1、[IMWUT/UbiComp 2026] - Xiangyu Xu, Minghao Cui, Ding Ding, Zhen Ling, ‘HandiSense: Left/Right Operating Hand Recognition for Multi-finger Touchscreen Interactions’, accepted to appear in Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT/UbiComp’26), 2026. (CCF A类)
2、[INFOCOM 2026] - Yuchen Zhao, Kai Dong, Lifu Wang, Jianjie Zhou, Zhen Ling, Ming Yang, Xinwen Fu, ‘Detecting Rule Anomalies and Interference for Home Automation’, in Proceedings of the 45th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’26), Tokyo, Japan, May 18-21, 2026. (CCF A类)
3、[INFOCOM 2026] - Yonghuan Xu, Ming Yang, Shan Wang, Xiaodan Gu, Zixia Liu, Zhen Ling, ‘Your Outer Appearance Mirrors Your Inner Self: Exploiting Unobservable Node Internals to Deanonymize Uploaders in Freenet’, in Proceedings of the 45th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’26), Tokyo, Japan, May 18-21, 2026. (CCF A类)
4、[INFOCOM 2026] - Zihan Ma, Guangchi Liu, Xiangyu Xu, Shaofeng Li, Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, ‘A Needle in a Haystack: Defending Federated Learning Backdoor Attacks via Orthogonal Subnetwork Pruning’, in Proceedings of the 45th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’26), Tokyo, Japan, May 18-21, 2026. (CCF A类)
5、[S&P 2026] - Chumian Wang, Junzhou Luo, Zhen Ling, Yue Zhang, Shan Wang, Ming Yang, Guangchi Liu, Xinwen Fu, ‘Descriptors of Exposure: Undermining Tor Anonymity through Exploiting Descriptor Flood’, accepted to appear in Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P’26), San Francisco, California, USA, May 18-20, 2026. (CCF A类)
6、[NDSS 2026] - Hongze Wang, Zhen Ling, Xiangyu Xu, Yumingzhi Pan, Guangchi Liu, Junzhou Luo, Xinwen Fu, ‘Time will Tell: Large-scale De-anonymization of Hidden I2P Services via Live Behavior Alignment’, accepted to appear in Proceedings of the 33rd Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS’26), San Diego, California, USA, February 23-27, 2026. (CCF A类)
7、[NDSS 2026] - Rong Wang, Zhen Ling, Guangchi Liu, Shaofeng Li, Junzhou Luo, Xinwen Fu, ‘Cease at the Ultimate Goodness: Towards Efficient Website Fingerprinting Defense via Iterative Mutual Information Minimization’, accepted to appear in Proceedings of the 33rd Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS’26), San Diego, California, USA, February 23-27, 2026. (CCF A类)
8、[NDSS 2026] - Qiguang Zhang, Junzhou Luo, Zhen Ling, Yue Zhang, Chongqing Lei, Christopher Morales, Xinwen Fu, ‘BACnet or ‘’BADnet’’? On the (In)Security of Implicitly Reserved Fields in BACnet’, accepted to appear in Proceedings of the 33rd Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS’26), San Diego, California, USA, February 23-27, 2026. (CCF A类)
9、[NDSS 2026] - Huaiyu Yan, Zhen Ling, Xuandong Chen, Xinhui Shao, Yier Jin, Haobo Li, Ming Yang, Ping Jiang, Junzhou Luo, ‘UIEE: Secure and Efficient User-space Isolated Execution Environment for Embedded TEE Systems’, accepted to appear in Proceedings of the 33rd Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS’26), San Diego, California, USA, February 23-27, 2026. (CCF A类)
10、[AAAI 2026] - Han Yang, Shaofeng Li, Tian Dong, Xiangyu Xu, Guangchi Liu, Zhen Ling, ‘Authority Backdoor: A Certifiable Backdoor Mechanism for Authoring DNNs’, accepted to appear in Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI’26), Singapore, January 20-27, 2026. (CCF A类)
11、[CCS 2025] - Shan Wang, Ming Yang, Yu Liu, Yue Zhang, Shuaiqing Zhang, Zhen Ling, Jiannong Cao, Xinwen Fu, ‘Time Tells All: Deanonymization of Blockchain RPC Users with Zero Transaction Fee’, in Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’25), Taipei, October 13-17, 2025. (CCF A类)
12、[CCS 2025] - Chongqing Lei, Zhen Ling, Xiangyu Xu, Shaofeng Li, Guangchi Liu, Kai Dong, Junzhou Luo, ‘FlexEmu: Towards Flexible MCU Peripheral Emulation’, in Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’25), Taipei, October 13-17, 2025. (CCF A类)
13、[USENIX 2025] - Yumingzhi Pan, Zhen Ling, Yue Zhang, Hongze Wang, Guangchi Liu, Junzhou Luo, Xinwen Fu, ‘TORCHLIGHT: Shedding LIGHT on Real-World Attacks on Cloudless IoT Devices Concealed within the TOR Network’, accepted to appear in Proceedings of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium (Security’25), Seattle, WA, USA, August 13–15, 2025. (CCF A类)
14、[USENIX 2025] - Huanhuan Jia, Yuanbo Zhao, Kai Dong, Zhen Ling, Ming Yang, Junzhou Luo, Xinwen Fu, ‘Distributed Private Aggregation in Graph Neural Networks’, accepted to appear in Proceedings of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium (Security’25), Seattle, WA, USA, August 13–15, 2025. (CCF A类)
15、[USENIX 2025] - Xinhui Shao, Zhen Ling, Yue Zhang, Huaiyu Yan, Yumeng Wei, Lan Luo, Zixia Liu, Junzhou Luo, Xinwen Fu, ‘The Cost of Performance: Breaking ThreadX with Kernel Object Masquerading Attacks’, accepted to appear in Proceedings of the 34th USENIX Security Symposium (Security’25), Seattle, WA, USA, August 13–15, 2025.
16、[CCS 2024] - Yue Zhang, Zhen Ling, Michael Cash, Qiguang Zhang, Christopher Morales-Gonzalez, Qun Zhou Sun, Xinwen Fu, ‘Collapse Like A House of Cards: Hacking Building Automation System Through Fuzzing’, in Proceedings of the 31th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’24), Salt Lake City, USA, October 14-18, 2024. (CCF A类)
17、[CCS 2024] - Kaizheng Liu, Ming Yang, Zhen Ling, Yue Zhang, Chongqing Lei, Junzhou Luo, Xinwen Fu, ‘RIoTFuzzer: Companion App Assisted Remote Fuzzing for Detecting Vulnerabilities in IoT Devices’, in Proceedings of the 31th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’24), Salt Lake City, USA, October 14-18, 2024. (CCF A类)
18、[ICDCS 2024] - Shan Wang, Ming Yang, Jiannong Cao, Zhen Ling, Qiang Tang, Xinwen Fu, ‘CORE: Transaction Commit-Controlled Release of Private Data over Blockchains’, in Proceedings of the 44th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS’24), Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, July 23-26, 2024. (CCF B类)
19、[IWQoS 2024] Xiaolin Gu, Wenjia Wu, Yusen Zhou, Aibo Song, Ming Yang, Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, ‘CQP-RFFI: Injecting a Communication-Quality Preserving RF Fingerprint for Wi-Fi Device Identification’, in Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service (IWQoS’24), Guangzhou, China, June 19–21, 2024. (CCF B类)
20、[USENIX 2024] - Kai Dong, Zheng Zhang, Chuang Jia, Zhen Ling, Ming Yang, Junzhou Luo, Xinwen Fu, ‘Relation Mining Under Local Differential Privacy’, in Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (Security’24), Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14–16, 2024. (CCF A类)
21、[USENIX 2024] - Chongqing Lei, Zhen Ling, Yue Zhang, Yan Yang, Junzhou Luo, Xinwen Fu, ‘A Friend’s Eye is A Good Mirror: Synthesizing MCU Peripheral Models from Peripheral Drivers’, in Proceedings of the 33rd USENIX Security Symposium (Security’24), Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 14–16, 2024. (CCF A类)
22、[INFOCOM 2024] - Zhen Ling, Gui Xiao, Lan Luo, Rong Wang, Xiangyu Xu, Guangchi Liu, ‘WFGuard: An Effective Fuzz-Testing-Based Traffic Morphing Defense against Website Fingerprinting’, in Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’24), Vancouver, Canada, May 20-23, 2024. (CCF A类)
23、[INFOCOM 2024] - Kaizheng Liu, Ming Yang, Zhen Ling, Yuan Zhang, Chongqing Lei, Lan Luo, Xinwen Fu, ‘SAMBA: Detecting SSL/TLS API Misuses in IoT Binary Applications’, in Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’24), Vancouver, Canada, May 20-23, 2024. (CCF A类)
24、[INFOCOM 2024] - Xiangyu Xu, Yu Chen, Zhen Ling, Li Lu, Luo Junzhou, Xinwen Fu, ‘mmEar: Push the Limit of COTS mmWave Eavesdropping on Headphones’, in Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’24), Vancouver, Canada, May 20-23, 2024. (CCF A类)
25、[INFOCOM 2024] - Yonghuan Xu, Ming Yang, Zhen Ling, Zixia Liu, Xiaodan Gu, Lan Luo, ‘A De-anonymization Attack against Downloaders in Freenet’, in Proceedings of the 43rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’24), Vancouver, Canada, May 20-23, 2024. (CCF A类)
26、[NDSS 2024] - Huaiyu Yan, Zhen Ling, Haobo Li, Lan Luo, Xinhui Shao, Kai Dong, Ping Jiang, Ming Yang, Junzhou Luo, Xinwen Fu, ‘LDR: Secure and Efficient Linux Driver Runtime for Embedded TEE Systems’, accepted to appear in Proceedings of the 31th Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS’24), San Diego, California, USA, February 26-March 1, 2024. (CCF A类)
27、[INFOCOM 2023] - Chunmian Wang, Junzhou Luo, Zhen Ling, Lan Luo, Xinwen Fu, ‘A Comprehensive and Long-term Evaluation of Tor V3 Onion Services’, in Proceedings of the 42nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’23), New York area, USA, May 17-20, 2023. (CCF A类)
28、[NDSS 2023] - Chongqing Lei, Zhen Ling, Yue Zhang, Kai Dong, Kaizheng Liu, Junzhou Luo, Xinwen Fu, ‘Do Not Give a Dog Bread Every Time He Wags His Tail: Stealing Passwords through Content Queries (CONQUER) Attacks’, in Proceedings of the 30th Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS’23), San Diego, California, USA, February 27-March 3, 2023. (CCF A类)
29、[INFOCOM 2022] - Zhen Ling, Gui Xiao, Wenjia Wu, Xiaodan Gu, Ming Yang, Xinwen Fu, ‘Towards an Efficient Defense against Deep Learning based Website Fingerprinting’, in Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’22), May 2-5, 2022. (CCF A类)
30、[INFOCOM 2022] - Chunmian Wang, Zhen Ling, Wenjia Wu, Qi Chen, Ming Yang, Xinwen Fu, ‘Large-scale Evaluation of Malicious Tor Hidden Service Directory Discovery’, in Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’22), May 2-5, 2022. (CCF A类)
31、[INFOCOM 2022] - Kai Dong, Yakun Zhang, Yuchen Zhao, Daoming Li, Zhen Ling, Wenjia Wu, Xiaorui Zhu, ‘Real-Time Execution of Trigger-Action Connection for Home Internet-of-Things’, in Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’22), May 2-5, 2022. (CCF A类)
32、[INFOCOM 2021] - Zhen Ling, Ruizhao Liu, Yue Zhang, Kang Jia, Bryan Pearson, Xinwen Fu, Junzhou Luo, ‘Prison Break of Android Reflection Restriction and Defense’, in Proceedings of the 40th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’21), May 10-13, 2021. (CCF A类)
33、[INFOCOM 2020] - Yue Zhang, Jian Weng, Zhen Ling, Bryan Pearson, Xinwen Fu, ‘BLESS: A BLE Application Security Scanning Framework’, in Proceedings of the 39th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’20), Beijing, China, April 27-30, 2020. (CCF A类)
34、[INFOCOM 2019] - Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Danni Xu, Ming Yang,Xinwen Fu, ‘Novel and Practical SDN-based Traceback Technique for Malicious Traffic over Anonymous Networks’, in Proceedings of the 38th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’19), Paris, France, April29-May 2, 2019, pp.1180-1188. (CCF A类)
35、[INFOCOM 2018] - Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Yaowen Liu, MingYang, Kui Wu, Xinwen Fu, “SecTap: Secure Back of Device Input System for Mobile Devices”, in Proceedings of the 37th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’18), Honolulu, HI, USA,April 15-19, 2018, pp.1520-1528. (CCF A类)
36、[INFOCOM 2016] - Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Qi Chen, Qinggang Yue, Ming Yang, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, “Secure Fingertip Mouse for Mobile Devices”, in Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’16), San Francisco, CA, USA,April 10-15, 2016, pp. 343-351. (CCF A类)
37、[TIFS 2015] - Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Kui Wu, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, “TorWard: Discovery, Blocking, and Traceback of Malicious Traffic over Tor”, in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 10(12):2515-2530, December 2015. (CCF A类)
38、[TPDS 2016] - ZhenLing, Junzhou Luo, Wei Yu, Ming Yang, Xinwen Fu, “Tor Bridge Discovery: Extensive Analysis and Large-scale Empirical Evaluation”, in IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS), 26(7): 1887-1899, July 2015. (CCF A类)
39、[TDSC 2016] - Xian Pan, Zhen Ling, Aniket Pingley, Wei Yu, Kui Ren, Nan Zhang, Xinwen Fu, “Password Extraction via Reconstructed Wireless Mouse Trajectory”, in IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC),13(4):461-473, July/August 2016. (CCF A类)
40、[CCS 2014] - Qinggang Yue, Zhen Ling, Xinwen Fu, Benyuan Liu, Kui Ren, Wei Zhao, “Blind Recognition of Touched Keys on Mobile Devices”,in Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’14), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, November 3-7, 2014, pp.1403-1414. (CCF A类)
41、[INFOCOM 2014] - Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Kui Wu, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, ‘TorWard: Discovery of Malicious Traffic over Tor’, in Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’14), Toronto, Canada, April 27-May 2, 2014, pp.1402-1410. (CCF A类)
42、[TC 2013] - Zhen Ling, Xinwen Fu, Weijia Jia, Wei Yu, Dong Xuan, Junzhou Luo, ‘Novel Packet Size Based Covert Channel Attacks against Anonymizer’, in IEEE Transactions on Computers (TC), 62(12): 2411-2426, December 2013. (CCF A类)
43、[INFOCOM 2013] - Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Kui Wu, Xinwen Fu, ‘Protocol-level Hidden Server Discovery’, in Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’13), Turin, Italy, April 14-19, 2013, pp.1043-1051. (CCF A类)
44、[ToN 2012] - Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, Dong Xuan, Weijia Jia, ‘A New Cell-Counting-Based Attack Against Tor’, in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 20(4): 1245-1261, August 2012. (CCF A类)
45、[INFOCOM 2012] - Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Yang Zhang, Ming Yang, Xinwen Fu, Wei Yu, ‘A Novel Network Delay based Side-Channel Attack: Modeling and Defense’, in Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’12), Orlando, Florida, USA, March 25-30, 2012, pp.2390-2398. (CCF A类)
46、[INFOCOM 2012] - Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Wei Yu, Ming Yang, Xinwen Fu, ‘Extensive Analysis and Large-Scale Empirical Evaluation of Tor Bridge Discovery’, in Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’12), Orlando, Florida, USA, March 25-30, 2012, pp.2381-2389. (CCF A类)
47、[CCS 2009] - Zhen Ling, Junzhou Luo, Wei Yu, Xinwen Fu, Dong Xuan, Weijia Jia, ‘A New Cell Counter Based Attack Against Tor’, In Proceedings of the 16th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS’09), Chicago, Illinois, USA, November 9-13, 2009, pp.578-589. (CCF A类)
48、[INFOCOM 2009] - Weijia Jia, Fung Po Tso, Zhen Ling, Xinwen Fu, Dong Xuan, Wei Yu, ‘Blind Detection of Spread Spectrum Flow Watermarks’, In Proceedings of the 28th Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM’09), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, pp.2195-2203, 2009, April 19-25. (CCF A类)