Selected Publications

 * indicates the corresponding author, ^ denotes my students (or my co-advised/ TEEP/IIPP internship students)

Selected journal papers (21/34)

1. Van-Linh Nguyen*, Lan-Huong Nguyen, Ren-Hung Hwang, "MUFO: Multi-UAV Flight Optimization for Enhancing Connectivity in Remote Driving Services", Ad-hoc Networks, Volume 183, 15 March 2026.  (SCI, Q1)

2. (COMSTD), Van-Linh Nguyen*, Lan-Huong Nguyen, Ren-Hung Hwang, Berk Canberk, Trung Q. Duong, "Quantum Machine Learning for 6G Network Intelligence and Adversarial Threats", IEEE Communications Standards Magazine, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 40-48, Sept. 2025.

3. (TGCN), Yared Abera Ergu^, Van-Linh Nguyen*, "RADAR: Robust DRL-based Resource Allocation Against Adversarial Attacks in Intelligent O-RAN", IEEE Transactions on Green Communications and Networking, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 2305-2318, Dec. 2025  (SCI, Q1)

4. (TCCN) Van-Tam Hoang^, Van-Linh Nguyen*, Rong-Guey Chang, Po-Ching Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, and Trung Q. Duong "Adversarial Attacks Against Shared Knowledge Interpretation in Semantic Communications", IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, vol. 11, no. 2, pp. 1024-1040, April 2025, (SCI, Q1).

5. (COMST), Lan-Huong Nguyen, Van-Linh Nguyen, Ren-Hung Hwang, Jian-Jhih Kuo, Yu-Wen Chen, Chien-Chung Huang, Ping-I Pan, "Towards Secured Smart Grids 2.0: Exploring Security Threats, Protection Models, and Challenges", IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials,  vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 2581-2620, Aug. 2025, (SCI, Q1, IF: ~46.7) (highly cited).

6. (TVT) Yared Abera Ergu^, Van-Linh Nguyen*, Ren-Hung Hwang, Ying-Dar Lin, Chuan-Yu Cho, Hui-Kuo Yang, Hyundong Shin, Trung Q. Duong, "Efficient Adversarial Attacks against DRL-based Resource Allocation in Intelligent O-RAN for V2X", IEEE  Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 74, no. 1, pp. 1674-1686, Jan. 2025, (SCI, Q1).

7. (TCCN) Lal Verda Cakir, Craig J. Thomson, Mehmet Ozdem, Berk Canberk, Van-Linh Nguyen, and Trung Q. Duong, "Intelligent Digital Twin Communication Framework for Addressing Accuracy and Timeliness Tradeoff in Resource-Constrained Networks", IEEE Transactions on Cognitive Communications and Networking, 2025, Vol 11, No 3, (SCI, Q1).

8. (JNCA) Van-Tam Hoang^, Yared Abera Ergu^, Van-Linh Nguyen*, and Rong-Guey Chang, "Security Risks and Countermeasures of Adversarial Attacks on AI-driven Applications in 6G Networks: A Survey", Journal of Network and Computer Applications (Elsevier), Vol. 232, 2024, (SCI/SCIE, Q1) (highly cited).

9. (IoTJ) Van-Linh Nguyen*, Hao-Ping Tsai^, H. Shin, Trung Q. Duong, "Spatial Data Transformation and Vision Learning for Elevating Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks",  IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 11, no. 24, pp. 41261-41272, 2024 (SCI, IF: 10.2, Q1).

10. (TVT) Van-Linh Nguyen, Lan-Huong Nguyen, Jian-Jhih Kuo, Po-Ching Lin, and Ren-Hung Hwang, "Intelligent Aerial Relay Deployment for Enhancing Connectivity in Emergency Communications", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 73, No. 6, pp. 8782 - 8796, 2024, (SCI, Q1, Top #2 journal in Transportation Science & Technology). 

11. (COMML) S. Sweta^, Ankit Dubey, Van-Linh Nguyen, “Efficient IRS-aided Rate Optimizations for Dual Functional Radar and Communications”, Vol. 28, No. 1, pp. 39 - 42, IEEE Communications Letters, 2024 (SCI, Q1) 

12. (COMMAG) Van-Linh Nguyen*, Ren-Hung Hwang, Bo-Chao Cheng, Ying-Dar Lin, Trung Q. Duong, “Understanding the Privacy Risks of High-accuracy Radio Positioning and Sensing in Wireless Networks”, IEEE Communications Magazine, Vol. 62, No. 5, pp. 104 - 111, 2024, (SCI, Q1, Top IEEE journal in Telecommunications).

13. (NETWORK) Van-Linh Nguyen, Ren-Hung Hwang, Po-Ching Lin, Abhishek Vyas^, Van-Tao Nguyen, "Towards the Age of Intelligent Vehicular Networks for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in 6G", Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 44 - 51, IEEE Network, 2023, (SCI, Q1, Top IEEE journal in Telecommunications) (highly cited).

14. (JISA) Ying-Dar Lin, Ze-Yu Wang^, Po-Ching Lin, Van-Linh Nguyen, Ren-Hung Hwang and Yuan-Cheng Lai, “Multi-datasource Machine Learning in Intrusion Detection: Packet Flows, System Logs and Host Statistics”, Journal of Information Security and Applications (Elsevier), 2022, (SCI, Q1)  (Citation: 18)

15. (S&P) Edy Kristianto^, Van-Linh Nguyen*, and Po-Ching Lin, “Decentralized PKI with Blockchain in V2X Communications: Promising or only Euphoria?”, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 40 - 50, IEEE Security & Privacy, 2022, [SCI, Q1)

16. (T-ITS) Van-Linh Nguyen, Ren-Hung Hwang, and Po-Ching Lin, "Controllable path planning and traffic scheduling for emergency services in the Internet of Vehicles,", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vol. 23, No. 8, pp. 12399 - 12413, 2022, (SCI, Q1, Top #1 SCI journal in Transportation Science & Technology) (highly cited).

17. (JNCA) Huu-Khoi Bui^, Ying-Dar Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, Po-Ching Lin, Van-Linh Nguyen, and Yuan-Cheng Lai, "CREME: A toolchain of automatic dataset collection for machine learning in intrusion detection", Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Vol. 193, 2021 (SCI, Q1, in Computer Science). (highly cited).

18. (COMST) Van-Linh Nguyen, Po-Ching Lin, Bo-Chao Cheng, Ren-Hung Hwang, Ying-Dar Lin "Security and privacy for 6G: A survey on prospective technologies and challenges", IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, Vol. 23, No. 6, 2021 (SCI, Q1, the highest impact factor journal in all IEEE publications). (highly cited).

19.  (TVT) Van-Linh Nguyen, Po-Ching Lin, and Ren-Hung Hwang, "Enhancing Misbehavior Detection in 5G Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications", IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 69, No. 9, 9417-9430, 2020, (SCI, Q1, Top #2 journal in Transportation Science & Technology) (highly cited).

20. (COMML) Van-Linh Nguyen, Po-Ching Lin, and Ren-Hung Hwang, “Multi-array relative positioning for verifying the truthfulness of V2X messages”, IEEE Communications Letters, Vol. 23, No. 10, pp. 1704-1707, 2019, (SCI, Q1) 

21. (NETWORK) Van-Linh Nguyen, Po-Ching Lin, and Ren-Hung Hwang, "MECPASS: Distributed Denial of Service Defense Architecture for Mobile Networks", IEEE Network, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 118-124, 2018, (SCI, Q1, Top #3 journal in Telecommunications)

Selected conference papers (29/42) ^ denotes my students (co-advised students, TEEP/IIPP interns) 

1. [IEEE ICIP' 26] Nicolas To Van Trang^, Van-Linh Nguyen "Loss Functions Matter: A Systematic Study of Class Imbalance in Flood Forecasting", 2026 IEEE IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Tampere, Finland.

2. [IEEE ICBC' 26] Cat Khanh Tran^, Van-Linh Nguyen "Dynamic Fee Control under Competitive Routing in Concentrated-Liquidity Automated Market Makers", 2026 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), Brisbane, Australia (acceptance rate ~18%).

3. [IEEE ICBC' 26] Syed Imran Hussain Shah^, Yared Abera Ergu^, and Po-Ching Lin, Van-Linh Nguyen "T-MGA: Temporal GNNs with Global Attention for Smart Contract Vulnerability Detection", 2026 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC), Brisbane, Australia (acceptance rate ~18%).

4. [IEEE ICC' 26] Tien-Dung Nguyen^, Ngoc-Son Duong^, Jen-Yi Pan, Van-Linh Nguyen, ”DualSense: WiFi Sensing and Segmentation of Signal Scatterers For Object Reconstruction“, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Communications Conference, Glasgow, UK.

5. [IEEE ICC' 26] Vu-Hai Nguyen^, Yared Ergu^, Ren-Hung Hwang, Trung Q. Duong, Van-Linh Nguyen, ”Efficient Quantum Soft Actor-Critic Model for Dynamic Spectrum Sharing in Intelligent O-RAN“, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Communications Conference, Glasgow, UK.

6. [IEEE ICC' 26] Tien-Dung Nguyen^, Van-Linh Nguyen, ”Hybrid Transformer-based Learning For Enhancing Malware Detection in Cloud-Based Services“, 2026 IEEE International Conference on Communications Conference, Glasgow, UK.

7. [IEEE WCNC' 26] Lan-Huong Nguyen^, Van-Linh Nguyen, Ren-Hung Hwang, ”HQ-CNN: Hybrid Quantum-CNN for Precise Radio-Based Indoor Tracking in mmWave Networks “, 2026 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

8. [IEEE WCNC' 26] Yared Ergu^, Po-Ching Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, Van-Linh Nguyen, ”Q-Sentinel: Towards Adversarial Robustness for Quantum-Classical xApps in Intelligent O-RAN “, 2026 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

9. [IEEE GLOBECOM' 25] Van-Tam Hoang^, Van-Linh Nguyen, Lan-Huong Nguyen, Ren-Hung Hwang, “SECO: Secure Semantic Communications via Robust Adversarial Knowledge Learning”, IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2025), Taipei, Taiwan.

10. [IEEE GLOBECOM' 25] Lan-Huong Nguyen, Yu-Hao Liu^, Ren-Hung Hwang, Van-Linh Nguyen, “REAP: Real-time Threat Detection and Trajectory Planning For Multiple UAVs in Adverse Areas”, IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2025), Taipei, Taiwan.

11.  [IEEE ICIP' 25] Dinh Dai Quan Tran^, T.-H. Nguyen, V. Q.  Dinh, R.-H. Hwang, Van-Linh Nguyen, "Saw-MonoDETR: Shape-aware Adaptive Weighted Transformer for Monocular 3D Object Detection", 2025 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (IEEE ICIP 2025), Alaska, USA.

12. [IEEE ICMLCN' 25] Yared Abera Ergu^, Van-Linh Nguyen, Po-Ching Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, "Q-Poison: Quantum Adversarial Attacks Against QML-Driven Interference Classification in O-RAN",  IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning for Communication and Networking (IEEE ICMLCN 2025), Barcelona, Spain.

13. [IEEE ICC' 25] Nguyen Pham Thai Quang^, Khanh Tran Cat^, Yared Abera Ergu^, Van-Linh Nguyen, "Q-Drop: Optimizing Quantum Orthogonal Networks with Statistic Pruning and Dynamic Dropout", IEEE International Conference on Communications Conference (IEEE ICC 2025), Montreal, Canada.

14. [IEEE GLOBECOM' 24] Wen-Pin Liu^, Xuan-Zhang Hu^, Van-Linh Nguyen, Lan-Huong Nguyen, Ren-Hung Hwang, ""Efficient Path Planning for Emergency Medical Services With Stable Connectivity Demands"", IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2024), South Africa.

15. [IEEE VTC' 24 Fall] Lan-Huong Nguyen, Van-Linh Nguyen, Ren-Hung Hwang, "Incremental Learning for Enhancing Misbehavior Detection in Multi-Access Vehicular Networks ",  2024 IEEE 100th Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC Fall 2024), Washington DC, USA.

16. [IEEE IV' 24] Van-Linh Nguyen, Lan-Huong Nguyen, Hao-En Ting^, "FMAD: Fusion-based Multimodal Abnormal Detection Scheme for Vehicular Communications ",  2024 IEEE 35th Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IEEE IV 2024), Korea.

17. [IEEE VTC' 24 Spring] Akkapatch Thouchamongkol^, Hong-Yi Chen^, Yan-Hao Wang^, Quan Tran Dinh Dai^, Van-Linh Nguyen, "DragFly: Joint Threat Object Detection And UAV Trajectory Planning in Hostile Environments", 2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC Spring 2024), Singapore.

18. [IEEE VTC' 24 Spring] Van-Linh Nguyen, Lan-Huong Nguyen, Wen-Pin Liu^, Hao-En Ting^, and Xuan-Zhang Hu^ "TRIMO: An Efficient Multimodal Misbehavior Detection Model in Vehicular Networks ",  2024 IEEE 99th Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC Spring 2024), Singapore.

19. [IEEE ICC' 24] Yared Abera Ergu^, Van-Linh Nguyen, Ren-Hung Hwang, Ying-Dar Lin, Chuan-Yu Cho, and Hui-Kuo Yang,"Unmasking Vulnerabilities: Adversarial Attacks against DRL-based Resource Allocation in O-RAN",  IEEE International Conference on Communications Conference (IEEE ICC 2024), Denver, CO, USA.

20. [IEEE ICC' 24] Van-Linh Nguyen, Lan-Huong Nguyen, Yu-Hao Liu^, "DRNet: Efficient Few-Shot Learning Model for Regenerating Restricted-Access Area Maps",  IEEE International Conference on Communications Conference (IEEE ICC 2024), Denver, CO, USA.

21. [IEEE MILCOM' 23] Shu-Ying Chang^, Hung-Wen Liang^, Van-Linh Nguyen, Po-Ching Lin, "Seeing Without Alarming Thief: Passive WiFi Sensing for Indoor Security Monitoring", IEEE 41st Military Communications Conference (IEEE MILCOM 2023), Boston, MA, USA.

22. [IEEE GLOBECOM' 23] Yan-Hao Wang^, Hao-Ping Tsai^, Hong-Yi Chen^, Van-Linh Nguyen, Ren-Hung Hwang, "Efficient AutoDL for Generating Denial-of-Service Defense Models in the Internet of Things", IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2023), Malaysia.

23. [IEEE GLOBECOM' 23] Harry Wong Hung-Jun^, Yu-Chia Lin^, Van-Linh Nguyen, "Efficient Restricted-Access Building Drawing Regeneration from Passive Radio Localization", IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2023), Malaysia.

24. [IEEE ICC' 23] Van-Linh Nguyen, Lan-Huong Nguyen^, Po-Ching Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, "Deep Learning-based Localization and Outlier Removal Integration Model for Indoor Surveillance",  IEEE International Conference on Communications Conference (IEEE ICC 2023), Rome, Italy.

25. [IEEE ICC' 23] Van-Linh Nguyen, Harry Wong Hung-Jun^, Yu-Chia Lin^, Ren-Hung Hwang, "Efficient Spatial-Temporal Angle-Delay Analysis Scheme for Massive MIMO Indoor Tracking",  IEEE International Conference on Communications Conference (IEEE ICC 2023), Rome, Italy.

26. [IEEE CCNC' 23] Van-Linh Nguyen, Lan-Huong Nguyen^, Ren-Hung Hwang, Jian-Jhih Kuo, Po-Ching Lin, "Efficient Aerial Relaying Station Path Planning for Emergency Event-based Communications", IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (IEEE CCNC 2023), Las Vegas, USA.

27. [IEEE ICC' 22] Chia-Che Tsai^, Chia-Yiu Lin^, Van-Linh Nguyen, and Ren-Hung Hwang (2022, May) “Efficient traffic coordination for resolving temporary bottlenecks on the multi-lane freeways,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2022), Seoul, South Korea.

28. [IEEE VTC' 21 Fall]Lan-Huong Nguyen^, Ren-Hung Hwang, Po-Ching Lin, Van-Linh Nguyen, JianJhih Kuo (2021, Sep), "Robust Positioning-based Verification Scheme for Enhancing Reliability of Vehicle Platoon Control", The 2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2021-Fall).

29. [IEEE VTC' 21 Fall] Ren-Hung Hwang, Van-Linh Nguyen, Chia-Che Tsai^, and Po-Ching Lin (2021, Sep), "Platoon-based Vehicle Coordination Scheme for Resolving Sudden Traffic Jam in the IoV Era", The 2021 IEEE 94th Vehicular Technology Conference (IEEE VTC2021-Fall).