Selected Publications

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

Selected journal papers 

1. (IEEE TMC)  Yared Abera Ergu^, Po-Ching Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, and Trung Q. Duong, Van-Linh Nguyen* "Explainable Quantum Learning for Robust Interference Classification in Next-Gen O-RAN", accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, Aug 2026.  

2. (IEEE TNSM)  Van-Linh Nguyen*, Yared Abera Ergu^, "Adversarial Attacks on Hybrid Quantum-Classical Interference Classifier in Intelligent O-RAN", accepted to appear in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, Aug 2026.  

3. (PHYCOM) Van-Tam Hoang^, Van-Tao Nguyen, Van-Linh Nguyen*,"RALSKI: Robust Adversarial Learning for Securing Knowledge Interpretation in Semantic Wireless Communications", Physical Communication, June 2026.  

4. (ADHOC) 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.  

5. (IEEE 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.

6. (IEEE 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.

7. (IEEE 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.

8. (IEEE 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 (highly cited).

9. (IEEE 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.

10. (IEEE 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, Vol 11, No 3, 2025.

11. (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).

12. (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.

13. (IEEE 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 (highly cited).

14. (IEEE 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.

15. (IEEE 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.

16. (IEEE 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 (highly cited).

17. (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 (highly cited)

18. (IEEE 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.

19. (IEEE 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 (highly cited).

20. (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 (highly cited).

21. (IEEE 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 (highly cited).

22.  (IEEE 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 (highly cited).

23. (IEEE 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.

24. (IEEE 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.

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

1. [IEEE GLOBECOM' 26] Vu Long Thai^, Po-Ching Lin, Ren-Hung Hwang, Le Bao Long,Van-Linh Nguyen "Efficient Symbol-Level Flipping Adversarial Attack for Digital Semantic Communication Systems", IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2026), Macau, China.

2. [IEEE GLOBECOM' 26] Cat Khanh Tran^, Duc Van Nguyen^,Van-Linh Nguyen "Parameter-Efficient Quantum Graph Attention for Secure AI-driven Blockchain Networks", IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2026), Macau, China.

3. [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.

4. [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%, short paper).

5. [IEEE ICBC' 26] Syed I. H. 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%, full paper).

6. [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.

7. [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.

8. [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.

9. [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.

10. [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.

11. [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.

12. [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.

13.  [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.

14. [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.

15. [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.

16. [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.

17. [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.

18. [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.

19. [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.

20. [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.

21. [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.

22. [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.

23. [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.

24. [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.

25. [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.

26. [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.

27. [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.

28. [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.

29. [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.

30. [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).

31. [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).