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MUHAMMAD ASGHAR KHAN, (Senior Member, IEEE) is an Associate Research Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU), Saudi Arabia. He earned his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, ISRA University, Pakistan. He also holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from UET Taxila, Pakistan, and a BE in Electronic Engineering from IQRA University, Pakistan. Prior to joining PMU, Dr. Khan served as an Associate Professor and Head of the Electrical Engineering Department at Hamdard University, Islamabad. During his tenure, he spearheaded the successful accreditation of the Electrical Engineering Program under the Washington Accord for the 2019–2022 intake batches. He also served as a researcher at the Smart Systems Engineering Lab (SSEL) at Prince Sultan University, KSA, from June 2022 to June 2023.
Dr. Khan is a distinguished researcher, having authored and co-authored over 100 technical and review articles published in leading journals, including IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, IEEE Internet of Things and other reputed journals. He actively contributes to the academic community as a reviewer and editor for numerous international journals and conferences. His contributions have earned him a place among Stanford University's Top 2% of Scientists in 2023, reflecting his profound impact on the field. Additionally, he received the Best Researcher Award from Hamdard University and its campuses for three consecutive years (2021–2023).
Dr. Khan's research interests are focused on the development and integration of advanced technologies in Drones/UAVs. His work encompasses network architectures, security frameworks, platform innovations, and cutting-edge applications for UAV systems. His commitment to academic excellence and impactful research demonstrates his dedication to advancing technology and shaping the future of modern engineering solutions.
Thesis Title: A Dual-Radio Medium Access Control Mechanism for Efficient Deployment of Future Flying Ad-Hoc Networks
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Year |
Publication Title |
Journal Name |
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2025 |
An Improvised Certificate-Based Proxy Signature Using Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography for Secure UAV Communications |
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems |
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2025 |
A Hyperelliptic Curve-Based Authenticated Key Agreement Scheme for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Cross-Domain Environments |
Chinese Journal of Aeronautics |
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2025 |
Advancing Medical Innovation through Blockchain-Secured Federated Learning for Smart Health
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IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics |
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2025 |
A Blockchain-Enabled AI-Driven Secure Searchable Encryption Framework for Medical IoT Systems |
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics |
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2024 |
Security and Privacy Issues and Solutions for UAVs in B5G Networks: A Review |
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management |
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2024 |
Future-Proofing Security for UAVs with Post-Quantum Cryptography: A Review |
IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society |
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2024 |
A Certificate-Based Ring Signcryption Scheme for Securing UAV-Enabled Private Edge Computing Systems |
IEEE Access |
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2024 |
An Efficient Authentication and Access Control Protocol for Securing UAV Networks against Anomaly-Based Intrusion |
IEEE Access |
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2024 |
Enhancing Software Quality Assurance in Ubiquitous Learning Environments through Mutation Testing and Diverse Test Oracles |
Computers in Human Behavior |
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2023 |
Swarm of UAVs for Network Management in 6G: A Technical Review |
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management |
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2023 |
A Lightweight Authentication Scheme for 6G-IoT Enabled Maritime Transport System |
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems |
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2023 |
A Conditional Privacy Preserving Heterogeneous Signcryption Scheme for Internet of Vehicles |
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology |
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2023 |
Improved Reptile Search Optimization Algorithm: Application on Regression and Classification Problems |
Applied Sciences |
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2023 |
A UAV-Assisted Stackelberg Game Model for Securing loMT Healthcare Networks |
Drones |
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2023 |
A Resource-Friendly Certificateless Proxy Signcryption Scheme for Drones in Networks beyond 5G |
Drones |
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2023 |
A Smart Card-Based Two-Factor Mutual Authentication Scheme for Efficient Deployment of an IoT-Based Telecare Medical Information System |
Sensors |
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2023 |
Recent Advances, Future Trends, Applications and Challenges of Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT): A Comprehensive Review |
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering |
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2023 |
Position-Monitoring-Based Hybrid Routing Protocol for 3D UAV-Based Networks |
Drones |
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2023 |
Enabling Secure Communication in Wireless Body Area Networks with Heterogeneous Authentication Scheme |
Sensors |
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2023 |
Editorial for the Special Issue on Micro Air Vehicles |
Micromachines |
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2023 |
A Novel Monopole Ultra-Wide-Band Multiple-Input Multiple-Output Antenna with Triple-Notched Characteristics for Enhanced Wireless Communication and Portable Systems |
Sensors |
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2023 |
A Conditional Privacy Preserving Generalized Ring Signcryption Scheme for Micro Aerial Vehicles |
Micromachines |
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2023 |
An Efficient and Conditional Privacy-Preserving Heterogeneous Signcryption Scheme for the Internet of Drones |
Sensors |
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2023 |
Consumer acceptance and adoption of AI robo-advisors in FinTech industry |
Mathematics |
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2023 |
Optimized Classification of Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS)-Enabled GEO Satellite Signals |
Sensors |
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2023 |
Recent Advances in Self-Powered Wearable Sensors Based on Piezoelectric and Triboelectric Nanogenerators |
Biosensors |
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2023 |
An Optimal Authentication Scheme through Dual Signature for the Internet of Medical Things |
Future Internet |
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2023 |
An Efficient Certificateless Forward-Secure Signature Scheme for Secure Deployments of the Internet of Things. |
Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks |
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2023 |
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs): practical aspects, applications, open challenges, security issues, and future trends |
Intelligent Service Robotics |
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2022 |
Green Energy Extraction for Sustainable E Development: A Novel MPPT Technique For Hybrid PV -TEG System |
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2022 |
A Resource Friendly Authentication Scheme for space–air–ground–sea Integrated Maritime Communication Network |
Ocean Engineering |
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2022 |
A Provable and Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for UAV-Enabled Intelligent Transportation Systems |
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics |
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2022 |
An Efficient and Secure Multi-message and Multi-receiver Signcryption Scheme for Edge Enabled Internet of Vehicles |
IEEE Internet of Things |
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2022 |
Certificate-Based Signcryption Scheme for Securing Wireless Communication in Industrial Internet of Things
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IEEE Access |
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2022 |
Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces Assisted UAV Communications for Massive Networks: Current Trends, Challenges, and Research Directions |
Sensors |
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2022 |
A Block Chain Scheme for Authentication, Data Sharing and Nonrepudiation to Secure Internet of Wireless Sensor Things |
Cluster Computing |
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2022 |
Role of Drone Technology Helping in Alleviating the COVID-19 Pandemic |
Drones |
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2022 |
An Efficient Authentication Scheme Using Block chain as a Certificate Authority for the Internet of Drones |
Drones |
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2022 |
A Privacy-Preserved Internet-of-Medical-Things Scheme for Eradication and Control of Dengue Using UAV |
Micromachines |
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2022
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Towards the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Comprehensive Review |
Drones |
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2022 |
An Efficient Certificate-Based Aggregate Signature Scheme for Internet of Drones. |
Security and Communication Networks |
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2022 |
A Comprehensive Review of Micro UAV Charging Techniques |
Micromachines |
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2022 |
A Cost-Effective Identity-Based Signature Scheme for Vehicular Ad Hoc Network Using Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography
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Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing |
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2022 |
Enabling Underwater Wireless Power Transfer towards Sixth Generation (6G) Wireless Networks: Opportunities, Recent Advances, and Technical Challenges |
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering |
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2022 |
Hybrid FSO/RF networks: A review of practical constraints, applications and challenges |
Optical Switching and Networking |
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2022 |
PMHRP: Position Monitoring based Hybrid Routing Protocol for 3D UAV-based Networks |
Drones |
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2022 |
Cost-Efficient Privacy-Preserving Authentication and Key Management Scheme for Internet of Vehicle Ecosystem |
Complexity |
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2022 |
Certificate-Based Signature Scheme for Industrial Internet of Things Using Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography |
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing |
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2022 |
Milestones of Wireless Communication Networks and Technology Prospect of Next Generation (6G) |
Computers, Materials & Continua |
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2022 |
Rating of Modern Color Image Cryptography: A Next-Generation Computing Perspective |
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing |
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2022 |
A Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptosystem Based Proxy Promised Signcryption Scheme |
Security and Communication Networks |
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2022 |
A Lightweight and Robust User Authentication Protocol with User Anonymity for IoT-Based Healthcare |
CMES-Computer Modelling in Engineering & Sciences |
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2022 |
An Efficient Multidocument Blind Signcryption Scheme for Smart Grid-Enabled Industrial Internet of Things |
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing |
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2022 |
A Cost Effective Identity-Based Authentication Scheme for Internet of Things-Enabled Agriculture |
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing |
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2022 |
Detection and Blockchain-Based Collaborative Mitigation of Internet of Things Botnets |
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing |
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2022 |
An Efficient Proxy Blind Signcryption Scheme for IoT |
Computers, Materials & Continua |
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2022 |
Trust in Renewable Energy as Part of Energy-Saving Knowledge |
Energies |
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2022 |
An Access Control Scheme Using Heterogeneous Signcryption for IoT Environments |
Computers, Materials & Continua |
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2022 |
A Secure and Efficient Energy Trading Model Using Blockchain for a 5G-Deployed Smart Community. |
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing |
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2022 |
Ambiguity Resolution in Direction of Arrival Estimation with Linear Antenna Arrays Using Differential Geometry |
Computers, Materials & Continua |
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2022 |
A Malware Detection Scheme via Smart Memory Forensics for Windows Devices |
Mobile Information Systems |
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2022 |
Optimization Analysis of Sustainable Solar Power System for Mobile Communication Systems |
Computers, Materials & Continua |
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2021 |
An Efficient and Secure Certificate-Based Access Control and Key Agreement Scheme for Flying Ad hoc Networks |
IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology |
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2021 |
Securing Internet of Drones with Identity-based Proxy Signcryption |
IEEE Access |
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2021
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A Dual-mode Medium Access Control Mechanism for UAV enabled ITS |
Mobile Information Systems |
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2021 |
An Efficient Medium Access Control Mechanism using Directional Antennas for Flying Ad-hoc Networks |
Computer Systems Science and Engineering |
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2021 |
Topology-Based Routing Protocols and Mobility Models for Flying Ad Hoc Networks: A Contemporary Review and Future Research Directions |
Drones |
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2021 |
5G Empowered Internet of Medical Things using Certificate-based Multi-Message Multi-Receiver Signcryption |
IEEE Access |
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2021 |
An Anonymous Certificate-less Signcryption Scheme for Secure and Efficient Deployment of Internet of Vehicles |
Sustainability |
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2021 |
A Multi-Message Multi-Receiver Signcryption Scheme with Edge Computing for Secure and Reliable Wireless Internet of Medical Things Communications |
Sustainability |
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2021 |
A Review of Big Data Resource Management: Using Smart Grid Systems as a Case Study |
Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing |
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2021 |
Application of Differential Geometry to the Array Manifolds of Linear Arrays in Antenna Array Processing |
Electronics |
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2021 |
An Anonymous Certificateless Signcryption Scheme for Internet of Health Things |
IEEE Access |
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2021 |
Computer Vision-Based Wildfire Smoke Detection Using UAVs |
Mathematical Problems in Engineering |
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2021 |
Cost-Effective Proxy Signcryption Scheme for Internet of Things |
Mobile Information Systems |
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2021 |
An Efficient Scheme for Industrial Internet of Things using Certificate-less Signature |
Mathematical Problems in Engineering |
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2021 |
An Efficient and Provable Secure Certificate-Based Combined Signature, Encryption and Signcryption Scheme for Internet of Things (IoT) Based Mobile Health (M-Health) System |
Journal of Medical System |
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2020 |
An Efficient and Provably Secure Certificateless Key-Encapsulated Signcryption Scheme for Flying Ad-hoc Network |
IEEE Access |
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2020 |
An Efficient and Provably Secure Certificateless Blind Signature Scheme for Flying Ad-Hoc Network Based on Multi-Access Edge Computing. |
Electronics |
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2020 |
Multiaccess Edge Computing Empowered Flying Ad-hoc Networks with Secure Deployment using using Identity-based Generalized Signcryption Scheme |
Mobile Information Systems |
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2020 |
An Online-Offline Certificateless Signature Scheme for Internet of Health Things |
Journal of Healthcare Engineering |
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2020 |
A lightweight and provable secure identity-based generalized proxy signcryption (IBGPS) scheme for Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) |
Journal of Information Security and Applications |
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2020 |
Lightweight and Provable Secure Cross-Domain Access Control Scheme for Internet of Things (IoT) based Wireless Body Area Networks (WBAN). |
Microprocessors and Microsystems |
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2020 |
A Lightweight and Secured Certificate Based Proxy Signcryption (CB-PS) Scheme for E-Prescription Systems |
IEEE Access |
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2020 |
A Review on Communications Perspective of Flying Ad-Hoc Networks: Key Enabling Wireless 4 Technologies, Applications, Challenges and Open Research Topics |
Drones |
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2020 |
A Lightweight Identity-Based Signature Scheme for Mitigation of Content Poisoning Attack in Named Data Networking with Internet of Things |
IEEE Access |
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2020 |
A Lightweight and Formally Secure Certificate Based Signcryption with Proxy Re-Encryption (CBSRE) for Internet of Things Enabled Smart Grid |
IEEE Access |
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2020 |
Low Communication Parallel Distributed Adaptive Signal Processing (LC-PDASP) Architecture for Processing-Inefficient Platforms |
Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences |
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Sept 2024-
Dec 2022-
Dec 2021-
Aug 2014-
June 2013-
April 2012-
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Associate Research Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
Lecturer
Lab Engineer
Visiting Faculty
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Data Communication and Networks
Computer Networks
Cybersecurity
Linear Circuit Analysis
Basic Electronics
UAVs/Drones, 5G/6G Networks, Blockchain, Post-Quantam Cryptography
