Doaa Nteesha Mhawi

Prof. Dr. Doaa Nteesha Mhawi

Middle Technical University, Baghdad, Baghdād, Iraq
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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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17 July 2022 in Symmetry
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Ammar AlDallalAmmar AlDallal
Ammar AlDallal
SHSoukeana Hassan
Soukeana Hassan
As cyber-attacks become remarkably sophisticated, effective Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are needed to monitor computer resources and to provide alerts regarding unusual or suspicious behavior. Despite using several machine learning (ML) and data mining methods to achieve high effectiveness, these systems have not proven ideal. Current intrusion detection algorithms suffer from high dimensionality, redundancy, meaningless data, high error rate, false alarm rate, and false-negative rate. This paper proposes a novel Ensemble Learning (EL) algorithm-based network IDS model. The efficient feature selection is attained via a hybrid of Correlation Feature Selection coupled with Forest Panelized Attributes (CFS–FPA). The improved intrusion detection involves exploiting AdaBoosting and bagging ensemble learning algorithms to modify four classifiers: Support Vector Machine, Random Forest, Naïve Bayes, and K-Nearest Neighbor. These four enhanced classifiers have been applied first as AdaBoosting and then as bagging, using the aggregation technique through the voting average technique. To provide better benchmarking, both binary and multi-class classification forms are used to evaluate the model. The experimental results of applying the model to CICIDS2017 dataset achieved promising results of 99.7%accuracy, a 0.053 false-negative rate, and a 0.004 false alarm rate. This system will be effective for information technology-based organizations, as it is expected to provide a high level of symmetry between information security and detection of attacks and malicious intrusion.

28 January 2023 in Electronics
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Haider W. OleiwiHaider W. Oleiwi
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Doaa Nteesha MhawiDoaa Nteesha Mhawi
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HAHamed Saffa Al-Raweshidy
Hamed Saffa Al-Raweshidy
The rapid leap in wireless communication systems incorporated a plethora of new features and challenges that accompany the era of 6G and beyond being investigated and developed. Recently, machine learning techniques were widely deployed in many fields, especially wireless communications. It was used to improve network traffic performance regarding resource management, frequency spectrum optimization, latency, and security. The studies of modern wireless communications and anticipated features of ultra-densified ubiquitous wireless networks exposed a risky vulnerability and showed a necessity for developing a trustworthy intrusion detection system (IDS) with certain efficiency/standards that have not yet been achieved by current systems. IDSs lack acceptable immunity against repetitive, updatable, and intelligent attacks on wireless communication networks, significantly concerning the modern infrastructure of 6G communications, resulting in low accuracies/detection rates and high false-alarm/false-negative rates. For this objective principle, IDS system complexity was reduced by applying a unique meta-machine learning model for anomaly detection networks was developed in this paper. The five main stages of the proposed meta-model are as follows: the accumulated datasets (NSL KDD, UNSW NB15, CIC IDS17, and SCE CIC IDS18) comprise the initial stage. The second stage is preprocessing and feature selection, where preprocessing involves replacing missing values and eliminating duplicate values, leading to dimensionality minimization. The best-affected subset feature from datasets is selected using feature selection (i.e., Chi-Square). The third step is represented by the meta-model. In the training dataset, many classifiers are utilized (i.e., random forest, AdaBoosting, GradientBoost, XGBoost, CATBoost, and LightGBM). All the classifiers undergo the meta-model classifier (i.e., decision tree as the voting technique classifier) to select the best-predicted result. Finally, the classification and evaluation stage involves the experimental results of testing the meta-model on different datasets using binary-class and multi-class forms for classification. The results proved the proposed work’s high efficiency and outperformance compared to existing IDSs.

28 October 2022 in Network
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Haider W. OleiwiHaider W. Oleiwi
Haider W. Oleiwi
Nagham SaeedNagham Saeed
Nagham Saeed
HAHeba L. Al-Taie
Heba L. Al-Taie
When it comes to web search, information retrieval (IR) represents a critical technique as web pages have been increasingly growing. However, web users face major problems; unrelated user query retrieved documents (i.e., low precision), a lack of relevant document retrieval (i.e., low recall), acceptable retrieval time, and minimum storage space. This paper proposed a novel advanced document-indexing method (ADIM) with an integrated evolutionary algorithm. The proposed IRS includes three main stages; the first stage (i.e., the advanced documents indexing method) is preprocessing, which consists of two steps: dataset documents reading and advanced documents indexing method (ADIM), resulting in a set of two tables. The second stage is the query searching algorithm to produce a set of words or keywords and the related documents retrieving. The third stage (i.e., the searching algorithm) consists of two steps. The modified genetic algorithm (MGA) proposed new fitness functions using a cross-point operator with dynamic length chromosomes with the adaptive function of the culture algorithm (CA). The proposed system ranks the most relevant documents to the user query by adding a simple parameter (∝) to the fitness function to guarantee the convergence solution, retrieving the most relevant user’s document by integrating MGA with the CA algorithm to achieve the best accuracy. This system was simulated using a free dataset called WebKb containing Worldwide Webpages of computer science departments at multiple universities. The dataset is composed of 8280 HTML-programed semi-structured documents. Experimental results and evaluation measurements showed 100% average precision with 98.5236% average recall for 50 test queries, while the average response time was 00.46.74.78 milliseconds with 18.8 MB memory space for document indexing. The proposed work outperforms all the literature, comparatively, representing a remarkable leap in the studied field.

14 October 2022 in Sustainability
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Haider W. OleiwiHaider W. Oleiwi
Haider W. Oleiwi
Nagham SaeedNagham Saeed
Nagham Saeed
HAHeba L. Al-Taie
Heba L. Al-Taie
Doaa Nteesha MhawiDoaa Nteesha Mhawi
Doaa Nteesha Mhawi
Quality of service metrics and differentiated service mechanism policies are the most important criteria to deliver essential Internet requirements, especially during user handover, due to the rapid growth of users, multimedia applications, and traffic. DiffServ routers provide per-hop behaviors to manage traffic for services, whereas their policies have been applied to several types of Internet traffic, such as hypertext transfer protocol, file transfer protocol, and content-based routing. Multihoming aims to improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of data communications networks. This paper evaluated DiffServ various policies compared in a systematic manner (in two stages) over the multihomed networks to utilize and adopt the best policy for communicating packets, and enhanced the overall performance in terms of throughput, end-to-end latency, and processing time. Moreover, the paper introduced an interface-selection technique for multihomed nodes to select a proper interface, which provides the best services and links the behaviors that this interface yields. The overall results showed how the introduced multihoming-based interface-selection mechanism managed to maintain communication with the multihomed node. Furthermore, our results showed that the DiffServ time-sliding window with a three-color marking policy achieved the best system performance compared with the remaining policies.

26 July 2025 in Electronics
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Haider W. OleiwiHaider W. Oleiwi
Haider W. Oleiwi
HAHamed Saffa Al-Raweshidy
Hamed Saffa Al-Raweshidy
The evolution of sixth-generation (6G) wireless networks introduces a complex landscape of cybersecurity challenges due to advanced infrastructure, massive device connectivity, and the integration of emerging technologies. Traditional intrusion detection systems (IDSs) struggle to keep pace with such dynamic environments, often yielding high false alarm rates and poor generalization. This study proposes a novel and adaptive IDS that integrates statistical feature engineering with a deep autoencoder (DAE) to effectively detect a wide range of modern threats in 6G environments. Unlike prior approaches, the proposed system leverages the DAE’s unsupervised capability to extract meaningful latent representations from high-dimensional traffic data, followed by supervised classification for precise threat detection. Evaluated using the CSE-CIC-IDS2018 dataset, the system achieved an accuracy of 86%, surpassing conventional ML and DL baselines. The results demonstrate the model’s potential as a scalable and upgradable solution for securing next-generation wireless networks.

5 June 2023 in Journal of Techniques
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Doaa Nteesha MhawiDoaa Nteesha Mhawi
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HOHaider W. Oleiwi
Haider W. Oleiwi
HAHeba L. Al-Taie
Heba L. Al-Taie
The document indexing process aims to store documents in a manner that facilitates the process of retrieving specific documents efficiently in terms of accuracy and time complexity. Many information retrieval systems encounter security issues and execution time to retrieve relevant documents. In addition, these systems lead to ample storage. Therefore, it requires combining confidentiality with the indexed document, and a separate process is performed to encrypt the documents. Hence, a new indexing structure named tree browser (TB) was proposed in this paper to be applied to index files of the large document set in an encrypted manner. This method represents the keywords in a variable-length binary format before being stored in the index. This binary format provides additional encryption to the information stored and reduces the index size. The proposed method (TB) is applied to the WebKB dataset. This dataset is related to web page documents (semi-structured documents). The experimental results demonstrated that the storage size is reduced by using TB-tree to 48.5 MB, while the traditional index is 307 MB.