Publications

Secure and Anonymous Batch Authentication and Key Exchange Protocols for 6G Enabled VANETs

Mahender Kumar, Carsten Maple · IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems · 2025

Security of Cyber-Physical Additive Manufacturing Supply Chain: Survey, Attack Taxonomy and Solutions

Mahender Kumar, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · Elsevier Computers and Security · 2025

SPM-SeCTIS: Severity Pattern Matching for Secure Computable Threat Information Sharing in Additive Manufacturing

Mahender Kumar, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · Elsevier Internet of Things 28: 101334 · 2024

ATA-SOC-HAT: Adaptive Trust-Aware Human-AI Teaming Framework for Resilient and Compliance-Aligned SOC Operations

Mahender Kumar, Ruby Rani, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · Computers & Security: 104971 · 2026

ICSThreatQA: A Knowledge-Graph Enhanced Question Answering Model for Industrial Control System Threat Intelligence

Mahender Kumar, Ruby Rani, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · Expert Systems with Applications, 130180

Securing Additive Manufacturing with Blockchain-Based Cryptographic Anchoring and Dual-Lock Integrity Auditing

Mahender Kumar, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · Computers in Industry 173: 104395 · 2025

Comprehensive Threat Analysis in Additive Manufacturing Supply Chain: A Hybrid Qualitative and Quantitative Risk Assessment Framework

Mahender Kumar, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · Springer Production Engineering · 2024

An Efficient and Secure Identity-Based Integrity Auditing Scheme for Sensitive Data with Anti-Replacement Attack on Multi-Cloud Storage

Mahender Kumar, Carsten Maple, Satish Chand · Journal of King Saud University – Computer and Information Sciences 35.9: 101745 · 2023

A Provable Secure and Lightweight Smart Healthcare Cyber-Physical System with Public Verifiability

Mahender Kumar, Satish Chand · IEEE Systems Journal 16.4: 5501–5508 · 2021

MedHypChain: A Patient-Centered Interoperability Hyperledger-Based Medical Healthcare System

Mahender Kumar, Satish Chand · Journal of Network and Computer Applications 179: 102975 · 2021

A Secure and Efficient Cloud-Centric Internet of Medical Things-Enabled Smart Healthcare System with Public Verifiability

Mahender Kumar, Satish Chand · IEEE Internet of Things Journal · 2020

A Lightweight Cloud-Assisted Identity-Based Anonymous Authentication and Key Agreement Protocol for Secure Wireless Body Area Network

Mahender Kumar, Satish Chand · IEEE Systems Journal · 2020

A Secure End-to-End Verifiable Internet-Voting System Using Identity-Based Blind Signature

Mahender Kumar, Satish Chand, C. P. Katti · IEEE Systems Journal 14.2: 2032–2041 · 2020

SecP2PVoD: A Secure Peer-to-Peer Video-on-Demand System Against Pollution Attack and Untrusted Service Provider

Mahender Kumar, Satish Chand · Multimedia Tools and Applications 79.9: 6163–6190 · 2020

Escrow-Less Identity-Based Signature Scheme with Outsourced Protection in Cloud Computing

Mahender Kumar, Satish Chand · Wireless Personal Communication, Springer · 2020

ESKI-IBE: Efficient and Secure Key Issuing Identity-Based Encryption with Cloud Privacy Centers

Mahender Kumar, Satish Chand · Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, 78.14: 19753–19786 · 2019

Provable Secure Escrow-Free Identity-Based Signature Scheme for Smart City Environment

Mahender Kumar, Satish Chand · Wireless Personal Communications, Springer

Pairing-Friendly Elliptic Curves: Classification, Recent Attacks and Their Security

Mahender Kumar, Satish Chand · arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.01855 · 2022

Pairing for Greenhorn: Survey and Future Perspective

Mahender Kumar, Satish Chand · arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.12392 · 2021

SAI-BA-IoMT: Secure AI-Based Blockchain-Assisted Internet of Medical Things Tool to Moderate the Outbreak of COVID-19 Crisis

Mahender Kumar, Satish Chand · arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.09539 · 2021

Cryptanalysis and Improvement of Anonymous Authentication for Wireless Body Area Networks with Provable Security

Mahender Kumar, Satish Chand · Cryptology ePrint Archive: Report 2020/936 · 2020

SHIELD-CAN: A Self-Healing Edge-AI Intrusion Detection System for Automotive CAN Gateways

Mahender Kumar, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

MAGD-Fraud: Multi-Evidence Assurance-Guided Deferral as Knowledge-Based Decision Support for Financial Fraud Review

Mahender Kumar, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · Elsevier Knowledge-Based Systems

AutoIPS: Real-Time, Explainable Intrusion Prevention for Automotive Networks Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Mahender Kumar, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

metA4API: Meta-Path and Meta-Graph Analysis for Attack Pattern Identification in Additive Manufacturing Supply Chain

Mahender Kumar, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · Elsevier Computer Engineering and Industrial Applications

Privacy-Preserving and Secure Analysis for Detecting Gender Disparity in a Microfinance Loan System

Mahender Kumar, Mark Hooper, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications

Exploring the Future: A Systematic Review and Comparative Analysis of Technology Scouting Approaches for Identifying Emerging Science and Technology Trends

Mahender Kumar, Ruby Rani, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple

FinAgent-Reliance: A Human-in-the-Loop Reliability Benchmark for Financial LLM Agents

Mahender Kumar, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple

FairDefer: Fairness-Aware Defer-and-Route with Multi-Level Constraints

Mahender Kumar, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

A Corridor-Agnostic RSU Handover-Aware Authentication and Key Agreement Scheme for Internet of Vehicles

Mahender Kumar, SU Islam, C Maple, P Kumar, A Lambert · IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) · 2026

Severity-First Risk Prioritization for AI Poisoning in Edge-Integrated Internet of Vehicles

SU Islam, Mahender Kumar, C Maple, P Kumar, A Lambert · IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics (ICCE) · 2026

Securing Connected and Autonomous Vehicles: Analysing Attack Methods, Mitigation Strategies, and the Role of Large Language Models

Mahender Kumar, Ruby Rani, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy

Leveraging Semantic Relationships to Prioritise Indicators of Compromise in Additive Manufacturing Systems

Mahender Kumar, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · Intl. Workshop on Critical Infrastructure & Manufacturing System Security, with ACNS · 2023

A Novel Intelligence and Information Acquisition System for Managing Indicators of Compromise in Distributed Responsive Manufacturing Systems

Mahender Kumar, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy · 2023

Science and Technology Ontology: A Taxonomy of Emerging Topics

Mahender Kumar, Ruby Rani, Mirko Botarelli, Gregory Epiphaniou, Carsten Maple · International Workshop on Knowledge Graph Generation from Text · 2023

A Pairing Free Provable Secure Identity Based Blind Signature Scheme with Message Recovery for Cloud Assisted Services

Mahender Kumar, Satish Chand · InsCrypt 2019, Springer LNCS · 2019

One-Round Authenticated Identity-Based Tri-Partite Key Agreement Protocol for Internet of Things Based Sensors

Mahender Kumar, P. C. Saxena · 3rd Intl. Conf. on Internet of Things and Connected Technologies (ICIoTCT) · 2018

PF-AID-2KAP: Pairing-Free Authenticated Identity-Based Two-Party Key Agreement Protocol for Resource-Constrained Devices

Mahender Kumar, P. C. Saxena · International Conference on Futuristic Trends in Network and Communication Technologies · 2018

A Secure Anonymous E-Voting System Using Identity-Based Blind Signature Scheme

Mahender Kumar, C.P. Katti, P. C. Saxena · International Conference on Information Systems Security · 2017

An Untraceable Identity-Based Blind Signature Scheme without Pairing for E-Cash Payment System

Mahender Kumar, C. P. Katti, P.C. Saxena · International Conference on Ubiquitous Communication and Network Computing · 2017

An Efficient ID-Based Partially Blind Signature Scheme and Application in Electronic-Cash Payment System

Mahender Kumar, C.P. Katti · National Workshop for Cryptography, JNNCE Shimoga · 2016

AOR-ID-KAP: An Authenticated One-Round Identity-Based Key Agreement Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

Mahender Kumar · Computational Intelligence in Sensor Networks, Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer · 2019