Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), Energy Internet, key exchange, security, universal composability

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong, Bao, Wei and Dong, Zhao Yang (2020) A universally composable key exchange protocol for advanced metering infrastructure in the energy Internet. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 17 (1). pp. 534-546. ISSN 1551-3203 (Print), 1941-0050 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/TII.2020.2971707)

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), blockchain, power systems, Distributed Energy Resource (DER), cybersecurity, smart grid

Gourisetti, Sri Nikhil Gupta, Cali, Umit, Choo, Kim-Kwang Raymond, Escobar, Elizabeth, Gorog, Christopher, Lee, Annabelle, Mylrea, Michael, Pasetti, Marco, Rahimi, Farrokh, Reddi, Ramesh and Sani, Abubakar Sadiq (2021) Standardization of the distributed ledger technology cybersecurity stack for power and energy applications. Sustainable Energy, Grids and Networks, 28:100553. ISSN 2352-4677 (Print), 2352-4677 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.segan.2021.100553)

Energy Internet, blockchain, situational awareness, decision-making

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong, Ogaji, S. and Dong, Zhao Yang (2020) CyreumE: A real-time situational awareness and decision making blockchain-based architecture for the energy Internet. In: Tian, Yuchu and Levy, David Charles, (eds.) Handbook of Real-Time Computing. Springer, Singapore, pp. 1-49. ISBN 9789814585873 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-4585-87-3_48-1)

Energy Internet, cyber security, IoT, I-ICAAAN, secure communication.

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong, Jin, Jiong, Gao, Longxiang, Yu, Shui and Dong, Zhao Yang (2018) Cyber security framework for Internet of Things-based Energy Internet. Future Generation Computer Systems, 93. pp. 849-859. ISSN 0167-739X (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2018.01.029)

Energy Internet, security, universal composability, key bootstrapping, communication

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong, Bao, Wei, Dong, Zhao Yang, Vucetic, Branka and Bertino, Elisa (2019) Universally composable key bootstrapping and secure communication protocols for the energy Internet. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 14 (8). pp. 2113-2127. ISSN 1556-6013 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2019.2892005)

Federated Learning (FL); Byzantine-robust aggregation; untargeted model attack

Li, Yanli, Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong and Bao, Wei (2022) Enhancing Federated Learning robustness through non-IID features. Computer Vision – ACCV 2022 Workshops. Lecture Notes in Computer Science . UNSPECIFIED, pp. 41-55. ISBN 9783031270666 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27066-6_4)

Federated learning (FL); non-independent and identically distributed (Non-IID); Byzantine-robust aggregation; untargeted model attack

Li, Yanli, Yuan, Dong, Sani, Abubakar Sadiq and Bao, Wei (2023) Enhancing Federated Learning robustness in adversarial environment through clustering Non-IID features. Computers and Security, 132:103319. pp. 1-13. ISSN 0167-4048 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2023.103319)

Industrial control system, risk-based security assessment, authentication, authorization, security protocols

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong, Yeoh, Phee Lep, Qiu, Jing, Bao, Wei, Vucetic, Branka and Dong, Zhao Yang (2020) Cyra: A real-time risk-based security assessment framework for cyber attacks prevention in industrial control systems. In: 2019 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). IEEExplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781728119816 ; 9781728119823 ISSN 1944-9925 (Print), 1944-9933 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM40551.2019.8973948)

Operational Technology, security, key exchange, standards, guidelines

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong, Meng, Ke and Dong, Zhao Yang (2022) KEF: a Key Exchange Framework for operational technology security standards and guidelines. In: Thirteenth Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT 2022) is “Moving to a 3-D Energy Landscape: Decarbonized, Democratized, Decentralized”, sponsored by the IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES). February 21 – 24, 2022. IEEExplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ. (Unpublished)

blockchain, smart contracts, identity management, supply chain attacks, smart grids

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong, Meng, Ke and Dong, Zhao Yang (2020) Idenx: A Blockchain-based Identity Management System for Supply Chain Attacks Mitigation in Smart Grids. In: 2020 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). IEEExplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781728155081 ; 9781728155098 ISSN 1944-9925 (Print), 1944-9933 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM41954.2020.9281929)

convolutional neural networks, control theory, Lyapunov stability analysis, learning rate

Tang, Dahao, Yang, Nan, Deng, Yongkun, Zhang, Yuning, Sani, Abubakar Sadiq and Yuan, Dong (2024) Stability-driven CNN training with Lyapunov-based dynamic learning rate. In: Australasian Database Conference 2024, 28th Oct - 1st Nov 2024, Pullman Albert Park, Melbourne. Australasian Database Conference 2024, Melbourne, Australia. (In Press)

data awareness, energy internet, privacy, security, universal composability, data privacy, data models, smart grids, Internet, elliptic curve cryptography, computational modeling, solid modeling, smart contracts, data awareness, privacy, security, universal composability

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong, Loukas, George ORCID: 0000-0003-3559-5182 and Dong, Zhao Yang (2024) UReum: a universally composable blockchain-enabled model for secure and privacy-preserving data awareness in energy internet. IEEE Access. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3496258)

data awareness; security; blockchain; smart grids; key exchange

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong and Dong, Zhao Yang (2023) SDAG: blockchain-enabled model for secure data awareness in smart grids. In: Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT), 2023 IEEE. 16th - 19th January 2023. Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies . 2023 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT) DOI: 10.1109/ISGT51731.2023 16-19 Jan. 2023, Piscataway, New Jersey, pp. 1-5. ISBN 978-1665453554; 978-1665453561 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT51731.2023.10066338)

energy internet, security, identity-based key boostrapping protocol, communications

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong, Bao, Wei and Dong, Zhao Yang (2017) Towards secure energy internet communication scheme: An identity-based key bootstrapping protocol supporting unicast and multicast. In: 2017 IEEE 16th International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA). IEEExplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781538614655 ; 9781538614648 ; 9781538614662 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/NCA.2017.8171328)

industrial internet of things, blockchain, security, privacy, time-based zero knowledge proof of knowledge

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong, Bao, Wei, Yeoh, Phee Lep, Dong, Zhao Yang, Vucetic, Branka and Bertino, Elisa (2019) Xyreum: A high-performance and scalable blockchain for iiot security and privacy. In: Published in: 2019 IEEE 39th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS). Dallas, 7-10 July 2019. IEEExplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1920-1930. ISBN 9781728125190 ; 9781728125206 ISSN 1063-6927 (Print), 2575-8411 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.2019.00190)

internet of things; identity-based credentials; key establishment; security; privacy

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong, Yeoh, Phee Lep, Bao, Wei, Chen, Shiping and Vucetic, Branka (2018) A lightweight security and privacy-enhancing key establishment for internet of things applications. In: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC). Kansas City, 20-24 May 2018. IEEExplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1-6. ISBN 9781538631805 ; 9781538631812 ISSN 1938-1883 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/ICC.2018.8422725)

operational technology; key exchange; communication security; universal composability; communication protocols

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Bertino, Elisa, Yuan, Dong and Dong, Zhao Yang (2023) A universally composable key exchange framework for operational technology communication protocols. In: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm). IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm) . IEEE, Piscataway, New Jersey. ISBN 9781665455572 ISSN 2373-6836 (Print), 2474-2902 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm57358.2023.10333944)

relay resilience, universal composability, authentication, key derivation, smart grids

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong, Meng, Ke and Dong, Zhao Yang (2021) R-Chain: a universally composable relay resilience framework for smart grids. In: 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). IEEE, Piscataway, USA. ISBN 978-1665446303 ISSN 1944-9925 (Print), 1944-9933 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM46819.2021.9638015)

relay resilience, universal composability, smart vehicles, key exchange, mutual authentication and key derivation

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong, Bertino, Elisa and Dong, Zhao Yang (2021) Crypto-Chain: a relay resilience framework for smart vehicles. In: ACSAC: Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. ACM, New York, USA, pp. 439-454. ISBN 978-1450385794 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/3485832.3485920)

smart communities, authentication, data access, security, privacy

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Bertino, Elisa, Yuan, Dong, Meng, Ke and Dong, Zhao Yang (2022) SPrivAD: a secure and privacy-preserving mutually dependent authentication and data access scheme for smart communities. Computers & Security, 115:102610. ISSN 0167-4048 (doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2022.102610)

smart grid; data integrity assessment and control; blockchain; fuzzy cognitive maps; authenticated encryption

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Yuan, Dong, Mens, Ke and Dong, Zhao Yang (2021) DIACS: A blockchain-based model for systematic data integrity assessment and control. In: 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT). IEEExplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781728188973 ; 9781728188980 ISSN 2167-9665 (Print), 2472-8152 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT49243.2021.9372235)

smart grid; mutual authentication; secure communication; security; privacy

Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Meng, Ke and Dong, Zhao Yang (2021) SComm: a real-time mutually authenticated secure communication framework for smart grids. In: 2021 IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT). Washington, 16-18 Feb. 2021. IEEExplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Piscataway, NJ, pp. 1-5. ISBN 9781728188973 ; 9781728188980 ISSN 2167-9665 (Print), 2472-8152 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT49243.2021.9372211)