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Number of items: 121.

access control

Guo, Chong, Bei, Gong, Badshah, Akhtar, Ai, Xin, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2026) SUAD: a secure attribute-based data sharing framework with user-controlled key management for Cloud-assisted IoT. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 29 (2):25. pp. 1-29. ISSN 2471-2566 (Print), 2471-2574 (Online) (doi:10.1145/3803801)

anonymous

Ai, Xin, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Ahmad, Iftekhar (2025) An improved ultra-lightweight anonymous authenticated key agreement protocol for wearable devices. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526076)

anonymous authentication

Ullah, Sana, Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2025) A robust anonymous authentication scheme for securing IoT-enabled healthcare services. In: 2024 8th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet). IEEE, pp. 1-6. ISBN 979-8331534110 ISSN 2768-0010 (Print), 2768-0029 (Online) (doi:10.1109/CSNet64211.2024.10851748)

Ascon

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Han, Zhu (2025) A security-enhanced ultra-lightweight and anonymous user authentication protocol for Telehealthcare Information Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526519)

authenticated encryption

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Han, Zhu (2025) A security-enhanced ultra-lightweight and anonymous user authentication protocol for Telehealthcare Information Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526519)

authenticated encryption with associated data

Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2023) EAKE-WC: Efficient and Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange scheme for wearable computing. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2023.3297854)

authentication

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Ai, Xin, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2025) Anonymous and efficient chaotic map-based authentication protocol for Industrial Internet of Things. Sensors, 25 (24):7676. ISSN 1424-8220 (Online) (doi:10.3390/s25247676)

Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Ai, Xin, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Khan, Jalal, Vasilakos, Athanasios V. and Song, Houbing (2025) Desynchronization-resistant anonymous authentication protocol for RFID systems utilizing physically unclonable functions. IEEE Internet of Things. ISSN 2327-4662 (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2025.3645565)

Ai, Xin, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Ahmad, Iftekhar (2025) An improved ultra-lightweight anonymous authenticated key agreement protocol for wearable devices. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526076)

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Han, Zhu (2025) A security-enhanced ultra-lightweight and anonymous user authentication protocol for Telehealthcare Information Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526519)

Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Muhammad, Fazal, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Bilal, Muhammad and Song, Houbing (2024) Blockchain-assisted lightweight authenticated key agreement security framework for smart vehicles-enabled Intelligent Transportation System. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. ISSN 1545-5955 (Print), 1558-3783 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TASE.2024.3381068)

Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2023) EAKE-WC: Efficient and Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange scheme for wearable computing. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2023.3297854)

Hammad, Muhammad, Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Waseem Ahmed (2023) A provable secure and efficient authentication framework for smart manufacturing industry. IEEE Access, 11. pp. 67626-6763. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3290913)

Tu, Shanshan, Haoyu, Yu, Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Halim, Zahid and Ahmad, Iftekhar (2023) Secure Internet of Vehicles (IoV) with decentralized consensus blockchain mechanism. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 72 (9). pp. 11227-11236. ISSN 0018-9545 (Print), 1939-9359 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TVT.2023.3268135)

Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Muhammad, Fazal, Abbas, Ghulam, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Chaudhry, Shehzad Ashraf and Chen, Sheng (2022) AAKE-BIVT: Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange scheme for Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Vehicles in smart Transportation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24 (2). pp. 1739-1755. ISSN 1524-9050 (Print), 1558-0016 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TITS.2022.3220624)

autoencoder

Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Badshah, Akhtar, Yin, Mingxi and Abbas, Ghulam (2023) Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) based on Pseudo-Siamese Stacked Autoencoders in fog computing. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, 16 (6). pp. 4317-4327. ISSN 1939-1374 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TSC.2023.3319953)

biometrics

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Ai, Xin, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2025) Anonymous and efficient chaotic map-based authentication protocol for Industrial Internet of Things. Sensors, 25 (24):7676. ISSN 1424-8220 (Online) (doi:10.3390/s25247676)

blockchain

Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Muhammad, Fazal, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Bilal, Muhammad and Song, Houbing (2024) Blockchain-assisted lightweight authenticated key agreement security framework for smart vehicles-enabled Intelligent Transportation System. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. ISSN 1545-5955 (Print), 1558-3783 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TASE.2024.3381068)

Tu, Shanshan, Haoyu, Yu, Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Halim, Zahid and Ahmad, Iftekhar (2023) Secure Internet of Vehicles (IoV) with decentralized consensus blockchain mechanism. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 72 (9). pp. 11227-11236. ISSN 0018-9545 (Print), 1939-9359 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TVT.2023.3268135)

Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Muhammad, Fazal, Abbas, Ghulam, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Chaudhry, Shehzad Ashraf and Chen, Sheng (2022) AAKE-BIVT: Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange scheme for Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Vehicles in smart Transportation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24 (2). pp. 1739-1755. ISSN 1524-9050 (Print), 1558-0016 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TITS.2022.3220624)

botnet detection

Corneliu, Purice, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420, Tu, Shanshan and Badshah, Akhtar (2026) Explainable and data-centric machine learning framework for real-time IoT botnet detection and classification. In: IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN). 08 - 11 June 2026. Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. IEEE Xplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Computer Society - Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Piscataway, New Jersey. (In Press)

certificateless authentication

Gong, Bei, Wu, Yong, Badshah, Akhtar and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2025) Privacy-preserving and traceable certificateless anonymous mutual authentication scheme for IoT. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. ISSN 1545-5971 (doi:10.1109/TDSC.2025.3597949)

certificateless cryptography

Bari, Nimra, Abbas, Ghulam, Waheed, Abdul, Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ziaul Haq and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2026) A lightweight heterogeneous signcryption scheme seamlessly compatible for multi-infrastructure IoT environments. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. ISSN 2327-4662 (Online) (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2026.3679417)

ciphertext-policy attribute-based encryption

Guo, Chong, Bei, Gong, Badshah, Akhtar, Ai, Xin, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2026) SUAD: a secure attribute-based data sharing framework with user-controlled key management for Cloud-assisted IoT. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 29 (2):25. pp. 1-29. ISSN 2471-2566 (Print), 2471-2574 (Online) (doi:10.1145/3803801)

cloud computing

Rauf, Shahid, Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Chen, Sheng (2025) Novel Digital Twin deployment approaches: local and distributed Digital Twin. IEEE Access, 13. 72142 -72152. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3561354)

Cloud server

Peng, Tianqi, Gong, Bei, Guo, Chong, Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Alasmary, Hisham and Chen, Sheng (2025) An efficient conjunctive keyword searchable encryption for cloud-based IoT systems. Digital Communications and Networks. ISSN 2352-8648 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.dcan.2025.03.002)

Cloud-assisted IoT

Guo, Chong, Bei, Gong, Badshah, Akhtar, Ai, Xin, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2026) SUAD: a secure attribute-based data sharing framework with user-controlled key management for Cloud-assisted IoT. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 29 (2):25. pp. 1-29. ISSN 2471-2566 (Print), 2471-2574 (Online) (doi:10.1145/3803801)

computer architecture

Rauf, Shahid, Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Chen, Sheng (2025) Novel Digital Twin deployment approaches: local and distributed Digital Twin. IEEE Access, 13. 72142 -72152. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3561354)

conjunctive keyword search

Peng, Tianqi, Gong, Bei, Guo, Chong, Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Alasmary, Hisham and Chen, Sheng (2025) An efficient conjunctive keyword searchable encryption for cloud-based IoT systems. Digital Communications and Networks. ISSN 2352-8648 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.dcan.2025.03.002)

costs

Rauf, Shahid, Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Chen, Sheng (2025) Novel Digital Twin deployment approaches: local and distributed Digital Twin. IEEE Access, 13. 72142 -72152. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3561354)

data privacy

Rauf, Shahid, Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Chen, Sheng (2025) Novel Digital Twin deployment approaches: local and distributed Digital Twin. IEEE Access, 13. 72142 -72152. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3561354)

Digital Twins

Rauf, Shahid, Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Chen, Sheng (2025) Novel Digital Twin deployment approaches: local and distributed Digital Twin. IEEE Access, 13. 72142 -72152. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3561354)

Edge computing

Rauf, Shahid, Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Chen, Sheng (2025) Novel Digital Twin deployment approaches: local and distributed Digital Twin. IEEE Access, 13. 72142 -72152. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3561354)

edge intelligence

Zhang, Jiangjiang, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar, Loukas, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3559-5182 and Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2026) Adaptive and robust personalized federated learning with knowledge-driven logits interaction for secure edge intelligence. In: 2026 IEEE 103rd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2026-Spring. 9-12 June 2026. Nice, France. IEEE Xplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Computer Society - Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Piscataway, New Jersey. (In Press)

elliptic curve cryptography

Bari, Nimra, Abbas, Ghulam, Waheed, Abdul, Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ziaul Haq and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2026) A lightweight heterogeneous signcryption scheme seamlessly compatible for multi-infrastructure IoT environments. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. ISSN 2327-4662 (Online) (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2026.3679417)

flexible manufacturing system

Hammad, Muhammad, Badshah, Akhtar, Almeer, Mohammed A., Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Song, Houbing, Chen, Sheng and Han, Zhu (2025) Lightweight and robust key agreement for securing IIoT-driven flexible manufacturing systems. IEEE Internet of Things. ISSN 2327-4662 (Online) (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2025.3535846)

fog computing

Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Badshah, Akhtar, Yin, Mingxi and Abbas, Ghulam (2023) Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) based on Pseudo-Siamese Stacked Autoencoders in fog computing. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, 16 (6). pp. 4317-4327. ISSN 1939-1374 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TSC.2023.3319953)

forward and backward privacy

Peng, Tianqi, Gong, Bei, Guo, Chong, Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Alasmary, Hisham and Chen, Sheng (2025) An efficient conjunctive keyword searchable encryption for cloud-based IoT systems. Digital Communications and Networks. ISSN 2352-8648 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.dcan.2025.03.002)

hash functions

Ai, Xin, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Ahmad, Iftekhar (2025) An improved ultra-lightweight anonymous authenticated key agreement protocol for wearable devices. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526076)

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Han, Zhu (2025) A security-enhanced ultra-lightweight and anonymous user authentication protocol for Telehealthcare Information Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526519)

identity-based cryptography

Bari, Nimra, Abbas, Ghulam, Waheed, Abdul, Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ziaul Haq and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2026) A lightweight heterogeneous signcryption scheme seamlessly compatible for multi-infrastructure IoT environments. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. ISSN 2327-4662 (Online) (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2026.3679417)

Industrial Internet of Things

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Ai, Xin, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2025) Anonymous and efficient chaotic map-based authentication protocol for Industrial Internet of Things. Sensors, 25 (24):7676. ISSN 1424-8220 (Online) (doi:10.3390/s25247676)

Hammad, Muhammad, Badshah, Akhtar, Almeer, Mohammed A., Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Song, Houbing, Chen, Sheng and Han, Zhu (2025) Lightweight and robust key agreement for securing IIoT-driven flexible manufacturing systems. IEEE Internet of Things. ISSN 2327-4662 (Online) (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2025.3535846)

industries

Rauf, Shahid, Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Chen, Sheng (2025) Novel Digital Twin deployment approaches: local and distributed Digital Twin. IEEE Access, 13. 72142 -72152. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3561354)

Intelligent Transportation System

Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Muhammad, Fazal, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Bilal, Muhammad and Song, Houbing (2024) Blockchain-assisted lightweight authenticated key agreement security framework for smart vehicles-enabled Intelligent Transportation System. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. ISSN 1545-5955 (Print), 1558-3783 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TASE.2024.3381068)

Internet of Drones

Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Tu, Shanshan, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Muhammad, Fazal and Chen, Sheng (2024) USAF-IoD: Ultralightweight and Secure Authenticated key agreement Framework for Internet of Drones environment. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. ISSN 0018-9545 (Print), 1939-9359 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TVT.2024.3375758)

Internet of Things

Gong, Bei, Wu, Yong, Badshah, Akhtar and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2025) Privacy-preserving and traceable certificateless anonymous mutual authentication scheme for IoT. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. ISSN 1545-5971 (doi:10.1109/TDSC.2025.3597949)

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Han, Zhu (2025) A security-enhanced ultra-lightweight and anonymous user authentication protocol for Telehealthcare Information Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526519)

Hammad, Muhammad, Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Waseem Ahmed (2023) A provable secure and efficient authentication framework for smart manufacturing industry. IEEE Access, 11. pp. 67626-6763. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3290913)

Internet of Things (IoT)

Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Ai, Xin, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Khan, Jalal, Vasilakos, Athanasios V. and Song, Houbing (2025) Desynchronization-resistant anonymous authentication protocol for RFID systems utilizing physically unclonable functions. IEEE Internet of Things. ISSN 2327-4662 (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2025.3645565)

internet of vehicles

Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Muhammad, Fazal, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Bilal, Muhammad and Song, Houbing (2024) Blockchain-assisted lightweight authenticated key agreement security framework for smart vehicles-enabled Intelligent Transportation System. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. ISSN 1545-5955 (Print), 1558-3783 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TASE.2024.3381068)

Tu, Shanshan, Haoyu, Yu, Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Halim, Zahid and Ahmad, Iftekhar (2023) Secure Internet of Vehicles (IoV) with decentralized consensus blockchain mechanism. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 72 (9). pp. 11227-11236. ISSN 0018-9545 (Print), 1939-9359 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TVT.2023.3268135)

Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Muhammad, Fazal, Abbas, Ghulam, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Chaudhry, Shehzad Ashraf and Chen, Sheng (2022) AAKE-BIVT: Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange scheme for Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Vehicles in smart Transportation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24 (2). pp. 1739-1755. ISSN 1524-9050 (Print), 1558-0016 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TITS.2022.3220624)

intrusion detection

Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Badshah, Akhtar, Yin, Mingxi and Abbas, Ghulam (2023) Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) based on Pseudo-Siamese Stacked Autoencoders in fog computing. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, 16 (6). pp. 4317-4327. ISSN 1939-1374 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TSC.2023.3319953)

IoT

Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Badshah, Akhtar, Yin, Mingxi and Abbas, Ghulam (2023) Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) based on Pseudo-Siamese Stacked Autoencoders in fog computing. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, 16 (6). pp. 4317-4327. ISSN 1939-1374 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TSC.2023.3319953)

IoT security

Corneliu, Purice, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420, Tu, Shanshan and Badshah, Akhtar (2026) Explainable and data-centric machine learning framework for real-time IoT botnet detection and classification. In: IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN). 08 - 11 June 2026. Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. IEEE Xplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Computer Society - Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Piscataway, New Jersey. (In Press)

IoT-enabled healthcare

Ullah, Sana, Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2025) A robust anonymous authentication scheme for securing IoT-enabled healthcare services. In: 2024 8th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet). IEEE, pp. 1-6. ISBN 979-8331534110 ISSN 2768-0010 (Print), 2768-0029 (Online) (doi:10.1109/CSNet64211.2024.10851748)

key agreement

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Ai, Xin, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2025) Anonymous and efficient chaotic map-based authentication protocol for Industrial Internet of Things. Sensors, 25 (24):7676. ISSN 1424-8220 (Online) (doi:10.3390/s25247676)

Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Ai, Xin, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Khan, Jalal, Vasilakos, Athanasios V. and Song, Houbing (2025) Desynchronization-resistant anonymous authentication protocol for RFID systems utilizing physically unclonable functions. IEEE Internet of Things. ISSN 2327-4662 (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2025.3645565)

Gong, Bei, Wu, Yong, Badshah, Akhtar and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2025) Privacy-preserving and traceable certificateless anonymous mutual authentication scheme for IoT. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. ISSN 1545-5971 (doi:10.1109/TDSC.2025.3597949)

Ullah, Sana, Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2025) A robust anonymous authentication scheme for securing IoT-enabled healthcare services. In: 2024 8th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet). IEEE, pp. 1-6. ISBN 979-8331534110 ISSN 2768-0010 (Print), 2768-0029 (Online) (doi:10.1109/CSNet64211.2024.10851748)

Ai, Xin, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Ahmad, Iftekhar (2025) An improved ultra-lightweight anonymous authenticated key agreement protocol for wearable devices. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526076)

Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Muhammad, Fazal, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Bilal, Muhammad and Song, Houbing (2024) Blockchain-assisted lightweight authenticated key agreement security framework for smart vehicles-enabled Intelligent Transportation System. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. ISSN 1545-5955 (Print), 1558-3783 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TASE.2024.3381068)

Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Tu, Shanshan, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Muhammad, Fazal and Chen, Sheng (2024) USAF-IoD: Ultralightweight and Secure Authenticated key agreement Framework for Internet of Drones environment. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. ISSN 0018-9545 (Print), 1939-9359 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TVT.2024.3375758)

key exchange

Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2023) EAKE-WC: Efficient and Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange scheme for wearable computing. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2023.3297854)

Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Muhammad, Fazal, Abbas, Ghulam, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Chaudhry, Shehzad Ashraf and Chen, Sheng (2022) AAKE-BIVT: Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange scheme for Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Vehicles in smart Transportation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24 (2). pp. 1739-1755. ISSN 1524-9050 (Print), 1558-0016 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TITS.2022.3220624)

key processing

Tu, Shanshan, Haoyu, Yu, Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Halim, Zahid and Ahmad, Iftekhar (2023) Secure Internet of Vehicles (IoV) with decentralized consensus blockchain mechanism. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 72 (9). pp. 11227-11236. ISSN 0018-9545 (Print), 1939-9359 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TVT.2023.3268135)

key verification

Guo, Chong, Bei, Gong, Badshah, Akhtar, Ai, Xin, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2026) SUAD: a secure attribute-based data sharing framework with user-controlled key management for Cloud-assisted IoT. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 29 (2):25. pp. 1-29. ISSN 2471-2566 (Print), 2471-2574 (Online) (doi:10.1145/3803801)

knowledge cache

Zhang, Jiangjiang, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar, Loukas, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3559-5182 and Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2026) Adaptive and robust personalized federated learning with knowledge-driven logits interaction for secure edge intelligence. In: 2026 IEEE 103rd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2026-Spring. 9-12 June 2026. Nice, France. IEEE Xplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Computer Society - Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Piscataway, New Jersey. (In Press)

knowledge distillation

Zhang, Jiangjiang, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar, Loukas, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3559-5182 and Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2026) Adaptive and robust personalized federated learning with knowledge-driven logits interaction for secure edge intelligence. In: 2026 IEEE 103rd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2026-Spring. 9-12 June 2026. Nice, France. IEEE Xplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Computer Society - Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Piscataway, New Jersey. (In Press)

machine learning

Corneliu, Purice, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420, Tu, Shanshan and Badshah, Akhtar (2026) Explainable and data-centric machine learning framework for real-time IoT botnet detection and classification. In: IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN). 08 - 11 June 2026. Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. IEEE Xplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Computer Society - Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Piscataway, New Jersey. (In Press)

medical services

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Han, Zhu (2025) A security-enhanced ultra-lightweight and anonymous user authentication protocol for Telehealthcare Information Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526519)

monitoring

Rauf, Shahid, Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Chen, Sheng (2025) Novel Digital Twin deployment approaches: local and distributed Digital Twin. IEEE Access, 13. 72142 -72152. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3561354)

mutual authentication

Hammad, Muhammad, Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Waseem Ahmed (2023) A provable secure and efficient authentication framework for smart manufacturing industry. IEEE Access, 11. pp. 67626-6763. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3290913)

network traffic analysis

Corneliu, Purice, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420, Tu, Shanshan and Badshah, Akhtar (2026) Explainable and data-centric machine learning framework for real-time IoT botnet detection and classification. In: IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN). 08 - 11 June 2026. Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. IEEE Xplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Computer Society - Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Piscataway, New Jersey. (In Press)

passwords

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Han, Zhu (2025) A security-enhanced ultra-lightweight and anonymous user authentication protocol for Telehealthcare Information Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526519)

personalized federated learning

Zhang, Jiangjiang, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar, Loukas, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3559-5182 and Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2026) Adaptive and robust personalized federated learning with knowledge-driven logits interaction for secure edge intelligence. In: 2026 IEEE 103rd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2026-Spring. 9-12 June 2026. Nice, France. IEEE Xplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Computer Society - Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Piscataway, New Jersey. (In Press)

physical unclonable functions

Hammad, Muhammad, Badshah, Akhtar, Almeer, Mohammed A., Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Song, Houbing, Chen, Sheng and Han, Zhu (2025) Lightweight and robust key agreement for securing IIoT-driven flexible manufacturing systems. IEEE Internet of Things. ISSN 2327-4662 (Online) (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2025.3535846)

Ullah, Sana, Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2025) A robust anonymous authentication scheme for securing IoT-enabled healthcare services. In: 2024 8th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet). IEEE, pp. 1-6. ISBN 979-8331534110 ISSN 2768-0010 (Print), 2768-0029 (Online) (doi:10.1109/CSNet64211.2024.10851748)

Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Tu, Shanshan, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Muhammad, Fazal and Chen, Sheng (2024) USAF-IoD: Ultralightweight and Secure Authenticated key agreement Framework for Internet of Drones environment. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. ISSN 0018-9545 (Print), 1939-9359 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TVT.2024.3375758)

physically unclonable functions (PUFs)

Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Ai, Xin, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Khan, Jalal, Vasilakos, Athanasios V. and Song, Houbing (2025) Desynchronization-resistant anonymous authentication protocol for RFID systems utilizing physically unclonable functions. IEEE Internet of Things. ISSN 2327-4662 (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2025.3645565)

privacy

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Ai, Xin, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2025) Anonymous and efficient chaotic map-based authentication protocol for Industrial Internet of Things. Sensors, 25 (24):7676. ISSN 1424-8220 (Online) (doi:10.3390/s25247676)

Ai, Xin, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Ahmad, Iftekhar (2025) An improved ultra-lightweight anonymous authenticated key agreement protocol for wearable devices. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526076)

privacy-preserving

Gong, Bei, Wu, Yong, Badshah, Akhtar and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2025) Privacy-preserving and traceable certificateless anonymous mutual authentication scheme for IoT. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. ISSN 1545-5971 (doi:10.1109/TDSC.2025.3597949)

protocols

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Han, Zhu (2025) A security-enhanced ultra-lightweight and anonymous user authentication protocol for Telehealthcare Information Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526519)

pseudo-siamese neural network

Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Badshah, Akhtar, Yin, Mingxi and Abbas, Ghulam (2023) Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) based on Pseudo-Siamese Stacked Autoencoders in fog computing. IEEE Transactions on Service Computing, 16 (6). pp. 4317-4327. ISSN 1939-1374 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TSC.2023.3319953)

public key infrastructure

Bari, Nimra, Abbas, Ghulam, Waheed, Abdul, Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ziaul Haq and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2026) A lightweight heterogeneous signcryption scheme seamlessly compatible for multi-infrastructure IoT environments. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. ISSN 2327-4662 (Online) (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2026.3679417)

PUF

Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Muhammad, Fazal, Abbas, Ghulam, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Chaudhry, Shehzad Ashraf and Chen, Sheng (2022) AAKE-BIVT: Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange scheme for Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Vehicles in smart Transportation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24 (2). pp. 1739-1755. ISSN 1524-9050 (Print), 1558-0016 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TITS.2022.3220624)

real-time intrusion detection

Corneliu, Purice, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420, Tu, Shanshan and Badshah, Akhtar (2026) Explainable and data-centric machine learning framework for real-time IoT botnet detection and classification. In: IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (ICMLCN). 08 - 11 June 2026. Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. IEEE Xplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Computer Society - Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Piscataway, New Jersey. (In Press)

real-time systems

Rauf, Shahid, Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Chen, Sheng (2025) Novel Digital Twin deployment approaches: local and distributed Digital Twin. IEEE Access, 13. 72142 -72152. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3561354)

resource-limited IoT devices

Hammad, Muhammad, Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Waseem Ahmed (2023) A provable secure and efficient authentication framework for smart manufacturing industry. IEEE Access, 11. pp. 67626-6763. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3290913)

RFID systems

Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Ai, Xin, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Khan, Jalal, Vasilakos, Athanasios V. and Song, Houbing (2025) Desynchronization-resistant anonymous authentication protocol for RFID systems utilizing physically unclonable functions. IEEE Internet of Things. ISSN 2327-4662 (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2025.3645565)

seamless communication

Bari, Nimra, Abbas, Ghulam, Waheed, Abdul, Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ziaul Haq and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2026) A lightweight heterogeneous signcryption scheme seamlessly compatible for multi-infrastructure IoT environments. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. ISSN 2327-4662 (Online) (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2026.3679417)

secure communication

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Han, Zhu (2025) A security-enhanced ultra-lightweight and anonymous user authentication protocol for Telehealthcare Information Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526519)

security

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Ai, Xin, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2025) Anonymous and efficient chaotic map-based authentication protocol for Industrial Internet of Things. Sensors, 25 (24):7676. ISSN 1424-8220 (Online) (doi:10.3390/s25247676)

Hammad, Muhammad, Badshah, Akhtar, Almeer, Mohammed A., Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Song, Houbing, Chen, Sheng and Han, Zhu (2025) Lightweight and robust key agreement for securing IIoT-driven flexible manufacturing systems. IEEE Internet of Things. ISSN 2327-4662 (Online) (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2025.3535846)

Ullah, Sana, Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2025) A robust anonymous authentication scheme for securing IoT-enabled healthcare services. In: 2024 8th Cyber Security in Networking Conference (CSNet). IEEE, pp. 1-6. ISBN 979-8331534110 ISSN 2768-0010 (Print), 2768-0029 (Online) (doi:10.1109/CSNet64211.2024.10851748)

Ai, Xin, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Ahmad, Iftekhar (2025) An improved ultra-lightweight anonymous authenticated key agreement protocol for wearable devices. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526076)

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Han, Zhu (2025) A security-enhanced ultra-lightweight and anonymous user authentication protocol for Telehealthcare Information Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526519)

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Han, Zhu (2025) A security-enhanced ultra-lightweight and anonymous user authentication protocol for Telehealthcare Information Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526519)

Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Muhammad, Fazal, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Bilal, Muhammad and Song, Houbing (2024) Blockchain-assisted lightweight authenticated key agreement security framework for smart vehicles-enabled Intelligent Transportation System. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering. ISSN 1545-5955 (Print), 1558-3783 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TASE.2024.3381068)

Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Tu, Shanshan, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Muhammad, Fazal and Chen, Sheng (2024) USAF-IoD: Ultralightweight and Secure Authenticated key agreement Framework for Internet of Drones environment. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. ISSN 0018-9545 (Print), 1939-9359 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TVT.2024.3375758)

Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2023) EAKE-WC: Efficient and Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange scheme for wearable computing. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2023.3297854)

Hammad, Muhammad, Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Waseem Ahmed (2023) A provable secure and efficient authentication framework for smart manufacturing industry. IEEE Access, 11. pp. 67626-6763. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3290913)

Tu, Shanshan, Haoyu, Yu, Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Halim, Zahid and Ahmad, Iftekhar (2023) Secure Internet of Vehicles (IoV) with decentralized consensus blockchain mechanism. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 72 (9). pp. 11227-11236. ISSN 0018-9545 (Print), 1939-9359 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TVT.2023.3268135)

Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Muhammad, Fazal, Abbas, Ghulam, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Chaudhry, Shehzad Ashraf and Chen, Sheng (2022) AAKE-BIVT: Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange scheme for Blockchain-Enabled Internet of Vehicles in smart Transportation. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24 (2). pp. 1739-1755. ISSN 1524-9050 (Print), 1558-0016 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TITS.2022.3220624)

security analysis

Gong, Bei, Wu, Yong, Badshah, Akhtar and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2025) Privacy-preserving and traceable certificateless anonymous mutual authentication scheme for IoT. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing. ISSN 1545-5971 (doi:10.1109/TDSC.2025.3597949)

servers

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Han, Zhu (2025) A security-enhanced ultra-lightweight and anonymous user authentication protocol for Telehealthcare Information Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526519)

signcryption

Bari, Nimra, Abbas, Ghulam, Waheed, Abdul, Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ziaul Haq and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2026) A lightweight heterogeneous signcryption scheme seamlessly compatible for multi-infrastructure IoT environments. IEEE Internet of Things Journal. ISSN 2327-4662 (Online) (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2026.3679417)

smart manufacturing

Hammad, Muhammad, Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Waseem Ahmed (2023) A provable secure and efficient authentication framework for smart manufacturing industry. IEEE Access, 11. pp. 67626-6763. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3290913)

symmetric searchable encryption

Peng, Tianqi, Gong, Bei, Guo, Chong, Badshah, Akhtar, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Alasmary, Hisham and Chen, Sheng (2025) An efficient conjunctive keyword searchable encryption for cloud-based IoT systems. Digital Communications and Networks. ISSN 2352-8648 (Online) (doi:10.1016/j.dcan.2025.03.002)

synchronization

Rauf, Shahid, Muhammad, Fazal, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Chen, Sheng (2025) Novel Digital Twin deployment approaches: local and distributed Digital Twin. IEEE Access, 13. 72142 -72152. ISSN 2169-3536 (Online) (doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3561354)

Telemedicine

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Han, Zhu (2025) A security-enhanced ultra-lightweight and anonymous user authentication protocol for Telehealthcare Information Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526519)

threat modeling

Zeng, Dake, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Han, Zhu (2025) A security-enhanced ultra-lightweight and anonymous user authentication protocol for Telehealthcare Information Systems. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526519)

trusted privacy-preserving

Zhang, Jiangjiang, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar, Loukas, George ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3559-5182 and Khan, Muhammad Taimoor ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2026) Adaptive and robust personalized federated learning with knowledge-driven logits interaction for secure edge intelligence. In: 2026 IEEE 103rd Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2026-Spring. 9-12 June 2026. Nice, France. IEEE Xplore . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Computer Society - Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society, Piscataway, New Jersey. (In Press)

two-way authentication

Guo, Chong, Bei, Gong, Badshah, Akhtar, Ai, Xin, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2026) SUAD: a secure attribute-based data sharing framework with user-controlled key management for Cloud-assisted IoT. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 29 (2):25. pp. 1-29. ISSN 2471-2566 (Print), 2471-2574 (Online) (doi:10.1145/3803801)

user authentication

Hammad, Muhammad, Badshah, Akhtar, Almeer, Mohammed A., Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Song, Houbing, Chen, Sheng and Han, Zhu (2025) Lightweight and robust key agreement for securing IIoT-driven flexible manufacturing systems. IEEE Internet of Things. ISSN 2327-4662 (Online) (doi:10.1109/JIOT.2025.3535846)

Badshah, Akhtar, Abbas, Ghulam, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544, Tu, Shanshan, Abbas, Ziaul Haq, Muhammad, Fazal and Chen, Sheng (2024) USAF-IoD: Ultralightweight and Secure Authenticated key agreement Framework for Internet of Drones environment. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. ISSN 0018-9545 (Print), 1939-9359 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TVT.2024.3375758)

user-autonomous key management

Guo, Chong, Bei, Gong, Badshah, Akhtar, Ai, Xin, Alasmary, Hisham, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Khan, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-6420 (2026) SUAD: a secure attribute-based data sharing framework with user-controlled key management for Cloud-assisted IoT. ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 29 (2):25. pp. 1-29. ISSN 2471-2566 (Print), 2471-2574 (Online) (doi:10.1145/3803801)

wearable computing

Tu, Shanshan, Badshah, Akhtar, Alasmary, Hisham and Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 (2023) EAKE-WC: Efficient and Anonymous Authenticated Key Exchange scheme for wearable computing. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing. ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2023.3297854)

wearable devices

Ai, Xin, Badshah, Akhtar, Tu, Shanshan, Waqas, Muhammad ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0814-7544 and Ahmad, Iftekhar (2025) An improved ultra-lightweight anonymous authenticated key agreement protocol for wearable devices. IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC). ISSN 1536-1233 (Print), 1558-0660 (Online) (doi:10.1109/TMC.2025.3526076)

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