Physical Systems through ARX System Identification", in The 10th Conference on Information and Knowledge Technology, 2019.
  27. S. Kouroshnezhad, A. Peiravi, M. Sayad Haghighi, Q. Zhang, "A mixed-integer linear programming approach for energy-constrained mobile anchor path planning in wireless sensor networks localization," in Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 87, 2019.
  28. F. Farivar, M. Sayad Haghighi, S. Barchinezhad, A. Jolfaei, "Detection and Compensation of Covert Service-Degrading Intrusions in Cyber Physical Systems through Intelligent Adaptive Control," in IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology, 2019
  29. A. SeyedHassani, M. Sayad Haghighi, A. Khonsari, "Bayesian inference of private social network links using prior information and propagated data", in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2018.
  30. M. Sayad Haghighi, S. Wen, Y. Xiang, B. Quinn, W. Zhou, "On the race of worms and patches: Modeling the spread of information in wireless sensor networks", in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2016, DOI=10.1109/TIFS.2016.2594130
  31. A. Mohammadali, M. Sayad Haghighi, M. H. Tadayon, A. Mohammadi, "A Novel Identity-based Key Establishment Scheme for Advanced Metering Infrastructure in Smart Grid", in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2016.
  32. A. Arabsorkhi, M. Sayad Haghighi, R. Ghorbanloo, "A Trust Framework for Internet of Things Interactions," in International Symposium on Telecommunications, to appear, 2016.
  33. M. Sayad Haghighi, Y. Xiang, V. Varadharajan, B. Quinn, "A Stochastic Time-domain Model for Burst Data Aggregation in IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks", in IEEE Transactions on Computers, 2015.
  34. S. Wen, M. Sayad Haghighi, C. Chen, Y. Xiang, W. Zhou and W. Jia, "A Sword with Two Edges: Propagation Studies on Both Positive and Negative Information in Online Social Networks," in IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 64, no. 3, 2015.
  35. M. H. Tadayon, H. Khanmohammadi, M. Sayad Haghighi, "Dynamic and verifiable multi-secret sharing scheme based on Hermite interpolation and bilinear maps," in IET Information Security, vol. 9, no. 4, 2015.
  36. M. Sayad Haghighi, K. Mohamedpour, V. Varadharajan, B. Quinn, "Stochastic Modeling of Hello Flooding Attack in Slotted CSMA/CA Wireless Sensor Networks", in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2011.

Presentations & Technical Reports

M. Sayad Haghighi, M. H. Tadayon "Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technology " International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Jun. 2018,
M. Sayad Haghighi, "Internet of Things : Applications and Security Challenges", Jan. 2014, updated Sep. 2015.
M. Sayad Haghighi " A Practical Short Course on Sensor Networks and Intelligent Control Systems (IoT)", Feb. 2017
F. Farivar, "Networked Control Systems: Control & Internet of Things ", Aug. 2017
M. Sayad Haghighi, "A Note on the Security of ITS: Car Crash Analysis in Cruise Control Scenarios ", Technical Report ANS1104, Feb. 2023