Research

Our work is grounded in research. We regularly contributes to leading conferences, journals, and collaborative projects, focusing on cybersecurity, wireless networking, and secure communication systems.

2025

  1. Nguyen, Dang Q., and Taejoon Kim. “On the Privacy-Distortion Trade-off for Differentially-Private Stochastic Quantization.” 2025 59th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, 2025.
  2. Yilu Dong , Tianchang Yang , Abdullah Al Ishtiaq , Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Ali Ranjbar , Kai Tu , Tianwei Wu , Md Sultan Mahmud , and Syed Rafiul Hussain, “CoreCrisis: Threat-Guided and Context-Aware Iterative Learning and Fuzzing of 5G Core Networks,” USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), August 2025.
  3. Yilu Dong, Tianwei Wu, Tao Wan, and Syed Rafiul Hussain, “Evaluating Time-Bounded Defense Against RRC Relay in 5G Broadcast Messages,” 18th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2025.
  4. Kim, Junghoon, Taejoon Kim, Anindya Bijoy Das, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour, David J. Love, and Christopher G. Brinton. “Coding for Gaussian Two-Way Channels: Linear and Learning-Based Approaches.” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory (2025). July 2025.
  5. Nguyen, Dang Qua, Morteza Hashemi, Erik Perrins, Sergiy A. Vorobyov, David J. Love, and Taejoon Kim. “Privacy-Preserving Quantized Federated Learning with Diverse Precision.” July 2025.
  6. Kashani, SeyedMohammad, Sang Wu Kim, and Ashfaq Khokhar. “Two-Dimensional Compound Message Authentication Code in Lossy Channels.” IEEE International Conference on Communications, June 2025.
  7. Joshua Moore, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Prabesh Khanal, Vuk Marojevic, “Integrated LLM-Based Intrusion Detection with Secure Slicing xApp for Securing O-RAN-Enabled Wireless Network Deployments”, WS25 IEEE ICC 2025 Eleventh Workshop on NextG (6G and beyond) Wireless Security, June 2025.
  8. Habib, Salman, Remi Chou, and Taejoon Kim. “Sequential Interval Passing for Compressed Sensing.” 2025 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), June 2025.
  9. Ranjbar, Ali, Tianchang Yang, Kai Tu, Saaman Khalilollahi, and Syed Rafiul Hussain. “Stateful Analysis and Fuzzing of Commercial Baseband Firmware.” In 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), pp. 1120-1139. IEEE, May 2025.
  10. Akon, Mujtahid, Md Toufikuzzaman, and Syed Rafiul Hussain. “From Control to Chaos: A Comprehensive Formal Analysis of 5G’s Access Control.” In 2025 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (SP), pp. 1081-1100. IEEE, May 2025.
  11. C. Brinton, M. Chiang, K. Kim, D. Love, M. Beesley, M. Repeta, J. Roese, P. Beming, E. Ekudden, C. Li, G. Wu, N. Batra, V. Ziegler, T. Ji, R. Prakash, J. Smee. “Key Focus Areas and Enabling Technologies for 6G.” To appear, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2025.

2024

  1. A. B. Das, A. Ramamoorthy, D. J. Love and C. G. Brinton, “Sparsity-Preserving Encodings for Straggler-Optimal Distributed Matrix Computations at the Edge,” in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 21, pp. 34455-34470, 1 Nov.1, 2024. 
  2. Jha, Abhisek, SeyedMohammad Kashani, Mohammadi Hossein, Andre Kirchner, Minglong Zhang, Rémi A. Chou, Sang Wu Kim, Hyuck M. Kwon, Vuk Marojevic, and Taejoon Kim. “Enhancing NextG Wireless Security: A Lightweight Secret Sharing Scheme with Robust Integrity Check for Military Communications.” In MILCOM 2024-2024 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), pp. 1-6. IEEE, October 2024.
  3. Mohammadi, Hossein, Minglong Zhang, Abhisek Jha, Vuk Marojevic, Rémi Chou, and Taejoon Kim. “Fortifying 5G Networks: Defending Against Jamming Attacks with Multipath Communications.” In MILCOM 2024-2024 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), pp. 680-681. IEEE, October 2024.
  4. Jang, Yongkyu, Minglong Zhang, Andre Kirchner, Bryan A. Jones, Vuk Marojevic, Taejoon Kim, and David J. Love. “Optimization of Error Pattern Embedding Steganography within Error-Correcting Code Frameworks.” In MILCOM 2024-2024 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), pp. 1094-1099. IEEE, October 2024.
  5. Kulkarni, Umakant, and Sonia Fahmy. “Securing the Cloud-Native 5G Control Plane.” In MILCOM 2024-2024 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM), pp. 1-6. IEEE, October 2024.
  6. M. Kouchaki, M. Zhang, A. S. Abdalla, G. Lan, C. G. Brinton and V. Marojevic, “Enhanced Real-Time Threat Detection in 5G Networks: A Self-Attention RNN Autoencoder Approach for Spectral Intrusion Analysis,” 2024 22nd International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt), Seoul, Korea, Republic of, October 2024 
  7. M. S. Oh, A. Bijoy Das, T. Kim, D. J. Love and C. G. Brinton, “Minimum Description Feature Selection for Complexity Reduction in Machine Learning-Based Wireless Positioning,” in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 42, no. 9, pp. 2585-2600, Sept. 2024
  8. Al Ishtiaq, A., Das, S.S.S., Rashid, S.M.M., Ranjbar, A., Tu, K., Wu, T., Song, Z., Wang, W., Akon, M., Zhang, R. and Hussain, “Hermes: Unlocking security analysis of cellular network protocols by synthesizing finite state machines from natural language specifications.” In 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24), August 2024.
  9. Tu, Kai, Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Yilu Dong, Weixuan Wang, Tianwei Wu, and Syed Rafiul Hussain. “Logic Gone Astray: A Security Analysis Framework for the Control Plane Protocols of 5G Basebands.” In 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 24), pp. 3063-3080. August 2024.
  10. Rana, Vidhi, Rémi A. Chou, and Taejoon Kim. “Short Blocklength Secret Coding via Helper-Assisted Learning over the Wiretap Channel.” In ICC 2024-IEEE International Conference on Communications, pp. 1485-1490. IEEE, June 2024.
  11. Nguyen, Dang Qua, and Taejoon Kim. “Joint Delay-Phase Precoding Under True-Time Delay Constraints in Wideband Sub-THz Hybrid Massive MIMO Systems.” IEEE Transactions on Communications 72, no. 10 (2024). May 2024.
  12. Kouchaki, M., Moore, J., Zhang, M. and Marojevic, V., “Advancing O-RAN Security: Integrated Intrusion Detection and Secure Slicing xApps.” In IEEE INFOCOM 2024-IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS) (pp. 1-2). IEEE, May 2024.
  13. Abdalla, A. S., Moore, J., Adhikari, N., & Marojevic, V., “ZTRAN: Prototyping Zero Trust Security xApps for Open Radio Access Network Deployments.” IEEE Wireless Communications, 31(2), 66-73, April 2024.
  14. Abdalla, A. S., & Marojevic, V. (2024). “End-to-end O-RAN security architecture, threat surface, coverage, and the case of the open fronthaul.” IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, 8(1), 36-43, March 2024.
  15. Kwon, Hyuck M., “Intermittent Markov Frequency-Hopping Entropy Rate.” In 2024 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) (pp. 1022-1026). IEEE, February 2024.
  16. Kwon, Hyuck M., Jyothi Sri Sai_Manne, and Khanh Pham., “5G-and-Beyond Positioning Against Amplify-and-Forward Relay Jamming.” In 2024 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) (pp. 1011-1015). IEEE, February 2024.

2023

  1. Moore, J., Adhikari, N., Abdalla, A. S., & Marojevic, V., “Toward Secure and Efficient O-RAN Deployments: Secure Slicing xApp Use Case.” In 2023 IEEE Future Networks World Forum (FNWF) (pp. 1-6). IEEE, November 2023.
  2. Oh, Myeung Suk, Anindya Bijoy Das, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour, Taejoon Kim, David J. Love, and Christopher G. Brinton. “A decentralized pilot assignment algorithm for scalable O-RAN cell-free massive MIMO.” IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications 42, no. 2 (2023): 373-388.
  3. Moore, J., Abdalla, A. S., Zhang, M., & Marojevic, V., “SSxApp: Secure Slicing for O-RAN Deployments.” In MILCOM 2023-2023 IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM) (pp. 251-252). IEEE, October 2023.
  4. Nguyen, Dang Qua, and Taejoon Kim. “Time-Varying Noise Perturbation and Power Control for Differential-Privacy-Preserving Wireless Federated Learning.” In 2023 57th Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems, and Computers, pp. 656-660. IEEE, October 2023.
  5. Zhang, Wei, and Taejoon Kim. “Successful Recovery Performance Guarantees of SOMP Under the $\ell _ {2} $-Norm of Noise.” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology73, no. 2 (2023): 2156-2170.
  6. Oh, Myeung Suk, Seyyedali Hosseinalipour, Taejoon Kim, David J. Love, James V. Krogmeier, and Christopher G. Brinton. “Dynamic and Robust Sensor Selection Strategies for Wireless Positioning with TOA/RSS Measurement.” IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 72, no. 11 (2023). May 2023.
  7. Chan, Wai Ming, Hyuck M. Kwon, Rémi A. Chou, David J. Love, Sonia Fahmy, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Sang Wu Kim et al. “Adaptive Frequency Hopping for 5G New Radio mMTC Security.” In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), pp. 1-5. IEEE, April 2023.