Publications

[1]  Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Nwakanma, Cosmas Ifeanyi, Kim, Dong-Seong, Lee, Jae Min. 2024 "ASR-Fed: agnostic straggler-resilient semi-asynchronous federated learning technique for secured drone network."  International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics, 15(11) https://doi.org/10.1007/s13042-024-02238-9

[2]  Ajakwe Simeon Okechukwu, Saviour Igboanusi Ikechi,  Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Nwankwo, Odinachi U.,  Dini Mohamed Abubakar, Uchechi Izuazu Urslla,  Kim, Dong-Seong, Lee, Jae Min. 2024. "Medical IoT Record Security and Blockchain: Systematic Review of Milieu, Milestones, and Momentum." Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 8(9), https://www.mdpi.com/2504-2289/8/9/121

[3] Ajakwe, S.O.,  Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Kim, D.-S., Lee, J.M. 2022. "DRONET: Multi-Tasking Framework for Real-Time Industrial Facility Aerial Surveillance and Safety." Drones, 6(46). https://doi.org/10.3390/drones6020046 

[4] Ajakwe, S.O., Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Kim, D.-S., Lee, J.-M. 2023.  "ALIEN: Assisted Learning Invasive Encroachment Neutralization for Secured Drone Transportation System". Sensors, 23(1233), https://doi.org/10.3390/s23031233 

[5] Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, S. O. Ajakwe, J. M. Lee and D. -S. Kim,. 2025 "DroneGuard: An Explainable and Efficient Machine Learning Framework for Intrusion Detection in Drone Networks". IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 12( 7) https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2024.3519633

[1] V. U. Ihekoronye, D. -S. Kim and J. M. Lee, "Federated Learning with Differential Privacy for Intrusion Detection in Internet of Flying Things: A Robust Approach," 2023 14th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC), Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 2023, pp. 932-937, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTC58733.2023.10392902. 

[2] V. U. Ihekoronye, J. M. Lee and D. -S. Kim, "Impact of Adaptive Client Selection on Federated Learning for IoMT Ecosystem," 2024 15th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC), Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 2024, pp. 1603-1608, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTC62082.2024.10827188. 

[3] V. U. Ihekoronye, S. O. Ajakwe, D. Kim and J. M. Lee, "Hierarchical Intrusion Detection System for Secured Military Drone Network: A Perspicacious Approach," MILCOM 2022 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), Rockville, MD, USA, 2022, pp. 336-341, https://doi.org/10.1109/MILCOM55135.2022.10017532. 

[4] S. O. Ajakwe, V. U. Ihekoronye, R. Akter, D. -S. Kim and J. M. Lee, "Adaptive Drone Identification and Neutralization Scheme for Real-Time Military Tactical Operations," 2022 International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN), Jeju-si, Korea, Republic of, 2022, pp. 380-384, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICOIN53446.2022.9687268.

[5] V. U. Ihekoronye, S. O. Ajakwe, D. -S. Kim and J. M. Lee, "Cyber Edge Intelligent Intrusion Detection Framework For UAV Network Based on Random Forest Algorithm," 2022 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC), Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 2022, pp. 1242-1247, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTC55196.2022.9952400. 

[6] U. U. Izuazu, V. U. Ihekoronye, D. -S. Kim and J. M. Lee, "Securing Critical Infrastructure: A Denoising Data-Driven Approach for Intrusion Detection in ICS Network," 2024 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication (ICAIIC), Osaka, Japan, 2024, pp. 841-846, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAIIC60209.2024.10463488. 

[7] V. U. Ihekoronye, C. I. Nwakanma, G. O. Anyanwu, D. -S. Kim and J. -M. Lee, "Benefits, Challenges and Practical Concerns of IoT for Smart Manufacturing," 2021 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC), Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 2021, pp. 827-830, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTC52510.2021.9620771. 

[8] V. U. Ihekoronye, S. O. Ajakwe, D. -S. Kim and J. M. Lee, "Aerial Supervision of Drones and Other Flying Objects Using Convolutional Neural Networks," 2022 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Information and Communication (ICAIIC), Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 2022, pp. 069-074, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAIIC54071.2022.9722702. 

[9] S. Okechukwu Ajakwe, V. Ukamaka Ihekoronye, D. -S. Kim and J. -M. Lee, "Tractable Minacious Drones Aerial Recognition and Safe-Channel Neutralization Scheme for Mission Critical Operations," 2022 IEEE 27th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA), Stuttgart, Germany, 2022, pp. 1-8, https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA52439.2022.9921494.

[10] S. O. Ajakwe, V. U. Ihekoronye, I. U. Ajakwe, T. Jun, D. -S. Kim and J. M. Lee, "Connected Intelligence for Smart Water Quality Monitoring System in IIoT," 2022 13th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology Convergence (ICTC), Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 2022, pp. 2386-2391, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICTC55196.2022.9952785. 

[11] S. O. Ajakwe, V. Ukamaka Ihekoronye, D. -S. Kim and J. -M. Lee, "SimNet: UAV-Integrated Sensor Nodes Localization for Communication Intelligence in 6G Networks," 2022 27th Asia Pacific Conference on Communications (APCC), Jeju Island, Korea, Republic of, 2022, pp. 344-347, https://doi.org/0.1109/APCC55198.2022.9943785. 

[12] V. U. Ihekoronye, U. U. Izuazu, C. I. Nwakanma, J. M. Lee and D. -S. Kim, "ASR-FED: Agnostic Straggler Resilient Federated Algorithm for Drone Networks Security," IEEE INFOCOM 2024 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2024, pp. 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1109/INFOCOMWKSHPS61880.2024.10620729. 

[1] Esmot Ara Tuli, Mohtasin Golam, Md Mahinur Alam, Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Dong-Seong Kim. 2024.  "Quantum Encrypted Collaborative Energy Consumption Demand Response Management for Smart Industrial System." Proceedings of Symposium of the Korean Institute of communications and Information Sciences

[2] Odinachi Udemezuo Nwankwo, Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Dong-Seong Kim, Jae Min Lee. 2024. "Average Energy Consumption Prediction for Gumi Industrial Platform using LSTM". Proceedings of Symposium of the Korean Institute of communications and Information Sciences.

[3] Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Wisdom Chizitere Njoku, Esmot Ara Tuli, Jae Min Lee, Dong-Seong Kim. (2024-11-20). "Explainable Machine Learning for Energy Consumption Prediction: A Case Study in the Gumi Industrial Complex." Proceedings of Symposium of the Korean Institute of communications and Information Sciences.

[4] Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Esmot Ara Tuli, Urslla Uchechi Izuazu, Jae Min Lee, Dong-Seong Kim. (2024-06-19). "FedQ: A Secure Collaborative Cyber Defense Framework for Internet of Medical Things Based on Quantum and Federated Learning." 

[5] Urslla Uchechi Izuazu, Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Dong-Seong Kim, Jae Min Lee. (2024-06-19). "ICS Cyber-Threat Detection: Towards an Effective Adversarial Sample Generation and DNN Defence." 

[6] Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Urslla Uchechi Izuazu, Jae Min Lee, Dong-Seong Kim. (2024-01-31). "Airspace Security: Challenges and Innovations in Drone Technology for Transportation, Military and Industrial Applications. A Brief Review."

[7] Mohamed A. Dini, Simeon O. Ajakwe, Igboanusi I. Saviour, Vivian U. Ihekoronye, Odinachi U. Nwankwo, Izuazu U. Uchechi, Gifar Arif Haryadi, Made Adi Paramartha Putra, Dong-Seong Kim, Taesoo Jun, Jae Min Lee. (2023-02-08). "Patient-Centric Blockchain Framework for Secured Medical Record Fidelity and Authorization."

[8] Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Cosmas Ifeanyi Nwakanma, Dong-Seong Kim, Jae Min Lee. (2023-02-08). "Evaluation of Federated Aggregating Algorithms for Intrusion Detection in UAV Networks."

[9] Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Simeon Okechukwu Ajakwe, Dong-Seong Kim, Jae Min Lee. (2022-11-16). "Mobility-Compliant Model in Drone-Based Sniffing Technique for Aerial Surveillance and Security."

[10] Simeon Okechukwu Ajakwe, Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Dong-Seong Kim, Jae Min Lee. (2022-11-16). "AI-Trust in Intelligent Autonomous Decision-Centric Systems: Introspection of Security Architectures."

[11] Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Simeon Okechukwu Ajakwe, Dong-Seong Kim, Jae Min Lee. (2022-06-22). "Scalable Out-of-Core Learning Model for Intrusion Detection System in Internet of Drones."

[12] Simeon Okechukwu Ajakwe, Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Dong-Seong Kim, Jae Min Lee. (2022-06-22). "Pervasive Intrusion Detection Scheme to Mitigate Sensor Attacks on UAV Networks."

[13] Simeon Okechukwu Ajakwe, Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Dong-Seong Kim, Jae Min Lee. (2022-02-09). "Scenario-Based Drone Detection and Identification System for Real-Time Industrial Facility Aerial Surveillance and Safety."

[14] Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Simeon Okechukwu Ajakwe, Dong-Seong Kim, Jae Min Lee. (2022-02-09). "Lightweight CNN Model For Real Time Recognition of Miniaturize Fleet of UAVs."

[15] Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Simeon Okechukwu Ajakwe, Dong-Seong Kim, Jae Min Lee. (2021-11-17). "UAV Assisted Real-Time Detection and Recognition of Citrus Disease in Smart Farm using Deep Learning."

[1] Vivian Ukamaka Ihekoronye, Nwakanma, Cosmas Ifeanyi, Kim, Dong-Seong, Lee, Jae Min. 2023. " DATA-FedAVG: Delay-Aware Truncated Accuracy-Based Federated Averaging for Intrusion Detection in UAV Networks." 48 (6), 648-668. https://doi.org/10.7840/kics.2023.48.6.648