AbdulAziz AbdulGhaffar
Ph.D. Candidate
| Degrees: | B.Sc., M.S. |
| Office: | VSIM 3228B |
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Biography
AbdulAziz AbdulGhaffar received his B.Sc. degree in telecommunication engineering from the Department of Telecommunication Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Taxila, Pakistan, in 2016. He obtained his M.S. degree in computer networks from the Department of Computer Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 2020. His master thesis was titled “Software Defined Networking Approach for 5G Core Network”. He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree in electrical and computer engineering with the Systems and Computer Engineering Department, Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Research Interests
His research interests include 5G/6G networks, computer networks, network security, software-defined networks (SDN), and the Internet of Things (IoT).
Publications
Journal Papers
- Sattar, Danish, Ashraf Matrawy, and AbdulAziz AbdulGhaffar. “Secure 5G Core Network Slicing for DDoS Mitigation.” IEEE Systems Journal 19, no. 3 (2025): 754-765.
- Mahyoub, Mohammed, AbdulAziz AbdulGhaffar, Emmanuel Alalade, and Ashraf Matrawy. “A Security‐Aware Network Function Sharing Model for 5G Slicing.” Security and Privacy 8, no. 3 (2025): e70039.
- Mahyoub, Mohammed, AbdulAziz AbdulGhaffar, Emmanuel Alalade, Ezekiel Ndubisi, and Ashraf Matrawy. “Security analysis of critical 5G interfaces.” IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials 26, no. 4 (2024): 2382-2410.
- Abdul Ghaffar, Abdul Aziz, Ashraf Mahmoud, Tarek Sheltami, and Marwan Abu-Amara. “A survey on software-defined networking-based 5G mobile core architectures.” Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 48, no. 2 (2023): 2313-2330.
- Beg, Abdurrahman, Saud Mohammad Mostafa, AbdulAziz AbdulGhaffar, Tarek R. Sheltami, and Ashraf Mahmoud. “An Adaptive and Spectrally Efficient Multi-Channel Medium Access Control Protocol for Dynamic Ad Hoc Networks.” Sensors 22, no. 22 (2022): 8666.
- Abdeen, Mohammad AR, Abdurrahman Beg, Saud Mohammad Mostafa, AbdulAziz AbdulGhaffar, Tarek R. Sheltami, and Ansar Yasar. “Performance Evaluation of VANET Routing Protocols in Madinah City.” Electronics 11, no. 5 (2022): 777.
- Abdulghaffar, Abdulaziz, Ashraf Mahmoud, Marwan Abu-Amara, and Tarek Sheltami. “Modeling and evaluation of software defined networking based 5G core network architecture.” IEEE Access 9 (2021): 10179-10198.
- AbdulGhaffar, AbdulAziz, Saud Mohammad Mostafa, Ammar Alsaleh, Tarek Sheltami, and Elhadi M. Shakshuki. “Internet of things based multiple disease monitoring and health improvement system.” Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing 11, no. 3 (2020): 1021-1029.
Conference Papers
- AbdulGhaffar, AbdulAziz, and Ashraf Matrawy. “LLMs’ Suitability for Network Security: A Case Study of STRIDE Threat Modeling.” (Under Review) arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.04101 (2025).
- Husseinat, Adam Ali, AbdulAziz AbdulGhaffar, and Ashraf Matrawy. “A Study of XR Traffic Characteristics Under Flooding Attacks on 5G Slicing.” In ICC 2025-IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 2737-2742. IEEE, 2025.
- AbdulGhaffar, AbdulAziz, Mohammed Mahyoub, and Ashraf Matrawy. “On the impact of flooding attacks on 5G slicing with different VNF sharing configurations.” In 2024 20th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks (DRCN), pp. 136-142. IEEE, 2024.
- AbdulGhaffar, AbdulAziz, Sumit Kumar Paul, and Ashraf Matrawy. “An analysis of dhcp vulnerabilities, attacks, and countermeasures.” In 2023 Biennial Symposium on Communications (BSC), pp. 119-124. IEEE, 2023.
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