Zahid Ghaffar

24 papers Journal 23Unranked 1
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
A Lightweight Authentication Scheme for Securing Patient Information in the Internet of Medical Things Environment.
IEEE Internet Things J.
Wen-Chung Kuo, Zahid Ghaffar, Khalid Mahmood, Tayyaba Tariq, Salman Shamshad, Ashok Kumar Das
2026 J jnl
Digital Twin-Enabled Context-Aware Authentication Protocol for IoT-Based Healthcare Applications.
IEEE Internet Things J.
Muhammad Asad Saleem, Xiong Li, Khalid Mahmood, Salman Shamshad, Zahid Ghaffar, Guijuan Wang
2026 J jnl
PUF-Enabled Key-Exchange Protocol for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks.
IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst.
Khalid Mahmood, Zahid Ghaffar, Muhammad Farooq, Muhammad Ilyas, Ashok Kumar Das, Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry
2025 J jnl
A Cost-Effective Key Agreement Encryption Protocol for Securing IIoT-Enabled WSN Communication.
IEEE Internet Things J.
Khalid Mahmood, Mah Noor Fatima, Salman Shamshad, Zahid Ghaffar, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammed J. F. Alenazi
2025 J jnl
A Lightweight and Robust Access Control Protocol for IoT-Based e-Healthcare Network.
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Zahid Ghaffar, Wen-Chung Kuo, Khalid Mahmood, Tayyaba Tariq, Salman Shamshad, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammed J. F. Alenazi
2025 J jnl
A Machine Learning Attack Resilient Authentication Protocol for AI-Driven Consumer Wearable Health Monitoring.
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.
Zahid Ghaffar, Wen-Chung Kuo, Khalid Mahmood, Nazik Alturki, Muhammad Asad Saleem, Ali Kashif Bashir
2025 J jnl
A Privacy-Preserving Access Control Protocol for Consumer Flying Vehicles in Smart City Applications.
IEEE Internet Things J.
Khalid Mahmood, Zahid Ghaffar, Lata Nautiyal, Muhammad Wahid Akram, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammed J. F. Alenazi
2025 J jnl
Provably Secure Authenticated Key-Management Mechanism for e-Healthcare Environment.
IEEE Internet Things J.
Muhammad Asad Saleem, Xiong Li, Khalid Mahmood, Zahid Ghaffar, Yong Xie, Guijuan Wang
2024 J jnl
A Machine Learning Attack Resilient and Low-Latency Authentication Scheme for AI-Driven Patient Health Monitoring System.
IEEE Commun. Stand. Mag.
Zahid Ghaffar, Wen-Chung Kuo, Khalid Mahmood, Tayyaba Tariq, Ali Kashif Bashir, Marwan Omar
2024 J jnl
A Neural Computing-Based Access Control Protocol for AI-Driven Intelligent Flying Vehicles in Industry 5.0-Assisted Consumer Electronics.
IEEE Trans. Consumer Electron.
Khalid Mahmood, Tayyaba Tariq, Arun Kumar Sangaiah, Zahid Ghaffar, Muhammad Asad Saleem, Salman Shamshad
2024 J jnl
A Security Enhanced Chaotic-Map-Based Authentication Protocol for Internet of Drones.
IEEE Internet Things J.
Khalid Mahmood, Zahid Ghaffar, Muhammad Farooq, Khalid Yahya, Ashok Kumar Das, Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry
2024 J jnl
Robust and efficient three-factor authentication solution for WSN-based industrial IoT deployment.
Internet Things
Khalid Mahmood, Muhammad Asad Saleem, Zahid Ghaffar, Salman Shamshad, Ashok Kumar Das, Mohammed J. F. Alenazi
2023 J jnl
A Lightweight and Efficient Remote Data Authentication Protocol Over Cloud Storage Environment.
IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng.
Zahid Ghaffar, Salman Shamshad, Khalid Mahmood, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Saru Kumari, Muhammad Khurram Khan
2023 J jnl
Cloud-Assisted Secure and Cost-Effective Authenticated Solution for Remote Wearable Health Monitoring System.
IEEE Trans. Netw. Sci. Eng.
Khalid Mahmood, Mohammad S. Obaidat, Zahid Ghaffar, Bander A. Alzahrani, Salman Shamshad, Muhammad Asad Saleem, Shafiq Hussain
2023 J jnl
Design of Provably Secure Authentication Protocol for Edge-Centric Maritime Transportation System.
IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst.
Khalid Mahmood, Salman Shamshad, Muhammad Faizan Ayub, Zahid Ghaffar, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Ashok Kumar Das
2023 J jnl
Secure authentication protocol for home area network in smart grid-based smart cities.
Comput. Electr. Eng.
Hafiz Muhammad Sanaullah Badar, Khalid Mahmood, Waseem Akram, Zahid Ghaffar, Muhammad Umar, Ashok Kumar Das
2023 — conf
Security analysis on "EAKE-WC: Authenticated Key Exchange Protocol for Wearable Computing".
ICEA
Zahid Ghaffar, Khalid Mahmood, Muhammad Farooq, Khalid Yahya, Chien-Ming Chen, Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry
2022 J jnl
A seamless anonymous authentication protocol for mobile edge computing infrastructure.
Comput. Commun.
Khalid Mahmood, Muhammad Faizan Ayub, Syed Zohaib Hassan, Zahid Ghaffar, Zhihan Lv, Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry
2021 J jnl
Provable Secure Identity-Based Anonymous and Privacy-Preserving Inter-Vehicular Authentication Protocol for VANETS Using PUF.
IEEE Trans. Veh. Technol.
Muhammad Umar, SK Hafizul Islam, Khalid Mahmood, Shafiq Ahmed, Zahid Ghaffar, Muhammad Asad Saleem
2021 J jnl
Provably Secure Authentication Protocol for Mobile Clients in IoT Environment Using Puncturable Pseudorandom Function.
IEEE Internet Things J.
Muhammad Asad Saleem, Zahid Ghaffar, Khalid Mahmood, Ashok Kumar Das, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues, Muhammad Khurram Khan
2021 J jnl
Security Analysis on "A Secure Three-Factor User Authentication Protocol With Forward Secrecy for Wireless Medical Sensor Network Systems".
IEEE Syst. J.
Muhammad Asad Saleem, Salman Shamshad, Shafiq Ahmed, Zahid Ghaffar, Khalid Mahmood
2021 J jnl
Signcryption Based Authenticated and Key Exchange Protocol for EI-Based V2G Environment.
IEEE Trans. Smart Grid
Shafiq Ahmed, Salman Shamshad, Zahid Ghaffar, Khalid Mahmood, Neeraj Kumar, Reza M. Parizi, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo
2020 J jnl
An Improved Authentication Scheme for Remote Data Access and Sharing Over Cloud Storage in Cyber-Physical-Social-Systems.
IEEE Access
Zahid Ghaffar, Shafiq Ahmed, Khalid Mahmood, SK Hafizul Islam, Mohammad Mehedi Hassan, Giancarlo Fortino
2020 J jnl
An anonymous authenticated key-agreement scheme for multi-server infrastructure.
Hum. centric Comput. Inf. Sci.
Muhammad Arslan Akram, Zahid Ghaffar, Khalid Mahmood, Saru Kumari, Kadambri Agarwal, Chien-Ming Chen