Internet of Things Garage

Annual Reports





Work-in-Progress


Technical Report
   PriviFy: Designing Tangible Interfaces for Configuring IoT Privacy Preferences
Bayan Al Muhander, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
Project Page
Technical Report
   PrivacyCube: Data Physicalization For Enhancing Privacy Awareness In IoT
Bayan Al Muhander, Nalin Arachchilage, Yasar Majib, Mohammed Alosaimi, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
Project Page
Technical Report
   Mobile Sensing Within Smart Buildings: A Survey
Siyuan Li, Yuhua Li, Charith Perera
Project Page
Technical Report
   Self-adaptive Federated Learning in Internet of Things Systems: A Review
Abdulaziz Aljohani, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
Project Page
Technical Report
   Integrate a Heterogeneous Set of Data toward Developing a Forest Health Index: A Review
Rayan Binlajdam, Oktay Karakus, Omer Rana, Pablo Orozco Ter Wengel, Benoit Goossens, Adisorn Lertsinsrubtavee, Preechai Mekbungwan, Deepak Mishra, Aruna Seneviratne, Charith Perera
Forest Observatory | Project Page
Technical Report
   Making Linked-data Accessible: A review
Omar Mussa, Omer Rana, Benoît Goossens, Pablo Orozco-ter Wengel and Charith Perera
Forest Observatory | Project Page
Technical Report
   Cyber Physical Anomaly Detection for Smart Homes: A Survey
Yasar Majib, Omer Rana, Andre Asaturyan, Sharadha Kariyawasam, Behzad Momahed Heravi, Charith Perera
Smart Home Lab | GCHQ Fellowship | EPSRC PETRAS ResBE | Project Page
Technical Report
   Intelligent Design Techniques Towards Implicit and Explicit Learning: A Systematic Review
Fatmah Alqarni, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
Project Page
Technical Report
   Testbeds and Evaluation Frameworks for Anomaly Detection within Built Environments: A Systematic Review
Mohammed Alosaimi, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
Project Page
Technical Report
   Camera as a Sensor Towards Augmenting Anomaly Detection in the Internet of Things Systems: A Survey
Norah Albazzai, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
Project Page
Technical Report
   Human–Building Interaction Towards A Sustainable Built Environment: A Review
Devmane Suhas, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
Project Page

In-Print


Springer WISE
   Towards Enhancing Linked Data Retrieval in Conversational UIs using Large Language Models
Omar Mussa, Omer Rana, Benoît Goossens, Pablo Orozco-terWengel, and Charith Perera
International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Qatar, 2024, pp. xx-xx
Forest Observatory | Project Page
Springer WISE
   Talking Buildings: Interactive Human-Building Smart-bot for Smart Buildings
Devmane Suhas, Omer Rana, Simon Lannon, and Charith Perera
International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Qatar, 2024, pp xx-xx
Project Page
ACM CSUR
   Knowledge-based Cyber Physical Security at Smart Home: A Review
Azhar A. Alsufyani, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume XX, Issue X, Article No.XX, pp XX-XX.
Project Page
Frontiers IOT
   Exploiting User-Centred Design to Secure Industrial Control Systems
Matthew Nunes, Hakan Kayan, Pete Burnap, Charith Perera, Jason Dykes
Frontiers in the Internet of Things, Volume X, 2024, pp, X–XX
EPSRC PETRAS |
ACM JDIQ
   A Comparison of Open Data Observatories
Naeima Hamed, Omer Rana, Pablo Orozco-terWengel, Benoît Goossens, Charith Perera
ACM Journal of Data and Information Quality (JDIQ), Volume X, Issue X(X), pp XX, XXXXX, 2024
Forest Observatory | Project Page
ACM IMWUT
ACM Ubicomp
   Empowering IoT Developers with Privacy-Preserving End-User Development Tools
Atheer Aljeraisy, Omer Rana, and Charith Perera
ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume X, Issue X(X), pp XX, XXXXX, 2024
Project Page
ACM JCSS
ACM COMPASS
   FOODS: Ontology-based Knowledge Graphs for Forest Observatories
Naeima Hamed, Omer Rana, Pablo Orozco-terWengel, Benoît Goossens, Charith Perera
ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS), Volume X, Issue X, Article No: XX, pp, XX
Forest Observatory | Project Page
ACM JCSS
ACM COMPASS
   ForestQB: Enhancing Linked Data Exploration through Graphical and Conversational UIs Integration
Omar Mussa, Omer Rana, Benoît Goossens, Pablo Orozco-terWengel, and Charith Perera
ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies (JCSS), Volume X, Issue X, Article No: XX, pp, XX
Forest Observatory | Project Page
ACM TIOT
   CASPER: Context-Aware IoT Anomaly Detection System for Industrial Robotic Arms
Hakan Kayan, Ryan Heartfield, Omer Rana, Pete Burnap, and Charith Perera
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT), Volume X, Issue X, Article No: XX, pp, XX
Project Page

Published Work

2024
ACM/IEEE IoTDI
   PriviFy: Designing Tangible Interfaces for IoT Privacy Configuration
Bayan Al Muhander, Omer Rana, , and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/ACM Nineth International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2024, pp. 217-218
Project Page
ACM TIOT
   Designing Privacy-Aware IoT Applications for Unregulated Domains
Nada Alhirabi, Stephanie Beaumont, Omer Rana, and Charith Perera
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT), Volume 5, Issue 2, Article No: 11, 1-32, 2024
Project Page
MDPI SENSORS
   ESC-NAS: Environment Sound Classification Using Hardware-Aware Neural Architecture Search for the Edge
Dakshina Ranmal, Piumini Ranasinghe, Thivindu Paranayapa, Dulani Meedeniya, Charith Perera
MDPI Sensors, Volume 24, Number 12, 3749, 1-23, 2024
Forest Observatory
MDPI Future Internet
   Blockchain-Enabled Provenance Tracking for Sustainable Material Reuse in Construction Supply Chains
Stanly Wilson, Kwabena Adu-Duodu, Yinhao Li, Ringo Sham, Mohammed Almubarak, Yingli Wang, Ellis Solaiman, Charith Perera , Rajiv Ranjan, Omer Rana
MDPI Future Internet, Volume 16(4), Number 135,1-20, 2024
Project Page
MDPI SENSORS
   A Comparative Study of Pre-processing and Model Compression Techniques in Deep Learning for Forest Sound Classification
Thivindu Paranayapa, Piumini Ranasinghe, Dakshina Ranmal, Dulani Meedeniya, Charith Perera
MDPI Sensors, Volume 24, Number 4, 1149, 1-28, 2024
Forest Observatory
MDPI SENSORS
   Anomaly Detection on the Edge Using Smart Cameras Under Low-Light Conditions
Yaser Abu Awwad, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
MDPI Sensors, Volume 24, Number 3, 772, 1-33, 2024
5G Wales Unlocked | Project Page



2023
ESWC
   FOO: An Upper-Level Ontology for the Forest Observatory
Naeima Hamed, Omer Rana, Benoît Goossens,Pablo Orozco-terWengel, and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Satellite Events. ESWC 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13998. Springer, Cham, pp 154--158
Forest Observatory | Project Page
IEEE e-Science
   Tracking Material Reuse Across Construction Supply Chains
Stanly Wilson, Kwabena Adu-Duodu, Yinhao Li, Ringo Sham, Yingli Wang, Ellis Solaiman, Charith Perera, Rajiv Ranjan, Omer Rana
IEEE 19th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science), Limassol, Cyprus, 2023, pp. 1-4
Project Page
IEEE Cloud
   Performance Analysis of Apache OpenWhisk Across the Edge-Cloud Continuum
Areej Alabbas, Ashish Kaushal, Osama Almurshed, Omer Rana, Nitin Auluck, Charith Perera
IEEE 16th International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), Chicago, IL, USA, 2023, pp. 401-407
Project Page
Frontiers IOT
   Dataset for Cyber-Physical Anomaly Detection in Smart Homes
Yasar Majib, Mohammed Alosaimi, Andre Asaturyan, and Charith Perera
Frontiers in the Internet of Things, Volume 2, 2023, pp, 1–15
Smart Home Lab | GCHQ Fellowship | EPSRC PETRAS ResBE | Project Page
USENIX SOUPS
   Interactive Privacy Management:Towards Enhancing Privacy Awareness and Control in Internet of Things
Bayan Al Muhander, Jason Wiese, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
The Nineteenth Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security (SOUPS), USENIX Security Symposium, Anaheim, CA, USA
Project Page
ACM TIOT
   Query Interface for Smart City Internet of Things Data Marketplaces: A Case Study
Naeima Hamed, Andrea Gaglione, Alex Gluhak, Omer Rana, and Charith Perera
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT), Volume 4, Issue 3, Article No: 19, pp, 1–39
Horizon 2020 SynchroniCity | Project Page
ACM TIOT
   Interactive Privacy Management: Toward Enhancing Privacy Awareness and Control in the Internet of Things
Bayan Al Muhander, Jason Wiese, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT), Volume 4, Issue 3, Article No.: 18, pp 1–34
Project Page
ACM CSUR
   A Survey on Deep Learning-based Forest Environment Sound Classification at the Edge
Dulani Meedeniya, Isuru Ariyarathne, Meelan Bandara, Roshinie Jayasundara, Charith Perera
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR),Volume 56, Issue 3, Article No.66, pp, 1–36.
Forest Observatory
ACM CSUR
   Sensing within Smart Buildings: Survey
Wael Alsafery, Omer Rana, and Charith Perera
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 55, Issue 13(297), 2023, pp 1–35.
Project Page
ACM/IEEE IoTDI
   Camera-Assisted Training of Non-Vision Sensors for Anomaly Detection
Norah Albazzai, Omer Rana, and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/ACM Seventh International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2023, pp. 452–453.
Project Page
IEEE PerCom
   Canella: Privacy-Aware End-to-End Integrated IoT Development Ecosystem
Atheer Aljeraisy, Omer Rana, and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops), pp 279-281, 2023
Project Page
Cyberpsychology
   Enhancing Privacy Awareness and Digital Skills in Smart Home Device Users with Privacy Assistant: A Conversational Interface for Older Adults
Reem Aldhafiri, Georgina Powell, Elizabeth Smith, and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of Cyberpsychology Section Annual Conference, 24-25 July North East 2023
Project Page
IEEE PerCom
   Voice-Enabled Privacy Assistant Towards Facilitating Successful Ageing in Smart Homes
Reem Aldhafiri, Georgina Powell, Elizabeth Smith, and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops), pp 343-345, 2023
Project Page
IEEE PerCom
   Artifact: CASPER: Context-Aware Anomaly Detection System for Industrial Robotic Arms
Hakan Kayan, Omer Rana, Pete Burnap, and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops), pp 3-4, 2023
Project Page
IEEE PerCom
   CASPER: Context-Aware Anomaly Detection System for Industrial Robotic Arms
Hakan Kayan, Omer Rana, Pete Burnap, and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events (PerCom Workshops), pp 282-284, 2023
Project Page
Technical Report
   Internet of Things Network for Forest Observatory (Sabah, Malaysia Borneo Island Deployment)
Sharadha Kariyawasam, Behzad Heravi, Pablo Orozco Ter Wengel, Benoit Goossens, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
Technical Report, 2023
Forest Observatory
ACM IMWUT
ACM Ubicomp
   PARROT: Interactive Privacy-Aware Internet of Things Application Design Tool
Nada Alhirabi, Stephanie Beaumont, Jose Tomas Llanos, Dulani Meedeniya, Omer Rana, and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), Volume 7, Issue 1(1), pp 1–37, March, 2023
Project Page
Technical Report
   Resilient Built Environments (CASPER Shield Project Report)
Charith Perera, Hakan Kayan, Yasar Majib
The Cyber Security Academic Startup Accelerator Programme (CyberASAP) Report, 2023
Project Page
MDPI SENSORS
   Forest Sound Classification Dataset: FSC22
Meelan Bandara, Roshinie Jayasundara, Isuru Ariyarathne, Dulani Meedeniya, and Charith Perera
MDPI Sensors, Volume 23, Number 4, February, 2023
Forest Observatory
Technical Report
   BRE Smart Homes and Buildings Research Landscape
Charith Perera, James Gbadamosi, Andre Asaturyan
Technical Report, 2023
Smart Home Lab | GCHQ Fellowship | Project Page
MDPI SENSORS
   Personal Data Stores (PDS): A Review
Khalid Fallatah, Mahmoud Barhamgi, and Charith Perera
MDPI Sensors, Volume 23, Number 3, January, 2023
Smart Home Lab | GCHQ Fellowship | Project Page
Elsevier FGCS
   Semantics-based Privacy by Design for Internet of Things Applications
Lamya Alkhariji, Suparna De, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 138, January 2023 (16)
Project Page
IEEE TII
   On The Private Data Synthesis Through Deep Generative Models for Data Scarcity of Industrial Internet of Things
Yen-Ting Chen, Chia-Yi Hsu, Chia-Mu Yu, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Charith Perera
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), Volume 19, Number 1, pp. 551-560, Jan. 2023 (9)
Project Page



2022
ACM CCS
   Ontology Enabled Chatbot for Applying Privacy by Design in IoT Systems
Lamya Alkhariji, Suparna De, Omer Rana, and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3323–3325
Project Page
ISWC
   ForestQB: An Adaptive Query Builder to Support Wildlife Research
Omar Mussa, Omer Rana, Benoît Goossens, Pablo Orozco-terWengel and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (Posters & Demonstrations Track), Hangzhou, China, October 23-27, 2022.
Forest Observatory | Project Page
ACM Ubicomp
   Privacy-Patterns for IoT Application Developers
Nada Alhirabi, Stephanie Beaumont, Omer Rana, and Charith Perera
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp/ISWC '22), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 7–9
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Springer JAIHC
   Detecting Anomalies within Smart Buildings using Do-It-Yourself Internet of Things
Yasar Majib, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Behzad Momahed Heravi, Sharadha Kariyawasam, Charith Perera
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (JAIHC), September 2022 (17)
GCHQ Fellowship | EPSRC PETRAS ResBE | Project Page
ACM CSUR
   Cybersecurity of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems: A Review
Hakan Kayan, Matthew Nunes, Omer Rana, Pete Burnap, Charith Perera
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 54, Issue 11s, January 2022, Article No.: 229, pp 1–35 (35)
GCHQ Fellowship | Project Page
ACM/IEEE IoTDI
   Explainable Sensor Data-Driven Anomaly Detection in Internet of Things Systems
Moaz Tajammal Hussain, and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM Seventh International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2022, pp. 80-81.
GCHQ Fellowship | Project Page
ACM/IEEE IoTDI
   Feasibility on Detecting Door Slamming towards Monitoring Early Signs of Domestic Violence
Osian Morgan, Hakan Kayan, and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM Seventh International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2022, pp. 141-142.
EPSRC PETRAS ResBE
ACM/IEEE IoTDI
   PrivacyCube: A Tangible Device for Improving Privacy Awareness in IoT
Bayan Al Muhander, Omer Rana, Nalin Arachchilage, and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM Seventh International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2022, pp. 109-110
Project Page
ACM/IEEE IoTDI
   PARROT: Privacy by Design Tool for Internet of Things
Nada Alhirabi, Omer Rana, and Charith Perera
In Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE/ACM Seventh International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI) 2022, pp. 107-108.
Project Page
IEEE TSUSC
   Exploring the Effectiveness of Service Decomposition in Fog Computing Architecture for the Internet of Things
Badraddin Alturki, Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, Charith Perera and Suparna De
IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (TSUS), Volume 7, Number 2, 299-312, April-June 2022 (14)
Project Page
MDPI SENSORS
   Automated License Plate Recognition for Resource Constrained Environments
Heshan Padmasiri, Jithmi Shashirangana, Dulani Meedeniya, Omer Rana, and Charith Perera
MDPI Sensors, Volume 22, Number 4, February 2022 (29)
Forest Observatory



2021
Elsevier IOT
   AnoML-IoT: An end to end re-configurable multi-protocol anomaly detection pipeline for Internet of Things
Hakan Kayan, Yasar Majib, Wael Alsafery, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Charith Perera
Elsevier Internet of Things, Volume 16, 100437, December 2021 (19)
GCHQ Fellowship | Project Page
Intelligent Systems
   License Plate Recognition using Neural Architecture Search for Edge Devices
Jithmi Shashirangana, Heshan Padmasiri, Dulani Meedeniya, Charith Perera, Soumya R. Nayak, Janmenjoy Nayak, Shanmuganthan Vimal, Seifidine Kadry
International Journal of Intelligent Systems 1- 38, May 2021 (38)
Forest Observatory
ACM TOIT
   Delta-Risk: Towards Context-aware Multi-objective Privacy Management in Connected Environments
Karam Bou-Chaaya, Richard Chbeir, Mansour Naser Alraja, Philippe Arnould, Charith Perera, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Djamal Benslimane
ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), Volume 21, Issue 2(51), June 2021, (31)
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ACM CSUR
   Privacy Laws and Privacy by Design Schemes for the Internet of Things: A Developer’s Perspective
Atheer Aljeraisy, Masoud Barati, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 54, Issue 5 (102), June 2021 (38)
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ACM TOMM
   Synthesising Privacy by Design Knowledge Towards Explainable Internet of Things Application Designing in Healthcare
Lamya Alkhariji, Nada Alhirabi, Mansour Naser Alraja, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Volume 17, Issue 2s (62), June 2021 (29)
Project Page
ACM CSUR
   Cyberattacks and Countermeasures For In-Vehicle Networks
Emad Aliwa, Omer Rana, Charith Perera, Peter Burnap
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Volume 54, Issue 1(21), March 2021 (37)
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Springer Computing
   Analysing Environmental Impact of Large-scale Events in Public Spaces with Cross-domain Multimodal Data Fusion
Suparna De, Wei Wang, Yuchao Zhou, Charith Perera, Klaus Moessner, Mansour Naser Alraja
Springer Computing, 2021
Forest Observatory
IEEE IOTM
   Inferring Latent Patterns in Air Quality from Urban Big Data
Suparna De, Usamah Jassat, Wei Wang, Charith Perera Klaus Moessner
IEEE Internet of Things Magazine (IOTM), Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2021 (8)
Forest Observatory
IEEE IOTM
   Envisioning Tool Support for Designing Privacy-Aware Internet of Thing Applications
Charith Perera Mahmoud Barhamgi, and Massimo Vecchio
IEEE Internet of Things Magazine (IOTM), Volume 4, Issue 1, March 2021 (6)
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ACM TIOT
   Security and Privacy Requirements for the Internet of Things: A Survey
Nada Alhirabi, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (TIOT), Volume 2, Issue 1(6), February 2021 (37)
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IEEE ACCESS
   Automated License Plate Recognition: A Survey on Methods and Techniques
Jithmi Shashirangana, Heshan Padmasiri, Dulani Meedeniya, Charith Perera
IEEE ACCESS, Volume 9, Pages 11203-11225, 2021
Forest Observatory



2020
ACM TCPS
   Privacy-preserving Crowd-sensed Trust Aggregation in the User-centeric Internet of People Networks
Muhammad Ajmal Azad, Charith Perera, Samiran Bag, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Feng Hao
ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems (TCPS), Volume 5, Issue 1, Article 4 (January 2021), 24 pages.
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IEEE WF-IOT
   Context Aware Family Dynamics based Internet of Things Access Control Towards Better Child Safety
Yasar Majib and Charith Perera
IEEE 6th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2020, pp. 1-6
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IEEE WF-IOT
   Exploring the Suitability of BLE Beacons to Track Poacher Vehicles in Harsh Jungle Terrains
Karan Juj and Charith Perera
IEEE 6th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), New Orleans, LA, USA, 2020, pp. 1-6
Forest Observatory | Project Page
Technical Report
   Low-Cost SMS Driven Location Tracking Platform Towards Anti-Poaching Efforts
Jack Burkett, Pablo Orozco Ter Wengel, Benoit Goossens, Omer Rana, Charith Perera
Technical Report, 2020
Forest Observatory | Project Page
ACM Ubicomp
   PizzaBox: Studying Physical Object Manipulation based Fast Food Ordering
Luke Jones and Charith Perera
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp/ISWC '20), ACM, New York, NY, USA, 38–41
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IEEE TSC
   Privacy in Data Service Composition
Mahmoud Barhamgi, Charith Perera, Chia-Mu Yu, Djamal Benslimane, David Camacho, Christine Bonnet
IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), Volume 13, Issue 4, July-Aug 2020, Pages 639 - 652 (20)
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Elsevier INS
   Designing Privacy-aware Internet of Things Applications
Charith Perera, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Arosha K. Bandara, Muhammad Ajmal, Blaine Price, Bashar Nuseibeh
Information Sciences, Volume 512, February 2020, Pages 238-257 (20)
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IEEE TII
   Authentic Caller: Self-Enforcing Authentication in a Next-Generation Network
Muhammad Ajmal Azad, Samiran Bag, Charith Perera, Mahmoud Barhamgi, and Feng Hao
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), Volume 16, Number 5, May 2020, Pages 3606-3615 (10)
Springer JAIHC
   Hybrid Microaggregation for Privacy-Preserving Data Mining
Balkis Abidi, Sadok Ben Yahia, Charith Perera
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (JAIHC), Volume 11, Issue 1, November 2020, Pages 23-38 (16)
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2019
Technical Report
   Sustainable IoT Infrastructure Towards Efficient Wildlife Conservation: Challenges and Research Directions
Charith Perera, Omer Rana, Pablo Orozco Ter Wengel, Benoit Goossens
Technical Report, 2019
Forest Observatory
IEEE IOTM
   Crowdsourced Peer Learning Activity for Internet of Things Education: A Case Study
Ahmed Hussein, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Massimo Vecchio, Charith Perera
IEEE Internet of Things Magazine (IOTM), Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2019, Pages 26-31 (6)
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ACM Ubicomp
   IoT Skullfort: Exploring the Impact of Internet Connected Cosplay
Rhys Beckett and Charith Perera
In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp/ISWC '19 Adjunct) , ACM, New York, NY, USA, 5-8.
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Elsevier FGCS
   IoT-CANE: A Unified Knowledge Management System for Data-centric Internet of Things Application Systems
Yinhao Li, Awa Alqahtani, Ellis Solaiman, Charith Perera, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Rajkumar Buyya, Graham Morgan, Rajiv Ranjan
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Volume 131, September 2019, Pages 161-172 (12)
Elsevier FGCS
   Deterrence and Prevention-based Model to Mitigate Information Security Insider Threats in Organisations
Nader Sohrabi Safa, Carsten Maple, Steve Furnell, Muhammad Ajmal Azad, Charith Perera, Mohammad Dabbagh, Mehdi Sookhak
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 97, August 2019, Pages 587–597 (11)
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IEEE ACCESS
   A Spatial-Temporal Correlation Approach for Data Reduction in Cluster-Based Sensor Networks
Gaby Bou Tayeh, Abdallah Makhoul, Charith Perera, Jacques Demerjian
IEEE Access (ACCESS), Volume 7, April 2019, Pages 50669-50680 (12)
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Elsevier FGCS
   The Role of Big Data Analytics in Industrial Internet of Things
Muhammad Habib ur Rehman, Ibrar Yaqoob, Khaled Salah, Muhammad Imran, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Charith Perera
Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Volume 99, October 2019, Pages 247-259 (13)
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IEEE JSYST
   Contextual Location in the Home using Bluetooth Beacons
Charith Perera, Saeed Aghaee, Ramsey Faragher, Robert Harle, and Alan Blackwell
IEEE Systems, Volume 13, Issue 3, November 2019, 2720-2723.
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2018
IEEE ACCESS
   Data-driven Air Quality Characterisation for Urban Environments: A Case Study
Yuchao Zhou, Suparna De, Gideon Ewa, Charith Perera, Klaus Moessner
IEEE Access (ACCESS) , Volume 6, 2018, Pages 77996-78006 (11)
Forest Observatory
IEEE IOTM
   Designing the Sensing as a Service Ecosystem for the Internet of Things
Charith Perera, Mahmoud Barhamgi, Suparna De, Tim Baarslag, Massimo Vecchio, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo
IEEE Internet of Things Magazine (IOTM), Volume 1, Issue 2, December 2018, Pages 18-23 (17)
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IEEE ACCESS
   Smart Audio Sensors in the Internet of Things Edge for Anomaly Detection
Mattia Antonini, Massimo Vecchio, Fabio Antonelli, Pietro Ducange, Charith Perera
IEEE Access (ACCESS), Volume 6, 2018, Pages 67594-67610 (17)
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IEEE MCC
   User-centric Privacy Engineering for the Internet of Things
Mahmoud Barhamgi, Charith Perera, Chirine Ghedira, Djamal Benslimane
IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine (MCC), Volume 5, Issue 5, October 2018, Pages 47-57 (11)
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IEEE IOT Newsletter
   Rentable Internet of Things Infrastructure for Sensing as a Service (S2aaS)
Charith Perera
IEEE Internet of Things eNewsletters, July Issue, 2018
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IEEE TKDE
   Tensor-based Big Data Management Scheme for Dimensionality Reduction Problem in Smart Grid Systems: SDN Perspective
Devinder Kaur, Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Neeraj Kumar, Albert Y Zomaya, Charith Perera, Rajiv Ranjan
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), Volume 30, Issue 12, February 2018, Pages 1985-1998 (14)
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CCNC
   The Elimination-Selection Based Algorithm for Efficient Resource Discovery in Internet of Things Environments
Luiz Henrique Nunes, Julio Cezar Estrella, Charith Perera, Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, Alexandre Cladio Botazzo Delbem
Proceedings of 15th IEEE Annual Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA, March 2018, Pages 1-7 (7)
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2017
Taylor & Francis
   The Emergence of Edge-centric Distributed IoT Analytics Platforms
Muhammad Habib ur Rehman, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Charith Perera
In Book Internet of Things Concepts, Technologies, Applications, and Implementations, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, 2017
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Technical Report
   Privacy Guidelines for Internet of Things: A Cheat Sheet
Charith Perera
Technical Report, 2017
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IEEE IOTJ
   Cross-Layer Optimization for Cooperative Content Distribution in Multihop Device-to-Device Networks
Chen Xu, Junhao Feng, Zhenyu Zhou, Jun Wu, Charith Perera
IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IOTJ) , Volume 6, Issue 1, August 2017, Pages 278-287 (10)
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ACM IOT
   A Hybrid Approach for Data Analytics for Internet of Things
Badraddin Alturki, Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, Charith Perera
Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on the Internet of Things (IOT), Linz, Austria, October 2017, Pages 7:1--7:8 (8)
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SocialSense
   Privacy Mindset for Developing Internet of Things Applications for Social Sensing: Software Engineering Challenges
Charith Perera, Athanasios V. Vasilakos
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Social Sensing (SocialSense 2017), Pittsburgh, USA, April 2017, Page 103-103 (1)
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ACM CSUR
   Fog Computing for Sustainable Smart Cities: A Survey
Charith Perera, Yongrui Qin, Julio C. Estrella, Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, Athanasios V. Vasilakos
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 50, Issue 3, June 2017, Pages 32:1-32:43 (43)
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AAMAS
   An Automated Negotiation Agent for Permission Management
Tim Baarslag, Alper Alan, Richard Gomer, Muddasser Alam, Charith Perera, Enrico Gerding and M.C. Schraefel,
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-agent Systems (AAMAS), Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 2017, Pages 380-390 (10)
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Leanpub
   Sensing as a Service for Internet of Things: A Roadmap
Charith Perera
Leanpub Publishers, 2017
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Wiley SPE
   Multi-Objective Internet of Things Resource Discovery through Pareto-optimality Criterion
Luiz H. Nunes, Julio C. Estrella, Charith Perera, Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, Alexandre N. Delbem,
Software: Practice and Experience Journal (SPE), Volume 47, Issue 10, December 2017, Pages 1325-1341 (16)
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2016
Wiley SPE
   Analytics-as-a-Service in a Multi-Cloud Environment through Semantically enabled Hierarchical Data Processing
Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Charith Perera, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Schahram Dustdar, Dhavalkumar Thakker, Rajiv Ranjan
Software: Practice and Experience Journal (SPE), Volume 47, Issue 8, August 2016, Pages 1139-1156 (18)
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ACM IOT
   Privacy-by-Design Framework for Assessing Internet of Things Applications and Platforms
Charith Perera Ciaran Mccormick, Arosha Bandara, Blaine A. Price, Bashar Nuseibeh
Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Internet of Things (IoT), Stuttgart, Germany, November 2016, Pages 83-92 (10)
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IEEE IOT Newsletter
   Sensing as a Service (S2aaS): Buying and Selling IoT Data
Charith Perera
IEEE Internet of Things eNewsletters, November Issue, 2016
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Elsevier KBS
   A Knowledge-Based Resource Discovery for Internet of Things
Charith Perera, Athanasios V. Vasilakos
Knowledge-Based Systems Journal (KBS), Volume 109, October 2016, Pages 122-136 (15)
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IEEE/ACM SEAMS
   Feed me, Feed me: An Exemplar for Engineering Adaptive Software
Amel Bennaceur, Ciaran McCormick, Jesus Garcia Galan, Charith Perera, Andrew Smith, Andrea Zisman and Bashar Nuseibeh
Proceedings of the 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS), Austin, Texas, May 2016, Pages 89-95 (7)
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IEEE/ACM UCC
   Multi-Objective Internet of Things Resource Discovery through Pareto-optimality Criterion
Luiz Henrique Nunes, Julio Cezar Estrella, Charith Perera, Stephan Reiff-Marganiec, Alexandre Cladio Botazzo Delbem
Proceedings of the 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), Shaghai, China, December 2016, Pages 245-250 (6)
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Wiley ETT
   Valorising the IoT Databox: Creating Value for Everyone
Charith Perera, Susan Wakenshaw, Tim Baarslag, Hamed Haddadi, Arosha Bandara, Richard Mortier, Andy Crabtree, Irene Ng, Derek McAuley, Jon Crowcroft
Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), Volume 28, Issue 1, November 2016, Pages 1-17 (17)
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IJSC
   A Distributed Sensor Data Search Platform for Internet of Things Environments
Luiz Nunes, Julio Estrella, Luis Nakamura, Rafael de Libardi, Carlos Ferreira, Liuri Jorge, Charith Perera, Stephan Reiff-Marganiec
International Journal of Services Computing (IJSC), Volume 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-12 (12)
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IEEE COM-CS
   Privacy Knowledge Modelling in Internet of Things: A Look Back
Charith Perera, Chang Liu, Rajiv Ranjan, Lizhe Wang, Albert Y. Zomaya
IEEE Computer Magazine (COM-CS), Volume 49, Issue 12, November 2016, Pages 60-68 (8)
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ACM TOMM
   Applying Seamful Design in Location-based Mobile Museum Applications
Tommy Nilsson, Carl Hogsden, Charith Perera, Saeed Aghaee, David Scruton, Andreas Lund, Alan F. Blackwell
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications (TOMM), Volume 12, Issue 4, August 2016, Pages 56:1--56:23 (23)
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IJDST
   City Data Fusion: Sensor Data Fusion in the Internet of Things
Meisong Wang, Charith Perera, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Peter Strazdins, Rajiv Ranjan,
International Journal of Distributed Systems and Technologies (IJDST), Volume 7, Issue 1, May 2016, Pages 15-36, (21)



2015
Springer
   Device Search and Selection for CPS
Charith Perera, Chi Harold Liu, and Peter Christen
In Book the Cyber-Physical Systems: Architectures, Protocols and Applications, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, 2015, Pages 67-99 (33)
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IEEE TCSS
   Energy Efficient Location and Activity-aware On-Demand Mobile Distributed Sensing Platform for S2aaS in IoT Clouds
Charith Perera, Dumidu Talagala, Chi Harold Liu, Julio C. Estrella
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (TCSS), Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2015, Pages 171-181 (11)
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IEEE MCC
   End-to-End Privacy for Open Big Data Markets
Charith Perera, Rajiv Ranjan, Lizhe Wang
IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine, Volume 2, Issue 4, July 2015, Pages 44-53 (9)
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IEEE ITP
   Big Data Privacy in the Internet of Things Era
Charith Perera, Rajiv Ranjan, Lizhe Wang, Samee U. Khan, and Albert Y. Zomaya
IEEE IT Professional Magazine, Volume 17, Issue 3, June 2015, Pages 32-39 (7)
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IS-EUD
   Natural Notation for the Domestic Internet of Things
Charith Perera, Saeed Aghaee, Alan Blackwell,
Proceedings of the 5th International symposium on End-User Development (IS-EUD), Madrid, Spain, May 2015, Pages 25-41 (16)
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IEEE TETC
   The Emerging Internet of Things Marketplace From an Industrial Perspective: A Survey
Charith Perera, Chi Harold Liu, and Srimal Jayawardena
IEEE Transactions On Emerging Topics In Computing (TETC), Volume 3, Issue 4, January 2015, Pages 585-598 (14)
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Springer
   Mobile Sensing Devices and Platforms for CPS
Charith Perera, Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Srimal Jayawardena, Chi Harold Liu, and Peter Christen
In Book the Cyber-Physical Systems: Architectures, Protocols and Applications, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA, 2015, Pages 11-40 (30)
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IEEE TVT
   Energy-efficient and Context-aware Smartphone Sensor Dmployment
Ozgur Yurur, Chi Harold Liu, Charith Perera, Min Chen, Xue Liu, and Wilfrido Moreno
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), Volume 64, Issue 6, October 2015, Pages 4230-4244 (14)
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2014
IEEE ACCESS
   A Survey on Internet of Things From Industrial Market Perspective [Focusing Context Awareness]
Charith Perera, Chi Harold Liu, Srimal Jayawardena, and Min Chen
IEEE Access, Volume 2, December 2014 Pages 1660 - 1679 (20)
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IEEE WF-IoT
   Improve the Sustainability of Internet of Things Through Trading-based Value Creation
Charith Perera, Arkady Zaslavsky
Proceedings of the IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Seoul, Korea, March 2014, Pages 135-140 (6)
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IEEE WF-IoT
   Sensor Discovery and Configuration Framework for the Internet of Things Paradigm
Charith Perera Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Proceedings of the IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), Seoul, Korea, March 2014, Pages 94-99 (6)
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HICSS
   MOSDEN: An Internet of Things Middleware for Resource Constrained Mobile Devices
Charith Perera Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Proceedings of the 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), Kona, Hawaii, USA, January 2014, Pages 1053-1062 (10)
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EAI TCC
   MOSDEN: A Scalable Mobile Collaborative Platform for Opportunistic Sensing Applications
Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Charith Perera, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, and Arkady Zaslavsky
EAI Transactions on Collaborative Computing, Volume 14, Issue 1, May 2015, Pages 1-16 (16)
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Springer
   Context-aware Dynamic Discovery and Configuration of 'Things' in Smart Environments
Charith Perera, Prem Jayaraman, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
In Book Big Data and Internet of Things: A Roadmap for Smart Environments, Studies in Computational Intelligence book series, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Volume 546, Pages 215-241 (27)
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Wiley ETT
   Sensing as a Service Model for Smart Cities Supported by Internet of Things
Charith Perera, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), Volume 25, Issue 1, September 2014, Pages 81-93 (13)
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2013
ISWC
   Context Aware Sensor Configuration Model for Internet of Things
Charith Perera, Arkady Zaslavsky, Michael Compton, Peter Christen, and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Proceedings of the 12th International Semantic Web Conference (Poster & Demo) (ISWC), Sydney, Australia, Octobe, 2013, Pages 253-256 (4)
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IEEE COLLABORATECOM
   Efficient Opportunistic Sensing using Mobile Collaborative Platform
Prem Prakash Jayaraman, Charith Perera, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos and Arkady Zaslavsky
Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Collaborative Computing: Networking, Applications and Worksharing (COLLABORATECOM), Austin, Texas, US, October 2013, Pages 77-86 (10)
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IEEE SKG
   Semantic-driven Configuration of Internet of Things Middleware
Charith Perera, Arkady Zaslavsky, Michael Compton, Peter Christen, and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Semantics, Knowledge & Grids (SKG), Beijing, China, October 2013, Pages 66-73 (8)
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IEEE SENSORS
   Sensor Search Techniques for Sensing as a Service Architecture for The Internet of Things
Charith Perera, Arkady Zaslavsky, Chi Harold Liu, Michael Compton, Peter Christen, and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
IEEE Sensors Journal, Volume 14, Issue 2, September 2014, Pages 406-420 (15)
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IEEE MDM
   Context-aware Sensor Search, Selection and Ranking Model for Internet of Things Middleware
Charith Perera, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, Michael Compton, and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Proceedings of the IEEE 14th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM), Milan, Italy, June 2013, Pages 314-322 (8)
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IEEE COMST
   Context Aware Computing for The Internet of Things: A Survey
Charith Perera, Prem Jayaraman, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials (COMST), Volume 16, Issue 1, May 2014, Pages 414-454 (41)
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IEEE ISSNIP
  Dynamic Configuration of Sensors Using Mobile Sensor Hub in Internet of Things Paradigm
Charith Perera, Prem Jayaraman, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, and Dimitrios Georgakopoulos
Proceedings of the IEEE 8th International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP), Melbourne, Australia, April 2013, Pages 473-478 (6)
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ACC
  Sensing as a Service and Big Data
Arkady Zaslavsky, Charith Perera, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Cloud Computing (ACC), Bangalore, India, July 2012, Pages 21-29 (8)
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2012
IEEE iThings
  CA4IOT: Context Awareness for Internet of Things
Charith Perera, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings), Besancon, France, November 2012, Pages 775-782 (8)
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IEEE PIMRC
  Capturing Sensor Data from Mobile Phones using Global Sensor Network Middleware
Charith Perera, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, Ali Salehi, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos.
Proceedings of the IEEE 23rd International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Sydney, Australia, September 2012, Pages 24-29 (6)
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ACM SIGMOD/PODS
  Connecting Mobile Things to Global Sensor Network Middleware using System-generated Wrappers
Charith Perera, Arkady Zaslavsky, Peter Christen, Ali Salehi, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos.
Proceedings of the 11th ACM International Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (ACM SIGMOD/PODS-Workshop-MobiDE), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, May 2012, pages 23-30 (8)
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