Sungmin Hong (Kevin)

Email: suhong@augusta.edu Office: RV1 2806, GCC Phone: (706) 721-0506

Publications (Google Scholar: 1500+ citations as of May 2026)  

1.  Yangyong Zhang, Sungmin Hong, Guofei Gu. “Insourcing IoT Security with Edge Agents.” In Proc. of the 35th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN’26), July 2026. (Acceptance ratio (AR) 25%)

2.  Sungmin Hong, Lei Xu, Jianwei Huang, Hongda Li, Hongxin Hu, Guofei Gu. “SysFlow: Towards a Programmable Zero Trust Framework for System Security,” IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), 2023. (SCI Impact factor 7.231 as of 2023)

3.  Huancheng Zhou, Sungmin Hong, Yangyang Liu, Xiapu Luo, Weichao Li, Guofei Gu. “Mew: Enabling Large-Scale and Dynamic Link-Flooding Defenses on Programmable Switches.” In Proc. of the 44th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P’23), May 2023. (AR 14.52%)

4.  Lei Xu, Jeff Huang, Sungmin Hong, Jialong Zhang, Guofei Gu. "Attacking the Brain: Races in the SDN Control Plane." In Proc. of the 26th USENIX Security Symposium (Security'17), Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 2017. (AR 16%=85/522)

5.  Haopei Wang, Abhinav Srivastava, Lei Xu, Sungmin Hong, Guofei Gu. "Bring Your Own Controller: Enabling Tenant-defined SDN Apps in IaaS Clouds." In Proc. of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM'17), Atlanta, GA, May 2017. (AR 20.9%=292/1395)

6.  Seungwon Shin, Lei Xu, Sungmin Hong, Guofei Gu. "Enhancing Network Security through Software Defined Networking (SDN)." In Proc. of the 25th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN’16), Hawaii, USA, August 2016.

7.  Sungmin Hong, Robert Baykov, Lei Xu, Srinath Nadimpalli, Guofei Gu. "Towards SDN-Defined Programmable BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Security." In Proc. of the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'16), San Diego, California, Feb 2016. (AR 15.4%=60/389) - Finalist for CSAW Best Applied Security Paper Award, NYU 2016

8.  Sungmin Hong, Lei Xu, Haopei Wang, Guofei Gu. "Poisoning Network Visibility in Software-Defined Networks: New Attacks and Countermeasures." In Proc. of the 22nd Annual Network & Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'15), San Diego, CA, USA. Feb 2015. (AR 16.9%=51/302)

9.  Sejun Song, Sungmin Hong, Xinjie Guan, Baek-Young Choi, and Changho Choi, “NEOD: Network Embedded on-line Disaster Management Framework for Software Defined Networking,” IFPF/IEEE International Symposium on Integrated Network Management (IM), Mini-Conference, Ghent, Belgium, May, 2013.

10.  Young-Joo Kim, Sungmin Hong, Jong-uk Lee, Sejun Song, and Daeyoung Kim, “An Integration Avenue of Ground Monitoring Based on Wireless Sensor Networks,” International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks (IJDSN), vol. 2013, Article ID 395746, 16 pages, 2013. (SCIE Impact factor 1.787 as of 2018)

11.  Sejun Song, Sungmin Hong, Baek-Young Choi, Changho choi, “Router-Initiated Rapid and Smart Network Disaster Management Using Software-Defined Networking,” The 42nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) Fast Abstract, Boston, Jun 2012.

12.  Young-Joo Kim, Sungmin Hong, Jong-uk Lee, Sejun Song, and Daeyoung Kim, “A Study on WSN System Integration for Real-Time Global Monitoring,” ASEA 2011, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 257. Springer, Berlin, 2011.

13.  Sungmin Hong, Young-Joo Kim, and Sejun Song, “A Conformance Testing Framework for IP-based Wireless Sensor Networks,” SDPS2, May 2011.

14.  Sungmin Hong, Daeyoung Kim, Minkeun Ha, Sungho Bae, Sang Jun Park, Wooyoung Jung, and Jae-eon Kim, "SNAIL: An IP-based Wireless Sensor Network Approach Toward the Internet of Things," IEEE Wireless Communications, 17(6): 34-42, Dec. 2010 (SCI Impact factor 9.202 as of 2018)

15.  Minkeun Ha, Daeyoung Kim, Seong Hoon Kim, and Sungmin Hong, "inter-MARIO: A Fast and Seamless Mobility Protocol to support Inter-PAN Handover in 6LoWPAN", IEEE Global Communications Conference(GLOBECOM) 2010, Miami, USA, 2010.

16.  Wooyoung Jung, Sungmin Hong, Minkeun Ha, Young-Joo Kim, and Daeyoung Kim, “SSL-based Lightweight Security of IP-based Wireless Sensor Networks,” The IEEE 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA) Workshops, Bradford, May 26-29, 2009.

17.  Sungmin Hong, Wooyoung Jung, Daeyoung Kim , Youngjin Kwon, and Daekyo Jung, "IP-based Wireless Sensor Networks Infrastructure for Smart Highway", The 14th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2008) WIP, Taiwan, Aug 25-27, 2008. 

Teaching

• CYBR 2600 Networking and Cybersecurity

• CYBR 3200 Cyber Network Defense and Countermeasures

Professional Services

• Program Committee member

  • CSAW Best Applied Security Paper Award at NYU: 2017, 2018, 2023, 2025

  • IP-USN Forum Technology/Standardization Working Group committee member : 2007,2008, 2009 

  • TTA (Telecommunications Technology Association) committee member: 2008, 2009

• Peer reviewer 

  • [WCM] IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, 2023

  • [TDSC] Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2023

  • [TIFS] Transactions on Information Forensics & Security, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2024

  • [COMSI] Computer (magazine), IEEE Computer Society, 2017

  • [COMCOM] Computer Communications Journal, Elsevier, 2016

  • [COSE] Computers & Security Journal, Elsevier, 2015, 2016 2017, 2018

  • [CCR] SIGCOMM's Computer Communications Review, 2016

  • [FGCS] Future Generation Computer Systems Journal, Elsevier, 2018, 2024

  • [TCC] Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2021, 2022

  • [RM] IEEE Reliability Magazine, 2024, 2026

  • [TNSM] Transactions on Network & Service Management, 2024

  • [JNSM] Journal of Network and Systems Management, 2025

• Peer reviewer (external)

  • [S&P] IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

  • [USENIX Security] USENIX Security Symposium, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 

  • [CCS] ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2020, 2022, 2023

  • [NDSS] Network & Distributed System Security Symposium, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023

  • [ACM Survey] ACM Computing Surveys - Association for Computing Machinery, 2018

  • [ICDCS] International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022

  • [ESORICS] European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, 2018, 2019, 2020,

  • [ACSAC] Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, 2016, 2017, 2020, 2021

  • [Asia CCS] ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2016, 2018, 2021

  • [RAID] International Symposium on Research in Attacks, Intrusions and Defenses, 2017, 2018, 2021

  • [DSN] IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, 2016, 2017

  • [GlobeCom] IEEE Global Communications Conference, 2016

  • [WiSec] ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, 2016, 2017, 2018

  • [WWW] International World Wide Web Conference, 2019, 2020

Last update: May 2026