Fatty Mostafa Ahmed Salem

@h-eng.helwan.edu.eg

Department of Electronics and Communications, Faculty of Engineering
Helwan University

Fatty Mostafa Ahmed Salem


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Fatty M. Salem received her B.Sc. degree in Electronics, Communications and Computers Engineering from Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt, in 2007. She received her M.Sc. and PhD degree in network security from Helwan University, in 2010 and 2014 respectively. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the department of Electronics and Communications, Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University, Egypt. Her research interests include authentication, privacy, access control, applied cryptography, blockchain, bitcoins, mobile security, software-defined networks, cloud computing, and fog computing.

EDUCATION

PhD: Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt, 2014.
Thesis: Integration of Cryptographic and Non-Cryptographic Security Mechanisms for Efficient Authentication and Detection in Cognitive Radio Networks.
Supervisors: Prof. I. I. Ibrahim, Prof. I. A. A. Ali, and Assoc. Prof. Maged H. Ibrahim.

M.Sc. Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt, 2010.
Thesis: Efficient and Secure Message Transmission in High Mobility Ad-Hoc Networks.
Supervisors: Prof. I. I. Ibrahim and Dr. Maged H. Ibrahim.

B.Sc. Electronics, and Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Helwan University, Cairo, Egypt, 2007.
Grade: very good (with the honor of degree).

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems, Mathematics
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Scopus Publications

324

Scholar Citations

11

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Scopus Publications

  • An elliptic curve-based lightweight mutual authentication scheme for secure communication in smart grids
    Fatty M. Salem, Reham Khairy, Ihab A. Ali
    International Journal of Information Technology Singapore, 2025
  • AN IMPROVED AND EFFICIENT RSA-BASED AUTHENTICATION SCHEME FOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS
    Fatty Salem, Nisreen Zaky, Elsayed Saad, Hadeer Hosny
    Jordanian Journal of Computers and Information Technology, 2024
    Owing to the fast advancements of wireless communication, the telehealthcare platform makes it possible for patients to access healthcare services online. However, creating a secure and efficient authentication scheme for healthcare systems still presents a challenge. Several solutions have been introduced, but the majority are shortly found to be unable to meet some essential security standards. In this paper, we first revisit Dharminder et al.'s scheme, and prove its failure to provide mutual authentication, and pacient’s untraceability, and its vulnerability to impersonation attacks. Furthermore, we suggest an improved RSA-based authentication scheme to mitigate the deficiencies observed in Dharminder et al.'s schema. The proposed scheme can provide mutual authentication, patients’ anonymity and untraceability, and resist various types of attacks. Extensive evaluation on AVISPA proves the safeness of the proposed scheme against both passive and active attacks. Additionally, the proposed scheme is computationally and communicationally more efficient in comparison to existing schemes.
  • AMAKAS: Anonymous Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for securing multi-server environments
    Fatty M. Salem, Maha Safwat, Rasha Fathy, Shahira Habashy
    Journal of Cloud Computing, 2023
    The rapid growth of Internet users was the motivation of the emerge appearance of new computing models such as cloud computing, fog computing and edge computing. For this reason, the multi-server’s architecture has been introduced to extend scalability and accessibility. To ensure that these servers can only be accessed by the authorized users, many authentication and key agreement schemes have been introduced for multi–server environments. In this paper, we propose an anonymous mutual authentication and key agreement scheme for multi-server architecture based on elliptic curve cryptography to achieve the required security services and resist the well-known security attacks. Furthermore, formal and informal security analysis is conducted to prove the security of the proposed scheme. Moreover, we provide a performance comparison with related work in terms of computational cost, communication cost and the number of messages transferred on the public channel. This performance comparison clearly shows that the proposed scheme is highly efficient in terms of computation, communication cost and security analysis as compared to other related schemes which makes the proposed scheme more suitable and practical for multi-server environments than other related schemes.
  • Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme for Secure Organizations’ Bitcoin Wallet Access
    Fatty M. Salem, D Salangai Nayagi, Shereen M. Mahgoub, I. I. Ibrahim
    International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems, 2023
  • Ultra-Lightweight Authentication Scheme for Securing the Substation and Control Center Communications in Smart Grids
    Fatty M. Salem, Reham Khairy, Ihab A. Ali
    Proceedings of the 11th International Japan Africa Conference on Electronics Communications and Computations Jac Ecc 2023, 2023
    The next-generation power grid, which uses smart grid technologies, presents significant challenges for power system monitoring and control. The monitoring and control are conducted using Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems. However, the dependence of smart grids on digital communication technology increases its vulnerability to various types of attacks. Even though several solutions are proposed to protect smart grid environment against the possible security threats, the current SCADA networks still have significant flaws. In this paper, we propose an ultralightweight authentication scheme for securing communications between substations and control centers using only a few numbers of cryptographic hash functions. A comparison with related work has been made in terms of computation cost; the comparison shows that the proposed scheme consumes the lowest computation cost which makes the suggested scheme more suitable for smart grids environment.
  • LAMAS: Lightweight anonymous mutual authentication scheme for securing fog computing environments
    Mariam Hamada, Sameh A. Salem, Fatty M. Salem
    Ain Shams Engineering Journal, 2022
  • A variable-trust threshold-based approach for DDOS attack mitigation in software defined networks
    Fatty M. Salem, Hoda Youssef, Ihab Ali, Ayman Haggag
    Plos One, 2022
    Software-defined networks offer a new approach that attracts the attention of most academic and industrial circles due to the features it contains. However, some loopholes make such modern networks vulnerable to many types of attacks. Among the most important types of these attacks is the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, which in turn affects the network’s performance and delays many real user requests. As one of the main features of SDN is the centralization of all the control plane in the SDN controller, it becomes a central point of attack that may compromise the whole network. Hence, in our proposed approach, we aim to mitigate the DDoS attack that maybe launched to compromise the SDN controller, flood the control plane and cripple the entire network. Many DDoS mitigation scheme have been proposed, however, determining the threshold between legitimate requests and malicious requests is still a challenging task. Our proposed approach relies on a two-phases algorithm that assigns a variable trust value for every user. This trust value is compared with schemes relying on a threshold value that changes dynamically and assists in detecting the DDoS attack. The first phase of our two-phases algorithm is Header fields extraction, and the second phase is calculating the trust value based on header fields information. Our proposed approach shows better performance than related detection schemes in terms of accuracy, detection rate, and false-positive rate. Where the accuracy of the system reaches up to 98.83% which is high compared to other traditional methods.
  • SOTF: Secure Organizational Transactions Framework Based on Bitcoin Payment Bridge
    Shereen M. Mahgoub, I. I. Ibrahim, Fatty M. Salem
    IEEE Access, 2022
    Bitcoin is a decentralized cryptocurrency where all the transactions are saved in a ledger. Blockchains have good features to be used in different finance applications by using smart contract. Also, blockchains are attractive platform for many industrial domains, including the logistics and supply chain industries. Supply chain technology contributes to record every single asset through its flow, tracking orders, receipts, and payments. There are several relay protocols proposed in previous research; these relay protocols are used to connect different types of blockchains. In this paper, we present a Secure Organizational Transactions Framework (SOTF) based on bridge chain to connect private chain or consortium with public chain which reduces interaction with public blockchain and saves the organization details privately in private chain or consortium. The proposed framework makes it possible for smart contract services to acquire means of payment in the consortium and private chain. Moreover, the proposed framework automates the process of updating the payment non-interactively. In this paper, we validate the communication between organizations blockchain and bitcoin, and find out the development cost of the proposed framework which ensures the efficiency and feasibility of the proposed framework. The code of framework implementation is publicly available at GitHub.
  • A Lightweight Authenticated Key Establishment Scheme for Secure Smart Grid Communications
    Fatty M. Salem, Elham Ibrahim, Osama Elghandour
    International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering, 2020
  • A privacy-preserving RFID authentication protocol based on El-Gamal cryptosystem for secure TMIS
    Fatty M. Salem, Ruhul Amin
    Information Sciences, 2020
  • SOS: Self-organized secure framework for VANET
    Fatty M. Salem, Ahmed S. Ali
    International Journal of Communication Systems, 2020
  • Performance Analysis and Evaluation of Software Defined Networking Controllers against Denial of Service Attacks
    Ahmed F Abdullah, Fatty M Salem, Ashraf Tammam, Mohamed H Abdel Azeem
    Journal of Physics Conference Series, 2020
  • An Efficient Organizations’ Bitcoin Wallet Signature Scheme
    Shereen M. Mahgoub, Fatty M. Salem, I. I. Ibrahim
    Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2020
  • Device-Aware Cell Association in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks: A Matching Game Approach
    M. K. Elhattab, Mahmoud M. Elmesalawy, Fatty M. Salem, I. I. Ibrahim
    IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 2019
  • A Secure Mutual Authentication Scheme with Perfect Forward-Secrecy for Wireless Sensor Networks
    Mohamed M. Mansour, Fatty M. Salem, Elsayed M. Saad
    Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2019
  • A secure privacy-preserving mutual authentication scheme for publish-subscribe fog computing
    Fatty M. Salem
    Icenco 2018 14th International Computer Engineering Conference Secure Smart Societies, 2018
  • A robust distributed authorization scheme for availability enhancement in VANET
    Ahmed S. Ali, Fatty M. Salem
    Proceedings of Icces 2017 12th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems, 2017
  • Efficient PU detection and authentication protocol for secure cognitive spectrum sharing in hostile environment
    Information Japan, 2014
  • Efficient noninteractive secure protocol enforcing privacy in vehicle-to-roadside communication networks
    Fatty M. Salem, Maged Hamada Ibrahim, I. I. Ibrahim
    International Journal of Vehicular Technology, 2012
  • Non-interactive secure and privacy preserving protocol for inter-vehicle communication networks
    Fatty M. Salem, Maged H. Ibrahim, I.I. Ibrahim
    Itng2010 7th International Conference on Information Technology New Generations, 2010
  • Non-interactive authentication scheme providing privacy among drivers in vehicle-to-vehicle networks
    Fatty M. Salem, Maged H. Ibrahim, I. I. Ibrahim
    6th International Conference on Networking and Services Icns 2010 Includes Lmpcna 2010 Intensive 2010, 2010

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • An elliptic curve-based lightweight mutual authentication scheme for secure communication in smart grids
    FM Salem, R Khairy, IA Ali
    International Journal of Information Technology 17 (7), 4389-4399 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 15
  • AN IMPROVED AND EFFICIENT RSA-BASED AUTHENTICATION SCHEME FOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS.
    FM Salem, NF Zaky, EM Saad, HA Hassan Hosny
    Jordanian Journal of Computers & Information Technology 10 (3) , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 3
  • Ultra-Lightweight Authentication Scheme for Securing the Substation and Control Center Communications in Smart Grids
    FM Salem, R Khairy, IA Ali
    2023 11th International Japan-Africa Conference on Electronics … , 2023
    2023
  • AMAKAS: Anonymous Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for securing multi-server environments
    FM Salem, M Safwat, R Fathy, S Habashy
    Journal of Cloud Computing 12 (1), 128 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 9
  • Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption Scheme for Secure Organizations’ Bitcoin Wallet Access
    FM Salem, SM Mahgoub, II Ibrahim
    International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems , 2023
    2023
  • LAMAS: Lightweight anonymous mutual authentication scheme for securing fog computing environments
    M Hamada, SA Salem, FM Salem
    Ain Shams Engineering Journal 13 (6), 101752 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 33
  • A variable-trust threshold-based approach for DDOS attack mitigation in software defined networks
    FM Salem, H Youssef, I Ali, A Haggag
    Plos one 17 (8), e0273681 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 19
  • SOTF: Secure organizational transactions framework based on bitcoin payment bridge
    SM Mahgoub, II Ibrahim, FM Salem
    IEEE Access 10, 82977-82988 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 8
  • A lightweight authenticated key establishment scheme for secure smart grid communications
    FM Salem, E Ibrahim, O Elghandour
    Int. J. Saf. Secur. Eng 10 (4), 549-558 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 11
  • A privacy-preserving RFID authentication protocol based on El-Gamal cryptosystem for secure TMIS
    FM Salem, R Amin
    Information sciences 527, 382-393 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 62
  • SOS: Self‐organized secure framework for VANET
    FM Salem, AS Ali
    International Journal of Communication Systems 33 (7), e4317 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 13
  • Performance analysis and evaluation of software defined networking controllers against denial of service attacks
    AF Abdullah, FM Salem, A Tammam, MH Abdel Azeem
    Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1447 (1), 012007 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 19
  • An efficient organizations’ bitcoin wallet signature scheme
    SM Mahgoub, FM Salem, II Ibrahim
    International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics … , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 1
  • Undeniable Organizational Signature Scheme without a Trusted Party
    FM Salem
    International Journal of Applied Information Systems 12 (19), 9-15 , 2019
    2019
  • Anonymous Forward-Secure Authentication Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks
    FM Salem, MM Mansour
    International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS … , 2019
    2019
  • A secure privacy-preserving mutual authentication scheme for publish-subscribe fog computing
    FM Salem
    2018 14th International Computer Engineering Conference (ICENCO), 213-218 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 9
  • Device-aware cell association in heterogeneous cellular networks: A matching game approach
    MK Elhattab, MM Elmesalawy, FM Salem, II Ibrahim
    IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking 3 (1), 57-66 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 16
  • A secure mutual authentication scheme with perfect forward-secrecy for wireless sensor networks
    MM Mansour, FM Salem, EM Saad
    International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics … , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 5
  • A robust distributed authorization scheme for availability enhancement in VANET
    AS Ali, FM Salem
    2017 12th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems … , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 4
  • RAON-RB: A Verifiable Randomized Non-Separable Encryption Scheme for Secure Cloud Storage
    FM Salem, M Osman
    International Journal of Computer Applications 179 (6), 23-29 , 2017
    2017

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • A privacy-preserving RFID authentication protocol based on El-Gamal cryptosystem for secure TMIS
    FM Salem, R Amin
    Information sciences 527, 382-393 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 62
  • LAMAS: Lightweight anonymous mutual authentication scheme for securing fog computing environments
    M Hamada, SA Salem, FM Salem
    Ain Shams Engineering Journal 13 (6), 101752 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 33
  • Non-interactive authentication scheme providing privacy among drivers in vehicle-to-vehicle networks
    FM Salem, MH Ibrahim, II Ibrahim
    2010 Sixth International Conference on Networking and Services, 156-161 , 2010
    2010
    Citations: 32
  • Matched-filter-based spectrum sensing for secure cognitive radio network communications
    FM Salem, MH Ibrahim, IA Ali, II Ibrahim
    International Journal of Computer Applications 87 (18) , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 23
  • A variable-trust threshold-based approach for DDOS attack mitigation in software defined networks
    FM Salem, H Youssef, I Ali, A Haggag
    Plos one 17 (8), e0273681 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 19
  • Performance analysis and evaluation of software defined networking controllers against denial of service attacks
    AF Abdullah, FM Salem, A Tammam, MH Abdel Azeem
    Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1447 (1), 012007 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 19
  • Device-aware cell association in heterogeneous cellular networks: A matching game approach
    MK Elhattab, MM Elmesalawy, FM Salem, II Ibrahim
    IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking 3 (1), 57-66 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 16
  • An elliptic curve-based lightweight mutual authentication scheme for secure communication in smart grids
    FM Salem, R Khairy, IA Ali
    International Journal of Information Technology 17 (7), 4389-4399 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 15
  • Egyptian apricot kernels seeds
    SA Salem, FMA Salem
    Dtsch. Lebensm. Rundsch 69, 322-324 , 1973
    1973
    Citations: 15
  • SOS: Self‐organized secure framework for VANET
    FM Salem, AS Ali
    International Journal of Communication Systems 33 (7), e4317 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 13
  • A lightweight authenticated key establishment scheme for secure smart grid communications
    FM Salem, E Ibrahim, O Elghandour
    Int. J. Saf. Secur. Eng 10 (4), 549-558 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 11
  • AMAKAS: Anonymous Mutual Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for securing multi-server environments
    FM Salem, M Safwat, R Fathy, S Habashy
    Journal of Cloud Computing 12 (1), 128 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 9
  • A secure privacy-preserving mutual authentication scheme for publish-subscribe fog computing
    FM Salem
    2018 14th International Computer Engineering Conference (ICENCO), 213-218 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 9
  • SOTF: Secure organizational transactions framework based on bitcoin payment bridge
    SM Mahgoub, II Ibrahim, FM Salem
    IEEE Access 10, 82977-82988 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 8
  • A secure mutual authentication scheme with perfect forward-secrecy for wireless sensor networks
    MM Mansour, FM Salem, EM Saad
    International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics … , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 5
  • Surveying of Egyptian endophytic fungi for production of some pharmaceutical and industrial enzymes. 1st Scientific Forum for Student Research
    MA Abdel-Azeem, DM Abdel-Aziz, FM Salem, AM Abdel-Azeem
    Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt 5 , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 5
  • Secure authentication scheme preventing wormhole attacks in cognitive radio networks
    FM Salem, MH Ibrahim, IA El-Wahab Ali
    Asian Journal of Computer Science and Technology 2 (4), 52-55 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 5
  • A primary user authentication scheme for secure cognitive TV spectrum sharing
    FM Salem, MH Ibrahim, II Ibrahim
    International Journal of Computer Science Issues (IJCSI) 9 (4), 157 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 5
  • A robust distributed authorization scheme for availability enhancement in VANET
    AS Ali, FM Salem
    2017 12th International Conference on Computer Engineering and Systems … , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 4
  • Energy detection based sensing for secure cognitive spectrum sharing in the presence of primary user emulation attack
    FM Salem, MH Ibrahim, II Ibrahim
    IEIE Transactions on Smart Processing and Computing 2 (6), 357-366 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 4