Publications

Total: 50
2026
Michael Kühr, Mohammad Hamad, Pedram MohajerAnsari, Mert D. Pesé, Sebastian Steinhorst. SoK: Security of the Image Processing Pipeline for Camera-based Sensing in Autonomous Vehicles. ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS '26) , 2026.
Marco Calipari, Fabian Maximilian Schmidt, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. CIAK-CP: Camera feed Injection Attack in Collaborative Perception. The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC2026) , 2026.
Lukas Eugster, Friedrich Wiemer, Mert D. Pesé, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. Secure Automotive Ethernet: Implementing and Benchmarking MACsec, IPsec, and TLS. 2026 IEEE 103rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2026-Spring) , 2026.
Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Michael Kühr, Siyu Huang, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst, Habeeb Olufowobi, Mert D. Pesé. On the Natural Robustness of Vision-Language Models Against Visual Perception Attacks in Autonomous Driving. The IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2026) , 2026.
2025
Mohammad Hamad, ZAIN A. H. Hammadeh, Davide Alessi, Monowar Hasan, Mert Pesé, Daniel Lüdtke, Sebastian Steinhorst. Enhancing Security Through Task Migration in Software-Defined Vehicles. IEEE Internet of Things Journal , 2025.
Andreas Finkenzeller, Arne Fucks, Emanuel Regnath, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. Securing the Precision Time Protocol with SDN-enabled Cyclic Path Asymmetry Analysis. ACM Trans. Cyber-Phys. Syst. , 2025.
ZAIN A. H. Hammadeh, Monowar Hasan, Mohammad Hamad. RESCUE: A Reconfigurable Scheduling Framework for Securing Multi-Core Real-Time Systems. ACM Trans. Cyber-Phys. Syst. , 2025.
Andreas Finkenzeller, Andrew Roberts, Mauro Bellone, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. Sensor Fusion Desynchronization Attacks. Proceedings of the 37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS 2025) , 2025.
Johan Mattias Juul, Andrew James Roberts, Mohammad Hamad, Adrian Venables, Rain Ottis. Applying Machine Learning for Electronic Warfare Activity Detection at a National Scale. MILCOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) , 2025.
Michael Kühr, Maximilian Mittmann, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. CATI - An Open-Source Framework to Evaluate Attacks on Cameras for Autonomous Vehicles. 28th Euromicro Conference Series on Digital System Design (DSD) 2025 , 2025.
Mert D. Pesé, Bulut Gozubuyuk, Eric Andrechek, Habeeb Olufowobi, Mohammad Hamad, Kang G. Shin. MichiCAN: Spoofing and Denial-of-Service Protection using Integrated CAN Controllers. 2025 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) , 2025.
Mohammad Hamad, Christian Prehofer, Mikael Asplund, Tobias Loehr, Lucas Bublitz, Alexander Zeh, Mridula Singh, Sebastian Steinhorst. Cybersecurity Challenges of Autonomous Systems. Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2025) , 2025.
Andrew Roberts, Jingyue Cheng, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. ADSecLang: A Domain-Specific Language for Cybersecurity Testing of Autonomous Vehicles. The 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring) , 2025.
Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Mohammad Hamad, Andrzej Olchawa, Milenko Starcik, Ricardo Fradique, Stefan Langhammer, Manuel Hoffmann, Florian Goehler, Daniel Luedtke, Michael Felderer, Sebastian Steinhorst. Designing Secure Space Systems. Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2025) , 2025.
Andrew Roberts, Mohsen Malayjerdi, Mauro Bellone, Raivo Sell, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. Analysis of Autonomous Driving Software to Low-Level Sensor Cyber Attacks. 20th International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2025) , 2025.
Andrew Roberts, Mohsen Malayjerdi, Mauro Bellone, Raivo Sell, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. ADSecData Platform: An Open-Source Data Platform for Autonomous Driving Cybersecurity. The 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring) , 2025.
2024
Mohammad Hamad, Andreas Finkenzeller, Michael Kühr, Andrew Roberts, Olaf Maennel, Vassilis Prevelakis, Sebastian Steinhorst. REACT: Autonomous intrusion response system for intelligent vehicles. Computers & Security , 2024.
Andreas Finkenzeller, Oliver Butowski, Emanuel Regnath, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. PTPsec: Securing the Precision Time Protocol Against Time Delay Attacks Using Cyclic Path Asymmetry Analysis. IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2024) , 2024.
Mohammad Hamad, Andreas Finkenzeller, Monowar Hasan, Marc-Oliver Pahl, Sebastian Steinhorst. A Gamified Learning Approach for IoT Security Education using Capture-the-Flag Competitions: Architecture and Insights. The 29th Nordic Conference on Secure IT systems (NordSec) , 2024.
Sherin Kalli Valappil, Lars Vogela, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. Advanced IDPS Architecture for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IEEE IV 2024) , 2024.
Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Monowar Hasan, Mohammad Hamad. Securing Real-Time Systems using Schedule Reconfiguration. International Symposium on Real Time Distributed Computing (ISORC 2024) , 2024.
Andrew Roberts, Mohammad Reza Heidari Iman, Mauro Bellone, Tara Ghasempouri, Olaf Maennel, Jaan Raik, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. ADAssure: Debugging Methodology for Autonomous Driving Control Algorithms. Design, Automation, and Test in Europe ( DATE 2024) , 2024.
2023
Firas Hamila, Mohammad Hamad, Daniel Costa Salgado, Sebastian Steinhorst. Enhancing Security in Fiat-Shamir Transformation-based Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Protocols for IoT Authentication. International Journal of Information Security , 2023.
Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. Security Challenges in Autonomous Systems Design. International Conference on Computational Technologies and Electronics (ICCTE-2023) , 2023.
Marinos Tsantekidis, Souleima Abdelghani, Mohammad Hamad, Vassilis Prevelakis. Creating a Security Enforcement Environment for a Vehicular Platform. IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN 23) , 2023.
Borna Blazevic, Michael Peter, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. TEEVseL4: Trusted Execution Environment for Virtualized seL4-based Systems. The 29th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA’23) , 2023.
Andreas Finkenzeller, Anshu Mathur, Jan Lauinger, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. Simutack - An Attack Simulation Framework for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles. The 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2023-Spring , 2023.
2022
Mohammad Hamad, Andreas Finkenzeller, Hangmao Liu, Jan Lauinger, Vassilis Prevelakis, Sebastian Steinhorst. SEEMQTT: Secure End-to-End MQTT-Based Communication for Mobile IoT Systems Using Secret Sharing and Trust Delegation. IEEE Internet of Things Journal , 2022.
Jan Lauinger, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. Toward a Multi-Layer Intrusion Response System for Connected Vehicles. The 2022 IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2022-Fall , 2022.
Andreas Finkenzeller, Thomas Wakim, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. Feasible Time Delay Attacks Against the Precision Time Protocol. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2022) , 2022.
Wenxuan Ye, Xueli An, Xueqiang Yan, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. FLaaS6G: Federated Learning as a Service in 6G Using Distributed Data Management Architecture. IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2022) , 2022.
Jan Lauinger, Andreas Finkenzeller, Henrik Lautebach, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. Attack Data Generation Framework for Autonomous Vehicle Sensors. Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2022) , 2022.
2021
Lea Schönberger, Mohammad Hamad, Javier Velasquez Gomez, Sebastian Steinhorst, Selma Saidi. Towards an Increased Detection Sensitivity of Time-Delay Attacks on Precision Time Protocol. IEEE Access , 2021.
Mohammad Hamad, Emanuel Regnath, Jan Lauinger, Vassilis Prevelakis, Sebastian Steinhorst. SPPS: Secure Policy-based Publish/Subscribe System for V2C Communication. Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2021) , 2021.
Jan Lauinger, Jens Ernstberger, Emanuel Regnath, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. A-poa: Anonymous proof of authorization for decentralized identity management. 2021 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC) , 2021.
2020
Mohammad Hamad, Vassilis Prevelakis. SAVTA: A Hybrid Vehicular Threat Model: Overview and Case Study. Information , 2020.
Mohammad Hamad, Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Selma Saidi, Vassilis Prevelakis. Temporal-based intrusion detection for IoV. it - Information Technology , 2020.
2019
Mohammad Hamad, Marinos Tsantekidis, Vassilis Prevelakis. Red-Zone: Towards an Intrusion Response Framework for Intra-Vehicle System. the 5th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems (VEHITS) , 2019.
Mohammad Hamad, Marinos Tsantekidis, Vassilis Prevelakis. Smart Cities, Green Technologies, and Intelligent Transport Systems. Springer , 2019.
Marinos Tsantekidis, Mohammad Hamad, Vassilis Prevelakis, Mustafa R. Agha. Heterogeneous Computing Architectures Challenges and Vision. Taylor and Francis Ltd , 2019.
2018
Mohammad Hamad, Mustafa R. Agha, Vassilis Prevelakis. ProSEV: Proxy-Based Secure and Efficient Vehicular Communication. 2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) , 2018.
Mohammad Hamad, Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Selma Saidi, Vassilis Prevelakis, Rolf Ernst. Prediction of Abnormal Temporal Behavior in Real-Time Systems. The 33rd ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2018) , 2018.
Muhammad Ali Siddiqi, Robert M. Seepers, Mohammad Hamad, Vassilis Prevelakis, Christos Strydis. Attack-tree-based Threat Modeling of Medical Implants.. The7th International Workshop on Security Proofs for Embedded Systems (PROOFS 2018) , 2018.
2017
Mohammad Hamad, Marcus Nolte, Vassilis Prevelakis. A Framework for Policy Based Secure Intra Vehicle Communication. 2017 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC) , 2017.
Mohammad Hamad, Vassilis Prevelakis. Secure APIs for Applications in Microkernel-based Systems.. In 2017 International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP) , 2017.
2016
Mohammad Hamad, Johannes Schlatow, Vassilis Prevelakis, Rolf Ernst. A Communication Framework for Distributed Access Control in Microkernel-based Systems. 12th Annual Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT16) , 2016.
Mohammad Hamad, Marcus Nolte, Vassilis Prevelakis. Towards Comprehensive Threat Modeling for Vehicles. the 1st Workshop on Security and Dependability of Critical Embedded Real-Time Systems , 2016.
2015
Vassilis Prevelakis, Mohammad Hamad. Extending the operational envelope of applications. 8th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST 2015) , 2015.
Vassilis Prevelakis, Mohammad Hamad. A policy-based communications architecture for vehicles. 2015 International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP) , 2015.
Mohammad Hamad, Vassilis Prevelakis. Implementation and performance evaluation of embedded ipsec in microkernel os. 2015 World Symposium on Computer Networks and Information Security (WSCNIS) , 2015.