Ryan Alturki

Dr. Ryan Alturki

Umm Al Qura University
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Academic Career Length

9Years (2018-Present)

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

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17 January 2023 in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
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FKFazlullah Khan
Fazlullah Khan
Mian Ahmad JanMian Ahmad Jan
Mian Ahmad Jan
Ryan AlturkiRyan Alturki
Ryan Alturki
MAMohammad Alshehri
Mohammad Alshehri
SSSyed Tauhidullah Shah
Syed Tauhidullah Shah
ARAteeq ur Rehman
Ateeq ur Rehman
The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) effectively tackles several shortcomings of conventional healthcare systems. It includes medical personnel shortages, patient care quality, insufficient medical supplies, and healthcare expenditures. There are several advantages of using IoMT technology for enhanced treatment efficiency and quality, thus improving patient health. However, the frequency and magnitude of cyberattacks on IoMT are increasing at a breakneck pace. Therefore, this article proposes a cyberattack detection method for IoMT-based networks using ensemble learning and fog-cloud architecture to address security issues. The ensemble technique employs a set of long short-term memory (LSTM) networks as individual learners at the first level and stacks a decision tree on top of them to classify attack and normal events. In addition, we present a framework for deploying the proposed IoMT-based approach as Infrastructure as a Service in the cloud and Software as a Service in the fog. The proposed method is evaluated on the telemetry datasets of IoT and IIoT sensors (ToN-IoT) dataset, and the outcomes reveal that it surpasses the baseline approaches in terms of precision by 4%.

14 March 2022 in IEEE Internet of Things Journal
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MBMuhammad Babar
Muhammad Babar
Mian Ahmad JanMian Ahmad Jan
Mian Ahmad Jan
Xiangjian HeXiangjian He
Xiangjian He
Muhammad Usman TariqMuhammad Usman Tariq
Muhammad Usman Tariq
SMSpyridon Mastorakis
Spyridon Mastorakis
Ryan AlturkiRyan Alturki
Ryan Alturki
The awareness of edge computing is attaining eminence and is largely acknowledged with the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT). Edge-enabled solutions offer efficient computing and control at the network edge to resolve the scalability and latency-related concerns. Though, it comes to be challenging for edge computing to tackle diverse applications of IoT as they produce massive heterogeneous data. The IoT-enabled frameworks for Big Data analytics face numerous challenges in their existing structural design, for instance, the high volume of data storage and processing, data heterogeneity, and processing time among others. Moreover, the existing proposals lack effective parallel data loading and robust mechanisms for handling communication overhead. To address these challenges, we propose an optimized IoT-enabled big data analytics architecture for edge–cloud computing using machine learning. In the proposed scheme, an edge intelligence module is introduced to process and store the big data efficiently at the edges of the network with the integration of cloud technology. The proposed scheme is composed of two layers: 1) IoT–edge and 2) cloud processing. The data injection and storage is carried out with an optimized MapReduce parallel algorithm. An optimized yet another resource negotiator (YARN) is used for efficiently managing the cluster. The proposed data design is experimentally simulated with an authentic data set using Apache Spark. The comparative analysis is decorated with the existing proposals and traditional mechanisms. The results justify the efficiency of our proposed work.

3 February 2021 in IEEE Access
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NANabeela Awan
Nabeela Awan
AAAhmad Ali
Ahmad Ali
FKFazlullah Khan
Fazlullah Khan
MZMuhammad Zakarya
Muhammad Zakarya
Ryan AlturkiRyan Alturki
Ryan Alturki
MHMuhammad Haleem
Muhammad Haleem
Prediction of traffic crowd movement is one of the most important component in many applications ' domains ranging from urban management to transportation schedule. The key challenge of citywide crowd flows prediction is how to model spatial and dynamic temporal correlation. However, in recent years several studies have been done, but they lack the ability to effectively and simultaneously model spatial and temporal dependencies among traffic crowd flows. To address this issue, in this article a novel spatio-temporal deep hybrid neural network proposed termed STD-Net to forecast citywide crowd traffic flows. More specifically, STD-Net contains four major branches, i.e., closeness, period volume, weekly volume, and external branches, respectively. We design a residual neural network unit for each property to depict the spatio-temporal features of traffic flows. For various branches, STD-Net provides distinct weights and then combines the outputs of four branches together. Extensive experiments on two large-scale datasets from New York bike and Beijing taxi have demonstrated that STD-Net achieves competitive performances the existing state-of-the-art prediction baselines.

12 March 2021 in IEEE Access
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QCQin Chen
Qin Chen
MLMeiling Li
Meiling Li
XYXiaoxia Yang
Xiaoxia Yang
Ryan AlturkiRyan Alturki
Ryan Alturki
MAMohammad Alshehri
Mohammad Alshehri
FKFazlullah Khan
Fazlullah Khan
Non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) technology is expected to effectively improve the spectrum efficiency of fifth-generation and later wireless networks. As a new technology, reconfigurable Intelligent surfaces (RIS) can achieve high spectral and energy efficiency with a low cost in wireless networks. These are achieved by integrating a great quantity of low-cost passive reflective units (RUs) on the plane. In this article, in order to meet the needs of high efficiency, low power consumption, and wide coverage, we combine RIS-assisted NOMA technology with the internet of things (IoT). Because in the actual wireless communication system, the residual hardware impairment (RHI) characteristics of the actual transceiver equipment will have an important impact on system secrecy performance. Therefore, the study will propose a single eavesdropper RIS-assisted downlink NOMA system with RHI (E-RHI-RIS-NOMA). The study will also investigate the impact of RHI on the physical layer security (PLS) performance of the system and the closed-form expression of the user's secrecy outage probability (SOP) is derived. Finally, the simulation results show that 1) the main factors affecting the SOP are the quantity of RUs in RIS, the transmit SNR, and the target data rate, 2) it is proved that the hardware impairment of the transceiver harms the system's secrecy outage performance while the severity of the impact of RHI on the system performance depends on the transmit SNR and target data rate. Moreover, RHI at different nodes has a different influence on system secrecy performance. 3) the system performance of RIS relying on NOMA is improved compared with orthogonal multiple access (OMA) and conventional NOMA.

17 May 2021 in Mobile Information Systems
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Yar MuhammadYar Muhammad
Yar Muhammad
MAMohammad Alshehri
Mohammad Alshehri
WAWael Mohammed Alenazy
Wael Mohammed Alenazy
VHVinh Truong Hoang
Vinh Truong Hoang
Ryan AlturkiRyan Alturki
Ryan Alturki
Pneumonia is a very common and fatal disease, which needs to be identified at the initial stages in order to prevent a patient having this disease from more damage and help him/her in saving his/her life. Various techniques are used for the diagnosis of pneumonia including chest X-ray, CT scan, blood culture, sputum culture, fluid sample, bronchoscopy, and pulse oximetry. Medical image analysis plays a vital role in the diagnosis of various diseases like MERS, COVID-19, pneumonia, etc. and is considered to be one of the auspicious research areas. To analyze chest X-ray images accurately, there is a need for an expert radiologist who possesses expertise and experience in the desired domain. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) report, about 2/3 people in the world still do not have access to the radiologist, in order to diagnose their disease. This study proposes a DL framework to diagnose pneumonia disease in an efficient and effective manner. Various Deep Convolutional Neural Network (DCNN) transfer learning techniques such as AlexNet, SqueezeNet, VGG16, VGG19, and Inception-V3 are utilized for extracting useful features from the chest X-ray images. In this study, several machine learning (ML) classifiers are utilized. The proposed system has been trained and tested on chest X-ray and CT images dataset. In order to examine the stability and effectiveness of the proposed system, different performance measures have been utilized. The proposed system is intended to be beneficial and supportive for medical doctors to accurately and efficiently diagnose pneumonia disease.

13 July 2022 in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics
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FKFazlullah Khan
Fazlullah Khan
Ryan AlturkiRyan Alturki
Ryan Alturki
Md Arafatur RahmanMd Arafatur Rahman
Md Arafatur Rahman
SMSpyridon Mastorakis
Spyridon Mastorakis
MRMuhammad Imran Razzak
Muhammad Imran Razzak
SSSyed Tauhidullah Shah
Syed Tauhidullah Shah
A fundamental expectation of the stakeholders from the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is its trustworthiness and sustainability to avoid the loss of human lives in performing a critical task. A trustworthy IIoT-enabled network encompasses fundamental security characteristics, such as trust, privacy, security, reliability, resilience, and safety. The traditional security mechanisms and procedures are insufficient to protect these networks owing to protocol differences, limited update options, and older adaptations of the security mechanisms. As a result, these networks require novel approaches to increase trust-level and enhance security and privacy mechanisms. Therefore, in this article, we propose a novel approach to improve the trustworthiness of IIoT-enabled networks. We propose an accurate and reliable supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) network-based cyberattack detection in these networks. The proposed scheme combines the deep-learning-based pyramidal recurrent units (PRU) and decision tree (DT) with SCADA-based IIoT networks. We also use an ensemble-learning method to detect cyberattacks in SCADA-based IIoT networks. The nonlinear learning ability of PRU and the ensemble DT address the sensitivity of irrelevant features, allowing high detection rates. The proposed scheme is evaluated on 15 datasets generated from SCADA-based networks. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme outperforms traditional methods and machine learning-based detection approaches. The proposed scheme improves the security and associated measure of trustworthiness in IIoT-enabled networks.