Ashraf Khaled ALDabbas

Dr. Ashraf Khaled ALDabbas


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Academic Career Length

6Years (2021-Present)

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

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1 February 2025 in IAES International Journal of Artificial Intelligence (IJ-AI)
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AAAshraf Khaled ALDabbas
Ashraf Khaled ALDabbas
LLaith H. Baniata
Laith H. Baniata
BABayan Alsaaidah
Bayan Alsaaidah
ZAzaid Mustafa Al-lami
zaid Mustafa Al-lami
MAMUATH Alali
MUATH Alali
RRRoqia Rateb
Roqia Rateb
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks has emerged as a prominent cyber threat in contemporary times. By impeding the machine's capacity to give services to legitimate clients, the impacted system performance and buffer size are reduced. Researchers are working to build sophisticated algorithms that can identify and thwart DDoS violations. An effective approach for DDoS attacks has been proposed in this work. This research presents a model as a potential explanation for DDoS assaults. In order to successfully identify this kind of attacks, which may stop or block the urgent and vital transmission of data, we present a distinctive method that integrates a pair of fully connected layers within an amalgamated deep learning (DL) framework with long short-term memory (LSTM) and a max pooling layer. The acquired accuracy reached 99.58%.

22 December 2025 in Future Internet
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LLaith H. Baniata
Laith H. Baniata
AAAshraf Khaled ALDabbas
Ashraf Khaled ALDabbas
JAJaffar Muneer Atwan
Jaffar Muneer Atwan
HAHussein Alahmer
Hussein Alahmer
BEBasil Elmasri
Basil Elmasri
Chayut BunterngchitChayut Bunterngchit
Chayut Bunterngchit
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are increasingly being used in mission-critical infrastructures. In such applications, they are evaluated on the risk of cyber intrusions that can target the already constrained resources. Traditionally, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) in WSNs have been based on machine learning techniques; however, these models fail to capture the nonlinear, temporal, and topological dependencies across the network nodes. As a result, they often suffer degradation in detection accuracy and exhibit poor adaptability against evolving threats. To overcome these limitations, this study introduces a hybrid deep learning-based IDS that integrates multi-scale convolutional feature extraction, dual-stage attention fusion, and graph convolutional reasoning. Moreover, bidirectional long short-term memory components are embedded into the unified framework. Through this combination, the proposed architecture effectively captures the hierarchical spatial–temporal correlations in the traffic patterns, thereby enabling precise discrimination between normal and attack behaviors across several intrusion classes. The model has been evaluated on a publicly available benchmarking dataset, and it has been found to attain higher classification capability in multiclass scenarios. Furthermore, the model outperforms conventional IDS-focused approaches. In addition, the proposed design aims to retain suitable computational efficiency, making it appropriate for edge and distributed deployments. Consequently, this makes it an effective solution for next-generation WSN cybersecurity. Overall, the findings emphasize that combining topology-aware learning with multi-branch attention mechanisms offers a balanced trade-off between interpretability, accuracy, and deployment efficiency for resource-constrained WSN environments.

31 March 2022 in Neural Computing and Applications
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Ashraf Khaled ALDabbas
Zoltan GalZoltan Gal
Zoltan Gal
Over the last 13.7 years period of the Cassini mission, amendments to the spacecraft’s flight path were needed. This research is being carried out as there is a limited number of studies that use a temporal discrimination analysis to handle raw data. More complex inspection and analysis of the collected broad trajectory dataset is necessary to classify orbital events in the signal travel period (approximately 88 minutes on the Earth-Cassini travel channel length). This paper provides an innovative, in-depth learning method to identify offline modifications in the Cassini spacecraft trajectory. The models are based on variants of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs: Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU)/ Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM)/ Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM)) to derive valuable data and learn the inner data structure of the time sequence, along with the penetration of long-term and short-term phase-dependencies of the RNNs layers. To validate our models, we used a variety of statistical approaches in our analysis. A considerable number of tests have been carried out, and the findings obtained have shown that the GRU and LSTM give a substantial boost to increasing the efficiency of the detection mechanism. The proposed model would consolidate potential exploration in outer space exploration to accommodate massive databases, search for correlations, and recognize complex events and outliers with an accuracy that exceeds 99 %. This method can be utilized for similar detection processes within the future outer space expedition. The results show that binary classifications of Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC) are more accurate than $$F_1$$ F 1 score.

19 November 2025 in Preprints.org
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LLaith H. Baniata
Laith H. Baniata
AAAshraf Khaled ALDabbas
Ashraf Khaled ALDabbas
JAJaffar Muneer Atwan
Jaffar Muneer Atwan
HAHussein Alahmer
Hussein Alahmer
BEBasil Elmasri
Basil Elmasri
Chayut BunterngchitChayut Bunterngchit
Chayut Bunterngchit
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are increasingly being used in mission-critical infrastructures. In such applications, they are evaluated on the risk of cyber intrusions that can target the already constrained resources. The traditional intrusion detection systems (IDS) in WSNs are based on machine learning techniques. Such models fail to capture the nonlinear, temporal, and topological dependencies across the network nodes. Consequently, they cause degradation in the detection accuracy and poor adaptability against evolving threats. To overcome these limitations, this study introduced a hybrid deep learning-based IDS that integrated multi-scale convolutional feature extraction, dualstage attention fusion, and graph convolutional reasoning. In addition, bidirectional long short-term memory components are embedded into the unified framework. The proposed architecture captures the hierarchical spatial-temporal correlations in the traffic patterns. This allows making a precise discrimination between the normal and attack behaviors across several intrusion classes. The model has been evaluated on the benchmarking public available dataset and found to attain a higher classification capability in the multiclass scenarios. The model has further been found to outperform the conventional models focusing on the IDS frameworks. In addition, the proposed design is aimed at retaining suitable computational efficiency, which is suitable for edge and distributed deployments. This makes it an effective solution for the next-generation WSN cybersecurity. The overall findings have focused on combining topology-aware learning with multi-branch attention mechanisms for offering a balanced trade-off between interpretability, accuracy, and deployment efficiency for the resource-constrained WSN networks.

9 March 2021 in IEEE Access
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AAAshraf Khaled ALDabbas
Ashraf Khaled ALDabbas
Zoltan GalZoltan Gal
Zoltan Gal
KGKhawaja Moyeezullah Ghori
Khawaja Moyeezullah Ghori
MIMuhammad Imran
Muhammad Imran
MSMuhammad Shoaib
Muhammad Shoaib
There were necessary trajectory modifications of Cassini spacecraft during its last 14 years movement cycle of the interplanetary research project. In the scale 1.3 hour of signal propagation time and 1.4-billion-kilometer size of Earth-Cassini channel, complex event detection in the orbit modifications requires special investigation and analysis of the collected big data. The technologies for space exploration warrant a high standard of nuanced and detailed research. The Cassini mission has accumulated quite huge volumes of science records. This generated a curiosity derives mainly from a need to use machine learning to analyze deep space missions. For energy saving considerations, the communication between the Earth and Cassini was executed in non-periodic mode. This paper provides a sophisticated in-depth learning approach for detecting Cassini spacecraft trajectory modifications in post-processing mode. The proposed model utilizes the ability of Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) neural networks for drawing out useful data and learning the time series inner data pattern, along with the forcefulness of LSTM layers for distinguishing dependencies among the long-short term. Our research study exploited the statistical rates, Matthews correlation coefficient, and F1 score to evaluate our models. We carried out multiple tests and evaluated the provided approach against several advanced models. The preparatory analysis showed that exploiting the LSTM layer provides a notable boost in rising the detection process performance. The proposed model achieved a number of 232 trajectory modification detections with 99.98% accuracy among the last 13.35 years of the Cassini spacecraft life.

22 December 2023
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AAAshraf Khaled ALDabbas
Ashraf Khaled ALDabbas
WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THIS WORK, THE TRAJECTORY SIMULATION AND ANALYZER PROGRAM KNOWN AS ALR_SIM_TRACKS IS PRESENTED. THIS SOFTWARE IS INTENDED FOR USE IN SPACE MISSIONS THAT INCLUDE THE EXAMINATION OF THE SURFACE OF A CELESTIAL BODY USING OPTICAL SENS...