Publications

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Journals

1. M. Tanha, and Kafaie, A Review of Explainable AI for Android Malware Detection and Analysis, IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 141958-141974, 2025.
M. Tanha, D. Sajjadi, R. Ruby, and J. Pan, Capacity-aware and Delay-guaranteed Resilient Controller Placement for Software-Defined WANs, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 991-1005, 2018.
2. M. Tanha, D. Sajjadi, R. Ruby, and J. Pan, Traffic Engineering Enhancement by Progressive Migration to SDN, IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 22, no. 3, pp. 438 – 441, Mar 2018.
3. D. Sajjadi, R. Ruby, M. Tanha, and J. Pan, Fine-grained Traffic Engineering on SDN-aware Wi-Fi Mesh Networks, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), vol. 67, no. 8, pp. 7593-7607, 2018.
4. M. Tanha , F. Hashim, and S. Shamala, Secure and Self-healing Control Centers of Critical Infrastructures using Intrusion Tolerance, International Journal of Network Security, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 365-382, 2015.
5. D. Sajjadi, Fazirulhisyam Hashim, Kae Hsiang Kwong, David Chieng, Seh Chun Ng, and M. Tanha, An Adaptive Rate Allocation System to Mitigate Starvation Dilemma in Multi-Radio Multi-Hop Wireless Mesh Networks, International Journal of Wireless Personal Communications, vol. 84, no. 4, pp. 2881-2912, 2015.
6. M. Tanha , D. Sajjadi, and S. Shamala, A Discrete Event Simulator for Extensive Defense Mechanism for Denial of Service Attacks Analysis, American Journal of Applied Sciences, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 909-916, 2012.

Conference Proceedings

1. M. Tanha, W. Zhao, A. Hunter, and A. Jangodaz, Using Counterfactuals for Explainable Android Malware Detection, 22nd Annual International Conference on Privacy, Security, and Trust (PST2025), Aug 2025 .
2. M. Tanha, A. Singh, and G. Knoke, Revisiting Temporal Inconsistency and Feature Extraction for Android Malware Detection, in proceedings of 2024 IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Aug 2024, pp. 301-306.
3. A. Singh, M. Tanha, Y. Girdhar, and A. Hunter, Interpretable Android Malware Detection based on Dynamic Analysis, 10th International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP), 2024.
4. M. Tanha, D. Sajjadi, and J. Pan, Demystifying Failure Recovery for Software-Defined Wireless Mesh Networks, IEEE NetSoft 2018, PVE-SDN workshop, Jun 2018.
5. B. Hu, B., M. Tanha, D. Sajjadi,and J. Pan, Intelligent Caching in Dense Small-Cell Networks with Limited External Resources, in Proceedings of 43rd IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Oct 2018.
6. D. Sajjadi, R. Ruby, M. Tanha, and J. Pan, Fine-grained Access Provisioning via Joint Gateway Selection and Flow Routing on SDN-aware Wi-Fi Mesh Networks, in proceedings of 13th IEEE WiMob, Oct 2017.
7. M. Tanha, D. Sajjadi, and J. Pan, Enduring Node Failures through Resilient Controller Placement for Software Defined Networks in proceedings of 59th IEEE Globecom, Dec 2016.
8. D. Sajjadi, M. Tanha, and J. Pan, Meta-heuristic Solution for Dynamic Association Control in Virtualized Multi-rate WLANs in proceedings of 41st Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Nov 2016.
9. M. Tanha, D. Sajjadi, F. Tong, and J. Pan, Disaster Management and Response for Modern Cellular Networks using Flow-based Multi-hop Device-to-Device Communications in proceedings of 84th IEEE VTC-Fall, Sep 2016.
10. J. Wu, J. Wang, L. Liu, M. Tanha, and J. Pan, A Data Forwarding Scheme with Reachable Probability Centrality in DTNs, in proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), Apr 2016.
11. D. Sajjadi, M. Tanha, and J. Pan, A Comparative Study of Channel Switching Latency for Conventional and SDN-based Routing in Multi-Hop Multi-Radio Wireless Mesh, in proceedings of 13th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), pp.330-334, Jan 2016.
12. M. Tanha and F. Hashim, An Intrusion Tolerant System for Improving Availability in Smart Grid Control Centers, in proceedings of 18^th IEEE ICON, Dec 2012, pp. 434-440.
13. M. Tanha , D. Sajjadi, M. T. Abdullah, and F. Hashim, An Overview of Attacks against Digital Watermarking and their Respective Countermeasures, in Proceedings of International Conference on Cyber Security, Cyber Warfare and Digital Forensic (CyberSec), pp. 265-270, 2012.
14. D. Sajjadi, S. Rostampour, and M. Tanha, New Secure and Low-cost Design for Defense in Depth Implementation Using Open Source Softwares, in Proceedings of IEEE Student Conference on Research and Development (SCOReD), pp. 448-453, 2011.
15. D. Sajjadi, M. Tanha, Implementing a secure high visited web site by using open source softwares, in 1^st Iranian Students Scientific Conference in Malaysia, Apr 2011.

Posters

1. M. Tanha, D. Sajjadi, F. Tong, and J. Pan, “Disaster Management and Response for Modern Cellular Networks using Flow-based Multi-hop Device-to-Device Communications”, Grad Cohort Workshop, San Diego, USA, Apr 2016.

2. M. Tanha, D. Sajjadi, F. Tong, and J. Pan, “Survivability Analysis and Disaster Response for Modern Cellular Networks”, International Workshop on Mobile Communications & Networking (IWMCN), UVic, Nov 2015.

3. M. Tanha, L. Cai, and J. Pan, “Smart Grid Cyber Security: Research & Challenges”, 1st UVic Workshop on Future Ubiquitous Networks (FUN), Nov 2014.

Book Chapters

1. M. Tanha and F. Hashim, Towards a Secure and Available Smart Grid Using Intrusion Tolerance in Internet and Distributed Computing Systems, LNCS, Y. Xiang, M. Pathan, X. Tao, and H. Wang, Eds. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012, pp. 188-201.

Patent

1. “System and Method for Providing Real-Time User Information Broadcast based on the User’s Location” (Malaysia PI 2014003141), Issued in November 2014. [Inventors: K.H. Kwong, D. Sajjadi, and M. Tanha]