Publications
2024
              
              Behaviors Speak More: Achieving User Authentication Leveraging Facial Activities via mmWave Sensing
              
              ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys’24)
              
              
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              Bere: A Novel Video Recommender System for Virtual Reality Using Human Behavioral Signals
              
              ACM Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom’24)
              
              
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              Avara: A Uniform Evaluation System for Perceptibility Analysis Against Adversarial Object Evasion Attacks
              
              ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’24)
              
              
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              GPSBuster: Busting out Hidden GPS Trackers via MSoC Electromagnetic Radiations
              
              ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’24)
              
              
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              FreeEM: Uncovering Parallel Memory EMR Covert Communication in Volatile Environments
              
              ACM International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys’24)
              
              
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              Eavesdropping on Black-box Mobile Devices via Audio Amplifier’s EMR
              
              The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’24)
              
              
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          2023
              
              Locally Differentially Private Personal Data Markets using Contextual Dynamic Pricing Mechanism
              
              IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC’23)
              
              
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              SoundLock: A Novel User Authentication Scheme for VR Devices Using Auditory-Pupillary Response
              
              The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’23)
              
              
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              Privacy-Preserving Database Fingerprinting
              
              The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS’23)
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          2022
              
              Eliciting Joint Truthful Answers and Profiles from Strategic Workers in Mobile Crowdsourcing Systems
              
              IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          2021
              
              Fall Detection via Inaudible Acoustic Sensing
              
              ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp’21)
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Collusion-Resistant Worker Recruitment in Crowdsourcing Systems
              
              IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation for Mobile Crowdsensing with Externality: An Auction Approach
              
              ACM/IEEE Transactions on Networking (ToN)
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              ULPT: A User-Centric Location Privacy Trading Framework for Mobile Crowd Sensing
              
              IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC)
              
              
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          2020
              
              STEP: A Spatio-Temporal Fine-Granular User Traffic Prediction System for Cellular Networks
              
              IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2020
              
              
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          2019
              
              Securing Task Allocation in Mobile Crowd Sensing: An Incentive Design Approach
              
              Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS’19)
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              If You Do Not Care About It, Sell It: Trading Location Privacy in Mobile Crowd Sensing
              
              Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’19)
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Data-Driven Spectrum Trading with Secondary Users’ Differential Privacy Preservation
              
              IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2019
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          2018
              
              Beat-PIN: A User Authentication Mechanism for Wearable Devices Through Secret Beats (A revised version with important refereces added)
              
              Proceedings of ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS’18)
              
              
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              Crowd-Empowered Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation for Mobile Crowdsensing
              
              Proceedings of ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc’18)
              
              
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              DPDA: A Differentially Private Double Auction Scheme for Mobile Crowd Sensing
              
              Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS’18)
              
              
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          2017
              
              Economic-Robust Transmission Opportunity Auction for D2D Communications in Cognitive Mesh Assisted Cellular Networks
              
              IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 17, No. 8, pp. 1806-1819, August 2018
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Motivating Human-enabled Mobile Participation for Data Offloading
              
              IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 17, No. 7, pp. 1624-1637, July 2018
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Energy-efficient Computation Automatic Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing
              
              Proceedings of IEEE Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC’17)
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Cascading Failure Attacks in the Power System: A Stochastic Game Perspective
              
              IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT), Vol. 4, No. 6, pp. 2247-2259, December 2017
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Practical Privacy-Preserving Spectrum Query Schemes for Database-Driven CRNs with Multiple Service Providers
              
              Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS’17)
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          2016
              
              Privacy-Preserving Wi-Fi Fingerprinting Indoor Localization
              
              The 11th International Workshop on Security (IWSEC’16)
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Energy-Source-Aware Cost Optimization for Green Cellular Networks with Strong Stability
              
              IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 541-555, October 2016.
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              SPA: A Secure and Private Auction Framework for Decentralized Online Social Networks
              
              IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 27, No. 8, pp. 2394-2407, August 2016.
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Privacy-Preserving Verifiable Data Aggregation and Analysis for Cloud-assisted Mobile Crowdsourcing
              
              Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’16).
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              CRIL: An Efficient Online Adaptive Indoor Localization System
              
              IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (TVT), Vol. 66, No. 5, pp. 4148-4160, August 2016.
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          2015
              
              Privacy-Preserving Verifiable Proximity Test for Location-based Services
              
              Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’15), 2015. (Best Paper Award)
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Selfish Misbehavior in IEEE 802.11 Ad Hoc Networks: Detection, Defense, and Penalty
              
              IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 14, No. 6, pp. 1203-1217, June 2015
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Asymmetric Social Proximity Based Private Matching Protocols for Online Social Networks
              
              IEEE Transaction on Parallel and Distributed System (TPDS), Vol. 26, No. 6, pp. 1547-1559, June 2015
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              PPER: Privacy-Preserving Economic-Robust Spectrum Auction in Wireless Networks
              
              Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’15), 2015. [Tech Report]
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Verifiable Privacy-preserving Monitoring for Cloud-assisted mHealth Systems
              
              Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’15), 2015.
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Optimal Scheduling for Multi-radio Multi-channel Multi-hop Cognitive Cellular Networks
              
              IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol.14, No. 1, pp. 139-154, January 2015
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Energy Consumption Optimization for Multihop Cognitive Cellular Networks
              
              IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 358-372, February 2015
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          2014
              
              Locaward: A Security and Privacy Aware Location-Based Rewarding System
              
              IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), Vol. 25, No. 2, pp. 343-352, February 2014
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Optimal Energy Cost for Strongly Stable Multi-hop Green Cellular Networks
              
              Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’14), 2014.
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          2013
              
              Crowdsourcing in Cyber-Physical Systems: Stochastic Optimization with Strong Stability
              
              IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 218-231, December 2013
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Dynamic Energy Management for the Smart Grid with Distributed Energy Resources
              
              IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG), Vol. 4, No. 4, pp. 2139-2151, December 2013
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Privacy-Preserving Energy Theft Detection in Smart Grids: A P2P Computing Approach
              
              IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 257-267, September 2013
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Multi-Objective Optimal Energy Consumption Scheduling in Smart Grids
              
              IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid (TSG), Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 341-348, March 2013
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              n-CD: A Geometric Approach to Preserving Location Privacy in Location-Based Services
              
              Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’13), 2013.
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          
              
              Economic-Robust Transmission Opportunity Auction in Multi-hop Wireless Networks
              
              Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’13), 2013.
              
              
              
              
              
              
              
            
          Before 2013
              
              Privacy-Preserving Energy Theft Detection in Smart Grids
              
              IEEE Communications Society Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON’12), 2012