Publications

@article{sdv2026,
  author = {Marco De Vincenzi and Mert Pesé and Chiara Bodei and Ilaria Matteucci and Richard Brooks and Monowar Hasan and Andrea Saracino and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {Contextualizing Security and Privacy of Software-Defined Vehicles: A Literature Review and Industry Perspectives},
  journal = {ACM Computing Surveys},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1145/3814955},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3814955},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
}

@inproceedings{ckklhs:2026,
  author = {Marco Calipari and Michael Kühr and Dominik Kulmer and Maximilian Luedecke and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {Perspective-Shift Attacks Against Optical Perception Sensors: A Novel Attack Vector on LiDAR and Camera},
  booktitle = {4th USENIX Symposium on Vehicle Security and Privacy (VehicleSec '26)},
  year = {2026},
  location = {Baltimore, USA},
}

@inproceedings{kmmps:2026,
  author = {Michael K\"uhr and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Pedram MohajerAnsari and Mert D. Pesé and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {SoK: Security of the Image Processing Pipeline for Camera-based Sensing in Autonomous Vehicles},
  booktitle = {ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIA CCS '26)},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1145/3779208.3785267},
}

@inproceedings{cshs:2026,
  author = {\underline{Marco Calipari} and Fabian Maximilian Schmidt and  \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {{CIAK-CP}: Camera feed Injection Attack in Collaborative Perception},
  booktitle = {The 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC2026)},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1145/3748522.3779847},
}

@inproceedings{eugster2026secure,
  author = {Lukas Eugster and Friedrich Wiemer and Mert D. Pesé and Mohammad Hamad and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {Secure Automotive Ethernet: Implementing and Benchmarking MACsec, IPsec, and TLS},
  booktitle = {2026 IEEE 103rd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2026-Spring)},
  year = {2026},
}

@inproceedings{mohajeransari2025naturalrobustnessvisionlanguagemodels,
  author = {Pedram MohajerAnsari and Amir Salarpour and Michael K{\"u}hr and Siyu Huang and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst and Habeeb Olufowobi and Mert D. Pesé},
  title = {On the Natural Robustness of Vision-Language Models Against Visual Perception Attacks in Autonomous Driving},
  booktitle = {The IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV 2026)},
  year = {2026},
}

@article{iotj2025,
  author = {\textbf{Hamad, Mohammad} and  Hammadeh, ZAIN A. H. and    Alessi, Davide and   Hasan, Monowar and 
	 Pesé, Mert and   L{\"u}dtke, Daniel and Steinhorst, Sebastian},
  title = {Enhancing Security Through Task Migration in Software-Defined Vehicles},
  journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1109/JIOT.2025.3611875},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

@article{10.1145/3728363,
  author = {\underline{Finkenzeller, Andreas} and Fucks, Arne and Regnath, Emanuel and \textbf{Hamad, Mohammad} and Steinhorst, Sebastian},
  title = {Securing the Precision Time Protocol with SDN-enabled Cyclic Path Asymmetry Analysis},
  journal = {ACM Trans. Cyber-Phys. Syst.},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1145/3728363},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3728363},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
}

@article{10.1145/3728364,
  author = {Hammadeh, ZAIN A. H. and Hasan, Monowar and \textbf{Hamad, Mohammad}},
  title = {RESCUE: A Reconfigurable Scheduling Framework for Securing Multi-Core Real-Time Systems},
  journal = {ACM Trans. Cyber-Phys. Syst.},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1145/3728364},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3728364},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
}

@inproceedings{ECRTS2025,
  author = {\underline{Andreas Finkenzeller} and Andrew Roberts and Mauro Bellone and Olaf Maennel and  \textbf{Mohammad Hamad}  and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {Sensor Fusion Desynchronization Attacks},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 37th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (\textbf{ECRTS 2025})},
  year = {2025},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{11309949,
  author = {Juul, Johan Mattias and James Roberts, Andrew and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Venables, Adrian and Ottis, Rain},
  title = {Applying Machine Learning for Electronic Warfare Activity Detection at a National Scale},
  booktitle = {MILCOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM)},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {1-6},
  doi = {10.1109/MILCOM64451.2025.11309949},
}

@inproceedings{kmhs:2025,
  author = {\underline{Michael K{\"u}hr} and Maximilian Mittmann and Mohammad Hamad and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {CATI - An Open-Source Framework to Evaluate Attacks on Cameras for Autonomous Vehicles},
  booktitle = {28th Euromicro Conference Series on Digital System Design (DSD) 2025},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1109/DSD67783.2025.00078},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{11068822,
  author = {Pesé, Mert D. and Gozubuyuk, Bulut and Andrechek, Eric and Olufowobi, Habeeb and \textbf{Hamad, Mohammad} and Shin, Kang G.},
  title = {MichiCAN: Spoofing and Denial-of-Service Protection using Integrated CAN Controllers},
  booktitle = {2025 55th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (\textbf{DSN})},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {443-456},
  doi = {10.1109/DSN64029.2025.00050},
}

@inproceedings{hpalbzss:2025,
  author = {\textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Christian Prehofer and Mikael Asplund and Tobias Loehr and Lucas Bublitz and Alexander Zeh and Mridula Singh and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {Cybersecurity Challenges of Autonomous Systems},
  booktitle = {Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (\textbf{DATE 2025)}},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {10},
}

@inproceedings{ffrhs:2025,
  author = {\underline{Andrew Roberts} and Jingyue Cheng and Olaf Maennel and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {ADSecLang: A Domain-Specific Language for Cybersecurity Testing of Autonomous Vehicles},
  booktitle = {The 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring)},
  year = {2025},
}

@inproceedings{hhosflhgls:2025,
  author = {Zain A. H. Hammadeh and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Andrzej Olchawa and Milenko Starcik and Ricardo Fradique and Stefan Langhammer and Manuel Hoffmann and Florian Goehler and Daniel  Luedtke and Michael Felderer and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {Designing Secure Space Systems},
  booktitle = {Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2025)},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {7},
}

@inproceedings{rmbsmhs:2025,
  author = {\underline{Andrew Roberts} and Mohsen Malayjerdi and Mauro Bellone and Raivo Sell and Olaf Maennel and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {Analysis of Autonomous Driving Software to Low-Level Sensor Cyber Attacks},
  booktitle = {20th International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2025)},
  year = {2025},
  pages = {7},
}

@inproceedings{rmbrmhs:2025,
  author = {\underline{Andrew Roberts} and Mohsen Malayjerdi and Mauro Bellone and Raivo Sell and Olaf Maennel and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {ADSecData Platform: An Open-Source Data Platform for Autonomous Driving Cybersecurity},
  booktitle = {The 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring)},
  year = {2025},
}

@article{COSE:2024,
  author = {\textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Andreas Finkenzeller and Michael Kühr and Andrew Roberts and Olaf Maennel and Vassilis Prevelakis and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {REACT: Autonomous intrusion response system for intelligent vehicles},
  journal = {Computers \& Security},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {145},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2024.104008},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167404824003134},
}

@inproceedings{INFOCOM:2023,
  author = {\underline{Andreas Finkenzeller} and Oliver Butowski and Emanuel Regnath and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {PTPsec: Securing the Precision Time Protocol Against Time Delay Attacks Using Cyclic Path Asymmetry Analysis},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (\textbf{IEEE INFOCOM 2024)}},
  year = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{Nordsec2024,
  author = {\textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Andreas Finkenzeller and Monowar Hasan and Marc-Oliver Pahl and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {A Gamified Learning Approach for IoT Security Education using Capture-the-Flag Competitions: Architecture and Insights},
  booktitle = {The 29th Nordic Conference on Secure IT systems (NordSec)},
  year = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{IV:2024,
  author = {\underline{Sherin Kalli Valappil} and Lars Vogela and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {Advanced IDPS Architecture for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IEEE IV 2024)},
  year = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{ISORC:2024,
  author = {Zain A.H. Hammadehand and Monowar Hasan and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad}},
  title = {Securing Real-Time Systems using Schedule Reconfiguration},
  booktitle = {International Symposium on Real Time Distributed Computing (ISORC 2024)},
  year = {2024},
}

@inproceedings{ADAssure2024,
  author = {\underline{Andrew Roberts} and Heidari Iman, Mohammad Reza and Bellone, Mauro and Ghasempouri, Tara and Maennel, Olaf and Raik, Jaan and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Steinhorst, Sebastian},
  title = {ADAssure: Debugging Methodology for Autonomous Driving Control Algorithms},
  booktitle = {Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (\textbf {DATE 2024)}},
  year = {2024},
}

@article{IJIS:2023,
  author = {\underline{Firas Hamila} and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Daniel Costa Salgado and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {Enhancing Security in Fiat-Shamir Transformation-based Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge Protocols for IoT Authentication},
  journal = {International Journal of Information Security},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-023-00779-8},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10207-023-00779-8},
}

@inproceedings{ICCTE:2023,
  author = {\textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {Security Challenges in Autonomous Systems Design},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Computational Technologies and Electronics (ICCTE-2023)},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81981-0_13},
}

@inproceedings{CSCN:2023,
  author = {Marinos Tsantekidis and \underline{Souleima Abdelghani} and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Vassilis Prevelakis},
  title = {Creating a Security Enforcement Environment for a Vehicular Platform},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Standards for Communications and Networking (CSCN 23)},
  year = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{RTCSA:2023,
  author = {\underline{Borna Blazevic} and Michael Peter and  \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {TEEVseL4: Trusted Execution Environment for Virtualized seL4-based Systems},
  booktitle = {The 29th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and
	Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA’23)},
  year = {2023},
}

@inproceedings{vtc:2023,
  author = {\underline{Andreas Finkenzeller} and Anshu Mathur and  Jan Lauinger and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {Simutack - An Attack Simulation Framework for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles},
  booktitle = {The 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2023-Spring},
  year = {2023},
}

@article{mhhiotj,
  author = {\textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Andreas Finkenzeller and Hangmao Liu and Jan Lauinger and Vassilis Prevelakis and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {SEEMQTT: Secure End-to-End MQTT-Based Communication for Mobile IoT Systems Using Secret Sharing and Trust Delegation},
  journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal},
  year = {2022},
  pages = {1-1},
  doi = {10.1109/JIOT.2022.3221857},
}

@inproceedings{vtc:2022,
  author = {\underline{Jan Lauinger} and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {Toward a Multi-Layer Intrusion Response System for Connected Vehicles},
  booktitle = {The 2022 IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2022-Fall},
  year = {2022},
  doi = {10.1109/VTC2022-Fall57202.2022.10012711},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{globecom2,
  author = {\underline{Finkenzeller, Andreas} and Wakim, Thomas and \textbf{Hamad, Mohammad} and Steinhorst, Sebastian},
  title = {Feasible Time Delay Attacks Against the Precision Time Protocol},
  booktitle = {IEEE Global Communications Conference (\textbf{GLOBECOM 2022})},
  year = {2022},
  pages = {3375-3380},
  doi = {10.1109/GLOBECOM48099.2022.10001666},
}

@inproceedings{globecom1,
  author = {\underline{Wenxuan Ye} and Xueli An and Xueqiang Yan and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {FLaaS6G: Federated Learning as a Service in 6G Using Distributed Data Management Architecture},
  booktitle = {IEEE Global Communications Conference (\textbf{GLOBECOM 2022})},
  year = {2022},
  pages = {1247-1252},
  doi = {10.1109/GLOBECOM48099.2022.10001307},
}

@inproceedings{lflms2022,
  author = {\underline{Jan Lauinger} and Andreas Finkenzeller and Henrik Lautebach and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {Attack Data Generation Framework for Autonomous Vehicle Sensors},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (\textbf{DATE 2022})},
  year = {2022},
  pages = {4},
}

@article{mohammadIEEaccess,
  author = {Schönberger, Lea and  \textbf{Hamad},  \textbf{Mohammad} and Gomez, Javier Velasquez and Steinhorst, Sebastian and Saidi, Selma},
  title = {Towards an Increased Detection Sensitivity of Time-Delay Attacks on Precision Time Protocol},
  journal = {IEEE Access},
  year = {2021},
  volume = {9},
  pages = {157398-157410},
  doi = {10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3127852},
}

@inproceedings{hamad2021,
  author = {\textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Emanuel Regnath and Jan Lauinger and Vassilis Prevelakis and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {SPPS: Secure Policy-based Publish/Subscribe System for V2C Communication},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (\textbf{DATE 2021})},
  year = {2021},
}

@inproceedings{lauinger2021poa,
  author = {\underline{Jan Lauinger} and Jens Ernstberger and Emanuel Regnath and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Sebastian Steinhorst},
  title = {A-poa: Anonymous proof of authorization for decentralized identity management},
  booktitle = {2021 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)},
  year = {2021},
  pages = {1--9},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

@article{hamad2020savta,
  author = {\textbf{Hamad, Mohammad} and Prevelakis, Vassilis},
  title = {SAVTA: A Hybrid Vehicular Threat Model: Overview and Case Study},
  journal = {Information},
  year = {2020},
  volume = {11},
  number = {5},
  doi = {10.3390/info11050273},
}

@article{hamad2020iov,
  author = {\textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Zain A. H. Hammadeh and Selma Saidi and Vassilis Prevelakis},
  title = {Temporal-based intrusion detection for IoV},
  journal = {it - Information Technology},
  year = {2020},
  volume = {62},
  number = {5-6},
  pages = {227--239},
  doi = {doi:10.1515/itit-2020-0009},
}

@inproceedings{hamad2019redzone,
  author = {\textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Marinos Tsantekidis and Vassilis Prevelakis},
  title = {{Red-Zone: Towards an Intrusion Response Framework for Intra-Vehicle System}},
  booktitle = {the 5th International Conference on Vehicle Technology and Intelligent Transport Systems {(VEHITS)}},
  year = {2019},
}

@inbook{book2,
  author = {\textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Tsantekidis Marinos and Vassilis Prevelakis},
  title = {{Smart Cities, Green Technologies, and Intelligent Transport Systems}},
  year = {2019},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-68028-2_15},
  publisher = {Springer},
}

@inbook{book1,
  author = {Tsantekidis Marinos and  \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Vassilis Prevelakis and  Agha R Mustafa},
  title = {{Heterogeneous Computing Architectures Challenges and Vision}},
  year = {2019},
  doi = {10.1201/9780429399602},
  publisher = {Taylor and Francis Ltd},
}

@inproceedings{hamad2018prosev,
  author = {\textbf{Hamad},  \textbf{Mohammad} and Agha, Mustafa R and Prevelakis, Vassilis},
  title = {{ProSEV: Proxy-Based Secure and Efficient Vehicular Communication}},
  booktitle = {2018 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)},
  year = {2018},
  pages = {1--8},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

@inproceedings{hamad2018prediction,
  author = {\textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Zain A. H. Hammadeh and Selma Saidi and Vassilis Prevelakis and Rolf Ernst},
  title = {{Prediction of Abnormal Temporal Behavior in Real-Time Systems}},
  booktitle = {The 33rd ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (\textbf{SAC 2018})},
  year = {2018},
}

@inproceedings{siddiqi2018attack,
  author = {Siddiqi, Muhammad Ali and Seepers, Robert M and \textbf{Mohammad Hamad} and Prevelakis, Vassilis and Strydis, Christos},
  title = {Attack-tree-based Threat Modeling of Medical Implants.},
  booktitle = {The7th International Workshop on Security Proofs for Embedded Systems (PROOFS 2018)},
  year = {2018},
}

@inproceedings{hamad2017framework,
  author = {\textbf{Hamad}, \textbf{Mohammad} and   Nolte,Marcus and   Prevelakis, Vassilis},
  title = {{A Framework for Policy Based Secure Intra Vehicle Communication}},
  booktitle = {2017 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference (VNC)},
  year = {2017},
}

@inproceedings{hamad2017secure,
  author = {\textbf{Hamad},  \textbf{Mohammad} and Prevelakis, Vassilis},
  title = {Secure APIs for Applications in Microkernel-based Systems.},
  booktitle = {In 2017 International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP)},
  year = {2017},
}

@inproceedings{hamad2016communication,
  author = {\textbf{Hamad},  \textbf{Mohammad} and Schlatow, Johannes and Prevelakis, Vassilis and Ernst, Rolf},
  title = {{A Communication Framework for Distributed Access Control in Microkernel-based Systems}},
  booktitle = {12th Annual Workshop on Operating Systems Platforms for Embedded Real-Time Applications (OSPERT16)},
  year = {2016},
  pages = {11--16},
}

@inproceedings{hamad2016towards,
  author = {\textbf{Hamad}, \textbf{Mohammad} and   Nolte,Marcus and   Prevelakis, Vassilis},
  title = {{Towards Comprehensive Threat Modeling for Vehicles}},
  booktitle = {the 1st Workshop on Security and Dependability of Critical Embedded Real-Time Systems},
  year = {2016},
  pages = {31},
}

@inproceedings{prevelakis2015extending,
  author = {Prevelakis, Vassilis and  \textbf{Hamad},  \textbf{Mohammad}},
  title = {Extending the operational envelope of applications},
  booktitle = {8th International Conference on Trust and Trustworthy Computing (TRUST 2015)},
  year = {2015},
}

@inproceedings{prevelakis2015policy,
  author = {Prevelakis, Vassilis and \textbf{Hamad},  \textbf{Mohammad}},
  title = {A policy-based communications architecture for vehicles},
  booktitle = {2015 International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy (ICISSP)},
  year = {2015},
  pages = {155--162},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

@inproceedings{hamad2015implementation,
  author = {\textbf{Hamad}, \textbf{ Mohammad} and Prevelakis, Vassilis},
  title = {Implementation and performance evaluation of embedded ipsec in microkernel os},
  booktitle = {2015 World Symposium on Computer Networks and Information Security (WSCNIS)},
  year = {2015},
  pages = {1--7},
  organization = {IEEE},
}