Publication

International Journals (SCIE)

• [New!] Sungjin Yu and Youngho Park*, A Modeling Attack Resistant PUF-enabled Robust Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Industrial Wireless Sensor Networks, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Accepted, Feb. 2026. (2024 JCR 4.1%, Q1)

• [New!] SungJin Yu, KiSung Park*, and Youngho Park*, A Machine Learning Attack-Resistant PUF-based Robust and Efficient Mutual Authentication Scheme in Fog-enabled IoT Environments, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 20652-20669, June 2025. (2024 JCR 4.1%, Q1)

• Chaeeon Kim, Deokkyu Kwon, Seunghwan Son, Sungjin Yu*, and Youngho Park*, An Anonymous and Efficient Authentication Scheme with Conditional Privacy Preservation in Internet of Vehicles Networks, Mathematics, vol. 12, no. 23, p. 3756, Nov. 2024. (2024 JCR 6.0%, Q1)

• SungJin Yu, Ashok Kumar Das, and Youngho Park*, RLBA-UAV: A robust and lightweight blockchain-based authentication and key agreement scheme for PUF-enabled UAVs, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 25, no. 12, pp. 21697-21708, Dec. 2024. (2024 JCR 2.4%, Q1)

• SungJin Yu and KiSung Park*, PUF-based robust and anonymous authentication and key establishment scheme for V2G networks, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 9, pp. 15450-15464, May 2024. (2024 JCR 4.1%, Q1)

• SungJin Yu and Youngho Park*, Robust and efficient authentication and group–proof scheme using physical unclonable functions for wearable computing, Sensors, vol. 23, no. 12, p. 5747, June 2023. (2024 JCR 29.7%, Q2)

• SungJin Yu, Joonyoung Lee, Anil Sutrala, Ashok Kumar Das, and Youngho Park*, LAKA-UAV: Lightweight authentication and key agreement scheme for cloud-assisted unmanned aerial vehicle using blockchain in flying ad-hoc networks, Computer Networks, vol. 224, p. 109612, April 2023. (2024 JCR 17.5%, Q1)

• Sangcheol Lee, Suhwan Kim, SungJin Yu, Namsu Jho, and Yohan Park*, Provably secure PUF-based lightweight mutual authentication scheme for wireless body area networks, Electronics, vol. 11, no. 23, p. 3868, Nov. 2022. (2024 JCR 47.1%, Q2)

• SungJin Yu and KiSung Park*, ISG-SLAS: Secure and lightweight authentication and key agreement scheme for industrial smart grid using fuzzy extractor, Journal of Systems Architecture,  vol. 131, pp. 102698, Oct. 2022. (2024 JCR 17.4%, Q1)

• SungJin Yu and KiSung Park*, PUF-PSS: A Physically Secure Privacy-Preserving Scheme Using PUF for IoMT-Enabled TMIS, Electronics, vol. 11, no. 19, p. 3081, Sep. 2022. (2024 JCR 47.1%, Q2)

• Joonyoung Lee, Jihyeon Oh, Deokkyu Kwon, Myeonghyun Kim, SungJin Yu, Namsu Jho, and Youngho Park*, PUFTAP-IoT: PUF-based three-factor authentication protocol in IoT environment focused on sensing devices, Sensors, vol. 22, no. 18, p. 7075, Sep. 2022. (2024 JCR 29.7%, Q2)

• Seunghwan Son, Deokkyu Kwon, Joonyoung Lee, Sungjin Yu, Namsu Jho, and Youngho Park*, On the Design of a Privacy-Preserving Communication Scheme for Cloud-Based Digital Twin Environments Using Blockchain, IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 75365-75375, July 2022. (2024 JCR 35.2%, Q2)

• Yeongjae Cho, Jihyeon Oh, Deokkyu Kwon, Seunghwan Son, Sungjin Yu, Yohan Park, and Youngho Park*, A Secure Three-Factor Authentication Protocol for E-Governance System Based on Multiserver Environments, IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 74351-74365, July 2022. (2024 JCR 35.2%, Q2)

• SungJin Yu, Ashok Kumar Das, Youngho Park*, and Pascal Lorenz, SLAP-IoD: Secure and lightweight authentication protocol using physical unclonable functions for internet of drones in smart city environments, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology,  vol. 71, no. 10, pp. 10374-10388, Oct. 2022. (2024 JCR 11.0%, Q1)

• SungJin Yu and KiSung Park*, SALS-TMIS: Secure, Anonymous, and Lightweight Privacy-Preserving Scheme for IoMT-Enabled TMIS Environments, vol. IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 60534-60549, Jun. 2022. (2024 JCR 35.2%, Q2)

• SungJin Yu and Youngho Park*, A robust authentication protocol for wireless medical sensor networks using blockchain and physically unclonable functions, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 20, pp. 20214-20228, May 2022. (2024 JCR 4.1%, Q1)

• Sungjin Yu, Namsu Jho, and Youngho Park*, Lightweight Three-Factor-Based Privacy- Preserving Authentication Scheme for IoT-Enabled Smart Homes, IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 126186-126197, Sep. 2021. (2024 JCR 35.2%, Q2)

• Sungjin Yu, Ashok Kumar Das, and Youngho Park*, Comments on “ALAM: Anonymous lightweight authentication mechanism for SDN enabled smart homes”, IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 49154-49159, March 2021. (2024 JCR 35.2%, Q2)

• Jihyeon Oh, SungJin Yu, Joonyoung Lee, Seunghwan Son, Myeonghyun Kim, and Youngho Park*, A secure and lightweight authentication protocol for IoT-based smart homes, Sensors, vol. 21, no. 4, p. 1488, Feb. 2021. (2024 JCR 29.7%, Q2)

• Deokkyu Kwon, Sungjin Yu, Joonyoung Lee, Seunghwan Son, and Youngho Park*, WSN-SLAP: Secure and lightweight mutual authentication protocol for wireless sensor networks, Sensors, vol. 21, no. 3, p. 936, Jan. 2021. (2024 JCR 29.7%, Q2)

• Sungjin Yu and Youngho Park*, Comments on “ITSSAKA-MS: An improved three-factor symmetric-key based secure aka scheme for multi-server environments”, IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 193375-193379, Oct. 2020. (2024 JCR 35.2%, Q2)

• Seunghwan Son, Joonyoung Lee, Myeonghyun Kim, Sungjin Yu, Ashok Kumar Das, and Youngho Park*, Design of Secure Authentication Protocol for Cloud-Assisted Telecare Medical Information System Using Blockchain, IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 192177-192191, Oct. 2020. (2024 JCR 35.2%, Q2)

• Joonyoung Lee, Sungjin Yu, Myeonghyun Kim, Youngho Park*, Sangwoo Lee, and Boheung Chung, Secure Key Agreement and Authentication Protocol for Message Confirmation in Vehicular Cloud Computing, Applied Sciences, vol. 10, no. 8, p. 6268, Sep. 2020. (2024 JCR 27.7%, Q2)

• Sungjin Yu, Joonyoung Lee, Kisung Park, Ashok Kumar Das, and Youngho Park*, IoV-SMAP: Secure and Efficient Message Authentication Protocol for IoV in Smart City Environment, IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 167875-167886, Sep. 2020. (2024 JCR 35.2%, Q2)

• SungJin Yu, KiSung Park, YoHan Park, HyungPyo Kim, and YoungHo Park*, A lightweight three-factor authentication protocol for digital rights management system, Peer-to-peer Networking and Applications, vol. 13. no. 5, pp. 1340-1356, Feb. 2020. (2024 JCR 52.5%, Q3)

• Sungjin Yu and Youngho Park*, SLUA-WSN: Secure and Lightweight Three-Factor-Based User Authentication Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks, Sensors, vol. 20, no. 15, p. 4143, July 2020. (2024 JCR 29.7%, Q2)

• Joonyoung Lee, Sungjin Yu, Myeonghyun Kim, Youngho Park*, and Ashok Kumar Das, On the design of secure and efficient three-factor authentication protocol using honey list for wireless sensor networks, IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 107046-107062, June 2020. (2024 JCR 35.2%, Q2)

• Myeonghyun Kim, Sungjin Yu*, Joonyoung Lee, Yohan Park, and Youngho Park*, Design of secure protocol for cloud-assisted electronic health record system using blockchain, Sensors, vol. 20, no. 10, p. 2913, May 2020. (2024 JCR 29.7%, Q2)

• Sungjin Yu, Joonyoung Lee, Yohan Park, Youngho Park*, Sangwoo Lee, and Boheung Chung, Secure and Efficient Three-Factor Authentication Protocol in Global Mobility Networks, Applied Sciences, vol. 10, no. 10, p. 3565, May 2020. (2024 JCR 27.7%, Q2)

• SungJin Yu, KiSung Park, JoonYoung Lee, YoungHo Park*, YoHan Park*, SangWoo Lee, and BoHeung Chung, Privacy-preserving lightweight authentication protocol for demand response management in smart grid environment, Applied Sciences, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 1758, Mar. 2020. (2024 JCR 27.7%, Q2)

• Sungjin Yu, Kisung Park, and Youngho Park*, A Secure Lightweight Three-Factor Authentication Scheme for IoT in Cloud Computing Environment, Sensors, vol. 19, no. 16, p. 3598, Aug. 2019. (2024 JCR 29.7%, Q2)

• Myeonghyun Kim, Kisung Park*, Sungjin Yu, Joonyoung Lee, Youngho Park*, Sangwoo Lee, and Boheung Chung, A Secure Charging System for Electric Vehicles Based on Blockchain, Sensors, vol. 19, no. 13, p. 3028, July 2019. (2024 JCR 29.7%, Q2)

• Kisung Park, Youngho Park*, Ashok Kumar Das, Sungjin Yu, Joonyoung Lee, Yohan Park, A dynamic privacy-preserving key management protocol for V2G in social internet of things, IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 76812-76832, Jun. 2019. (2024 JCR 35.2%, Q2)

• JoonYoung Lee, SungJin Yu, KiSung Park, YoHan Park*, and YoungHo Park*, Secure three-factor authentication protocol for multi-gateway IoT environments, Sensors, vol. 19, no. 10, pp. 2358, May 2019. (2024 JCR 29.7%, Q2)

• SungJin Yu, JoonYoung Lee, KyungKeun Lee, KiSung Park*, and YoungHo Park* Secure authentication protocol for wireless sensor networks in vehicular communications, Sensors, vol. 18, no. 10, pp. 3191, Sept. 2018. (2024 JCR 29.7%, Q2)

International Conferences

• Sungjin Yu, Keonwoo Kim, Taesung Kim, Boheung Chung, and Yousung Kang, Cryptanalysis and countermeasure of the recent authentication and key agreement scheme for Internet of Drones, 2023 14th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC), Jeju, 11 Oct. - 13 Oct. 2023.
• Sungjin Yu, MyeongHyun Kim, JoonYoung Lee, and YoungHo Park*, A Secure Biometric Based User Authentication Protocol in Wireless Sensor Networks, 2020 10th Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), Las Vegas, USA, 06 Jan. - 08 Jan. 2020. 
• MyeongHyun Kim, JoonYoung Lee, SungJin Yu, KiSung Park, YoHan Park, and YoungHo Park*, A secure authentication and key establishment scheme for wearable devices, 2019 28th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), Valencia, Spain, 29 Jul. - 01 Aug. 2019. 

• JoonYoung Lee, MyeongHyun Kim, SungJin Yu, KiSung Park, and YoungHo Park*, A secure multi-factor remote user authentication scheme for cloud-IoT applications, 2019 28th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), Valencia, Spain, 29 Jul. - 01 Aug. 2019.

Domestic Journals

• Sungjin Yu, Kisung Park, and Youngho Park*, Lightweight User Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme in Wireless Sensor Network Environments, The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 43, no. 12, pp. 2215-2229, 2019.

• Sungjin Yu, Kisung Park, and Youngho Park*, Efficient User Authentication Scheme in WBAN Environment, The Journal of Korean Institute of Communications and Information Sciences, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 968-978, 2018.

Domestic Conferences

• Joonyoung Lee, Sungjin Yu, Taesung Kim, Boheung Chung, and Keonwoo Kim, Security Analysis and Countermeasure of Post Quantum based Authentication Protocol in IoT Environment, 2024년도 한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회, 제주, 19-21 Jun. 2024.

• Deokkyu Kyu, Joonyoung Lee, Sungjin Yu, and Youngho Park, Design of Efficient Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Wireless Sensor Networks, 2021년도 한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회, 제주, 16-18 Jun. 2021.

• Hwayeon Choi, Sungjin Yu, and Youngho Park, Cryptanalysis and countermeasures of authentication and group key agreement scheme applicable to video conference in 5G network environments, 2021년도 한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회, 제주, 16-18 Jun. 2021.

• [Best Paper Awards] Sungjin Yu, KiSung Park, YoHan Park, and YoungHo Park, Cryptanalysis and countermeasures of user authentication and key agreement scheme in Wireless Sensor Networks, 2018년도 한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회, 제주, 20-22 Jun. 2018.

• Sungjin Yu, KiSung Park, JongHyun Kim, and YoungHo Park, A study on the safe for quantum computing NTRU-based commercial technology, 2017년도 한국통신학회 하계종합학술발표회, 제주, 21-23 Jun. 2017.