On Sunday morning, June 21, 2026, in the discussion hall of the Computer Science Department, College of Education for Pure Sciences, University of Basra, a master's thesis defense was held for student Noor Karim Abdul, entitled "An Ultralight Authentication Protocol for the Internet of Health Things." The thesis was supervised by Professor Dr. Zaid Amin Abdul Jabbar.

The defense was attended by the Assistant Dean for Scientific Affairs, Professor Dr. Haider Qasim Fadhil, the Head of the Department, Professor Dr. Hamed Ali Abdul Asadi (chairing the examining committee), faculty members, and a number of graduate students and researchers interested in information security within the Internet of Health Things (IoHT) environment.

In her thesis, entitled "An Ultralight Anonymous Authentication Protocol to Enhance Security in the Internet of Health Things," the student presented an in-depth study to enhance the security of health data exchanged between sensors and smart devices in the IoHT environment, which is revolutionizing the medical field through remote, real-time patient monitoring and online diagnosis. The student developed an ultra-light protocol based on one-way hashing functions, timestamps, random numbers, and XOR operations, thus overcoming the significant computational, communication, and energy burdens of traditional technologies such as blockchain and public-key cryptography.

The results demonstrated the superiority of the proposed protocol over others, achieving a low computational load of only 0.1842 milliseconds, a communication cost of 864 bits, and an energy cost of 1.0301676 millijoules, making it suitable for resource-constrained environments

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