Sang-Yoon Chang

Refereed Publications (Selected)

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Year 2024

[J] Sang-Yoon Chang, Arijet Sarker, Simeon Wuthier, Jinoh Kim, Jonghyun Kim, and Xiaobo Zhou, Base Station Gateway to Secure User Channel Access at the First Hop Edge, Elsevier Computer Networks, 2024

[J] Sanghyun Byun, Arijet Sarker, Sang-Yoon Chang, and Jugal Kalita, Secure Aggregation for Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning in Vehicular Network, ACM Journal on Autonomous Transportation Systems, 2024

[C] Nazmus Sakib, Simeon Wuthier, Kelei Zhang, Xiaobo Zhou, and Sang-Yoon Chang, From Slow Propagation to Partition: Analyzing Bitcoin Over Anonymous Routing, IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2024, Dublin, Ireland

[C] Sourav Purification, Simeon Wuthier, Jinoh Kim, Jonghyun Kim, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Fake Base Station Detection and Blacklisting, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2024, Hawaii, USA

[C] Kelei Zhang and Sang-Yoon Chang, Performance or Anonymity? Source-Driven Tor Relay Selection for Performance Enhancement, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2024, Hawaii, USA

[C] Mincheol Shin, Sang-Yoon Chang, Jonghyun Kim, Kyungmin Park, and Jinoh Kim, Intelligent Trajectory-Based Approach to UAV Location Integrity Checks, IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2024, Hawaii, USA

[C] Manohar Raavi, Simeon Wuthier, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Securing Post-Quantum DNSSEC Against Fragmentation Mis-Association Threat, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2024, Denver, CO, USA

Year 2023

[C] Arijet Sarker, Simeon Wuthier, Jinoh Kim, Jonghyun Kim, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Version++: Cryptocurrency Blockchain Handshaking with Software Assurance, IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2023, Las Vegas, USA
(Also had a Demo titled Version++ Protocol Demonstration for Cryptocurrency Blockchain Handshaking with Software Assurance. Best Demo Award at IEEE CCNC 2023.)

[C] Junxian Zhao, Xiaobo Zhou, Sang-Yoon Chang, and ChengZhong Xu, Let It Go: Relieving Garbage Collection Pain for Latency Critical Applications in Golang, ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC), 2023, Orlando, USA

[J] Hsiang-Jen Hong, Sang-Yoon Chang, and Xiaobo Zhou Auto-Tune: An Efficient Autonomous Multi-Path Payment Routing Algorithm for Payment Channel Networks, Elsevier Computer Networks, 2023

[J] Chiho Kim, Sang-Yoon Chang, Jinoh Kim, Dongeun Lee, and Jinoh Kim Automated, Reliable Zero-Day Malware Detection based on Autoencoding Architecture, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), 2023

[C] Manohar Raavi, Simeon Wuthier, Xiaobo Zhou, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Post-Quantum QUIC Protocol in Cloud Networking, European Conference on Networks and Communications & 6G Summit (EuCNC), 2023, Gothenburg, Sweden

[C] Sanghyun Byun, Arijet Sarker, Ken Lew, Jugal Kalita, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Privacy-Preserving Trust Management for Vehicular Communications and Federated Learning, Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC), 2023, San Francisco, USA

Year 2022

[J] Wenjun Fan, Hsiang-Jen Hong, Jinoh Kim, Simeon Wuthier, Makiya Nakashima, Xiaobo Zhou, Ching-Hua Chow, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Lightweight and Identifier-Oblivious Engine for Cryptocurrency Networking Anomaly Detection, IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2022

[J] Jinoh Kim, Makiya Nakashima, Wenjun Fan, Simeon Wuthier, Xiaobo Zhou, Ikkyun Kim, and Sang-Yoon Chang, A Machine Learning Approach to Anomaly Detection based on Traffic Monitoring for Secure Blockchain Networking, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM), 2022
(Earlier version in Conference Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2021)

[C] Wenjun Fan, Simeon Wuthier, Hsiang-Jen Hong, Xiaobo Zhou, Yan Bai, and Sang-Yoon Chang, The Security Investigation of Ban Score and Misbehavior Tracking in Bitcoin Network, IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2022, Bologna, Italy

[C] Junxian Zhao, Aidi Pi, Xiaobo Zhou, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Improving Concurrent GC for Latency Critical Services in Multi-Tenant Systems, ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (MIDDLEWARE), Quebec City, Canada

[C] Simeon Wuthier, Pranav Chandramouli, Xiaobo Zhou, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Greedy Networking in Cryptocurrency Blockchain, IFIP International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection (IFIP SEC), 2022, Copenhagen, Denmark

[C] Yaroslav Balytskyi, Manohar Raavi, Yevgen Kotukh, Gennady Khalimov, and Sang-Yoon Chang, PT-Symmetric Bayesian Parameter Estimation on a Superconducting Quantum Processor, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2022, Seoul, South Korea

[C] Kelei Zhang, Simeon Wuthier, Kay Yoon, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Designing and Using Capture The Flag for Coordination and Interaction in Engineering Education, IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2022, Tunis, Tunisia

Year 2021

[C] Manohar Raavi, Simeon Wuthier, Pranav Chandramouli, Yaroslav Balytskyi, Xiaobo Zhou, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Security Comparisons and Performance Analyses of Post-Quantum Signature Algorithms, Proceedings of International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), 2021, Virtual

[C] Wenjun Fan, Sang-Yoon Chang, Xiaobo Zhou, and Shouhuai Xu, Conman: A Connection Manipulation-Based Attack Against Bitcoin Networking, IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2021, Virtual

[C] Arijet Sarker, SangHyun Byun, Wenjun Fan, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Blockchain-Based Root of Trust Management in Security Credential Management System for Vehicular Communications , Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), 2021, Virtual

[C] Jinoh Kim, Makiya Nakashima, Wenjun Fan, Simeon Wuthier, Xiaobo Zhou, Ikkyun Kim, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Anomaly Detection based on Traffic Monitoring for Secure Blockchain Networking, IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), 2021, Virtual Best Paper Award - Finalist

[C] Hsiang-Jen Hong, Wenjun Fan, Simeon Wuthier, Jinoh Kim, Xiaobo Zhou, C. Edward Chow, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Robust P2P Connectivity Estimation for Permissionless Bitcoin Network, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS), 2021, Virtual

[C] Yaroslav Balytskyi, Manohar Raavi, and Sang-Yoon Chang, PT-Enhanced Bayesian Parameter Estimation, IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing and Engineering (QCE), 2021, Virtual

[C] Wenjun Fan, Hsiang-Jen Hong, Xiaobo Zhou, and Sang-Yoon Chang, A Generic Blockchain Framework for Securing Decentralized Applications , Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2021, Virtual

[C] Yaroslav Balytskyi, Manohar Raavi, Anatoliy Pinchuk, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Detecting Bias in Randomness by PT-Symmetric Quantum State Discrimination , Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2021, Virtual

[C] Wenjun Fan, Sang-Yoon Chang, Shubham Kumar, Xiaobo Zhou, and Younghee Park, Blockchain-based Secure Coordination for Distributed SDN Control Plane, IEEE International Conference on Network Softwarization (NetSoft), 2021, Virtual

[C] Kay Yoon and Sang-Yoon Chang, Teaching Team Collaboration in Cybersecurity: A Case Study from A Transactive Memory Systems Perspective , Proceedings of IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2021, Vienna, Austria

[C] Mark Vaszary, Andreas Slovacek, Yanyan Zhuang, and Sang-Yoon Chang , Securing Tire Pressure Monitoring System for Vehicular Privacy , Proceedings of IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2021, Virtual

Year 2020

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang Younghee Park, Nikhil Vijayakumar Kengalahalli, and Xiaobo Zhou, Query-Crafting DoS Threats Against Internet DNS, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2020, Avignon, France [Video]

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang, Share Withholding in Blockchain Mining, Proceedings of EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Virtual [Video]

[C] Wenjun Fan, Sang-Yoon Chang, Shawn Emery, and Xiaobo Zhou, Blockchain-based Distributed Banking for Permissioned and Accountable Financial Transaction Processing, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), 2020, Virtul [Video]

[C] Arijet Sarker, SangHyun Byun, Wenjun Fan, Maria Psarakis, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Voting Credential Management System for Electronic Voting Privacy, Proceedings of IFIP Networking Conference (Networking), 2020, Virtual [Video]

[C] Hsiang-Jen Hong, Wenjun Fan, C. Edward Chow, Xiaobo Zhou, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Optimizing Social Welfare for Task Offloading in Mobile Edge Computing, Proceedings of IFIP Networking Conference (Networking), 2020, Virtual [Video]

[C] Li-e Wang, Shan Lin, Yan Bai, Sang-Yoon Chang, Xianxian Li, and Peng Liu, A Privacy Preserving Method for Publishing Set-Valued Data and Its Correlative Social Network, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2020, Dublin, Ireland

[C] Chungsik Song, Wenjun Fan, Sang-Yoon Chang, and Younghee Park, Reconstructing Classification to Enhance Machine-Learning Based Network Intrusion Detection by Embracing Ambiguity, Proceedings of Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC), 2020, Virtual

[C] Wenjun Fan, Shubham Kumar, Vrushali Jadhav, Sang-Yoon Chang, and Younghee Park, A Privacy Preserving E-Voting System based on Blockchain, Proceedings of Silicon Valley Cybersecurity Conference (SVCC), 2020, Virtual

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang and Simeon Wuthier, Dynamic Power Control for Rational Cryptocurrency Mining, Proceedings of Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains for Distributed Systems (CryBlock), in conjunction with ACM MobiCom, 2020, Virtual

Year 2019

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang, Younghee Park, Simeon Wuthier, and Chang-Wu Chen. Uncle-Block Attack: Blockchain Mining Threat Beyond Block Withholding for Rational and Uncooperative Miners,, Proceedings of International Conference on Applied Cryptography and Network Security (ACNS), 2019, Bogota, Colombia

[C] Shaoqi Wang, Wei Chen, Xiaobo Zhou, Sang-Yoon Chang, and Mike Ji. Addressing Skewness in Iterative ML Jobs with Parameter Partition, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom), 2019, Paris, France

[J] Sang-Yoon Chang, Sristi Lakshmi Sravana Kumar, Yih-Chun Hu, and Younghee Park, Power-Positive Networking: Wireless-Charging-Based Networking to Protect Energy Against DoS Attacks, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
(Earlier version in Conference Proceedings of ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2017)

[J] Sang-Yoon Chang, Younghee Park, and Bhavana Babu Ashok Babu. Fast IP Hopping Randomization to Secure Hop-by-Hop Access in SDN,, IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (TNSM)
(Earlier version in Conference Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), 2016)

[C] Arijet Sarker, Simeon Wuthier, and Sang-Yoon Chang. Anti-Withholding Reward System to Secure Blockchain Mining Pools,, Proceedings of Crypto Valley Conference for Blockchain Technology (CVCBT), 2019, Zug, Swiss

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang and Younghee Park, Silent Timestamping for Blockchain Mining Pool Security, Proceedings of International Workshop on Computing, Networking and Communications (CNC), in conjunction with ICNC, 2019, Hawaii, USA

Year 2018

[C] Subhash Lakshminarayana, Jabir Shabbir Karachiwala, Sang-Yoon Chang, Girish Revadigar, Sristi Lakshmi Sravana Kumar, David K.Y. Yau, and Yih-Chun Hu. Signal Jamming Attacks Against Communication-Based Train Control: Attack Impact and Countermeasure,, Proceedings of ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2018, Stockholm, Sweden

[C] Younghee Park, Nikhil Vijayakumar Kengalahalli, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Distributed Security Network Functions against Botnet Attacks in Software-defined Networks, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Networks (NFV-SDN), 2018, Verona, Italy

Year 2017

[J] Sang-Yoon Chang, and Yih-Chun Hu. SecureMAC: Securing Wireless Medium Access Control Against Insider Denial-of-Service Attacks,, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), 2017
(Earlier version in Conference Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2015)

[C] Chang-Wu Chen, Sang-Yoon Chang, Yih-Chun Hu, and Yen-Wen Chen, Protecting Vehicular Networks Privacy in the Presence of a Single Adversarial Authority, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2017, Las Vegas, NV, USA

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang, Sristi Lakshmi Sravana Kumar, Bao Anh N. Tran, Sreejaya Viswanathan, Younghee Park, and Yih-Chun Hu, Power-Positive Networking Using Wireless Charging: Protecting Energy Against Battery Exhaustion Attacks, Proceedings of ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2017, Boston, MA, USA

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang, Sristi Lakshmi Sravana Kumar, and Yih-Chun Hu, Cognitive Wireless Charger: Sensing-Based Real-Time Frequency Control for Near-Field Wireless Charging, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2017, Atlanta, GA, USA

[C] Jagadeesh Harshan, Sang-Yoon Chang, and Yih-Chun Hu, Insider-Attacks on Physical-Layer Group Secret-Key Generation in Wireless Networks, Proceedings of IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), 2017, San Francisco, CA

[C] Roop K. Siramulu, Younghee Park, Sang-Yoon Chang, and Kaikai Liu, Dynamic Cost-Effective Emergency Network Provision,, Proceedings of ACM Workshop on ICT Tools for Emergency Networks and DisastEr Relief (I-TENDER) in conjunction with ACM CoNEXT, 2017, Seoul/Incheon, South Korea

[C] Jagadeesh Harshan, Sang-Yoon Chang, Seungmin Kang, and Yih-Chun Hu, Securing Balise-based Train Control Systems Using Cryptographic Random Fountains, Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems Security (CPS-Sec), in conjunction with CNS, 2017, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Year 2016

[C] Hitesh Padekar, Younghee Park, Hongxin Hu, and Sang-Yoon Chang, Enabling Dynamic Access Control for Controller Applications in Software-Defined Networks, Proceedings of ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), 2016, Shanghai, China Best Paper Award - Honorable Mention

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang, Shaoying Cai, Hwajung Seo, and Yih-Chun Hu. Key Updates at Train Stations: Two-Layer Dynamic Key Update Scheme for Secure Train Communications, Proceedings of EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), 2016, Guangzhou, China

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang, Younghee Park, and Akshaya Muralidharan, Fast Addresss Hopping for Software-Defined Networking: Securing Access for Forwarding Path, Proceedings of IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS), 2016, Istanbul, Turkey

[C] Younghee Park, Sang-Yoon Chang, and Lavanya M. Krishnamurthy, Watermarking for Detecting Freeloader Misbehavior in Software-Defined Networks, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking, and Communications (ICNC), 2016, Hawaii, USA

Year 2015

[J] Sang-Yoon Chang, Yih-Chun Hu, and Nicola Laurenti, SimpleMAC: A Simple Wireless MAC-Layer Countermeasure to Intelligent and Insider Jammers, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2015
(Earlier version in Conference Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2012)

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang, Yih-Chun Hu, and Zhuotao Liu, Securing Wireless Medium Access Control Against Insider Denial-of-Service Attackers, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2015, Florence, Italy

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang, Bao Anh N. Tran, Yih-Chun Hu, and Douglas L. Jones, Jamming with Power Boost: Leaky Waveguide Vulnerability in Train Systems, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS) , 2015, Melbourne Australia (Invited Paper)

[C] Sanket Desai, Younghee Park, Jerry Gao, Sang-Yoon Chang, and Chungsik Song, Improving Encryption Performance using MapReduce, Proceedings of IEEE 17th International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), 2015, New York, NY, USA

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang, Jemin Lee, and Yih-Chun Hu, Noah: Keyed Noise Flooding for Wireless Confidentiality, Proceedings of ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks (Q2SWinet), 2015, Cancun, Mexico

Year 2013

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang,Yih-Chun Hu, Jerry T. Chiang, and Soo-Young Chang, Redundancy Offset Narrow Spectrum: Countermeasure for Signal-Cancellation Based Jamming, Proceedings of ACM International Symposium on Mobility Management and Wireless Access (MobiWac), 2013, Barcelona, Spain

Year 2012

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang, Yih-Chun Hu, and Nicola Laurenti, SimpleMAC: A Jamming-Resilient MAC-Layer Protocol for Wireless Channel Coordination, Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang, Yih-Chun Hu, Hans Anderson, Ting Fu, and Evelyn Huang, Body Area Network Security: Robust Key Establishment Using Human Body Channel, Proceedings of USENIX Workshop on Health Security and Privacy (HealthSec), 2012, Bellevue, Washington

Year 2011

[C] Jihyuk Choi, Sang-Yoon Chang, Diko Ko, and Yih-Chun Hu, Secure MAC-Layer Protocol for Captive Portals, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2011, Kyoto, Japan

[C] Sang-Yoon Chang, Hans Anderson, and Yih-Chun Hu, Feasibility of Physiological-Value-Based Same-Body Detection for BAN, Demo at ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom), 2011, Las Vegas, NV

Other Publications

[T] Sang-Yoon Chang, Kay Yoon, Simeon Wuthier, and Kelei Zhang, Capture the Flag for Team Construction in Cybersecurity, arXiv [Paper]

[T] Yaroslav Balytskyi, Sang-Yoon Chang, Anatoliy Pinchuk, and Manohar Raavi, Discriminating an Arbitrary Number of Pure Quantum States by the Combined and Hermitian Measurements, arXiv [Paper]

Sang-Yoon Chang, Secure Protocols for Wireless Availability, Ph.D. Thesis, ECE Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Paper]

Sang-Yoon Chang and Yih-Chun Hu, Secure Channel Reservation for Wireless Networks, Technical Report, 2010, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign [Paper]

Sang-Yoon Chang, An Anti-Jamming Mechanism for Channel Coordination in Spectrum Sharing, Master's Thesis, ECE Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign