Publications

Book chapters

S. Bakiras, “Anonymous communications over delay tolerant networks,” in Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security, Springer, to appear.

N. Mamoulis, S. Bakiras, and P. Kalnis, “Top-k OLAP queries using augmented spatial access methods,” in Encyclopedia of GIS, Springer, pp. 1156-1161, 2008.

Journal papers

P. Tedeschi, K. Jeon, J. She, S. Wong, S. Bakiras, and R. Di Pietro, “Privacy-preserving and sustainable contact tracing using batteryless BLE beacons,” in IEEE Security & Privacy, to appear.

H. Al-Shaibani, N. Lasla, M. Abdallah, and S. Bakiras, “Privacy-preserving framework for blockchain-based stock exchange platform,” in IEEE Access, 10:1202-1215, 2022.

M. Baza, A. Sherif, M. Mahmoud, S. Bakiras, W. Alasmary, M. Abdallah, and X. Lin, “Privacy-preserving blockchain-based energy trading schemes for electric vehicles,” in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 70(9):9369-9384, 2021.

E. Bentafat, M. M. Rathore, and S. Bakiras, “Towards real-time privacy-preserving video surveillance,” in Computer Communications, 180:97-108, 2021.

P. Tedeschi, S. Bakiras, and R. Di Pietro, “IoTrace: A flexible, efficient, and privacy-preserving IoT-enabled architecture for contact tracing,” in IEEE Communications Magazine, 59(6):82-88, 2021.

E. Bentafat, M. M. Rathore, and S. Bakiras, “Privacy-preserving multi-point traffic flow estimation for road networks,” in Security and Communication Networks Journal, 2021.

M. M. Rathore, S. A. Shah, D. Shukla, E. Bentafat, and S. Bakiras, “The role of AI, machine learning, and big data in digital twinning: A systematic literature review, challenges, and opportunities,” in IEEE Access, 9:32030–32052, 2021.

M. M. Rathore, M. J. Gul, A. Paul, A. A. Khan, R. W. Ahmad, J. J. P. C. Rodrigues, and S. Bakiras, “Multilevel graph-based decision making in big scholarly data: an approach to identify expert reviewer, finding quality impact factor, ranking journals and researchers,” in IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, 9(1):280–292, 2021.

S. Bakiras, E. Troja, X. Xu, and J. F. Naves, “Secure and anonymous communications over delay tolerant networks,” in IEEE Access, 8:88158-88169, 2020.

E. Troja and S. Bakiras, “Optimizing privacy-preserving DSA for mobile clients,” in Ad Hoc Networks, 59:71-85, 2017.

B. Mu and S. Bakiras, “Private proximity detection for convex polygons,” in Tsinghua Science and Technology, 21(3):270-280, 2016.

E. Troja and S. Bakiras, “Leveraging P2P interactions for efficient location privacy in database-driven dynamic spectrum access,” in International Journal of Network Security (IJNS), 17(5):569-579, 2015.

L. Hu, W.-S. Ku, S. Bakiras, and C. Shahabi, “Spatial query integrity with Voronoi neighbors,” in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 25(4):863-876, 2013.

S. Papadopoulos, S. Bakiras, and D. Papadias, “pCloud: A distributed system for practical PIR,” in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 9(1):115-127, 2012.

S. Papadopoulos, S. Bakiras, and D. Papadias, “Nearest neighbor search with strong location privacy,” in PVLDB, 3(1): 619-629, 2010.

K. Mouratidis, S. Bakiras, and D. Papadias, “Continuous monitoring of spatial queries in wireless broadcast environments,” in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 8(10):1297-1311, 2009.

M. L. Yiu, N. Mamoulis, and S. Bakiras, “Retrieval of spatial join pattern instances from sensor networks,” in GeoInformatica, 13(1):57-84, 2009.

S. Bakiras, F. Wang, D. Papadias, and M. Hamdi, “Vertical dimensioning: A novel DRR implementation for efficient fair queueing,” in Computer Communications, 31(14):3476-3484, 2008.

Z. Zhu, P. Kalnis, and S. Bakiras, “DCMP: A distributed cycle minimization protocol for peer-to-peer networks,” in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 19(3):363-377, 2008.

K. Mouratidis, D. Papadias, S. Bakiras, and Y. Tao, “A threshold-based algorithm for continuous monitoring of k nearest neighbors,” in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 17(11):1451-1464, 2005.

S. Bakiras, T. Loukopoulos, D. Papadias, and I. Ahmad, “Adaptive schemes for distributed web caching,” in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), 65(12):1483-1496, 2005.

S. Bakiras and T. Loukopoulos, “Combining replica placement and caching techniques in content distribution networks,” in Computer Communications, 28(9):1062-1073, 2005.

S. Bakiras and V. O. K. Li, “A scalable architecture for end-to-end QoS provisioning,” in Computer Communications, 27(13):1330-1340, 2004.

S. Bakiras and V. O. K. Li, “Maximizing the number of users in an interactive video-on-demand system,” in IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, 48(4):281-292, 2002.

Conference proceedings

E. Bentafat, M. M. Rathore, and S. Bakiras, “Privacy-preserving traffic flow estimation for road networks,” in Proc. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), December 2020.

E. Bentafat, M. M. Rathore, and S. Bakiras, “A practical system for privacy-preserving video surveillance,” in Proc. International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), June 2020.

K. Yao, D. Papadias, and S. Bakiras, “Density-based community detection in geo-social networks,” in Proc. International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), August 2019.

M. M. Rathore, E. Bentafat, and S. Bakiras, “Smart home security: A distributed identity-based security protocol for authentication and key exchange,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), July 2019.

A. K. Abdulla and S. Bakiras, “HITC: Data privacy in online social networks with fine-grained access control,” in Proc. ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), June 2019.

X. Xu, Y. Zhao, D. Zhao, L. Yang, and S. Bakiras, “Distributed real-time data aggregation scheduling in duty-cycled multi-hop sensor networks,” in Proc. International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems and Applications (WASA), June 2019.

E. M. Radi, N. Lasla, S. Bakiras, and M. Mahmoud, “Privacy-preserving electric vehicle charging for peer-to-peer energy trading ecosystems,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2019.

S. Bakiras, E. Troja, and X. Xu, “An anonymous messaging system for delay tolerant networks,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2017.

E. Troja and S. Bakiras, “Privacy-preserving location-aware mobile advertising,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), August 2016.

E. Troja and S. Bakiras, “Efficient location privacy for moving clients in database-driven dynamic spectrum access,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), August 2015.

E. Troja and S. Bakiras, “Leveraging P2P interactions for efficient location privacy in database-driven dynamic spectrum access,” in Proc. ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), November 2014 (poster).

S. Buyrukbilen and S. Bakiras, “Privacy-preserving ranked search on public-key encrypted data,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), November 2013.

S. Buyrukbilen and S. Bakiras, “Secure similar document detection with simhash,” in Proc. VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM), August 2013.

B. Mu and S. Bakiras, “Private proximity detection for convex polygons,” in Proc. ACM Workshop on Data Engineering for Wireless and Mobile Access (MobiDE), pp. 36-43, June 2013.

S. Bakiras and K. F. Nikolopoulos, “Adjusting the trade-off between privacy guarantees and computational cost in secure hardware PIR,” in Proc. VLDB Workshop on Secure Data Management (SDM), pp. 128-144, September 2011.

L. Hu, W.-S. Ku, S. Bakiras, and C. Shahabi, “Verifying spatial queries using Voronoi neighbors,” in Proc. ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (GIS), November 2010.

S. Papadopoulos, Y. Yang, S. Bakiras, and D. Papadias, “Continuous spatial authentication,” in Proc. International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), pp. 62-79, July 2009.

N. Vyahhi, S. Bakiras, P. Kalnis, and G. Ghinita, “Tracking moving objects in anonymized trajectories,” in Proc. International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), pp. 158-171, September 2008.

M. L. Yiu, N. Mamoulis, and S. Bakiras, “Retrieval of spatial join pattern instances from sensor networks,” in Proc. International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management (SSDBM), July 2007.

K. Mouratidis, S. Bakiras, and D. Papadias, “Continuous monitoring of top-k queries over sliding windows,” in Proc. ACM International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), pp. 635-646, June 2006.

P. Kalnis, N. Mamoulis, S. Bakiras, and X. Li, “Ad-hoc distributed spatial joins on mobile devices,” in Proc. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), April 2006.

N. Mamoulis, S. Bakiras, and P. Kalnis, “Evaluation of top-k OLAP queries using aggregate R-trees,” in Proc. International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), pp. 236-253, August 2005.

P. Kalnis, N. Mamoulis, and S. Bakiras, “On discovering moving clusters in spatio-temporal data,” in Proc. International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), pp. 364-381, August 2005.

M. Terrovitis, S. Bakiras, D. Papadias, and K. Mouratidis, “Constrained shortest path computation,” in Proc. International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), pp. 181-199, August 2005.

S. Bakiras, “Approximate server selection algorithms in content distribution networks,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1490-1494, May 2005.

S. T. Goh, P. Kalnis, S. Bakiras, and K. L. Tan, “Real datasets for file-sharing peer-to-peer systems,” in Proc. International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), pp. 201-213, April 2005.

S. Bakiras and T. Loukopoulos, “Increasing the performance of CDNs using replication and caching: A hybrid approach, ” in Proc. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), April 2005.

P. K. C. Tse, S. Bakiras, and K. K. Wong, “On providing QoS guarantees for real-time multimedia streams,” in Proc. International Conference on Advances in Mobile Multimedia, September 2004.

N. Mamoulis, P. Kalnis, S. Bakiras, and X. Li, “Optimization of spatial joins on mobile devices,” in Proc. International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases (SSTD), pp. 233-251, July 2003.

S. Bakiras, T. Loukopoulos, and I. Ahmad, “Dynamic organization schemes for cooperative proxy caching,” in Proc. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), pp. 48-55, April 2003.

S. Bakiras, P. Kalnis, T. Loukopoulos, and W. S. Ng, “A general framework for searching in distributed data repositories,” in Proc. IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), pp. 34-41, April 2003.

S. Bakiras and V. O. K. Li, “Efficient resource management for end-to-end QoS guarantees in DiffServ networks,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 1220-1224, April 2002.

S. Bakiras and V. O. K. Li, “Quality of service support in differentiated services packet networks,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), pp. 2370-2374, June 2001.

S. Bakiras and V. O. K. Li, “Maximizing Network Utilization for Streaming Video,” in Proc. Asia Pacific Conference on Multimedia Technology and Applications, pp. 27-35, December 2000.

S. Bakiras and V. O. K. Li, “Smoothing and prefetching video from distributed servers,” in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), pp. 311-318, October 1999.