An Effective Mechanism to Mitigate Real-Time DDoS Attack. - Rana Abu Bakar; Abdulaziz Aldegheishem; Muhammad Faran Majeed; Amjad Mehmood; Hafsa Maryam; Nabil Ali Alrajeh; Carsten Maple; Muhammad Jawad (IEEE Access, 2020)

CAVVPM: Challenge-Based Authentication and Verification of Vehicle Platooning at Motorway. - Muhammad Arslan; Muhammad Faran Majeed; Rana Abu Bakar; Jawad Khan; Shafiq Hussain; Youngmoon Lee; Faheem Khan (Sensors, 2022)

Cascaded Look Up Table Distillation of P4 Deep Neural Network Switches. - Lorenzo De Marinis; Emilio Paolini; Rana Abu Bakar; Filippo Cugini; Francesco Paolucci (GLOBECOM, 2023)

An Intelligent Agent-Based Detection System for DDoS Attacks Using Automatic Feature Extraction and Selection. - Rana Abu Bakar; Xin Huang 005; Muhammad Saqib Javed; Shafiq Hussain; Muhammad Faran Majeed (Sensors, 2023)

LSNCP: Lightweight and Secure Numeric Comparison Protocol for Wireless Body Area Networks. - Haotian Yin; Xin Huang 005; Bin Xing; Jiajia Huang; Xiaoxin Sun; Jianshuang Li; Sheng Chai; Di Zhang; Rana Abu Bakar; Wei Wang 042 (IEEE Internet Things J., 2023)

Enhancing Network Visibility and Security with Advanced Port Scanning Techniques. - Rana Abu Bakar; Boonserm Kijsirikul (Sensors, 2023)

Footprint-Optimized Orchestration and Management of Secure Complex Services over 6G Continuum. - Sumeyya Birtane; Mays F. Al-Naday; Francesco Paolucci; Rana Abu Bakar; Vincent Lefebvre; Virgilios Passas; Sarantis Kalafatidis; Antonios Lalas; Anastasios Drosou; Edgardo Montes de Oca; Ana Rosa Cavalli; Péter Vörös; et al. (CSCN, 2024)

Wire-speed DDoS Attack Mitigation using Hardware Acceleration of Programmable DPUs. - Stefano Hinic; Rana Abu Bakar; Andrea Marotta; Francesco Paolucci (GLOBECOM, 2024)

5GDAD: A Deep Learning Approach for DDoS Attack Detection in 5G P4-based UPF. - Rana Abu Bakar; Faris Alhamed; Piero Castoldi; Andrea Sgambelluri; Juan Jose Vegas Olmos; Filippo Cugini; Francesco Paolucci (HPSR, 2024)

First Line-rate End-to-End Post-Quantum Encrypted Optical Fiber Link Using Data Processing Units (DPUs). - Abraham Cano Aguilera; Rana Abu Bakar; Faris Alhamed; Carlos Rubio Garcia; José Luis Imaña; Idelfonso Tafur Monroy; Filippo Cugini; J. J. Vegas Olmos (OFC, 2024)

Programmable Packet-Optical Networks using Data Processing Units (DPUs) with Embedded GPU. - Piero Castoldi; Rana Abu Bakar; Andrea Sgambelluri; Juan Jose Vegas Olmos; Francesco Paolucci; Filippo Cugini (OFC, 2024)

DPUAUT: Secure Authentication Protocol With SmartNiC Integration for Trustworthy Communications in Intelligent Swarm Systems. - Rana Abu Bakar; Francesco Paolucci; Filippo Cugini; Piero Castoldi; Juan Jose Vegas Olmos (IEEE Access, 2024)

VRPR: A New Data Center Protocol for Enhanced Network Performance, Resilience, and Recovery. - Muhammad Muzaffar Iqbal; Muhammad Daud Awan; Malik Sikander Hayat Khiyal; Rana Abu Bakar (IEEE Access, 2024)

A Secure and Green Cognitive Routing Protocol for Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks. - Muhammad Saqib Javed; Rana Abu Bakar (IEEE Access, 2024)

FTG-Net-E: A hierarchical ensemble graph neural network for DDoS attack detection. - Rana Abu Bakar; Lorenzo De Marinis; Filippo Cugini; Francesco Paolucci (Comput. Networks, 2024)

Wireless and Fiber-Based Post-Quantum-Cryptography-Secured IPsec Tunnel. - Daniel C. Lawo; Rana Abu Bakar; Abraham Cano Aguilera; Filippo Cugini; José Luis Imaña; Idelfonso Tafur Monroy; Juan Jose Vegas Olmos (Future Internet, 2024)

Programmable packet-optical network security and monitoring using DPUs with embedded GPUs [Invited]. - Piero Castoldi; Rana Abu Bakar; Andrea Sgambelluri; Juan Jose Vegas Olmos; Francesco Paolucci; Filippo Cugini (J. Opt. Commun. Netw., 2025)