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Yih-Chun Hu, Assistant Professor, Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Illinois
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This page lists most of the research papers that I've published in refereed journals and conferences. I have also at times been very active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in transferring the results of my research into the Internet Standards process. In this process, I've coauthored some Internet-Drafts.

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Book Chapters

  1. André Weimerskirch, Jason J. Haas, Yih-Chun Hu, and Kenneth P. Laberteaux. Data Security in Vehicular Communication Networks. VANET Vehicular Applications and Inter-Networking Technologies. Edited by Hannes Hartenstein and Kenneth P. Laberteaux. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., March 2010.

Refereed Journal Papers

  1. Jason J. Haas, Yih-Chun Hu, and Kenneth P. Laberteaux. The Impact of Key Assignment on VANET Privacy. Security and Communication Networks 2009. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., September 2009

  2. Bryan Parno, Dan Wendlandt, Elaine Shi, Adrian Perrig, Bruce Maggs, and Yih-Chun Hu. Portcullis: Protecting Connection Setup from Denial-of-Capability Attacks. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communications Review: Proceedings of the 2007 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications (SIGCOMM 2007). 37(4):289-300, ACM, Tokyo, Japan, August 2007.

  3. Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, and David B. Johnson. Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 24(2):370-380, IEEE, February 2006.

    Revised from Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, and David B. Johnson. Packet Leashes: A Defense against Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM 2003). IEEE, San Francisco, CA, April 2003, vol. 3, pp. 1976-1986.

    Revised from Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, and David B. Johnson. Packet Leashes: A Defense against Wormhole Attacks in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Technical Report TR01-384, Department of Computer Science, Rice University, revised September 2002.

    Revised from Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, and David B. Johnson. Wormhole Detection in Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Technical Report TR01-384, Department of Computer Science, Rice University, December 2001.

  4. Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, and David B. Johnson. Ariadne: A Secure On-Demand Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks. Wireless Networks (WINET). 11(1-2):21-38, ACM and Springer, Jaunary 2005. Invited paper.

    The source code used for these simulations is available for download.

    Revised from Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, and David B. Johnson. Ariadne: A Secure On-Demand Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks. Proceedings of the Eighth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2002). ACM, Atlanta, GA, September 2002, pp. 12-23.

    Revised from Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, and David B. Johnson. Ariadne: A Secure On-Demand Routing Protocol for Ad Hoc Networks. Technical Report TR01-383, Department of Computer Science, Rice University, December 2001.

  5. Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, and Marvin Sirbu. SPV: A Secure Path Vector Scheme for Securing BGP. ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communications (SIGCOMM 2004). 34(4):179-192, ACM, Portland, OR, August 2004.

  6. Yih-Chun Hu and Adrian Perrig. A Survey of Secure Wireless Ad Hoc Routing. IEEE Security & Privacy, special issue on Making Wireless Work. 2(3):28-39, IEEE, May/June 2004.

  7. Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, and David B. Johnson. SEAD: Secure Efficient Distance Vector Routing for Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Ad Hoc Networks. 1(1):175-192, Elsevier, July 2003.

    The source code used for these simulations is available for download.

    Revised from Yih-Chun Hu, David B. Johnson, and Adrian Perrig. SEAD: Secure Efficient Distance Vector Routing for Mobile Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications (WMCSA 2002). IEEE, Calicoon, NY, June 2002, pp. 3-13.

Refereed Conference and Workshop Papers

  1. Jason J. Haas, Yih-Chun Hu, and Kenneth P. Laberteaux. Real-World VANET Security Protocol Performance. Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom 2009, Symposium on Selected Areas in Communications. IEEE, Honolulu, HI, November 2009, to appear.

  2. Jason J. Haas and Yih-Chun Hu. Secure Unified Cellular Ad Hoc Network Routing. Proceedings of the IEEE Globecom 2009, Ad Hoc Sensor and Mesh Networking Symposium. IEEE, Honolulu, HI, November 2009, to appear.

  3. Kyung-Joon Park, Jihyuk Choi, Kyungtae Kang, and Yih-Chun Hu. Malicious or Selfish? Analysis of Carrier Sense Misbehavior in IEEE 802.11 WLAN. The Sixth International ICST Conference on Heterogeneous Networking for Quality, Reliability, Security and Robustness (ICST QShine 2009). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, November 2009, invited, to appear.

  4. Jason J. Haas, Yih-Chun Hu, and Kenneth P. Laberteaux. Design and Analysis of a Lightweight Certificate Revocation Mechanism for VANET. Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANET 2009). ACM, Beijing, China, September 2009, pp. 89-98.

  5. Jerry T. Chiang, Jason J. Haas, Yih-Chun Hu, P. R. Kumar, and Jihyuk Choi. Fundamental Limits on Secure Clock Synchronization and Detection of Man-in-the-Middle Attacks. Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM 2009). IEEE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2009, pp. 1962-1970.

  6. Jerry T. Chiang, Jason J. Haas, and Yih-Chun Hu. Secure and Precise Location Verification Using Distance Bounding and Simultaneous Multilateration. Proceedings of the Second ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec 2009). ACM, Zurich, Switzerland, March 2009, pp. 181-192.

  7. Kenneth P. Laberteaux, Jason J. Haas, and Yih-Chun Hu. Security Certificate Revocation List Distribution for VANET. Proceedings of the Fifth ACM International Workshop on VehiculAr Inter-NETworking (VANET 2008). ACM, San Francisco, CA, September 2008, pp. 88-89.

  8. Jerry T. Chiang and Yih-Chun Hu. Dynamic Jamming Mitigation for Wireless Broadcast Networks. Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (INFOCOM 2008). IEEE, Phoenix, Arizona, April 2008, pp. 1211-1219.

  9. Qing Li, Meiyuan Zhao, Jesse Walker, Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, and Wade Trappe. SEAR: A Secure Efficient Ad Hoc On Demand Routing Protocol for Wireless Networks. Proceedings of the 3rd annual ACM Symposium on InformAtion, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS 2008). ACM, Tokyo, Japan, March 2008, pp. 201-204.

  10. Jerry T. Chiang and Yih-Chun Hu. Extended Abstract: Cross-Layer Jamming Detection in Wireless Broadcast Networks. Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2007). ACM, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, September 2007, pp. 346-349.

  11. Tao Jiang, Helen J. Wang, and Yih-Chun Hu. Preserving Location Privacy in Wireless LANs. Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys 2007). ACM, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 2007, pp. 246-257.

  12. Yih-Chun Hu, David McGrew, Adrian Perrig, Brian Weis, and Dan Wendlandt. (R)Evolutionary Bootstrapping of a Global PKI for Securing BGP. Proceedings of the Fifth Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2006). ACM, Los Angeles, CA, November 2006.

  13. Yih-Chun Hu and Kenneth P. Laberteaux. Strong VANET Security on a Budget. Proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference on Embedded Security in Cars (escar 2006). is-its, Berlin, Germany, November 2006.

  14. Yih-Chun Hu, Markus Jakobsson, and Adrian Perrig. Efficient Constructions for One-Way Hash Chains. Proceedings of Applied Cryptography and Network Security 2005 (ANCS 2005). New York, New York, July 2005.

    Revised from Yih-Chun Hu, Markus Jakobsson, and Adrian Perrig. Efficient Constructions for One-Way Hash Chains. Technical Report CMU-CS-03-220, Department of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, November 2003.

  15. Yih-Chun Hu and Helen J. Wang. Location Privacy in Wireless Networks. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Asia Workshop 2005. ACM, Bejing, China, April 2005.

  16. Yih-Chun Hu and David B. Johnson. Securing Quality-of-Service Route Discovery in On-Demand Routing for Ad Hoc Networks. Proceedings of the 2004 ACM Workshop on Security of Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (SASN 2004). ACM, Washington, DC, October 2004, pp. 106-117.

  17. Yih-Chun Hu and David B. Johnson. Exploiting MAC Layer Information in Higher Layer Protocols in Multihop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2004). IEEE, Tokyo, Japan, March 2004, pp. 301-310.

  18. Helen J. Wang, Yih-Chun Hu, Chun Yuan, Zheng Zhang, and Yi-Min Wang. Friends Troubleshooting Network: Towards Privacy-Preserving, Automatic Troubleshooting. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS 2004). Springer-Verlag, San Diego, CA, February 2004.

  19. Jorjeta G. Jetcheva, Yih-Chun Hu, Santashil PalChaudhuri, Amit Kumar Saha, and David B. Johnson. Design and Evaluation of a Metropolitan Area Multitier Wireless Ad Hoc Network Architecture. Proceedings of the 5th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems & Applications (WMCSA 2003). IEEE, Monterey, CA, October 2003, pp. 34-43.

    The traces described in the paper are available for download.

  20. Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, and David B. Johnson. Rushing Attacks and Defense in Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols. Proceedings of the 2003 ACM Workshop on Wireless Security (WiSe 2003). ACM, San Diego, CA, September 2003, pp. 30-40,

  21. Yih-Chun Hu, Adrian Perrig, and David B. Johnson. Efficient Security Mechanisms for Routing Protocols. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS 2003). ISOC, San Diego, CA, February 2003, pp. 57-73.

  22. Yih-Chun Hu and David B. Johnson. Ensuring Cache Freshness in On-Demand Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols. Proceedings of the POMC 2002 Workshop on Principles of Mobile Computing (POMC 2002). ACM, Toulouse, France, October 2002, pp. 25-30.

  23. Yih-Chun Hu and David B. Johnson. Design and Demonstration of Live Audio and Video over Multihop Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Proceedings of the MILCOM 2002 IEEE Military Communications Conference. IEEE, Anaheim, CA, October 2002.

    The source code used for this implementation is available for download.

  24. Yih-Chun Hu and David B. Johnson. Implicit Source Routes for On-Demand Ad Hoc Network Routing. Proceedings of the 2001 ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking & Computing (MobiHoc 2001). ACM, Long Beach, CA, October 2001, pp. 1-10.

    The source code used for these simulations is available for download.

  25. Yih-Chun Hu and David B. Johnson. Caching Strategies in On-Demand Routing Protocols for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2000). ACM, Boston, MA, August 2000, pp. 231-242.

    The source code used for these simulations is available for download.

  26. Josh Broch, David A. Maltz, David B. Johnson, Yih-Chun Hu, and Jorjeta Jetcheva. A Performance Comparison of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols. Proceedings of the Fourth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 1998). ACM, Dallas, TX, October 1998, pp. 85-97.

    The source code used for these simulations is available for download.

Other Publications

  1. David B. Johnson, Yih-Chun Hu, and David A. Maltz. The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol (DSR) for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks for IPv4. Internet Request for Comments RFC 4728, February 2007.

  2. Yih-Chun Hu. Enabling Secure High-Performance Wireless Ad Hoc Networking. Ph.D. Thesis (Technical Report CMU-CS-03-144), School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2003.

  3. Yih-Chun Hu, Jorjeta G. Jetcheva, and Oleg M. Sheyner. Receiver-Controlled Cooperative Resource Sharing. Technical Report CMU-CS-02-202, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, December 2002.

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