RESEARCH FOCUS

I am a PhD student in the Telematics group at the Institute of Informatics, University of Goettingen. My work is being supervised by Prof. Dr. Dieter Hogrefe.
My research focuses on the physical layer security. Actually, there have been a lot of interests recently towards investigating the potential of the physical layer in providing security mechanisms for the different security aspects as key agreement, encryption, authentication, privacy, secrecy, etc... My research project targets providing feasible, practical and low computational-requiring security mechanisms at the physical layer level.

SUPERVISION

• Investigation of DoS attacks on the MAC layer in wireless networks (status: ongoing)

PUBLICATIONS

• On enhancing the reliability of key extraction mechanisms from wireless channels. Youssef Shehadeh, Ammar El Falou, and Dieter Hogrefe. In PILATES 2012 : Workshop on Physically-augmented Security for Wireless Networks, Kaiserslautern, Germany, March 2012. Extended Abstract.

• Intelligent mechanisms for key generation from multipath wireless channels. Youssef Shehadeh, Omar Alfandi, Kifah Tout, and Dieter Hogrefe. In The 10th IEEE Wireless Telecommunications Symposium (WTS 2011), New York, USA, April 2011.

• An optimal guard-intervals based mechanism for key generation from multipath wireless channels. Youssef Shehadeh and Dieter Hogrefe. In The 4th IEEE International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS 11), Paris, France, February 2011.

• Fast Varying Channel Estimation in Downlink LTE Systems. Youssef Shehadeh and Serdar Sezginer. In Proceedings of the 21st Annual IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC 2010), Istanbul, Turkey, September 2010.