Selected Publications

Guest Editorials and Journal’s Special Issues

SI-1.     Chai, Z. Y., Shah, S. A., Draheim, D., Hameed, S., & Rathore, M. M. U. (2024)."Guest Editorial: Smart cities 2.0: How Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things are transforming urban living." IET Smart Cities, 6.3, pp: 129-131, 2024.

Journal Papers:

  1.  M. M. U. Rathore, E. Bentafat and S. Bakiras, "Towards a Scalable and Privacy-Preserving Audio Surveillance System," in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, vol. 33, pp. 186-198, 2025.
  2. M Mazhar Rathore, Malik Junaid Gul, Anand Paul, Ashraf Ali Khan, Raja Wasim Ahmad, Joel Rodrigues, Spiros Bakiras, “Multilevel Graph-Based Decision Making in Big Scholarly Data: An Approach to Identify Expert Reviewer, Finding Quality Impact Factor, Ranking Journals and Researchers,” IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing, volume 9, no. 1, pages 280-292, 2021.
  3. M. Mazhar Rathore, Anand Paul, Awais Ahmad, Marco Anisetti, and Gwanggil Jeon, "Hadoop-Based Intelligent Care System (HICS): Analytical approach for big data in IoT," ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (TOIT), volume  18, issue 1, pages 8, 2017.
  4. Ahmad, Awais, Anand Paul, Muard Khan, Sohail Jabbar, M. Mazhar Rathore, Naveen Chilamkurti, and Nasro Min-Allah, "Energy Efficient Hierarchical Resource Management for Mobile Cloud Computing," IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, volume 2, issue 2, pages 100-112, 2017.
  5. Ahmad, Awais, Anand Paul, M Mazhar Rathore, and Hangbae Chang, "An Efficient Multidimensional Big Data Fusion Approach in Machine-to-Machine Communication," ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), volume15, issue 2, pages 39, 2016.
  6. Paul, Anand, Awais Ahmad, M. Mazhar Rathore, and Sohail Jabbar, "Smartbuddy: defining human behaviors using big data analytics in social internet of things," IEEE Wireless Communications, volume 23, issue 5,pages 68-74, 2016.
  7. Elmahdi  Bentafat, M. Mazhar Rathore, and Spiridon Bakiras, "Towards real-time privacy-preserving video surveillance," Computer Communications, volume 180, pages 97-108, 2021.
  8. Faisal Riaz, M. Mazhar Rathore, Adnan Sohail, Nadeem Ratyal, Samia Abid, Samina Khalid, Tehmina Shehryar, and Adil Waheed, "Emotion-controlled spectrum mobility scheme for efficient syntactic interoperability in cognitive radio-based unmanned vehicles." Computer Communications, volume 160, 2020.
  9. M. Mazhar Rathore, Awais Ahmad, Anand Paul, Suengmin Rho, “Urban Planning and Building Smart Cities based on the Internet of Things using Big Data Analytics,” Computer Networks, volume 101, pages 63-80, 2016.
  10. M. Mazhar Rathore,  et al., “Smart traffic control: Identifying driving-violations using fog devices with vehicular cameras in smart cities,” Sustainable Cities and Society, volume 71, page 102986, 2021.
  11. M. Mazhar Rathore, Awais Ahmad, Anand Paul, Won-Hwa Hong, HyunCheol Seo, “Exploiting IoT and Big Data Analytics: Defining Smart Digital City using Real-Time Urban Data,” Sustainable Cities and Society, volume 40, pages 600-610, 2018.
  12. Awais Ahmad, Muhammad Babar, Sadia Din, Shehzad Khalid, M Mazhar Rathore, Anand Paul, Alavalapati Goutham Reddy, Nasro Min-Allah, “Socio-cyber network: The potential of cyber-physical system to define human behaviors using big data analytics,” Future Generation Computer Systems, volume 92, pages 868-878, 2019.
  13. M. Mazhar Rathore, Anand Paul, Awais Ahmad, Won-Hwa Hong, HyunCheol Seo, “Real-Time Secure Communication for Smart City in High-Speed Big Data Environment,”  Future Generation Computer Systems, volume 83, pages 638-652, 2018.
  14. M Mazhar Rathore, Anand Paul, Awais Ahmed, Bo-Wei Chen, Bormin Huang, and Wen Ji, “Real-Time Big Data Analytical Architecture for Remote Sensing Application," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 8, issue 10, pages 4610-4621, 2015.
  15. M Mazhar U Rathore, “Threshold-based Generic scheme for Encrypted and Tunneled Voice Flows Detection over IP networks,” Journal of King Saud University - Computer and Information Sciences”, volume 27, issue 3, pages 305–314, 2015.

Conference Papers:

  1. M. Mazhar Rathore, Sushil Chaurasia, Dhirendra Shukla, Anand Paul, “Detection of Fraudulent Entities in Ethereum Crypto-Currency: A Boosting-based Machine Learning Approach,” IEEE Globecom 2023, KL, Malysia, December 2023.
  2. M. Mazhar Rathore, Sushil Chaurasia, Dhirendra Shukla. “Mixers Detection in bitcoin network: a step towards detecting money laundering in crypto-currencies,” 2022 IEEE International Conference on Big Data (IEEE BigData 2022), Osaka, Japan, December 2022.
  3. Elmahdi Bentafat, M Mazhar Rathore, Spiridon Bakiras, “Privacy-Preserving Traffic Flow Estimation for Road Networks,” IEEE Globecom 2020, Taiwan, 2020, pp 1-6.
  4. Elmahdi Bentafat, M Mazhar Rathore, Spiridon Bakiras, “A Practical System for Privacy-preserving Video Surveillance,” Springer, Cham: 18th International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security, Italy, Oct 2020, pp. 21-39.
  5. M. Mazhar Rathore, Elmahdi Bentafat, and Spiridon Bakiras, “Smart Home Security: A Distributed Identity-based Security Protocol for Authentication and Key Exchange,” The 28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Valencia, Spain, July 29 - August 1, 2019, pp. 1-9.
  6. M. Mazhar Rathore, Anand Paul, Awais Ahmad, Muhammad Imran, Mohsen Guizani, “Big Data Analytics of Geosocial Media for Planning and Real-Time Decision,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC), Paris, France, 21-25 May 2017.
  7. M. Mazhar Rathore, “Student Research Abstract: Distributed Smart Street LED Lights for Human Satisfaction in Smart City,” The 32nd ACM SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (ACM SAC), Marrakech, Morocco April 4-6, 2017.
  8. M. Mazhar Rathore, Anand Paul, Awais Ahmad, Muhammad Imran, Mohsen Guizani. “Hadoop Based Real-time Intrusion Detection for High-speed Networks, ” IEEE: GLOBECOM, December 2016, USA
  9. M. Mazhar Rathore, Anand Paul, Awais Ahmad, Muhammad Imran, Mohsen Guizani, “High-Speed Network Traffic Analysis: Detecting VoIP Calls in Secure Big Data Streaming”, IEEE: The 41st IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), November 7-10, 2016, Dubai, UAE.
  10. M. Mazhar Rathore, Awais Ahmad, and Anand Paul. "IoT-based smart city development using big data analytical approach," IEEE International Conference on Automatica (ICA-ACCA), Chile, Oct 2016, pp. 1-8.
  11. Sadia Din, M. Mazhar Rathore, Awais Ahmad, Anand Paul1, Murad Khan, “SDIoT: Software Defined Internet of Thing to Analyze Big Data in Smart Cities” 2017 IEEE 42nd Conference on Local Computer Networks Workshops (LCN Workshops), Singapore, 9 Oct. 2017, pp. 175-182.
  12. Awais Ahmad,  M. Mazhar Rathor, Anand Paul, Suengmin Rho. “Defining Human Behaviors using Big Data Analytics in Social Internet of Things,” IEEE: The 30th  International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), Le Régent Congress Centre, Crans-Montana, Switzerland, March, 2016.
  13. Awais Ahmad, M. Mazhar Rathore, Anand Paul, Seungmin Rho, Muhammad Imran, Mohsen Guizani, “A Multi-parameter Based Vertical Handover Decision scheme for M2M Communications in HetMANET,” IEEE: Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, CA, USA, pp. 1-8. December 2015.
  14. M. Mazhar Rathore, Awais Ahmad, Anand Paul, “IoT based Medical Emergency Management using Hadoop Ecosystem,” IEEE: SENSORS, Busan, South Korea, PP. 1-4, November 2015.

Book Chapters:

  1. M. Mazhar Rathore, Awais Ahmad, Anand Paul, Awais Ahmad,“Big Data Deep Analytics for Geosocial Networks,” IGI Global: Deep Learning Innovations and their Convergence with Big Data, pages 120-140, 2018.
  2. Anand Paul, Awais Ahmad, M. Mazhar Rathore,"Analytical Approach for Big Data in the Internet of Things." Chapman and Hall/CRC Press: The Human Element of Big Data, Chapter 3, pp: 61-74, 2016.
  3. M. Mazhar Rathore, Anand Paul, Awais Ahmad, “IoT and Big Data: Application for Urban Planning and Building Smart Cities”, IET: Managing the Internet of Things: architectures, theories and applications, Chapter 9, pp: 155-184, 2016.
  4. 4.       Sushil Chaurasia, M. Mazhar Rathore, Dhirendra Shukla. “Blockchain Adoption in Renewable Energy Communities (REC): A TOE-Sustainability Framework,” Nova Science Publishers: Blockchain Technology: Advances in Research and Applications, chapter 8, 2022.