Education

Ph.D.  Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University, 2007
M.S.  Computer Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, 2001
B.S.  Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University, 1998

Research Interests

Wireless networks

Sensor networks

Network security and privacy

Teaching

CSCE515: Computer Network Programming Fall 2008
CSCE790: Security and Privacy for Emerging Ubiquitous Communication System Spring 2008
CSCE515: Computer Network Programming Fall 2007

Bio

Wenyuan Xu is an Assistant  Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Carolina. She has conducted research into the effect of jamming on commodity wireless networks. Her results have led to link-layer jamming detection mechanisms, as well as powerful link-layer defense strategies to repair networks in the presence of radio interference. More recently, she has developed a framework for enforcing the trusted operation of cognitive radios.s

Professional Activities

Publications

Journal Papers

Pandurang Kamat, Wenyuan Xu, Yanyong Zhang and Wade Trappe, "Temporal Privacy in Wireless Sensor Networks: Theory and Practice," to appear in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN).

Wenyuan Xu, Wade Trappe, and Yanyong. Zhang, "Defending Wireless Sensor Networks from Radio Interference through Channel Adaptation," to appear in ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN).

Wenyuan Xu, Ke Ma, Wade Trappe, and Yanyong Zhang, "Jamming Sensor Networks: Attack and Defense Strategies," IEEE Networks Special Issue on Sensor Networks,  Vol.20, No. 3, pg. 41-47, May/June 2006. (Acceptance ratio: 10.3%)

Wenyuan Xu, Wade Trappe, Yanyong Zhang, "Anti-Jamming Timing Channels for Wireless Networks," in proceedings of the 1st ACM Conference on Wireless Security (WiSec), pg. 203-213, 2008. (Acceptance ratio: 16.7%)

Wenyuan Xu, "On Adjusting Power to Defend Wireless Networks from Jamming," in proceedings of the First Workshop on the Security and Privacy of Emerging Ubiquitous Communication Systems (speucs), 2007.

Pandurang Kamat, Wenyuan Xu, Yanyong Zhang and Wade Trappe, "Temporal Privacy in wireless sensor networks," in Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2007), pg. 23, 2007. (Acceptance ratio: 13.5%)

Rob Miller, Wenyuan Xu, Pandurang Kamat, and Wade Trappe, "Service Discovery and Device Identification in Cognitive Radio Networks," in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Networking Technologies for Software Defined Radio (SDR) Networks (Held in Conjunction with IEEE SECON) 2007.

Wenyuan Xu, Wade Trappe, and Yanyong Zhang, "Channel Surfing: Defending Wireless Sensor Networks from Jamming and Interference," in Proceedings of the 6th  International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN07), pg.499-508,2007. (Acceptance ratio: 15.3%)

Wenyuan Xu, Wade Trappe, and Yanyong Zhang, "Poster Abstract: Channel Surfing: Defending Wireless Sensor Networks from Jamming and Interference," in Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), pg. 403-404, 2006.

Zang Li,  Wenyuan Xu, Rob Miller and Wade Trappe, "Securing Wireless Systems via Lower Layer Enforcements," in Proceedings of the 2006 ACM workshop on Wireless security(WiSe), pg. 33-42, 2006. (Acceptance ratio: 19.6%)

Wenyuan Xu, Pandurang Kamat and Wade Trappe, "TRIESTE: A Trusted Radio Infrastructure for Enforcing SpecTrum Etiquettes," in Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Networking Technologies for Software Defined Radio (SDR) Networks (Held in Conjunction with IEEE SECON) 2006.

Wenyuan Xu, Wade Trappe, Yanyong Zhang and Timothy Wood, "The Feasibility of Launching and Detecting Jamming Attacks in Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc), 2005, pg. 46-57,2005. (Acceptance ratio: 14.2%)

Wenyuan Xu, Timothy Wood, Wade Trappe, and Yanyong Zhang, "Channel surfing and spatial retreats: defenses against wireless denial of service," in Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Wireless security, pg. 80 - 89, 2004. (Acceptance ratio: 20%)

Wenyuan Xu, Wade Trappe, and Sanjoy Paul, "Key Management for 3G MBMS Security," in Proceeding of IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), Dallas, TX, Nov. 2004