Daniel Commey

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Journal Publications

LNET'26

TitanSec-NTRIP: A Lightweight Post-Quantum Framework for Securing Maritime Real-Time Kinematic Navigation

K. Abbad, Daniel Commey, S. G. Hounsinou, L. Khoukhi, G. V. Crosby

IEEE Networking Letters, 2026

TL;DR Protects maritime RTK correction streams with post-quantum key establishment and lightweight authentication, detecting tampering with less than one percent bandwidth overhead.

JMLC'26

From ban to regulation: a comparative analysis of Ghana's 2025 Virtual Asset Service Providers Act and US anti-money laundering frameworks

Daniel Commey, E. K. Amenyo, V. Commey

Journal of Money Laundering Control, pp. 1--19, 2026

TL;DR Compares Ghana's unified virtual-asset statute with the fragmented US anti-money-laundering framework, identifying implementation and supervisory-capacity tradeoffs.

JISA'26

PUFZIN: Secure and Scalable Blockchain-IoT with PUFs and Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Daniel Commey, S. G. Hounsinou, G. V. Crosby

Journal of Information Security and Applications, vol. 100, article 104510, 2026

TL;DR Combines physical-unclonable-function device fingerprints with zero-knowledge proofs for scalable, privacy-preserving authentication in blockchain-IoT.

DAI'26

A Comparative Study of Explainability Methods for Time-Series Forecasting of Blood Glucose Levels

G. B. Akrong, B. Appiah, Daniel Commey, A. Dwumfour, P. Boakye-Sekyerehene, E. Owusu

Discover Artificial Intelligence, 2026

TL;DR 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.

IJIS'26

EdgeFence: Federated Temporal Graph Neural Networks for Lightweight, Adversarial Malware Detection in Distributed Edge Networks

O. Isaac, B. Appiah, Daniel Commey, K. Owusu-Agyemang, M. Asante, B. H. Acquah

International Journal of Information Security, vol. 25, article 88, 2026

TL;DR Federated temporal graph neural networks for lightweight, adversarially robust malware detection across distributed edge networks.

ESWA'26

PQS-BFL: A Post-Quantum Secure Blockchain-based Federated Learning Framework

Daniel Commey, G. V. Crosby

Expert Systems with Applications, 2026

TL;DR A post-quantum-secure, blockchain-verified federated learning framework that keeps model updates authenticated against quantum adversaries.

ANL'25

Game-Theoretic Analysis of MEV Attacks and Mitigation Strategies in Decentralized Finance

B. Appiah, Daniel Commey, W. Bagyl-Bac, L. Adjei, E. Owusu

Analytics, 2025

TL;DR 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.

JISA'25

Blockchain-Enabled Dynamic Honeypot Conversion for Resource-Efficient IoT Security

Daniel Commey, M. Nkoom, S. G. Hounsinou, G. V. Crosby

Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2025

TL;DR Dynamically converts idle IoT devices into honeypots using ML threat scoring and game theory, improving security with minimal resource cost.

LNET'25

Post-Quantum Secure Blockchain-Based Federated Learning Framework for Healthcare Analytics

Daniel Commey, S. G. Hounsinou, G. V. Crosby

IEEE Networking Letters, 2025

TL;DR A post-quantum, blockchain-verified federated learning framework tailored to privacy-sensitive healthcare analytics.

LNET'25

Quantifying the Impact of TLE Ageing on LEO IoT Link Reliability

Daniel Commey, K. Abbad, M. Nkoom, G. S. Klogo, L. Khoukhi, G. V. Crosby

IEEE Networking Letters, 2025

TL;DR 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.

JSC'25

Secure IoT Firmware Updates Against Supply Chain Attacks

B. Appiah, Daniel Commey, I. Osei, B. K. Frimpong, G. Assamah, E. N. A. Hammond

The Journal of Supercomputing, 2025

TL;DR A scheme for securing IoT firmware updates against supply-chain attacks on the update pipeline.

JAST'25

Enhanced federated learning for secure medical data collaboration

B. Appiah, I. Osei, B. K. Frimpong, Daniel Commey, K. Owusu-Agyemang, G. Assamah

Journal of Analytical Science and Technology, 2025

TL;DR An enhanced federated learning approach for secure, privacy-preserving collaboration on medical data across institutions.

ACCESS'24

Securing Blockchain-Based IoT Systems: A Review

Daniel Commey, B. Mai, S. G. Hounsinou, G. V. Crosby

IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 98856--98881, 2024

TL;DR A comprehensive review of security mechanisms, threat models, and open challenges for blockchain-based IoT systems.

IJCA'20

Performance Comparison of 3DES, AES, Blowfish and RSA for Dataset Classification and Encryption in Cloud Data Storage

Daniel Commey, G. S. Klogo, J. D. Gadze

International Journal of Computer Applications, 177(40), 17--22, 2020

TL;DR Compares 3DES, AES, Blowfish, and RSA for encrypting and classifying datasets in cloud storage, weighing security against performance.

Conference Publications

ICC'26

Fusing Vessel Behavior and Weather Context for Real-time Attribution of AIS Dropouts

K. Abbad, Daniel Commey, S. G. Hounsinou, L. Khoukhi, L. Mesnil, G. V. Crosby

IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Communication and Information System Security Symposium, Glasgow, UK, pp. 1--6, 2026

TL;DR Fuses vessel behavior with weather context to attribute, in real time, whether maritime AIS signal dropouts are benign or suspicious.

ICCW'26

Scalability and Resilience in Practice: A 24-Month Measurement Study of Congestion Dynamics and Reliability in Production Layer-2 Networks

Daniel Commey, K. Abbad, L. Khoukhi, G. V. Crosby

IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), Glasgow, UK, pp. 1--6, 2026

TL;DR A 24-month measurement study of congestion dynamics and reliability in production blockchain Layer-2 networks.

CCNC'26

Federated DDoS Detection with Clustered Quantization-Aware Training Models for IoRT

M. Nkoom, Daniel Commey, Y. Alsenani, S. G. Hounsinou, G. V. Crosby

2026 IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA

TL;DR Federated, clustered, quantization-aware models for lightweight DDoS detection in the Internet of Robotic Things.

CCNC'26

FedSkipTwin: Digital-Twin-Guided Client Skipping for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning

Daniel Commey, K. Abbad, G. V. Crosby, L. Khoukhi

2026 IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA

TL;DR Uses lightweight digital twins to predict low-value client updates and skip them, cutting federated-learning communication without destabilizing convergence.

CCNC'26

A Unified Lightweight Benchmark for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning in Cyber-Physical Systems (Fashion-MNIST Case Study)

B. Ockman, Daniel Commey, G. V. Crosby

2026 IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA

TL;DR A unified, lightweight, reproducible benchmark for privacy-preserving federated learning in cyber-physical systems, demonstrated on Fashion-MNIST.

CCNC'26

Resource-Aware Clustered Federated Learning for Industrial Digital Twins: A Reproducible Benchmark on Fashion-MNIST

U. Hamid, D. Sung, Daniel Commey, G. V. Crosby

2026 IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), Las Vegas, NV, USA

TL;DR Resource-aware clustered federated learning for industrial digital twins, with a reproducible Fashion-MNIST benchmark.

BCCA'25

Robotic Algorithm Service Contracts to Manage and Incentivize Adaptive Behavior

S. Mallikarachchi, P. Thammi, Daniel Commey, S. S. Vitharana, M. Chintalapati, I. S. Godage

2025 7th International Conference on Blockchain Computing and Applications (BCCA), Dubrovnik, Croatia

TL;DR Uses blockchain service contracts to manage and incentivize adaptive behavior in robotic systems.

LCN'24

Securing Blockchain-based IoT Systems with Physical Unclonable Functions and Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Daniel Commey, S. G. Hounsinou, G. V. Crosby

2024 IEEE 49th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Normandy, France

TL;DR The conference foundation for PUFZIN: device authentication for blockchain-IoT built on physical unclonable functions and zero-knowledge proofs.

LCN'24

Securing the Internet of Robotic Things: A Federated Learning Approach

M. Nkoom, Daniel Commey, S. G. Hounsinou, G. V. Crosby

2024 IEEE 49th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Normandy, France

TL;DR Applies federated learning to secure the Internet of Robotic Things without centralizing sensitive device data.

AICAS'24

Strategic Deployment of Honeypots in Blockchain-based IoT Systems

Daniel Commey, S. G. Hounsinou, G. V. Crosby

2024 IEEE 6th International Conference on AI Circuits and Systems (AICAS), Abu Dhabi, UAE

TL;DR Studies where to place honeypots in blockchain-based IoT systems for the most efficient deception-based defense.

LCN'23

EGAN: Evolutional GAN for Ransomware Evasion

Daniel Commey, B. Appiah, B. K. Frimpong, I. Osei, E. N. A. Hammond, G. V. Crosby

2023 IEEE 48th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Daytona Beach, FL, USA

TL;DR 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

arXiv

Security-Induced Braess Paradoxes in Service Function Chain Orchestration

Daniel Commey, B. Mai

arXiv:2606.17987 [cs.NI], 2026; under review

TL;DR Shows that adding an attractive security-service option can worsen adapted service-chain equilibria, then screens or caps harmful options before deployment.

arXiv

FedGraph-VASP: Privacy-Preserving Federated Graph Learning with Post-Quantum Security for Cross-Institutional Anti-Money Laundering

Daniel Commey, M. Nkoom, Y. Alsenani, S. G. Hounsinou, G. V. Crosby

arXiv:2601.17935 [cs.LG], 2026

TL;DR Detects cross-institution money laundering by sharing only boundary node embeddings (never raw transaction graphs) through federated graph learning, secured with post-quantum cryptography.

arXiv

ZKP-FedEval: Verifiable and Privacy-Preserving Federated Evaluation using Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Daniel Commey, B. Appiah, G. S. Klogo, G. V. Crosby

arXiv:2507.11649 [cs.LG], 2025

TL;DR Replaces raw metric reporting in federated learning with a zero-knowledge proof of a predicate (for example, loss below a threshold), so the server can gate updates without learning the actual metric.

arXiv

A Bayesian Incentive Mechanism for Poison-Resilient Federated Learning

Daniel Commey, R. A. Sarpong, G. S. Klogo, W. Bagyl-Bac, G. V. Crosby

arXiv:2507.12439 [cs.LG], 2025

TL;DR Designs a Bayesian incentive mechanism that makes data poisoning economically irrational for rational clients, while staying plug-in compatible with standard federated-learning pipelines.

arXiv

Performance Analysis and Deployment Considerations of Post-Quantum Cryptography for Consumer Electronics

Daniel Commey, B. Appiah, G. S. Klogo, W. Bagyl-Bac, J. D. Gadze

arXiv:2505.02239 [cs.CR], 2025

TL;DR 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.

arXiv

Securing Health Data on the Blockchain: A Differential Privacy and Federated Learning Framework

Daniel Commey, S. G. Hounsinou, G. V. Crosby

arXiv:2405.11580 [cs.CR], 2024

TL;DR Combines differential privacy with blockchain-verified federated learning to protect health data during collaborative training.