Recipient of KFUPM University Excellence in Research Award of Year 2008/2009.

Recipient of KFUPM University Best Research Project Award of Year 2009/2010.

Research Interestss

• Cloud Computing
• Computer and Network Security, Firewalls, Intrusion Detection Systems
• Operating System Performance and Linux Kernel Internals
• Performance Evaluation of Computer Networks and Applications
• Multimedia Applications and Protocols: VoIP, Videoconferencing, & IPTV
• Computer Network Design

Tutorials

• Secrets of Software Reverse Engineering, at ACM SINCONF-2009

International Journal Editorial Boards

       

(1) CFP Special Issue on Advances in Network Security Attacks and Defences by IJIPT

(2) CFP Special Issue on Multi-Agent & Distributed Information Security by IET-IFS

Selected Refereed Journal Papers

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ð     Salah, K., Sattar, K., Sqalli, M., and Alshaer, E., “A Potential Low-Rate DoS Attack Against Network Firewalls,” International Journal of Security and Communication Networks, John Wiley, In Press.

ð     Salah, K. and Kahtani, A. “Improving Snort Performance under Linux,” International Journal of IET Communications, Vol. 3, No. 12, December 2009, pp. 1883-1895..

ð     Salah, K. and Kahtani, A. “Performance Evaluation Comparison of Snort NIDS under Linux and Windows Server,” International Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier Science, Vol. 33, No. 1, January 2010, pp. 6-15

ð     Salah, K., “On the Deployment of VoIP in Ethernet Networks: Methodology and Case Study,” International Journal of Computer Communications, Elsevier Science, Vol. 29(8) (2006), pp. 1039-1054 [pdf] [Still in Top25 since July 2005] [KFUPM News]

ð     Salah, K., and Hamawi, M., “Comparative Packet Forwarding Measurement of Three Popular Operating Systems,” International Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier Science, Vol. 32, No. 5, September 2009, Pages 1039-1048.

ð     Salah, K., “To Coalesce or not to Coalesce,” International Journal of Electronics and Communications, Elsevier Science, Vol. 61 (4)  (2007), pp. 215-225 [pdf]

ð    Salah, K., El-Badawi, K., and Haidari, F., “Performance Analysis and Comparison of Interrupt-Handling Schemes in Gigabit Networks,” International Journal of Computer Communications, Elsevier Science, Vol. 30(17) (2007), pp. 3425-3441. [pdf]

ð     Salah, K., Qahtan, A. “Implementation and Experimental Performance Evaluation of a Hybrid Interrupt-Handling Scheme” International Journal of Computer Communications, Elsevier Science, Vol. 32(1) (2009), pp. 179-188 [pdf]

ð     Salah, K., Calyam, P., and Buhari, M. “Assessing Readiness of IP Networks to Support Videoconferencing using OPNET,” International Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Elsevier Science, Vol 31(4) (2008), pp. 921-943.  [pdf]

ð     Salah, K., Darwish, N., Saleem, M., and Shaaban, Y., “An Analytical Simulator for Deploying IP Telephony,” International Journal of Network Management, John Wiley, Vol 19(1) (2009), pp. 25-37. [pdf]

ð     Salah, K., “An Analytical Approach for Deploying Desktop Videoconferencing,” IEE Proceedings - Communications, Vol. 153 (3) (2006), pp. 434-444. [pdf]

ð     Salah, K., and Alkhoraidly, A., “An OPNET-based Simulation Approach for Deploying VoIP,” International Journal of Network Management, John Wiley, Vol. 16(3) (2006), pp. 149-183.  [pdf]

ð     Salah, K., and El-Badawi, K., “Throughput and Delay Analysis of Interrupt-Driven Kernels under Poisson and Bursty Traffic,”  International Journal of Computer Systems, Science and Engineering, CRL Publishing, Vol. 22 (1-2) (2007), pp. 5-14   [pdf]

ð     Salah, K., and El-Badawi, K., “Throughput-Delay Analysis of Interrupt-Driven Kernels with DMA Enabled and Disabled in High-Speed Networks,” International Journal of High Speed Networks, Vol. 16(2)  (2006), pp. 157-172  [pdf]

ð     Salah, K. “On the Accuracy of Two Analytical Models for Evaluating the Performance of Gigabit Ethernet Hosts,” International Journal of Information Sciences, Elsevier Science, Vol. 176(24) (2006), pp. 3735-3756

ð     Salah, K., and El-Badawi, K., “On Modeling and Analysis of Receive Livelock and CPU Utilization in High-Speed Networks,” International Journal of Computers and Applications, ACTA Press, Vol. 28(2) (2006), pp. 162-169

ð    Salah, K., “Modeling and Analysis of Application Throughput in Gigabit Networks,” International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, International Journal of Computers and Their Applications, ISCA Publication, Vol. 12(1) (2005), pp. 44-55.

ð     Salah, K., and El-Badawi, K., “Analysis and Simulation of Interrupt Overhead Impact on OS Throughput in High-Speed Networks,“ International Journal of Communication Systems,  John Wiley, Vol. 18(5) (2005), pp. 501-526. [pdf]

Selected Refereed Conference Papers

ð      Salah, K., Sattar, K., Baig, Z, Sqalli, M, and Calyam, P., “Resiliency of Open-Source Firewalls against Remote Discovery of Last-Matching Rules”,  In the proceedings of the 2^nd ACM International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2009), Gazimagusa, North Cyprus, October 6-10, 2009.

ð      Al-Haidari F., Sqalli M., Salah, K., and Hamodi J., “An Entropy-based Countermeasure against Intelligent DoS Attacks Targeting Firewalls”, In the proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks (IEEE POLICY 2009), London, UK, July 20-22, 2009, pp. 41-44.

ð      Salah, K. and Qahtan, A., "Boosting Throughput of Snort NIDS under Linux," In the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations'08), December 16-18, 2008, Al-Ain, UAE.

ð      Salah K., Sattar, K., Sqalli, M., and Al-Shaer, E."A Probing Technique for Discovering Last-Matching Rules of a Network Firewall," In the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations'08), December 16-18, 2008, Al-Ain, UAE.

ð      Salah, K., and El-Badawi, K., “Modeling and Analysis of Interrupt Disable-Enable Scheme,” Proceedings of the IEEE 21st International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-07), Niagara Falls, Canada, May 21-23, 2007, pp.  1000-1005 [pdf]

ð      Salah, K.,  and Almashari, A., “An Analytical Tool to Assess Readiness of Existing Networks for Deploying IP Telephony”, Proceeding of 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, IEEE ISCC 2006, Sardinia, Italy, June 27-30, 2006, pp. 302-305. [pdf]

ð      Salah, K., “An Analytical Model for Evaluating Interrupt-Driven System Performance of Gigabit Ethernet Hosts with Finite Buffer,” Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (IEEE ISCC’05), Cartagena, Spain, 2005, pp. 983-988. [pdf]

ð      Salah, K., and El-Badawi, K., “Performance Evaluation of Interrupt-Driven Kernels in Gigabit Networks,” Proceedings of IEEE GLOBECOM 2003, San Francisco, USA, December 1-5, 2003, pp. 3953-3957  [pdf]

ð      Salah, K., and El-Badawi, K., “Evaluating System Performance in Gigabit Networks,” Proceedings of the 28^th IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN), Bonn/Königswinter, Germany, 2003, pp. 498-505  [pdf]

ð     Hussain, S., Hassan, Y., El-Badawi, K., and Salah, K., “Analysis of the Internet Worm of August 2003,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Computer Science (ICICS 2004), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 2004, pp. 99-112 [pdf]

ð      Muzaffar, Z., Rasheed, A., and Salah, K., “Methods of Protecting the Stack Overflow Vulnerability,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Computer Science, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 2004, pp. 437-454  [pdf]

ð      Salah, K., Drakopoulos, E., and Elrad, T., “Periodic Route Optimization for Handed-off Connections in Wireless ATM Networks,” Proceedings of the 24th IEEE Annual Conference on Local Computer Networks and Services (IEEE LCN’99),  Boston, MA, USA, 1999, pp. 205-214.  [pdf]

ð      Salah, K., Drakopoulos, E., and Elrad, T. , “Performance Study of a Two-Phase Handoff Scheme for Wireless ATM Networks,” Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Wireless Mobile ATM Implementations (IEEE wmATM’99), San Francisco, USA, 1999, pp. 194-200. [pdf]

ð      Salah, K., and Drakopoulos, E., “A Two-Phase Handoff Scheme for Mobility Management in Wireless ATM Networks,” Proceedings of the 2nd IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia Networks and Services, Versailles, France, 1998, pp. 205-214.  [pdf]

ð      Salah, K., and Drakopoulos, E., “A Two-Phase Inter-Switch Handoff Scheme for Wireless ATM Networks,” Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (IEEE ICCCN’98), Lafayette, LA, USA, 1998, pp. 708-713.  [pdf]

ð      Hassan, Y., Khan, U., Naji, M., and Salah, K., “Operating System Support for CPU Power Management in Mobile Devices,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Information and Computer Science, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 2004, pp. 303-321  [pdf]

ð      Salah, K., and Mufti, A., “Web Operating System,” Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Information and Computer Science: Internet Computing (WICS'2002), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 2002, pp. 279-287.  [pdf]

ð      Salah, K., and Saliu, M., “Starvation Problem in CPU Scheduling for Multimedia Systems,” Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Information and Computer Science: Internet Computing (WICS'2002), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 2002, pp. 489-497.  [pdf]

Book Chapters 

ð    Salah, K., "Deploying VoIP in Existing IP Networks", Book Chapter, "VoIP Handbook: Applications, Technologies, Reliability, and Security," Editors: S. Ashon and M. Ilyas, CRC Press, 1st Edition, December 2008. [pdf].  Part of this Chapter also appears at Amazon.com.

Proceeding Books 

ð      Faisal, K., Sarfraz, M., and Salah, K. (Editors), The Proceedings of the 2002 International Workshop on Information and Computer Science: Internet Computing, KFUPM Press, Saudi Arabia, (2002), ISBN: 9960-07-187-1.

Edited Journals 

ð      Sarfraz, M., Salah, K., and Ahmed, M. (Guest Editors), Special Issue on Internet Computing, International Journal of Information Sciences, Elsevier Science Inc., Vol. 150(3-4), 2003.

Recent International Conference Activities 

ð     Member of the TPC of the 2nd ACM CCS Workshop on Assurable & Usable Security Configuration (SafeConfig), Chicago, USA, Oct. 4, 2010.

ð     Member of the TPC of the sixth IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Trusted Computing and Communications (TrustCom-10) 2010, Hong Kong, Dec 11-13, 2010

ð     Member of the TPC of the 35^th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN) 2010, Denver, Colorado, USA.

ð     Member of the TPC of the 2nd IEEE Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments (NASSUE 2010), Niagara Falls, Canada

ð     Member of the TPC of SIN 2010, 3rd ACM International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2010), September 2010.

ð     Member of the TPC of the 34^th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (IEEE LCN) 2009, Zurich, Switzerland.

ð     Member of the TPC of the 2009 International Workshop on Network Assurance and Security Services in Ubiquitous Environments NASSUE-2009), Seoul, Korea.

ð     Member of the TPC of the 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies & Applications (ICUT 2009), Fukuoka, Japan,  http://www.icut2009.org/cfp.php

ð     Member of the TPC of FIAS2009, International Workshop on Frontiers of Information Assurance & Security (FIAS 2009), Gold Coast, Australia, http://coeia.edu.sa/index.php/en/fias2009.html

ð     Member of the TPC of SIN 2009, 2nd ACM International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2009), Cyprus.

ð     Chair of a session on "Attacks and Intrusion Detection" at the 2^nd ACM International Conference on Security of Information and Networks (SIN 2009), Gazimagusa, North Cyprus, October 6-10, 2009.

ð     Chair of a session on "Network Security" at the 5th International Conference on Innovations in Information Technology (Innovations'08), Al-Ain, UAE, December 16-19, 2008.

ð     Chair of a session on "Computer and Network Performance" at the IEEE 6th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA-08), Doha, Qatar, March 31-April 4, 2008. 

ð     Chair of a session on "Performance Evaluation and Analysis" at IEEE AINA-07 conference, held on May 22, 2007, in Niagara Falls, Canada.

ð     Chair of a session on “Ethernet Technology” at the 11th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (IEEE ISCC’06), Sardinia, Italy, 2006.