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Dr Pradip Sharma

Dr Pradip Sharma
Dr Pradip Sharma
Dr Pradip Sharma

Senior Lecturer

Accepting PhDs

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Email Address
pradip.sharma@abdn.ac.uk
Office Address
228 Meston Building
Old Aberdeen Campus
Meston Walk
AB24 3UE

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School/Department
School of Natural and Computing Sciences




Biography

Dr. Pradip Sharma, SMIEEE, SFHEA, is a globally recognised academic and researcher in Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence. As Associate Professor of Cybersecurity & AI at the 51cg, UK, he leads pioneering research and educates the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. Holding a PhD in Cybersecurity and an M.Tech in Computer Science, Dr. Sharma brings a unique blend of academic excellence and industry experience, having previously served as a Research Fellow and Software Engineer. A Senior Member of IEEE and Senior Fellow of Advance HE, Dr. Sharma is a thought leader in the global research community. Dr. Sharma serves as an editor for leading journals and is a regular keynote speaker and program chair at international conferences. His educational leadership includes spearheading innovative cybersecurity curricula and supervising a diverse cohort of doctoral researchers. With a portfolio exceeding £1M in funded research from EPSRC, Innovate UK, and international agencies, his work fosters interdisciplinary collaboration and drives impactful solutions to global security challenges.

External Memberships

Senior Fellowship Advance HE (SFHEA)

IEEE Senior Member (SMIEEE)

Latest Publications

  • Decentralised and Dynamic Reputation Management Model For Smart Mobility Using A Smart Contract

    Tironsakkul, T., Sharma, P.
    Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Exploiting CKKS-based Homomorphic Encryption in Federated Learning: A Hybrid Attack under Adverse Deployment Conditions

    Boar, P. E., Sharma, P., Akram, R. N., Li, W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Complying with the Right to Be Forgotten in Smart Mobility Data Sharing: A Delete-Only Redactable Consortium Blockchain

    Tironsakkul, T., Sharma, P., Puthal, D., Mariappan, V., Hong, W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection Using Learnable Spatial-Temporal Graph Ordinary Differential Equations Network

    He, S., Guo, Q., Feng, K., Liang, D., Xie, K., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 3723-3737
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Can Image Quality Assessment Help Medical Image Segmentation?

    Lawal, M., Sharma, P., Murchie, P., Yi, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

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Research

Research Overview

Research interests: Cybersecurity, Blockchain, Edge Computing, Software-defined Networking, IoT Security

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Computing Science.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Computing Science

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  • Accepting PhDs
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Research Specialisms

  • Computer and Information Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Machine Learning
  • Applied Computing
  • Cybernetics

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is , published under the licence.

Funding and Grants

2026-2029    “LATTICE: Lateral Adaptive Threat Triaging And Intelligence Collaborative Ecosystems,” Horizon Europe (HORIZON), €5.14M (Co-PL)

2026-2028            “Governing AI In The Final Frontier,” British Academy, £358K (Co-PL)

2025-2026            “Oil & Gas Cyber Benchmarking,” Nuclear Decommissioning Authority, £26K (PL)

2024-2026            “Secure, Privacy-aware, and Trusted Data Share in Smart Mobility,” EPSRC, £200K (PL)

2024-2025            “ZECURE Data Exchange Platform - Net Zero Mobility,” Innovate UK, £236K (PL)

2022-2023            “Secure and Privacy-aware Data Share in Smart Mobility,” Pump-Prime Interdisciplinary Research and Impact, £2K (PL)

2022-2023            “Distributed Big-data Service Framework based on Blockchain and Machine Learning for Smart Cities,” 2022 High-end Foreign Expert in China, £20K (PL)

2020-2022            “Development of Simulator for Virtual Learning,” Agency for Defence Development, £270K (Co-I)

2016-2019            “Developing a Green Smart Home Security Framework for Next Generation IoT Environment,”  National Research Foundation (NRF), £200K (Investigator)

2016-2019            “WellTEC Coaching Service and Content Development for Wellness Life,” Consortium Information Technology Research Center (C-ITRC), £16K (Investigator)

2016-2018            “Development of an immersive and interactive NUI/NUX Platform for Invoked Reality Contents,”  Institute for Information and Communications Technology Promotion (IITP), £5K (Investigator)

Teaching

Courses

Publications

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  • Decentralised and Dynamic Reputation Management Model For Smart Mobility Using A Smart Contract

    Tironsakkul, T., Sharma, P.
    Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Exploiting CKKS-based Homomorphic Encryption in Federated Learning: A Hybrid Attack under Adverse Deployment Conditions

    Boar, P. E., Sharma, P., Akram, R. N., Li, W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Complying with the Right to Be Forgotten in Smart Mobility Data Sharing: A Delete-Only Redactable Consortium Blockchain

    Tironsakkul, T., Sharma, P., Puthal, D., Mariappan, V., Hong, W.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings

  • Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection Using Learnable Spatial-Temporal Graph Ordinary Differential Equations Network

    He, S., Guo, Q., Feng, K., Liang, D., Xie, K., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, vol. 23, no. 2, pp. 3723-3737
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Can Image Quality Assessment Help Medical Image Segmentation?

    Lawal, M., Sharma, P., Murchie, P., Yi, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • SALB: Security-Aware Load Balancing for Large Language Model Training in Datacenter Networks

    He, S., Zhang, Y., Liang, D., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Personalised Multi-Task Federated Learning for Diabetic Retinopathy Medical Image Classification

    Li, Y., Sharma, P., Leontidis, G., Yi, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]

  • Adaptive Quantum-Augmented Security Framework for Vehicle-to-Everything (AQAS-V2X) Communication

    Alqahtani, T., Sharma, P. K., Leontidis, G.
    Contributions to Conferences: Papers

  • SoK: Towards Privacy-Centric Collaborative Machine Learning—A Classification Framework for Privacy Solutions

    Boar, P. E., Sharma, P. K., Akram, R. N., Li, W.
    SN Computer Science, vol. 6, no. 8, 972
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • An Unsupervised Malicious Web Request Detection based on Transformer and Contrastive Learning

    He, S., Zhang, Y., Liang, D., Sharma, P.
    IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 3281-3294
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • GpDB: A Graph Partition Based Storage Strategy for DAG-Blockchain in Edge-Cloud IIoT

    Liao, Z., Cheng, S., Zhang, J., Wu, W., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 21, no. 8, pp. 5790-5798
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Minecrafter: A secure and decentralized consensus protocol for blockchain-enabled vaccine supply chain

    Maloth, S., Hada, N. S., Jatoth, C., Gupta, N., Fiore, U., Sharma, P. K.
    Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications, vol. 18, no. 4, 168
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Label-free Medical Image Quality Evaluation by Semantics-aware Contrastive Learning in IoMT

    Yi, D., Hua, Y., Murchie, P., Sharma, P.
    IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 2335-2344
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • Uni-directional graph structure learning-based multivariate time series anomaly detection with dynamic prior knowledge

    He, S., Li, G., Wang, J., Xie, K., Sharma, P. K.
    International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 267-283
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Zero Trust Networks: Evolution and Application from Concept to Practice

    Ren, Y., Wang, Z., Sharma, P. K., Alqahtani, F., Tolba, A., Wang, J.
    Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 82, no. 2, pp. 1593-1613
    Contributions to Journals: Review articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • Privacy Enhanced Mobile User Authentication Method Using Motion Sensors

    Xiong, C., Weng, Z., Liu, J., Gu, L., Alqahtani, F., Gafar, A., Sharma, P. K.
    CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences, vol. 138, no. 3, pp. 3013-3032
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • A dual encoder crack segmentation network with Haar wavelet-based high–low frequency attention

    Zhang, J., Zeng, Z., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Wang, J.
    Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 256, 124950
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection Based on Multiple Spatiotemporal Graph Convolution

    He, S., Guo, Q., Li, G., Xie, K., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 74, 3500714
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:

  • Accelerate Training of Personalised Multi-Task Federated Learning

    Li, Y., Sharma, P., Leontidis, G., Yi, D.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
    • [ONLINE]

  • Fusion Graph Structure Learning-Based Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection With Structured Prior Knowledge

    He, S., Li, G., Xie, K., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 19, pp. 8760-8772
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Joint Optimization of Computation Offloading and Resource Allocation Considering Task Prioritization in ISAC-Assisted Vehicular Network

    Cao, D., Wu, M., Gu, N., Sherratt, R. S., Ghosh, U., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 18, pp. 29523 - 29532
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • An Incentive Approach for Sustainable Vehicle Resource Utilization in Delay-Energy Sensitive Vehicular Edge Computing

    Cao, D., Huang, S., Gu, N., Sharma, P. K., Ma, X., Ji, B.
    IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 70, no. 3
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Image super-resolution method based on the interactive fusion of transformer and CNN features

    Wang, J., Zou, Y., Alfarraj, O., Sharma, P. K., Said, W., Wang, J.
    Visual Computer, vol. 40, pp. 5827–5839
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A Two-Stage Differential Privacy Scheme for Federated Learning Based on Edge Intelligence

    Zhang, L., Xu, J., Sivaraman, A., Deborah, J., Sharma, P. K., Pandi, V.
    IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, vol. 28, no. 6, pp. 3349-3360
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • CCTV Footage De-identification for Privacy Protection: A Comprehensive Survey

    Jeremiah, S. R., Castro, O. E. L., Sharma, P. K., Park, J. H.
    Journal of Internet Technology, vol. 25, no. 3, pp. 379-386
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • Compound Scaling Encoder-Decoder (CoSED) Network for Diabetic Retinopathy Related Bio-marker Detection

    Yi, D., Baltov, P., Hua, Y., Philip, S., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 1959 - 1970
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
    • [ONLINE] DOI:
    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • Next-Generation Consumer Electronics Data Auditing Scheme Toward Cloud-Edge Distributed and Resilient Machine Learning

    Li, Y., Shen, J., Vijayakumar, P., Lai, C. F., Sivaraman, A., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 2244-2256
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A relay-assisted parallel offloading strategy for multi-source tasks in internet of vehicles

    Cao, D., Zhang, Y. B., Yang, Y. F., Ji, B. F., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Wang, J.
    Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments, vol. 62, 103619
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A Reservation-Based Multi-Source Distributed Offloading Strategy in Dynamic Environments

    Cao, D., Yang, Y., Wang, Y., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Zhu, M.
    IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 1866 - 1876
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Dual-path network combining CNN and transformer for pavement crack segmentation

    Wang, J., Zeng, Z., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Zhang, J., Wang, L.
    Automation in Construction, vol. 158, 105217
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • SHT-based public auditing protocol with error tolerance in FDL-empowered IoVs

    Zhu, K., Ren, Y., Shen, J., Vijayakumar, P., Sharma, P. K.
    Digital Communications and Networks, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 142-149
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • Blockchain-Based Sensitive Document Storage to Mitigate Corruptions

    Mahlaba, J., Mishra, A. K., Puthal, D., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, vol. 71, pp. 12635 - 12647
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Parameter-Efficient Log Anomaly Detection based on Pre-training model and LORA

    He, S., Lei, Y., Zhang, Y., Xie, K., Sharma, P. K.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • An Intelligent Secure Adversarial Examples Detection Scheme in Heterogeneous Complex Environments

    Wang, W., Wang, X., Pan, X., Gong, X., Liang, J., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Said, W.
    Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 3859-3876
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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    • [OPEN ACCESS]
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  • Reliability Analysis of Correlated Competitive and Dependent Components Considering Random Isolation Times

    Cai, S., Luo, T., Yu, F., Sharma, P. K., Wang, W., Yin, L.
    Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 76, no. 3, pp. 2763-2777
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A Distributed Deep Learning Approach with Mobile Edge Computing for Next Generation IoT Networks Security

    Rathore, S., Sharma, P. K., Rathore, H.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Homomorphic Encryption-based Privacy-preserving Federated Learning in IoT-enabled Healthcare System

    Zhang, L., Xu, J., Vijayakumar, P., Sharma, P. K., Ghosh, U.
    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 2864-2880
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • SECBlock-IIoT: A Secure Blockchain-enabled Edge Computing Framework for Industrial Internet of Things

    Sanwar Hosen, A. S., Sharma, P., Puthal, D., Ra, I. H., Cho, G. H.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Conference Proceedings
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  • Early Diagnosis of Lung Tumors for Extending Patients’ Life Using Deep Neural Networks

    Manju, A., Kaladevi, R., Hariharan, S., Chen, S. Y., Kukreja, V., Sharma, P. K., Alqahtani, F., Tolba, A., Wang, J.
    Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 993-1007
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Fine-Grained Multivariate Time Series Anomaly Detection in IoT

    He, S., Guo, M., Yang, B., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Sharma, P. K., Yan, X.
    Computers, Materials and Continua, vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 5027-5047
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A Novel Joint Time-Frequency Spectrum Resources Sustainable Risk Prediction Algorithm Based on TFBRL Network for the Electromagnetic Environment

    Li, S., Sun, Y., Han, Y., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Sharma, P. K.
    Sustainability (Switzerland), vol. 15, no. 6, 4777
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Privacy Protection of Medical Data Based on Multi-Scroll Memristive Hopfield Neural Network

    Yu, F., Shen, H., Yu, Q., Kong, X., Sharma, P. K., Cai, S.
    IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 845-858
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Data storage mechanism of industrial IoT based on LRC sharding blockchain

    Ren, Y., Liu, X., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Wang, S., Wang, J.
    Scientific Reports, vol. 13, 2746
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Fast Visual Tracking with Squeeze and Excitation Region Proposal Network

    Cao, D., Dai, R., Wang, J., Ji, B., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Sharma, P. K., Zhu, M.
    Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, vol. 13, 7
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Rational Layout of Taxi Stop Based on the Analysis of Spatial Trajectory Data

    Liu, W., Zhang, C., Zhang, J., Sharma, P. K., Alfarraj, O., Tolba, A., Wang, Q., Tang, Y.
    Sustainability (Switzerland), vol. 15, no. 4, 3227
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • A Fuzzy-based approach to Enhance Cyber Defence Security for Next-generation IoT

    Makkar, A., Ghosh, U., Sharma, P. K., Javed, A.
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 2079-2086
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • Hybrid Mode of Operation Schemes for P2P Communication to Analyze End-Point Individual Behaviour in IoT

    Mishra, A. K., Singh, O., Kumar, A., Puthal, D., Sharma, P. K., Pradhan, B.
    ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, vol. 19, no. 2, 31
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • BIIoVT: Blockchain-based Secure Storage Architecture for Intelligent Internet of Vehicular Things

    Singh, S. K., Sharma, P. K., Pan, Y., Park, J. H.
    IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, vol. 11, pp. 75-82
    Contributions to Specialist Publications: Articles
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  • SPTM-EC: A Security and Privacy-Preserving Task Management in Edge Computing for IIoT

    Sanwar Hosen, A. S., Sharma, P. K., Ra, I. H., Cho, G. H.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 9, pp. 6330-6339
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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  • SHARIF: Solid Pod-Based Secured Healthcare Information Storage and Exchange Solution in Internet of Things

    Ghayvat, H., Sharma, M., Gope, P., Sharma, P. K.
    IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 5609-5618
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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