Publications — NSOS Lab, Yangzhou University

Empowering Network Security with eBPF-Based Networking Programmability: Paradigms, Emerging Techniques, Open Issues, and Research Directions

Shengrui Lin, Longlong Zhu, Xiang Chen, Linying Zheng, Hongyang Du, Dezhang Kong, Xuan Liu, Jianshan Zhang, Xu Yang, Hongyan Liu, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu, Xun Yi, Ibrahim Khalil, Albert Y. Zomaya, Muhammad Khurram Khan

Computer Science Review, 63, February 2027

SurveySCIPDF

RegexStealer: A Directed-Acyclic-Graph-based Regex Stealing Against Web Application Firewalls

Deyin Li, Xiang Ling, Xiang Chen, Chunming Wu, Xuan Liu, Muhammad Khurram Khan

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2026

WAF SecurityCCF APDF

SketchPipe: Toward Accurate Sketch-Based Network Measurement on Multi-Pipeline Switches with Splitless Sketch Placement

Xiang Chen, Longlong Zhu, Linying Zheng, Hongyang Du, Dong Zhang, Jianshan Zhang, Xuan Liu, Qun Huang, Dusit Niyato, Haifeng Zhou, Chunming Wu, Hongyan Liu, Kui Ren

NSDI 2026

Network MeasurementCCF APDF

When Address Learning Goes Wrong: Inducing Forwarding Loops and DoS Amplification in SDN

Dezhang Kong, Yilun Zhang, Zekun Xie, Ningpeng Zheng, Shi Lin, Zhenhua Xu, Minghao Li, Zhebo Wang, Xiang Chen, Changting Lin, Dong Zhang, Xuan Liu, Chunming Wu, Meng Han

USENIX Security 2026

SDN SecurityCCF A

LTD: Low-Overhead Topology Discovery using Programmable Data Planes

Dezhang Kong, Minghao Li, Shi Lin, Zhenhua Xu, Longlong Zhu, Linying Zheng, Xiang Chen, Changting Lin, Xuan Liu, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu, Meng Han

IEEE INFOCOM 2026

Programmable NetworksCCF A

OmniPlan: An Adaptive Framework for Timely and Near-Optimal Network Planning Optimization

Longlong Zhu, Jiashuo Yu, Zedi Chen, Yuhan Wu, Zhifan Jiang, Yuchen Xian, Yimeng Liu, Jiajie Su, Shaopeng Zhou, Xingyuan Li, Hongyan Liu, Xuan Liu, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu, Xiang Chen

KDD 2026

Network PlanningCCF A

MonPlan: Taming Network Measurement with Accurate and Resource-Efficient Sketch-INT Co-Design

Xiang Chen, Linying Zheng, Longlong Zhu, Zedi Chen, Qing Shu, Jialu Tian, Siqi Dong, Qun Huang, Jianshan Zhang, Xuan Liu, Haifeng Zhou, Hongyan Liu, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu

IEEE INFOCOM 2026

Network MeasurementCCF A

MalURLBench: A Benchmark Evaluating Agents' Vulnerabilities When Processing Web URLs

Dezhang Kong, Zhuxi Wu, Shiqi Liu, Zhicheng Tan, Kuichen Lu, Minghao Li, Qichen Liu, Shengyu Chu, Zhenhua Xu, Xuan Liu, Meng Han

ACL 2026

Agent SecurityCCF APDF

Mitigating the Lateral Movement of APT in IIoT with an Efficient Moving Target Defense and Cyber Deception Approach

Xiaodong Zang, Fangbo Hou, Xuan Liu, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Daohua Liu

IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2026

Moving Target DefenseSCIPDF

A Cost-effective Proactive Defense Method against Reconnaissance Attack for Industry 5.0

Xiaodong Zang, Haosheng Zheng, Zilong Zheng, Xuan Liu, Muhammad Khurram Khan

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 72(1), 2026

Proactive DefenseSCIPDF

Leveraging Large Language Models for Multi-Objective and Adaptive SFC Deployment: Techniques, Case Study, and Promising Directions

Longlong Zhu, Jiashuo Yu, Xiang Chen, Zhifan Jiang, Xuan Liu, Jianshan Zhang, Xu Yang, Ruichen Zhang, Dusit Niyato, Xun Yi, Ibrahim Khalil, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu

IEEE Communications Magazine, 64(1), 2026

LLM for NetworkingSCIPDF

Carrera: Enabling High-Performance eBPF-based Sketches in Network Measurement

Xiang Chen, Xin Yao, Jiayu Li, Longlong Zhu, Linying Zheng, Hongyan Liu, Jianshan Zhang, Dong Zhang, Xuan Liu, Qun Huang, Haifeng Zhou, Chunming Wu

IEEE ICNP 2025

eBPFCCF BPDF

FlowTracker: A Refined and Versatile Data Plane Measurement Approach

Xinyue Jiang, Chunming Wu, Zhengyan Zhou, Di Wang, Dezhang Kong, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Xuan Liu

Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 244, 2025

MeasurementCCF CPDF

Hierarchical Graph Neural Networks for Resilient Intrusion Detection in Consumer IoT With Limited Labeled Data

Guolong Zheng, Changgui Xu, Jianshan Zhang, Chen Hou, Xu Yang, Tao Huang, Xuan Liu, Muhammad Khurram Khan

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 72(1), 2026

Intrusion DetectionSCIPDF

NDIF: A Distributed Framework for Efficient In-Network Neural Network Inference

Shengrui Lin, Shaowei Xu, Binjie He, Hongyan Liu, Dezhang Kong, Xiang Chen, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu, Ming Li, Xuan Liu, Yuqin Wu, Muhammad Khurram Khan

Computers & Security, 157, 2025

In-Network MLCCF BPDF

Toward Secure Inter-Device Coordination in Programmable Networks

Hongyan Liu, Xiang Chen, Di Wang, Qun Huang, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu, Xuan Liu

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 33(6), 2025

Programmable NetworksCCF APDF

Handling Data Plane Program Deployment Dynamics with High-Quality Generative Diffusion Models

Longlong Zhu, Jiashuo Yu, Xiang Chen, Qing Shu, Zedi Chen, Zhifan Jiang, Qun Huang, Xuan Liu, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu

IEEE/ACM IWQoS 2025

Programmable NetworksCCF BPDF

A Survey of LLM-Driven AI Agent Communication: Protocols, Security Risks, and Defense Countermeasures

Dezhang Kong, Shi Lin, Zhenhua Xu, Zhebo Wang, Minghao Li, Yufeng Li, Yilun Zhang, Hujin Peng, Xiang Chen, Zeyang Sha, Yuyuan Li, Changting Lin, Xun Wang, Xuan Liu, Ningyu Zhang, Chaochao Chen, Chunming Wu, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Meng Han

arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.19676, 2025

Agent SecurityPreprintPDF

TurboCache: Empowering Switch-Accelerated Key-Value Caches with Accurate and Fast Cache Updates

Dezhang Kong, Minghao Li, Shi Lin, Zhenhua Xu, Longlong Zhu, Linying Zheng, Xiang Chen, Changting Lin, Xuan Liu, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu, Meng Han

IEEE INFOCOM 2025

Programmable NetworksCCF APDF

HyperEye: A Lightweight Features Fusion Model for Unknown Encrypted Malware Traffic Detection

Xiaodong Zang, Zilong Zheng, Haosheng Zheng, Xuan Liu, Muhammad Khurram Khan, Weiwei Jiang

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, 71(2), 2025

Malware TrafficSCIPDF

An Adaptive AQM based on the Consecutive Change Detection in the Programmable Queue

Xinyue Jiang, Dezhang Kong, Xiang Chen, Shuangxi Chen, Haifeng Zhou, Chunming Wu, Xuan Liu, Wei Ruan

IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering, 12(4), 2025

Programmable QueueSCIPDF

Phantom: Virtualizing Switch Register Resources for Accurate Sketch-based Network Measurement

Xiang Chen, Hongyan Liu, Zhengyan Zhou, Xi Sun, Wenbin Zhang, Hongyang Du, Dong Zhang, Xuan Liu, Haifeng Zhou, Dusit Niyato, Qun Huang, Chunming Wu, Kui Ren

EuroSys 2025

Network MeasurementCCF A

SWGCNN-BiLSTM: A Method for Detecting Unknown Attack Traffic Within Imbalanced Samples

Yiwen Fan, Xuan Liu, Rong Yan, Haoran Yin, Yaxin Zhang

EAI CollaborateCom 2024

Traffic DetectionCCF CPDF

NetDP: In-Network Differential Privacy for Large-Scale Data Processing

Zhengyan Zhou, Hanze Chen, Lingfei Chen, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu, Xuan Liu, Muhammad Khurram Khan

IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, 8(3), 2024

PrivacySCIPDF

Eagle: Toward Scalable and Near-Optimal Network-Wide Sketch Deployment in Network Measurement

Xiang Chen, Qingjiang Xiao, Hongyan Liu, Qun Huang, Dong Zhang, Xuan Liu, Longbing Hu, Haifeng Zhou, Chunming Wu, Kui Ren

ACM SIGCOMM 2024

Network MeasurementCCF APDF

Virtualizing Next-generation Programmable Networks: Techniques, Use Cases, and Promising Future Directions

Xiang Chen, Hongyang Du, Wenjing Liu, Hongyan Liu, Jianshan Zhang, Xu Yang, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu, Xuan Liu, Dusit Niyato

IEEE Network, 2024

Programmable NetworksSCIPDF

Elastically Scaling Control Channels in Network Measurement With Escala

Hongyan Liu, Xiang Chen, Qun Huang, Dezhang Kong, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu, Xuan Liu

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2024

Network MeasurementCCF APDF

Toward Security-Enhanced In-band Network Telemetry in Programmable Networks

Dezhang Kong, Xiang Chen, Hang Lin, Zhengyan Zhou, Yi Shen, Hongyan Liu, Qiumei Cheng, Xuan Liu, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu, Muhammad Khurram Khan

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 2024

INT SecurityCCF CPDF

Toward Full-Coverage and Low-Overhead Profiling of Network-Stack Latency

Xiang Chen, Hongyan Liu, Qun Huang, Wenbin Zhang, Qun Huang, Dong Zhang, Xuan Liu, Haifeng Zhou, Chunming Wu

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 32(5), 2024

Latency ProfilingCCF APDF

rDefender: A Lightweight and Robust Defense Against Flow Table Overflow Attacks in SDN

Dezhang Kong, Xiang Chen, Chunming Wu, Yi Shen, Zhengyan Zhou, Qiumei Cheng, Xuan Liu, Mingliang Yang, Yubing Qiu, Dong Zhang, Muhammad Khurram Khan

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 2024

SDN SecurityCCF APDF

Toward Resource-Efficient and High-Performance Program Deployment in Programmable Networks

Hongyan Liu, Xiang Chen, Qun Huang, Guoqiang Sun, Peiqiao Wang, Dong Zhang, Chunming Wu, Xuan Liu, Qiang Yang

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2024

Programmable NetworksCCF APDF

Resource-Efficient and Timely Packet Header Vector (PHV) Encoding on Programmable Switches

Xiang Chen, Wenbin Zhang, Xi Sun, Hongyan Liu, Jianshan Zhang, Qun Huang, Dong Zhang, Haifeng Zhou, Boyang Zhou, Xuan Liu, Chunming Wu

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2024

Programmable NetworksCCF APDF

Terra: Low-latency and Reliable Event Collection in Network Measurement

Hongyan Liu, Xi Sun, Xiang Chen, Qun Huang, Dong Zhang, Haifeng Zhou, Chunming Wu, Xuan Liu, Muhammad Khurram Khan

Journal of Network and Computer Applications, 2024

MeasurementCCF CPDF

Hermes: Low-Overhead Inter-Switch Coordination in Network-Wide Data Plane Program Deployment

Xiang Chen, Hongyan Liu, Qingjiang Xiao, Qun Huang, Dong Zhang, Haifeng Zhou, Boyang Zhou, Chunming Wu, Xuan Liu, Qiang Yang

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2024

Programmable NetworksCCF APDF

Accelerating Sketch-based End-Host Traffic Measurement with Automatic DPU Offloading

Xiang Chen, Xi Sun, Wenbin Zhang, Zizheng Wang, Xin Yao, Hongyan Liu, Gaoning Pan, Qun Huang, Xuan Liu, Haifeng Zhou, Chunming Wu

IEEE INFOCOM 2024

MeasurementCCF A

Stalker Attacks: Imperceptibly Dropping Sketch Measurement Accuracy on Programmable Switches

Xiang Chen, Hongyan Liu, Qun Huang, Dong Zhang, Haifeng Zhou, Chunming Wu, Xuan Liu, Muhammad Khurram Khan

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 18, 2023

Adversarial MeasurementCCF APDF

Empowering Network Security with Programmable Switches: A Comprehensive Survey

Xiang Chen, Chunming Wu, Xuan Liu, Qun Huang, Dong Zhang, Haifeng Zhou, Qiang Yang, Muhammad Khurram Khan

IEEE Communications Surveys & Tutorials, 25(3), 2023

SurveySCIPDF

Melody: Toward Resource-Efficient Packet Header Vector Encoding on Programmable Switches

Xiang Chen, Hongyan Liu, Qingjiang Xiao, Jianshan Zhang, Qun Huang, Dong Zhang, Xuan Liu, Chunming Wu

IEEE INFOCOM 2023

Programmable NetworksCCF A

Excalibur: A Scalable and Low-Cost Traffic Testing Framework for Evaluating DDoS Defense Solutions

Xiang Chen, Hongyan Liu, Tingxin Sun, Qun Huang, Dong Zhang, Xuan Liu, Boyang Zhou, Haifeng Zhou, Chunming Wu

IEEE INFOCOM 2023

DDoSCCF A

Toward Scalable and Low-Cost Traffic Testing for Evaluating DDoS Defense Solutions

Xiang Chen, Hongyan Liu, Qun Huang, Dong Zhang, Haifeng Zhou, Chunming Wu, Xuan Liu

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2024

DDoSCCF APDF

Toward Low-Latency and Accurate State Synchronization for Programmable Networks

Xiang Chen, Hongyan Liu, Qun Huang, Dong Zhang, Haifeng Zhou, Chunming Wu, Xuan Liu, Qiang Yang

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 31(3), 2023

Programmable NetworksCCF APDF

Combination Attacks and Defenses on SDN Topology Discovery

Dezhang Kong, Yi Shen, Xiang Chen, Qiumei Cheng, Hongyan Liu, Dong Zhang, Xuan Liu, Shuangxi Chen, Chunming Wu

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 31(2), 2023

SDN SecurityCCF APDF

Automatic Performance-Optimal Offloading of Network Functions on Programmable Switches

Xiang Chen, Hongyan Liu, Dong Zhang, Zili Meng, Qun Huang, Haifeng Zhou, Chunming Wu, Xuan Liu, Qiang Yang

IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 11(2), 2023

NFVCCF CPDF

Toward Low-Overhead Inter-Switch Coordination in Network-Wide Data Plane Program Deployment

Xiang Chen, Hongyan Liu, Qingjiang Xiao, Kaiwei Guo, Tingxin Sun, Xiang Ling, Xuan Liu, Qun Huang, Dong Zhang, Haifeng Zhou, Fan Zhang, Chunming Wu

IEEE ICDCS 2022

Programmable NetworksCCF BPDF

Dual-Meta Network Architecture Driven by Content and Address

Peng Yang, Xuan Liu, Youping Li

Strategic Study of CAE, 24(4), 2022 (in Chinese)

Network Architecture中文

Enabling Low-Latency Service Function Chains by Merging Duplicate Match Operations

Dong Zhang, Kaiwei Guo, Xiang Chen, Xuan Liu

IET Networks, 11(5), 2022

SFCSCI

Quality Enhancement in a mm-Wave Multi-hop, Multi-Tier Heterogeneous 5G Network Architecture

Aftab Ahmed Khan, Muhammad Zakarya, Xuan Liu, Rahim Khan, Ahmad Ali, Ayaz Ali Khan

Telecommunication Systems, 80(2), 2022

5GSCI

5G-and-Beyond Communications for Smart Cities: Networks, Systems and Applications

Minghua Xia, Edmund Lai, Jie Hu, Xuan Liu, et al.

Frontiers in Communications and Networks, 3, 2022

5GSCI

GTF: An Adaptive Network Anomaly Detection Method at the Network Edge

Renjie Li, Zhou Zhou, Xuan Liu, Da Li, Wei Yang, Shu Li, Qingyun Liu

Security and Communication Networks, 2021

Anomaly DetectionCCF C

Collaborative Filtering Driven by Fast Semantic Feature Analysis on Spark

Peng Yang, Liang Gu, Xuan Liu

Wireless Networks, 28, 2022

Data AnalyticsCCF C

Amalgamation of Blockchain and Sixth-Generation-Envisioned Responsive Edge Orchestration in Future Cellular V2X Ecosystems

Pronaya Bhattacharya, Umesh Bodkhe, Mohd Zuhair, Mamoon Rashid, Xuan Liu, Ashwin Verma, Ram Kishan Dewangan

Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2021

Blockchain / V2XSCI

IoT Sensing, Applications, and Technologies for Smart Sustainable Cities

Gerhard P. Hancke, Mohammad Reza Salehizadeh, Xuan Liu, Jie Hu, et al.

IET Smart Cities, 3(3), 2021

IoTSCI

MalDroid: Secure DL-Enabled Intelligent Malware Detection Framework

Ikram Ul Haq, Tamim Ahmed Khan, Adnan Akhunzada, Xuan Liu

IET Communications, 2021

Malware DetectionCCF C

Unsupervised Derivation of Keyword Summary for Short Texts

Bin Cao, Jiawei Wu, Sichao Wang, Jing Fan, Honghao Gao, Shuiguang Deng, Jianwei Yin, Xuan Liu

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 21(2), 2021

NLPCCF B

Integration of Satellite-Aerial-Terrestrial Networks

Xuan Liu, Pascal Lorenz, Periklis Chatzimisios, Syed Hassan Ahmed, Safdar Hussain Bouk, Honghao Gao

Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2021

Satellite NetworksSCI

Blockchain for Decentralized Multi-Drone to Combat COVID-19 and Future Pandemics: Framework and Proposed Solutions

Saeed Hamood Alsamhi, Brian Lee, Mohsen Guizani, Neeraj Kumar, Yuansong Qiao, Xuan Liu

Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2021

Blockchain / UAVSCI

An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Identification Centric Authentication in IoT based Cloud Servers for Sustainable Smart Cities

Ajay Kumar, Kumar Abhishek, Xuan Liu, Anandakumar Haldorai

Wireless Personal Communications, 117, 2021

IoT AuthSCI

DeepAMD: Detection and Identification of Android Malware Using High-Efficient Deep Artificial Neural Network

Syed Ibrahim Imtiaz, Saif ur Rehman, Abdul Rehman Javed, Zunera Jalil, Xuan Liu, Waleed S. Alnumay

Future Generation Computer Systems, 115, 2021

Malware DetectionCCF C

A Comprehensive Survey of AI-Enabled Phishing Attacks Detection Techniques

Abdul Basit, Maham Zafar, Xuan Liu, Abdul Rehman Javed, Zunera Jalil, Kashif Kifayat

Telecommunication Systems, 76(1), 2021

AI SecuritySCI

BPA: The Optimal Placement of Interdependent VNFs in Many-core System

Youbing Zhong, Zhou Zhou, Xuan Liu, Da Li, Meijun Guo, Shuai Zhang, Qingyun Liu, Li Guo

EAI CollaborateCom 2020

VNFCCF C

Guest Editorial: Recent Advances in Multimedia Security and Information Hiding

Amit Kumar Singh, Xuan Liu, Haoxiang Wang, Hoon Ko

Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2020

EditorialEditorial

A Survey on Recent Optimal Techniques for Securing UAVs Applications

Farheen Syed, Sachin Kumar Gupta, S. H. Alsamhi, Mamoon Rashid, Xuan Liu

Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2020

UAV SecuritySCI

Ensemble Adaboost Classifier for Accurate and Fast Detection of Botnet Attacks in Connected Vehicles

Abdul Rehman Javed, Zunera Jalil, Syed Atif Moqurrab, Sidra Abbas, Xuan Liu

Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, 2020

Botnet DetectionSCI

Collaborative Dual-Structural Edge Networking Paradigm: An Analysis Study in Terms of Multimedia Content Delivery

Xuan Liu, Peng Yang, Yongqiang Dong, Sayed Chhattan Shah

Multimedia Tools and Applications, 78(17), 2019

Edge NetworkingCCF C

An Analysis of Content Sharing Hops for Dual-Structural Network Based on General Random Graph

Xuan Liu, Peng Yang, Yongqiang Dong, Syed Hassan Ahmed

IEEE GLOBECOM 2018

Content SharingCCF C

Information-Centric Mobile Ad Hoc Networks and Content Routing: A Survey

Xuan Liu, Zhuo Li, Peng Yang, Yongqiang Dong

Ad Hoc Networks, 58, 2017

ICN SurveyCCF C

A Comparative Analysis of Content Delivery Capability for Collaborative Dual-Architecture Network

Xuan Liu, Peng Yang, Yongqiang Dong, Syed Hassan Ahmed

EAI CollaborateCom 2017

Content DeliveryCCF C