Q-BlockAuth: blockchain-enabled quantum authentication scheme for secure communication in sixth-generation internet of nano medical things networks.

Rifaqat Ali

Neeraj Kumar 0001 Sunil Prajapat Pankaj Kumar 0006 Rifaqat Ali Q-BlockAuth: blockchain-enabled quantum authentication scheme for secure communication in sixth-generation internet of nano medical things networks. 74 2026 February 29 Clust. Comput. 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-025-05866-0 db/journals/cluster/cluster29.html#KumarPKA26 streams/journals/cluster

Sourav Rifaqat Ali LAPQ-BDTH: Lightweight Authentication for Postquantum Secure Blockchain in Digital Twin Healthcare. 1144-1151 2026 jan1 13 IEEE Internet Things J. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2025.3629806 db/journals/iotj/iotj13.html#SouravA26 streams/journals/iotj

Neeraj Kumar Rifaqat Ali A blockchain based authentication protocol for secure autonomous vehicles communication in acoustic networks. 2026 123361 744 Inf. Sci. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ins.2026.123361 db/journals/isci/isci744.html#KumarA26 streams/journals/isci

Sourav Rifaqat Ali Mohammad S. Obaidat Secure and Efficient Lattice-Based Signcryption for Blockchain-Enabled IoT Healthcare. 356-367 2026 January - February 23 IEEE Trans. Dependable Secur. Comput. 1 https://doi.org/10.1109/TDSC.2025.3605734 db/journals/tdsc/tdsc23.html#SouravAO26 streams/journals/tdsc

Neeraj Kumar Rifaqat Ali Biometric and smart contract enabled secure data sharing in drone-assisted battlefield systems. 110407 2025 124 Comput. Electr. Eng. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compeleceng.2025.110407 db/journals/cee/cee124.html#KumarA25b streams/journals/cee

Sunil Prajapat Neeraj Kumar 0001 Ashok Kumar Das Pankaj Kumar 0006 Rifaqat Ali Quantum-safe blockchain-assisted data encryption protocol for internet of things networks. 5 2025 February 28 Clust. Comput. 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-024-04688-w db/journals/cluster/cluster28.html#PrajapatKDKA25 streams/journals/cluster

Sourav Rifaqat Ali Post-quantum secure health records: a blockchain-based lattice threshold signcryption scheme. 450 2025 September 28 Clust. Comput. 7 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-025-05117-2 db/journals/cluster/cluster28.html#SouravA25 streams/journals/cluster

Vipin Kumar Rifaqat Ali Pawan Kumar Sharma HM-6G+: A Secure Real-time E-healthcare Monitoring Framework using Smart-contract over 6G Tactile-internet. 760 2025 November 28 Clust. Comput. 12 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-025-05423-9 db/journals/cluster/cluster28.html#KumarAS25 streams/journals/cluster

Neeraj Kumar Rifaqat Ali Smart-FIoT: A smart contract based efficient authentication framework for forensics IoT. 895 2025 November 28 Clust. Comput. 14 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-025-05649-7 db/journals/cluster/cluster28.html#KumarA25a streams/journals/cluster

Shahid Hussain Gurmani Zunaira Rasool Rifaqat Ali Shehr Bano Huayou Chen Yuming Feng Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain Linguistic Pythagorean fuzzy Aczel-Alsina aggregation operators and their application in multi-attribute group decision-making: An approach for smart city development. 111215 2025 156 Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2025.111215 db/journals/eaai/eaai156.html#GurmaniRABCFZ25 streams/journals/eaai

Vipin Kumar Mohammad S. Obaidat Rifaqat Ali A Security-Enhanced Anonymous Authentication Protocol for Blockchain-Assisted Smart Grids. 1-8 2025 CCCI https://doi.org/10.1109/CCCI65983.2025.11215135 conf/ccci/2025 db/conf/ccci/ccci2025.html#KumarOA25 Neeraj Kumar 0001 Mohammad S. Obaidat Rifaqat Ali Balqies Sadoun Smart Contract-Enabled Land Registration: Ensuring Secure Buying and Selling with Mutual Authentication. 1-8 2025 CITS https://doi.org/10.1109/CITS65975.2025.11099427 conf/cits/2025 db/conf/cits/cits2025.html#KumarOAS25 streams/conf/cits

Maria Shams Saleem Abdullah Faisal Khan 0004 Rifaqat Ali Shakoor Muhammad Fuzzy Decision Support Systems for Selection of NEA Detection Technologies Under Non-Linear Diophantine Fuzzy Hamacher Aggregation Information. 32111-32139 2024 12 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3367117 db/journals/access/access12.html#ShamsAKAM24

Neeraj Kumar Rifaqat Ali A smart contract-based 6G-enabled authentication scheme for securing Internet of Nano Medical Things network. 103606 2024 August 163 Ad Hoc Networks https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adhoc.2024.103606 db/journals/adhoc/adhoc163.html#KumarA17 streams/journals/adhoc

Sourav Rifaqat Ali Lattice-based ring signcryption scheme for smart healthcare management. 14131-14148 2024 December 27 Clust. Comput. 10 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10586-024-04611-3 db/journals/cluster/cluster27.html#SouravA24 streams/journals/cluster

Neeraj Kumar Rifaqat Ali A smart contract-based robotic surgery authentication system for healthcare using 6G-Tactile Internet. 110133 2024 January 238 Comput. Networks https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2023.110133 db/journals/cn/cn238.html#KumarA24

Neeraj Kumar Rifaqat Ali Blockchain-enabled authentication framework for Maritime Transportation System empowered by 6G-IoT. 110353 2024 244 Comput. Networks https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2024.110353 db/journals/cn/cn244.html#KumarA24a

Vipin Kumar Rifaqat Ali Pawan Kumar Sharma IoEPM+: A secured and lightweight 6G-enabled pollution monitoring authentication framework using IoT and blockchain technology. 110554 2024 250 Comput. Networks https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2024.110554 db/journals/cn/cn250.html#KumarAS24

Neeraj Kumar Rifaqat Ali A consortium blockchain-edge enabled authentication scheme for underwater acoustic network (UAN). 101426 2024 28 Internet Things https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iot.2024.101426 db/journals/iot/iot28.html#KumarA24 streams/journals/iot

Rifaqat Ali Arup Kumar Pal Saru Kumari Arun Kumar Sangaiah Xiong Li 0002 Fan Wu 0003 An enhanced three factor based authentication protocol using wireless medical sensor networks for healthcare monitoring. 1165-1186 2024 January 15 J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput. 1 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-018-1015-9 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q129236990 db/journals/jaihc/jaihc15.html#AliPKSLW24

Khaista Rahman Rifaqat Ali Tarik Lamoudan Complex Fermatean fuzzy geometric aggregation operators and their application on group decision-making problem based on Einstein T-norm and T-conorm. 9203-9224 2024 September 28 Soft Comput. 17-18 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-024-09804-x db/journals/soco/soco28.html#RahmanAL24 streams/journals/soco

Vipin Kumar Rifaqat Ali Pawan Kumar Sharma IoV-6G+: A secure blockchain-based data collection and sharing framework for Internet of vehicles in 6G-assisted environment. 100783 2024 47 Veh. Commun. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vehcom.2024.100783 db/journals/vcomm/vcomm47.html#KumarAS24

Khaista Rahman Harish Garg Rifaqat Ali Suleman H. Alfalqi Tarik Lamoudan Algorithms for decision-making process using complex Pythagorean fuzzy set and its application to hospital siting for COVID-19 patients. 107153 2023 November 126 Eng. Appl. Artif. Intell. Part D https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2023.107153 db/journals/eaai/eaai126.html#RahmanGAAL23

Karuppusamy Loganathan S. Eswaramoorthi P. Chinnasamy Reema Jain Ramkumar Sivasakthivel Rifaqat Ali N. Nithya Devi Heat and Mass Transport in Casson Nanofluid Flow over a 3-D Riga Plate with Cattaneo-Christov Double Flux: A Computational Modeling through Analytical Method. 725 2023 February 15 Symmetry 3 https://doi.org/10.3390/sym15030725 db/journals/symmetry/symmetry15.html#LoganathanECJSAD23

Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain Imran Siddique Aiyared Iampan Jan Awrejcewicz Maksymilian Bednarek Rifaqat Ali Muhammad Asif Novel Multicriteria Decision Making Approach for Interactive Aggregation Operators of q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Soft Set. 59640-59660 2022 10 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3178595 db/journals/access/access10.html#ZulqarnainSIABA22

Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain Hafiz Khalil Ur Rehman Jan Awrejcewicz Rifaqat Ali Imran Siddique Fahd Jarad Aiyared Iampan Extension of Einstein Average Aggregation Operators to Medical Diagnostic Approach Under q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Soft Set. 87923-87949 2022 10 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3199069 db/journals/access/access10.html#ZulqarnainRAASJ22

Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain Rifaqat Ali Jan Awrejcewicz Imran Siddique Fahd Jarad Aiyared Iampan Some Einstein Geometric Aggregation Operators for q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Soft Set With Their Application in MCDM. 88469-88494 2022 10 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3199071 db/journals/access/access10.html#ZulqarnainAASJI22

Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain Imran Siddique Rifaqat Ali Jan Awrejcewicz Hanen Karamti Dariusz Grzelczyk Aiyared Iampan Muhammad Asif Einstein Ordered Weighted Aggregation Operators for Pythagorean Fuzzy Hypersoft Set With Its Application to Solve MCDM Problem. 95294-95320 2022 10 IEEE Access https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3203717 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114086253 db/journals/access/access10.html#ZulqarnainSAAKG22

Tapan Senapati Radko Mesiar Vladimir Simic 0001 Aiyared Iampan Ronnason Chinram Rifaqat Ali Analysis of Interval-Valued Intuitionistic Fuzzy Aczel-Alsina Geometric Aggregation Operators and Their Application to Multiple Attribute Decision-Making. 258 2022 11 Axioms 6 https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms11060258 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114032332 db/journals/axioms/axioms11.html#SenapatiMSICA22

Imran Siddique Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain Rifaqat Ali Fahd Jarad Aiyared Iampan Multicriteria Decision-Making Approach for Aggregation Operators of Pythagorean Fuzzy Hypersoft Sets. 2036506:1-2036506:19 2021 2021 Comput. Intell. Neurosci. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/2036506 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114070079 db/journals/cin/cin2021.html#SiddiqueZAJI21

Imran Siddique Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain Rifaqat Ali Alhanouf Alburaikan Aiyared Iampan Hamiden Abd El-Wahed Khalifa A Decision-Making Approach Based on Score Matrix for Pythagorean Fuzzy Soft Set. 5447422:1-5447422:16 2021 2021 Comput. Intell. Neurosci. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5447422 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114069983 db/journals/cin/cin2021.html#SiddiqueZAAIK21

Abdul Samad Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain Emre Sermutlu Rifaqat Ali Imran Siddique Fahd Jarad Thabet Abdeljawad Selection of an Effective Hand Sanitizer to Reduce COVID-19 Effects and Extension of TOPSIS Technique Based on Correlation Coefficient under Neutrosophic Hypersoft Set. 5531830:1-5531830:22 2021 2021 Complex. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5531830 db/journals/complexity/complexity2021.html#SamadZSASJA21

Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain Imran Siddique Rifaqat Ali Fahd Jarad Abdul Samad Thabet Abdeljawad Neutrosophic Hypersoft Matrices with Application to Solve Multiattributive Decision-Making Problems. 5589874:1-5589874:17 2021 2021 Complex. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/5589874 db/journals/complexity/complexity2021.html#ZulqarnainSAJSA21

Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain Imran Siddique Fahd Jarad Rifaqat Ali Thabet Abdeljawad Development of TOPSIS Technique under Pythagorean Fuzzy Hypersoft Environment Based on Correlation Coefficient and Its Application towards the Selection of Antivirus Mask in COVID-19 Pandemic. 6634991:1-6634991:27 2021 2021 Complex. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6634991 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114069923 db/journals/complexity/complexity2021.html#ZulqarnainSJAA21

Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain Imran Siddique Rifaqat Ali Dragan Pamucar Dragan Marinkovic Darko Bozanic Robust Aggregation Operators for Intuitionistic Fuzzy Hypersoft Set with Their Application to Solve MCDM Problem. 688 2021 23 Entropy 6 https://doi.org/10.3390/e23060688 db/journals/entropy/entropy23.html#ZulqarnainSAPMB21

Pallavi Bhuarya Preeti Chandrakar Rifaqat Ali Aakanksha Sharaff An enhanced authentication scheme for Internet of Things and cloud based on elliptic curve cryptography. 2021 34 Int. J. Commun. Syst. 10 https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.4834 db/journals/ijcomsys/ijcomsys34.html#BhuaryaCAS21

Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain Xiao Long Xin 0001 Harish Garg Rifaqat Ali Interaction aggregation operators to solve multi criteria decision making problem under pythagorean fuzzy soft environment. 1151-1171 2021 41 J. Intell. Fuzzy Syst. 1 https://doi.org/10.3233/JIFS-210098 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q114038000 db/journals/jifs/jifs41.html#ZulqarnainXGA21

Saira Bhatti Muhammad Zahid Rifaqat Ali Albesha Sarwar Hafiz Abdul Wahab Blade coating analysis of a viscoelastic Carreau fluid using Adomian decomposition method. 659-677 2021 190 Math. Comput. Simul. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matcom.2021.04.027 db/journals/mcs/mcs190.html#BhattiZASW21

Hemalatha Balasundaram Senthamilselvi Sathiamoorthy Shyam Sundar Santra Rifaqat Ali Vediyappan Govindan Aliona Dreglea Samad Noeiaghdam Effect of Ventricular Elasticity Due to Congenital Hydrocephalus. 2087 2021 13 Symmetry 11 https://doi.org/10.3390/sym13112087 db/journals/symmetry/symmetry13.html#BalasundaramSSA21

Preeti Chandrakar Sonam Sinha Rifaqat Ali Cloud-based authenticated protocol for healthcare monitoring system. 3431-3447 2020 11 J. Ambient Intell. Humaniz. Comput. 8 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12652-019-01537-2 https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q126986090 db/journals/jaihc/jaihc11.html#ChandrakarSA20

Rifaqat Ali Preeti Chandrakar Mohammad S. Obaidat Kuei-Fang Hsiao Arup Kumar Pal SK Hafizul Islam A Secure Authentication Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks. 1-8 2020 CITS https://doi.org/10.1109/CITS49457.2020.9232633 conf/cits/2020 db/conf/cits/cits2020.html#AliCOHPI20

Rifaqat Ali Arup Kumar Pal Saru Kumari Marimuthu Karuppiah Mauro Conti A secure user authentication and key-agreement scheme using wireless sensor networks for agriculture monitoring. 200-215 2018 84 Future Gener. Comput. Syst. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.future.2017.06.018 db/journals/fgcs/fgcs84.html#AliPKKC18

Rifaqat Ali Arup Kumar Pal An efficient three factor-based authentication scheme in multiserver environment using ECC. 2018 31 Int. J. Commun. Syst. 4 https://doi.org/10.1002/dac.3484 db/journals/ijcomsys/ijcomsys31.html#AliP18

Rifaqat Ali Arup Kumar Pal A Secure and Robust Three-Factor Based Authentication Scheme Using RSA Cryptosystem. 74-84 2017 13 Int. J. Bus. Data Commun. Netw. 1 https://doi.org/10.4018/IJBDCN.2017010107 db/journals/ijbdcn/ijbdcn13.html#AliP17

Thabet Abdeljawad Saleem Abdullah Alhanouf Alburaikan Suleman H. Alfalqi Muhammad Asif Jan Awrejcewicz Hemalatha Balasundaram Shehr Bano Maksymilian Bednarek Saira Bhatti Pallavi Bhuarya Darko Bozanic Preeti Chandrakar Huayou Chen P. Chinnasamy Ronnason Chinram Mauro Conti Ashok Kumar Das N. Nithya Devi Aliona Dreglea S. Eswaramoorthi Yuming Feng Harish Garg Vediyappan Govindan Dariusz Grzelczyk Shahid Hussain Gurmani Kuei-Fang Hsiao Aiyared Iampan SK Hafizul Islam Reema Jain Fahd Jarad Hanen Karamti Marimuthu Karuppiah Hamiden Abd El-Wahed Khalifa Faisal Khan 0004 Neeraj Kumar Neeraj Kumar 0001 Pankaj Kumar 0006 Vipin Kumar Saru Kumari Tarik Lamoudan Xiong Li 0002 K. LoganathanKaruppusamy Loganathan Dragan Marinkovic Radko Mesiar Shakoor Muhammad Samad Noeiaghdam Mohammad S. Obaidat Arup Kumar Pal Dragan Pamucar Sunil Prajapat Khaista Rahman Zunaira Rasool Hafiz Khalil Ur Rehman Balqies Sadoun Abdul Samad Arun Kumar Sangaiah Shyam Sundar Santra Albesha Sarwar Senthamilselvi Sathiamoorthy Tapan Senapati Emre Sermutlu Maria Shams Aakanksha Sharaff Pawan Kumar Sharma Imran Siddique Vladimir Simic 0001 Sonam Sinha Ramkumar Sivasakthivel Sourav Hafiz Abdul Wahab Fan Wu 0003 Xiaolong Xin 0001Xiao Long Xin 0001 Muhammad Zahid Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain