Conference

State Machine Mutation-based Testing Framework for Wireless Communication Protocols

The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024
Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Tianwei Wu, Kai Tu, Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Ridwanul Hasan Tanvir, Yilu Publications Dong, Omar Chowdhury, and Syed Rafiul Hussain

Conference Formal Verification Network Security Software Security

Strong Privacy-Preserving Universally Composable AKA Protocol with Seamless Handover Support for Mobile Virtual Network Operator

The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2024
Rabiah Alnashwan, Yang Yang, Yilu Dong, Prosanta Gope, Behzad Abdolmaleki, and Syed Rafiul Hussain

Conference Network Security

ORANalyst: Systematic Testing Framework for Open RAN Implementations

USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2024
Tianchang Yang, Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Ali Ranjbar, Gang Tan, and Syed Rafiul Hussain

Conference Network Security Software Security

Athena: Analyzing and Quantifying Side Channels of Transport Layer Protocols

USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2024
Feiyang Yu, Quan Zhou, Syed Rafiul Hussain, and Danfeng Zhang

Conference Network Security Software Security

Logic Gone Astray: A Security Analysis Framework for the Control Plane Protocols of 5G Basebands

USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2024
Kai Tu, Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Yilu Dong, Weixuan Wang, Tianwei Wu, and Syed Rafiul Hussain

Conference Distinguished Paper Award Honorable Mention Network Security Software Security

In Wallet We Trust: Bypassing the Digital Wallets Payment Security for Free Shopping

USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2024
Raja Hasnain Anwar, Syed Rafiul Hussain, and Muhammad Taqi Raza

Conference Systems Security

Hermes: Unlocking Security Analysis of Cellular Network Protocols by Synthesizing Finite State Machines from Natural Language Specifications

USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security), 2024
Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Sarkar Snigdha Sarathi Das, Syed Md Mukit Rashid, Ali Ranjbar, Kai Tu, Tianwei Wu, Zhezheng Song, Weixuan Wang, Mujtahid Al-Islam Akon, Rui Zhang, and Syed Rafiul Hussain

Conference Machine Learning Network Security NLP

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Formal Analysis of Access Control Mechanism of 5G Core Network

The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2023
Mujtahid Akon, Tianchang Yang, Yilu Dong, and Syed Rafiul Hussain

Conference Network Security Systems Security

Adaptive Frequency Hopping for 5G New Radio mMTC Security

The 24th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2023
Wai Ming Chan, Hyuck M. Kwon, R ́emi A. Chou, David J. Love, Sonia Fahmy, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Sang Wu Kim, Chris Vander Valk, Christopher G. Brinton, Vuk Marojevic, Khanh D. Pham, and Taejoon Kim

Conference Network Security

BLEDiff: Scalable and Property-Agnostic Noncompliance Checking for BLE Implementations

IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (IEEE S&P), 2023
Imtiaz Karim, Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Syed Rafiul Hussain, and Elisa Bertino

Conference IoT Security Network Security

Building a Privacy-Preserving Smart Camera System

Proceedings on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETS), 2022.
Yohan Beugin, Quinn Burke, Blaine Hoak, Ryan Sheatsley, Eric Pauley, Gang Tan, Syed Rafiul Hussain, and Patrick McDaniel

Conference IoT Security

Noncompliance as Deviant Behavior: An Automated Black-box Noncompliance Checker for 4G LTE Cellular Devices

The ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2021
Syed Rafiul Hussain*, Imtiaz Karim*, Abdullah Al Ishtiaq, Omar Chowdhury, and Elisa Bertino (*=equal contribution)

Conference Network Security

ProChecker: An Automated Security and Privacy Analysis Framework for 4G LTE Protocol Implementations

The 41st IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2021.
Imtiaz Karim, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Elisa Bertino

Conference Formal Verification Network Security Nominated for the Best Paper Award

Look Before You Leap: Secure Connection Bootstrapping for 5G Networks to Defend Against Fake Base-Stations

The 16th ACM ASIA Conference on Computer and Communications Security (ASIACCS), 2021.
Ankush Singla, Rouzbeh Behnia, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Attila Yavuz , and Elisa Bertino

Conference Network Security

PHOENIX: Device-Centric Cellular Network Protocol Monitoring using Runtime Verification

The Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2021.
Mitziu Echeverria, Zeeshan Ahmed , Bincheng Wang , M. Fareed Arif , Syed Rafiul Hussain, Omar Chowdhury

Conference Formal Verification Network Security

PatrIoT: Policy Assisted Resilient Programmable IoT System

20th International Conference on Runtime Verification (RV), 2020
Moosa Yahyazadeh, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Endadul Hoque, and Omar Chowdhury

Conference IoT Security

Analyzing the Attack Landscape of Zigbee-enabled IoT System sand Reinstating Users’ Privacy

13th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2020
Weicheng Wang, Fabrizio Cicala, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Elisa Bertino, and Ninghui Li

Conference IoT Security Network Security

5G Security and Privacy: A Research Roadmap

Computing Community Consortium (CCC), 2020
Elisa Bertino, Syed Rafiul Hussain, and Omar Chowdhury

Conference White Papers Network Security

Protecting the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols against Security and Privacy Attacks

The 20th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS), 2020
Ankush Singla, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Omar Chowdhury, Ninghui Li, and Elisa Bertino

Conference Network Security

Opening Pandora’s Box through ATFuzzer: Dynamic Analysis of AT Interface for Android Smartphones

The 35th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC), 2019
Imtiaz Karim, Fabrizio Cicala, Syed Rafiul Hussain, Omar Chowdhury, and Elisa Bertino

Conference Distinguished Paper Award Systems Security

5GReasoner: A Property-Directed Security and Privacy Analysis Framework for 5G Cellular Network Protocol

The 26th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2019
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Mitziu Echeverria, Imtiaz Karim, Omar Chowdhury, and Elisa Bertino

Conference Formal Verification Network Security

Insecure Connection Bootstrapping in Cellular Networks: The Root of All Evil

The 12th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec), 2019
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Mitziu Echeverria, Ankush Singla, Omar Chowdhury, and Elisa Bertino

Conference Network Security

Privacy Attacks to the 4G and 5G Cellular Paging Protocols Using Side Channel Information

The 26th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2019.
Best Paper Award Honorable Mention
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Mitziu Echeverria, Omar Chowdhury, Ninghui Li, and Elisa Bertino

Conference Distinguished Paper Award Honorable Mention

Securing the Insecure Link of Internet-of-Things Using Next-Generation Smart Gateways

The 5th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems, (DCOSS), 2019
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Shahriar Nirjon, and Elisa Bertino

Conference IoT Security Systems Security

LTEInspector: A Systematic Approach for Adversarial Testing of 4G LTE

The 25th Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), 2018
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Omar Chowdhury, Shagufta Mehnaz, and Elisa Bertino

Conference Formal Verification Network Security Systems Security

SeamBlue: Seamless Bluetooth Low Energy Connection Migration for Unmodified IoT Devices

ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Wireless Systems and Networks (EWSN), 2017
Best Paper Award Nomination
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Shagufta Mehnaz, Shahriar Nirjon, and Elisa Bertino,

Conference Nominated for the Best Paper Award

DetAnom: Detecting Anomalous Database Transaction by Insiders

Fifth ACM Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy (CODASPY), 2015
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Asmaa Sallam, and Elisa Bertino

Conference Systems Security

Secure Data Provenance Compression Using Arithmetic Coding in Wireless Sensor Networks

The 33rd IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC), 2014
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Changda Wang, Salmin Sultana, and Elisa Bertino

Conference Network Security

Real-time Traffic Congestion Management and Deadlock Avoidance for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks

The 10th International Conference on High-Capacity Optical Networks and Emerging/Enabling Technology (HONET), 2013.
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Ala Odeh, Amrut Shivakumar, Shalini Chauhan, and Khaled Harfoush

Conference Network Security

RBP: Reliable Broadcasting Protocol in Large Scale Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

The 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA), 2010.
Subrata Saha, Syed Rafiul Hussain and Ashikur Rahman,

Conference Network Security

An Efficient and Scalable Address Autoconfiguration in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

The 8th International Conference on Ad-Hoc, Mobile and Wireless Networks (ADHOC-NOW), 2009
Syed Rafiul Hussain, Subrata Saha and Ashikur Rahman,

Conference Network Security

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