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Dr. Mohammad Shojafar is an Associate Professor of Network Security and an Intel Innovator at the 5G/6G Innovation Centre (5G/6GIC), Institute for Communication Systems, University of Surrey, U.K. He received his PhD in Information and Communication Technology from Sapienza University of Rome, where he was awarded the distinction of “Excellent” for his doctoral research. Prior to his current role, he was a Senior Researcher and Marie Curie Fellow at the SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group, University of Padua. His research focuses on 5G/6G network security and privacy, Open RAN security, and adversarial artificial intelligence for fog and cloud systems. Dr. Shojafar is actively engaged with several standardisation bodies, including ETSI ITS, ETSI NFV, GSMA Open-Telco LLM Group, 3GPP SA, and O-RAN Alliance WG11, and has secured around £2 million in research funding as Principal Investigator for EU- and UK-funded projects.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ Computer Science
• ☆ Information Technology
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Artificial Intelligence
• ☆ Telecommunications
• ☆ Communication Theory
• ☆ Java
• ☆ User Research

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Consulting
• Data & AI
• Product Development

Writing Non-Medical Regulatory Writing, Technical Writing, Business & Legal Writing, Copywriting, Creative Writing, Newswriting, Audio Transcription, General Proofreading & Editing

Research User Research, Meta-Research, Technology Scouting, Gap Analysis, Scientific and Technical Research

Consulting Business Strategy Consulting, Digital Strategy Consulting, Operations Consulting, Scientific and Technical Consulting

Data & AI Predictive Modeling, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Algorithm Design-ML, Data Processing

Product Development Quality Assurance & Control (QA/QC), Concept Development, Prototyping, Reverse Engineering

Work Experience

Associate Professor

University of Surrey

November 2019 - Present

Senior Researcher

University of Padua

January 2018 - March 2020

Senior Researcher (Senior PostDoc)

Toronto Metropolitan University

January 2019 - December 2019

Senior Researcher

Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni

December 2016 - January 2018

Research Associate (Postdoc)

Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

December 2015 - December 2016

Software Specialist and analyzer and JAVA technical programmer

National Iranian Oil Company

April 2012 - November 2012

Computer Science Lecturer

Islamic Azad University

September 2008 - June 2012

R&D and Computer Programmer

Tidewater Inc.

April 2008 - December 2008

Education

Doctorate ( Department of Information Engineering Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET))

Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza

November 2012 - May 2016

Master of Science (Computer and Electrical Engineering)

Qazvin Islamic Azad University

September 2007 - September 2010

Bachelor of Science (Computer Science )

Iran University of Science and Technology

September 2001 - December 2006

Certifications

• IEEE Senior Membership

  IEEE

  April 2019 - Present

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Mohammad Shojafar, Saeed Javanmardi, Reza Mohammadi, Amin Nazari, Valerio Persico, Antonio Pescapè(2021). FUPE: A security driven task scheduling approach for SDN-based IoT–Fog networks . Journal of Information Security and Applications. 60. p. 102853. Elsevier {BV}

Mohammad Shojafar, Peng Wang, Chien-Ming Chen, Saru Kumari, Rahim Tafazolli, Yi-Ning Liu(2021). HDMA: Hybrid D2D Message Authentication Scheme for 5G-Enabled VANETs . IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 22. (8). p. 5071--5080. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})

Mohammad Shojafar, Zahra Pooranian, Sahil Garg, Rahim Taheri, Rahim Tafazolli(2021). LEVER: Secure Deduplicated Cloud Storage With Encrypted Two-Party Interactions in Cyber--Physical Systems . IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 17. (8). p. 5759--5768. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})

Mohammad Shojafar, Seyed Farhad Aghili, Hamid Mala, Christian Schindelhauer, Rahim Tafazolli (2021). Closed-loop and open-loop authentication protocols for blockchain-based IoT systems . Information Processing & Management.

Mohammad Shojafar, Zhou Zhou, Mamoun Alazab, Jemal Abawajy, Fangmin Li(2021). AFED-EF: An Energy-Efficient VM Allocation Algorithm for IoT Applications in a Cloud Data Center . IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 5. (2). p. 658--669. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})

Mohammad Shojafar, Sadoon Azizi, Jemal Abawajy, Rajkumar Buyya(2021). GRVMP: A Greedy Randomized Algorithm for Virtual Machine Placement in Cloud Data Centers . IEEE Systems Journal. 15. (2). p. 2571--2582. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})

Mohammad Shojafar, Shvan Omer, Sadoon Azizi, Rahim Tafazolli (2021). A priority, power and traffic-aware virtual machine placement of IoT applications in cloud data centers . Journal of Systems Architecture.

Mohammad Shojafar, Ke Wang, Peng Xu, Chien-Ming Chen, Saru Kumari, Mamoun Alazab(2021). Neural Architecture Search for Robust Networks in 6G-Enabled Massive IoT Domain . IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 8. (7). p. 5332--5339. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})

Mohammad Shojafar, Meysam Ghahramani, Reza Javidan, Rahim Taheri, Mamoun Alazab, Rahim Tafazolli(2021). RSS: An Energy-Efficient Approach for Securing IoT Service Protocols Against the DoS Attack . IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 8. (5). p. 3619--3635. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})

Mohammad Shojafar, Zheng Chu, Pei Xiao, De Mi, Juquan Mao, Wanming Hao(2021). Intelligent Reflecting Surface Assisted Mobile Edge Computing for Internet of Things . IEEE Wireless Communications Letters. 10. (3). p. 619--623. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})

Mohammad Shojafar, Claudia Canali, Riccardo Lancellotti, Jemal Abawajy(2020). Adaptive Computing-Plus-Communication Optimization Framework for Multimedia Processing in Cloud Systems . IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 8. (4). p. 1162--1175. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ({IEEE})

Mohammad Shojafar, Hiwa Omer Hassan, Sadoon Azizi(2020). Priority, network and energy‐aware placement of IoT‐based application services in fog‐cloud environments . IET Communications. 14. (13). p. 2117--2129. Institution of Engineering and Technology ({IET})

Ghahramani, M., Javidan, R., Shojafar, M.(2020). A secure biometric-based authentication protocol for global mobility networks in smart cities . Journal of Supercomputing.

Jamil, B., Shojafar, M., Ahmed, I., Ullah, A., Munir, K., Ijaz, H.(2020). A job scheduling algorithm for delay and performance optimization in fog computing . Concurrency Computation. 32. (7).

Taheri, R., Javidan, R., Shojafar, M., Vinod, P., Conti, M.(2020). Can machine learning model with static features be fooled: an adversarial machine learning approach . Cluster Computing.

Javanmardi, S., Shojafar, M., Persico, V., Pescapè, A.(2020). FPFTS: A joint fuzzy particle swarm optimization mobility-aware approach to fog task scheduling algorithm for Internet of Things devices . Software - Practice and Experience.

Shojafar, M., Sookhak, M.(2020). Internet of everything, networks, applications, and computing systems (IoENACS) . International Journal of Computers and Applications. 42. (3). p. 213-215.

Singh, S., Sharma, P.K., Yoon, B., Shojafar, M., Cho, G.H., Ra, I.-H.(2020). Convergence of blockchain and artificial intelligence in IoT network for the sustainable smart city . Sustainable Cities and Society. 63.

Taheri, R., Javidan, R., Shojafar, M., Pooranian, Z., Miri, A., Conti, M.(2020). On defending against label flipping attacks on malware detection systems . Neural Computing and Applications.

Ananya, A., Aswathy, A., Amal, T.R., Swathy, P.G., Vinod, P., Mohammad, S.(2020). SysDroid: a dynamic ML-based android malware analyzer using system call traces . Cluster Computing.

Taheri, R., Ghahramani, M., Javidan, R., Shojafar, M., Pooranian, Z., Conti, M.(2020). Similarity-based Android malware detection using Hamming distance of static binary features . Future Generation Computer Systems. 105. p. 230-247.

Shojafar, M., Cordeschi, N., Baccarelli, E.(2019). Energy-Efficient Adaptive Resource Management for Real-Time Vehicular Cloud Services . IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. 7. (1). p. 196-209.

Deepa, K., Radhamani, G., Vinod, P., Shojafar, M., Kumar, N., Conti, M.(2019). Identification of Android malware using refined system calls . Concurrency Computation. 31. (20).

Naranjo, P.G.V., Pooranian, Z., Shojafar, M., Conti, M., Buyya, R.(2019). FOCAN: A Fog-supported smart city network architecture for management of applications in the Internet of Everything environments . Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 132. p. 274-283.

Tajiki, M.M., Salsano, S., Chiaraviglio, L., Shojafar, M., Akbari, B.(2019). Joint Energy Efficient and QoS-Aware Path Allocation and VNF Placement for Service Function Chaining . IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 16. (1). p. 374-388.

Tajiki, M.M., Shojafar, M., Akbari, B., Salsano, S., Conti, M., Singhal, M.(2019). Joint failure recovery, fault prevention, and energy-efficient resource management for real-time SFC in fog-supported SDN . Computer Networks. 162.

Aghili, S.F., Mala, H., Shojafar, M., Peris-Lopez, P.(2019). LACO: Lightweight Three-Factor Authentication, Access Control and Ownership Transfer Scheme for E-Health Systems in IoT . Future Generation Computer Systems. 96. p. 410-424.

Chiaraviglio, L., Amorosi, L., Blefari-Melazzi, N., Dell'Olmo, P., Shojafar, M., Salsano, S.(2019). Optimal management of reusable functional blocks in 5G superfluid networks . International Journal of Network Management. 29. (1).

Shojafar, M., Pooranian, Z., Sookhak, M., Buyya, R.(2019). Recent advances in cloud data centers toward fog data centers . Concurrency Computation. 31. (8).

Tajiki, M.M., Shojafar, M., Akbari, B., Salsano, S., Conti, M.(2019). Software defined service function chaining with failure consideration for fog computing . Concurrency Computation. 31. (8).

Chiaraviglio, L., D'Andreagiovanni, F., Lancellotti, R., Shojafar, M., Blefari-Melazzi, N., Canali, C.(2018). An Approach to Balance Maintenance Costs and Electricity Consumption in Cloud Data Centers . IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing. 3. (4). p. 274-288.

Nazhad, S.H.H., Shojafar, M., Shamshirband, S., Conti, M.(2018). An efficient routing protocol for the QoS support of large-scale MANETs . International Journal of Communication Systems. 31. (1).

Tajiki, M.M., Akbari, B., Shojafar, M., Ghasemi, S.H., Barazandeh, M.L., Mokari, N., Chiaraviglio, L., Zink, M.(2018). CECT: computationally efficient congestion-avoidance and traffic engineering in software-defined cloud data centers . Cluster Computing. 21. (4). p. 1881-1897.

Fallah, S.N., Deo, R.C., Shojafar, M., Conti, M., Shamshirband, S.(2018). Computational intelligence approaches for energy load forecasting in smart energy management grids: State of the art, future challenges, and research directions . Energies. 11. (3).

Canali, C., Chiaraviglio, L., Lancellotti, R., Shojafar, M.(2018). Joint Minimization of the Energy Costs from Computing, Data Transmission, and Migrations in Cloud Data Centers . IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking. 2. (2). p. 580-595.

Eftekharian, S.E., Shojafar, M., Shamshirband, S.(2017). 2-Phase NSGA II: An optimized reward and risk measurements algorithm in portfolio optimization . Algorithms. 10. (4).

Ahmad, R.W., Gani, A., Hamid, S.H.A., Shojafar, M., Ahmed, A.I.A., Madani, S.A., Saleem, K., Rodrigues, J.J.P.C.(2017). A survey on energy estimation and power modeling schemes for smartphone applications . International Journal of Communication Systems. 30. (11).

Mostafaei, H., Shojafar, M., Zaher, B., Singhal, M.(2017). Barrier coverage of WSNs with the imperialist competitive algorithm . Journal of Supercomputing. 73. (11). p. 4957-4980.

Soleimani, H., Tomasin, S., Alizadeh, T., Shojafar, M.(2017). Cluster-head based feedback for simplified time reversal prefiltering in ultra-wideband systems . Physical Communication. 25. p. 100-109.

Baccarelli, E., Naranjo, P.G.V., Scarpiniti, M., Shojafar, M., Abawajy, J.H.(2017). Fog of Everything: Energy-Efficient Networked Computing Architectures, Research Challenges, and a Case Study . IEEE Access. 5. p. 9882-9910.

Shojafar, M., Pooranian, Z., Naranjo, P.G.V., Baccarelli, E.(2017). FLAPS: bandwidth and delay-efficient distributed data searching in Fog-supported P2P content delivery networks . Journal of Supercomputing. 73. (12). p. 5239-5260.

Tajiki, M.M., Akbari, B., Shojafar, M., Mokari, N.(2017). Joint QoS and congestion control based on traffic prediction in SDN . Applied Sciences (Switzerland). 7. (12).

Naranjo, P.G.V., Shojafar, M., Mostafaei, H., Pooranian, Z., Baccarelli, E.(2017). P-SEP: a prolong stable election routing algorithm for energy-limited heterogeneous fog-supported wireless sensor networks . Journal of Supercomputing. 73. (2). p. 733-755.

Baccarelli, E., Vinueza Naranjo, P.G., Shojafar, M., Scarpiniti, M.(2017). Q*: Energy and delay-efficient dynamic queue management in TCP/IP virtualized data centers . Computer Communications. 102. p. 89-106.

Al-Janabi, S., Al-Shourbaji, I., Shojafar, M., Shamshirband, S.(2017). Survey of main challenges (security and privacy) in wireless body area networks for healthcare applications . Egyptian Informatics Journal. 18. (2). p. 113-122.

Baccarelli, E., Cordeschi, N., Mei, A., Panella, M., Shojafar, M., Stefa, J.(2016). Energy-efficient dynamic traffic offloading and reconfiguration of networked data centers for big data stream mobile computing: Review, challenges, and a case study . IEEE Network. 30. (2). p. 54-61.

Ahmadi, M., Shojafar, M., Khademzadeh, A., Badie, K., Tavoli, R.(2015). A Hybrid Algorithm for Preserving Energy and Delay Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks . Wireless Personal Communications. 85. (4). p. 2485-2505.

Mostafaei, H., Shojafar, M.(2015). A New Meta-heuristic Algorithm for Maximizing Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks . Wireless Personal Communications. 82. (2). p. 723-742.

Shojafar, M., Pooranian, Z., Meybodi, M.R., Singhal, M.(2015). ALATO: An efficient intelligent algorithm for time optimization in an economic grid based on adaptive stochastic Petri net . Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing. 26. (4). p. 641-658.

Pooranian, Z., Shojafar, M., Abawajy, J.H., Abraham, A.(2015). An efficient meta-heuristic algorithm for grid computing . Journal of Combinatorial Optimization. 30. (3). p. 413-434.

Cordeschi, N., Amendola, D., Shojafar, M., Baccarelli, E.(2015). Distributed and adaptive resource management in Cloud-assisted Cognitive Radio Vehicular Networks with hard reliability guarantees . Vehicular Communications. 2. (1). p. 1-12.

Javanmardi, S., Shojafar, M., Shariatmadari, S., Ahrabi, S.S.(2015). FR trust: A fuzzy reputation-based model for trust management in semantic P2P grids . International Journal of Grid and Utility Computing. 6. (1). p. 57-66.

Shojafar, M., Javanmardi, S., Abolfazli, S., Cordeschi, N.(2015). FUGE: A joint meta-heuristic approach to cloud job scheduling algorithm using fuzzy theory and a genetic method . Cluster Computing. 18. (2). p. 829-844.

Shojafar, M., Abolfazli, S., Mostafaei, H., Singhal, M.(2015). Improving Channel Assignment in Multi-radio Wireless Mesh Networks with Learning Automata . Wireless Personal Communications. 82. (1). p. 61-80.

Ahmadi, A., Shojafar, M., Hajeforosh, S.F., Dehghan, M., Singhal, M.(2014). An efficient routing algorithm to preserve k-coverage in wireless sensor networks . Journal of Supercomputing. 68. (2). p. 599-623.

Cordeschi, N., Shojafar, M., Amendola, D., Baccarelli, E.(2014). Energy-efficient adaptive networked datacenters for the QoS support of real-time applications . Journal of Supercomputing. 71. (2). p. 448-478.

Javanmardi, S., Shojafar, M., Shariatmadari, S., Abawajy, J.H., Singhal, M.(2014). PGSW-OS: a novel approach for resource management in a semantic web operating system based on a P2P grid architecture . Journal of Supercomputing. 69. (2). p. 955-975.

Pooranian, Z., Shojafar, M., Javadi, B., Abraham, A.(2014). Using imperialist competition algorithm for independent task scheduling in grid computing . Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems. 27. (1). p. 187-199.

Hosseinabadi, A.A.R., Siar, H., Shamshirband, S., Shojafar, M., Md. Nasir, M.H.N.(2014). Using the gravitational emulation local search algorithm to solve the multi-objective flexible dynamic job shop scheduling problem in Small and Medium Enterprises . Annals of Operations Research. 229. (1). p. 451-474.

Pooranian, Z., Shojafar, M., Tavoli, R., Singhal, M., Abraham, A.(2013). A hybrid metaheuristic algorithm for job scheduling on computational grids . Informatica (Slovenia). 37. (2). p. 157-164.

Shojafar, M., Abawajy, J.H., Delkhah, Z., Ahmadi, A., Pooranian, Z., Abraham, A.(2013). An efficient and distributed file search in unstructured peer-to-peer networks . Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications. 8. (1). p. 120-136.

Shojafar, M., Pooranian, Z., Abawajy, J.H., Meybodi, M.R.(2013). An efficient scheduling method for grid systems based on a hierarchical stochastic petri net . Journal of Computing Science and Engineering. 7. (1). p. 44-52.

Moghaddam, M.K., Shojafar, M., Nami, M.R., Rashidi, H.(2013). An efficient multi-agent system for E-health functionalities . International Journal of Software Engineering and its Applications. 7. (3). p. 23-34.

Cordeschi, N., Shojafar, M., Baccarelli, E.(2013). Energy-saving self-configuring networked data centers . Computer Networks. 57. (17). p. 3479-3491.

Pooranian, Z., Harounabadi, A., Shojafar, M., Hedayat, N.(2011). New hybrid algorithm for task scheduling in grid computing to decrease missed task . World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology. 79. p. 5-9.

CONFERENCE PAPER

Mukherjee, M., Kumar, V., Kumar, S., Matamy, R., Mavromoustakis, C.X., Zhang, Q., Shojafar, M., Mastorakis, G.(2020). Computation Offloading Strategy in Heterogeneous Fog Computing with Energy and Delay Constraints . IEEE International Conference on Communications. 2020-June.

Aggarwal, S., Shojafar, M., Kumar, N., Conti, M.(2019). A New Secure Data Dissemination Model in Internet of Drones . IEEE International Conference on Communications. 2019-May.

Shojafar, M., Taheri, R., Pooranian, Z., Javidan, R., Miri, A., Jararweh, Y.(2019). Automatic clustering of attacks in intrusion detection systems . Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA. 2019-November.

Mukherjee, M., Kumar, S., Shojafar, M., Zhang, Q., Mavromoustakis, C.X.(2019). Joint Task Offloading and Resource Allocation for Delay-Sensitive Fog Networks . IEEE International Conference on Communications. 2019-May.

Aghili, S.F., Mala, H., Shojafar, M., Conti, M.(2019). PAKIT: Proactive Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Internet of Things . INFOCOM 2019 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops, INFOCOM WKSHPS 2019. p. 348-353.

Tajiki, M.M., Salsano, S., Shojafar, M., Chiaraviglio, L., Akbari, B.(2018). Energy-efficient path allocation heuristic for service function chaining . 21st Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks, ICIN 2018. p. 1-8.

Al-Janabi, S., Al-Shourbaji, I., Shojafar, M., Abdelhag, M.(2018). Mobile Cloud Computing: Challenges and Future Research Directions . Proceedings - International Conference on Developments in eSystems Engineering, DeSE. p. 62-67.

Pooranian, Z., Shojafar, M., Naranjo, P.G.V., Chiaraviglio, L., Conti, M.(2017). A Novel Distributed Fog-Based Networked Architecture to Preserve Energy in Fog Data Centers . Proceedings - 14th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Sensor Systems, MASS 2017. p. 604-609.

Canali, C., Lancellotti, R., Shojafar, M.(2017). A computation- Network-Aware energy optimization model for virtual machines allocation . CLOSER 2017 - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science. p. 43-53.

Chiaraviglio, L., Blefari-Melazzi, N., Canali, C., Cuomo, F., Lancellotti, R., Shojafar, M.(2017). A measurement-based analysis of temperature variations introduced by power management on Commodity HardWare . International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks.

Naranjo, P.G.V., Shojafar, M., Abraham, A., Baccarelli, E.(2017). A new Stable Election-based routing algorithm to preserve aliveness and energy in fog-supported wireless sensor networks . 2016 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, SMC 2016 - Conference Proceedings. p. 2413-2418.

Chiaraviglio, L., Amorosi, L., Cartolano, S., Blefari-Melazzi, N., Dell'Olmo, P., Shojafar, M., Salsano, S.(2017). Optimal superfluid management of 5G networks . 2017 IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization: Softwarization Sustaining a Hyper-Connected World: en Route to 5G, NetSoft 2017.

Shojafar, M., Chiaraviglio, L., Blefari-Melazzi, N., Salsano, S.(2017). P5G: A Bio-Inspired Algorithm for the Superfluid Management of 5G Networks . 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, GLOBECOM 2017 - Proceedings. 2018-January. p. 1-7.

Shojafar, M., Canali, C., Lancellotti, R., Abolfazli, S.(2016). An energy-aware scheduling algorithm in DVFS-Enabled Networked Data Centers . CLOSER 2016 - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science. 2. p. 387-397.

Shojafar, M., Canali, C., Lancellotti, R., Baccarelli, E.(2016). Minimizing computing-plus-communication energy consumptions in virtualized networked data centers . Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications. 2016-August. p. 1137-1144.

Shojafar, M., Cordeschi, N., Abawajy, J.H., Baccarelli, E.(2015). Adaptive energy-efficient qos-aware scheduling algorithm for TCP/IP mobile cloud . 2015 IEEE Globecom Workshops, GC Wkshps 2015 - Proceedings.

Shojafar, M., Cordeschi, N., Amendola, D., Baccarelli, E.(2015). Energy-saving adaptive computing and traffic engineering for real-time-service data centers . 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communication Workshop, ICCW 2015. p. 1800-1806.

Hosseinabadi, A.A.R., Kardgar, M., Shojafar, M., Shamshirband, S., Abraham, A.(2015). GELS-GA: Hybrid metaheuristic algorithm for solving Multiple Travelling Salesman Problem . International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, ISDA. 2015-January. p. 76-81.

Cordeschi, N., Amendola, D., Shojafar, M., Naranjo, P.G.V., Baccarelli, E.(2015). Memory and memoryless optimal time-window controllers for secondary users in vehicular networks . Proceedings of the 2015 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, SPECTS 2015 - Part of SummerSim 2015 Multiconference.

Shamshirband, S., Shojafar, M., Hosseinabadi, A.A.R., Abraham, A.(2015). OVRP-ICA: An imperialist-based optimization algorithm for the open vehicle routing problem . Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science). 9121. p. 221-233.

Zare, J., Abolfazli, S., Alwadain, A., Shojafar, M., Kamsin, A.(2015). Resource Scheduling in Mobile Cloud Computing: Taxonomy and Open Challenges . Proceedings - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Data Intensive Systems; 8th IEEE International Conference Cyber, Physical and Social Computing; 11th IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications and 8th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things, DSDIS/CPSCom/GreenCom/iThings 2015. p. 594-603.

Shamshirband, S., Shojafar, M., Hosseinabadi, A.A.R., Abraham, A.(2014). A solution for multi-objective commodity vehicle routing problem by NSGA-II . 2014 14th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS 2014. p. 12-17.

Ahrabi, S.S., Shojafar, M., Esfeh, H.K., Abraham, A.(2014). Mathematical modeling of blood flow through an eccentric catheterized artery: A practical approach for a complex system . 2014 14th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, HIS 2014. p. 315-321.

Amendola, D., Cordeschi, N., Shojafar, M., Abate, V., De Rango, F.(2014). Performance evaluation of a multi-frame persistent neighbor discovery strategy based on Sift-distribution in DTN RFID networks . Proceedings of the 2014 International Symposium on Performance Evaluation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, SPECTS 2014 - Part of SummerSim 2014 Multiconference. p. 647-653.

Valizadeh, I., Shojafar, M., Abraham, A.(2014). Rapid Way mobile application in Wireless sensor network: A practical research in transportation system . 2014 6th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing, NaBIC 2014. p. 133-138.

Cordeschi, N., Amendola, D., Shojafar, M., Baccarelli, E.(2014). Performance evaluation of primary-secondary reliable resource-management in vehicular networks . IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, PIMRC. 2014-June. p. 959-964.

Tavoli, R., Kozegar, E., Shojafar, M., Soleimani, H., Pooranian, Z.(2013). Weighted PCA for improving Document Image Retrieval System based on keyword spotting accuracy . 2013 36th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing, TSP 2013. p. 773-777.

Sayyad, A., Shojafar, M., Delkhah, Z., Meybodi, M.R.(2010). Improvement multiplicity of routs in directed diffusion by learning automata: New approach in directed diffusion . ICCTD 2010 - 2010 2nd International Conference on Computer Technology and Development, Proceedings. p. 195-200.

Sayyad, A., Shojafar, M., Delkhah, Z., Meybodi, M.R.(2010). Improving directed diffusion in sensor network using learning automata: DDLA new approach in directed diffusion . ICCTD 2010 - 2010 2nd International Conference on Computer Technology and Development, Proceedings. p. 189-194.

Barzegar, S., Shojafar, M., Keyvanpour, M.R.(2009). User interface in virtual learning environment . International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions, ICITST 2009.

Omranpour, H., Ebadzadeh, M., Barzegar, S., Shojafar, M.(2008). Distributed coloring of the graph edges . 2008 7th IEEE International Conference on Cybernetic Intelligent Systems, CIS 2008.

BOOK

(2019). Cybersecurity and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems . [Taylor & Francis].

Canali, C., Lancellotti, R., Shojafar, M.(2018). An optimization model to reduce energy consumption in software-defined data centers . Communications in Computer and Information Science. 864. p. 137-156.

Hosseinabadi, A.A.R., Kardgar, M., Shojafar, M., Shamshirband, S., Abraham, A.(2016). Gravitational search algorithm to solve open vehicle routing problem . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 424. p. 93-103.

Shojafar, M., Cordeschi, N., Baccarelli, E.(2016). Resource scheduling for energy-aware reconfigurable internet data centers . Innovative Research and Applications in Next-Generation High Performance Computing. p. 21-46.

Shojafar, M., Kardgar, M., Hosseinabadi, A.A.R., Shamshirband, S., Abraham, A.(2016). TETS: A genetic-based scheduler in cloud computing to decrease energy and makespan . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 420. p. 103-115.

Cordeschi, N., Shojafar, M., Amendola, D., Baccarelli, E.(2015). Energy-saving qos resource management of virtualized networked data centers for big data stream computing . Emerging Research in Cloud Distributed Computing Systems. p. 122-155.

Javanmardi, S., Shojafar, M., Amendola, D., Cordeschi, N., Liu, H., Abraham, A.(2014). Hybrid Job Scheduling Algorithm for Cloud Computing Environment . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 303. p. 43-52.

Shojafar, M., Pooranian, Z., Shojafar, M., Abraham, A.(2014). LLLA: New Efficient Channel Assignment Method in Wireless Mesh Networks . Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing. 237. p. 143-152.