Conference Publications

• MITOS: Optimal Decisioning for the Indirect Flow Propagation Dilemma in Dynamic Information Flow Tracking Systems
  N. Sapountzis, R. Sun, X. Wei, Y. Jin, J. Crandall, and D. Oliveira
  IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), Singapore, November 29-December 1, 2020

• Fingerprinting Encrypted Voice Traffic on Smart Speakers with Deep Learning
  C. Wang, S. Kennedy, H. Li, K. Hudson, G. Atluri, X. Wei, W. Sun, and B. Wang
  ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), Linz, Austria, July 8-10, 2020

• A Behavior-Aware Profiling of Smart Contracts
  X. Wei, C. Lu, F. Ozcan, T. Chen, B. Wang, D. Wu, and Q. Tang
  EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Orlando, USA, October 23-25, 2019

• Vaccine: Obfuscating Access Pattern Against File-Injection Attacks
  H. Liu, B. Wang, N. Niu, S. Wilson, and X. Wei
  IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security(CNS), Washington, D.C., USA, June 10-12, 2019

• FAROS: Illuminating In-Memory Injection Attacks via Provenance-based Whole System Dynamic Information Flow Tracking
  M. Arefi, G. Alexander, H. Rokham, A. Chen, M. Faloutsos, X. Wei, D. Oliveira and J. Crandall
  IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, June 25-28, 2018

• DroidForensics: Accurate Reconstruction of Android Attacks via Multi-layer Forensic Logging
  X. Yuan, O. Setayeshfar, H. Yan, P. Panage, X.Wei, and K.H. Lee
  ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), Abu Dhabi, UAE, April 2-6, 2017

• A Collaborative Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning System in Distributed Mobile Environment via Multi-layer Forensic Logging
  M. Liu, H. Jiang, J. Chen, A. Badokhon, X. Wei, M. Huang
  International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI), Las Vegas, USA, December 15-17, 2016

• Cross-Layer Personalization as a First Class Citizen for Situation Awareness and Computer Infrastructure Security
  A.Chen, P.Brahma, D.Wu, N.Ebner, B.Matthews, J.Crandall, X.Wei, M.Faloutsos, and D.Oliveira
  New Security Paradigms Workshop (NSPW), C Lazy U Ranch, Colorado, USA, September 26-29, 2016

• emphaSSL: Towards Emphasis as a Mechanism to Harden Networking Security in Android Apps
  X.Wei, M. Wolf, L. Guo, K.H. Lee, M. Huang and N. Niu
  IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Washington DC, USA, December 4-8, 2016

• Unified Profiling of Attackers via Domain Modeling
  N. Hussein, W. Wang, J. Nedelec, X. Wei and N. Niu
  IEEE 1st International Workshop on Requirements Engineering Investigating and Countering Crime (iRENIC), Beijing, China, September 12, 2016

• A New Eavesdropping-resilient Framework for Indoor Visible Light Communication
  X. Liu, X. Wei, L. Guo, Y. Liu and Y. Zhou
  IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Washington DC, USA, December 4-8, 2016

• A New Virtual Network Embedding Framework based on QoS Satisfaction and Network Reconfiguration for Fiber-Wireless Access Network
  P.Han, L.Guo, Y.Liu, X.Wei, J.Hou and X.Han
  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 23-27, 2016

• Whom does Your Android App Talk to?
  X.Wei, I.Neamtiu, and M.Faloutsos
  IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), San Diego, CA, December 2015

• Experience: Rethinking RRC State Machine Optimization in Light of Recent Advancements
  T.Stoner, X.Wei, J.Knight, and L.Guo
  ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom),Paris, France, Sept 7-11, 2015

• Joint Admission Control and Provisioning for Virtual Machine
  L.Liu, J.Xu, H.Yu, and X.Wei
  IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), London, UK, June 8-12, 2015

• A Behavior-aware Profiling of Handheld Devices
  X.Wei, N.Valler,H.V.Madhyastha, I.Neamtiu, and M.Faloutsos
  IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Hong Kong, April 26-May 1, 2015

• Smartphone Viruses Propagation on Heterogeneous Composite Networks
  X.Wei, N. Valler, M.Faloutsos,I.Neamtiu, B.Aditya Prakash and C.Faloutsos
  IEEE International Workshop on Network Science (NSW), West Point, NY, April 29 - 1 May, 2013

• Entelecheia: Detecting P2P Botnets in their Waiting Stage
  H.Hang, X.Wei, M.Faloutsos, T.Eliassi-Rad
  IFIP Networking (Networking), Brooklyn, New York City, May 22-24, 2013

• ProfileDroid: Multi-layer Profiling of Android Applications
  X.Wei, L.Gomez, I.Neamtiu, and M. Faloutsos
  ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), Istanbul, Turkey, August 22-26, 2012

• Permission Evolution in the Android Ecosystem
  X.Wei, L. Gomez, I. Neamtiu, and M. Faloutsos
  Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Orlando, Florida, December 3-7, 2012

• Malicious Android Applications in the Enterprise: What Do They Do and How Do We Fix It?
  X.Wei, L.Gomez, I. Neamtiu, and M. Faloutsos
  ICDE Workshop on Secure Data Management on Smartphones and Mobiles (SDMSM), Washington D.C. April 5, 2012

• OBOF: a Protection Scheme for Survivable Fiber-Wireless Broadband Access Network
  Y.Liu, L.Guo, and X Wei
  Workshop in IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Ottawa, Canada, June 10-15, 2012

• XLR: Tackling the Inefficiency of Landmark-based Routing in Large Wireless Sensor Networks
  X.Wei, N.C. Valler, M.Faloutsos, H.V. Madhyastha, and T.K. Huang
  IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Houston, Texas, December 5-9, 2011

• A New Link-based Hamiltonian Cycle Protection in Survivable WDM Optical Networks
  L.Guo, X.Wang, X.Wei, T.Yang, W.Hou, T.Wu
  Advanced International Conference on Telecommunications (AICT), Athens, Greece, June 8-13, 2008

• Dynamic Preemptive Multi-class Routing Scheme under Dynamic Traffic in Survivable WDM Mesh Networks
  X.Wei, L. Li, H.Yu, and D.Xu
  IEEE International Conference High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), Houston, Texas, September 26-28, 2007

• A Heuristic Algorithm for Priority-based Lightpath Allocation in Survivable WDM Mesh Networks
  X.Wei, L.Li, H.Yu, and L.Guo
  SPIE Asia-Pacific Optical Communications (APOC), Wuhan, China, Nov 1-5, 2007

• A Simple Insight about Availability Guarantee with Time Variation in Survivable WDM Mesh Networks
  X.Wei, X.Wang, L.Guo, L.Li
  IEEE/IFIP International Conference in Central Asia on Internet (ICI), Tashkent, Uzbekistan , September 26-28, 2007

• Dynamic Path Shared Protection for Survivable Differentiated Reliable WDM Optical Networks
  L. Guo, L. Li, J. Cao, H. Yu , and X. Wei
  International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDCN), Guwahati, India, 2006

Journal Publications

• Correlation-based Task Processing Plans in Crowdsensing Platforms
  B. Yin, J. Lu, and X. Wei
  IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), to appear

• Efficient Crowdsourced Pareto-Optimal Queries over Partial Orders with Quality Guarantee
  B. Yin, X. Wei
  IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing (TETC), to appear

• LSTM Learning with Bayesian and Gaussian Processing for Anomaly Detection in Industrial IoT
  D. Wu, Z. Jiang, X. Xie, X. Wei, W. Yu and R. Li
  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), Vol. 16, pp. 5244-5253, August 2020

• An Industrial Dynamic Skyline based Similarity Joins for Multi-dimensional Big Data Applications
  B. Yin, X. Wei, J. Wang, N. Xiong and K. Gu
  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), Vol. 16, pp. 2520-2532, April 2020

• DimLoc: Enabling High-Precision Visible Light Localization under Dimmable LEDs in Smart Buildings
  X. Liu, X. Wei and L. Guo
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), Vol. 6, pp.3912-3924, April 2019

• SecLight: A New and Practical VLC Eavesdropping-resilient Framework for IoT Devices
  X. Liu, X. Wei, L. Guo and Y. Liu
  IEEE Access (ACCESS), Vol. 7, pp. 19109-19124, February 2019

• Communication-Efficient Data Aggregation Tree Construction for Complex Queries in IoT Applications
  B. Yin and X. Wei
  IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J), Vol. 6, pp. 3352-3363, April 2019

• Finding The Most Influential Product under Distribution Constraints through Dominance Tests
  B. Yin, X. Wei and Y. Liu
  Springer Applied Intelligence, Vol. 49, pp. 723-740, February 2019

• A Cost-Efficient Framework for Finding Prospective Customers Based on Reverse Skyline Queries
  B. Yin, K. Gu, X. Wei, S. Zhou, and Y. Liu
  Elsevier Knowledge-Based Systems (KBS), Vol. 152, pp. 117-135, July 2018

• Characterizing the Behavior of Handheld Devices and Its Implications
  X.Wei, N.Valler,H.V.Madhyastha, I.Neamtiu, and M.Faloutsos
  Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET), Vol. 114, pp. 1-12, February 2017

• Improving Smartphone Security and Reliability
  I. Neamtiu, X. Wei, M. Faloutsos, L. Gomez, T. Azim, Y. Hu, Z. Shan
  Journal of Interconnection Networks (JOIN), Vol. 17, pp. 1-67, January 2017

• Measuring and Understanding RRC State Machine Optimization in Light of Recent Advancements
  X.Wei, T.Stoner, J.Knight, and L.Guo
  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, (TMC), Vol. 16, Issue 5, pp. 1330-1342, May 2017

• Location-Recommendation-Aware Virtual Network Embedding in Energy-Efficient Optical-Wireless Hybrid Networks Supporting 5G models
  X. Gong, Z. Ning, L. Guo, X.Wei, and Q. Song
  IEEE Access (ACCESS), Vol.4, pp.3065-3075, June 2016

• Competing Meme Propagation on Networks: A Network Science Perspective
  X.Wei, N.Valler, B. A.Prakash, I.Neamtiu, M.Faloutsos, and C.Faloutsos
  IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), Vol. 31, Issue 6, pp.1049-1060, June 2013

• Virtual Network Planning for Converged Optical Network and Data Centers: Ideas and Challenges
  W. Hou, L. Guo, Y. Liu, Q. Song, and X.Wei
  IEEE Network, Vol. 27, Issue 6, pp. 52-58, December 2013

• Competing Meme Propagation on Networks: A Case Study of Composite Networks
  X.Wei, N.Valler, B. A.Prakash, I.Neamtiu, M.Faloutsos, and C.Faloutsos
  ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review (CCR), Vol. 42, Issue 5, pp. 5-12, October 2012

• Multi-granularity and Robust Grooming in Power- and Port-cost-efficient IP over WDM Networks
  W. Hou, L. Guo, X. Wei, and X. Gong
  Elsevier Computer Networks (COMNET), Vol. 56, Issue 10, pp. 2383-2399, July 2012

• Optimizing Backup Optical-Network-Units Selection and Backup Fibers Deployment in Survivable Hybrid Wireless-Optical Broadband Access Networks
  Y. Liu, L.Guo, and X.Wei
  IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT), Vol. 30, Issue 10, pp. 1509-1523, February 2012

• A Cost Efficient Design of Virtual Infrastructure with Joint Node and Link Mapping
  H.Yu,V.Anand,C.Qiao,H.Di, and X.Wei
  Springer Journal of Network and Systems Management (JNSM), Vol. 20, Issue 1, pp. 97-115, March 2012

• Robust and Integrated Grooming for Power- and Port-Cost-Efficient Design in IP over WDM Networks
  W. Hou, L.Guo, and X.Wei
  IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT), Vol. 29, Issue 20, pp. 3035-3047, August 2011

• Joint Port-cost and Power-consumption Savings in Hybrid Hierarchical Optical Networks
  W. Hou, L.Guo,X. Wang, and X.Wei
  Elsevier Optical Switching and Networking (OSN), Vol. 8, Issue 3, pp. 214-224, July 2011

• Survivable Routing Algorithm with Mixed Shared Protection in Fault-tolerant GMPLS Multi-layered Optical Networks
  L.Guo, J.Cao, X.Wang, X.Wei, Q.Gai, Z.Ning, C.Yu
  Wiley Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies (ETT), Vol. 21, Issue 4, pp. 312-323, June 2010

• A New Algorithm with Segment Protection and Load Balancing for Single-link Failure in Multicasting Survivable Networks
  X.Wang, L.Guo, X.Wei, L.Pang, T. Wu, J.Du, X.Wang
  Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS), Vol. 82, Issue 3, pp. 377-381, March 2009

• An Improved Lightpath Allocation for Grade of Services in Survivable WDM Mesh Networks
  X.Wei, L. Li, and H.Yu
  Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM), Vol. 31, Issue 10, pp. 2391-2397, June 2008

• Availability Guarantee in Survivable WDM Mesh Networks: a Time Perspective
  X.Wei, L.Guo, X.Wang, Q.Song, and L. Li
  Elsevier Information Sciences (IS), Vol. 178, Issue 11, pp. 2406-2415, June 2008

• Survivability in Waveband Switching Optical Networks: Challenges and New Ideas
  X.Wang, L.Guo, X.Wei, W.Hou, F.Yang, L.Pang
  Elsevier Computer Communications (COMCOM), Vol. 31, Issue 10, pp. 2435-2442, June 2008

• New Insights on Survivability in Multi-domain Optical Networks
  L.Guo, X. Wang, Q.Song, X.Wei, W.Hou, T.Yang, and F.Yang
  Elsevier Information Sciences (IS), Vol. 178, Issue 18, pp. 3635-3644, September 2008

• On Finding Feasible Solutions with Shared Backup Resources for Surviving Double-link Failures in Path Protected WDM Mesh Networks
  L.Guo, L. Li, J. Cao, H.Yu, and X.Wei
  IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology (JLT), Vol. 25, Issue 1, pp. 287-296, January 2007