Emerging Networks and Security (ENaS) Lab

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications (Published, Accepted, & In-Press)

(* indicates graduate student co-author & ** indicates undergraduate co-author)

  • Daniel Commey*, Sena Hounsinou, and Garth V. Crosby, “PUFZIN: Secure and Scalable Blockchain-IoT with PUFs and Zero-Knowledge Proofs,” Journal of Information Security and Applications, Accepted May 2026 (In Press).
  • Daniel Commey* and Garth V. Crosby, “PQSBFL: A Post-Quantum Secure Blockchain-based Federated Learning Framework,” Expert Systems with Applications, Elsevier, Volume 312, May 2026.
  • Kamel Abbad*, Daniel Commey, Sena Hounsinou, Lyes Khoukhi, Lionnel Messnil, and Garth V. Crosby, “Fusing Vessel Behavior and Weather Context for Real-time Attribution of AIS Dropouts,” Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) — CISS, May 24-28, 2026, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
  • Daniel Commey*, Kamel Abbad*, Lyes Khoukhi, and Garth V. Crosby, “Scalability and Resilience in Practice: A 24-Month Measurement Study of Congestion Dynamics and Reliability in Production Layer-2 Networks,” Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) — 5th Workshop on Sustainable and Resilient Industrial Networks (WS-04), May 24, 2026, Glasgow, United Kingdom.
  • Matilda Nkoom*, Daniel Commey*, Yousef Alsenani*, Sena G. Hounsinou, and Garth V. Crosby, “Federated DDoS Detection with Clustered Quantization-Aware Training Models for IoRT,” Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), January 9-12, 2026, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
  • Daniel Commey*, Kamel Abbad*, Garth V. Crosby, and Lyes Khoukhi, “FedSkipTwin: Digital-Twin-Guided Client Skipping for Communication-Efficient Federated Learning,” Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) — Work in Progress/Special Session, January 9-12, 2026, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
  • Brice Ockman**, Daniel Commey*, and Garth V. Crosby, “A Unified Lightweight Benchmark for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning in Cyber-Physical Systems (Fashion-MNIST Case Study),” Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE 23rd Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), January 9-12, 2026, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
  • Uzma Hamid**, David Sung**, Daniel Commey*, and Garth V. Crosby, “Resource-Aware Clustered Federated Learning for Industrial Digital Twins: A Reproducible Benchmark on Fashion-MNIST,” Proceedings of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC) 2026, January 9-12, 2026, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.
  • D. Commey*, K. Abbad*, M. Nkoom*, G. S. Klogo, L. Khoukhi, and G. V. Crosby, “Quantifying the Impact of TLE Ageing on LEO IoT Link Reliability,” IEEE Networking Letters, December 2025.
  • Daniel Commey*, Matilda Nkoom*, Sena Hounsinou, and Garth V. Crosby, “Blockchain-Enabled Dynamic Honeypot Conversion for Resource-Efficient IoT Security,” Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Elsevier, September 2025.
  • Matilda Nkoom*, Sena G. Hounsinou and Garth V. Crosby, “Securing the Internet of Robotics Things (IoRT) against DDOS Attacks: A Federated Learning with Differential Privacy Clustering Approach”, Computers & Security, Elsevier, Volume 155, August 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2025.104493
  • Daniel Commey*, Sena G. Hounsinou and Garth V. Crosby, “Post-Quantum Secure Blockchain-Based Federated Learning Framework for Healthcare Analytics,” IEEE Networking Letters, April 2025, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10973102
  • Matilda Nkoom*, Sena G. Hounsinou and Garth V. Crosby, “Securing the Internet of Robotics Things: A Comprehensive Review on Machine Learning-based Intrusion Detection”, Journal of Cyber Security Technology, Taylor & Francis, 1-50, December 2024. https://doi.org/10.1080/23742917.2024.2430037
  • Matilda Nkoom*, Daniel Commey*, Sena Hounsinou, and Garth V. Crosby, “Securing the Internet of Robotic Things: A Federated Learning Approach,” in the proceedings of the IEEE 49th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), October 7-10, 2024, Caen, Normandy, France
  • Daniel Commey*, Sena Hounsinou, and Garth V. Crosby, “Securing Blockchain-based IoT Systems with Physical Unclonable Functions and Zero-Knowledge Proofs,” in the proceedings of the IEEE 49th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), October 7-10, 2024, Caen, Normandy, France
  • Daniel Commey*, Bin Mai, Sena Hounsinou, and Garth V. Crosby, “Securing Blockchain-based IoT Systems: A Review”, IEEE Access, July 2024; DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3428490
  • Daniel Commey*, Sena Hounsinou and Garth V. Crosby, “Strategic Deployment of Honeypots in Blockchain-based IoT Systems,” in the proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (IEEE AICAS 2024), April 22-25, 2024, Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • Patrick Dudcyzk*, Julie Dunston, Garth V. Crosby, “Blockchain Technology for Global Supply Chain Management: A Survey of Applications, Challenges, Opportunities & Implications”, IEEE Access, March 2024
  • Daniel Commey*, Benjamin Appiah, Bill Frimpong, Isaac Osei, Ebenezer Hammond, Garth V. Crosby, “EGAN: Evolutional GAN for Ransomware Evasion,” in the proceedings of IEEE 48th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), October 2-5, 2023, Daytona Beach, FL, USA
  • Yousef Alsenani*, Garth V. Crosby, K.R. Ahmed, Tomas Velasco, (2020) Towards Multi-criteria Volunteer Cloud Service Selection. In: Zhang Q., Wang Y., Zhang LJ. (eds) Cloud Computing – CLOUD 2020. CLOUD 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12403. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59635-4_21
  • Yousef Alsenani*, Garth V. Crosby, K.R. Ahmed, and Tomas Velasco, “ProTrust: A Probabilistic Trust Framework for Volunteer Cloud Computing”, in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 135059-135074, 2020, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3009051.
  • Ali Mahdi*, Jun Qin, Garth V. Crosby, “DeepFeat: A Bottom Up and Top Down Saliency Model Based on Deep Features of Convolutional Neural Nets”, in the IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, Volume 12, Issue 1, 2020
  • Carl Spezia, Garth V. Crosby and Farhan Tabash*, “Creating Custom E-Learning Applications for Engineering Technology Using the Sharable Content Object Resource Model”, Technology Interface International Journal (TIIJ), vol. 19, no. 2, 2019
  • Yousef Alsenani*, Garth V. Crosby, Tomas Velasco, and Abdulrahman Alahmadi, “ReMot: Reputation and Resource-based Model to Estimate the Reliability of the Host Machines in Volunteer Cloud Environment”, in the proceedings of IEEE 6th International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud 2018), August 6-8, 2018, Barcelona, Spain
  • Yousef Alsenani*, Garth V. Crosby, and Tomas Velasco, “SaRA: A Stochastic Model to Estimate Reliability of Edge Resources in Volunteer Cloud”, in the proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE 2018), July 2-7, 2018, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Hannah Vick**, Renita Murimi, Vickie Ellis, Nichole Turnage, and Garth Crosby, “I’ve Got to Play That Game- An Analysis of Embedded Persuasion in Game Design”, International Journal on Future Revolution in Computer Science & Communication Engineering (IJFRCSCE), Volume 3, Issue 10, pp. 120-129, October 2017
  • Jayanarayan Chandramouli*, Juan Ramos*, Lakshmi Srinivasan*, Prahlad Suresh*, Prashanth Kannan*, Garth V. Crosby, and Lanier Watkins, “Using Network Traffic to Infer Compromised Neighbors in Wireless Sensor Nodes”, in the proceedings of the 14th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), January 8-11, 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (short paper)
  • Garth V. Crosby, Tirthankar Ghosh, Renita Murimi, and Craig A. Chin, “Wireless Body Area Networks for mHealth: The Technology Road Map”, in “Mobile Health: A Technology Road Map”, ed. Sasan Adibi, Springer, April 2015
  • Wissam Razouk*, Garth V. Crosby, and Abderrahim Sekkaki, “Countermeasures Related to Zigbee Security Weaknesses”, in the proceedings of the Sixth International Symposium on Applications of Ad hoc and Sensor Networks (AASNET’14), September 22-25, 2014, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
  • Prabhakar Varadarajan* and Garth V. Crosby, “End-to-End Security in Wireless Sensor Network Using IPsec”, in the proceedings of the Sixth IFIP International Conference on New Technologies, Mobility and Security (NTMS), March 30-April 2nd, 2014, Dubai-UAE
  • Lanier Watkins, Garth V. Crosby, and Afsana Sharmin*, “Using Network Traffic to Infer Power Levels in Wireless Sensor Nodes”, in the proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), 3-6 February 2014, Honolulu, Hawaii
  • Garth V. Crosby and Farzam Vafa*, “Wireless Sensor Networks and LTE-A Network Convergence”, in the proceedings of the 38th annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), Sydney, Australia, October 21-24, 2013
  • Garth V. Crosby and Farzam Vafa*, “A Novel Dual Mode Gateway for Wireless Sensor Networks and LTE-A Network Convergence”, International Journal of Engineering Research and Innovation (IJERI), Volume 5, No. 2, pp. 19-27, Fall/Winter 2013.
  • Asim Mazin* and Garth V. Crosby, “Reducing the Peak to Average Power Ratio of MIMO-OFDM”, International Journal of Computer Networks & Communications (IJCNC), Vol. 5., No. 3, May 2013, pp. 33-51
  • Garth V. Crosby, Tirthankar Ghosh, Renita Murimi, and Craig A. Chin, “Wireless Body Area Networks for Healthcare: A Survey”, International Journal of Ad hoc, Sensor & Ubiquitous Computing (IJASUC), Vol. 3, No.3, June 2012, pp. 1-26
  • Craig A. Chin, Garth V. Crosby, Tirthankar Ghosh, and Renita Murimi, “Advances and Challenges of Wireless Body Area Networks for Health Applications”, in the proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), CNC Workshop, January 30-February 2, 2012, Maui, Hawaii, USA
  • Garth Crosby, Niki Pissinou, and Lance Hester, “Location-aware, Trust-based Detection and Isolation of Compromised Nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks”, International Journal of Network Security, Vol. 12, No.2, PP.107–117, Mar. 2011
  • Garth V. Crosby and Niki Pissinou, “Evolution of Cooperation in Multi-class Wireless Sensor Networks”, in the proceedings of the 32nd Conference on IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN ‘07), October, Dublin, Ireland
  • James Gadze, Niki Pissinou and Garth V. Crosby, “On Optimal Slot Allocation for Reservation-TDMA MAC protocol in Shadow Fading Environment”, in the proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (ISWCS), 17 – 19 October 2007, Trondheim, Norway
  • Garth V. Crosby and Niki Pissinou, “Cluster-Based Reputation and Trust for Wireless Sensor Networks”, in the proceedings of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC), January 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Garth V. Crosby, Niki Pissinou, and James Gadze, “A Framework for Trust-based Cluster Head Election in Wireless Sensor Networks”, in the proceedings of the Second IEEE Workshop on Dependability and Security in Sensor Networks and Systems (DSSNS ‘06), April 2006, Columbia, Maryland, USA
  • Subarrao Wunnava, Garth V. Crosby, and Ameet Kapasi, “Adaptive Network Modeling Scheme”, Proceedings of the IEEE SoutheastCon, March 2001, Clemson, South Carolina, USA.

Manuscripts Currently Under Peer Review

  • Daniel Commey*, Bin Mai, Garth V. Crosby, “Power-System-Informed Cybersecurity Investment for Transmission-Grid Control Networks: A Stackelberg Framework with Exact Attacker Best Response,” IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, submitted April 23, 2026.
  • Yousef Alsenani, Daniel Commey*, Matilda Nkoom*, Sena G. Hounsinou, Rahul Mishra, Anis Elgabli and Garth V. Crosby, “PAVED: Privacy-Aware Validation-Gated Ensemble Distillation for Heterogeneous Federated Learning,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, submitted April, 2026.
  • Daniel Commey, Benjamin Appiah, Griffith S. Klogo, Winful Bagyl-Bac, James Gadze, Yousef Alsenani, Garth V. Crosby, “Performance Analysis and Deployment Considerations of Post-Quantum Cryptography for Consumer Electronics,” submitted to Scientific Reports on March 7, 2026.
  • Kamel Abbad*, Daniel Commey*, Sena Hounsinou, Lyes Khoukhi, and Garth V. Crosby, “TitanSec-NTRIP: A Lightweight Post-Quantum Framework for Securing Maritime Real-Time Kinematic Navigation,” IEEE Networking Letters, submitted December 7, 2025.

arXiv Preprints

  • Daniel Commey, Matilda Nkoom, Yousef Alsenani, Sena G. Hounsinou, Garth V. Crosby, “FedGraph-VASP: Privacy-Preserving Federated Graph Learning with Post-Quantum Security for Cross-Institutional Anti-Money Laundering,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.17935, 2026.
  • Daniel Commey, Rebecca A. Sarpong, Griffith S. Klogo, Winful Bagyl-Bac, Garth V. Crosby, “A Bayesian Incentive Mechanism for Poison-Resilient Federated Learning,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.12439, 2025.
  • Daniel Commey, Benjamin Appiah, Griffith S. Klogo, Garth V. Crosby, “ZKP-FedEval: Verifiable and Privacy-Preserving Federated Evaluation using Zero-Knowledge Proofs,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.11649, 2025.
  • Daniel Commey, Benjamin Appiah, Griffith S. Klogo, Winful Bagyl-Bac, James D. Gadze, Yousef Alsenani, Garth V. Crosby, “Performance Analysis and Deployment Considerations of Post-Quantum Cryptography for Consumer Electronics,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.02239, 2025.
  • Daniel Commey, Sena Hounsinou, Garth V. Crosby, “Securing Health Data on the Blockchain: A Differential Privacy and Federated Learning Framework,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.11580, 2024.