Insaf Ullah

2.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
76 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Insaf Ullah is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Artificial Intelligence and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Insaf Ullah has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 43 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 28 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Insaf Ullah's work include Cryptography and Data Security (40 papers), Advanced Authentication Protocols Security (29 papers) and UAV Applications and Optimization (17 papers). Insaf Ullah is often cited by papers focused on Cryptography and Data Security (40 papers), Advanced Authentication Protocols Security (29 papers) and UAV Applications and Optimization (17 papers). Insaf Ullah collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and China. Insaf Ullah's co-authors include Muhammad Asghar Khan, Fazal Noor, Mohammed H. Alsharif, Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan, Hizbullah Khattak, Noor Ul Amin, Neeraj Kumar, M. Irfan Uddin, Ijaz Mansoor Qureshi and Sajjad ur Rehman and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Access, Sensors and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology.

In The Last Decade

Insaf Ullah

69 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Towards the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs): A Comprehensive Review

2022 475 citations Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan, Muhammad Asghar Khan et al. Drones profile →
Swarm of UAVs for Network Management in 6G: A Technical Review

2022 146 citations Muhammad Asghar Khan, Neeraj Kumar et al. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management profile →

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Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Insaf Ullah Pakistan	23	818	575	542	470	398	76	1.8k
Ammar Muthanna Russia	26	1.2k 1.5×	243 0.4×	327 0.6×	461 1.0×	771 1.9×	165	2.1k
Basit Qureshi Saudi Arabia	22	523 0.6×	241 0.4×	363 0.7×	268 0.6×	334 0.8×	74	1.4k
Jun Du China	28	1.7k 2.0×	874 1.5×	539 1.0×	379 0.8×	1.1k 2.7×	130	2.9k
Chuan Lin China	26	962 1.2×	333 0.6×	261 0.5×	208 0.4×	553 1.4×	101	1.9k
Ismail Ahmedy Malaysia	26	1.1k 1.4×	297 0.5×	284 0.5×	246 0.5×	908 2.3×	87	2.1k
Fazal Noor Saudi Arabia	13	375 0.5×	423 0.7×	239 0.4×	202 0.4×	249 0.6×	49	1.2k
Agbotiname Lucky Imoize Nigeria	24	528 0.6×	262 0.5×	316 0.6×	189 0.4×	957 2.4×	175	2.1k
Yun Li China	24	1.6k 1.9×	225 0.4×	433 0.8×	423 0.9×	1.1k 2.8×	155	2.5k
Ola Salman Lebanon	21	1.3k 1.5×	296 0.5×	660 1.2×	607 1.3×	512 1.3×	62	2.3k
Jean-Paul A. Yaacoub France	9	527 0.6×	274 0.5×	300 0.6×	363 0.8×	278 0.7×	14	1.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Insaf Ullah

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Khan, Muhammad Asghar, Insaf Ullah, Neeraj Kumar, et al.. (2025). An Improvised Certificate-Based Proxy Signature Using Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography for Secure UAV Communications. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 26(4). 5264–5275. 2 indexed citations

Khan, Muhammad Asghar, et al.. (2024). Future-Proofing Security for UAVs With Post-Quantum Cryptography: A Review. IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society. 5. 6849–6871. 18 indexed citations

Khan, Muhammad Asghar, et al.. (2024). A Certificate-Based Ring Signcryption Scheme for Securing UAV-Enabled Private Edge Computing Systems. IEEE Access. 12. 83466–83479. 5 indexed citations

Khan, Muhammad Asghar, Neeraj Kumar, Saeed Hamood Alsamhi, et al.. (2024). Security and Privacy Issues and Solutions for UAVs in B5G Networks: A Review. IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management. 22(1). 892–912. 10 indexed citations

Khan, Muhammad Asghar, Hosam Alhakami, Insaf Ullah, et al.. (2023). A Resource-Friendly Certificateless Proxy Signcryption Scheme for Drones in Networks beyond 5G. Drones. 7(5). 321–321. 1 indexed citations

Ullah, Insaf, et al.. (2023). Enabling Secure Communication in Wireless Body Area Networks with Heterogeneous Authentication Scheme. Sensors. 23(3). 1121–1121. 10 indexed citations

Ullah, Insaf, Abdullah Alomari, Neeraj Kumar, et al.. (2022). Certificate-Based Signcryption Scheme for Securing Wireless Communication in Industrial Internet of Things. IEEE Access. 10. 105182–105194. 11 indexed citations

Ullah, Insaf, Ali Alkhalifah, Maha M. Althobaiti, et al.. (2022). Certificate‐Based Signature Scheme for Industrial Internet of Things Using Hyperelliptic Curve Cryptography. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2022(1). 4 indexed citations

Ullah, Insaf, Muhammad Asghar Khan, Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan, et al.. (2022). A Conditional Privacy Preserving Generalized Ring Signcryption Scheme for Micro Aerial Vehicles. Micromachines. 13(11). 1926–1926. 3 indexed citations

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Ullah, Insaf, et al.. (2022). An Efficient Multidocument Blind Signcryption Scheme for Smart Grid‐Enabled Industrial Internet of Things. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2022(1). 5 indexed citations

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Khan, Muhammad Asghar, Habib Shah, Sajjad ur Rehman, et al.. (2021). Securing Internet of Drones With Identity-Based Proxy Signcryption. IEEE Access. 9. 89133–89142. 34 indexed citations

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Ullah, Insaf, Ali Alkhalifah, Sajjad ur Rehman, Neeraj Kumar, & Muhammad Asghar Khan. (2021). An Anonymous Certificateless Signcryption Scheme for Internet of Health Things. IEEE Access. 9. 101207–101216. 13 indexed citations

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Azam, Muhammad, et al.. (2021). A Review of Big Data Resource Management: Using Smart Grid Systems as a Case Study. Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing. 2021(1). 11 indexed citations

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Ullah, Insaf, Ali Alkhalifah, Muhammad Asghar Khan, & Samih M. Mostafa. (2021). Cost-Effective Proxy Signcryption Scheme for Internet of Things. Mobile Information Systems. 2021. 1–10. 2 indexed citations

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Khan, Muhammad Asghar, Insaf Ullah, Ali Alkhalifah, et al.. (2021). A Provable and Privacy-Preserving Authentication Scheme for UAV-Enabled Intelligent Transportation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics. 18(5). 3416–3425. 83 indexed citations

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Khan, Muhammad Asghar, Fahad Algarni, Yihong Zhang, et al.. (2021). Computer Vision-Based Wildfire Smoke Detection Using UAVs. Mathematical Problems in Engineering. 2021. 1–9. 11 indexed citations

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Noor, Fazal, Muhammad Asghar Khan, Ali Alzahrani, Insaf Ullah, & Kawther A. Al‐Dhlan. (2020). A Review on Communications Perspective of Flying Ad-Hoc Networks: Key Enabling Wireless Technologies, Applications, Challenges and Open Research Topics. Drones. 4(4). 65–65. 71 indexed citations

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Hussain, Saddam, Insaf Ullah, Hizbullah Khattak, et al.. (2020). A Lightweight and Formally Secure Certificate Based Signcryption With Proxy Re-Encryption (CBSRE) for Internet of Things Enabled Smart Grid. IEEE Access. 8. 93230–93248. 48 indexed citations

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Ullah, Syed Sajid, Insaf Ullah, Hizbullah Khattak, et al.. (2020). A Lightweight Identity-Based Signature Scheme for Mitigation of Content Poisoning Attack in Named Data Networking With Internet of Things. IEEE Access. 8. 98910–98928. 38 indexed citations

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Khan, Muhammad Asghar, Insaf Ullah, Shibli Nisar, et al.. (2020). An Efficient and Provably Secure Certificateless Key-Encapsulated Signcryption Scheme for Flying Ad-hoc Network. IEEE Access. 8. 36807–36828. 61 indexed citations

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