PUBLICATIONS

Leaking Arbitrarily Many Secrets: Any-out-of-Many Proofs and Applications to RingCT Protocols

Published in IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), 2023

Category: cryptography, zero-knowledge, sigma protocol, RingCT, blockchain.

Recommended citation: T. Zheng, S. Gao, Y. Song, B. Xiao, “Leaking Arbitrarily Many Secrets: Any-out-of-Many Proofs and Applications to RingCT Protocols”, in Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), San Francisco, CA, USA, May 22-25, 2023. [bib]

Reducing Gas Consumption of Tornado Cash and Other Smart Contracts in Ethereum

Published in IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 2022

Category: anonymity, zkSNARK.

Recommended citation: J. Yang, S. Gao, G. Li, R. Song, B. Xiao, “Reducing Gas Consumption of Tornado Cash and Other Smart Contracts in Ethereum”, in IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), Wuhan, China, 9-11 Oct. 2022. [bib]

zkDET: A Traceable Data Exchange Scheme based on Non-Fungible Token and Zero-Knowledge

Published in IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2022

Category: privacy, zero-knowledge.

Recommended citation: R. Song, S. Gao, Y. Song, B. Xiao, “zkDET: A Traceable Data Exchange Scheme based on Non-Fungible Token and Zero-Knowledge”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Bologna, Italy, 10-13 July 2022. [bib]

SymmeProof: Compact Zero-Knowledge Argument for Blockchain Confidential Transactions

Published in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2022

Category: cryptography, zero-knowledge, blockchain.

Recommended citation: S. Gao, Z. Peng, F. Tan, Y. Zheng, B. Xiao, “SymmeProof: Compact Zero-Knowledge Argument for Blockchain Confidential Transactions”, in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), June. 2022. [bib]

You Can Hear but You Cannot Record: Privacy Protection by Jamming Audio Recording

Published in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2021

Category: anonymity.

Recommended citation: X. Ma, Y. Song, Z. Wang, S. Gao, B. Xiao, A. Hu, “You Can Hear but You Cannot Record: Privacy Protection by Jamming Audio Recording”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, 14-23 June 2021. [bib]

My Site Knows Where You Are: A Novel Browser Fingerprint to Track User Position

Published in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2021

Category: anonymity, web security.

Recommended citation: T. Wu, Y. Song, F. Zhang, S. Gao, B. Chen, “My Site Knows Where You Are: A Novel Browser Fingerprint to Track User Position”, in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Montreal, Canada, 14-23 June 2021. [bib]

Authenticating Mobile Wireless Device Through Per-packet Channel State Information

Published in Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshop (DSN-W), 2021

Category: network security.

Recommended citation: B. Chen, Y. Song, Z. Zhu, S. Gao, S. Wang, A. Hu, “Authenticating Mobile Wireless Device Through Per-packet Channel State Information”, in Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Workshops (DSN-W), Taipei, Taiwan, 21-24 June 2021. [bib]

Griffin: An Ensemble of AutoEncoders for Anomaly Traffic Detection in SDN

Published in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2020

Category: network security, SDN security, anomaly detection.

Recommended citation: L. Yang, Y. Song, S. Gao, B. Xiao, and A. Hu, “Griffin: An Ensemble of AutoEncoders for Anomaly Traffic Detection in SDN”, in Proc. of the IEEE GLOBECOM (GLOBECOM), Taipei, Taiwan, China, 7-11 Dec. 2020. [bib]

Detection and Mitigation of DoS Attacks in Software Defined Networks

Published in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2020

Category: network security, SDN security, DDoS attacks.

Recommended citation: S. Gao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, A. Hu, Y. Song, and K. Ren, “Detection and Mitigation of DoS Attacks in Software Defined Networks”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Vol. 28, No. 3, June 2020. [bib]

Power Adjusting and Bribery Racing: Novel Mining Attacks in the Bitcoin System

Published in ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2019

Category: blockchain, mining attacks, dilemma.

Recommended citation: S. Gao, Z. Li, Z. Peng, and B. Xiao, “Power Adjusting and Bribery Racing: Novel Mining Attacks in the Bitcoin System”, in Proc. of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), London, UK, November 11-15, 2019. [bib]

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Indoor Floor Plan Construction through Sensing Data Collected from Smartphones

Published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), 2018

Category: crowdsensing, machine learning, indoor floor plan construction.

Recommended citation: Z. Peng, S. Gao, B. Xiao, G. Wei, S. Guo, and Y. Yang, "Indoor Floor Plan Construction through Sensing Data Collected from Smartphones", IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), Vol. 5, No. 6, Dec. 2018. [bib]

I Know What You Type Leaking User Privacy Via Novel Frequency-based Side-channel Attacks

Published in IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2018

Category: privacy, smartphone security, side-channel attacks.

Recommended citation: R. Song, Y. Song, S. Gao, B. Xiao, and A. Hu, "I Know What You Type: Leaking User Privacy Via Novel Frequency-based Side-channel Attacks", in Proc. of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 9-13 Dec. 2018. [bib]

Software-Defined Firewall: Enabling Malware Traffic Detection and Programmable Security Control

Published in ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2018

Category: network security, malware detection, SDS, SDN.

Recommended citation: S. Gao, Z. Li, Y. Yao, B. Xiao, S. Guo, Y. Yang, "Software-Defined Firewall: Enabling Malware Traffic Detection and Programmable Security Control", in Proc. of the ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Songdo, Incheon, Korea, 4-8 June 2018. [bib]

CrowdGIS: Updating Digital Maps via Mobile Crowdsensing

Published in IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), 2018

Category: crowdsensing, machine learning, digital map updating.

Recommended citation: Z. Peng, S. Gao, B. Xiao, S. Guo and Y. Yang, "CrowdGIS: Updating Digital Maps via Mobile Crowdsensing", IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (TASE), Vol. 15, No. 1, Jan. 2018. [bib]

SCoP: Smartphone Energy Saving by Merging Push Services in Fog Computing

Published in IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2017

Category: fog/edge computing, offloading, energy saving, push service.

Recommended citation: S. Gao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, Q. Xiao, and Y. Song, "SCoP: Smartphone Energy Saving by Merging Push Services in Fog Computing", in Proc. of IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain, June 14-16, 2017. [bib]

FloodDefender: Protecting Data and Control Plane Resources under SDN-aimed DoS Attacks

Published in IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), 2017

Category: network security, SDN security, DDoS attacks.

Recommended citation: S. Gao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, A. Hu, K. Ren, "FloodDefender: Protecting Data and Control Plane Resources under SDN-aimed DoS Attacks", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Atlanta GA, USA, May 1-4, 2017. [bib]

Novel Attacks in OSPF Networks to Poison Routing Table

Published in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2017

Category: network security, OSPF, poisoning attacks.

Recommended citation: Y. Song, S. Gao, A. Hu, and B. Xiao, "Novel Attacks in OSPF Networks to Poison Routing Table", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Paris, France, 21-25 May 2017. [bib]

Secure and Energy Efficient Prefetching Design for Smartphones

Published in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2016

Category: energy saving, prefetching.

Recommended citation: S. Gao, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, and Y. Song, "Secure and Energy Efficient Prefetching Design for Smartphones", in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 23-27 May 2016. [bib]