Publications

• (*): corresponding author. underline text: our lab members. red text: selected publications 

2025

• [BK21-IF:2, acceptance rate: 20.7%] SMORE: Practical Redzone-Based Stack Memory Error Detection Mechanism for Embedded Systems [to appear]

  • Jaeyeol Park, Yunju Gu, and Donghyun Kwon*

  • Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Dec. 2025

• [BK21-IF:2, acceptance rate: 20.7%] ELK: Effective Lock-and-Key Technique for Temporal Memory Safety on Embedded Devices in ARMv8-M [to appear]

  • Jeonghwan Kang, Kyounghwan Kim, and Donghyun Kwon*

  • Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), Dec. 2025

• [SCIE] Watch Your Callback: Offline Anomaly Detection using Machine Learning in ROS 2 [paper]

  • Jeonghwan Kang, Kyounghwan Kim, and Donghyun Kwon*

  • IEEE Access, Apr. 2025

• [SCIE] WasDom: An Efficient Write Protection for Wasm JITed Code With ARM Domain [paper]

  • Suhyeon Song, Chaewon Shin, and Donghyun Kwon*

  • IEEE Access, Feb. 2025

• [SCIE-IF:5.9, Q1]  ROSec: Intra-Process Isolation for ROS Composition with Memory Protection Keys [paper]

  • Jiwon Seo​​, Kayondo Martin, Jeonghwan Kang, Donghyun Kwon​*, and Yunheung Paek​*

  • IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), Jan. 2025

2024

• [ESCI] Non-volatile flip-flop with soft error tolerant capability using DICE and C-element [paper]

  • Shogo Takahashi, Donghyun Kwon, and Kazuteru Namba*

  • IEICE Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications, Oct. 2024

• [BK21-IF:3, acceptance rate: 21.8%]  Look Before You Access: Efficient Heap Memory Safety for Embedded Systems on ARMv8-M [paper]

  • Jeonghwan Kang, Jaeyeol Park, Jiwon Seo, and Donghyun Kwon*

  • Design Automation Conference (DAC), Jun. 2024

• [SCIE] MECAT: Memory-Safe Smart Contracts in ARM TrustZone [paper]

  • Seonghwan Park, Hayoung Kang, Sanghun Han, Jonghee M. Youn*, and Donghyun Kwon*

  • IEEE Access, Apr. 2024

2023

• [SCIE] Enhancing a Lock-and-key Scheme with MTE to Mitigate Use-After-Frees  [paper]

  • Inyoung Bang, Martin Kayondo, Junseung Yu, Donghyun Kwon, Yeongpil Cho*, and Yunheung Paek*

  • IEEE Access, Dec. 2023

• [SCIE]  metaSafer: A Technique to Detect Heap Metadata Corruption in WebAssembly  [paper]

  • Suhyeon Song, Seonghwan Park, and Donghyun Kwon*

  • IEEE Access, Oct. 2023

• [SCIE-IF:7.231, Q1] ZOMETAG: Zone-based Memory Tagging for Fast, Deterministic Detection of Spatial Memory Violations on ARM [paper]

  • Jiwon Seo, Junseung You, Donghyun Kwon, Yeongpil Cho*, and Yunheung Paek*

  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS), Jul. 2023

• [BK21-IF:1, acceptance rate: 17.2%] SFITAG: Efficient Software Fault Isolation with Memory Tagging for ARM Kernel Extensions [paper]

  • Jiwon Seo, Junseung You, Yungi Cho, Yeongpil Cho, Donghyun Kwon*, and Yunheung Paek*

  • ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), Jul. 2023

• [SCIE] DEMIX: Domain-Enforced Memory Isolation for Embedded System [paper]

  • Haeyoung Kim, Harashta Tatimma Larasati, Jonguk Park, Howon Kim, and Donghyun Kwon*

  • Sensors, Mar. 2023

2022

• [SCIE] Efficient CFI Enforcement for Embedded Systems using ARM TrustZone-M  [paper]

  • Gisu Yeo, Yeryeong Kim, Suhyeon Song, and Donghyun Kwon*

  • IEEE Access, Dec. 2022

• [Conf] A Study on Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) Extensions for Software Security on RISC-V

  • Donghyun Kwon

  • International Conference for Multimedia Information Technology and Applications (MITA), Jul. 2022

• [SCIE] Exploring effective uses of the tagged memory for reducing bounds checking overheads [paper]

  • Jiwon Seo, Inyoung Bang, Yungi Cho, Jangseop Shin, Dongil Hwang, Donghyun Kwon, Yeongpil Cho*, and Yunheung Paek*

  • The Journal of Supercomputing, Jul. 2022

• [SCIE] Bratter: An Instruction Set Extension for Forward Control-Flow Integrity in RISC-V [paper]

  • Seonghwan Park, Dongwook Kang, Jeonghwan Kang, and Donghyun Kwon*

  • Sensors, Feb. 2022

2021

• [SCIE] CoMeT: Configurable Tagged Memory Extension [paper]

  • Jinjae Lee, Derry Pratama, Minjae Kim, Howon Kim*, and Donghyun Kwon*

  • Sensors, Nov. 2021

• [SCIE] A Hardware Platform for Ensuring OS Kernel Integrity on RISC-V [paper]

  • Donghyun Kwon, Dongil Hwang*, and Yunheung Paek*

  • Electronics, Aug. 2021

• [Conf] Introduction to ARM TrustZone and its Use Cases 

  • Donghyun Kwon

  • International Conference on Consumer Electronics Asia (ICCE-Asia), Oct. 2021

2020

• [BK21-IF:3, acceptance rate: 24%] RIMI: Instruction-level Memory Isolation for Embedded Systems on RISC-V [paper]

  • Haeyoung Kim, Jinjae Lee, Derry Pratama, Asep Muhamad Awaludin, Howon Kim, Donghyun Kwon*

  • International Conference On Computer Aided Design (ICCAD), Dec. 2020 

• [SCIE-IF:3.822] PrOS: Light-weight Privatized Secure OSes in ARM TrustZone [paper]

  • Donghyun Kwon, Jiwon Seo, Yeongpil Cho, Byoungyoung Lee, Yunheung Paek

  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Apr. 2020 

2019

• [BK21-IF:3, acceptance rate:18.9%] uXOM: Efficient eXecute-Only Memory on ARM Cortex-M [paper]

  • Donghyun Kwon, Jangseop Shin, Giyeol Kim, Byoungyoung Lee, Yeongpil Cho, Yunheung Paek

  • Usenix Security, Aug. 2019

• [BK21-IF:2, acceptance rate: 24%] RiskiM: Toward Complete Kernel Protection with Hardware Support [paper]

  • Dongil Hwang,  Myunghoon Yang, Seongil Jeon, Younghan Lee, Donghyun Kwon*, Yunheung Paek

  • Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE), May. 2019 

• [BK21-IF:2, acceptance rate: 17.1%] CRCount: Pointer Invalidation with Reference Counting on Mitigate Use-After-Free in Legacy C/C++ [paper]

  • Jangseop Shin, Donghyun Kwon, Jiwon Seo, Yeongpil Cho, Yunheung Paek

  • Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Feb. 2019 

• [SCIE-IF:1.714] Safe and Efficient Implementation of a Security System on ARM using Intra-Level Privilege Separation [paper]

  • Donghyun Kwon, Hayoon Yi, Yeongpil Cho, Yunheung Paek

  • ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), Feb. 2019 

2018

• [BK21-IF:3, acceptance rate: 24.3%] Hypernel: A Hardware-Assisted Framework for Kernel Protection without Nested Paging [paper]

  • Donghyun Kwon, Kuenwhee Oh, Junmo Park, Seungyong Yang, Yeongpil Cho, Brent Byunghoon Kang, Yunheung Paek

  • Design Automation Conference (DAC), Jun. 2018 

• [Conf] VM-CFI: Control-Flow Integrity for Virtual Machine Kernel Using Intel PT

  • Donghyun Kwon, Jiwon Seo, Sehyun Baek, Giyeol Kim, Sunwoo Ahn, Yunheung Paek

  • International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA), Jul. 2018

2017

• [BK21-IF:3, acceptance rate: 23.8%] Instruction-Level Data Isolation for the Kernel on ARM [paper]

  • Yeongpil Cho, Donghyun Kwon, Yunheung Paek

  • Design Automation Conference (DAC), Jun. 2017 

• [BK21-IF:2, acceptance rate: 16%] Dynamic Virtual Address Range Adjustment for Intra-Level Privilege Separation on ARM [paper]

  • Yeongpil Cho, Donghyun Kwon, Hayoon Yi, Yunheung Paek

  • Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), Feb. 2017

2016

• [SCIE] Optimization Techniques to Enable Execution Offloading for 3D Video Games [paper]

  • Donghyun Kwon, Seungjun Yang, Yunheung Paek, Kwangman Ko

  • Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP), Jul. 2016 

• [BK21-IF:3, acceptance rate: 19%] Hardware-Assisted On-Demand Hypervisor Activation for Efficient Security Critical Code Execution on Mobile Devices [paper]

  • Yeongpil Cho, Jun-Bum Shin, Donghyun Kwon, MyungJoo Ham, Yuna Kim, Yunheung Paek

  • USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), Jun. 2016 

• [SCIE-IF:2.349] Precise Execution Offloading for Applications with Dynamic Behavior in Mobile Cloud Computing [paper]

  • Yongin Kwon, Hayoon Yi, Donghyun Kwon, Seungjun Yang, Yeongpil Cho, Yunheung Paek

  • Pervasive and Mobile Computing (PMC), Apr. 2016

2015

• [SCIE-IF:2.456] Mantis: Efficient Predictions of Execution Time, Energy Usage, Memory Usage and Network Usage on Smart Mobile Devices [paper]

  • Yongin Kwon, Sangmin Lee, Hayoon Yi, Donghyun Kwon, Seungjun Yang, Byung-gon Chun, Ling Huang, Petros Maniatis, Mayur Naik, Yunheung Paek

  •  IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Dec. 2015

2014

• [SCIE-IF:2.543] Techniques to Minimize State Transfer Costs for Dynamic Execution Offloading in Mobile Cloud Computing [paper]

  • Seungjun Yang, Donghyun Kwon, Hayoon Yi, Yeongpil Cho, Yongin Kwon, Yunheung Paek

  • IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (TMC), Feb. 2014

2013

• [BK21-IF:3, acceptance rate: 14.2%] Mantis: Automatic Performance Prediction for Smartphone Applications [paper]

  • Yongin Kwon, Sangmin Lee, Hayoon Yi, Donghyun Kwon, Seungjun Yang, Byung-Gon Chun, Ling Huang, Petros Maniatis, Mayur Naik, Yunheung Paek

  • USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC), Jun. 2013

• [BK21-IF:3, acceptance rate: 15.9%] Fast Dynamic Execution Offloading for Efficient Mobile Cloud Computing [paper]

  • Seungjun Yang, Yongin Kwon, Yeongpil Cho, Hayoon Yi, Donghyun Kwon, Jonghee Youn, Yunheung Paek

  • IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), Jun. 2013