Research Projects:
Sensor Source Location
Privacy:
- Y. Yang, S. Zhu, G. Cao, and T. LaPorta.
An Active
Global Attack Model for Sensor Source Location Privacy: Analysis and
Countermeasures.
Proceeds of International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication
Networks (Securecomm), 2009.
- M. Shao, W. Hu, S. Zhu, G. Cao, S.
Krishnamurthy, T. La Porta.
Cross-layer Enhanced Source Location Privacy in
Sensor Networks
Proceedings of he 6th IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor,
Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 2009).
- M. Shao, S. Zhu, W. Zhang, G. Cao, Y.
Yang.
pDCS: Security and Privacy Support for Data-Centric
Sensor Networks.
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, To appear.
(A preliminary version appeared in Proceedings of
Infocom 2007).
- Y. Yang, M. Shao, S. Zhu, B. Urgaonkar,
and G. Cao.
Towards Event
Source Unobservability with Minimum Network Traffic in Sensor Networks.
Proceedings of The ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), Mar.
2008.
- M. Shao, Y. Yang, S. Zhu, and G. Cao.
Towards
Statistically Strong Source Anonymity for Sensor Networks.
Proceedings of IEEE Infocom, Mar. 2008.
Funded by NSF CyberTrust.

Sensor Network Security:
- Y. Yang, S. Zhu, and G. Cao.
Improving Sensor
Network Immunity under Worm Attacks: A Software Diversity Approach.
Proceedings of ACM Mobihoc, May 2008.
- Y. Yang, X. Wang, S. Zhu, and G. Cao.
Distributed
Software-based Attestation for Node Compromise Detection in Sensor Networks
Proceedings of 26th IEEE
International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS),
Oct. 2007.
- H. Song,
L. Xie, S. Zhu, and G. Cao.
Sensor Node Compromise Detection: The Location
Perspective.
in Proc. of International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing
Conference (IWCMC), Aug. 2007.
- H. Choi, S. Zhu, and T. Laporta.
SET: Detecting node
clones in Sensor Networks.
Proceedings of International Conference on Security and Privacy in
Communication Networks (SecureComm), Sept. 2007.
- Y. Yang, X. Wang, S. Zhu, and G. Cao.
SDAP: A Secure Hop-by-Hop Data Aggregation Protocol for Sensor Networks.
In Proc. of ACM MOBIHOC'06, May 2006. (Full
version appeared in ACM TISSEC)
- Wensheng Zhang, Hui Song, Sencun Zhu, and
Guohong Cao.
Least Privilege
and Privilege Deprivation: Towards Tolerating Mobile Sink Compromises in
Wireless Sensor Networks.
In Proc. of ACM Mobihoc'05, May 2005. (Full version
appeared in ACM TOSN)
- Sencun Zhu, Sanjeev Setia, Sushil
Jajodia, and Peng Ning
An Interleaved
Hop-by-Hop Authentication Scheme for Filtering of Injected False Data in
Sensor Networks.
In Proc. of IEEE Symposium on
Security and Privacy, Oakland, California, May 2004. (Full
version appeared in ACM TOSN)
- Sencun Zhu, Sanjeev Setia, and Sushil
Jajodia.
LEAP: Efficient Security Mechanisms for Large-Scale Distributed Sensor
Networks.
In Proc. of the 10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security
(CCS '03), Washington D.C., October, 2003. (Full version
appeared in ACM TOSN)
- D. Liu, P. Ning, S. Zhu, and S. Jajodia.
Practical
Broadcast Authentication in Sensor Networks.
In Proc. of the 2nd International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems
(Mobiquitous'05), San Diego, Jul, 2005.
Funded by NSF
CyberTrust
and Army Research Office

Software Security and Worm
Containment:
- L. Xie, X. Zhang, A. Chaugule, T. Jaeger
and S. Zhu
Designing
System-level Defenses against Cellphone Malware.
Proceedings of 28th International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS),
2009.
- Z. Zhu, G. Cao, S. Zhu, S. Ranjan, A.
Nucci.
A Social Network
Based Patching Scheme for Worm Containment in Cellular Networks.
Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 2009.
- Liang Xie, Hui Song, and Sencun Zhu
On the
Effectiveness of Internal Patch Dissemination against File-sharing Worms
Proceedings of Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), June, 2008.
- Y. Yang, S. Zhu, and G. Cao.
Improving Sensor
Network Immunity under Worm Attacks: A Software Diversity Approach.
Proceedings of ACM Mobihoc, May 2008.
- X.
Wang, C. Pan, P. Liu, S. Zhu.
SigFree: A Signature-free Buffer Overflow
Attack Blocker.
Proceedings of USENIX Security'06, Aug. 2006.
(Full version appeared in
IEEE TDSC)
- M.
Masud, L. Khan, B. Thuraisingham, X. Wang, P. Liu and S. Zhu
A Data Mining
Technique to Detect Remote Exploits
The Fourth IFIP WG 11.9
International Conference on Digital Forensics, 2008.
- X. Wang, Y-C Jhi, S. Zhu, P. Liu.
STILL: Exploit Code Detection via Static Taint and Initialization Analyses
Proceedings of 24th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC),
Dec., 2008.
-
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Liang Xie and Sencun Zhu
A Feasibility Study
on Defending Against Ultra-Fast Topological Worms
Proceedings of The Seventh IEEE
International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P'07), Galway, Ireland,
Sep. 2007.
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Funded by NSF CyberTrust
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TTC
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