Publications

Journal Articles

2025

  1. Hoeseok Yang, Hokeun Kim, Choonghwan Lee, and Hyung-Chan An, “Value-Aware Real-Time Scheduling for Intelligent Transportation Systems“, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (Early Access), August 2025. (To be presented) in Time-Centric Reactive Software (TCRS) Workshop at ESWEEK 2025, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2, 2025.
  2. Dongha Kim and Hokeun Kim, “Deterministic Modeling and Simulation of Fault-Tolerant Real-Time Software“, IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (Early Access), August 2025. (To be presented) in Time-Centric Reactive Software (TCRS) Workshop at ESWEEK 2025, Taipei, Taiwan, October 2, 2025.

2024

  1. Wonseo Choi, Dongha Kim, Sangmo Sung, Dohyung Han, Haeun Jo, Dongwook Choi, Jae-Il Jung, and Hokeun Kim, “Enhanced Wi-Fi Access Point Positioning using Hexagonal CNN with Mobile Data and Urban Information“, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Volume: 11, Issue: 20, pp. 33820-33832, October 2024.

2023

  1. Kibeom Park, Sangmo Sung, Hokeun Kim, and Jae-Il Jung, “Technology trends and challenges in SDN and service assurance for end-to-end network slicing,” Computer Networks, vol. 234, p. 109908, Oct. 2023.
  2. Christian Menard, Marten Lohstroh, Soroush Bateni, Matthew Chorlian, Arthur Deng, Peter Donovan, Clément Fournier, Shaokai Lin, Felix Suchert, Tassilo Tanneberger, Hokeun Kim, Jeronimo Castrillon, Edward A. Lee, “High-Performance Deterministic Concurrency using Lingua Franca,” ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization, Aug. 2023.
  3. Sangmo Sung, Wonseo Choi, Hokeun Kim, and Jae-Il Jung, “Deep Learning-Based Path Loss Prediction for Fifth-Generation New Radio Vehicle Communications,” IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 75295-75310, Jul. 2023.
  4. Dongha Kim, Yeongbin Jo, Taekyung Kim, and Hokeun Kim, “SST v1.0.0 with C API: Pluggable security solution for the Internet of Things“, SoftwareX, vol. 22, pp. 101390, May 2023.
  5. Sangmo Sung, Hokeun Kim, and Jae-Il Jung, “Accurate Indoor Positioning for UWB-based Personal Devices using Deep Learning“, IEEE Access, vol. 11, pp. 20095-20113, February 2023.

2020

  1. Hokeun Kim, Eunsuk Kang, David Broman, and Edward A. Lee, “Resilient Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things (IoT) Using Edge Computing“, ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (Volume: 1, Issue: 1), March 2020.

2019

  1. Hokeun Kim, Edward A. Lee, and Schahram Dustdar, “Creating a Resilient IoT With Edge Computing“, IEEE Computer (Volume: 52 , Issue: 8), August 2019.
  2. Hokeun Kim, Armin Wasicek, and Edward A. Lee, “An Integrated Simulation Tool for Computer Architecture and Cyber-Physical Systems“, Cyber Physical Systems. Design, Modeling, and Evaluation, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), Springer, April 2019.
  3. Marten Lohstroh, Hokeun Kim, John C Eidson, Chadlia Jerad, Beth Osyk, and Edward A. Lee, “On Enabling Technologies for the Internet of Important Things“, IEEE Access (Volume: 7), February 2019.

2018

  1. Christopher Brooks, Chadlia Jerad, Hokeun Kim, Edward A. Lee, Marten Lohstroh, Victor Nouvellet, Beth Osyk, and Matt Weber “A Component Architecture for the Internet of Things“, Proceedings of the IEEE (Volume: 106 , Issue: 9), September 2018.

2017

  1. Hokeun Kim and Edward A. Lee, “Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things“, IEEE IT Professional (Volume: 9 Issue: 5), October 2017.

Refereed Conference Papers

2025

  1. Byeonggil Jun, Megan Kuo, Aditya A. Krishnan, and Hokeun Kim, “Towards Efficient Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning on Edge with Reconfigurable FPGA”, (To appear) in Proceedings of the 28th Forum on specification and Design Languages (FDL 2025). St. Goar, Germany, September 10 – 12, 2025.
  2. Viraj Thakkar*, Dongha Kim*, Yingchun Lai, Hokeun Kim, and Zhichao Cao, “SHIELD: Encrypting Persistent Data of LSM-KVS from Monolithic to Disaggregated Storage“, in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD). Berlin, Germany, June 22 – 27, 2025. (* Equally contributed lead authors.) [Talk Slides] [Poster] [Code]
  3. Byeonggil Jun, Edward A. Lee, Marten Lohstroh, and Hokeun Kim, “Improving the Efficiency of Coordinating Timed Events in Distributed Systems“, in Proceedings of the 38th ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS). Santa Fe, NM, June 23 – 26, 2025. [Talk Slides] [Code]
  4. Francis Mendoza, Edward Andert, and Hokeun Kim, “Garrison: A Defensive Overlay Network for Critical SCADA Infrastructure Networks“, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC). Pisa, Italy, June 2 – 6, 2025.
  5. Pawan Kumar, Yejur Dube, and Hokeun Kim, “Demo Abstract: Cost-Effective Rover for Farms“, in Proceedings of the 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS). Irvine, CA, May 6 – 9. 2025. [Talk Slides] [Poster] [Code]
  6. Deeksha Prahlad, Chanhee Lee, Dongha Kim, and Hokeun Kim, “Personalizing Large Language Models using Retrieval Augmented Generation and Knowledge Graph“, in Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WWW). Sydney, NSW, Australia, April 28 – May 2, 2025. [Poster] [Video] [Code] [Dataset]

2024

  1. Dongha Kim, Chanhee Lee, and Hokeun Kim, “A Case Study of API Design for Interoperability and Security of the Internet of Things“, in Proceedings of the 2nd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (SmartSP). New Orleans, LA, November 7 – 8, 2024. [Talk Slides]
  2. Byeonggil Jun, Edward A. Lee, Marten Lohstroh, and Hokeun Kim, “Efficient Coordination for Distributed Discrete-Event Systems“, in Proceedings of the 22nd ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for System Design (MEMOCODE’24). Raleigh, NC, October 3 – October 4, 2024. [Talk Slides]
  3. Pawan Kumar and Hokeun Kim, “Cost-Effective Cyber-Physical System Prototype for Precision Agriculture with a Focus on Crop Growth“, in Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Workshop on Rapid System Prototyping (RSP). Raleigh, NC, October 3, 2024. [Talk Slides]
  4. Chanhee Lee, Deeksha Prahlad, Dongha Kim, and Hokeun Kim, “Work-in-Progress: On-device Retrieval Augmented Generation with Knowledge Graphs for Personalized Large Language Models“, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT). Raleigh, NC, September 29 – October 4, 2024. [Talk Slides] [Poster]
  5. Hokeun Kim, Younghyun Kim, and Hoeseok Yang, “Platform Design for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning using Homomorphic Encryption“, in Proceedings of the 27th Forum on specification and Design Languages (FDL 2024). Stockholm, Sweden, September 4-6, 2024. Best Paper Award [Talk Slides]
  6. Jonghyeon Nam, Jaeduk Han, and Hokeun Kim, “Low-Power Encoding for PAM-3 DRAM Bus“, in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Synthesis, Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Methods, and Applications to Circuit Design (SMACD). IEEE, Volos, Greece, July 2-5, 2024. [Talk Slides]

2023

  1. Soroush Bateni, Marten Lohstroh, Hou Seng Wong, Hokeun Kim, Shaokai Lin, Christian Menard, and Edward A. Lee, “Risk and Mitigation of Nondeterminism in Distributed Cyber-Physical Systems,” (to appear) in Proceedings of the 21st ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for System Design (MEMOCODE’23), Hamburg, Germany, Sep. 2023
  2. Hokeun Kim, “Secure Programming Platform for Edge-Based IoT,” in Proceedings of the 26th Forum on specification and Design Languages (FDL 2023), Turin, Italy, Sep. 2023.
  3. Byeong-gil Jun, Dongha Kim, Marten Lohstroh, and Hokeun Kim, “Reliable Event Detection Using Time-Synchronized IoT Platforms”, in Proceedings of Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet of Things Week 2023 (CPS-IoT Week ’23), Time-Centric Reactive Software (TCRS), San Antonio, TX, May 9, 2023.

2022

  1. Youri Su, Sanghun Lee, Eunji Song, Dongha Kim, Jaeduk Han, and Hokeun Kim, “Energy-Efficient Bus Encoding Techniques for Next-Generation PAM-4 DRAM Interfaces“, in Proceedings of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design (ICCD 2022), Lake Tahoe, CA, October 24-26, 2022. [Talk Slides]

2017

  1. Hokeun Kim, Eunsuk Kang, David Broman, and Edward A. Lee, “An Architectural Mechanism for Resilient IoT Services“, in Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings 2017), Delft, The Netherlands, November 5, 2017. [Talk Slides]
  2. Hokeun Kim, Armin Wasicek, and Edward A. Lee, “An Integrated Simulation Tool for Computer Architecture and Cyber-Physical Systems“, in Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber-Physical Systems (CyPhy’17), Seoul, Korea, October 19, 2017. [Talk Slides]
  3. Marten Lohstroh, Hokeun Kim, and Edward A. Lee, “Contextual callbacks for resource discovery and trust negotiation on the internet of things: work-in-progress“, in Proceedings of The ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), Seoul, Korea, October 15–20, 2017.
  4. Hokeun Kim, Eunsuk Kang, Edward A. Lee, and David Broman, “A Toolkit for Construction of Authorization Service Infrastructure for the Internet of Things“, in Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), Pittsburgh, PA, April 18-21, 2017. Best Paper Award [Talk Slides]

2016

  1. Hokeun Kim, Armin Wasicek, Benjamin Mehne, and Edward A. Lee, “A Secure Network Architecture for the Internet of Things Based on Local Authorization Entities“, in Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud), Vienna, Austria, August 22-24, 2016. [Talk Slides]
  2. Donggyu Kim, Adam Izraelevitz, Christopher Celio, Hokeun Kim, Brian Zimmer, Yunsup Lee, Jonathan Bachrach, and Krste Asanović, “Strober: Fast and Accurate Sample-Based Energy Simulation for Arbitrary RTL“, in Proceedings of the 43rd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture (ISCA), Seoul, Korea, June 18-22, 2016. Honorable Mention in IEEE Micro Top Picks ’17 [Talk Slides]
  3. Hokeun Kim, Yan Zhao, and Lihua Zhao, “Process-Level Modeling and Simulation for HP’s Multi Jet Fusion 3D Printing Technology“, in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Production Systems (CPPS), Vienna, Austria, April 12, 2016. [Talk Slides]

2015

  1. Armin Wasicek, Edward A. Lee, Hokeun Kim, Lev Greenberg, Akhito Iwai, and Ilge Akkaya, “System simulation from operational data“, in Proceedings of the 52nd Design Automation Conference (DAC), San Francisco, CA, June 2015.
  2. Hokeun Kim, David Broman, Edward A. Lee, Michael Zimmer, Aviral Shrivastava, and Junkwang Oh, “A Predictable and Command-Level Priority-Based DRAM Controller for Mixed-Criticality Systems“, in Proceedings of the 21st IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Application Symposium (RTAS), Seattle, WA, April 13-16, 2015. [Talk Slides]

2013

  1. Hokeun Kim, Liangpeng Guo, Edward A. Lee, and Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli, “A Tool Integration Approach for Architectural Exploration of Aircraft Electric Power Systems“, in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Networks, and Applications (CPSNA), Taipei, Taiwan, August 19-20, 2013. [Talk Slides]
  2. David Broman, Michael Zimmer, Yooseong Kim, Hokeun Kim, Jian Cai, Aviral Shrivastava, Stephen A. Edwards, and Edward A. Lee, “Precision Timed Infrastructure: Design Challenges“, in Proceedings of the Electronic System Level Synthesis Conference (ESLsyn), Austin, TX, May 31-June 1, 2013.

2010

  1. Chanhee Lee, Hokeun Kim, Hae-woo Park, Sungchan Kim, Hyunok Oh, and Soonhoi Ha, “A Task Remapping Technique for Reliable Multi-core Embedded Systems“, in Proceedings of IEEE/ACM/IFIP International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis (CODES+ISSS), 2010, pp.307-316, Scottsdale, AZ, October 2010.

Patents

  1. Yan Zhao, Hokeun Kim, Lihua Zhao, and Jun Zeng. “Three-dimensional (3D) Object Printing Simulator“, US10866575B2, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Registered in December 2020.
  2. Soonhoi Ha, Hokeun Kim and Boyung Lee. “Position Tracking System and Apparatus Using Signal Strength of Wireless Signal“, KR101176141B1, Korean Intellectual Property Office, Registered in August 2012.

Preprints

  1. Christian Menard, Marten Lohstroh, Soroush Bateni, Matthew Chorlian, Arthur Deng, Peter Donovan, Clément Fournier, Shaokai Lin, Felix Suchert, Tassilo Tanneberger, Hokeun Kim, Jeronimo Castrillon, and Edward A. Lee, “High-Performance Deterministic Concurrency using Lingua Franca“, arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.02444, January 2023.
  2. Soroush Bateni, Marten Lohstroh, Hou Seng Wong, Rohan Tabish, Hokeun Kim, Shaokai Lin, Christian Menard, Cong Liu, and Edward A. Lee, “Xronos: Predictable Coordination for Safety-Critical Distributed Embedded Systems“, arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.09555, July 2022.