Muhammad Asim

3.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
75 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Muhammad Asim is a scholar working on Computer Networks and Communications, Information Systems and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Muhammad Asim has authored 75 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 54 papers in Computer Networks and Communications, 26 papers in Information Systems and 14 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in Muhammad Asim's work include IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (26 papers), Network Security and Intrusion Detection (18 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (12 papers). Muhammad Asim is often cited by papers focused on IoT and Edge/Fog Computing (26 papers), Network Security and Intrusion Detection (18 papers) and Advanced Malware Detection Techniques (12 papers). Muhammad Asim collaborates with scholars based in Pakistan, United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates. Muhammad Asim's co-authors include Thar Baker, Noshina Tariq, Abdul Rehman Javed, Mirza Omer Beg, Hissam Tawfik, Farrukh Aslam Khan, Mohammed Al-Khafajiy, Rajkumar Buyya, Muhammad Adnan Tariq and Hala Mokhtar and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

In The Last Decade

Muhammad Asim

72 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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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.

A decentralized lightweight blockchain-based authentication mechanism for IoT systems

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Muhammad Asim Pakistan	27	1.5k	940	588	344	322	75	2.3k
Mian Ahmad Jan Pakistan	31	1.6k 1.1×	713 0.8×	650 1.1×	306 0.9×	685 2.1×	108	2.6k
Chan Yeob Yeun United Arab Emirates	29	953 0.6×	836 0.9×	778 1.3×	255 0.7×	312 1.0×	168	2.3k
Fazlullah Khan Pakistan	27	1.0k 0.7×	611 0.7×	480 0.8×	218 0.6×	467 1.5×	92	2.0k
Al‐Sakib Khan Pathan Bangladesh	23	1.3k 0.8×	546 0.6×	491 0.8×	268 0.8×	538 1.7×	186	2.1k
Ola Salman Lebanon	21	1.3k 0.8×	607 0.6×	660 1.1×	381 1.1×	512 1.6×	62	2.3k
S. Smys India	26	936 0.6×	471 0.5×	554 0.9×	234 0.7×	476 1.5×	97	2.0k
Abdulhameed Alelaiwi Saudi Arabia	29	1.6k 1.0×	972 1.0×	889 1.5×	202 0.6×	677 2.1×	84	3.0k
Md. Arafatur Rahman Malaysia	23	918 0.6×	462 0.5×	440 0.7×	220 0.6×	454 1.4×	127	1.9k
Muhammad Bilal South Korea	33	1.7k 1.1×	866 0.9×	714 1.2×	161 0.5×	840 2.6×	197	3.3k
Roobaea Alroobaea Saudi Arabia	27	666 0.4×	508 0.5×	661 1.1×	232 0.7×	304 0.9×	194	2.3k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Muhammad Asim

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Asim, Muhammad, et al.. (2025). Integrating system calls and position-specific scoring for enhanced anomaly detection in Internet of Things environments. Computers & Security. 158. 104613–104613.

Asim, Muhammad, et al.. (2025). SecT: A Zero-Trust Framework for Secure Remote Access in Next-Generation Industrial Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 43(6). 2293–2311.

Javed, Abdul Rehman, et al.. (2024). DivaCAN: Detecting in-vehicle intrusion attacks on a controller area network using ensemble learning. Computers & Security. 139. 103712–103712. 25 indexed citations

Iram, Shamaila, et al.. (2024). Intelligent framework of sustainable cyber-physical services for autonomous manufacturing industries. Service Oriented Computing and Applications. 19(4). 291–311. 1 indexed citations

Hanif, Muhammad, Ahmed E. Radwan, Chuanxiu Luo, et al.. (2023). Depositional and diagenetic modeling of the Margala Hill Limestone, Hazara area (Pakistan): Implications for reservoir characterization using outcrop analogues. Geoenergy Science and Engineering. 224. 211584–211584. 18 indexed citations

Tariq, Noshina, et al.. (2023). Securing Smart Healthcare Cyber-Physical Systems against Blackhole and Greyhole Attacks Using a Blockchain-Enabled Gini Index Framework. Sensors. 23(23). 9372–9372. 13 indexed citations

Asim, Muhammad, et al.. (2023). Efficient Approach for Anomaly Detection in IoT Using System Calls. Sensors. 23(2). 652–652. 7 indexed citations

Javed, Abdul Rehman, et al.. (2023). Toward explainable AI-empowered cognitive health assessment. Frontiers in Public Health. 11. 1024195–1024195. 19 indexed citations

Asim, Muhammad, et al.. (2023). Isolated bubble ascent in a non-Newtonian media inside an infinite bubble column: a CFD study. Brazilian Journal of Chemical Engineering. 41(4). 1127–1138. 1 indexed citations

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Farooq, Umer, Muhammad Asim, Noshina Tariq, Thar Baker, & Ali Ismail Awad. (2022). Multi-Mobile Agent Trust Framework for Mitigating Internal Attacks and Augmenting RPL Security. Sensors. 22(12). 4539–4539. 12 indexed citations

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Farooq, Umer, Noshina Tariq, Muhammad Asim, Thar Baker, & A. I. Al-Shamma’a. (2022). Machine learning and the Internet of Things security: Solutions and open challenges. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 162. 89–104. 42 indexed citations

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Tariq, Noshina, et al.. (2020). A Blockchain-Based Multi-Mobile Code-Driven Trust Mechanism for Detecting Internal Attacks in Internet of Things. Sensors. 21(1). 23–23. 44 indexed citations

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Javed, Abdul Rehman, Mirza Omer Beg, Muhammad Asim, Thar Baker, & Ali H. Al‐Bayatti. (2020). AlphaLogger: detecting motion-based side-channel attack using smartphone keystrokes. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing. 14(5). 4869–4882. 79 indexed citations

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Asim, Muhammad, et al.. (2019). A Mechanism for Securing IoT-enabled Applications at the Fog Layer. Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks. 8(1). 16–16. 83 indexed citations

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Tariq, Noshina, Muhammad Asim, Feras Al‐Obeidat, et al.. (2019). The Security of Big Data in Fog-Enabled IoT Applications Including Blockchain: A Survey. Sensors. 19(8). 1788–1788. 188 indexed citations

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Aldawsari, Bandar, Thar Baker, Muhammad Asim, et al.. (2018). A Survey of Resource Management Challenges in Multi-cloud Environment: Taxonomy and Empirical Analysis. Liverpool John Moores University. 1(1). 51–65. 3 indexed citations

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Asim, Muhammad, et al.. (2013). Urdu in anglicized world: A corpus based study. 4(4). 135–141. 3 indexed citations

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Zhou, Bo, David Llewellyn‐Jones, Qi Shi, Muhammad Asim, & M. Merabti. (2013). Prototype for design-time secure and trustworthy service composition. 847–848. 1 indexed citations

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Asim, Muhammad, et al.. (2011). A corpus based study of discourse markers in British and Pakistani speech. PUB – Publications at Bielefeld University (Bielefeld University). 5 indexed citations

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Asim, Muhammad, et al.. (2010). Quality function deployment of cement industry in Pakistan. 2095–2099. 1 indexed citations

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