Dr Abdul Nasir Khan

Professor

Area of Interest: Network Security

Email: [email protected]

HEC Approved PhD Supervisor

Academics / Degrees

Doctor of Philosophy University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia Major:
Network Security 2014

Master of Sciences (CGPA 3.8/4.0)
COMSATS
Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad Major: Computer Science 2008.

Master of Computer Science (CGPA 3.1/4.0) COMSATS Institute of Information Technology,
Abbottabad Major:Computer Science 2005.

Master of Sciences (1st
Division) University
of Peshawar Major: Computer Science 2003.

Profile / Bio

S#	Post	Start Date	End Date	Organization
1	Programmer (Internship)	18 September, 2005	18 December, 2005	Eycon Solution (Software House)
2	Programmer (Internship)	10 May, 2006	31 August, 2006	COMSATS IT Center (Software House)
3	Lecturer (Visiting)	1^st Jan, 2007	29 Feb, 2008	Government Post Graduate Collage Mandian, Abbottabad
4	Lecturer (Visiting)	Feb. 2008	Sept. 2008	COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus
5	Lecturer (Permanent)	Oct. 2008	Jun. 2014	COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus
6	Assistant Professor (TTS)	Jul. 2014	April 2022	COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus
7	Tenured Associate Professor	Aril 2022	Till Date	COMSATS University Islamabad, Abbottabad Campus

Research Interests

Cloud Computing
Fog
Computing
Mobile
Cloud Computing
IoTs
Network
Security

Awards

Ø Won the scholarship
for MS(CS) from COMSATS, Abbottabad.

Ø Won the scholarship
for Phd from Bright Spark Unit of University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia.

Ø Won the Best
Paper Award in PGReS, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Students Supervised

#	Student Name	Thesis Title	MS/PhD	Supervisor / Co-Supervisor	Status with date: Registered/Completed
1	Faiza Aurang Zeb	Privacy Aware and Interoperable Patient Data Storage and Searching using Blockchain	MS	Supervisor	Completed
2	Imtiaz Ali Shah	Machine Learning Based Malware Detection in Internet of Battlefield Thing (IoBT)	MS	Supervisor	Completed
3	Maham Nasir	Reversible Date Hiding Based on Linear Prediction and Bit-Plane Slicing	MS	Co-Supervisor	Completed
4	Bushra Mohsin	Automated security audit and assessment of fog network	MS	Co-Supervisor	Completed
5	Muhammad Faisal Aziz	Lightweight and Compromise-Resilient Authentication Protocol for IoT	MS	Supervisor	Completed
6	Adil Adeel	Lightweight Authentication Schemes for IoTs	MS	Co-Supervisor	Completed
7	Shad Mohammad	Bots Detection in Social Media	MS	Co-Supervisor	Completed
8	Tauqeer Khalid	A Fog-based Security Framework for Intelligent Traffic Light Control System	MS	Supervisor	Completed
9	Anum Khurshid	Device Oriented Security to Assist Information Flow Control Systems in the Cloud Environment	MS	Supervisor	Completed
10	Muhammad Abrar Khan	A Service Discovery and Forwarding Architecture in Fog computing	MS	Supervisor	Completed

Journal Publications

1.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a> BloomSec: Scalable and privacy-preserving searchable encryption for cloud environments, PLOS One, 2025
2.	Arslan Shafique,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a> Enhancing privacy in data transmission between IoT devices: A robust encryption and embedding framework for secure and meaningful image communication, Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2025
3.	Abid Mehmood,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a> Enhanced lightweight and compromised-resilient image encryption for resource constrained environments, PLOS One, 2025
4.	Abid Mehmood,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,Arslan Shafique,Junaid Shuja,Moatsum Alawida Lightweight Image Encryption Scheme for IoT Environment and Machine Learning-Driven Robust S-box Selection, Telecommunication Systems, 2025
5.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=451" title="Dr. Iftikhar Khan">I.A.Khan</a>,Abid Mehmood,Muhammad Nasir Mumtaz Bhutta,Atta ur Rehman Khan An efficient and compromise-resilient image encryption scheme for resource-constrained environments, PLOS ONE, 2024
6.	Sana Nasim Karam, Junaid Shuja,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=526" title="Dr. Kashif Bilal">K.Bilal</a>,Said Jadid Abdulkadir Energy-efficient routing protocol for reliable low-latency Internet of Things in oil and gas pipeline monitoring, PEERJ, 2024
7.	ABID MEHMOOD,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,ARSLAN SHAFIQUE,MOATSUM ALAWIDA Advances and Vulnerabilities in Modern Cryptographic Techniques: A Comprehensive Survey on Cybersecurity in the Domain of Machine/Deep Learning and Quantum Techniques, IEEE Access, 2024
8.	Ibrar Hussain,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=451" title="Dr. Iftikhar Khan">I.A.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=506" title="Dr. Waqas Jadoon">W.Jadoon</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=1785" title="Dr. Rab Nawaz Jadoon">RN Jadoon</a>,Muhammad Shafi Touch or click friendly: Towards adaptive user interfaces for complex applications, PLOS ONE, 2024
9.	Abid Mehmood,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,Arslan Shafique A time-efficient and noise-resistant cryptosystem based on discrete wavelet transform and chaos theory: An application in image encryption, Journal of Information Security and Applications, 2023
10.	Imtiaz Ali Shah, Abid Mehmood,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,Mourad Elhadef,Atta ur Rehman Khan HeuCrip: A malware detection approach for internet of battlefield things, Cluster Computing, 2023
11.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=5831" title="Dr. Ehzaz Mustafa">E. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,Ali Imran Jehangiri,Sadia Din Joint wireless power transfer and task offloading in mobile edge computing: a survey, Cluster Computing, 2022
12.	Arslan Shafique,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,Abid Mehmood,Moatsum Alawida,Atta Ur Rehman Khan A novel machine learning technique for selecting suitable image encryption algorithms for IoT applications, Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2022
13.	Adil Adeel,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=646" title="Dr. Mazhar Ali">Dr. Mazhar Ali</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=37" title="Dr. Faisal Rehman">F. Rehman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,Tauqeer Khalid,Yaser Jararweh A multi-attack resilient lightweight IoT authenticationscheme, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2022
14.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=212" title="Dr Fiaz Gul Khan">F.G Khan</a> A lightweight and compromise‐resilient authentication scheme for IoTs, Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2022
15.	T. Khalid,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=531" title="Dr. Mudassar Aslam">Mudassar Aslam</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=646" title="Dr. Mazhar Ali">Dr. Mazhar Ali</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=750" title="Dr. Raja Wasim Ahmad">R.Wasim</a>,MAK Abbassi,M Zuraiz,JJPC Rodrigues A survey on privacy and access control schemes in fog computing, International Journal of Communication Systems, 2021
16.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=599" title="Dr. Muhammad Amir Khan ">Muhammad Amir Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=451" title="Dr. Iftikhar Khan">I.A.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=463" title="Ahmad Din">Ahmad Din</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=506" title="Dr. Waqas Jadoon">W.Jadoon</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=428" title="Rab Nawaz Jadoon">R.Jadoon</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=212" title="Dr Fiaz Gul Khan">F.G Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,Usman Ali Khan Towards a Complete Set of Gym Exercises Detection Using Smartphone Sensors, Scientific Programming, 2020
17.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=451" title="Dr. Iftikhar Khan">I.A.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a> Resource-based direct manipulation: a user-centric visual interface for operational customization of future smart appliances, Telecommunication Systems, 2020
18.	T. Khalid,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=646" title="Dr. Mazhar Ali">Dr. Mazhar Ali</a>,A. Adeel,A. R. Khan,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a> A fog-based security framework for intelligent traffic light control system, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2019
19.	Anum Khurshid,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=212" title="Dr Fiaz Gul Khan">F.G Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=646" title="Dr. Mazhar Ali">Dr. Mazhar Ali</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,Atta Ur Rehman Khan Secure‐CamFlow: A device‐oriented security model to assist information flow control systems in cloud environments for IoTs, Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, 2019
20.	Daniyal Sakhawat,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=531" title="Dr. Mudassar Aslam">Mudassar Aslam</a>,Anthony T Chronopoulos Agent-based ARP Cache Poisoning Detection (AACPD) in Switched LAN Environments, IET Networks Journal, 2018
21.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=646" title="Dr. Mazhar Ali">Dr. Mazhar Ali</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=212" title="Dr Fiaz Gul Khan">F.G Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=451" title="Dr. Iftikhar Khan">I.A.Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=506" title="Dr. Waqas Jadoon">W.Jadoon</a> A comparative study and workload distribution model for re‐encryption schemes in a mobile cloud computing environment , Journal of Communication Systems, Wiley, 2017, 2017
22.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=39" title="Dr. Junaid Shuja">J.Shujah</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a> Computation offloading Cost Estimation in Mobile Cloud Application Models, Wireless Personal Communication, Springer, 2017, 2017
23.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=212" title="Dr Fiaz Gul Khan">F.G Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a> Introducing ToPe-FFT; an OpenCL based FFT Library targeting GPUs, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience by wiley, 2017
24.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=475" title="Dr. Atta ur Rehman Khan">A. R. Khan</a>,S. R. Malik,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=34" title="Dr. Tahir Maqsood">T. Maqsood</a>,S. A. Madani Performance analysis and formal verification of task scheduling heuristics for makespan optimization and workflow distribution in Large-scale Computing Systems, Computer Systems Science & Engineering, 2017
25.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=212" title="Dr Fiaz Gul Khan">F.G Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=506" title="Dr. Waqas Jadoon">W.Jadoon</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=451" title="Dr. Iftikhar Khan">I.A.Khan</a> An optimized magnetostatic field solver on GPU using open computing language, Concurrency and Computation practice and experience, 2017
26.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=212" title="Dr Fiaz Gul Khan">F.G Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a> A Comparison of Proxy Re-Encryption Schemes – A Survey, International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS), 2016
27.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,MLM Kiah,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=646" title="Dr. Mazhar Ali">Dr. Mazhar Ali</a>,S. Shamshir,A. R. Khan A Cloud-Manager-Based Re-Encryption Scheme for Mobile Users in Cloud Environment: a Hybrid Approach, Journal of Grid Computing, 2015
28.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=475" title="Dr. Atta ur Rehman Khan">A. R. Khan</a>,Mazliza Othman,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,S. A. Abid,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=33" title="Dr. Sajad A. Madani">S.Madani</a> MobiByte: An Application Development Model for Mobile Cloud Computing, Journal of Grid Computing , 2015
29.	Feng Xia,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,Mazliza Othman Context-Aware Mobile Cloud Computing & Its Challenges, IEEE Cloud Computing, 2015
30.	Nor Badrul Anuar,M. L. Mat Kiah, Vala Ali Rohania,Dalibor Petkovicb,Sanjay Misrac,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,Shahaboddin Shamshirband Co-FAIS: Cooperative fuzzy artificial immune system for detecting intrusion in wireless sensor networks, Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Tier 1), 2014
31.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,M. L. Mat Kiah,Mazhar Ali,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=33" title="Dr. Sajad A. Madani">S.Madani</a>,Atta ur Rehman Khan,Shahaboddin Shamshirband Incremental Proxy Re-encryption Scheme for Mobile Cloud Computing Environment, Journal of Supercomputing (Tier 2), 2014
32.	Dr. Atta UR Rehman,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=646" title="Dr. Mazhar Ali">Dr. Mazhar Ali</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a> Pirax: framework for application piracy control in mobile cloud environment, Journal of Super Computing, 2014
33.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,Samee U. Khan, M.L. Mat Kiah,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=33" title="Dr. Sajad A. Madani">S.Madani</a> Towards secure mobile cloud computing: A survey, Future Generation Computer Systems (Tier 1), 2013
34.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=27" title="Mr. Sumair Khan">S.Khan</a>,Kalim Qureshi An Intelligent Approach of Sniffer Detection, The International Arab Journal of Information Technology (Tier 4), 2012
35.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=27" title="Mr. Sumair Khan">S.Khan</a>,Kalim Qureshi Enhanced Switched Network Sniffer Detection Technique Based on IP Packet Routing, Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective, 2009

Conference Publications

1.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=475" title="Dr. Atta ur Rehman Khan">A. R. Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=35" title="Dr. Saad Mustafa">S. Mustafa</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=682" title="Dr. Sardar Khaliq uz Zaman">S.K.Zaman</a> Impact of Mobility on Energy and Performance of Clustering-Based Power-Controlled Routing Protocols, , 2015
2.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=475" title="Dr. Atta ur Rehman Khan">A. R. Khan</a> A study of incremental cryptography for security schemes in mobile cloud computing, environments, , 2014
3.	S.M.H Shah,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=526" title="Dr. Kashif Bilal">K.Bilal</a>,<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,A. U. Rehman TCP Congestion Control: a Hybrid Approach, , 2007

Books and Book Chapters

1.	<a href="MemberDetails.aspx?memberID=504" title="Dr. Abdul Nasir Khan">N Khan</a>,Atta ur Rehman Khan High Performance Computing on Mobile Devices, , 2016

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