Refereed Book Chapters

1. Wei Yu, Nan Zhang, Xinwen Fu, and Brian Rivera, “Evolution of Widely-Spreading Worms and Countermeasures: Epidemic Theory and Application,” Book Chapter in Handbook on Securing Cyber-physical Infrastructures: Foundations and Challenges (In press) September 2011.

2. Xinyu Yang, Jie Lin, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, Genshe Chen, and Erik P. Blasch, “On Situational Aware En-route Filtering against Injected False Data in Cyber Physical Networks,”. Book Chapter in Situational Awareness in Computer Network Defense: Principles, Methods and Applications, IGI-Global, USA (in press) September, 2011.

3. Xin Jin, Min Dan, Nan Zhang, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, and Sajal K. Das, "Game Theory for Infrastructure Security - The Power of Intent-Based Adversary Models", Book Chapter in Handbook on Securing Cyber-physical Infrastructures: Foundations and Challenges (In press) September 2011.

Refereed Journal Publications

1. Qingyu Yang, Jie Yang, Wei Yu, Dou An, Nan Zhang, and Wei Zhao, “On False Data Injection Attacks against Power System State Estimation: Modeling and Countermeasures,” to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 2013.

2. Wei Yu, Linqiang Ge, Difan Zhang, Rommie Hardy, and Robert J. Reschly, “Effective Sampling Techniques for Host-based Intrusion Detection in MANET,” to appear in the International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), 2013.

3. Difan Zhang, Linqiang Ge, Wei Yu, Rommie Hardy, Robert J. Reschly, and Hanlin Zhang, “Effective Aggregation Techniques for Host-based Intrusion Detection in MANET,” to appear in the International Journal of Security and Networks (IJSN), 2013.

4. Jie Lin, Wei Yu, David Griffith, Xinyu Yang, Guobin Xu, and Chao Lu, “On Distributed Energy Routing Protocols in the Smart Grid,” selected to appear in Springer’s Studies in Computational Science (one of top papers selected from 14th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD) 2013).

5. Peng Zhao, Xinyu Yang, Wei Yu, and Xinwen Fu, “A Loose Virtual Clustering based Routing for Power Heterogeneous MANETs, “to appear in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), 2012.

6. Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, Weijia Jia, and Wei Zhao, “Protocol-level Attacks against Tor,” accepted to appear in International Journal of Computer Networks (COMNET) – Elsevier, 2012.

7. Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, Dong Xuan, and Weijia Jia, “A New Cell Counting Based Attack Against Tor,” to appear in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2012.

8. Zhen Ling, Xinwen Fu, Weijia Jia, Wei Yu, Dong Xuan, Junzhou Luo, “Novel Packet Size Based Covert Channel Attacks against Anonymizer,” to appear in IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 2012.

9. Aniket Pingley, Wei Yu, Nan Zhang, Xinwen Fu, and Wei Zhao, “A Context-Aware Scheme for Privacy-Preserving Location-Based Services”, to appear in International Journal of Computer Networks - Elsevier, 2012.

10. Xiaojing Fan, Xinyu Yang, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, and Shusen Yang, “HLLS: A History information based Light Location Service for MANETs,” to appear in International Journal of Computer Networks - Elsevier, 2012.

11. Weijia Jia, Fung Po Tso, Zhen Ling, Xinwen Fu, Dong Xuan, and Wei Yu, “Blind Detection of Spread Spectrum Flow Watermarks,” to appear in International Journal of Security and Communication Networks (SCN), 2012.

12. Xinwe Fu, Nan Zhang, Aniket Pingley, Wei Yu, Jie Wang, and Wei Zhao, “The Digital Marauder’s Map: a WiFi Forensic Positioning Tool”, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2011.

13. Yuefeng Huang, Xinyu Yang, Shuseng Yang, Wei Yu, and Xinwen Fu, “A Cross Layer Approach Handling Link Asymmetry for Wireless Mesh Access Networks,” to appear in IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), 2011.

14. Wei Yu, Xun Wang, Adam Champion, Dong Xuan, and David Lee, “On Detecting Active Worms with Varying Scan Rate”, to appear in International Journal of Computer Communications (IJCC), October 2010.

15. Wei Yu, Nan Zhang, Xinwen Fu, Riccardo Bettati, and Wei Zhao, “Localization Attacks to Internet Threat Monitors: Modeling and Countermeasures”, to appear in IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), January 2010.

16. Wei Yu, Xun Wang, Prasad Calyam, Dong Xuan, and Wei Zhao, “Modeling and Detection of Camouflaging Worm”,  to appear in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), November 2009.

17. Wei Yu, Xun Wang, Xinwen Fu, Dong Xuan, and Wei Zhao, “An Invisible Localization Attack to Internet Threat Monitors”,  in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol 20, No. 11, November 2009.

18. Nan Zhang, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, and Sajal K. Das, “Establishing Defender's Reputation Against Insider Attacks”, accepted to appear in IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics), September 2009.

19. Wei Yu, Nan Zhang, Xinwen Fu and Wei Zhao, “Self-Disciplinary Worms: Modeling and Countermeasures", accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), August 2009.

20. Xinwen Fu, Wei Yu, Su Jiang, Steve Graham, and Yong Guan, “TCP Performance in Flow Based Anonymous Communication Networks: Modeling and Analysis", accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), July 2008.

21. Wei Yu, Sriram Chellappan, Xun Wang, and Dong Xuan, “Peer-to-Peer System-based ActiveWorm Attacks: Modeling, Analysis and Defense", in International Journal of Computer Communications (IJCC), Vol. 31, No. 17, November 2008.

22. Jangwon Lee, Wei Yu, and Xinwen Fu, “LPTD: Energy Efficient Line Proxy Target Detection in Sensor Networks", accepted to appear in International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), Wiley, 2007.

23. Xinwen Fu, Wei Yu, Xukai Zou, Kevin Streff, and Steve Graham, “On Recognizing Virtual Honeypots and Countermeasures", accepted to appear in International Journal of Autonomic and Trusted Computing (JoATC), ASP, 2007.

24. Wei Yu, Thang Nam Le, Jangwon Lee, and Dong Xuan, “Effective Query Aggregation for Data Services in Sensor Networks", in International Journal of Computer Communications (IJCC), Elsevier, Vol. 29 , No. 18, November 2006, pp. 3733-3744.

25. Wei Yu, Sriram Challappan, and Dong Xuan, “P2P/ Grid-based Overlay Architecture to Support VoIP Services in Large Scale IP Networks", in International Journal of Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Elsevier, Vol. 7, No. 1, January 2005, pp. 209-219.

26. Wei Yu, Sriram Chellappan, Dong Xuan, and Wei Zhao, “Distributed Policy Processing in Active-Service based Infrastructures", in International Journal of Communication Systems (IJCS), John Wiley & Sons, Vol. 19, No. 7, September 2004, pp. 727-750.

27. Wei Yu, “Resource Management for Large Scale Virtual Private Networks", in International Journal of Simulation Modeling Practice and Theory, Vol. 12, No. 3-4, July 2004, pp. 263-285.

28. Wei Yu, Dong Xuan, Riccardo Bettati, and Wei Zhao, “An Integrated Middleware-based Solution for Secured Dynamic-Coalition Applications in Heterogeneous Environments", accepted to appear in IEEE Transaction on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (TSMC).

Refereed Conference Publications

1. Qingyu Yang, Dou An, and Wei Yu, “On Time Desynchronization Attack against IEEE 1588 Protocol in Power Grid Systems,” in Proceedings of IEEE EnergyTech, May 2013.

2. Xuebin Ren, Wei Yu, Xinyu Yang, Jie Lin, Qingyu Yang, “On Scaling Perturbation Based Privacy-preserving Schemes in Smart Metering Systems,” in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), August 2013.

3. Wei Yu, Sixiao Wei, Guanhui Ma, Xinwen Fu, and Nan Zhang, “On Effective Localization Attacks Against Internet Threat Monitors,” in Proceedings of IEEE ICC 2013 - Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (CISS), June 2013.

4. Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, Erik Blasch, Khanh Pham, Dan Shen, Genshe Chen, and Chao Lu, “On Effectiveness of Hopping-Based Spread Spectrum Techniques for Network Forensic Traceback,” in Proceedings of 14th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Networking and Parallel/Distributed Computing (SNPD), 2013.

5. Jie Lin, Wei Yu, Xinyu Yang, Cong Zhao, and Qinyu Yang, “On Effectiveness of Integrating Intermittent Resources and Electricity Vehicles in the Smart Grid,” in Proceeding of IEEE ICC 2013 - Selected Areas in Communications Symposium (SAC), June 2013.

6. Difan Zhang, Linqiang Ge, Rommie Hardy, Hanlin Zhang, Wei Yu, and Robert J. Reschly, “On Effective Data Aggregation Techniques in Host-based Intrusion Detection in MANET,” in Proceedings of the 10th Annual IEEE CCNC- Green Communications and Computations Track - Green Communications and Computations, January 2013.

7. Yu Wang, Xinyu Yang, Wei Yu, Sulabh Bhattarai, Dan Shen, Genshe Chen, “Towards Energy-Efficient Cooperative Routing Algorithms in Wireless Networks,” in Proceedings of the 10th Annual IEEE CCNC- Green Communications and Computations Track - Green Communications and Computations, January 2013.

8. Linqiang Ge, Difan Zhang, Rommie Hardy, Hui Liu, Wei Yu, and Robert J. Reschly, “On Effective Sampling Techniques for Host-based Intrusion Detection in MANET,” in Proceedings of IEEE MILCOM 2012 - Track 3: Cyber Security and Trusted Computing - Cyber Security and Trusted Computing, October 2012.

9. Jie Lin, Wei Yu, Xinyu Yang, Guobin Xu, and Wei Zhao, “On False Data Injection Attacks against Distributed Energy Routing in Smart Grid,” in Proceeding of ACM/IEEE Third International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS – held as part of CPS Week 2012), April 2012.

10. Xinyu Yang, Jie Lin, Paul Moulema, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, and Wei Zhao, “A Novel En-route Filtering Scheme against False Data Injection Attacks in Cyber-Physical Networked Systems,” in Proceedings of IEEE ICDCS, June 2012 (Acceptance ratio=13%).

11. Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Wei Yu, Ming Yang, Xinwen Fu, “Extensive Analysis and Large-Scale Empirical Evaluation of Tor Bridge Discovery”, in Proceeding of IEEE INFOCOM, March 2012 (Acceptance ratio=18%).

12. Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Yang Zhang, Ming Yang, Xinwen Fu, Wei Yu, “A Novel Network Delay Based Side-Channel Attack: Modeling and Defense,” in Proceeding of IEEE INFOCOM, March 2012 (Acceptance ratio=18%).

13. Sulabh Bhattarai, Linqiang Ge, and Wei Yu, “A Novel Architecture against False Data Injection Attacks in Smart Grid”, Proceeding of IEEE ICC 2012 – Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium, June 2012.

14. Donghai Zhu, Xinyu Yang, and Wei Yu, “Towards Effective Defense against Pollution Attacks on Network Coding”, in Proceeding of IEEE ICC 2012 – Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium, June 2012.

15. Shiva Azadegan, Ali Sistani, Hui Liu, Wei Yu, and Subrata Acharya, “Novel Anti-forensics Approaches for Smart Phones,” In Proceeding of 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Digital Forensics – Education, Research, and Practice Track, January 2012.

16. Qingyu Yang, Jie Yang, Wei Yu, Nan Zhang, and Wei Zhao, “On a Hierarchical False Data Injection Attack on Power System State Estimation,” in Proc. of IEEE Globe Communication (Globecom), December 2011.

17. Jie Lin, Xinyu Yang, Wei Yu, and Xinwen Fu, “Towards Effective En-route Filtering against Injected False Data in Wireless Sensor Network,” in Proc. of IEEE Globe Communication (Globecom), December 2011.

18. Difan Zhang, Wei Yu, and Rommie Hardy, “A Distributed Network-Sensor Based Intrusion Detection Framework in Enterprise Networks,” in Proc. of IEEE Military Communication (Milcom), May 2011.

19. Peng Zhao, Xinyu Yang, Chiyong Dong, Shusen Yang, Sulabh Bhattarai, and Wei Yu, “On an Efficient Estimation of Available Bandwidth for IEEE 802.11-based Wireless Network,” in Proc. of IEEE Globe Communication (Globecom), December 2011.

20. Hui Liu, Shiva Azadegan, Wei Yu, Subrata Acharya, and Ali Sistani, “Are We Relaying Too Much on Forensics Tools?”, in Proc. of of 9th International Conference on Software Engineering Research, Management and Applications (SERA), August 2011 (Selected to be published in Springer’s Studies on Computational Intelligence).

21. Zhen Ling, Xinwen Fu, Weijia Jia, Wei Yu, and Dong Xuan, “A Novel Packet Size Based Covert Channel Attack against Anonymizer,” in Proc. of the 28th Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Mini-Conference, May 2011.

22. Nan Zhang, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu and Sajal Das, “gPath: A Game-Theoretic Path Selection Algorithm to Protect Tor's Anonymity,” in Proc. of Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), November 2010

23. Jizhi Wang, Yinjie Chen, Xinwen Fu, Jie Wang, Wei Yu, and Nan Zhang, “3DLoc: Three Dimensional Wireless Localization Toolkit”, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2010 (Acceptance ratio=14.4%).

24. Xinwen Fu, Zhen Ling, Wei Yu and Junzhou Luo, “Cyber Crime Scene Investigations (C2SI) through Cloud Computing”, In Proc. of First ICDCS Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing (ICDCS-SPCC), June 2010.

25. Zhongli Liu, Yinjie Chen, Wei Yu and Xinwen Fu, “Generic Network Forensic Data Acquisition from Household and Small Business Wireless Routers”, in Proc. of First International Workshop on Data Security and PrivAcy in wireless Networks (D-SPAN), June 2010.

26. Xiaojing Fan, Xinyu Yang, Wei Yu, and Xinwen Fu, “HLLS: A History information based Light Location Service for MANETs”, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2010.

27. Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, Dong Xuan, and Weijia Jia, “A New Cell Counter Based Attack Against Tor", in Proc. of 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), August 2009 (Acceptance ratio=18%).

28. Aniket Pingley, Wei Yu, Nan Zhang, Xinwen Fu, and Wei Zhao, “CAP: A Context-Aware Privacy Protection System for Location-Based Services", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2009 (Acceptance ratio=16%).

29. Xinwen Fu, Aniket Pingley, Nan Zhang, Wei Yu, Jie Wang, and Wei Zhao, “The Digital Marauders Map: A New Threat to Location Privacy in Wireless Networks", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2009 (Acceptance ratio=16%).

30. Weijia Jia, Fung Po Tso, Zhen Ling, Xinwen Fu, Dong Xuan, and Wei Yu, “Blind Detection of Spread Spectrum Flow Watermarks", in Proc. of the 28th Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), April, 2009 (Acceptance ratio=19%).

31. Nan Zhang, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, and Sajal K. Das, “Towards Effective Defense against Insider Attacks", in Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS), December 2008.

32. Wei Yu, Nan Zhang, Xinwen Fu, Riccardo Bettati, and Wei Zhao, “On Location Leakage of Internet Threat Monitors: An Information Theoretical Framework", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2008.

33. Ryan Pries, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, and Wei Zhao, “A New Replay Attack against Tor Anonymous Communication Network", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (Best Paper Award of Information and Network Security Symposium), May 2008.

34. Xuhua Ding, Wei Yu and Yin Pai, “Reputation-based Scheme Against P2P-based Malware Proliferation", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2008.

35. Ryan Pries, Wei Yu, Steve Graham, and Xinwen Fu, “On Performance Bottleneck of Anonymous Communication Networks", in Proc. of IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), March 2008.

36. Xun Wang, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, Dong Xuan, and Wei Zhao, “iLOC: An Invisible LOCalization Attack to Internet Threat Monitoring Systems", in Proc. of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) (mini-symposium), April 2008.

37. Xinwen Fu, Su Jiang, Wei Yu, Steve Graham, and Yong Guan, “On TCP Performance in Flow Based Anonymous Communication Networks", in Proc. Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), September 2007.

38. Xun Wang, Wei Yu, Adam Champion, Xinwen Fu, and Dong Xuan, “Detecting Worms via Mining Dynamic Program Execution", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), September 2007.

39. Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, Steve Graham, Dong Xuan, and Wei Zhao, “DSSS-Based Flow Marking Technique for Invisible Traceback", in Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), May 2007 (Acceptance ratio=8.3%).

40. Wei Yu, Nan Zhang, and Wei Zhao, “Self-Adaptive Worms and Countermeasures", in Proc. of Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS), November 2006.

41. Wei Yu, Xun Wang, Prasad Calyam, Dong Xuan, and Wei Zhao, “On Detecting Camouflaging Worm", in Proc. of Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), November 2006.

42. Wei Yu, Xun Wang, Dong Xuan, and David Lee, “Effective Detection of Active Worms with Varying Scan Rate", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), August 2006.

43. Xinwen Fu, Wei Yu, Dan Cheng, X. Tan, Kevin Streff, and Steve Graham, “On Recognizing Virtual Honeypots and Countermeasures", in Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC), September 2006.

44. Thang Nam Le, Wei Yu, Xiaole Bai, and Dong Xuan, “A Dynamic GHT for Data-Centric Storage in Sensor Networks", in Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2006.

45. Xun Wang, Sriram Chellappan, Wenjun Gu, Wei Yu, and Dong Xuan, “Policy-driven Physical Attacks in Sensor Networks: Modeling and Measurement", in Proc. of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), April 2006.

46. Xun Wang, Sriram Chellappan, Wenjun Gu, Wei Yu, and Dong Xuan, “Search-Based Physical Attacks in Sensor Networks", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN), June 2005.

47. Wei Yu, Sriram Chellappan, and Dong Xuan, “On Defending against Peer-to-Peer System-based Active Worm Attack", in Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), November 2005.

48. Thang Nam Le, Wei Yu, and Dong Xuan, “An Adaptive Zone-Based Storage Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks", in Proc. of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (GLOBECOM), November 2005.

49. Wei Yu, Philip Coyer Boyer, Sriram Chellappan, and Dong Xuan, “Peer-to-Peer System-based Active Worm Attacks: Modeling and Analysis", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), May 2005.

50. Wei Yu, “Providing Efficient Virtual Cooperation Service in Large Scale Networks", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Networks (ICON), December 2004.

51. Wei Yu, “Analysis of Virus Attack in Large Scale P2P Network", in Proc. of the 8th IEEE International Symposium on High Assurance System Engineering (HASE) (short paper), November 2004.

52. Wei Yu, Thang Nam Le, Dong Xuan, and Wei Zhao, “Query Aggregation for Providing Efficient Data Services in Sensor Networks", in Proc. of the IEEE Mobile and Ad-hoc Sensor Systems (MASS), October 2004.

53. Wei Yu, “Analyzing Performance of Active Worm Propagation Approaches", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), October 2004.

54. Wei Yu, “P2P-based Approach to Support Efficient IP Communication Service in Large-Scale Networks", in Proc. of the 7th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms, and Networks (I-SPAN), May 2004.

55. Wei Yu, “Analyzing Efficiency and Fault Tolerance of Peer-to-Peer Topology Models", in Proc. of International Conference on Communication Networks and Distributed Systems Modeling and Simulation (CNDS), January 2004.

56. Wei Yu, Dong Xuan, and Wei Zhao, “Distributed Policy Processing in Middleware-based Virtual Private Operation Environment", in Proc. of IEEE SMC Information Assurance Workshop (IAW), June 2003.

57. Wei Yu, “A Peer-to-Peer Call Routing Protocol for Large Scale Networks", in Proc. Of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communication Networks (ICCCN), October 2003.

58. Wei Yu, “Distributed VPN Setup Protocol for Large Scale Networks", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Internet Computing (IC), April 2003.

59. Wei Yu and Jangwon Lee, “Efficient Energy Sensitive Routing Protocols in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks", in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Wireless Network (ICWN), June 2002.

60. Wei Yu, Dong Xuan, and Wei Zhao, “Middleware-based Approach for Preventing Distributed Deny of Service Attacks", in Proc. of IEEE Military Communication Conference (MILCOM), October 2002.

61. Wei Yu, “Authentication Protocol for Dynamic-Coalition Applications", in Proc. of IEEE SMC Information Assurance Workshop (IAW), June 2002.

62. Wei Yu, Dong Xuan, Bryan Graham, S. Santhanam, Riccardo Bettati, and Wei Zhao, “An Integrated Middleware-Based Solution for Supporting Secured Dynamic-Coalition Applications in Heterogeneous Environments", in Proc. of IEEE SMC Information Assurance Workshop (IAW), June 2001.

63. Wei Yu and Yincai Bai, “Intelligent Learning Algorithms for High Speed Robot Control", in Proc. of IEEE of Systems and Circuits, April 1998.