2011:

T. Cheng, P. Li, and S. Zhu.
Multi-jammer Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks.
To appear in Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS), 2011. 

V. Natarajan, Y. Yi, and S. Zhu
Resource-Misuse Attack Detection in Delay-Tolerant Networks.
Proceedings of International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2011. 

A. Chaugule, Z. Xu, and S. Zhu.
A Specification Based Intrusion Detection Framework for Mobile Phones.
Proceedings of Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), Spain, 2011. 

Y. Jhi, X. Wang, X. Jia, S. Zhu, P. Liu, and D. Wu.
Value-based program characterization and its application to software plagiarism detection.
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), Software Engineering in Practice Track, 2011. 

Z. Xu, K. Bai, S. Zhu, L. Liu and R. Moulic.
Context-Related Access Control for Mobile Caching.
Proceedings of International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (Securecomm), 2011. 

Z. Xin, H. Chen, X. Wang, P. Liu, S. Zhu and B. Mao.
Replacement Attacks on Behavior Based Software Birthmark.
Proceedings of International Security Conference (ISC), 2011.  (Best paper award)

D. He, J. Bu, S. Zhu, S. Chan, and C. Chen.
Distributed Access Control with Privacy Support in Wireless Sensor Networks.
To appear in IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.  

X. Jiang, W. Hu, S. Zhu, and G. Cao.
Compromise-Resilient Anti-Jamming for Wireless Sensor Networks.
To appear in Wireless Networks (WINET).  

Q. Li, S. Zhu and G. Cao. 
A RoutingProtocol for Socially Selfish Delay Tolerant Networks.
To appear in Ad Hoc Networks Journal.


2010:

B. Zhao, Z. Xu, C. Chi, S. Zhu, and G. Cao.
Mirroring Smartphones For Good: A Feasibility Study.
Proceedings of the 7th International ICST Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous), 2010. 

X. Jiang, W. Hu, S. Zhu, and G. Cao.
Compromise-Resilient Anti-Jamming for Wireless Sensor Networks.
Proceedings of Twelfth International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS), 2010. 

W. Xu, F. Zhang, and S. Zhu.
Toward Worm Detection in Online Social Networks.
Proceedings of 25th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2010. 

W. Chen, S. Zhu and Deying Li.
VAN: Vehicle-Assisted Shortest-Time Path Navigation.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS'10), 2010. 

D. Kong, Y. Jhi, Q. Pan, S. Zhu, P. Liu, and H. Xi.
SAS: Semantics Aware Signature Generation for Polymorphic Worm Detection.
Proceedings of International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (Securecomm), 2010.  

Z. Xu and  S. Zhu.
Filtering Offensive Language in Online Communities using Grammatical Relations.
Proceedings of The Seventh Annual Collaboration, Electronic messaging, Anti-Abuse and Spam Conference (CEAS'10) , 2010.

W. Xu,  S. Zhu, and H. Xu.
COP: A Step Toward Children Online Privacy.
Proceedings of Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), Beijing, China, 2010.

L. Xie, X. Zhang, J. Seifert and S. Zhu.
pBMDS: A Behavior-based Malware Detection System for Cellphone Devices.
Proceedings of The ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), Mar. 2010.

Q. Li, S. Zhu and G. Cao. 
Routing in Socially Selfish Delay Tolerant Networks.
Proceedings of Infocom 2010, San Diego, CA.

H. Hsu, S. Zhu and A. Hurson
A Hotspot-based Protocol for Attack Traceback in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.
To appear in Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), Beijing, China, 2010. (short paper)


2009:

X. Wang, Y. Jhi, S. Zhu and P. Liu. 
Detecting Software Theft via System Call Based Birthmarks.
Proceedings of 25th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Dec., 2009.

X. Wang, Y. Jhi, S. Zhu and P. Liu. 
Behavior Based Software Theft Detection .
Proceedings of 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2009.

Y. Yang, S. Zhu, G. Cao, and T. LaPorta
An Active Global Attack Model for Sensor Source Location Privacy: Analysis and Countermeasures.
Proceedings of International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (Securecomm), 2009.

L. Xie, X. Zhang, A. Chaugule, T. Jaeger and S. Zhu
Designing System-level Defenses against Cellphone Malware.
Proceedings of 28th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), 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 the 6th IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON 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.

B. Zhao, C. Chi, W. Gao, S. Zhu, G. Cao.
A Chain Reaction DoS Attack on 3G Networks: Analysis and Defenses.
Proceedings of IEEE INFOCOM, 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, Volume 8, Number 8, August 2009.

W. Zhang, S. Zhu, and G. Cao
Predistribution and local collaboration-based group rekeying for wireless sensor networks
Ad Hoc Networks, Volume 7, Issue 6, August 2009.

G. Ruan, S. Jain, and S. Zhu
SensorEar: A Sensor Network Based Eavesdropping System
Workshop on Embedded Systems and Communications Security, in conjunction with SRDS 2009.


2008:

H. Song, S. Zhu, W. Zhang, and G. Cao. 
Least Privilege and Privilege Deprivation: Towards Tolerating Mobile Sink Compromises in Wireless Sensor Networks. 
In
ACM Transaction on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Vol.4-4, Nov. 2008.

X. Wang, C. Pan, P. Liu, S. Zhu.
SigFree: A Signature-free Buffer Overflow Attack Blocker. 
In IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 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.

X. Wang, Y. Jhi, S. Zhu, P. Liu.
Protecting Web Services from Remote Exploit code: A Static Analysis Approach
Poster paper, Proc. 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), Beijing, China, April 2008.

 

Liang Xie, Hui Song, Trent Jaeger and Sencun Zhu

Towards a Systematic Approach for Cell-phone Worm Containment.
Poster paper, Proc. 17th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2008), Beijing, China, April 2008.

 

H. Xu, N. Irani, S. Zhu, and W. Xu.
Alleviating Parental Concerns for Children's Online Privacy: A Value Sensitive Design Investigation.
Research in Progress, Proceedings of 29th Annual International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2008), Paris, France, Dec. 2008.

 

M. Shao, S. Zhu, G. Cao, T. La Porta and P. Mohapatra.
A Cross-layer Dropping Attack in Video Streaming over Ad Hoc Networks.
In Proc. of International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (Securecomm), 2008.

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.

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. (
best student paper award)  

Liang Xie and Sencun Zhu
Message Dropping Attacks in Overlay Networks: Attack Detection and Attacker Identification
In
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Volume 11 ,  Issue 3, 2008.

Y. Yang, X. Wang, S. Zhu, and G. Cao. 
SDAP: A Secure Hop-by-Hop Data Aggregation Protocol for Sensor Networks.  
I
n
ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Volume 11 ,  Issue 4, July 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.

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.

H. Song, S. Zhu and G. Cao. 
SVATS: A Sensor-network-based Vehicle Anti-Theft System.
Proceedings of IEEE Infocom mini-conference, Mar. 2008.  


2007:

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.

W. Zhang, M. Tran, S. Zhu, and G. Cao. 
A Random Perturbation-Based Scheme for Pairwise Key Establishment in Sensor Networks.
Proceedings of  ACM Mobihoc'07, Sept. 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.

M. Shao, S. Zhu, W. Zhang, and G. Cao. 
pDCS: Security and Privacy Support for Data-Centric Sensor Networks.
In Proc. of  IEEE Infocom'07, May 2007. 

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.

P. Traynor, R. Kumar, H. Choi, G. Cao, S. Zhu, and T. La Porta,
Efficient Hybrid Security Mechanisms for Heterogeneous Sensor Networks,
In
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 6, No. 6, pp. 663-677, June 2007.

Hungyuan Hsu, Sencun Zhu, and Ali Hurson.
LIP: A Lightweight Inter-layer Protocol for Preventing Packet Injection Attacks in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.
In International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN) Special Issue on "Cryptography in Networks".
2(3/4):202-215, 2007

Qijun Gu, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu, and Chao-Chien Chu. 
Defence against Packet Injection Attacks in Unreliable Ad Hoc Networks.
International Journal of Security and Networks 2007 - Vol. 2, No.1/2  pp. 154 - 169.

Sencun Zhu, Sanjeev Setia, Sushil Jajodia, and Peng Ning
Interleaved Hop-by-Hop Authentication Against False Data Injection Attacks in Sensor Networks.
in
ACM Transaction on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Aug. 2007.  (source code here)


2006:

X. Wang, C. Pan, P. Liu, S. Zhu.
SigFree: A Signature-free Buffer Overflow Attack Blocker. 
Proceedings of  USENIX Security'06, Aug. 2006.
(Patented)

Liang Xie and Sencun Zhu
Message Dropping Attacks in Overlay Networks: Attack Detection and Attacker Identification
Proceedings of International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Aug., 2006. 

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. 

P. Traynor, H. Choi, G. Cao, S. Zhu, and T. La Porta
Establishing Pair-Wise Keys In Heterogeneous Sensor Networks. 
Proceedings of the 25th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'06), April 2006.

Sencun Zhu, Cao Yao, Donggang Liu, Sanjeev Setia, and Sushil Jajodia
Efficient Security Mechanisms for Overlay Multicast-based Content Distribution.

 


In Elsevier Journal of Computer Communications.

Pirretti, M., S. Zhu, V. Narayanan, P. McDaniel, M. Kandemir, R. Brooks.
The Sleep Deprivation Attack in Sensor Networks: Analysis and Methods of Defense.
In International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2(3):267–287, 2006.

Qijun Gu, Chao Chu, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu. 
Slander Resistant Attacker Isolation in Ad Hoc Networks. 
In Int. J. Mobile Network Design and Innovation, Vol. 1, Nos. 3/4, 2006.

Sencun Zhu, Sanjeev Setia, Shouhuai Xu, and Sushil Jajodia. 
GKMPAN: An Efficient Group Rekeying Scheme for Secure Multicast in Ad-Hoc Networks.
In Journal of Computer Security (JCS), 2006.

Sencun Zhu, Sanjeev Setia, and Sushil Jajodia. 
LEAP+: Efficient Security Mechanisms for Large-Scale Distributed Sensor Networks.
In ACM Transaction on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Nov. 2006


 

2005:

Sencun Zhu, Cao Yao, Donggang Liu, Sanjeev Setia, and Sushil Jajodia
Efficient Security Mechanisms for Overlay Multicast-based Content Distribution.
In Proc. of Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS) conference, New York, June, 2005. 

Hui Song, Sencun Zhu, and Guohong Cao. 
Attack-Resilient Time  Synchronization for Wireless Sensor Networks.
In Proc. of  IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS'05), 2005. 

Pirretti, M., S. Zhu, V. Narayanan, P. McDaniel, M. Kandemir, R. Brooks.
The Sleep Deprivation Attack in Sensor Networks: Analysis and Methods of Defense.
In Proc. of the Innovations and Commercial Applications of Distributed Sensor Networks Symposium (ICA DSN 2005). Washington, D.C. (Best paper) October 18-19, 2005.

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. 

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. 

Qijun Gu, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu, and Chao-Chien Chu. 
Defending against Packet Injection Attacks in Unreliable Ad Hoc Networks.
In Proc. of  IEEE Globecom 2005.

Qijun Gu, Chao Chu, Peng Liu, Sencun Zhu. 
Slander Resistant Attacker Isolation in Ad Hoc Networks. 
In Proceedings of the International Conference on Telecommunication Systems, Modeling and Analysis (ICTSM 2005).  Dallas, TX, November 17-20, 2005.

Yingjiu Li, Sencun Zhu, X. Sean Wang, Sushil Jajodia.
Looking into the Seeds of Time: Discovering Temporal Patterns in Large Transaction Sets 
Elsevier Journal Information Sciences, 2005.

Sencun Zhu, Shouhuai Xu, Sanjeev Setia and Sushil Jajodia. 
LHAP: A Lightweight Hop-by-Hop Authentication Protocol For Ad-Hoc Networks.
In Elsevier Ad Hoc Networks Journal, 2005.


 

2004:

Sencun Zhu, Sanjeev Setia, Shouhuai Xu, and Sushil Jajodia. 
GKMPAN: An Efficient Group Rekeying Scheme for Secure Multicast in Ad-Hoc Networks.
In Proc. of the 1st ACM International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (Mobiquitous'04), Boston, Massachusetts, August 22-25, 2004. 

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. 

Sencun Zhu, Sushil Jajodia.
Scalable group rekeying for secure multicast: A survey 
In Proc. 5th International Workshop on Distributed Computing, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 2918 (Samir R. Das and Sajal K. Das editors), 2004, pages 1-10.


 

2003:

Sencun Zhu, Shouhuai Xu, Sanjeev Setia and Sushil Jajodia. 
LHAP: A Lightweight Hop-by-Hop Authentication Protocol For Ad-Hoc Networks.
In Proc. of ICDCS 2003 International Workshop on Mobile and Wireless Network (MWN 2003), May 2003

Sencun Zhu, Shouhuai Xu, Sanjeev Setia, and Sushil Jajodia. 
Establishing Pair-wise Keys For Secure Communication in Ad Hoc Networks: A Probabilistic Approach.
In Proc. of the 11th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'03), Atlanta, Georgia, November 4-7, 2003. 

Sencun Zhu, Sanjeev Setia, and Sushil Jajodia. 
Performance Optimizations for Group Key Management Schemes for Secure Multicast. 
In Proc. of the 23rd IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2003), May 2003. 

Sencun Zhu, Sanjeev Setia and Sushil Jajodia. 
Adding Reliable and Self-Healing Key Distribution to the Subset Difference Group Rekeying Method for Secure Multicast.
In Proc. of Networked Group Communications (NGC 2003), Germany, Sep. 2003. 

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. 


 

2002:

Sanjeev Setia, Sencun Zhu, and Sushil Jajodia. 
A Comparative Performance Analysis of Reliable Group Rekey Transport Protocols for Secure Multicast.
In Performance Evaluation, special issue Proceedings of Performance 2002 , Rome, Italy, Sep., 2002. 

Y. Li, S. Zhu, L. Wang and S. Jajodia.
A Privacy Enhanced Microaggregation Method. 
In Proc. FoIKS 2002, pages 148-159, Salzau Castle, Germany, February 20-23, 2002.