Published in Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP), 2025
Category: cryptography, zero-knowledge, sigma protocol.
Recommended citation: Y. Xue, T. Zheng, S. Gao, B. Xiao, M. Au, "Compressed Sigma Protocols: New Model and Aggregation Techniques", in Proc. of the Australasian Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ACISP), Wollongong, Australia, July 14-16, 2025. [bib]
Published in IACR Public Key Cryptography (PKC), 2025
Category: cryptography, zero-knowledge, sigma protocol, RingCT, blockchain.
Recommended citation: S. Gao, T. Zheng, Y. Guo, Z. Peng, B. Xiao, "Lattice-based Zero-knowledge Proofs for Blockchain Confidential Transactions", in Proc. of the IACR Public Key Cryptography (PKC), Røros, Norway, May 12-15, 2025. [bib]
Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2024
Category: cryptography, signature, lattice.
Recommended citation: S. Xu, X. Chen, Y. Guo, S. Yiu, S. Gao, B. Xiao, "Efficient and Secure Post-Quantum Certificateless Signcryption With Linkability for IoMT", in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Oct. 2024. [bib]
Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2024
Category: cryptography, signature, lattice.
Recommended citation: X. Chen, S. Xu, S. Gao, Y. Guo, S. Yiu, B. Xiao, "FS-LLRS: Lattice-based Linkable Ring Signature with Forward Security for Cloud-assisted Electronic Medical Records", in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Sept. 2024. [bib]
Published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2024
Category: blockchain.
Recommended citation: J. Wang, S. Gao, G. Li, K. Gai, B. Xiao, "SAMCU: Secure and Anonymous Multi-Channel Updates in Payment-Channel Networks", in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), August, 2024. [bib]
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]
Published in Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), 2023
Category: privacy, zero-knowledge.
Recommended citation: S. Liu, L. Chen, H. Yu, S. Gao, H. Fang, "BP-AKAA: Blockchain-enforced Privacy-preserving Authentication and Key Agreement and Access Control for IIoT", in Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Vol. 73, March 2023. [bib]
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]
Published in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), 2022
Category: network security, SDN security.
Recommended citation: L. Yang, Y. Song, S. Gao, A. Hu, B. Xiao, "Griffin: Real-time Network Intrusion Detection System via Ensemble of Autoencoder in SDN", in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), Vol. 19, No. 3, Sept. 2022. [bib]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Other links: PPT.
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]
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]
Published in IEEE Network, 2018
Category: machine learning, vehicle safety.
Recommended citation: Z. Peng, S. Gao, Z. Li, B. Xiao, and Y. Qian, "Vehicle Safety Improvement Through Deep Learning and Mobile Sensing", IEEE Network, Vol. 32, No. 4, July/Auguest 2018. [bib]
Published in IEEE Network, 2018
Category: network security, SDN security, DDoS attacks.
Recommended citation: S. Gao, Z. Li, B. Xiao and G. Wei, "Security Threats in the Data Plane of Software-Defined Networks", IEEE Network, Vol. 32, No. 4, July/Auguest 2018. [bib]
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]
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]
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]
Published in Computer Communications (Elsevier), 2017
Category: offloading, energy saving.
Recommended citation: J. Li, Z. Peng, S. Gao, B. Xiao, and H. Chan, "Smartphone-Assisted Energy Efficient Data Communication for Wearable Devices", Computer Communications (Elsevier), Vol. 105, 1 June 2017. [bib]
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]
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]
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]