Publications

2025

• Lingzhi Wang, Xiangmin Shen, Weijian Li, Zhenyuan Li, R. Sekar, Han Liu, Yan Chen, ''Incorporating Gradients to Rules: Towards Lightweight, Adaptive Provenance-based Intrusion Detection", in the Proc. of Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2025.

2024

• Jiashui Wang, Ziyi Guo, Xinlei Ying, Peng Qian, and Yan Chen, ``SwFuzz: Structure-Sensitive WebAssembly Fuzzing", in the Proc. of 31st Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC), 2024.
• You Li, Kaiyu Hou, Yunqi He, Yan Chen, and Hai Zhou, ``Property Guided Secure Configuration Space Search'', in the Proc. of 27th Information Security Conference (ISC), 2024 (34/120=28.3%).
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• Jiashui Wang, Peng Qian, Xilin Huang, Xinlei Ying, Yan Chen, Shouling Ji, Jianhai Chen, Jundong Xie, and Long Liu, ``Tacoma: Enhanced Browser Fuzzing with Fine-Grained Semantic Alignment'', in the Proc. of International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA), 2024.
• Qingyang Zeng, Kaiyu Hou, Xue Leng, and Yan Chen, "DirectFaaS: A Clean-Slate Network Architecture for Efficient Serverless Chain Communications'', in the Proc. of ACM Web (WWW) Conference, 2024 (20.2%).
• Xiangmin Shen, Zhenyuan Li, Graham Burleigh, Lingzhi Wang, and Yan Chen, "Decoding the MITRE Engenuity ATT&CK Enterprise Evaluation: An Analysis of EDR Performance in Real-World Environments'', in the Proc. of ACM ASIACCS, 2024.

2023

• Xuechao Du, Xiang Pan, Yinzhi Cao, Boyuan He, Gan Fang, Yan Chen, and Daigang Xu, FlowCog: Context-aware Semantic Extraction and Analysis of Information Flow Leaks in Android Apps, in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 22(11), pp. 6460-6476, 2023.
• Se-young Yu, Qingyang Zeng, Jim Chen, Yan Chen, and Joe Mambretti, AIDTN: Towards a Real-Time AI Optimized DTN System with NVMeoF, in the Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 34(6), pp. 1731-1742, 2023
• Tiantian Zhu, Jinkai Yu, Chunlin Xiong, Wenrui Cheng, Qixuan Yuan, Jie Ying, Tieming Chen, Jiabo Zhang, Mingqi Lv, Yan Chen, Ting Wang, and Yuan Fan, APTSHIELD: A Stable, Efficient and Real-Time APT Detection System for Linux Hosts, in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 20(6): 5247-5264, 2023.
• Qingyang Zeng, Mohammad Kavousi, Yinhong Luo, Ling Jin, and Yan Chen, Full-stack vulnerability analysis of the cloud-native platform, in Elsevier Computers & Security, Volume 129, June 2023.
• Ling Jin, Yinzhi Cao, Yan Chen, Di Zhang, and Simone Campanoni, EXGEN: Cross-platform, Automated Exploit Generation for Smart Contract Vulnerabilities, in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 20(1): 650-664, 2023.

2022

• Kaiyu Hou, Sen Lin, Yan Chen, and Vinod Yegneswaran, "QFaaS: Accelerating and Securing Serverless Cloud Networks with QUIC", in the Proc. of ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC), 2022 (38/155=24.5%).
• Zhenyuan Li, Jun Zeng, Yan Chen and Zhenkai Liang, AttacKG: Constructing Technique Knowledge Graph from Cyber Threat Intelligence Reports, in the Proc. of ACM European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), 2022.
• Xuechao Du, Andong Chen, Boyuan He, Hao Chen, Fan Zhang, and Yan Chen, AFLIoT: Fuzzing on Linux-based IoT Device with Binary-level Instrumentation, in the Elsevier Journal of Computer and Security, Volume 122, Nov. 2022.
• Xing Li, Xue Leng; and Yan Chen, Securing Serverless Computing: Challenges, Solutions, and Opportunities, in IEEE Network Magazine, October 2022.
• Chunlin Xiong, Tiantian Zhu, Weihao Dong, Linqi Ruan, Runqing Yang, Yueqiang Cheng, Yan Chen, Shuai Cheng, and Xutong Chen, "CONAN: A Practical Real-time APT Detection System with High Accuracy and Efficiency", in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 19(1): 551-565, 2022.
• Runqing Yang, Xutong Chen, Haitao Xu, Yueqiang Cheng, Chunlin Xiong, Linqi Ruan, Mohammad Kavousi, Zhenyuan Li, Liheng Xu, and Yan Chen, RATScope: Recording and Reconstructing Missing RAT Attacks for Forensic Analysis with Semantics on Windows, in the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2021.
• Tiantian Zhu, Zhengqiu Weng, Qijie Song, Yuan Chen, Qiang Liu, Yan Chen, Mingqi Lv, and Tieming Chen, “EspialCog: General, Efficient and Robust Mobile User Implicit Authentication in Noisy Environment”, in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 21(2): 555-572, 2022.

2021

• Zhenyuan Li, Qi Alfred Chen, Runqing Yang, Yan Chen, Threat Detection and Investigation with System-level Provenance Graphs: A Survey, in Elsevier Computers & Security, Volume 106, 2021.
• Mohammad Kavousi, Runqing Yang, Shiqing Ma, and Yan Chen, SemFlow: Accurate Semantic Identification from Low-Level System Data, in the Proc. of EAI SecureComm, 2021
• Kaiyu Hou, You Li, Yinbo Yu, Yan Chen, Hai Zhou, Discovering Emergency Call Pitfalls for Cellular Networks with Formal Methods, in the Proc. of ACM 19th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), 2021 (36/166 = 21.7%)
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• Xutong Chen, Hassaan Irshad, Yan Chen, Ashish Gehani, and Vinod Yegneswaran, CLARION: Sound and Clear Provenance Tracking for Microservice Deployments, in the Proc. of USENIX Security 2021.
• Xing Li, Yan Chen, Zhiqiang Lin, Xiao Wang, and Jim Hao Chen, Automatic Policy Generation for Inter-Service Access Control of Microservices, in the Proc. of USENIX Security 2021.
• Tiantian Zhu, Jiayu Wang, Linqi Ruan, Chunlin Xiong, Jinkai Yu, Yaosheng Li, Yan Chen, Mingqi Lv, Tieming Chen, "General, Efficient, and Real-Time Data Compaction Strategy for APT Forensic Analysis", in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Volume 16, April 2021.
• Tiantian Zhu, Lei Fu, Qiang Liu, Zi Lin, Yan Chen, and Tieming Chen, One Cycle Attack: Fool Sensor-Based Personal Gait Authentication With Clustering, in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 16, December 2021, pg. 553-568.
  

2020

• Runqing Yang,Shiqing Ma, Haitao Xu, Xiangyu Zhang, Yan Chen, ``UISCOPE: Accurate, Instrumentation-free, and Visible Attack Investigation for GUI Applications", in the Proc. of NDSS 2020.
• Chunlin Xiong, Tiantian Zhu, Weihao Dong, Linqi Ruan, Runqing Yang, Yueqiang Cheng, Yan Chen, Shuai Cheng, and Xutong Chen, ``CONAN: A Practical Real-time APT Detection System with High Accuracy and Efficiency", in the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Feb. 2020 (officially published in Volume: 19, Issue: 1, 2022).
  

2019

• Xiaochun Wu, Kaiyu Hou, Xue Leng, Xing li, Yinbo Yu, and Bo Wu, "State of the Art and Research Challenges in the Security Technologies of Network Function Virtualization", in the Internet Computing, Dec. 2019.
• Ling Jin, Boyuan He, Guangyao Weng, Haitao Xu, Yan Chen, and Guanyu Guo, “MAdLens: Investigating into Android In-App Ad Practice at API Granularity”, in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Nov. 2019.
• Zhenyuan Li，Qi Alfred Chen，Chunlin Xiong，Yan Chen, Tiantian Zhu, and Hai Yang, Effective and Light-Weight Deobfuscation and Semantic-Aware Attack Detection for PowerShell Scripts, in the Proc. of ACM CCS, 2019. (149/933=16%).
  
• Yinbo Yu, Xing Li, Kai Bu, Yan Chen, and Jianfeng Yang, Falcon:Differential Fault Localization for SDN Control Plane, in the Journal of Computer Networks, Volume 162, October 2019.
• Xue Leng, Kaiyu Hou, Yan Chen, Kai Bu, Libin Song, and You Li, A lightweight policy enforcement system for resource protection and management in the SDN-based cloud, in the Journal of Computer Networks, Volume 161, October 2019, Pages 68-81.
  
• Fan Dang, Zhenhua Li, Ennan Zhai, Qi Alfred Chen, Tianyin Xu, Yunhao Liu, Yan Chen, Jingyu Yang, Understanding Fileless Attacks on Linux-based IoT Systems with HoneyCloud, in the Proc. of the ACM MobiSys, 2019 (40/172=23%).
• Tiantian Zhu, Zhengyang Qu, Haitao Xu, Jingsi Zhang, Zhengyue Shao, Yan Chen, Sandeep Prabhakar, Jianfeng Yang, RiskCog: Unobtrusive Real-time User Authentication on Mobile Devices in the Wild,  in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, January 2019.
• Xing Li, Yinbo Yu, Kai Bu, Yan Chen, Jianfeng Yang, Ruijie Quan, Thinking inside the Box: Differential Fault Localization for SDN Control Plane, in the Proc. of IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM) 2019.
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2018

• Yinbo Yu, Xing Li, Xue Leng, Libin Song, Kai Bu, Yan Chen, Jianfeng Yang, Liang Zhang, Kang Cheng, Xin Xiao, ``Fault Management in Software-Defined Networking: A Survey", in the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, September 2018.
• Xiang Pan, Yinzhi Cao, Xuechao Du, Boyuan He, Gan Fang, and Yan Chen, FlowCog: Context-aware Semantics Extraction and Analysis of Information Flow Leaks in Android Apps, in the Proc. of USENIX Security, 2018 (100/524=19.1%).
• Rui Shao, Vaibhav Rastogi, Yan Chen, Xiang Pan, Guanyu Guo, Shihong Zou, and Ryan Riley, ``Understanding In-App Ads and Detecting Hidden Attacks through the Mobile App-Web Interface", in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Vol. 17, NO. X, 2018.
• Xue Leng, Kaiyu Hou, Yan Chen, Kai Bu, Libin Song, SDNKeeper: Lightweight Resource Protection and Management System for SDN-based Cloud, in the Proc. of IEEE/ACM IWQoS, 2018 (26/125=20.8%).
• Boyuan He, Haitao Xu, Ling Jin, Guanyu Guo, Yan Chen, Guangyao Weng, An Investigation into Android In-App Ad Practice: Implications for App Developers, in the Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM 2018 (309/1606=19.2%).

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2017

• Xitao Wen, Kai Bu, Bo Yang, Yan Chen, Li Erran Li, Xiaolin Chen, Jianfeng Yang, Xue Leng, "RuleScope: Inspecting Forwarding Faults for Software-Defined Networking", in ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking (ToN), Volume 25, Issue 4, 2017.
• Kai Chen, Xitao Wen, Xingyu Ma, Yan Chen, Yong Xia, Chengchen Hu, Qunfeng Dong, Yongqiang Liu, "Towards A Scalable, Fault-Tolerant, High-Performance Optical Data Center Architecture", in ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking (ToN), Volume 25, Issue 4, 2017.
• Zhengyang Qu, Shahid Alam, Yan Chen, Xiaoyu Zhou, Hongjun Wang, Ryan Riley, DyDroid: Measuring Dynamic Code Loading and Its Security Implications in Android Applications, in IEEE DSN 2017 (49/220=22.3%).

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2016

• Tiantian Zhu, Hongyu Gao, Yi Yang, Kai Bu, Yan Chen, Doug Downey, Kathy Lee, Alok Choudhary, "Beating the Artificial Chaos: Fighting OSN Spam Using Its Own Templates", in ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking (ToN), Volume 24, Issue 6, 2016.
• Shahid Alam, Zhengyang Qu, Ryan Riley, Vaibhav Rastogi, and Yan Chen, DroidNative : automating and optimizing detection of android native code malware variants, in the Elsevier Journal of Computers and Security, November 2016.
• Xiang Pan, Yinzhi Cao, Shuangping Liu, Yu Zhou, Yan Chen, Tingzhe Zhou, CSPAutoGen: Black-box Enforcement of Content Security, in the Proc. of ACM CCS, 2016 (137/831=16.5%).

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• Zhengyang Qu, Guanyu Guo, Zhengyue Shao, Vaibhav Rastogi, Yan Chen, Hao Chen and Wangjun Hong, AppShield: Enabling Multi-entity Access Control Cross Platforms for Mobile App Management, in the Proc. of Securecomm, Oct. 2016 (32/137=23.3%).

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• Xitao Wen, Bo Yang, Yan Chen, Chengchen Hu, Yi Wang, Bin Liu, Xiaolin Chen, SDNShield: Reconciliating Configurable Application Permissions for SDN App Markets, in the Proc. of IEEE/IFIP DSN, August 2016 (58/259 = 22.4%)

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• Xitao Wen, Bo Yang, Yan Chen, Li Erran Li, Kai Bu, Peng Zheng, Yang Yang, Chengchen Hu, RuleTris: Minimizing Rule Update Latency for TCAM-based SDN Switches, in the Proc. of IEEE ICDCS, June 2016 (68/386 = 17.6%).

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  Won the Best Paper Runner-up Award!

• Kai Bu, Xitao Wen, Bo Yang, Yan Chen, Li Erran Li, Xiaolin Chen, Is Every Flow on The Right Track?: Inspect SDN Forwarding with RuleScope, in the Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2016 (300/1644=18%).

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• Vaibhav Rastogi, Rui Shao, Yan Chen, Xiang Pan, Shihong Zou, and Ryan Riley, Are These Ads Safe: Detecting Hidden Attacks through the Mobile App-Web Interfaces, in the Proc. of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2016.

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  Featured in ScienceDaily, Sciencecodex, Northwestern McComick News, air cast on KCSN Latin Alternative.

• Hongyu Gao, Vinod Yegneswaran, Jian Jiang, Yan Chen, Phil Porras, Shalini Ghosh, Haixin Duan, "Reexamining DNS From a Global Recursive Resolver Perspective", in ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking (ToN), Vol 24, No. 1, pp. 43-57, 2016.

2015

• Vaibhav Rastogi, Zhengyang Qu, Jedidiah McClurg, Yinzhi Cao, and Yan Chen, Uranine: Real-time Privacy Leakage Monitoring without System Modification for Android, in the Proc. of International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SECURECOMM), 2015 (30/108=28%).

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• Yinzhi Cao, Xiang Pan, and Yan Chen, SafePay: Protecting against Credit Card Forgery with Existing Magnetic Card Readers, in the Proc. of the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2015 (48/171=28%).

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  Won the Best Paper Award

  Featured in CCTV-America and over 30 news periodicals, such as: NSF Science360 News, Yahoo! News, ScienceDaily, Tech News Today, Times Today News, and The Economics Times. View a more extensive list of publications

• Boyuan He, Vaibhav Rastogi, Yinzhi Cao, Yan Chen, V.N. Venkatakrishnan, Runqing Yang and Zhenrui Zhang, Vetting SSL Usage in Applications with SSLINT, in the Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland), 2015 (55/402=13.7%).

  Presentation PowerPoint, Presentation PowerPoint in Chinese

• Kai Chen, Xitao Wen, Xingyu Ma, Yan Chen, Yong Xia, Qunfeng Dong, WaveCube: A Scalable, Fault-Tolerant, High-Performance Optical Data Center Architecture, in the Proc. of IEEE Infocom, 2015 (316/1640=19%).
• Xiang Pan, Yinzhi Cao, and Yan Chen, I Do Not Know What You Visited Last Summer - Protecting users from third-party web tracking with TrackingFree browser, in the Proc. of Internet Society NDSS Symposium, 2015 (50/313 = 15.9%).

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• Yinzhi Cao, Yanick Fratantonio, Manuel Egele, Antonio Bianchi, Christopher Kruegel, Giovanni Vigna, Yan Chen, EdgeMiner: Automatically Detecting Implicit Control Flow Transitions through the Android Framework, in the Proc. of Internet Society NDSS Symposium, 2015 (50/313 = 15.9%).

  Data and source code can be downloaded here.

2014

• Yinzhi Cao, Xiang Pan, Yan Chen and Jianwei Zhuge, JShield: Towards Real-time and Vulnerability-based Detection of Polluted Drive-by Download Attacks, in the Proc. of Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2014 (19.9%).

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  Adopted by Huawei, the world’s largest telecommunication equipment maker, in their high-end Web Firewall products.

• Hongyu Gao, Yi Yang, Kai Bu, Yan Chen, Doug Downey, Kathy Lee, Alok Choudhary, Spam ain't as Diverse as It Seems: Throttling OSN Spam with Templates Underneath, in the Proc. of Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2014 (19.9%)

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• Zhengyang Qu, Vaibhav Rastogi, Xinyi Zhang, Yan Chen, Tiantian Zhu and Zhong Chen, AutoCog: Measuring the Description-to-permission Fidelity in Android Applications, in the Proc. of ACM CCS, 2014 (114/585=19.5%).

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  We released AutoCog App at Google Play.

• Shihong Zou, Xitao Wen, Kai Chen, Shan Huang, Yan Chen, Yongqiang Liu, Yong Xia, Chengchen Hu, "VirtualKnotter: Online virtual machine shuffling for congestion resolving in virtualized datacenter", in Journal of Computer Networks, Vol 67, pp. 141-153, 2014.
• Yinzhi Cao, Yan Shoshitaishviliz, Kevin Borgoltez, Christopher Kruegelz, Giovanni Vignaz, and Yan Chen, Protecting Web-based Single Sign-on Protocols against Relying Party, Impersonation Attacks through a Dedicated Bi-directional Authenticated Secure Channel, in the Proc. of the International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses (RAID), 2014 (22/113=19.5%).

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• Yinzhi Cao, Chao Yang, Vaibhav Rastogi, Yan Chen and Guofei Gu, Abusing Browser Address Bar for Fun and Profit - An Empirical Investigation of Add-on Cross Site Scripting Attacks, in the Proc. of 10th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2014.

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• Xitao Wen, Chunxiao Diao, Xun Zhao, Yan Chen, Erran Li, Bo Yang, and Kai Bu, Compiling Minimum Incremental Update for Modular SDN Languages, full paper with long presentation, in the Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM HotSDN Workshop, 2014 (16/114 = 15%).

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• Vaibhav Rastogi, Yan Chen, and Xuxian Jiang, Catch Me If You Can: DroidChameleon: Evaluating Android Anti-malware against Transformation Attacks, in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp.99-108, 2014.
• Kai Chen, David Choffnes, Rahul Potharaju, Yan Chen, Fabian Bustamante, Dan Pei, Yao Zhao, Where the Sidewalk Ends: Extending the Internet AS Graph Using Traceroutes From P2P Users, in IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), Vol. 63, No. 4, pp. 1021-1036, 2014.
• Chengchen Hu, Bin Liu, Hongbo Zhao, Kai Chen, Yan Chen, and Yu Cheng, Discount Counting for Fast Flow Statistics on Flow Size and Flow Volume, in ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking (ToN), Volume 22, Number 3, 2014.
• Kai Chen, Ankit Singla, Atul Singh, Kishore Ramachandran, Lei Xu, Yueping Zhang, Xitao Wen, Yan Chen, OSA: An Optical Switching Architecture for Data Center Networks with Unprecedented Flexibility, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), Volume 22, Number 2, April 2014.

2013

• Hongyu Gao, Vinod Yegneswaran, Yan Chen, Phil Porras, Shalini Ghosh, Jian Jiang, Haixin Duan, An Empirical Reexamination of Global DNS Behavior, in the Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM, 2013 (38/240=15.8%)..

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• Xitao Wen, Yan Chen, Chengchen Hu, Chao Shi, Yi Wang, Towards A Secure Controller Platform for OpenFlow Applications, Short Paper, in the Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM HotSDN Workshop, 2013((24+16)/84=47.6%).

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• Yinzhi Cao, Vaibhav Rastogi, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen, and Alex Moshchuk, Redefining Web Browser Principals with a Configurable Origin Policy, in the Proc. of The IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Network - Dependable Computing and Communications Symposium (DSN - DCCS), 2013 (21/107=19.6%).

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• Vaibhav Rastogi, Yan Chen, and Xuxian Jiang, DroidChameleon: Evaluating Android Anti-malware against Transformation Attacks, Short Paper, in the Proc. of the 8th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2013 ((35+26)/216=28.2%).

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  This research was featured in Dark Reading, Information Week, The H, heise Security, Security Week, Slashdot, Help Net Security, ISS Source, EFY Times, Tech News Daily, Fudzilla, VirusFreePhone, McCormick Northwestern News, ScienceDaily, and Wall Street Journal.

  Released malware samples to several security companies such as Lookout, AVG, NQ Mobile, and McAfee and numerous researchers over the world.

• Vaibhav Rastogi, Yan Chen, and William Enck, AppsPlayground: Automatic Security Analysis of Smartphone Applications, in the Proc. of Third ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privcy (CODASPY), 2013 (24/107=22%).

  Presentation PowerPoint, Demo Video, and System Release.

2012

• Yao Zhao, Yinzhi Cao, Yan Chen, Ming Zhang, and Anup Goyal, Rake: Semantics Assisted Network-based Tracing Framework, in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2012.
• Huichen Dai, Bin Liu, Yan Chen, and Yi Wang, On Pending Interest Table in Named Data Networking, in the Proc. of ACM Symposium on Architectures for Networking and Communications Systems (ANCS), 2012 (18/64=28%).

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• Chengchen Hu, Kai Chen, Yan Chen, Gao Xia, Bin Liu, Thanos Vasilakos, A Measurement Study on Potential Inter-Domain Routing Diversity, in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Vol. 9, No. 3, pp. 268-278, 2012.
• Xitao Wen, Kai Chen, Yan Chen, Yongqiang Liu, Yong Xia, and Chengchen Hu, VirtualKnotter: Online Virtual Machine Shuffling for Congestion Resolving in Virtualized Datacenter, in the Proc. of IEEE ICDCS, 2012 (71/515=13%).

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• Yi Wang, Keqiang He, Huichen Dai, Wei Meng, Junchen Jiang, Bin Liu, and Yan Chen, Scalable Name Lookup in NDN Using Effective Name Component Encoding, in the Proc. of IEEE ICDCS, 2012 (71/515=13%).

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• Xingyu Ma, Chengchen Hu, Kai Chen, Che Zhang, Hongtao Zhang, Kai Zheng, Yan Chen, and Xianda Sun, Error Tolerant Address Configuration for Data Center Networks with Malfunctioning Devices, in the Proc. of IEEE ICDCS, 2012 (71/515=13%).

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• Yinzhi Cao, Zhichun Li, Vaibhav Rastogi, Xitao Wen, and Yan Chen, Virtual Browser: a Virtualized Browser to Sandbox Third-party JavaScripts with Enhanced Security, full paper, in the Proc. of ACM ASIACCS, 2012 (35/159=22%).

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• Kai Chen, Ankit Singla, Atul Singh, Kishore Ramachandran, Lei Xu, Yueping Zhang, Xitao Wen, and Yan Chen, OSA: An Optical Switching Architecture for Data Center Networks with Unprecedented Flexibility, in the Proc. of ACM/USNEIX NSDI, 2012 (30/169=17.8%).

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• Hongyu Gao, Yan Chen, Kathy Lee, Diana Palsetia and Alok Choudhary, Towards Online Spam Filtering in Social Networks, in the Proc. of 19th Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2012 (46/258=17.8%).

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• Yinzhi Cao, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras and Yan Chen, PathCutter: Severing the Self-Propagation Path of XSS JavaScript Worms in Social Web Networks, in the Proc. of 19th Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2012 (46/258=17.8%).

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• Kai Chen, Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, Jing Yuan, Zhenqian Feng, Yan Chen, Songwu Lu, Wenfei Wu, DAC: Generic and Automatic Address Configuration for Data Center Networks, in ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking (ToN), Volume 20, Number 1, 2012.

2011

• Chengchen Hu, Bin Liu, Sheng Wang, Jia Tian, Yu Cheng, and Yan Chen, Adaptive Non-Linear Sampling Method for Accurate Flow Size Measurement, IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2011.
• Kai Chen, Chengchen Hu, Xin Zhang, Kai Zheng, Yan Chen, and Athanasios V. Vasilakos, Survey on Routing in Data Centers: Insights and Future, in IEEE Network magazine - Special Issue on Cloud Computing, Volume 25, No. 4, July/August 2011, pp.6-10.
• Yao Zhao, Yinzhi Cao, Anup Goyal, Yan Chen, and Ming Zhang, Rake: Semantics Assisted Network-based Tracing Framework, in the Proc. of IEEE/ACM IWQoS, 2011 (23/80=28.8%).

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• Zhichun Li, Anup Goyal, Yan Chen, and Vern Paxson, Towards Situational Awareness of Large-scale Botnet Probing, in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, Vol. 6, Issue 1, pp. 175-188, 2011.
• Hongyu Gao, Jun Hu, Tuo Huang, Jingnan Wang and Yan Chen, Security Issues in Online Social Networks, in IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 15, No. 4, July/August, 2011, pp. 56-63.
• Zhichun Li, Yi Tang, Yinzhi Cao, Vaibhav Rastogi, Yan Chen, Bin Liu, Clint Sbisa, WebShield: Enabling Various Web Defense Techniques without Client Side Modifications, in the Proc. of 18th Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2011 (28/139=20%).

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2010

• Hongyu Gao, Jun Hu, Christo Wilson, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen, and Ben Y. Zhao, Detecting and Characterizing Social Spam Campaigns, in the Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM IMC 2010 (47/211=22.3%).

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  This research was featured in Wall Street Journal, MIT Technology Review, ACM Tech News, and the McCormick Magazine.

• Zhichun Li, Gao Xia, Hongyu Gao, Tang Yi, Yan Chen, Bin Liu, Junchen Jiang, and Yuezhou Lv, NetShield: Massive Semantics-based Vulnerability Signature Matching for High-speed Networks, in the Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 2010 (33/276=12%).

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  The prototype and sample vulnerability signatures are available at www.nshield.org.

• Kai Chen, Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, Jing Yuan, Zhenqian Feng, Yan Chen, Songwu Lu, Wenfei Wu, Generic and Automatic Address Configuration for Data Center Networks, in the Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 2010 (33/276=12%). Selected as one of three best papers for fast track to ACM/IEEE ToN.

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• Zhichun Li, Yan Gao, and Yan Chen, HiFIND: A high-speed flow-level intrusion detection approach with DoS resiliency, Journal of Computer Networks, Volume 54, Issue 8, June 2010.
• Zhichun Li, Ming Zhang, Zhaosheng Zhu, Yan Chen, Albert Greenberg, and Yi-Min Wang, WebProphet: Automating Performance Prediction for Web Services, in the Proc. of ACM/USENIX NSDI 2010 (29/175=16.6%).

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• Chengchen Hu, Bin Liu, Hongbo Zhao, Kai Chen and Yan Chen, DISCO: Memory Efficient and Accurate Flow Statistics for Network Measurement, in the Proc. of IEEE ICDCS, 2010 (84/585=14.4%).
• Zhichun Li, Anup Goyal, Yan Chen, and Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, Measurement and Diagnosis of Address Misconfigured P2P Traffic, in the Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM (main conference), 2010 (276/1575 = 17.5%)

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• Chengchen Hu, Kai Chen, Yan Chen and Bin Liu, Evaluating Potential Routing Diversity for Internet Failure Recovery, in the Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM (mini conference), 2010 (276+106/1575 = 24.3%)

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• Lanjia Wang, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen, Zhi (Judy) Fu, and Xing Li, Thwarting Zero-Day Polymorphic Worms With Network-Level Length-Based Signature Generation, in ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking (ToN), Volume 18, Issue 1, 2010.
• Guohan Lu, Yan Chen, Stefan Birrer, Fabian E. Bustamante, and Xing Li, POPI: A User-level Tool for Inferring Router Packet Forwarding Priority, in ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking (ToN), Volume 18, Issue 1, 2010.

2009

• Yao Zhao, Yan Chen, and David Bindel, Towards Unbiased End-to-End Network Diagnosis, in ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking (ToN), Volume 17, Number 6, Dec. 2009.
• Kai Chen, David R. Choffnes, Rahul Potharaju, Yan Chen, Fabian E. Bustamante, Dan Pei, Yao Zhao, Where the Sidewalk Ends: Extending the Internet AS Graph Using Traceroutes From P2P Users, in the Proc. of the Fifth ACM International Conference on emerging Networking Experiments and Technologies (CoNEXT), 2009 (29/170=17%).

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• Kai Chen, Chengchen Hu, Wenwen Zhang, Yan Chen, Bin Liu, On the Eyeshots of BGP Vantage Points, IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), November 2009.
• Zhaosheng Zhu, Vinod Yegneswaran, and Yan Chen, Using Failure Information Analysis to Detect Enterprise Zombies, full paper, in the Proc. of the International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2009 (19/75 =25.3%).

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• Yao Zhao and Yan Chen, FAD and SPA: End-to-end Link-level Loss Rate Inference without Infrastructure, in the Journal of Computer Networks, 53(9): 1303-1318, 2009.
• Yao Zhao and Yan Chen, "Algebraic Approaches for Scalable End-to-End Monitoring and Diagnosis", invited book chapter for Algorithms for Next Generation Network Architecture, Springer, 2009. ISBN: 978-1-84882-764-6.
• Yao Zhao, Sagar Vemuri, Jiazhen Chen, Yan Chen, Hai Zhou and Zhi (Judy) Fu, Exception Triggered DoS Attacks on Wireless Networks, in the Proc. of the 39th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-DCCS), 2009 (37/177 = 21%).

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• Yao Zhao, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Qifa Ke, Yuan Yu, Yan Chen, and Eliot Gillum, BotGraph: Large Scale Spamming Botnet Detection, in the Proc. of the 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) 2009 (32/162=20%).

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• Yao Zhao, Zhaosheng Zhu, Yan Chen, Dan Pei, and Jia Wang, Towards Efficient Large-Scale VPN Monitoring and Diagnosis under Operational Constraints, IEEE INFOCOM (main conference), 2009 (282/1435=20%). A full version can be found in the technique report NWU-EECS-08-06.

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• Zhichun Li, Anup Goyal, Yan Chen, and Vern Paxson, Automating Analysis of Large-Scale Botnet Probing Events, in the Proc. of ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2009 (33/147=22.4%).

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2008

• Leiwen Deng, Yan Gao, Yan Chen, and Alexsander Kuzmanovic, Pollution Attacks and Defenses for Internet Caching Systems, in Journal of Computer Networks, Volume 52, Issue 5, 2008.
• Yao Zhao, Yan Chen, and Sylvia Ratnasamy, Load balanced and Efficient Hierarchical Data-Centric Storage in Sensor Networks, in the Proc. of the fifth IEEE Conference on Sensor, Mesh and Ad Hoc Communications and Networks (SECON), 2008 (64/300=21.3%).

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• Yan Chen, Dynamic, Scalable, and Efficient Content Replication Techniques, invited book chapter for Content Delivery Networks: Principles and Paradigms, Springer, 2008.
• Chengchen Hu, Sheng Wang, Jia Tian, Bin Liu, Yu Cheng, and Yan Chen, Accurate and Efficient Traffic Monitoring Using Adaptive Non-linear Sampling Method, in the Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2008 (236/1160=20%).

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• Zhichun Li, Anup Goyal, and Yan Chen, Honeynet-based Botnet Scan Traffic Analysis, invited book chapter for Botnet Detection: Countering the Largest Security Threat, Springer, 2008.

2007

• Robert Schweller, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen, Yan Gao, Anup Gupta, Elliot Pearson, Yin Zhang, Peter Dinda, Ming-Yang Kao, and Gokan Memik, Reversible Sketches: Enabling Monitoring and Analysis over High-speed Data Streams, in ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking, Volume 15, Issue 5, Oct. 2007.
• Y. Chen, D. Bindel, H. Song, B. Chavez, and R. H. Katz, An Algebraic Approach for Scalable Overlay Network Monitoring: Algorithms, Evaluation, and Applications, in ACM/IEEE Transaction on Networking, Volume 15, Issue 5, Oct. 2007.
• Zhichun Li, Lanjia Wang, Yan Chen and Zhi Fu, Network-based and Attack-resilient Length Signature Generation for Zero-day Polymorphic Worms, in the Proc. of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), 2007(32/220=14%).

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• Ehab Al-Shaer and Yan Chen, Integrated Fault and Security Management, invited book chapter for Information Assurance: Dependability and Security in Networked Systems, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2007.
• Yan Gao, Yao Zhao, Robert Schweller, Shobha Venkataraman, Yan Chen, Dawn Song, and Ming-Yang Kao, Detecting Stealthy Spreaders Using Online Outdegree Histograms, in the Proc. of the 15th IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2007 (17/64=26.6%).

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• Yao Zhao and Yan Chen, A Suite of Schemes for User-level Network Diagnosis without Infrastructure, in the Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2007 (252/1400=18%). Full version is in the tech report.

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• Guohan Lu, Yan Chen, Stefan Birrer, Fabian E. Bustamante, Chi Yin Cheung and Xing Li, End-to-end Inference of Router Packet Forwarding Priority, in the Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2007 (252/1400=18%). The POPI tool is available here.

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• Yao Zhao, Yan Chen, Bo Li, and Qian Zhang, Hop ID: A Virtual Coordinate based Routing for Sparse Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, in IEEE Transaction on Mobile Computing, Volume 6, Number 9, September 2007.

2006

• Yan Gao, Leiwen Deng, Aleksandar Kuzmanovic, and Yan Chen, Internet Cache Pollution Attacks and Countermeasures, in Proc. of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Nov. 2006 (33/232=14%).

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• Prasad Narayana, Ruiming Chen, Yao Zhao, Yan Chen, Zhi Fu, and Hai Zhou, Automatic Vulnerability Checking of IEEE 802.16 WiMAX Protocols through TLA+, in Proc. of the Second Workshop on Secure Network Protocols (NPSec), co-located with ICNP 2006 (7/21 = 33%).

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• Yao Zhao, Yan Chen, and David Bindel, Towards Unbiased End-to-End Network Diagnosis, in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM 2006 (37/340=10%).

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• Zhichun Li, Yan Chen, and Aaron Beach, Towards Scalable and Robust Distributed Intrusion Alert Fusion with Good Load Balancing, in Proc. of ACM SIGCOMM Workshop on Large-Scale Attack Defense 2006(11/33=33%).

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• Y. Gao, Z. Li, and Y. Chen, A DoS Resilient Flow-level Intrusion Detection Approach for High-speed Networks, in the Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2006 (75/536=14%).

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• Y. Zhao, Y. Chen, and D. Bindel, Towards Deterministic Overlay Diagnosis, poster paper in ACM SIGMETRICS/Performance 2006, (30 full + 17 poster papers out of 217 (14-22%))
• Z. Li, M. Sanghi, Y. Chen, M. Kao, and B. Chavez, Hamsa: Fast Signature Generation for Zero-day Polymorphic Worms with Provable Attack Resilience, full paper, in Proc. of IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2006 (23/251=9%).

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• R. Schweller, Z. Li, Y. Chen, Y. Gao, A. Gupta, Y. Zhang, P. Dinda, M. Kao, and G. Memik, Reverse Hashing for High-speed Network Monitoring: Algorithms, Evaluation, and Applications, Proc. of IEEE INFOCOM, 2006 (252/1400=18%).

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• Pin Ren, Yan Gao, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen and Ben Watson, IDGraphs: Intrusion Detection and Analysis Using Stream Compositing, in IEEE Computer Graphics & Applications, special issue on Visualization for Cyber Security, Volume 26, Number 2, March/April, 2006.

2005

• Yao Zhao, Bo Li, Qian Zhang, Yan Chen, and Wenwu Zhu, Efficient HopID based Routing for Sparse Ad Hoc Networks, Proc. of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Boston, Nov. 2005 (36/212=17%).

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• G. Lu, X. Li and Y. Chen, An End-to-end Approach to Infer Priority Settings on Routers, Proc. of the 12th China Education and Research Network Conference (CERNET), Nov. 2005.
• Pin Ren, Yan Gao, Zhichun Li, Yan Chen and Ben Watson, IDGraphs: Intrusion Detection and Analysis Using Histographs, Proc. of the IEEE Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSEC), in conjunction with Visualization 2005 and InfoVis 2005 conferences, Oct. 2005.
• Y. Chen, Z. Xu and C. Zhai, A Scalable Semantic Indexing Framework for Peer-to-Peer Information Retrieval, Proc. of ACM SIGIR Workshop on Heterogeneous and Distributed Information Retrieval , Aug. 2005.

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• Y. Zhao, Y. Chen, and D. Bindel, Scalable and Deterministic Overlay Network Diagnosis, poster in ACM SIGCOMM, Aug., 2005.
• Z. Li, Y. Gao, and Y. Chen, Towards a High-speed Router-based Anomaly/Intrusion Detection System, poster in ACM SIGCOMM, Aug., 2005.
  Also, Work in Progress talk with the same title at USENIX Security Symposium, Aug. 2005.

2004

• R. Schweller, A. Gupta, E. Parsons, and Y. Chen, Reversible Sketches for Efficient and Accurate Change Detection over Network Data Streams, in ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2004 (ps) (39/157=25%).

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• Y. Chen, D. Bindel, H. Song, and R. H. Katz, An Algebraic Approach to Practical and Scalable Overlay Network Monitoring, in Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, 2004 (ps) (31/340 =9%).

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2003

• My Ph.D. thesis Towards a Scalable, Adaptive and Network-aware Content Distribution Network, Nov. 2003, also appear as Tech Report UCB//CSD-03-1295.
• Y. Chen, D. Bindel, and R. H. Katz, Tomography-based Overlay Network Monitoring, poster in ACM SIGCOMM, 2003. Abstract of the poster in ACM Computer Communication Review(CCR), 2004.
• Y. Chen, D. Bindel, and R. H. Katz, Tomography-based Overlay Network Monitoring, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2003 (ps).

  Talk slides at HP Lab, ICIR, IMC conference.

• B. Krishnamurthy, S. Sen, Y. Zhang, and Y. Chen, Sketch-based Change Detection: Methods, Evaluation, and Applications, Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference (IMC), 2003 (ps).
• Y. Chen, L. Qiu, W. Chen, L. Nguyen and R. H. Katz, Efficient and Adaptive Web Replication using Content Clustering, in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (J-SAC), Special Issue on Internet and WWW Measurement, Mapping, and Modeling, Aug., 2003.

2002

• Y. Chen, L. Qiu, W. Chen, L. Nguyen and R. H. Katz, Clustering Web Content for Efficient Replication, Proceeding of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP), Paris, France, Nov. 2002.

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• Y. Chen, R. H. Katz and J. D. Kubiatowicz, SCAN: a Dynamic Scalable and Efficient Content Distribution Network, Proceeding of the First International Conference on Pervasive Computing, Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 2002.

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• B. Raman, S. Agarwal, Y. Chen, M. Caesar, W. Cui, P. Johansson, K. Lai, T. Lavian, S. Machiraju, Z. M. Mao, G. Porter, T. Roscoe, M. Seshadri, J. Shih, K. Sklower, L. Subramanian, T. Suzuki, S. Zhuang, A. D. Joseph, R. H. Katz, and I. Stoica, The SAHARA Model for Service Composition Across Multiple Providers (ps file), invited paper, Proceeding of the First International Conference on Pervasive Computing (PERVASIVE), Zurich, Switzerland, Aug. 2002.
• Y. Chen, K. Lim, C. Overton and R. H. Katz, On the Stability of Network Distance Estimation, Proceeding of ACM SIGMETRICS Practical Aspects of Performance Analysis Workshop (PAPA 2002) selected to be published> in ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review (PER), September issue, 2002.
• Y. Chen, C. Overton and R. H. Katz, Internet Iso-bar: A Scalable Overlay Distance Monitoring System, in Journal of Computer Resource Management, Computer Measurement Group, Spring Edition, 2002.
• Y. Chen, R. H. Katz and J. Kubiatowicz, Dynamic Replica Placement for Scalable Content Delivery, Proceeding of 1st International Workshop on Peer-to-Peer Systems (IPTPS'02), Boston, Mar. 2002.

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2001

• Y. Chen, A. Bargteil, D. Bindel, R. Katz and J. Kubiatowicz, Quantifying Network Denial of Service: A Location Service Case Study, Proceeding of the Third International Conference on Information and Communications Security (ICICS), Xian, China, Nov. 2001. Extracted and revised from UCB/CSD Tech Report No. CSD-01-1150.

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2000

• J. Kubiatowicz, D. Bindel, Y. Chen, S. Czerwinski, P. Eaton, D. Geels, R. Gummadi, S. Rhea, H. Weatherspoon, W. Weimer, C. Wells, and B. Zhao, OceanStore: An Architecture for Global-Scale Persistent Storage , Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), Boston, MA, Oct. 2000.

1998

• Y. Chen, Q.Zhu, A. Kaufman, "Physically-based Animation of Volumetric Objects", Proceeding of IEEE Computer Animation , 1998, pp. 154-160.
• Q. Zhu, Y. Chen, A. Kaufman, "Real-time Biomechanically-based Muscle Volume Deformation using FEM", Journal of Computer Graphics Forum,, 1998, pp. C275-C284.

1996

• Y. Chen, Z. Pan, J. Shi, "Analysis of PVM Structure", Computer Engineering & Application (Chinese) Apr., 1996
• Y. Chen, Z. Pan, J. Shi, "Load Balancing and Parallel Ray Tracing on PVM", Journal of Computer Engineering & Application (Chinese), Apr., 1996, pp. 65-69.
• Z. Pan, Y. Chen, C. Jiang, J. Shi, "PVM-G: Parallel Graphics Design Environment", Journal of Computer (Chinese)., Vol 19, 1996