Publications

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- Journal Papers 

1. Jemin Ahn, Rasheed Hussain, Kyungtae Kang, and Junggab Son*, “Exploring Encryption Algorithms and Network Protocols: A Comprehensive Survey of Threats and Vulnerabilities,” accepted for publication in IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (IF=46.7), pp. 1-28, 2025. 

2. Lu Zhang, Sungbin Park, Zuobin Xiong, Junggab Son, and Yeonjoon Lee, “Understanding Illicit Promotional Contents on Short Video Platforms,” accepted for publication in Tsinghua Science and Technology (IF=5.2), 2025.

3. Victor Youdom Kemmoe, Yongseok Kwon, Rasheed Hussain, Sunghyun Cho, and Junggab Son*, "Leveraging Smart Contracts for Secure and Asynchronous Group Key Exchange Without Trusted Third Party," IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IF= 7.3), vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 3176-3193, July-August 2023. 

4. Jaewon Noh, Yongseok Kwon, Junggab Son, and Sunghyun Cho, "Blockchain-based One-time Authentication for Secure V2X Communication Against Insiders and Authority Compromise Attack," IEEE Internet of Things Journal  (IF=10.6), vol. 10, no. 7, pp. 6235-6248, April 2023. 

5. YeEun Kim, Junggab Son*, Reza M. Parizi, Gautam Srivastava, and Heekuck Oh, "3-Multi Ranked Searchable Encryption with Enhanced Security in Cloud Computing," Digital Communications and Networks (IF=7.9), vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 313-326, April 2023. 

6. Seungheyon Lee, Sooeon Lee, Yumin Choi, Junggab Son, Paolo Bellavista, and Hyunbum Kim, "Cooperative Obstacle-Aware Surveillance for Virtual Emotion Intelligence with Low Energy Configuration," Drones (IF=4.8), vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 159:1-12, February 2023. 

7. Seunghyeon Shin, Mallika Boyapati, Kun Suo, and Junggab Son*, "An Empirical Analysis of Image Augmentation Against Model Inversion Attack in Federated Learning," Cluster Computing  (IF=4.4), vol. 26, pp. 349-366, 2023. 

8. Luke Cranfill, Jeehyeong Kim, Hongkyu Lee, Victor Youdom Kemmoe, Sunghyun Cho, and Junggab Son*, "Efficient yet Robust Privacy Preservation for MPEG-DASH Based Video Streaming," Security and Communication Networks., Article ID. 4702469, pp. 1-14, August 2021. 

9. Tejaswini Mallavarapu, Luke Cranfill, Eun Hye Kim, Reza M. Parizi, John Morris, and Junggab Son*, "A Federated Approach for Fine-Grained Classification of Fashion Apparel," Machine Learning with Applications, vol. 6, no. 15, pp. 1-12, December 2021.  

10. Hongkyu Lee, Jeehyeong Kim, Seyoung Ahn, Rasheed Hussain, Sunghyun Cho, and Junggab Son*, "Digestive Neural Networks: A Novel Defense Strategy against Inference Attacks in Federated Learning," Computers & Security (IF=5.105), vol. 109, October 2021.  

11. William Stone, Daeyoung Kim, Victor Youdom Kemmoe, Mingon Kang, and Junggab Son*, "Rethinking the Weakness of Stream Ciphers and Its Application to Encrypted Malware Detection," IEEE ACCESS, vol. 8, pp. 191602-191616, October 2020.  

12. Hyunbum Kim, Jalel Ben-Othman, Lynda Mokdad, Junggab Son, and Chunguo Li, "Research Challenges and Security Threats to AI-driven 5G Virtual Emotion Applications Using Autonomous Vehicles, Drones and Smart Devices," IEEE Network Magazine, vol. 34, no. 6, pp. 288-294, November/December 2020.

13. Victor Youdom Kemmoe, William Stone, Jeehyeong Kim, Daeyoung Kim, and Junggab Son*, "Recent Advances in Smart Contracts: A Technical Overview and State of the Art," IEEE ACCESS, vol. 8, pp. 117782-117801, June 2020.

14. Junggab Son, Donghyun Kim, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Rahman Tashakkori, and Jungtaek Seo, and DongHoon Lee, "Privacy Enhanced Location Sharing for Mobile Online Social Networks," IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (TSUSC), vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 279-290, April 2020.

15. Donghyun Kim, Junggab Son, Daehee Seo, Yeojin Kim, Hyobin Kim, and Jung Taek Seo, "A Novel Transparent and Auditable Fog-assisted Cloud Storage with Compensation Mechanism," Tsinghua Science and Technology, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 28-43, February 2020. 

16. Rasheed Hussain, Donghyun Kim, Junggab Son, Jooyoung Lee, and Heekuck Oh, "Secure and Privacy-Aware Incentives-based Witness Service in Social Internet of Vehicles Clouds," IEEE Internet of Things (IoT) Journal, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 2441-2448, Aug. 2018. 

17. Rasheed Hussain, Junggab Son, Donghyun Kim, Michele Nogueira, Heekuck Oh, Alade O. Tokuta, and Jungtaek Seo, "PBF: A New Privacy-Aware Billing Framework for Online Electric Vehicles with Bidirectional Auditability," Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing, vol. 2017, Article ID. 5676030, pp. 1-17, 2017.

18. Junggab Son, Juyoung Park, Heekuck Oh, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Kyungtae Kang, and Junbeom Hur, "Privacy-Preserving Electrocardiogram Monitoring for Intelligent Arrhythmia Detection," Sensors , vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 1-21, June 2017. 

19. Rasheed Hussain, Zeinab Rezaeifar, Junggab Son, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Sangjin Kim, and Heekuck Oh, "PB-MII: Replacing Static RSUs with Public Buses-based Mobile Intermediary Infrastructure in Urban VANET-based Clouds," Cluster Computing (Springer), vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 2231-2252, Sept. 2017.

20. Junggab Son, Donghyun Kim, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Rasheed Hussain, and Heekuck Oh, "A New Outsourcing Conditional Proxy Re-Encryption Suitable for Mobile Cloud Environment," Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, vol. 29, no. e3946, pp. 1-16, Nov. 2016.

21. Juyoung Park, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Mingon Kang, Junggab Son, and Kyungtae Kang, "Nearest-Neighbor Search with Locally Weighted Linear Regression for Heartbeat Classification," Soft Computing, vol. 22, no. 6, pp. 1225-1236, Oct 2016 (Published Online). 

22. Donghyun Kim, Wei Wang, Junggab Son, Weili Wu, Wonjun Lee, and Alade O. Tokuta, "Maximum Lifetime Combined Barrier-coverage of Weak Static Sensors and Strong Mobile Sensors," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 1956-1966, Sept. 2016.

23. Yi Hong, Donghyun Kim, Deying Li, Ling Guo, Junggab Son, and Alade Tokuta, “Two New Multi-path Routing Algorithms for Fault-tolerant Communications in Smart Grid,” Journal of Ad Hoc Networks, vol. 22, pp. 3-12, Nov. 2014.

24. Junggab Son, Hunmin Kim, Rasheed Hussain, and Heekuck Oh, “SC-DVR: A Secure Cloud Computing based Framework for DVR service,” IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 368-374, Aug. 2014.

25. Junggab Son, Hoonjung Lee, and Heekuck Oh, "PVR: a Novel PVR Scheme for Content Protection," IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 173-177, Feb. 2011.

- Book Chapters 

1. Mallika Boyapati, Bala Chaitanya Gutta, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, and Junggab Son*, "Anti-Phishing Approaches in the Era of the Internet of Things," in a collected work provisionally entitled "Towards a Wireless Connected World: Achievements and New Technologies," pp. 35-63, 2022. 

2. Rasheed Hussain, Donghyun Kim, Michele Nogueira, Junggab Son, and Heekuck Oh, "Exploring the Potential of Big Data for Malware Detection and Mitigation Techniques in Android Environment" Big Data: Storage, Sharing, and Security (Fei Hu ed.), Tayler & Francis LLC, CRC Press, pp. 397-430, May 2016. 

- Conference Proceedings

1. An Huang, Junggab Son, and Zuobin Xiong, "DDSNet: A Lightweight Dense Depthwise Separable Network for Tumor Classification," accepted in the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), pp. 1-8, 2025. 

2. Shubham Joshi, Dillion Davidson, Yeonjoon Lee, Homook Cho, and Junggab Son*, "Ensuring Integrity in Online Content Usage and Download Counting with Smart Contracts," accepted in the 20th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), pp. 1-23, 2024.

3. Junggab Son*, Jeehyung Kim, Jemin Ahn, Doowon Kim, Homook Cho, and Daeyoung Kim, "Anti-EMP: Encrypted Malware Packets Filtering Algorithm Leveraging Ciphertext Patterns under Zero Knowledge Setting," accepted in the 20th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), pp. 1-25, 2024. 

4. Jemin Ahn, Dorian Akhavan, Woohwan Jung, Kyungtate Kang, and Junggab Son*, "Encoder-based Multimodal Ensemble Learning for High Compatibility and Accuracy in Phishing Website Detection," accepted in the 20th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), pp. 1-19, 2024. 

5. Hongbi Jeong, Junggab Son*, Hyunbum Kim, and Kyungtae Kang*, "Defensive Adversarial Training for Enhancing Robustness of ECG based User Identification," in Proceedings of the IEEE International  Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), pp. 3362-3369,  December 2022. 

6. Tong Chen, Jiho Noh, Luke Cranfill, John Morris, and Junggab Son*, “Improving Fashion Attribute Classification Accuracy with Limited Labelled Data Using Transfer Learning,” IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning Applications (ICMLA), pp. 1210-1217,  December 2022.

7. Ali Akbar Mohammadi, Rasheed Hussain, Alma Oracevic, Syed Huhammad Ahsan Raza Kazmi, Fatima Hussain, Moayad Aloqaily, and Junggab Son, "A Novel TCP/IP Header Hijacking Attack on SDN," IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM - poster), pp. 1-2, May 2022.

8. Kun Suo, Junggab Son, Dazhao Cheng, Wei Chen, Sabur Baidya, "Tackling Cold Start of Serverless Applications by Efficient and Adaptive Container Runtime Reusing," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), pp. 433-443,  Portland, OR, USA, September 2021, 

9. Hongkyu Lee, Jeehyeong Kim, Rasheed Hussain, Sunghyun Cho, and Junggab Son*, “On Defensive Neural Networks Against Inference Attack in Federated Learning,” in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC): Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium, pp. 1-6, June 2021. 

10. Victor Youdom Kemmoe, Yongseok Kwon, Seunghyeon Shin, Rasheed Hussain, Sunghyun Cho, and Junggab Son*, "Leveraging Smart Contracts for Asynchronous Group Key Agreement in Internet of Things," in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC 2020), pp. 1-6, October 2020. 

11. Jeehyeong Kim, Junggab Son, William Stone, Hyunbum Kim, Jaewon Noh, and Sunghyun Cho, "A Novel Resource Allocation scheme for NOMA-V2X-Femtocell with Channel Aggregation," in Proceedings of the IEEE GlobeCom 2020: Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks Symposium, pp. 1-6, December 2020.

12. Daniel Y. Karasek, Jeehyeong Kim, Victor Youdom Kemmoe, Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Sunghyun Cho, and Junggab Son*, "SuperB: Superior Behavior-based Anomaly Detection Defining Authorized Users' Traffic Patterns," Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2020), pp. 1-9, Honolulu, HI, Aug. 3-6, 2020.  

13. Junggab Son, Euiseong Ko, Uday Bhaskar Boyanapalli, Donghyun Kim, Youngsoon Kim, and Mingon Kang, "Fast and Accurate Machine Learning-based Malware Detection via RC4 Ciphertext Analysis," Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC 2019), Honolulu, HI, USA, Feb. 18-21, 2019.

14. Yeojin Kim, Donghyun Kim, Junggab Son, Wei Wang, and Youngtae Noh, "A New Fog-Cloud Storage Framework with Transparency and Auditability," Proceedings of 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC 2018) - Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (CISS), Kansas City, MO, USA, May 20-24, 2018.

15. Junggab Son, Donghyun Kim, HyungGeun Oh, Dongsoo Ha, and Wonjun Lee, "Toward VANET Utopia: A New Privacy Preserving Trustworthiness Management Scheme for VANET," Proceedings of the 9th IEEE International Conference on Social Computing and Networking (SocialCom 2016), Atlanta, GA, Oct. 8-10, 2016.

16. Junggab Son, Donghyun Kim, Rahman Tashakkori, Alade O. Tokuta, and Heekuck Oh, "A New Mobile Online Social Network Based Location Sharing with Enhanced Privacy Protection," Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN 2016), Waikoloa, HI, Aug. 1-4, 2016.

17. Hyunbum Kim, Junggab Son, Hyung Jae Chang, and Heekuck Oh, “Event-driven Partial Barriers in Wireless Sensor Networks,” Proceedings of the International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications, Wireless Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (ICNC 2016), pp. 907-911, Kauai, HI, Feb. 15-18, 2016.

18. Rasheed Hussain, Donghyun Kim, Michele Nogueira, Junggab Son, Alade Tokuta, and Heekuck Oh, “A New Privacy-aware Mutual Authentication Mechanism for Charging-on-the-Move in Online Electric Vehicles,” Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (IEEE MSN 2015), Shenzhen, China, Dec.16-18, 2015.

19. Junggab Son, Donghyun Kim, Rasheed Hussain, Sung-Sik Kwon, Alade O. Tokuta, and Jungtaek Seo, "Privacy Aware Incentive Mechanism to Collect Mobile Data While Preventing Duplication," Proceedings of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2015), Tampa, FL, Oct. 26-28, 2015.

20. Donghyun Kim, Junggab Son, Wei Wang, Deying Li, Alade O. Tokuta, and Sunghyun Cho, "Bandwidth-aware Breach-free Barrier Construction with VANET nodes for Realtime Fugitive Search," Proceedings of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM 2015), Tampa, FL, Oct. 26-28, 2015.

21. Junggab Son, Donghyun Kim, Sejin Lee, Heekuck Oh, Alade O. Tokuta, and Hayk M. Melikyan, "Trade-Off Between Service Granularity and User Privacy in Smart Meter Operation," Proceedings of The 10th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Networks (MSN 2014), Maui, HI, Dec. 19-21, 2014.

22. Junggab Son, Donghyun Kim, Rasheed Hussain, and Heekuck Oh, “Conditional Proxy Re-Encryption for Secure Big Data Group Sharing in Cloud Environment,” Proceedings of INFOCOM Workshop on Security and Privacy in Big Data (BigSecurity 2014), pp.547-552, Toronto, Canada, Apr. 2014.

23. Junggab Son, Hyunbum Kim, Donghyun Kim, and Heekuck Oh, “On Secure Data Sharing in Cloud Environment,” Proceedings of International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Management and Communication (ACM IMCOM 2014), pp. 6:1-7, Jan. 2014.

24. Hyunbum Kim, Junggab Son, Hasoo Eun, and Heekuck Oh, “Combining SVC and CAS Modules to Support Heterogeneous Devices,” Proceedings of International Conference on Electronics, Information and Communication, pp. 162-163, Jan. 2014.

25. Rasheed Hussain, Fizza Abbas, Junggab Son, Sangjin Kim, and Heekuck Oh, "Using Public Buses as Mobile Gateways in Vehicular Clouds," Proceedings of  IEEE ICCE 2014, pp. 175-176, Jan. 2014.

26. Jaekyung Lee, Junggab Son, Rasheed Hussain, and Heekuck Oh, "Media Cloud: A Secure and Efficient Virtualization Framework for Media Service,"Proceedings of IEEE ICCE 2014, pp. 79-80, Jan. 2014.

27. Hunmin Kim, Junggab Son, Rasheed Hussain, and Heekuck Oh, "C-DVR: Secure Cloud-Based DVR Framework Based on Personal Virtualization," Proceedings of IEEE ICCE 2014, pp. 554-555, Jan. 2014.

28. Fizza Abbas, Rasheed Hussain, Junggab Son, and Heekuck Oh, "Privacy-Preserving Cloud-based Computing Platform (PPCCP) for using Location-Based Services," Proceedings of IEEE/ACM UCC 2013, pp. 60-66, Dec. 2013.

29. Fizza Abbas, Rasheed Hussain, Junggab Son, Hasoo Eun, and Heekuck Oh, "Toward Achieving Anonymity in LBS: A Cloud-Based Untrusted Middleware," Proceedings of IEEE CloudCom 2013, pp. 262-265, Dec. 2013.

30. Rasheed Hussain, Fizza Abbas, Junggab Son, Donghyun Kim, Sangjin Kim, and Heekuck Oh, "Vehicle Witnesses as a Service: Leveraging Vehicles as Witnesses on the Road in VANET Clouds," Proceedings of IEEE CloudCom 2013, pp. 439-444, Dec. 2013.

31. Rasheed Hussain, Fizza Abbas, Junggab Son, Hasoo Eun, and Heekuck Oh, "Privacy-Aware Route Tracing and Revocation Games in VANET-based Clouds," Proceedings of IEEE WiMob 2013, pp. 747-752, Oct. 2013.

32. Rasheed Hussain, Fizza Abbas, Junggab Son, and Heekuck Oh, "TIaaS: Secure Cloud-assisted Traffic Information Dissemination in Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks," Proceedings of IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2013, pp. 178-179, May 2013.

33. Rasheed Hussain, Junggab Son, Hasoo Eun, Sangjin Kim, and Heekuck Oh, "Traffic Information System: A Lightweight Geocast-based Piggybacking Strategy for Cooperative Awareness in VANET," Proceedings of IEEE ICCE 2013, pp. 614–615, Jan. 2013.

34. Rasheed Hussain, Junggab Son, Hasoo Eun, Sangjin Kim, and Heekuck Oh, "Rethinking Vehicular Communications: Merging VANET with Cloud Computing," Proceedings of IEEE CloudCom 2012, pp. 606-609, Dec. 2012.

35. Junggab Son, Hoonjung Lee, and Heekuck Oh, "Efficient SVC Encryption Scheme in CAS for Supporting Heterogeneous Devices," Proceedings of IEEE GCCE 2012, pp. 677-678, Oct. 2012.

36. Hasoo Eun, Hoonjung Lee, Junggab Son, Sangjin Kim, and Heekuck Oh, "Conditional Privacy Preserving Security Protocol for NFC Applications," Proceedings of IEEE ICCE 2012, pp. 384-385, Jan. 2012.

37. Junghoon Kim, Hoonjung Lee, Junggab Son, Wonwoo Rhim, Sangjin Kim, and Heekuck Oh, "Key Management Scheme Using Secret Sharing for Multi-Device Based DRM," Proceedings of IEEE ICCE 2012, pp. 388-389, Jan. 2012.

38. Hoonjung Lee, Junghoon Kim, Junggab Son, Sangjin Kim, and Heekuck Oh, "ID-based Key Management Scheme Using Threshold Decryption for OPMD Environment," Proceedings of IEEE ICCE 2012, pp. 739-740, Jan. 2012.

39. Hoonjung Lee, Junggab Son, and Heekuck Oh, "Flexible Chipset Pairing - No Restriction on Use of Smartcards in Secure Chip-based CAS," Proceedings of IEEE ICCE 2011, pp. 940-941, Jan. 2011.

40. Junggab Son, Hoonjung Lee, and Heekuck Oh, "Secure PVR - a Novel Recording Scheme for Content Protection," Proceedings of IEEE ICCE 2011, pp. 497-498, Jan. 2011.

41. Junggab Son, Hoonjung Lee, and Heekuck Oh, "An Efficient Storage Scheme in PVR without Descrambling," Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Application, vol. 5, pp. 217-220, Dec. 2010.

42. Junghoon Kim, Junggab Son, Hoonjung Lee, and Heekuck Oh, "The Vulnerability of IPTV that Incurs Due to the Use of IGMP," Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Application, vol. 5, pp. 231-234, Dec. 2010.

43. Junggab Son, Hoonjung Lee, and Heekuck Oh, "Digital Rights Protection Scheme Based on Proxy Re-Encryption," Proceedings of ITC-CSCC 2010, pp. 852-854, Jul. 2010.