Mr Mahmoud Elkhodr
CASUAL ACADEMIC,
Deans Unit School of Computing, Engineering & Math
Personal
Qualifications
- MSc(Hons) University of Western Sydney
- MICT University of Western Sydney
- BSc The Open University
UWS Organisational Unit (School / Division)
- Deans Unit School of Computing, Engineering & Math
Contact
| Email: | M.Elkhodr@uws.edu.au |
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| Extension: | 2910 |
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| Location: | U.G.25 Penrith (Kingswood) |
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Biography
Awarded the International Postgraduate Research Scholarship (IPRS) with Australian Postgraduate Award (APA), Mahmoud is pursuing his PhD studies in Information Technology and Communications at the University of Western Sydney (UWS). He joined UWS in 2009, where he is currently a casual academic with the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics. Mahmoud is also appointed as the HDR student representative in the School of Computing, Engeenering and mathematics.
Mahmoud completed a Master of ICT (Advanced) and Master of Science (Honors) from UWS. He also holds a Bachelor of Science (Honors) from the Open University UK and the Arab Open University (Lebanon). His main teaching and research interests include: Internet of Things, computer networking, security of networked systems, ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous health, e-health, health ICT, privacy and object oriented.
This information has been contributed by Mr Elkhodr.
Awards
- The International Postgraduate Research Scholarship 2012-03-28
- The Australian Postgraduate Award 2012-03-28
- High Achieving graduate 2011-02-23
Committees
- School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics
Teaching
Previous Teaching Areas
- 300582 Technologies for Web Applications, 2012
- 300144 Object Oriented Analysis, 2011
- 300582 Technologies for Web Applications, 2010
- 300144 Object Oriented Analysis, 2010
Publications
Journal Articles
- Elkhodr, M., Elkhodr, M., Shahrestani, S. and Cheung, H. (2011), 'Ubiquitous health monitoring systems: Addressing security concerns', Journal of Computer Science, 9.
Conference Papers
- Elkhodr, M., Shahrestani, S. and Cheung, H. (2012), 'A review of mobile location privacy in the Internet of Things', International Conference on ICT and Knowledge Engineering, Bangkok, Thailand.
- Elkhodr, M., Shahrestani, S. and Kourouche, K. (2012), 'A proposal to improve the security of mobile banking applications', International Conference on ICT and Knowledge Engineering, Bangkok, Thailand.
- Elkhodr, M., Elkhodr, M., Shahrestani, S. and Cheung, H. (2011), 'Enhancing The Security of Mobile Health Monitoring Systems Through Trust Negotiations', 36th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, Bonn Germany.
- Elkhodr, M., Elkhodr, M., Shahrestani, S. and Cheung, H. (2011), 'An approach to enhance the security of remote health monitoring systems', The 4th international conference on Security of information and networks, Sydney.
- Elkhodr, M., Elkhodr, M., Shahrestani, S. and Cheung, H. (2011), 'Improving E-Health Security Through Trust Negotiation', The 6th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, Seville, Spain.
- Elkhodr, M., Elkhodr, M., Shahrestani, S. and Cheung, H. (2011), 'Securing Ubiquitous Access in U-Health Monitoring Systems', The 7th International Conference on Information Technology and Applications (ICITA 2011), Sydney.
Research
Preserving the Privacy of patient records in health monitoring systems is one of my major research activities. Amongst the main challenges that e-health technology faces, security is considered as one of the major obstacles to its deployment. My research proposed an authentication approach, referred to as the Ubiquitous Health Trust Protocol (UHTP), which aims at minimizing the security risks associated with the remote accessof EHRs using portable devices. In particular, the proposed approach has been used to create ways for secure collaboration providing a set of generic services such as read/write, authentication, trust management, as well as advanced functionality for mobile access.
Currently, my research is focusing on the Internet of Things (IoT). The (IoT) is where networks of applications, computers, devices, physical and virtual objects, and users, referred to as things, are interconnected together using communication technologies such as, wireless, wired and mobile networks, RFID, Bluetooth, GPS systems, and other evolving technologies. This paradigm is a major shift from an essentially computer-based network model to a fully distributed network of smart and lite objects. This does pose serious challenges in terms of architecture, connectivity, efficiency, and provision of services among many others. But perhaps, security concerns, and more specifically privacy related issues, top the list of the major challenges. The seamless interconnectivity of things, envisioned in the IoT, highlights the complexity of realizing location privacy in this global infrastructure. To achieve location privacy, objects, specifically those which have access to the personal information of users, should not be allowed to communicate in an uncontrolled manner. Therefore, the key objective of my research is to investigate the extent of privacy related problems for users of location-based services sharing their information with other users or objects in an IoT environment. It will then move to identify ways to address these problems and to alleviate their impacts.
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