Publications
Journal Publications
IEEE Networking Letters, 2026
Summary of TitanSec-NTRIP: A Lightweight Post-Quantum Framework for Securing Maritime Real-Time Kinematic Navigation
Protects maritime RTK correction streams with post-quantum key establishment and lightweight authentication, detecting tampering with less than one percent bandwidth overhead.
Journal of Money Laundering Control, pp. 1–19, 2026
Summary of From ban to regulation: a comparative analysis of Ghana's 2025 Virtual Asset Service Providers Act and US anti-money laundering frameworks
Compares Ghana's unified virtual-asset statute with the fragmented US anti-money-laundering framework, identifying implementation and supervisory-capacity tradeoffs.
PUFZIN: Secure and Scalable Blockchain-IoT with PUFs and Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Journal of Information Security and Applications, vol. 100, article 104510, 2026
Summary of PUFZIN: Secure and Scalable Blockchain-IoT with PUFs and Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Combines physical-unclonable-function device fingerprints with zero-knowledge proofs for scalable, privacy-preserving authentication in blockchain-IoT.
A Comparative Study of Explainability Methods for Time-Series Forecasting of Blood Glucose Levels
Discover Artificial Intelligence, 2026
Summary of A Comparative Study of Explainability Methods for Time-Series Forecasting of Blood Glucose Levels
Benchmarks explainability methods (attention, saliency maps, integrated gradients, SHAP, LIME) on a BiLSTM for blood-glucose forecasting, finding attention and gradient-based methods most faithful for clinical time series.
International Journal of Information Security, vol. 25, article 88, 2026
Summary of EdgeFence: Federated Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Lightweight, Adversarial Malware Detection in Distributed Edge Networks
Federated temporal graph neural networks for lightweight, adversarially robust malware detection across distributed edge networks.
PQS-BFL: A Post-Quantum Secure Blockchain-based Federated Learning Framework
Expert Systems with Applications, 2026
Summary of PQS-BFL: A Post-Quantum Secure Blockchain-based Federated Learning Framework
Uses post-quantum authentication and blockchain verification to protect model updates in federated learning.
Game-Theoretic Analysis of MEV Attacks and Mitigation Strategies in Decentralized Finance
Analytics, 2025
Summary of Game-Theoretic Analysis of MEV Attacks and Mitigation Strategies in Decentralized Finance
Models the MEV supply chain (searchers, builders, validators) as a three-stage game of incomplete information, analyzes commit-reveal and threshold-encryption mitigations, and validates the theory against Ethereum on-chain data.
Blockchain-Enabled Dynamic Honeypot Conversion for Resource-Efficient IoT Security
Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2025
Summary of Blockchain-Enabled Dynamic Honeypot Conversion for Resource-Efficient IoT Security
Combines ML threat scoring and game-theoretic incentives to turn idle IoT devices into honeypots as threats change.
Post-Quantum Secure Blockchain-Based Federated Learning Framework for Healthcare Analytics
IEEE Networking Letters, 2025
Summary of Post-Quantum Secure Blockchain-Based Federated Learning Framework for Healthcare Analytics
A post-quantum, blockchain-verified federated learning framework tailored to privacy-sensitive healthcare analytics.
Quantifying the Impact of TLE Ageing on LEO IoT Link Reliability
IEEE Networking Letters, 2025
Summary of Quantifying the Impact of TLE Ageing on LEO IoT Link Reliability
Quantifies how ageing of Two-Line Element orbital data causes duty-cycled LEO IoT terminals to miss satellite passes, and finds that keeping TLEs fresher than about six hours is needed for over 99% pass reliability.
Secure IoT Firmware Updates Against Supply Chain Attacks
The Journal of Supercomputing, 2025
Summary of Secure IoT Firmware Updates Against Supply Chain Attacks
A scheme for securing IoT firmware updates against supply-chain attacks on the update pipeline.
Enhanced federated learning for secure medical data collaboration
Journal of Analytical Science and Technology, 2025
Summary of Enhanced federated learning for secure medical data collaboration
An enhanced federated learning approach for secure, privacy-preserving collaboration on medical data across institutions.
Securing Blockchain-Based IoT Systems: A Review
IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 98856–98881, 2024
Summary of Securing Blockchain-Based IoT Systems: A Review
A comprehensive review of security mechanisms, threat models, and open challenges for blockchain-based IoT systems.
International Journal of Computer Applications, 177(40), 17–22, 2020
Summary of Performance Comparison of 3DES, AES, Blowfish and RSA for Dataset Classification and Encryption in Cloud Data Storage
Compares 3DES, AES, Blowfish, and RSA for encrypting and classifying datasets in cloud storage, weighing security against performance.
Conference Publications
Fusing Vessel Behavior and Weather Context for Real-time Attribution of AIS Dropouts
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Communication and Information System Security Symposium, Glasgow, UK, pp. 1–6, 2026
Summary of Fusing Vessel Behavior and Weather Context for Real-time Attribution of AIS Dropouts
Fuses vessel behavior with weather context to attribute, in real time, whether maritime AIS signal dropouts are benign or suspicious.
IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), Glasgow, UK, pp. 1–6, 2026
Summary of Scalability and Resilience in Practice: A 24-Month Measurement Study of Congestion Dynamics and Reliability in Production Layer-2 Networks
A 24-month measurement study of congestion dynamics and reliability in production blockchain Layer-2 networks.
Federated DDoS Detection with Clustered Quantization-Aware Training Models for IoRT
2026 IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA
Summary of Federated DDoS Detection with Clustered Quantization-Aware Training Models for IoRT
Federated, clustered, quantization-aware models for lightweight DDoS detection in the Internet of Robotic Things.
FedSkipTwin: Digital-Twin-Guided Client Skipping for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning
2026 IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA
Summary of FedSkipTwin: Digital-Twin-Guided Client Skipping for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning
Uses lightweight digital twins to predict low-value client updates and skip them, cutting federated-learning communication without destabilizing convergence.
2026 IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA
Summary of A Unified Lightweight Benchmark for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning in Cyber-Physical Systems (Fashion-MNIST Case Study)
A unified, lightweight, reproducible benchmark for privacy-preserving federated learning in cyber-physical systems, demonstrated on Fashion-MNIST.
2026 IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA
Summary of Resource-Aware Clustered Federated Learning for Industrial Digital Twins: A Reproducible Benchmark on Fashion-MNIST
Resource-aware clustered federated learning for industrial digital twins, with a reproducible Fashion-MNIST benchmark.
Robotic Algorithm Service Contracts to Manage and Incentivize Adaptive Behavior
2025 7th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA), Dubrovnik, Croatia
Summary of Robotic Algorithm Service Contracts to Manage and Incentivize Adaptive Behavior
Uses blockchain service contracts to manage and incentivize adaptive behavior in robotic systems.
Securing Blockchain-based IoT Systems with Physical Unclonable Functions and Zero-Knowledge Proofs
2024 IEEE 49th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Normandy, France
Summary of Securing Blockchain-based IoT Systems with Physical Unclonable Functions and Zero-Knowledge Proofs
The conference foundation for PUFZIN: device authentication for blockchain-IoT built on physical unclonable functions and zero-knowledge proofs.
Securing the Internet of Robotic Things: A Federated Learning Approach
2024 IEEE 49th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Normandy, France
Summary of Securing the Internet of Robotic Things: A Federated Learning Approach
Applies federated learning to secure the Internet of Robotic Things without centralizing sensitive device data.
Strategic Deployment of Honeypots in Blockchain-based IoT Systems
2024 IEEE 6th International Conference on AI Circuits and Systems (AICAS), Abu Dhabi, UAE
Summary of Strategic Deployment of Honeypots in Blockchain-based IoT Systems
Studies where to place honeypots in blockchain-based IoT systems for the most efficient deception-based defense.
EGAN: Evolutional GAN for Ransomware Evasion
2023 IEEE 48th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Daytona Beach, FL, USA
Summary of EGAN: Evolutional GAN for Ransomware Evasion
Combines an evolution strategy with a GAN to generate ransomware variants that stay functional while evading a majority of real-world VirusTotal detection engines.
Preprints and Working Papers
Security-Induced Braess Paradoxes in Service Function Chain Orchestration
arXiv:2606.17987 [cs.NI], 2026; under review
Summary of Security-Induced Braess Paradoxes in Service Function Chain Orchestration
Shows that adding an attractive security-service option can worsen adapted service-chain equilibria, then screens or caps harmful options before deployment.
arXiv:2601.17935 [cs.LG], 2026
Summary of FedGraph-VASP: Privacy-Preserving Federated Graph Learning with Post-Quantum Security for Cross-Institutional Anti-Money Laundering
Uses post-quantum-protected boundary-embedding exchange for federated fraud detection. Results depend on graph connectivity, and shared embeddings retain some information about input features.
ZKP-FedEval: Verifiable and Privacy-Preserving Federated Evaluation using Zero-Knowledge Proofs
arXiv:2507.11649 [cs.LG], 2025
Summary of ZKP-FedEval: Verifiable and Privacy-Preserving Federated Evaluation using Zero-Knowledge Proofs
Verifies that a client’s local loss is below a threshold without revealing the loss value, using zero-knowledge proofs in federated evaluation.
A Bayesian Incentive Mechanism for Poison-Resilient Federated Learning
arXiv:2507.12439 [cs.LG], 2025
Summary of A Bayesian Incentive Mechanism for Poison-Resilient Federated Learning
Studies incentives for discouraging data poisoning by rational clients under a Bayesian model of participation.
arXiv:2505.02239 [cs.CR], 2025
Summary of Performance Analysis and Deployment Considerations of Post-Quantum Cryptography for Consumer Electronics
Benchmarks post-quantum cryptography (for example, ML-KEM) on consumer and edge hardware such as the Raspberry Pi, showing it is practical and offering concrete deployment guidance.
Securing Health Data on the Blockchain: A Differential Privacy and Federated Learning Framework
arXiv:2405.11580 [cs.CR], 2024
Summary of Securing Health Data on the Blockchain: A Differential Privacy and Federated Learning Framework
Combines differential privacy with blockchain-verified federated learning to protect health data during collaborative training.