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Next Generation Lightweight Cryptography for Smart IoT Devices: Implementation, Challenges and Applications (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Gunathilake, N. A., Buchanan, W. J., & Asif, R. (2019). Next Generation Lightweight Cryptography for Smart IoT Devices: Implementation, Challenges and Applications. . https://doi.org/10.1109/WF-IoT.2019.8767250

High/ultra-high speed data connections are currently being developed, and by the year 2020, it is expected that the 5th generation networking (5GN) should be much smarter. It would provide great quality of service (QoS) due to low latency, less imple... Read More about Next Generation Lightweight Cryptography for Smart IoT Devices: Implementation, Challenges and Applications.

Future Quantum-to-the-Home (QTTH) All-Optical Networks (Invited Talk) (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Asif, R. (2019). Future Quantum-to-the-Home (QTTH) All-Optical Networks (Invited Talk). In Advanced Infocomm Technology. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICAIT.2018.8686543

For imparting data security to the end-users in a archetypal fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network, quantum cryptography (QC) is getting much attention now-a-days. QC or more specifically quantum key distribution (QKD) promises unconditionally secure prot... Read More about Future Quantum-to-the-Home (QTTH) All-Optical Networks (Invited Talk).

Experimental High Speed Data Encryption via SDM-CV-QKD Signaling for High-Capacity Access Network (2018)
Conference Proceeding
Asif, R., Haithem, M., & Buchanan, W. J. (2018). Experimental High Speed Data Encryption via SDM-CV-QKD Signaling for High-Capacity Access Network. In Advanced Photonics Networks. https://doi.org/10.1364/networks.2018.neth2f.3

We report a high capacity Quantum-to-the-Home (QTTH) network in a spatialdivision-multiplexing (SDM) network utilizing 7-core multicore fiber (MCF). Aggregate secure key rates of 33.6 Mbit/s over 9.8 km of fiber are the actual state-of-the-art.

Securing Cloud Hypervisors: A Survey of the Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Countermeasures (2018)
Journal Article
Barrowclough, J. P., & Asif, R. (2018). Securing Cloud Hypervisors: A Survey of the Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Countermeasures. Security and Communication Networks, 2018, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/1681908

The exponential rise of the cloud computing paradigm has led to the cybersecurity concerns, taking into account the fact that the resources are shared and mediated by a ‘hypervisor’ that may be attacked and user data can be compromised or hacked. In... Read More about Securing Cloud Hypervisors: A Survey of the Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Countermeasures.

Lightweight cryptography methods (2018)
Journal Article
Buchanan, W. J., Li, S., & Asif, R. (2018). Lightweight cryptography methods. Journal of Cyber Security Technology, 1(3-4), 187-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/23742917.2017.1384917

While our conventional cryptography methods, such for AES (encryption), SHA-256 (hashing) and RSA/Elliptic Curve (signing), work well on systems which have reasonable processing power and memory capabilities, these do not scale well into a world with... Read More about Lightweight cryptography methods.

Quantum Encrypted Signals on Multiuser Optical Fiber Networks: Simulation Analysis of Next Generation Services and Technologies (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Asif, R. (2017). Quantum Encrypted Signals on Multiuser Optical Fiber Networks: Simulation Analysis of Next Generation Services and Technologies. In NoF 2017 Conference Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1109/NOF.2017.8251243

Data encryption is gaining much attention these days from the research community and industry for transmitting secure information over access networks, i.e. 'fiber-to-the-home (FTTH)' networks and data centers. It is important that the newly designed... Read More about Quantum Encrypted Signals on Multiuser Optical Fiber Networks: Simulation Analysis of Next Generation Services and Technologies.

Quantum-to-the-Home: Achieving Gbits/s Secure Key Rates via Commercial Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Equipment (2017)
Journal Article
Asif, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2017). Quantum-to-the-Home: Achieving Gbits/s Secure Key Rates via Commercial Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Equipment. Security and Communication Networks, 2017, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/7616847

There is current significant interest in Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) networks, i.e. end-to-end optical connectivity. Currently, it may be limited due to the presence of last-mile copper wire connections. However, in near future it is envisaged that FTTH... Read More about Quantum-to-the-Home: Achieving Gbits/s Secure Key Rates via Commercial Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Equipment.

Seamless Cryptographic Key Generation via Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Components for End-to-End Data Encryption (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Asif, R., & Buchanan, W. J. (2017). Seamless Cryptographic Key Generation via Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Components for End-to-End Data Encryption. In International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings-2017). https://doi.org/10.1109/iThings-GreenCom-CPSCom-SmartData.2017.140

Quantum key distribution (QKD) systems have already attained much attention for providing end-to-end data encryption to the subscribers. However, it is very important that the QKD infrastructure is compatible with the already existing telecommunicati... Read More about Seamless Cryptographic Key Generation via Off-the-Shelf Telecommunication Components for End-to-End Data Encryption.

10Gbit/s mode-multiplexed QPSK transmission using MDM-to-MFDM based single coherent receiver for intra- and inter data center networking (2017)
Journal Article
Asif, R., & Haithem, M. (2017). 10Gbit/s mode-multiplexed QPSK transmission using MDM-to-MFDM based single coherent receiver for intra- and inter data center networking. Optics Communications, 391, 106-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2017.01.022

Generalized few-mode-fiber (FMF) transmission uses N coherent receivers for mode detection, where N scales with the number of fiber modes. Multiple coherent receivers increase the cost of optical network units (ONUs) in access networks, specifically... Read More about 10Gbit/s mode-multiplexed QPSK transmission using MDM-to-MFDM based single coherent receiver for intra- and inter data center networking.