⁃Ilsun You, Vishal Sharma, Gaurav Choudhary, Yongho Ko . "Method for verifying drone included in industrial internet of things system, by using petri-net modeling." US 2021/0279339 A1, Dated: 2021-09-09, Status: Pending.

⁃Ilsun You, Vishal Sharma, Gaurav Choudhary, Yongho Ko . "계층형 페트리넷을 이용한 IIoT 드론의 행위 및 취약성 평가방법". "A method for verifying drones in Industrial Internet of Things using Petri Net modeling." Korean Patent Filing Number: 10-2018-0075812, Dated: 2018-06-29.

⁃Ilsun You, Hsing-Chung Chen, Vishal Sharma, and Igor Kotenko, eds. Mobile Internet Security: Second International Symposium, MobiSec 2017, Jeju Island, Republic of Korea, October 19–22, 2017, Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 971. Springer, 2018.

⁃Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody, Kathiravan Srinivasan, Vishal Sharma, eds. 5G Enabled Secure Wireless Networks, XVIII, 200 , Edition 1, doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-03508-2, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2019.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Daniel G. Reina, Zengpeng Li, Kathiravan Srinivasan, Navuday Sharma, Vinod Karar. "Distributed Secure Computing for Smart Mobile IoT Networks." Mobile Information Systems, 9864846, 2022.

⁃Vishal Sharma. "Drones Editorial: Advances in Drone Communications, State-of-the-Art and Architectures." Drones, 3(1), 21, 2019.

⁃Ilsun You, Chang Choi, Vishal Sharma, Isaac Woungang, Bharat K. Bhargava. "Advances In Security and Privacy Technologies for Forthcoming Smart Systems, Services, Computing, and Networks." Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing, 25(1), pp. 117–119, 2019.

⁃Ilsun You, Giovanni Pau, Valerio Mario Salerno, Vishal Sharma. "Internet of Things for Smart Homes." Sensors: 4173, 2019.

⁃Karl Andersson, Ilsun You, Rahim Rahmani, Vishal Sharma. "Secure Computation on 4G/5G Enabled Internet-of-Things." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, 2019.

⁃Trung Q. Duong, Tinh T. Bui, Long Nguyen, Berk Canberk, Vishal Sharma, Octavia A. Dobre, Hyundong Shin. "Digital Twin-empowered Integrated Satellite-Terrestrial Networks towards 6G Internet of Things." IEEE Communications Magazine (Accepted), April 2024.

⁃James Adu Ansere, Eric Gyamfi, Vishal Sharma, Hyundong Shin, Octavia A. Dobre, Trung Q Duong. "Quantum Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dynamic Resource Allocation in Mobile Edge Computing-based IoT Systems." IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (Accepted), November 2023.

⁃Antonino Masaracchia, Vishal Sharma, Muhammad Fahim, Octavia A Dobre, Trung Q Duong. "Digital Twin for Open RAN: Towards Intelligent and Resilient 6G Radio Access Networks." IEEE Communications Magazine (Accepted), July 2023.

⁃Jason Kennedy, Vishal Sharma, Blesson Varghese, Carlos Reano. "Multi-tier GPU Virtualization for Deep Learning in Cloud-Edge Systems." IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (Accepted), May 2023.

⁃Muhammad Fahim, Vishal Sharma, Ruth Hunter, Trung Q. Duong. "Healthy Aging: A Deep Meta-Class Sequence Model to Integrate Intelligence in Digital Twin." IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine (Accepted), May 2023.

⁃Cheng Yin, Emiliano Garcia-Palacios, Pei Xiao, Vishal Sharma, Octavia A Dobre, Trung Q Duong. "Secrecy Performance Analysis of Heterogeneous Networks with Unreliable Wireless Backhaul and Imperfect Channel Estimation." IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Accepted), March 2023.

⁃Trung Q Duong, Dang Van Huynh, Vishal Sharma. "From digital twin to metaverse: the role of edge intelligence-based 6G ultra-reliable and low latency communications." IEEE Wireless Communications (Accepted), February 2023.

⁃Viraj Singh Gaur, Vishal Sharma, John McAllister. "Abusive adversarial agents and attack strategies in Cyber-Physical Systems." Wiley-CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology (Accepted), November 2022.

⁃Antonino Masaracchia, Vishal Sharma, Berk Canberk, Octavia A Dobre, Trung Q Duong. "Digital Twin for 6G: Taxonomy, Research Challenges, and the Road Ahead." IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (Accepted), November 2022.

⁃Vishal Sharma. "Functional Security and Trust in Ultra-Connected 6G Ecosystem." EAI Endorsed Transactions on Industrial Networks and Intelligent Systems (Accepted), November 2022.

⁃Long Zhang, Xiaozheng Ma, Zirui Zhuang, Haitao Xu, Vishal Sharma, Zhu Han. "Q-learning aided intelligent routing with maximum utility in cognitive UAV swarm for emergency communications." IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Accepted), November 2022.

⁃Teik Guan Tan, Jianying Zhou, Vishal Sharma, Saraju P Mohanty. "Post-Quantum Adversarial Modelling: A User's Perspective." IEEE Computer (Accepted), October 2022.

⁃Dang Van Huynh, Van-Dinh Nguyen, Saeed R. Khosravirad, Vishal Sharma, Octavia A. Dobre, Hyundong Shin, Trung Q. Duong. "URLLC Edge Networks with Joint Optimal User Association, Task Offloading and Resource Allocation: A Digital Twin Approach." IEEE Transactions on Communications (Accepted), September 2022.

⁃Trung Q. Duong, James Adu Ansere, Bhaskara Narottama, Vishal Sharma, Octavia A. Dobre, Hyundong Shin. "Quantum-inspired Machine Learning for 6G: Fundamentals, Security, Resource Allocations, Challenges, and Future Research Directions." IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology, Invited paper (Accepted), August 2022.

⁃ Sandi Rahmadika, Philip Virgil Astillo, Gaurav Choudhary, Daniel Gerbi Duguma, Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You. "Blockchain-based Privacy Preservation Scheme for Misbehavior Detection in Lightweight MIoT Devices." IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (Accepted), June 2022.

⁃ Vishal Sharma, Zengpeng Li, Pawel Szalachowski, Teik Guan Tan, Jianying Zhou. "Reinshard: An optimally sharded dual-blockchain for concurrency resolution." Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT) (Accepted), May 2022.

⁃ Khoi Khac Nguyen, Antonino Masaracchia, Vishal Sharma, H. Vincent Poor, Trung Q. Duong. "RIS-assisted UAV Communications for IoT with Wireless Power Transfer Using Deep Reinforcement Learning." IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (Accepted), April 2022.

⁃ Long Zhang, Yao Wang, Minghui Min, Chao Guo, Vishal Sharma, Zhu Han. "Privacy-Aware Laser Wireless Power Transfer for Aerial Multi-Access Edge Computing: A Colonel Blotto Game Approach." IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Accepted), April 2022.

⁃ Zengpeng Li, Mei Wang, Vishal Sharma, Prosanta Gope. "Sustainable and Round-Optimized Group Authenticated Key Exchange in Vehicle Communication." IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (Accepted), March 2022.

⁃ Muhammad Fahim, Vishal Sharma, Tuan-Vu Cao, Berk Canberk, Trung Q. Duong. "Machine Learning-based Digital Twin for Predictive Modeling in Wind Turbines." IEEE Access (Accepted), January 2022.

⁃ Daniel Gerbi Duguma, Jiyoon Kim, Sangmin Lee, Nam-Su Jho, Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You. "A lightweight D2D security protocol with request-forecasting for next-generation mobile networks." Connection Science, 10.1080/09540091.2021.2002812, November 2021.

⁃Jiyoon Kim, Daniel Gerbi Duguma, Philip Virgil Astillo, Hoon-Yong Park, Bonam Kim, Ilsun You, Vishal Sharma. "A Formally Verified Security Scheme for Inter-gNB-DU Handover in 5G Vehicle-to-Everything." IEEE Access (Accepted), August 2021.

⁃Joydev Ghosh, Vishal Sharma, Huseyin Haci, Saurabh Singh, In-ho Ra. "Performance Investigation of NOMA versus OMA Techniques for mmWave Massive MIMO Communications." IEEE Access (Accepted), August 2021.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Teik Guan Tan, Saurabh Singh, Pradip Kumar Sharma. "Optimal and privacy-aware resource management in AIoT using osmotic computing." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (Accepted), July 2021.

⁃Jiyoon Kim, Philip Virgil Berrer Astillo, Vishal Sharma, Nadra Guizani, Ilsun You. "MoTH: Mobile Terminal Handover Security Protocol for HUB Switching based on 5G and Beyond (5GB) P2MP Backhaul Environment." IEEE Internet of Things Journal (Accepted), May 2021.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Blesson Varghese, John McAllister, Saraju P. Mohanty. "Abusive Adversaries in 5G and beyond IoT." IEEE Consumer Electronics (Accepted), May 2021.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Navuday Sharma, Mubashir Husain Rehman, Haris Pervaiz. "Control over Skies: Survivability, Coverage, and Mobility Laws for Hierarchical Aerial Base Stations." IEEE Pervasive Computing (Accepted), April 2021.

⁃Sita Rani, Aman Kataria, Vishal Sharma, Smarajit Ghosh, Vinod Karar, Kyungroul Lee and Chang Choi. "Threats and Corrective Measures for IoT Security with Observance of Cybercrime: A Survey." Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (Accepted), March 2021.

⁃Vikram Puri, Aman Kataria, Vishal Sharma. "Artificial intelligence‐powered decentralized framework for Internet of Things in Healthcare 4.0." Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (Accepted), February 2021.

⁃Zengpeng Li, Vishal Sharma, Chunguang Ma, Chunpeng Ge, Willy Susilo. "Ciphertext-policy attribute-based proxy re-encryption via constrained PRFs." Science China Information Sciences, 64(6), June 2021.

⁃Wali Ullah Khan, Ju Liu, Furqan Jameel, Vishal Sharma, Riku Jantti, Zhu Han. "Spectral Efficiency Optimization for Next Generation NOMA-enabled IoT Networks." IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (Accepted), November 2020.

⁃Mohd Abuzar Sayeed, Rajesh Kumar, Vishal Sharma, Mohd Asim Sayeed. "Efficient Deployment with Throughput Maximization for UAVs Communication Networks." Sensors, 20(22), November 2020.

⁃Ravinder Kumar, Shubham Goel, Vishal Sharma, Lalit Garg, Kathiravan Srinivasan, Neeraj Julka. "A Multifaceted Vigilare System for Intelligent Transportation Services in Smart Cities." IEEE Internet of Things Magazine (IEEE IoTM) (Accepted), November 2020.

⁃Philip Virgil Astillo, Jiyoon Kim, Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You. "SGF-MD: Behavior Rule Specification-based Distributed Misbehavior Detection of Embedded IoT Devices in a Closed-Loop Smart Greenhouse Farming System." IEEE Access (Accepted), October 2020.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Karl Andersson, Francesco Palmieri, Mubashir Husain Rehmani, Jaedeok Lim. "Security, Privacy and Trust for Smart Mobile-Internet of Things (M-IoT): A Survey." IEEE Access (Accepted), August 2020.

⁃Mohd Abuzar Sayeed, Rajesh Kumar, Vishal Sharma. "Safeguarding Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS): An Approach for Identifying Malicious Aerial Nodes." IET Communications (Accepted), July 2020.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Nadra Guizani. "Security of 5G-V2X: Technologies, Standardization and Research Directions." IEEE Network (Accepted to Appear), May 2020.

⁃Zengpeng Li, Vishal Sharma, Saraju P. Mohanty. "Preserving Data Privacy via Federated Learning: Challenges and Solutions." IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 9(3), 8-16, May 2020.

⁃Vishaka Basnayake, Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody, Vishal Sharma, Nikhil Sharma, P. Muthuchidambaranathan, Hakim Mabed. "A New Green Prospective of Non-orthogonal Multiple Access (NOMA) for 5G." Information, 11(2), 89, February 2020.

⁃Vishal Sharma, D.N.K. Jayakody, Marwa Qaraqe. "Osmotic Computing-based Service Migration and Resource Scheduling in Mobile Augmented Reality Networks." Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), 102, 723-737, January 2020.

⁃M. Abuzar Sayeed, Rajesh Kumar, Vishal Sharma. "Efficient Data Management and Control over WSNs using SDN-enabled Aerial Networks." International Journal of Communication Systems, 33(1):e4170, January 2020.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Roberto Sabatini, Subramanian Ramasamy, Kathiravan Srinivasan, Rajesh Kumar. "EFF-FAS: Enhanced Fruit Fly Optimization Based Search and Tracking By Flying Ad Hoc Swarm." International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 30(3), 161-172, January 2019.

⁃Sudeep Tanwar, Jayneel Vora, Shriya Kanriya, Sudhanshu Tyagi, Neeraj Kumar, Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You. "Human Arthritis Analysis in Fog Computing Environment using Bayesian Network Classifier and Thread Protocol." IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, 9(1), 88-94, December 2019.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Nalin D. K. Jayakody, D.G.Reina, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo. "Neural-blockchain based ultra-reliable caching for edge-enabled UAV networks." IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 15(10), 5723-5736, June 2019.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Kangbin Yim, Ing-Ray Chen, Jin-Hee Cho. "BRIoT: Behavior Rule Specification-based Misbehavior Detection for IoT-Embedded Cyber-Physical Systems." IEEE Access, 15(7), 118556-80, May 2019.

⁃Jianfeng Guan, Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Mohammad Atiquzzaman, Muhammad Imran. "Extension of MIH for FPMIPv6 (EMIH-FPMIPv6) to Support Optimized Heterogeneous Handover." Future Generation Computer Systems, 97, 775-791, August 2019.

⁃Zhenhua Tan, Danke Wu, Tianhan Gao, Ilsun You, Vishal Sharma. "AIM: Activation Increment Minimization Strategy for Preventing Bad Information Diffusion in OSNs." Future Generation Computer Systems, 94, 293-301, May 2019.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Nalin D.K. Jayakody, Mohammed Atiquzzaman. "Cooperative Trust Relaying and Privacy Preservation via Edge-Crowdsourcing in Social Internet of Things." Future Generation Computer Systems, 92, 758-776, March 2019.

⁃Gaurav Choudhary, Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You. "Sustainable and secure trajectories for the military Internet of Drones (IoD) through an efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol." Computers & Electrical Engineering, Volume 74, pp. 59-73, March 2019.

⁃Gagangeet Singh Aujla, Sahil Garg, Shalini Batra, Neeraj Kumar, Ilsun You, Vishal Sharma. "DROpS: A Demand Response Optimization Scheme in SDN-enabled Smart Energy Ecosystem."Information Sciences, 476, 453-473, February 2019.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Jung Taek Seo, Mohsen Guizani. "Secure and Reliable Resource Allocation and Caching in Aerial-Terrestrial Cloud Networks (ATCNs)." IEEE Access, 7, 13867-13881, January 2019.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Jianfeng Guan, Jiyoon Kim, Soonhyun Kwon, Ilsun You, Francesco Palmieri, Mario Collotta. "MIH-SPFP: MIH-based secure cross-layer handover protocol for Fast Proxy Mobile IPv6-IoT networks." Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 125, 67-81, January 2019.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Kathiravan Srinivasan "QoS-Aware Routing in Wireless Networks Using Aerial Vehicles." Journal of Internet Technology, 19(1), December 2018.

⁃Gaurav Choudhary, Jiyoon Kim, Vishal Sharma. "Security of 5G-Mobile Backhaul Networks: A Survey."Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications (JoWUA), 9(4), 41-70, December 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Nalin Dushantha K. Jayakody, Kathiravan Srinivasan. "On the Positioning Likelihood of UAVs in 5G Networks." Physical Communication, 31, 1-9, December 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Rajesh Kumar. "UAVs Assisted Queue Scheduling in Ground Ad Hoc Networks." International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Inderscience, 30(1), 1-10, December 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma. "An Energy-Efficient Transaction Model for the Blockchain-enabled Internet of Vehicles (IoV)." IEEE Communications Letters, 23(2), 246-249, November 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Daniel Gutierrez Reina, Rajesh Kumar. "HMADSO: A Novel Hill Myna and Desert Sparrow Optimization Algorithm for Cooperative Rendezvous and Task Allocation in FANETs." Soft Computing, 22(18), 6191-6214, September 2018.

⁃Navuday Sharma, Maurizio Magarini, D. K Jayakody, Vishal Sharma, Jun Li. "On-demand Ultra-Dense Cloud Drone Networks: Opportunities, Challenges and Benefits." IEEE Communications Magazine, 56(8), 85-91, August 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Gaurav Choudhary, Yongho Ko, Ilsun You. "Behaviour and Vulnerability Assessment of Drones-enabled Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)." IEEE Access, 6, 43368-43383, July 2018.

⁃Daniel Gutiérrez-Reina, Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Sergio Toral. "Dissimilarity Metric Based on Local Neighboring Information and Genetic Programming for Data Dissemination in VANETs." Sensors, 18(7), 2320, July 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ravinder Kumar, Neeraj Kumar. "DPTR: Distributed Priority Tree-Based Routing Protocol For FANETs." Computer Communications, 122, 129-151, June 2018.

⁃Ilsun You, Soonhyun Kwon, Gaurav Choudhary, Vishal Sharma, Jung Taek Seo. "An Enhanced LoRaWAN Security Protocol for Privacy Preservation in IoT with a Case Study on a Smart Factory-enabled Parking System." Sensors, 18(6), June 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Francesco Palmieri, Dushantha Nalin Jayakody, Jun Li. "Secure and Energy Efficient Handover in Fog Networks Using Blockchain-based DMM." IEEE Communications Magazine, 56(5), 22-31, May 2018.

⁃Takshi Gupta, Gaurav Choudhary, Vishal Sharma. "A Survey on the Security of Pervasive Online Social Networks (POSNs)." Journal of Internet Services and Information Security (JISIS), 8(2), 48-86, May 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Rajesh Kumar. "Three Tier Neural Model For Service Provisioning Over Collaborative Flying Ad Hoc Networks." Neural Computing and Applications, 29(10), 837–856, May 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Dushantha Nalin Jayakody, Ilsun You, Ravinder Kumar, Jun Li. "Secure and Efficient Context-Aware Localization of Drones in Urban Scenarios." IEEE Communications Magazine, 56(4), 120-128, April 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ravinder Kumar, Wen-Huang Cheng, Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Kathiravan Srinivasan, Albert Y. Zomaya. "NHAD: Neuro-Fuzzy Based Horizontal Anomaly Detection In Online Social Networks." IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 30(11), 2171-2184, March 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Giovanni Pau, Mario Collotta, Jae Deok Lim, Jeong Nyeo Kim. "LoRaWAN-based energy-efficient surveillance by drones for intelligent transportation systems." Energies, 11(3), 573, doi:10.3390/en11030573, March 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Gaurav Choudhary, Ilsun You, Jae Deok Lim, Jeong Nyeo Kim. "Self-enforcing game theory-based resource allocation for LoRaWAN assisted public safety communications." Journal of Internet Technology, 19(2), 515-530, March 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Ravinder Kumar. "Resource-based mobility management for video users in 5G using catalytic computing." Computer Communications, 118, 120-139, March 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Fang-Yie Leu, Mohammed Atiquzzaman. "Secure and Efficient Protocol for Fast Handover in 5G Mobile Xhaul Networks." Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 102, pp. 38-57, January 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Rajesh Kumar, Varun Chauhan. "OFFRP: Optimized Fruit Fly Based Routing Protocol With Congestion Control For UAVs Guided Ad Hoc Networks." International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, Inderscience, 27, 4, 233-255, January 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Fei Song, Ilsun You, Han-Chieh Chao. "Efficient Management and Fast Handovers in Software Defined Wireless Networks Using UAVs." IEEE Network, 31(6), 78-85, December 2017.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ravinder Kumar, Rajesh Kumar. "QUAT-DEM: Quaternion-DEMATEL based neural model for mutual coordination between UAVs." Information Sciences, 418, 74-90, December 2017.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Fei Song, Ilsun You, Mohammed Atiquzzaman. "Energy Efficient Device Discovery for Reliable Communication in 5G-based IoT and BSNs Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles." Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 97, 79-95, November 2017.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Kyungroul Lee, Jiyoon Kim, Soonhyun Kywon, Hyungjoon Park, Kangbin Yim, Sun-Young Lee. "A consensus framework for reliability and mitigation of zero-day attacks in IoT." Security and Communication Networks, 2017, 1-24, October 2017.

⁃Akashkumar Rajaram, Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody, Bin Chen, Kathiravan Srinivasan, Vishal Sharma. "Opportunistic Wireless Power Transfer Scheme for Multiple Access Multi-Relay System." IEEE Access, 5, 16084-16099, August 2017.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Rajesh Kumar. "Estimation-Based Queue Scheduling Model to Improve QoS for End Users in MANETs." Computing and Informatics, 35(5), 1-33, July 2017.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Hsing Chung Chen, Rajesh Kumar. "Driver Behaviour Detection and Vehicle Rating Using Multi-UAV Coordinated Vehicular Networks." Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 86, 3-32, June 2017.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Rajesh Kumar. "G-FANET: An Ambient Network Formation Between Ground and UAVs." Telecommunication Systems, 65(1), 31-54, 1-24, May 2017.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Kathiravan Srinivasan, Han-Chieh Chao, Kai-Lung Hua, Wen-Huang Cheng. "Intelligent Deployment of UAVs in 5G Heterogeneous Communication Environment for Improved Coverage." Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 85, 94-105, May 2017.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Rajesh Kumar. "Teredo Tunneling Based Secure Transmission Between UAVs and Ground Ad Hoc Networks." International Journal of Communication Systems, 30(7), e3144, May 2017

⁃Daemin Shin, Vishal Sharma, Jiyoon Kim, Soonhyun Kwon, Ilsun You. "Secure and Efficient Protocol for Route Optimization in PMIPv6-based Smart Home IoT Networks." IEEE Access, 5(1), 11100-11117, April 2017.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ravinder Kumar, Ramandeep Kaur. "UAVs Assisted Content-Based Sensor Search in the Internet of Things." Electronics Letters, 53(11), 724-726, March 2017.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Kathiravan Srinivasan, Rajesh Kumar, Han-Chieh Chao, Kai-Lung Hua "Efficient Cooperative Relaying In Flying Ad Hoc Networks Using Fuzzy-Bee Colony Optimization." Journal of Supercomputing, 73(7), 3229-3259, March 2017.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Ravinder Kumar, Pankoo Kim. "Computational offloading for efficient trust management in pervasive online social networks using osmotic computing." IEEE Access, 5(1), 5084-5103, March 2017.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Rajesh Kumar. "Cooperative Network Frameworks and Network Models For Flying Ad Hoc Networks: A Survey." Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 29(4), e3931, February 2017

⁃Vishal Sharma, Jae Deok Lim, Jeong Nyeo Kim, Ilsun You. "SACA: Self-aware communication architecture for IoT using mobile fog servers." Mobile Information Systems, e2017, February 2017.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Ravinder Kumar. "ISMA: Intelligent sensing model for anomalies detection in cross platform OSNs with a case study on IoT." IEEE Access, 5(1), 3284-3301, January 2017.

⁃Ilsun You, Vishal Sharma, Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo. "GDTN:Genome-Based Delay Tolerant Network Formation in Heterogeneous 5G Using Inter-UA Collaboration." PLOS ONE, 14, 11(12):e0167913, December 2016.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Roberto Sabatini, Subramanian Ramasamy. "UAVs Assisted Delay Optimization in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks." IEEE Communications Letters, 20(12), 2526-2529, October 2016.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Rajesh Kumar. "Energy Efficient Data Dissemination in Multi-UAV Coordinated Wireless Sensor Networks." Mobile Information Systems, http://dx.doi.org/ 10.1155/2016/8475820, 1-11, May 2016.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Mehdi Bennis, Rajesh Kumar. "UAV Assisted Capacity Enhancement In Heterogeneous Networks." IEEE Communications Letters, 20(6), 1207-1210, March 2016.

⁃Chien-Erh Weng, Vishal Sharma, Hsing-Chung Chen, Chuan-Hsien Mao. "PEER: Proximity-Based Energy-Efficient Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks." Journal of Internet Services and Information Security (JISIS), 6(1), 47-56, February 2016.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Rajesh Kumar, Prashant Singh Rana. "Self-Healing Neural Model For Stabilization Against Failures Over Networked UAVs." IEEE Communications Letters, 19(11), 2013-2016, September 2015.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Rajesh Kumar. "Topological Broadcasting Using Parameter Sensitivity-Based Logical Proximity Graphs in Coordinated Ground-Flying Ad Hoc Networks." Journal of Wireless Mobile Networks, Ubiquitous Computing, and Dependable Applications, 6(3), 54-72, September 2015.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Rajesh Kumar. "A Cooperative Network Framework for Multi-UAV Guided Ground Ad Hoc Networks." Journal of intelligent and Robotic Systems, 77(3-4), 629-652, March 2015.

⁃Elif Ak, Berk Canberk, Vishal Sharma, Octavia A. Dobre, Trung Q. Duong. "What-if Analysis Framework for Digital Twins in 6G Wireless Network Management." IWCMC 2024, Ayia Napa, Cyprus.

⁃Gyan Wickremasinghe, Siofra Frost, Karen Rafferty, Vishal Sharma. "Demonstrating a Hyperledger Fabric-based Blockchain with Knowledge Graphs for a Supply Chain Ecosystem." ICBC 2024, Dublin, Ireland.

⁃Mark Megarry, Antonino Masaracchia, Muhammad Fahim, Vishal Sharma, Trung Q. Duong. "Understanding the Security Implications in O-RAN with Abusive Adversaries." EAI INISCOM 2024, Da Nang, Vietnam (Best Paper Award).

⁃Tan Do-Duy, Dang V. Huynh, Emi Garcia-Palacios, Tuan-Vu Cao, Vishal Sharma, Trung Q. Duong. "Joint Computation and Communication Resource Allocation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle NOMA Systems." IEEE CAMAD 2023, Edinburgh, Scotland (Best Paper Award).

⁃Teik Guan Tan, Vishal Sharma, Zengpeng Li, Pawel Szalachowski, Jianying Zhou. "ZKBdf: A ZKBoo-based Quantum-Secure Verifiable Delay Function with Prover-secret." ACNS-SCI 2023, Kyoto, Japan.

⁃James Adu Ansere, Trung Q. Duong, Saeed R. Khosravirad, Vishal Sharma, Antonino Masaracchia, Octavia A. Dobre. "Quantum Deep Reinforcement Learning for 6G Mobile Edge Computing-based IoT Systems." The International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC 2023), Marrakesh, Morocco (Best Paper Award).

⁃Moustafa Faheem, Adrian Murphy, Vishal Sharma, Carlos Reano. "Discrete Event Simulation in Cloud-Edge Manufacturing Environments: Performance, Energy and Cost Trade-offs." 20th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2022), Melbourne, Australia.

⁃Dang Van Huynh, Van-Dinh Nguyen, Vishal Sharma, Octavia A. Dobre, Trung Q. Duong. "Digital Twin Empowered Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications-based Edge Networks in Industrial IoT Environment." IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2022), January 2022, (Accepted), Seoul, South Korea.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Pawel Szalachowski, Jianying Zhou. "Evaluating Blockchain Protocols with Abusive Modeling." The 17th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ACM ASIACCS 2022), October 2021, (Accepted), Nagasaki, Japan.

⁃Monika Bharti, Rajesh Kumar, Sharad Saxena, Vishal Sharma. "A Resource-Blockchain Framework for Safeguarding IoT." The 5th International Symposium on Mobile Internet Security (MobiSec'21), October 2021, (Accepted), Jeju Island, Republic of Korea.

⁃Cher Chye Lee, Teik Guan Tan, Vishal Sharma, Jianying Zhou. "Quantum Computing Threat Modelling on a Generic CPS Setup." Third International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Internet-of-Things Security, May 2021, (Accepted), Kamakura, Japan.

⁃Yao Wang, Long Zhang, Minghui Min, Chao Guo, Vishal Sharma, Zhu Han. "Privacy-Aware Wireless Power Transfer for Aerial Computation Offloading via Colonel Blotto Game." IEEE GLOBECOM 2020 Workshop on 5G and Beyond Wireless Security, September 2020, (Accepted).

⁃Muhammad Usman Sheikh, Maria Riaz, Furqan Jameel, Navuday Sharma, Vishal Sharma, Mamoun Alazab, Riku Jäntti. "Quality-Aware Trajectory Planning of Cellular Connected UAVs." DroneCom, July 2020, (Accepted).

⁃Teik Guan Tan, Vishal Sharma, Jianying Zhou. "Right-of-Stake: Deterministic and Fair Blockchain Leader Election with Hidden Leader." IEEE ICBC, May 2020, Canada.

⁃Navuday Sharma, Vishal Sharma, Maurizio Magarini, Haris Pervaiz, Muhammad Mahtab Alam, Yannick Le Moullec. "Cell Coverage Analysis of a Low Altitude Aerial Base Station in Wind Perturbations." IEEE GLOBECOM-Research Advancements in Future Networking Technologies (RAFNET), December 2019, US.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Yongho Ko, Jiyoon Kim, Ilsun You. "Security management for backhaul-aware 5G-V2X." Conference on Information Security and Cryptography-Winter (CISC-W), December 8, 2018, Seoul, South Korea.

⁃Rajesh Kumar, Mohd Abuzar Sayeed, Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You. "An SDN-based Secure Mobility Model for UAV-Ground Communications." ProvSec Workshop, October 2018, Jeju, South Korea.

⁃Gaurav Choudhary, Vishal Sharma, Takshi Gupta, Jiyoon Kim, Ilsun You. "Internet of Drones (IoD): Threats, Vulnerability, and Security Perspectives." MobiSec 2018: The 3rd International Symposium on Mobile Internet Security, August 2018, Cebu, Philippines.

⁃Ilsun You, Kangbin Yim, Vishal Sharma, Gaurav Choudhary, Ing-Ray Chen , Jin-Hee Cho. "Misbehavior Detection of Embedded IoT Devices in Medical Cyber Physical System." IEEE/ACM 3rd International Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies: CHASE-MedSPT2018 - CHASE-MedSPT2018, September 2018, Washington, USA.

⁃Gaurav Choudhary, Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Kangbin Yim, Ing-Ray Chen, Jin-Hee Cho. "Intrusion Detection Systems for Networked UAVs: A Survey." IEEE-IWCMC, June 2018, Cypurs.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ilsun You, Gokhan Kul. "Socializing Drones for Inter-Service Operability in Ultra-Dense Wireless Networks using Blockchain." ACM MIST 2017- 9th ACM CCS International Workshop on Managing Insider Security Threats, pp. 81-84, October 2017, Dallas, Texas, USA.

⁃Tharindu Dilshan Perera, Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody, Symeon Chatzinotas, Vishal Sharma. "Wireless Information and Power Transfer: Issues, Advances, and Challenges." IEEE 86th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2017-Fall, pp. 1-7, Toronto, ON.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Jiyoon Kim, Soonhyun Kwon, Ilsun You, Fang-Yie Leu. "An overview of 802.21a-2012 and its incorporation into IoT-Fog networks using osmotic framework." IoTaas-2017, pp. 1-6, September 20-22, 2017, Taiwan (Best Paper Award).

⁃Vishal Sharma, Jiyoon Kim, Soonhyun Kwon, Ilsun You, Hsing-Chung Chen. "Fuzzy-based protocol for secure remote diagnosis of IoT devices in 5G networks." IoTaas-2017, pp. 1-6, September 20-22, 2017, Taiwan.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Jiyoon Kim, Soonhyun Kwon, Ilsun You, Kyungroul Lee, Kangbin Yim. "A framework for mitigating zero-day attacks in IoT." CISC-17, June 22-23, 2017, Sinchang-Asan, South Korea, pp.1-6 (Best Paper Award).

⁃Vishal Sharma, Kathiravan Srinivasan, Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody, Omer Rana, Ravinder Kumar. "Managing Service Heterogeneity using Osmotic Computing." ICCMIT, pp. 1-6, 3-5 April 2017, Warsaw Poland (Best Paper Award).

⁃Vishal Sharma, Ravinder Kumar, Kathiravan Srinivasan, Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakody. "Coagulation Attacks over Networked UAVs: Concept, Challenges, and Research Aspects." ICCMIT, pp. 1-6, 3-5 April 2017, Warsaw Poland.

⁃Vishal Sharma, Rajesh Kumar. "An Opportunistic Cross Layer Design For Efficient Service Dissemination Over Flying Ad Hoc Networks (FANETs)." IEEE-ICECS, pp. 1-6, 26-27 February 2015, Coimbatore.

⁃Gaurav Choudary and Vishal Sharma. "A Survey on the Security and the Evolution of Osmotic and Catalytic Computing for 5G Networks." Chapter 03, 5G Enabled Wireless Networks: A Security, Data and Privacy Perspective, pp. 69-102, Springer, Cham, February 2019.

⁃Ilsun You, Kangbin Yim, Vishal Sharma, Gaurav Choudhary, Ing-Ray Chen, Jin-Hee Cho. "On IoT Misbehavior Detection in Cyber Physical Systems." The 23rd IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC 2018), Taipei, Taiwan, December 2018.

⁃Vishal Sharma, and Rajesh Kumar. "Cooperative Network Framework For Multi-UAV Guided Ground Ad Hoc Network." IRISS-ACM, held at BITS-Goa in collaboration with ACM Annual Event, February 2015.

⁃Vishal Sharma, and Rajesh Kumar. "A secure opportunistic service dissemination over Flying Ad Hoc Networks." IIITD, ACM security Symposium, February 2015.