Journal Papers



  1. Akshay Madan, David Tipper, Balaji Palanisamy, Mai Abdelhakim, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Vinay Chamola ,“ BLE-based Sensors for Privacy-Enabled Contagious Disease Monitoring with Zero Trust Architecture,” Ad Hoc Networks, 2024.
  2. Leila Karimi, Maryam Aldairi, James Joshi, Mai Abdelhakim, “An Automatic Attribute Based Access Control Policy Extraction from Access Logs,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, , vol. 19, no. 4, pp. 2304-2317, IF (impact factor): 6.79, 1 July-Aug. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TDSC.2021.3054331.
  3. Faris Alotibi, Mai Abdelhakim, “Anomaly Detection for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control in Autonomous Vehicles using Statistical Learning and Kinematic Model,” IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 3468-3478, IF: 9.551, June 2021. doi: 10.1109/TITS.2020.2983392.
  4. Assem Abdelhakim, Hassan I. Saleh, Mai Abdelhakim, “Fragile Watermarking for Image Tamper Detection and Localization with Effective Recovery Capability using K-means Clustering,” Multimedia Tools and Applications, 78, pp. 32523–32563, Nov. 2019, IF: 2.577, doi: 10.1007/s11042-019-07986-3.
  5. Assem Abdelhakim, Mai Abdelhakim, “A Time-Efficient Optimization for Robust Image Watermarking using Machine Learning,” Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 100, pp. 197-219, IF. 8.665, 2018, doi: 10.1016/j.eswa.2018.02.002.
  6. Xin Liu, Mai Abdelhakim, Prashant Krishnamurthy, and David Tipper, “Identifying Malicious Nodes in Multihop IoT Networks using Dual Link Technologies and Unsupervised Learning,” Open Journal of Internet of Things (OJIoT), Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 109-125, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 109-125, urn:nbn:de:101:1-2018080519310495220214, 2018.
  7. Vladimir Zadorozhny, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Mai Abdelhakim, Konstantinos Pelechrinis, Jiawei Xu, “Data Credence in IoT: Vision and Challenges,” Open Journal of Internet of Things (OJIoT), Vol 3., No. 1, pp. 114-126, Special Issue: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Very Large Internet of Things (VLIoT), vol: 3, no. 1, pp. 114-126, 2017, urn:nbn:de:101:1-2017080613498
  8. Mai Abdelhakim, Yuan Liang, Tongtong Li, “Mobile Access Coordinated Wireless Sensor Networks – Design and Analysis,” IEEE Transactions on Signal and Information Processing over Networks, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 172-186, IF. 3.301, Mar 2017, doi:10.1109/TSIPN.2016.2601021.
  9. Mai Abdelhakim, Yuan Liang, Tongtong Li, “Mobile Coordinated Wireless Sensor Network: An Energy Efficient Scheme for Real-Time Transmissions,” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 34, no. 5, pp. 1663-1675, IF. 13.081, May 2016, doi: 10.1109/JSAC.2016.2545383.
  10. Ahmed Alahmadi, Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Defense Against Primary User Emulation Attacks in Cognitive Radio Networks Using Advanced Encryption Standard,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 772-781, IF. 7.231, May 2014, doi: 10.1109/TIFS.2014.2310355.
  11. Tongtong Li, Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, “N-Hop Networks: A General Framework for Wireless Systems,” IEEE Wireless Communications, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 98-105, IF. 12.777, Apr. 2014, doi: 10.1109/MWC.2014.6812297.
  12. Mai Abdelhakim, Leonard Lightfoot, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Distributed Detection in Mobile Access Wireless Sensor Networks under Byzantine Attacks,” IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 25, no. 4, pp. 950-959, IF. 3.757, Apr. 2014, doi: 10.1109/TPDS.2013.74.
  13. Mai Abdelhakim, Mohammed Nafie, Ahmed Shalash, and Ayman Y. Elezabi, “Adaptive Bit Loading and Puncturing using Long Single Codewords in OFDM Systems,” Wireless Personal Communications Journal, vol. 71, pp. 1557-1576, IF. 2.017, Jul. 2013, doi: 10.1007/s11277-012-0892-z.


Refereed Conference Papers



  1. Quincy Bayer, Robert Esswein, Samuel Mergendahl, Jonathan Ruffley, Mai Abdelhakim, Robert Cunningham, “TAU: Trust via Asynchronous Updates for Satellite Network Resiliency,” International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, ACNS, Munich, Germany, Jun. 2025.
  2. Robert Esswein, Quincy Bayer, Samuel Mergendahl, Jonathan Ruffley, Mai Abdelhakim, Robert Cunningham, “Scalability of LEO Satellite Constellations with Static and Dynamic Topologies,” International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC), Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, Feb. 2025
  3. Sabrina Nguyen , Juan Bazerque, Mai Abdelhakim, Robert Kerestes, “Placement of Utility Scale Battery Storage and Solar on Rural Distribution Systems,” 2025 IEEE PES Grid Edge Technologies Conference & Exposition, January 21 - 23 2025, San Diego, CA, USA, 2025.
  4. Ashley Ajuz, Mai Abdelhakim, “Unsupervised Approach for Electricity Theft Detection Combining Recurrent Neural Networks and Rule-Based Policy,” IEEE International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Intelligent Systems, and Applications (IEEE TPS), Washington D.C., 2024.
  5. Liou Tang, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Mai Abdelhakim, “Is Machine Learning the Best Option for Network Routing?,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Denver, CO, USA, 2024.
  6. Mai Abdelhakim, Samuel Dickerson, “Accessible Cybersecurity Education for Engineering Students,” American Society for Engineering Education, ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2023.
  7. Akshay Madan, David Tipper, Balaji Palanisamy, Mai Abdelhakim, Prashant Krishnamurthy, “A Beacon-based Approach to Digital Contact Tracing for COVID-19,” IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad Hoc and Smart Systems (MASS), Denver, CO, USA pp. 236-242, 2022, doi: 10.1109/MASS56207.2022.00038.
  8. Sabrina Nguyen, Eli Brock, Patrick Connor, Elizabeth Cook, Mai Abdelhakim, Robert Kerestes, “Integrating Distributed Devices onto Rural Circuits,” IEEE Rural Electric Power Conference (REPC), Savannah, GA, USA, pp. 18-24, 2022, doi: 10.1109/REPEC55671.2022.00012.
  9. Eli Brock, Lauren Bruckstein, Patrick Connor, Sabrina Nguyen, Robert Kerestes, Mai Abdelhakim “An application of reinforcement learning to residential energy storage under real-time pricing,” IEEE PES International Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (IEEE PES ISGT-Asia), Brisbane, Australia, pp. 1-5, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ISGTAsia49270.2021.9715712.
  10. Sabrina Nguyen, Mai Abdelhakim, Robert Kerestes, “Survey Paper of Digital Twins and their Integration in Power Systems” IEEE Power & Energy Society (PES) General Meeting, (PESGM), Washington, DC, USA, pp. 01-05, 2021, doi: 10.1109/PESGM46819.2021.9638011.
  11. Nuray Akhuseyinoglu, Maryam Karimi, Mai Abdelhakim, Prashant Krishnamurthy, “On Automated Trust Computation in IoT with Multiple Attributes and Subjective Logic,” IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN’20), Sydney, NSW, Australia, pp. 267-278, 2020. doi: 10.1109/LCN48667.2020.9314808.
  12. Faris Alotibi, Mai Abdelhakim, “Anomaly Detection in Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control using Physics Laws and Data Fusion,” IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC’19), Honolulu, HI, USA, pp. 1-7, 2019, doi: 10.1109/VTCFall.2019.8891165.
  13. Xin Liu, Mai Abdelhakim, Prashant Krishnamurthy, David Tipper, “Identifying Malicious Nodes in Multihop IoT Networks using Diversity and Unsupervised Learning”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’18), Kansas City, MO, USA, pp. 1-6, 2018, doi: 10.1109/ICC.2018.8422484.
  14. Mai Abdelhakim, Xin Liu, Prashant Krishnamurthy, “Diversity for Detecting Routing Attacks in Multihop Networks”, International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC’18), Maui, HI, USA, pp. 712-717, 2018, doi: 10.1109/ICCNC.2018.8390382.
  15. Mai Abdelhakim, Leonard Lightfoot, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Reliable Communications over Multihop Networks Under Routing Attacks,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’15), Dec. 2015. San Diego, CA, USA, 2015, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2015.7417404.
  16. Mai Abdelhakim, Zhaoxi Fang, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Hybrid Mobile Access Coordinated Wireless Sensor Networks — Design and Analysis,” IEEE China Summit and International Conference on Signal and Information Processing (ChinaSIP’15), Chengdu, China, pp. 453-457, , 2015, doi: 10.1109/ChinaSIP.2015.7230443, invited paper.
  17. Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Throughput Analysis and Routing Security Discussions of Mobile Access Coordinated Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’14), Austin, TX, USA, pp. 4616-4621, 2014, doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2014.7037536.
  18. Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Mobile Access Coordinated Wireless Sensor Networks – Topology Design and Throughput Analysis,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’13), Atlanta, GA, USA, pp. 4627-4632, 2013, doi: 10.1109/GLOCOMW.2013.6855681.
  19. Ahmed Alahmadi, Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Mitigating Primary User Emulation Attacks in Cognitive Radio Networks Using Advanced Encryption Standard,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’13), Atlanta, GA, USA, pp. 3229-3234, Dec. 2013, doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2013.6831569.
  20. Mai Abdelhakim, Leonard Lightfoot, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Architecture Design of Mobile Access Coordinated Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’13), Budapest, Hungary, pp. 1720-1724, Jun. 2013, doi: 10.1109/ICC.2013.6654766.
  21. Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Reliable OFDM System Design under Hostile Multi-tone Jamming,” IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’12), Anaheim, CA, USA, pp. 4290-4295, Dec. 2012, doi: 10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6503792.
  22. Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Reliable Cooperative Sensing in Cognitive Networks,” International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications (WASA’12), invited paper, vol 7405, Aug. 2012, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-31869-6_18.
  23. Mai Abdelhakim, Leonard Lightfoot, Tongtong Li, “Reliable Data Fusion in Wireless Sensor Networks Under Byzantine Attacks,” IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM’11), Baltimore, MD, USA, pp. 810-815, Nov. 2011, doi: 10.1109/MILCOM.2011.6127777.
  24. Mai Abdelhakim, Lei Zhang, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Cooperative Sensing in Cognitive Networks under Malicious Attack,” IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP’11), Prague, Czech Republic, pp. 3004-3007, May 2011, doi: 10.1109/ICASSP.2011.59462
  25. Mai Abdelhakim, Mohammed Nafie, Ahmed Shalash, and Ayman Y. Elezabi, “Adaptive Puncturing for coded OFDMA systems,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’09), Dresden, pp. 1-5, Jun. 2009, doi: 10.1109/ICC.2009.5198706.
  26. Mai Abdelhakim, Mohammed Nafie, Ahmed Shalash, and Ayman Y. Elezabi, “Adaptive Puncturing and Rate Selection in Single-Codeword Turbo-Coded OFDMA,” IEEE Mobile WiMAX Symposium (MWS’09), Napa Valley, CA, 2009, pp. 174-179, Jul. 2009, doi: 10.1109/MWS.2009.31.


Peer-Reviewed Posters



  1. Robert Esswein, Sean O’Melia, Richard Skowyra, Mai Abdelhakim, Robert Cunningham, “Resiliency in Low Earth Orbit Satellite Routing,” IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P Posters), May 2023.


Book Chapters



  1. Mostafa Bedewy, Mai Abdelhakim, Alex Jones, “Cybermanufacturing – recent technologies, promising paradigms and future challenges,” Advances in Manufacturing and Processing of Materials & Structures, CRC Press, Sept. 2018. 


Patents and Invention Disclosures



  1. Sergio Bermudez, Yang Li, Mai Abdelhakim, “Occupancy Estimation Using Nonparametric Online Change-Point Detection, and Apparatuses, Systems, and Software for Same”, US Patent, 10605905, Mar. 2020.
  2. Mai Abdelhakim, Christian Breuer, Sergio Bermudez, “Methods and Systems for Authenticating a Device to a Wireless Network,” US Patent application, US20180310176A1, Oct. 2018.
  3. Ahmed Alahmadi, Mai Abdelhakim, Jian Ren, Tongtong Li, “Method for Defense Against Primary User Emulation Attacks in Cognitive Radio Networks Using Advanced Encryption,” US Patent US9608803, Mar. 28, 2017.