The Internet of Things has transformed the way we engage with technology, but it has also presented new security and privacy challenges. Our effort is focused on recognizing, mitigating, and addressing these challenges in order to develop a more secure and trustworthy IoT environment.
Secure Device Communication: Our major goal is to ensure that devices in the IoT ecosystem communicate in a secure manner. Encryption, authentication, and protocols that protect data as it travels over the network are all part of this.
Authentication and Authorization: The implementation of comprehensive authentication and authorization systems is the emphasis of our project. This assists in ensuring that only authorized devices and users have access to sensitive IoT resources.
Privacy-Preserving Solutions: We investigate approaches for protecting user privacy while still collecting valuable data. This entails creating mechanisms to anonymize, aggregate, and securely transfer sensitive data.
Firmware and Software Security: By improving the security of IoT device firmware and software, we hope to avoid vulnerabilities that hostile actors could exploit to undermine the entire system.
We hope to contribute to the creation of a more secure and privacy-protecting IoT environment through this research. Our research and ideas have the potential to inspire best practices and solutions that protect individual data as well as the larger interconnected ecosystem.
Madububa Mbachu, Ujunwa, Rabeea Fatima, Ahmed Sherif, Elbert Dockery, Mohamed Mahmoud, Maazen Alsabaan, and Kasem Khalil. "Hardware Acceleration-Based Privacy-Aware Authentication Scheme for Internet of Vehicles Using Physical Unclonable Function." Sensors. 2025; 25(5):1629. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25051629. [< < PDF > >]
Kasem Khalil, Ashok Kumar and Magdy Bayoumi, "Hardware Acceleration of CoAP Protocol for High-Speed and Low-Power Internet of Things Communication," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT), 2024. [< < PDF > >]
Sonia Akter, Kasem Khalil, and Magdy Bayoumi. "A Survey on Hardware Security: Current Trends and Challenges." IEEE Access (2023). [< < PDF > >]
Kasem Khalil, Khalid ELgazzar, Mohamed Seliem, and Magdy Bayoumi. " Resource Discovery Techniques in The Internet of Things: A Review”, Internet of Things Journal, (2020). [< < PDF > >]
Mohamed Seliem, Khalid Elgazzar, and Kasem Khalil. "Towards privacy preserving IoT environments: a survey." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing 2018 (2018), Hindawi. [< < PDF > >]
Muhammad Zain Chaudhary, Eduardo Hernandez Escobar, Ahmed Sherif, Kasem Khalil, Rabab Abdelfattah. “Dynamic Key-Based Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for Internet of Drones” in IEEE SoutheastCon, IEEE, 2025. [< < PDF > >]
Ujunwa Madububambachu, Rabeea Fatima, Kayla White, Justin Riley, Ahmed Sherif, Kasem Khalil. “Hardware-Acceleration Based Privacy-Aware Authentication Scheme for Internet of Vehicles.” In 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computing and Machine Intelligence (ICMI), IEEE, 2024. [< < PDF > >]
Ujunwa Madububambachu, Rabeea Fatima, Kayla White, Ahmed Sherif, and Kasem Khalil. “Enhancing Privacy in Internet of Vehicles Through Hardwareaccelerated Authentication Scheme using Physical Unclonable Function (PUF).” In 2024 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AIM), 2024. [< < PDF > >]
Sara Alahmadi, Kasem Khalil, Haytham Idriss, Magdy Bayoumi. “Fortifying Strong PUFs: A Modeling Attack-Resilient Approach Using Weak PUF for IoT Device Security.” In IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), IEEE, 2024. [< < PDF > >]
Kasem Khalil, Tamador Mohaidat, Mahmoud Darwich, Ashok Kumar, Magdy Bayoumi. “Hardware Acceleration of CoAP Protocol for High-Speed and Low-Power Internet of Things Communication.” In 17th IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems conference (DCAS 2024), IEEE, 2024. [< < PDF > >]
Kayla White, Ujunwa Madububambachu, Ahmed Sherif, Kasem Khalil, Magdy Bayoumi, Mostafa M. Fouda. " Privacy-Aware and Hardware Acceleration-Based Aggregation Scheme for Smart Grid Networks." In 2023 IEEE Eighth International Conference On Mobile And Secure Services (MobiSecServ). IEEE, 2023. [< < PDF > >]
Sonia Akter, Kasem Khalil, and Magdy Bayoumi. "Hardware Security in the Internet of Things: A Survey." In 2023 IEEE 36th International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2023. [< < PDF > >]
Kasem Khalil, Ahmed Abdelgawad, Magdy Bayoumi. “Intelligent Resource Discovery Approach for the Internet of Things.” In IEEE World Forum on The Internet of Things (WF-IoT), IEEE, 2021. [< < PDF > >]
Kasem Khalil, Khalid Elgazzar, Ahmed Abdelgawad, Magdy Bayoumi. “A Security Approach for CoAP-Based Internet of Things Resource Discovery.” In IEEE World Forum on The Internet of Things (WF-IoT), IEEE, 2020. [< < PDF > >]
Kasem Khalil, Khalid Elgazzarr, and Magdy Bayoumi. "A Comparative Analysis on Resource Discovery Protocols for The Internet of Things." In GLOBECOM 2017-2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference, IEEE, 2018. [< < PDF > >]