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2025<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C72] Abdualrhman Almeajel, Yan Zhang, Tao Li, and Yanchao Zhang, “mmRhythm: secure and usable user authentication for IoT devices based on hand-tapping patterns<\/a>,” IEEE Miliary Communications Conference<\/em> (MILCOM), Los Angeles, CA, October 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C71] Zhaofeng Zhang, Xuanli Lin, Guoliang Xue, Yanchao Zhang, and Kevin S Chan, “Multi-Hop relay-aided task offloading for tactical edge computing<\/a>,” IEEE Miliary Communications Conference<\/em> (MILCOM), Los Angeles, CA, October 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C70] Aliu Akinwale, Wentao Gao, Jiawei Li, Ang Li, Xiaojun Shang, Yanchao Zhang, and Dianqi Han, “Practical reflection manipulation on mmWave-based physical intrusion detection<\/a>,” IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security<\/em> (CNS), Avignon, France, September 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C69] Ye Zheng, Shafizur Rahman Seeam, Yidan Hu, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, “Locally differentially private frequency estimation via joint randomized response<\/a>,” Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium<\/em> (PETS), Washington, DC, July 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C68] Ziqian Bi, Amit Singha, Hongfei Xue, Tao Li, Yimin Chen, and Yanchao Zhang, “Physical backdoor attacks against mmWave-based human activity recognition<\/a>,” IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems<\/em> (ICDCS), Glasgow, Scotland, UK, July 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C67] Yan Zhang, Tao Li, and Yanchao Zhang, “GNN-SML: Graph neural network-based spectrum misuser localization<\/a>,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), London, UK, May 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2024<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C66] Xuanli Lin, Zhaofeng Zhang, Yinxin Wang, Ethan Z Teo, Guoliang Xue, and Yanchao Zhang, “Most vulnerable attack trace in a probabilistic attack graph<\/a>,” IEEE Military Communications Conference<\/em> (MILCOM), Washington, DC, October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C65] Zhaofeng Zhang, Xuanli Lin, Guoliang Xue, Yanchao Zhang, and Kevin S Chan, “Joint optimization of task offloadingand resource allocation in tactical edge networks<\/a>,” IEEE Military Communications Conference<\/em> (MILCOM), Washington, DC, October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C64] Yan Zhang, Jiawei Li, Diani Han, and Yanchao Zhang, “W-MIA: Membership inference attack against deep learning-based RF fingerprinting<\/a>,” IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security<\/em> (CNS), Taipei, Taiwan, September 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C63] Dianiqi Han, Ang Li, Jiawei Li, Yan Zhang, Tao Li, and Yanchao Zhang, “WaveKey: Secure mobile ad hoc access to RFID-protected systems<\/a>,” IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems<\/em> (ICDCS), Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, July 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C62] Amit Singha, Ziqian Bi, Tao Li, Yimin Chen, and Yanchao Zhang, “Securing contrastive mmWave-based human activity recognition against adversarial label flipping<\/a>,” ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks<\/em> (WiSec), Seoul, Korea, May 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2023<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C61] Jiawei Xu, Ziqian Bi, Amit Singha, Tao Li, Yimin Chen and Yanchao Zhang, “mmLock: User leaving setection against data theft via high-quality mmWave radar imaging<\/a>,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks<\/em> (ICCCN), invited paper, Honolulu, HI, USA, July 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C60] Xin Yao, Yu Zhan, Yimin Chen, Fengxiao Tang, Ming Zhao, Enlang Li, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cDUO: Stealthy adversarial example attack on video retrieval systems via frame-pixel search<\/a>“,  IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems<\/em> ICDCS, Hong Kong, China, July 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C59] Ang Li, Jiawei Li, Dianqi Han, Yan Zhang, Tao Li, Ting Zhu, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cPhyAuth: Physical-layer message authentication for ZigBee networks<\/a>,\u201d USENIX Security<\/em>, Anaheim, CA, August 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J47] Ang Li, Jiawei Li, Yan Zhang, Dianqi Han, Tao Li, and Yanchao Zhang, “Secure UHF RFID authentication with smart devices<\/a>,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications<\/em>, vol. 22, no. 7, pp. 4520-4533, July 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J46] Yidan Hu, Xin Yao, Rui Zhang and Yanchao Zhang, “Freshness authentication for outsourced multi-version key-value stores<\/a>,” IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing<\/em>, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 2071-2084, May 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J45] Jiawei Li, Chuyu Wang, Ang Li, Dianqi Han, Yan Zhang, Jinhang Zuo, Rui Zhang, Lei Xie, and Yanchao Zhang, “Rhythmic RFID authentication<\/a>,” IEEE\/ACM Transactions on Networking<\/em>, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 877-890, April 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J44] Yan Zhang, Dianqi Han, Ang Li, Lili Zhang, Tao Li, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cMagAuth: secure and usable two-factor authentication with magnetic wrist wearables<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing<\/em>, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 311-327, January 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2022<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C58] Ang Li, Jiawei Li, Dianqi Han, Yan Zhang, Tao Li, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cWearRF-CLA: Continuous location authentication with wrist wearables and UHF RFID<\/a>,\u201d ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security<\/em> (AsiaCCS), Nagasaki, Japan, May 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C57] Jiawei Li, Ang Li, Dianqi Han, Yan Zhang, Tao Li, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cRCID: Fingerprinting passive RFID tags via wideband backscatter<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), May 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J43] Yan Zhang, Ang Li, Jiawei Li, Dianqi Han, Tao Li, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, “SpecKriging: GNN-based secure cooperative spectrum sensing<\/a>,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications<\/em>, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 9936-9946, November 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J42] Dianqi Han, Ang Li, Lili Zhang, Yan Zhang, Jiawei Li, Tao Li, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201c(In)secure acoustic mobile authentication<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing<\/em>, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 3193-3207, September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2021<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C56] Dianqi Han, Ang Li, Jiawei Li, Yan Zhang, Tao Li, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cDroneKey: a drone-aided group-key generation scheme for large-Scale IoT networks<\/a>,\u201d ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), October 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C55] Xixun Yu, Yidan Hu, Rui Zhang, Zheng Yan, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cSecure outsourced top-k selection queries against untrusted cloud service providers<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), May 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C54] Xin Yao, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cDifferential privacy-preserving user linkage across online social networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE\/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service<\/em> (IWQOS), June 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C53] Tao Li, Dianqi Han, Jiawei Li, Ang Li, Yan Zhang, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cYour home is insecure: practical attacks on wireless home alarm systems<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications <\/em>(INFOCOM), May 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J41] Xin Yao, Rui Zhang, Dingquan Huang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cVerifiable query processing over outsourced social graph<\/a>,\u201d IEEE\/ACM Transactions on Networking<\/em>, vol. 29, no. 5, pp.2313-2326, October 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J40] Dianqi Han, Ang Li, Lili Zhang, Yan Zhang, Jiawei Li, Tao Li, Ting Zhu, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cDeep learning-guided jamming for cross-technology wireless networks: attack and defense<\/a>,\u201d IEEE\/ACM Transactions on Networking<\/em>, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 1922-1932, October 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2020<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C52] Yan Li, Xin Liu, Wei Wang, Yao Yao, Ting Zhu, and Yanchao Zhang, “Countering cross-technology jamming attack<\/a>,” ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks<\/em> (WiSec), July 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C51] Jiawei Li, Chuyu Wang, Ang Li, Dianqi Han, Yan Zhang, Jinhang Zuo, Rui Zhang, Lei Xie, and Yanchao Zhang, “RF-Rhythm: secure and usable two-factor RFID authentication<\/a>,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), June 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C50] Yidan Hu, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, “KV-Fresh: freshness authentication for outsourced multi-version key-value stores<\/a>,” IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), June 2020. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J39] Tao Li, Dianqi Han, Yimin Chen, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Terri Hedgpeth, “IndoorWaze: a crowdsourcing-based context-aware indoor navigation system<\/a>,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications<\/em>, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 5461-5472, May 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2019<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C49] Zicheng Chi, Yan Li, Xin Liu,Yao Yao,Yanchao Zhang,  and Ting Zhu, “Parallel inclusive communication for connecting heterogeneous IoT devices at the edge<\/a>,” ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems<\/em> (SenSys), New York, NY, November 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C48] Lili Zhang, Dianqi Han, Ang Li, Tao Li, Yan Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, “WristUnlock: secure and usable smartphone unlocking with wrist wearables<\/a>,” IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security<\/em> (CNS), Washington, DC, June 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C47] Ang Li, Tao Li, Yan Zhang, Lili Zhang and Yanchao Zhang, “SocialDistance: how far are you from verified users in online social media?<\/a>“,  IEEE\/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service<\/em> (IWQoS), Phoenix, AZ, June 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C46] Yunzhi Li, Yidan Hu, Rui Zhang,Yanchao Zhang, and Terri Hedgpeth, “Secure indoor positioning against signal strength attacks via optimized multi-voting<\/a>,” IEEE\/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service<\/em> (IWQoS), Phoenix, AZ, June 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C45] Ghazaleh Beigi, Ruocheng Guo, Alexander Nou, Yanchao Zhang, and Huan Liu, “Protecting user privacy: an approach for untraceable web browsing history and unambiguous user profiles<\/a>,” ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining<\/em> (WSDM), Melbourne, Australia, February 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

2018<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C44] Dianqi Han, Yimin Chen, Tao Li, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Terri Hedgpeth, “Proximity-Proof: secure and usable two-factor mobile authentication<\/a>,” ACM Annual Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking<\/em> (MobiCom), New Delhi, India, October 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C43] Ghazaleh Beigi, Kai Shu, Yanchao Zhang, and Huan Liu, \u201cSecuring social media user data: an adversarial approach<\/a>,\u201d ACM Conference on HyperText and Social Media <\/em>(HT), Baltimore, MD, July 2018. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C42] Lizhou Yuan, Yidan Hu, Yunzhi Li, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Terri Hedgpeth, \u201cSecure RSS-fingerprint-based indoor positioning: attacks and countermeasures<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security<\/em> (CNS), Beijing, China, May 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C41] Yimin Chen, Tao Li, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Terri Hedgpeth, \u201cEyeTell: video-assisted touchscreen keystroke inference from eye movements<\/a>, \u201d IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy<\/em> (SP), San Francisco, CA, May 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C40] Jinxue Zhang, Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Xia Hu, \u201cPrivacy-preserving social media data outsourcing<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Honolulu, HI, April 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C39] Tao Li, Yimin Chen, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Terri Hedgpeth, \u201cSecure crowdsourced indoor positioning systems<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Honolulu, HI, April 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J38] Xin Yao, Yimin Chen, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Yaping Lin, \u201cBeware of what you share:  inferring user locations in Venmo<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Internet of Things Journal<\/em>, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 5109-5118, December 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J37] Xiaocong Jin, Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Chi Zhang, \u201cSpecGuard: spectrum misuse detection in dynamic spectrum access systems<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing<\/em>, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 2925-2938, December 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J36] Xiaocong Jin and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cPrivacy-preserving crowdsourced spectrum sensing<\/a>,\u201d IEEE\/ACM Transactions on Networking<\/em>, vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 1236-1249, June 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2017<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C38] Yimin Chen, Jingchao Sun, Xiaocong Jin, Tao Li, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cYour face your heart: secure mobile face authentication with photoplethysmograms<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Atlanta, GA, April 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C37] Yimin Chen, Xiaocong Jin, Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cPOWERFUL: mobile app fingerprinting via power analysis<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Atlanta, GA, April 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C36] Xin Yao, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Yaping Lin, \u201cVerifiable social data outsourcing<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Atlanta, GA, April 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2016<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C35] Tao Li, Yimin Chen, Jingchao Sun, Xiaocong Jin, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201ciLock: immediate and automatic locking of mobile devices against data theft<\/a>,\u201d ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security<\/em> (CCS), Vienna, Austria, October 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C34] Xiaocong Jin, Rui Zhang, Yimin Chen, Tao Li, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cDPSense: differentially private crowdsourced spectrum sensing<\/a>,\u201d ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security<\/em> (CCS), Vienna, Austria, October 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C33] Tao Li, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cPriExpress: privacy-preserving express delivery with fine-grained attribute-based access control<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security<\/em> (CNS), Philadelphia, PA, October 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C32] Xin Yao, Yaping Lin, Qin Liu, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cA secure hierarchical deduplication system in cloud storage<\/a>,\u201d IEEE\/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service<\/em> (IWQoS), Beijing, China, June 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C31] Jinxue Zhang, Xia Hu, Yanchao Zhang, and Huan Liu, \u201cYour age is no secret: Inferring microbloggers\u2019 ages via content and interaction analysis<\/a>,\u201d International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media<\/em> (ICWSM), Cologne, Germany, May 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C30] Xiaocong Jin and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cPrivacy-preserving crowdsourced spectrum sensing<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), San Francisco, CA, April 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C29] Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang, Jinxue Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cPriStream: privacy-preserving distributed stream monitoring of thresholded percentile statistics<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), San Francisco, CA, China, April 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C28] Wenxin Chen, Mengjun Liu, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Shubo Liu, \u201cSecure outsourced skyline query processing via untrusted cloud service providers<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), San Francisco, April 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C27] Jingchao Sun, Xiaocong Jin, Yimin Chen, Jingxue Zhang, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cVISIBLE: video-assisted keystroke inference from tablet backside motion<\/a>,\u201d ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium<\/em> (NDSS), San Diego, California, February 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J35] Jinxue Zhang, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang and Guanhua Yan, \u201cThe rise of social botnets: attacks and countermeasures<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing<\/em>, accepted, April 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J34] Jinghcao Sun, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cPrivacy-preserving spatiotemporal matching for secure device-to-device communications<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Internet of Things Journal<\/em>, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 1048-1060, December 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J33] Jinxue Zhang, Rui Zhang, Jingchao Sun, Yanchao Zhang and Chi Zhang, \u201cTrueTop: a sybil-resilient system for user influence measurement on Twitter<\/a>,\u201d IEEE\/ACM Transactions on Networking<\/em>, vol. 24, no. 5, pp. 2834-2846, October 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J32] Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang, Xiaocong Jin, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cSecureFind: secure and privacy-preserving object finding via mobile crowdsourcing<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications<\/em>, vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 1716-1728, March 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2015<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C26] Xiaocong Jin, Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cSafeDSA: safeguard dynamic spectrum access against fake secondary users<\/a>,\u201d ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security<\/em> (CCS), Denver, Colorado, October 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C25] Jinxue Zhang, Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cYour actions tell where you are: uncovering Twitter users in a metropolitan area<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security<\/em> (CNS), Florence, Italy, September 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C24] Xiaocong Jin, Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Chi Zhang, \u201cSpecGuard: spectrum misuse detection in dynamic spectrum access systems<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Hong Kong, China, April 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C23] Yimin Chen, Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cYour song your way: rhythm-based two-factor authentication for multi-touch mobile devices<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Hong Kong, China, April 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J31] Rui Zhang, Jingchao Sun, Yanchao Zhang and Xiaoxia Huang, \u201cJamming-resistant secure neighbor discovery in mobile ad hoc networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications<\/em>, vol. 14, no. 10, pp. 5588-5601, October 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J30] Rui Zhang, Jingchao Sun, Yanchao Zhang and Chi Zhang, \u201cSecure spatial top-K query processing via untrusted location-based service providers<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing<\/em>, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 111-124, January\/February 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2014<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C22] Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang, Jinxue Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cTouchIn: sightless two-factor authentication on multi-touch mobile devices<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Conference on Communication and Network Security<\/em> (CNS), San Francisco, CA, October 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C21] Jingchao Sun, Xu Chen, Jinxue Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Junshan Zhang, \u201cSYNERGY: a game-theoretical approach for cooperative key generation in wireless networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Toronto, Canada, April 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J29] Xiaocong Jin, Rui Zhang, Jingchao Sun, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cTIGHT: a geographic routing protocol for cognitive radio mobile ad hoc networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications<\/em>, vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 4670-4681, August 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J28] Rui Zhang, Jing Shi, Yanchao Zhang and Chi Zhang, \u201cSecure top-K query processing in unattended tiered sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology<\/em>, vol. 63, no. 9, pp. 4681-4693, November 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2013<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C20] Jinxue Zhang, Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Guanhua Yan, \u201cOn the impact of social botnets for spam distribution and digital-influence manipulation<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security<\/em> (CNS), Washington, D.C., October 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C19] Xia Hu, Jiliang Tang, Yanchao Zhang, and Huan Liu, \u201cSocial spammer detection in microblogging<\/a>,\u201d International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence<\/em> (IJCAI), Beijing, China, August 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C18] Rui Zhang, Jinxue Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Chi Zhang, \u201cSecure crowdsourcing-based cooperative spectrum sensing<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Turin, Italy, April 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C17] Jingchao Sun, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cPrivacy-preserving spatiotemporal matching<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Turin, Italy, April 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J27] Rui Zhang, Jing Shi, Yanchao Zhang and Chi Zhang, \u201cVerifiable privacy-preserving aggregation in people-centric urban sensing systems<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications<\/em> (Special Issue on Emerging Technologies in Communications), vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 268-278, September 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J26] Rui Zhang, Jinxue Zhang, Yanchao Zhang Jinyuan Sun, and Guanhua Yan, \u201cPrivacy-preserving profile matching for proximity-based mobile social networking<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications<\/em> (Special Issue on Emerging Technologies in Communications), vol. 31, no. 9, pp. 656-668, September 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2012<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C16] Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Chi Zhang, \u201cSecure top-k query processing via untrusted location-based service providers<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication<\/em> (INFOCOM), Orlando, FL, March 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C15] Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, Jinyuan Sun, and Guanhua Yan, \u201cFine-grained private matching for proximity-based mobile social networking<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication<\/em> (INFOCOM), Orlando, FL, March 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J25] Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang and Kui Ren, \u201cDistributed privacy-preserving access control in sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems<\/em>, vol. 23, no.8, pp. 1427\u20131438, August 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J24] Rui Zhang, Jing Shi, Yanchao Zhang and Jinyuan Sun, \u201cSecure cooperative data storage and query processing in unattended tiered sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications<\/em> (Special Issue on Cooperative Networking Challenges and Applications), vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 433\u2013441, February 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2011<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C14] Rui Zhang and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cLR-Seluge: loss-resilient and secure code dissemination in wireless sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems<\/em> (ICDCS), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C13] Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Xiaoxia Huang, \u201cJR-SND: jamming-resilient secure neighbor discovery in mobile ad hoc networks<\/a>,\u201d International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems<\/em> (ICDCS), Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C12] Rui Zhang, Yunzhong Liu, Yanchao Zhang, and Jinyuan Sun, \u201cFast identification of the missing tags in a large RFID system<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks<\/em> (SECON), Salt Lake City, Utah, June 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J23] Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang and Yuguang Fang, \u201cAOS: an anonymous overlay system for mobile ad hoc networks<\/a>,\u201d ACM Wireless Networks <\/em>(WINET), vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 843\u2013859, May 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J22] Chi Zhang, Yang Song, Yuguang Fang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cOn the price of security in large-scale wireless ad hoc networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE\/ACM Transactions on Networking<\/em>, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 319-332, April 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J21] Jing Shi, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cA spatiotemporal approach for secure range queries in tiered sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications<\/em>, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 264-273, January 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J20] Jinyuan Sun, Chi Zhang, Yanchao Zhang and Yuguang Fang, \u201cSAT: a security architecture achieving anonymity and traceability in wireless mesh networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing<\/em>, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 295-307, March 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2010<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C11] Yunzhong Liu, Rui Zhang, Jing Shi, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cTraffic inference in anonymous MANETs<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks<\/em> (SECON), Boston, MA, June 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C10] Rui Zhang and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cWormhole-resilient secure neighbor discovery in underwater acoustic networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), San Diego, CA, March 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C09] Rui Zhang, Jing Shi, Yunzhong Liu, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cVerifiable fine-grained top-k queries in tiered sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), San Diego, CA, March 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C08] Jing Shi, Rui Zhang, Yunzhong Liu, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cPriSense: privacy-preserving data aggregation in people-centric urban sensing systems<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), San Diego, CA, March 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J19] Jinyuan Sun, Chi Zhang, Yanchao Zhang and Yuguang Fang, \u201cAn identity-based security system for user privacy in vehicular ad hoc networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems<\/em>, vol. 21, no. 9, pp. 1227-1239, September 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J18] Chi Zhang, Yanchao Zhang and Yuguang Fang, \u201cA coverage inference protocol for wireless sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing<\/em>, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 850-864, June 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J17] Kui Ren, Shucheng Yu, Wenjing Lou, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cPEACE: a sophisticated privacy-enhanced yet accountable security framework for wireless mesh networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems<\/em>, vol. 21, no. 2, pp. 203-215, February 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2009<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C07] Rui Zhang, Jing Shi, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cSecure multidimensional range queries in sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing<\/em> (MobiHoc), New Orleans, LA, May 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C06] Jing Shi, Rui Zhang, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cSecure range queries in tiered sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C05] Rui Zhang, Yanchao Zhang, and Kui Ren, \u201cDP2<\/sup>AC: distributed privacy-preserving access control in sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C04] Qian Wang, Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cDependable and secure sensor data storage with dynamic integrity assurance<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J16] Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, Shucheng Yu, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cMulti-user broadcast authentication in wireless sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology<\/em>, vol. 58, no. 8, pp. 4554-4464, October 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J15] Chi Zhang, Yanchao Zhang and Yuguang Fang, \u201cLocalized coverage boundary detection for wireless sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d ACM Wireless Networks <\/em>(WINET), vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 3-20, January 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J14] Yanchao Zhang and Kui Ren, \u201cOn address privacy in mobile ad hoc networks<\/a>,\u201d ACM Mobile Networks and Applications<\/em> (MONET), vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 188-197, April 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J13] Wenjing Lou, Wei Liu, Yanchao Zhang and Yuguang Fang, \u201cSPREAD: improving network security by multipath routing in mobile ad hoc networks<\/a>,\u201d ACM Wireless Networks<\/em> (WINET), vol. 15, no. 3, pp. 279-294, April 2009.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2008<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[J12] Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cLEDS: providing location-aware end-to-end data security in wireless sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing<\/em>, vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 585-598, May 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2007<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C03] Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cMulti-user broadcast authentication in wireless sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks<\/em> (SECON), San Diego, June 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J11] Yanchao Zhang and Yuguang Fang, \u201cA secure authentication and billing architecture for wireless mesh networks<\/a>,\u201d ACM Wireless Networks <\/em>(WINET), vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 663-678, October 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J10] Yanchao Zhang, Wenjing Lou, Wei Liu, and Yuguang Fang, \u201cA secure incentive protocol for mobile ad hoc networks<\/a>,\u201d ACM Wireless Networks <\/em>(WINET), vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 569-582, October 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J09]  Yanchao Zhang and Yuguang Fang, \u201cA fine-grained reputation system for reliable service selection in peer-to-peer networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems<\/em>, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 1134-1145, August 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J08] Yun Zhou, Yanchao Zhang and Yuguang Fang, \u201cAccess control in wireless sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d Ad Hoc Networks<\/em> (Special Issue on Security in Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks), vol. 5, no. 1, pp. 3-13, January 2007.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2006 and prior<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

[C02] Kui Ren, Wenjing Lou, and Yanchao Zhang, \u201cLEDS: providing location-aware end-to-end data security in wireless sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Barcelona, Spain, April 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[C01] Yanchao Zhang, Wei Liu, and Wenjing Lou, \u201cAnonymous communications in mobile ad hoc networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications<\/em> (INFOCOM), Miami, Florida, March 2005.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J07] Yanchao Zhang, Wei Liu, Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, \u201cSecuring mobile ad hoc networks with certificateless public keys<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing<\/em>, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 386-399, October 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J06] Yanchao Zhang and Yuguang Fang, \u201cARSA: an attack-resilient security architecture for multi-hop wireless mesh networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications<\/em> (Special Issue on High-Speed Network Security\u2013Architecture, Algorithms, and Implementation), vol. 24, no. 10, pp. 1916-1928, October 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J05] Yanchao Zhang, Wei Liu, Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, \u201cMASK: anonymous on-demand routing in mobile ad hoc networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications<\/em>, vol. 5, no. 9, pp. 2376-2385, September 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J04] Wei Liu, Yanchao Zhang Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, \u201cA robust and energy-efficient data dissemination framework for wireless sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d ACM Wireless Networks<\/em> (WINET), vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 465-479, August 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J03] Yanchao Zhang, Wei Liu, Yuguang Fang, and Dapeng Wu, \u201cSecure localization and authentication in ultra-wideband sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications<\/em> (Special Issue on Ultra Wideband Wireless Communications\u2013Theory and Applications), vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 829-835, April 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J02] Yanchao Zhang, Wei Liu, Wenjing Lou, and Yuguang Fang, \u201cLocation-based compromise-tolerant security mechanisms for wireless sensor networks<\/a>,\u201d IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications<\/em> (Special Issue on Security in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks), vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 247-260, February 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[J01] Wei Liu, Yanchao Zhang, Kejie Lu, and Yuguang Fang, \u201cEnergy conservation through resource-aware movement in heterogeneous mobile ad hoc networks<\/a>,\u201d Journal of Combinatorial Optimization <\/em>(Special Issue on Wireless Network Applications), vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 7-20, February 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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