Smart Home Security: A Distributed Identity-Based Security Protocol for Authentication and Key Exchange. - M. Mazhar Rathore; Elmahdi Bentafat; Spiridon Bakiras (ICCCN, 2019)

A Practical System for Privacy-Preserving Video Surveillance. - Elmahdi Bentafat; M. Mazhar Rathore; Spiridon Bakiras (ACNS (2), 2020)

Privacy-Preserving Traffic Flow Estimation for Road Networks. - Elmahdi Bentafat; M. Mazhar Rathore; Spiridon Bakiras (GLOBECOM, 2020)

The Role of AI, Machine Learning, and Big Data in Digital Twinning: A Systematic Literature Review, Challenges, and Opportunities. - M. Mazhar Rathore; Syed Attique Shah; Dhirendra Shukla; Elmahdi Bentafat; Spiridon Bakiras (IEEE Access, 2021)

Towards real-time privacy-preserving video surveillance. - Elmahdi Bentafat; M. Mazhar Rathore; Spiridon Bakiras (Comput. Commun., 2021)

Privacy-Preserving Multipoint Traffic Flow Estimation for Road Networks. - Elmahdi Bentafat; M. Mazhar Rathore; Spiridon Bakiras (Secur. Commun. Networks, 2021)

A Straightforward and Efficient Approach to Secure Smart Home Communication using Identify-Based Cryptosystems. - M. Mazhar Rathore; Sushil S. Chaurasia; Dhirendra Shukla; Elmahdi Bentafat (FRUCT, 2022)

UBIC-A Blockchain-Less Cryptocurrency. - Maurantonio Caprolu; Elmahdi Bentafat; Spiridon Bakiras; Roberto Di Pietro (DAPPS, 2023)

A Lightweight Committee-Based Approach for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning. - Elmahdi Bentafat; Noureddine Lasla; Abdullatif Albaseer; Mohamed M. Abdallah 001 (CCNC, 2025)

Secure Biometric Verification in the Presence of Malicious Adversaries. - Kamela Al-Mannai; Elmahdi Bentafat; Spiridon Bakiras; Jens Schneider 002 (IEEE Access, 2025)