Profile
Dr Arabo has over six years’ experience in research and development within the field of Network Security, Security of System-of-Systems composition, Mobile ad-hoc networks, ubiquitous computing and Identity Management. His research is not only academically focused but in collaboration with industrial partners and funded by the EPSRC. He has published three book chapters and a number of peer reviewed Journals and conference papers. Dr Arabo has also gained a four years experience in teaching, providing lab support and tutorials in modules within computer science such as Computer Architecture, Computer Forensics and Operating Systems for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. He is a Professional member of British Computer Society (BCS) - (MBCS), committee member of Information Security Specialised Group (ISSG) and a committee member of his local BCS branch and the Young Professional Representative (YPG) of the branch. Mr Arabo, has a well established and promising research tract within the area of information security, these is demonstrated with his wide international publications, book chapters, conference papers and participation in top IEEE technical conference program committees and journal reviewing.
Research and Development
Research Fellow: 2011-Date: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Leading a project on Future connected home security. Responsible as part of a team for researching and developing future home network and service security; Including development of security frameworks for devices such as smart phones, digital cameras, home hubs and Internet TVs; protocols to connect devices with cloud services; security analysis of remote management systems for home appliances; and a security framework for content sharing between the home and social networks. Working in collaboration British Telecommunication to enhance their flagship project and market within connected home. The project forms a key strategic development for BT future home networking and product development. We develop new security frameworks and protocols for both connected home devices and home network. The project covers areas such as Content Sharing, Content management, Policy and DRM, Smart Metering, Consumerisation of IT etc. Our research and development are not only limited or tailored to home networks both to corporate network and devices.
Researcher in Network Security: 2007- 2011: Liverpool John Moores University
EPSRC and Industrial collaboration Funded research on Security of System-of-Systems Composition within Emergency Crisis Management Environment.
I was responsible as part of a team for researching and developing security System-of Systems composition Simulation tools in C# (for windows Mobile) and C++. This is a join project between the university and a major security consulting company that deals with the Ministry of Defence (MoD) UK.
Disseminating research results in terms of conference papers, journals papers, book chapters and presenting the results in conferences, industrial collaborating meetings, visitors from overseas and within the UK
Teaching and lab supervision for undergraduates and postgraduates- Computer Architecture, Computer Forensic, Operating Systems
Organising and co-ordinating meetings with research collaborators and other partners
Teaching roles include: tutorials, supervising lab sessions and teaching in Computer Forensic and Computer Systems Architecture.
Serving as Journal Reviewer/review for International Journal of Network Security Technical Programme Committee member for IEEE ICCNC and other
conferences
PhD in Network Security: 2007- 2011: Liverpool John Moores University Supervised by Professor Qi Shi (Professor in Computer Security) and Professor Madjid Merabti (Professor in Computer Security and Networks)
EPSRC Funded research on Identity Management in Mobile ad-hoc Networks Responsible for planning and managing my won research work, design,
implementation and synthesis of a new user-centred and context-aware identity management framework in Mobile ad-hoc Network within Ubiquitous environment.
Disseminated research results in a number of IEEE peer reviewed conferences, Journal publications and book chapters.
Use of GTNet and NS-2, NS-3 Simulators, developing in-house simulator in C++ and C#
I have presented all my papers in conferences both within the UK and overseas. Have taken the advantage of the department and collaborating partners to
develop collaborative publications, dissemination of research work, patent applications and grand applications.
Employment History
Research Fellow: 2011-Date: Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Leading a project on the development and security of future connected home; working with two teams one from BT and the other based in University of Oxford as well as working on an EU FP7 project Webinos.
IT Security Consultant: 2011-Date: British Telecommunications
Providing support and leading a project on Future Home Network Security. The project covers new development in Future Connected Home 3.0 and beyond. I lead two teams one based in BT and the other bases in Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. The project forms a key strategic development for BT future home networking and product development. We develop new security frameworks and protocols for both connected home devices and home network. The project covers areas such as Content Sharing, Content management, Policy and DRM, Smart Metering, Consumerisation of IT etc. Our research and development are not only limited or tailored to home networks both to corporate network and devices.
Researcher in Network Security: Jun 07- Sep 2011, Liverpool John Moores University: I was responsible as part of a team for researching and developing security systems of systems composition tool in C# and C++. This is a joint project between the university and a major security consulting company that deals with the Ministry of Defence (MoD).
IT Consultant: Feb 06 – Jun 07 with Bishop Gore Comprehensive School: main duties of Web Authoring using PHP and MySQL based on a Linux server.
Web Design (Multimedia) Assistant, promoted to Training Programme Coordinator: Mar 05 – Jul 05, WMG Training Ltd; main duties included: web design, project planning and implementation, conducting training sessions.
IT Consultant: Nov 04 – Apr 05, with Achieve –Now Ltd; main responsibilities included responsibility for, installation upgrade and support, Assessment of processes and standards used by project teams for delivering software products
Education History
PhD in Network Security: 2007- Sep 2011: Liverpool John Moores University Supervised by Professor Qi Shi (Professor in Computer Security) and Professor Madjid Merabti (Professor in Computer Security and Networks). EPSRC funded PhD project titled “User-centred and Context-ware identity Management in Mobile ad-hoc Networks (UCIN in MANets)”.
26 Jul 09– 8 Aug 09: Young Muslims Leadership Programme, Oxford University Centre for Islamic Development.
Jun 07 – Aug 07: IPICS University of Glamorgan: IPICS Consortium - Glamorgan University, two weeks summers course focusing on Information and Communications Security and computer forensics. Academic community as the academic European summer school on computer security, the conference covers most of the areas of information and communication security, with topics ranging from Cryptography, Information Security Concepts and Management, Computer Systems Security and Penetration Testing, Web Services and Security RFID Security, just bit to mention a few. The conference also focused on mini-stream especially focused on the field of digital investigation, looking in further depth the issues of computer crime, forensic examination of computers and the related issues. Computer Forensics is an emerging discipline and a topic of specialisation of the ISRG
September 2003- June 2007: - MEng Computing University of Wales Swansea United Kingdom
Grade of 2:1, modular course consist of writing reports, group and individual work and presentations supported by lectures, seminars and conferences. Achieving high marks in Network & Communication, Security and other modules.
Positions of Responsibility
Sep 08- date: YPG Rep and Committee Member BCS Merseyside Branch, Committee member for BCS ISSG
Sep. 06 – Jun 07: Vice Chairman: FOSIS Wales, with main responsibilities of coordinating activities, and organising joint events.
Nov 05 – Nov 06: - Vice President and Chairman with PR responsibilities of UWS Imam Project within the Islamic Society of University of Wales Swansea.
May 06- Jun 06 - Member of the Quality Management System for Administration (QMS) Core Function Review for the International Student Advisory Service Committee, data analysis, interpretation, communication and evaluation are some of the useful skills applied and gained.
Sep 04 –Nov 05:- President of the Islamic Society University of Wales Swansea. Sep 03 –Jun 04: -Course representative for the first year students in computer science, skills developed includes communication, negotiations, interpersonal and gaining full confidence during difficult situation.
Achievements
Based Paper Award for IEEE SOSE 2010 Conference
Warn a Competition on Writing an Article on Challenges of Muslims in the West – price Ummrah Ticket - £750
Full sponsorship from Oxford University and Princess Wales Trust to attend a two week summer training course in Oxford July April 2009.
Full 4 years student Bursary for my PhD from Liverpool John Moore’s University 2007-2011.
Full 3 years studentship from Bedfordshire University 2007-2010.
Received an Outstanding Contribution to Student Community from FOSIS Wales 06.
Received an Individual Contribution Award from Swansea University Students’ Union 06
Initiating and successfully creating a project, “Mosque Project”, which offered a wide range of campus support for students 05/06
Received a letter in recognition of “Excellent work” from the Vice Chancellor. Wider media coverage with regards to issues of creating peace and harmony with
peaceful co-existence, including a front page feature, “Man of Peace”, in the
Swansea Evening Post.
Recognition by MD of contributing 65% towards the success of the Company in the summer of 05.
Completing Projects on time and within budget. Membership of Professional Bodies
Professional Member of British Computer Society (MBCS)
Committee member Information Security Specialist Group (ISSG) BCS Committee member Merseyside BCS Branch
Young Professional Group (YPG) BCS representative for Merseyside Branch Member of Communications Management Association (CMA)
Membership of Conference Technical Program Committee and Journal Reviewing
I am also contributing to International Journal of Network Security (IJNS) as an editor/reviewer for last four years, and also serves as technical program committee member for IEEE ICCNC for the past four years, IAPEC 2011, ISIEA for the past three years and ICEDSA for the past two years. I am currently involved in organising an invited Session on System-of-Systems Security for the 6th IEEE conference on SoSE 2011
Selected Publication List
Book Chapters1. Arabo, A., Shi, Q., and Merabti, M., ContextRank: Begetting Order to Usage of Context Information and Identity Management in Pervasive Ad-hoc Environments, in Emerging Pervasive and Ubiquitous Aspects of Information Systems: Cross-Disciplinary Advancements, Symonds, J., Editor. 2011, Information Science Reference (an imprint of IGI Global). p. 275-297
2. Arabo, A., Shi, Q and Merabti, M, Dynamic Device Configuration in Ubiquitous
Environments, in Global Security, Safety, and Sustainability Communications in
Computer and Information Science, S.J. Tenreiro de Magalhaes, Hamid,
Hessami, Ali G. (Eds.), Editor. 2010, Springer. p. 263-273.
3. Arabo, A., Shi, Q and Merabti, M, Situation Awareness in Systems of Systems
Ad-hoc Environments, in H. Jahankhani, A.G. Hessami, and F. Hsu (Eds.): 5th
International Conference on Global Security. Safety and Sustainability 2009, CCIS. 2009, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009. p. 27-34.
Journals
1. Arabo, A., Shi, Q and Merabti, M, Context-Aware Identity Management in
Pervasive Ad-hoc Environments. International Journal of Advanced Pervasive
and Ubiquitous Computing, 2009. 1(4): p. 29-42.
2. Arabo, A., Shi, Q and Merabti, M, A Framework for User-Centred and
Context-Aware Identity Management in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (UCIM). Ubiquitous
Computing and Communication Journal - Special Issue on New Technologies, Mobility and Security, 2009. NTMS - Special Issue.
3. Arabo, A., Shi, Q and Merabti, M, Ubiquitous Secure Cash Withdrawal
International Journal of Database Theory and Application, 2009. 1(2): p. 55-64 Conferences
1. Kifayat, K., Arabo, A., Drew, O., Llewellyn-Jones, D., Shi, Q., Merabti, M, Waller A., Craddock, R. and Jones, G., State-of-the-Art in System-of-Systems Security
for Crisis Management, In The Fourth Annual Layered Assurance Workshop
2. Arabo, A., Shi, Q and Merabti, M, Data Mishandling and Profile Building in
Ubiquitous Environments, in IEEE International Conference on Privacy,
Security, Risk and Trust. 2010, IEEE Cpmputer Society: Minneapolis,
Minnesota, USA. p. 1056-1063.
3. Zhou, B., Arabo, A., Drew, O., Llewellyn-Jones, Kifayat, K., D., Shi, Q., Merabti, M, Waller A., Craddock, R. and Jones, G., System-of-Systems Boundary Check in a Public Event Scenario. 5th IEEE International Conference on Systems of Systems Engineering, 2010. (WON BEST PAPER AWARD).
4. Muhammad, A., Arabo, A., Shi, Q., Merabti, M. and Askwith, B., et al. A Secure
Gateway Service for Accessing Networked Appliances. in Fifth International
Conference on Systems and Networks Communications. 2010: IEEE Computer
Society, France.
5. Arabo, A., Shi, Q and Merabti, M. Dynamic Policy Specification in Ubiquitous
Environments. in The 11th Annual PostGraduate Symposium on The
Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting 2010.
Holiday Inn, Liverpool, UK.
6. Arabo, A., Shi, Q and Merabti, M. User-Centred Identity Management in Mobile
Ad-hoc Networks. in 10th Annual Postgraduate Symposium on the
Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and Broadcasting (PGNet
2009). 2009. Liverpool, UK.
7. Arabo, A., Shi, Q and Merabti, M. Towards a Context-Aware Identity
Management in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (IMMANets). in The IEEE 23rd
International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
Workshops (AINA-09) , May 26-29, 2009. 2009. University of Bradford,
Bradford, UK.
8. Arabo, A., Shi, Q and Merabti, M., Llewellyn-Jones, D., Identity Management in
Mobile Ad-hoc Networks (IMMANets): A Survey. in 9th Annual Postgraduate
Symposium on the Convergence of Telecommunications, Networking and
Broadcasting (PGNet 2008). 2008. Liverpool, UK.
9. Arabo, A. Secure cash withdrawal through mobile phone/device. in International
Conference on Computer and Communication Engineering, 2008. ICCCE 2008.
10. Zhou, B., Arabo, A., Drew, O., Llewellyn-Jones, D., Shi, Q., Merabti, M, Waller A., Craddock, R., Jones, G. and Yau, A., Data Flow Security Analysis for System-of-Systems in a Public Security Incident. in The 3rd Conference on
Advances in Computer Security and Forensics (ACSF 2008). 2008. Liverpool,
