Aly Sabri Abdalla

Assistant Research Professor

Publications


Next Generation Intelligent Low-Altitude Economy Deployments: The O-RAN Perspective


Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic

IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 33, 2026, pp. 20-28


A Survey on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Communications: State-of-the-Art, Existing Standards, and Future Directions


Fabrizio Granelli, Yan-Ping Lu, Qingqing Wu, Zhenhui Yuan, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic, Yifan Jiang, Fatemeh Afghah, Giovanni Geraci, Anandarup Mukherjee, Sabur Baidya, Giovanni Grieco, Abid Yaqoob, Muhammad Abul Hassan, Kamesh Namuduri, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Laaziz Lahlou, John Sengendo, Gabriel-Miro Muntean

IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 7, 2026, pp. 3000-3045


The Role of Generative Artificial Intelligence in Testing and Automation of Open RAN Systems: GNG-OTA Framework


Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic

2025 IEEE International Conference on Omni-layer Intelligent Systems (COINS), 2025, pp. 1-5


Enhancing Secrecy Energy Efficiency in RIS-Aided Aerial Mobile Edge Computing Networks: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach


Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic

ICC 2025 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2025, pp. 6585-6590


AI at the Physical Layer for Wireless Network Security and Privacy


Aly S. Abdalla*, Bo Tang, Vuk Marojevic

Artificial Intelligence for Future Networks, chapter 10, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2025, pp. 341-380


Federated Neuroevolution O-RAN: Enhancing the Robustness of Deep Reinforcement Learning xApps


Mohammadreza Kouchaki, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic

IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 63, 2025, pp. 134-140


Integrated LLM-Based Intrusion Detection with Secure Slicing xApp for Securing O-RAN-Enabled Wireless Network Deployments


Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Prabesh Khanal, Vuk Marojevic

2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), 2025, pp. 274-279


Anomaly Detection and Mitigation in O-RAN Networks using an LSTM-RNN Autoencoder and Secure Slicing


Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Zehran Reshi, Vuk Marojevic

MILCOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2025, pp. 1-6


Demonstrating Jamming Mitigation in O-RAN via AI enabled Intrusion Detection and Secure Slicing xApps


Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Charles Ueltschey, Vuk Marojevic

MILCOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2025, pp. 891-892


RAN Tester UE in Action: Declarative, Automated Security Evaluations for O-RAN deployments


Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Charles Ueltschey, Anoop Mishra, Vuk Marojevic

MILCOM 2025 - 2025 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2025, pp. 887-888


Next Generation Cellular Networks Prototyping O-RAN Enabled UAV Experimentation for the AERPAW Testbed


Joshua Moore, Aly S. Abdalla, Charles Ueltschey, Vuk Marojevic

IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 63, 2025, pp. 78-84


RAN Tester UE: An Automated Declarative UE Centric Security Testing Platform [Dataset/Tool Paper]


Charles Marion Ueltschey, Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic

SACMAT '25, Proceedings of the 30th ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2025, pp. 85–90


LSTM-Based Proactive Congestion Management for Internet of Vehicle Networks


Aly Sabri Abdalla, Ahmad Al-Kabbany, Ehab F. Badran, Vuk Marojevic

2024 IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall), 2024, pp. 1-6


End-to-End O-RAN Security Architecture, Threat Surface, Coverage, and the Case of the Open Fronthaul


Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic

IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, vol. 8, 2024, pp. 36-43


ZTRAN: Prototyping Zero Trust Security xApps for Open Radio Access Network Deployments


Aly S. Abdalla, Joshua Moore, Nisha Adhikari, Vuk Marojevic

IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 31, 2024, pp. 66-73


RIS-Assisted ABS for Mobile Multi-User MISO Wireless Communications: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach


Walaa AlQwider, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic

ICC 2024 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, 2024, pp. 648-653


Intelligent Dynamic Resource Allocation and Puncturing for Next-Generation Wireless Networks


Walaa Alqwider, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Talha Faizur Rahman, Vuk Marojevic

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, 2024, pp. 31438-31452


Combat Jamming: An Innovative Mini-Slot Frequency Hopping in B5G Networks


Walaa AlQwider, Minglong Zhang, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic

2024 IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall), 2024, pp. 1-7


Enhanced Real-Time Threat Detection in 5G Networks: A Self-Attention RNN Autoencoder Approach for Spectral Intrusion Analysis


Mohammadreza Kouchaki, Minglong Zhang, Aly S. Abdalla, Guangchen Lan, Christopher G. Brinton, Vuk Marojevic

2024 22nd International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), 2024, pp. 249-256


Advancing Experimental Platforms for UAV Communications: Insights from AERPAW’S Digital Twin


Joshua Moore, Aly S. Abdalla, Charles Ueltschey, Anıl Gürses, Özgür Özdemir, Mihail L. Sichitiu, Ismail Güvenç, Vuk Marojevic

2024 IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall), 2024, pp. 1-5


Soft Tester UE: A Novel Approach for Open RAN Security Testing


Joshua Moore, Aly S. Abdalla, Charles Ueltschey, Vuk Marojevic

2024 IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2024-Fall), 2024, pp. 1-5


UAV Trajectory and Multi-User Beamforming Optimization for Clustered Users Against Passive Eavesdropping Attacks With Unknown CSI


Aly Sabri Abdalla, Ali Behfarnia, Vuk Marojevic

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 72, 2023, pp. 14426-14442


Multiagent Learning for Secure Wireless Access From UAVs With Limited Energy Resources


Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, 2023, pp. 22356-22370


OpenAI dApp: An Open AI Platform for Distributed Federated Reinforcement Learning Apps in O-RAN


Mohammadreza Kouchaki, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic

2023 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), 2023, pp. 1-6


Demo: SSxApp: Secure Slicing for O-RAN Deployments


Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Minglong Zhang, Vuk Marojevic

MILCOM 2023 - 2023 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), 2023, pp. 251-252


Toward Secure and Efficient O-RAN Deployments: Secure Slicing xApp Use Case


Joshua Moore, Nisha Adhikari, Aly S. Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic

2023 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF), 2023, pp. 1-6


Security Threats and Cellular Network Procedures for Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Challenges and Opportunities


Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic

IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, vol. 6(4), 2022, pp. 104-111


ARIS for Safeguarding MISO Wireless Communications: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach


Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic

2022 5th International Conference on Advanced Communication Technologies and Networking (CommNet), Marrakech, Morocco, 2022, pp. 1-6


Aerial RIS for MU-MISO: Joint Base Station Beamforming and RIS Phase Shifter Optimization


Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic

2022 IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON Workshops), Stockholm, Sweden, 2022, pp. 19-24


Toward Next Generation Open Radio Access Networks--What O-RAN Can and Cannot Do!


A. S. Abdalla, Pratheek S. Upadhyaya, V. K. Shah, V. Marojevic

IEEE Network, 2022


DDPG Learning for Aerial RIS-Assisted MU-MISO Communications


A. S. Abdalla, V. Marojevic

2022 IEEE 33rd Annual International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2022


Prototyping Next-Generation O-RAN Research Testbeds with SDRs


Pratheek S. Upadhyaya, A. S. Abdalla, V. Marojevic, Jeffrey H. Reed, V. K. Shah

ArXiv, 2022


Aerial Base Station Positioning and Power Control for Securing Communications: A Deep Q-Network Approach


A. S. Abdalla, Ali Behfarnia, V. Marojevic

2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2021


Open Source Software Radio Platform for Research on Cellular Networked UAVs: It Works!


A. S. Abdalla, Andrew L. Yingst, Keith Powell, A. Gelonch, V. Marojevic

IEEE Communications Magazine, 2021


Open-Source Software Radio Performance for Cellular Communications Research with UAV Users


A. S. Abdalla, Andrew L. Yingst, Keith Powell, V. Marojevic

2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Fall), 2021


Network and Physical Layer Attacks and countermeasures to AI-Enabled 6G O-RAN


T. Rahman, A. S. Abdalla, Keith Powell, Walaa AlQwider, V. Marojevic

ArXiv, 2021


Securing Mobile IoT with Unmanned Aerial Systems


A. S. Abdalla, Bodong Shang, V. Marojevic, Lingjia Liu

2020 IEEE 6th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT), 2020


Performance Evaluation of Aerial Relaying Systems for Improving Secrecy in Cellular Networks


A. S. Abdalla, Bodong Shang, V. Marojevic, Lingjia Liu

2020 IEEE 92nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Fall), 2020


UAV-Assisted Attack Prevention, Detection, and Recovery of 5G Networks


A. S. Abdalla, Keith Powell, V. Marojevic, Giovanni Geraci

IEEE Wireless Communications, 2020


Securing Mobile Multiuser Transmissions With UAVs in the Presence of Multiple Eavesdroppers


A. S. Abdalla, V. Marojevic

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 2020


Machine Learning-Assisted UAV Operations with the UTM: Requirements, Challenges, and Solutions


A. S. Abdalla, V. Marojevic

2020 IEEE 92nd Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2020-Fall), 2020


Spectrum Sharing for UAV Communications: Spatial Spectrum Sensing and Open Issues


Bodong Shang, V. Marojevic, Y. Yi, A. S. Abdalla, Lingjia Liu

IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, 2020


Software Radios for Unmanned Aerial Systems


Keith Powell, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Daniel Brennan, Vuk Marojevic, R. Michael Barts, Ashwin Panicker, Ozgur Ozdemir, Ismail Guvenc

OpenWireless'20, Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Open Software Defined Wireless Networks, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2020, pp. 14–20