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Wenyuan Xu
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Carolina

Office: 3A54 Swearingen
Email: wyxucse.sc.edu
Phone: 803-777-6853
Fax: 803-777-3767

Mailing address:
3A54 Swearingen
315 Main St.
Columbia, SC 29208

 

Bio

Wenyuan Xu received her Ph.D in computer engineering from Wireless Information Network Laboratory (WINLAB) of Rutgers University. She holds a MS degree in computer science and engineering from Zhejiang University and BS degree in electrical engineering from Zhejiang University, China.

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 is investigating security vulnerabilities in the Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) as well as developing a framework for enforcing the trusted operation of cognitive radios.

Biographical sketch

News

NSF CAREER Award Won NSF CAREER Award in December 2008. The proposal title is "THAWS-Towards Highly Available Wireless Services".
   

Research Interests

Wireless networking and its security, location privacy, sensor networks, VANET, mobile computing, and cognitive radios.


Visit my research at ARENA lab.

Teaching

Spring 2010

CSCE416:  Introduction to Computer Networks

CSCE719:  Security and Privacy for Wireless Networks

Fall 2009

CSCE416:  Introduction to Computer Networks

Fall 2008

CSCE515: Computer Network Programming

Spring 2008

CSCE790: Security and Privacy for Emerging Ubiquitous Communication System

Fall 2007

CSCE515: Computer Network Programming

Publications

Book



Yingying Chen, Wenyuan Xu, Wade Trappe  and Yanyong Zhang,
Securing Emerging Wireless Systems,
ISBN: 978-0-387-88490-5, Springer, 2009


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,"  ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN), Volume 4, Issue 4, August 2008.


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%)


Conference Papers

Zhenhua Liu,  and Wenyuan Xu, "Zeroing-In on Network Metric Minima for Sink Location Determination," to appear in Proceedings of ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (WiSec), 2010.  

 

Jason M. O'Kane,  and Wenyuan Xu, "Energy-efficient Target Tracking with a Sensorless Robot and a Network of Unreliable One-bit Priximity Sensors," in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2009.  

 

Hongbo Liu, Wenyuan Xu, Yingying Chen and Zhenhua Liu, "Localizing Jammers in Wireless Networks," in Proceedings of IEEE PerCom International Workshop on Pervasive Wireless Networking (IEEE PWN) (Held in conjunction with IEEE PerCom), Texas, March 2009.


Wenyuan Xu, Wade Trappe and 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), 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 (WiSe), 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


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