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Journals:

1. Ali Safa, Waqas Aman, Ali Al-Zawqari, and Saif Al-Kuwari. "Benchmarking Online Object Trackers for Underwater Robot Position Locking Applications." IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering,  2025. (IF 5.3) 

2. Waqas Aman, M. Qaraqe, M. M. U. Rahman, S. Al-Kuwari,  T. Y. Al-Naffouri, "Effective Capacity Analysis for Hybrid FSO/THz Backhaul Link in 6G Networks," IEEE Wireless Communication Letters, 2025. (IF 5.5)

3. Waqas Aman, Saif Al-Kuwari, and Marwa Qaraqe. "Performance Analysis of Underwater Acoustic Channel Amid Jamming by Random Jammers." Internet Technology Letters (ITL), 2024. (IF 0.9)

4. Waqas Aman, Saif Al-Kuwari, and Marwa Qaraqe. "A novel physical layer authentication mechanism for static and mobile 3D underwater acoustic communication networks," Physical Communication, Vol. 66, 2024. (IF 2.2)

5. W.aqas Aman, N. Kouzayha, M. M. U. Rahman, and T. Y. Al-Naffouri, “On the downlink coverage performance of RIS-assisted THz networks,” IEEE Communications Letters, 2023 (IF 3.7)

6. Illi, Elmehdi, Marwa Qaraqe, Saud Althunibat, Abdullah Alhasanat, Moath Alsafasfeh, Marcus de Ree, Georgios Mantas, Jonathan Rodriguez, Waqas Aman, and Saif Al-Kuwari. "Physical layer security for authentication, confidentiality, and malicious node detection: a paradigm shift in securing IoT networks." IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 2023 (IF 34.4) 

7. Waqas Aman, Saif Al-Kuwari, Muhammad Muzzammil, Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman, Ambrish Kumar, ''Security of underwater and air–water wireless communication: State-of-the-art, challenges and outlook'', Ad Hoc Networks, Vol. 142, 2023 (IF 4.4)

8. Buttar, Hasan Mujtaba, Waqas Aman, M. Mahboob Ur Rahman, and Qammer H. Abbasi. "Countering active attacks on RAFT-based IoT blockchain networks." IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 23, no. 13, 2023 (IF 4.32). 

9. Pervez, Kawish, Waqas Aman, M. Rahman, M. Wasim Nawaz, and Qammer H. Abbasi. "Hand-breathe: Non-Contact Monitoring of Breathing Abnormalities from Hand Palm." IEEE Sensor Journal, 2023 (IF 4.32). 

10. Waqas Aman, Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman, Hasan T Abbas, Muhammad Arslan Khalid, Muhammad A Imran, Akram Alomainy, Qammer H Abbasi , "Securing the Insecure: A First-Line-of-Defense for Body-Centric Nanoscale Communication Systems Operating in THz Band " in Sensors, 2021 (IF 3.84).

11. Waqas Aman, M Mahboob Ur Rahman, Shuja Ansari, Ali Arshad Nasir, Khalid Qaraqe, M Ali Imran, Qammer H Abbasi, "On the effective capacity of IRS-assisted wireless communication" in Physical Communication, 2021 (IF 2.379)

12. Syed Waqas Haider Shah, Rongpeng Li, Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman, Adnan Noor Mian, Waqas Aman, Jon Crowcroft, "Statistical QoS guarantees of a device‐to‐device link assisted by a full‐duplex relay" in Transaction on Emerging Telecommunication Technologies, 2021 (IF 3.31)

13. Waqas Aman, Muhammad MU Rahman, Zeeshan Haider, Junaid Qadir, Muhammad W Nawaz, Guftaar AS Sidhu, "Maximizing secrecy rate of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing‐based multihop underwater acoustic sensor network ", in Transaction on Emerging Telecommunication Technologies, 2020 (IF 2.63).

14. Waqas Aman, Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman, Junaid Qadir, Haris Pervaiz, Qiang Ni, "Impersonation Detection Line of Sight Underwater Acoustic Sensor Networks", in IEEE Access, 2018 (IF 4.09).

15. Waqas Aman, Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu, Haji M Furqan, Zain Ali, "Enhancing Physical Layer Security in AF Relay Assisted Multi-Carrier Wireless Transmission" in Transaction on Emerging Telecommunication Technologies, 2018 (IF 1.61).

Conferences:

1. Nora Abdelsalam, Waqas Aman, Marwa Qaraqe, Saif Al-Kuwari, Aiman Erbad, '"An ML-driven PLA Scheme for Inter-Satellites Communication", accepted in 12th International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC'25), 2025.

2. Waqas Aman,  Ali Al-Zawqari, Farida Mohsen, Saif Al-Kuwari and Ali Safa, ''Assessing the Efficiency of One-shot Visual Object Trackers for Underwater Robot Position Locking”, accepted in AICCSA, 2025

3. Asim, Muhammad, M. Ozair Iqbal, Waqas Aman, M. Mahboob Ur Rahman, and Qammer H. Abbasi. "Pathloss-based non-Line-of-Sight Identification in an Indoor Environment: An Experimental Study." In 2024 18th European Conference on Antennas and Propagation (EuCAP), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2024. 

4. Amin, Hala, Jawaher Kaldari, Nora Mohamed, Waqas Aman, and Saif Al-Kuwari. "Hybrid PLS-ML Authentication Scheme for V2I Communication Networks." In 2023 International Symposium on Networks, Computers and Communications (ISNCC), pp. 1-6. IEEE, 2023. 

5. Waqas Aman, S. Al-Kuwari, and M. Qaraqe, “Location-based physical layer authentication in underwater acoustic communication networks”. in proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC) Spring, Florence, 2023 

6. Ahsan Mahmood, Waqas Aman, M Mahboob Ur Rahman, MA Imran, Qammer H Abbasi, "Preventing Identity Attacks in RFID Backscatter Communication Systems: a Physical-Layer Approach", UK/China Emerging Technologies (UCET), 2020. 

7. Waqas Aman, Zeeshan Haider, S. Waqas H. Shah, M. Mahboob Ur Rahman, Octavia A. Dobre, "Studying the Authentication-Effective Capacity Trade-off in Underwater Acoustic Communication", in IEEE  International Conference on Communication (ICC ),2020.

8. Sidra Zafar, Waqas Aman, Muhammad Mahboob Ur Rahman, Akram Alomainy, and Qammer H. Abbasi, "Channel Impulse Response-based Physical Layer Authentication in a Diffusion-based Molecular Communication System", in 4th International conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET) 2019.

9. Waqas Aman, Aneeqa Ijaz, M. Mahboob Ur Rahman, Dushanta Nalin K. Jayakody, Haris Pervaiz, Shared Secret Key Generation via Carrier Frequency Offsets, in 89th IEEE VTC Spring 2019.

10. Ammar Mahmood, Waqas Aman, M. Ozair Iqbal, M. Mahboob Ur Rahman, Qammer H. Abbasi, Channel Impulse Response-based Distributed Physical Layer Authentication in 85th IEEE VTC Spring, 2017. 

11. Waqas Aman, Guftaar Ahmad Sardar Sidhu, Tayyaba Jabeen, Feifei Gao, Shi Jin, Enhancing physical layer security in dual-hop multiuser transmission in IEEE WCNC 2016.

12. Tanveer Khan, Israr Ahmad, Waqas Aman, Irfan Azam, Zahoor Ali Khan, Umar Qasim, Sanam Avais, Nadeem Javaid, Clustering depth based routing for underwater wireless sensor networks in 30th IEEE AINA 2016.