RECENT REFEREED PUBLICATIONS

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Year of 2008

· An Efficient Protocol for Private and Accurate Mining of Support Counts.

Fan Wu, Jiqiang Liu and Sheng Zhong.

To appear in Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume ??, Number ??, Pages ???-???, 2008.

· Analysis of Kim-Jeon-Yoo Password Authentication Schemes.

Jiqiang Liu and Sheng Zhong.

To appear in Cryptologia, Volume ??, Number ??, Pages ???-???, 2008.

• Incentive-Compatible Opportunistic Routing for Wireless Networks.

Fan Wu, Tingting Chen, Sheng Zhong, Li Erran Li, and Yang Richard Yang.

To appear in MOBICOM 2008, Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual International Conference Mobile Computing and Networking (regular paper; acceptance rate: 11.7%), Pages ???-???.

• Zero-Knowledge Proof of Knowing \sqrt{A} or \sqrt{B}

Sheng Zhong.

To appear in Bulletin of Belgian Mathematical Society-Simon Stevin, Volume ??, Number ??, Pages ???-???, 2008.

• Body Sensor Network Security: AnIdentity-Based Cryptography Approach.

Chiu Tan, Haodong Wang, Sheng Zhong, and Qun Li.

In WiSec 2008, Proceedings of the First ACM Conference on Wireless Network Security (short paper, full+short paper acceptance rate: 27%), Pages 148-153.

• Efficient, Anonymous, and Authenticated Conference Key Setup in Cellular Wireless Networks.

Sheng Zhong.

To appear in Computers and Electrical Engineering, Volume ??, Number ??, Pages ???-???, 2008.

• Towards a Theory of Robust Localization against Malicious Beacon Nodes.

Sheng Zhong, Murtuza Jadliwala, Shambhu Upadhyaya, and Chunming Qiao.

In INFOCOM 2008, Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (acceptance ratio: 21%), Pages 1391-1399.

• Globally Optimal Channel Assignment for Non-cooperative Wireless Networks.

Fan Wu, Sheng Zhong, and Chunming Qiao.

In INFOCOM 2008, Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (acceptance ratio: 21%), Pages 1543-1551.

• Guided Perturbation: Towards Private and Accurate Mining.

Sheng Zhong and Zhiqiang Yang.

VLDB Journal, Volume 17, Number 5, Pages 1165-1177, 2008.

• An Efficient Approximation Algorithm for Counting n-Cycles in a Graph.

Sheng Zhong.

Applied Mathematics and Computation, Volume 196, Number 1, Pages 479-482, 2008.

Year of 2007

• Two Methods for Privacy Preserving Data Mining with Malicious Participants.

Divyesh Shah and Sheng Zhong.

Information Sciences, Volume 177, Number 23, Pages 5468-5483, 2007.

• Towards a Theory of Data Entanglement.

James Aspnes, Joan Feigenbaum, Aleksandr Yampolskiy, and Sheng Zhong.

Theoretical Computer Science, Volume 389, Number 1-2, Pages 26-34, 2007.

• Cost-effective Traffic Assignment for Multipath Routing in Selfish Networks.

Fan Wu and Sheng Zhong, and Jiqiang Liu.

In GLOBECOM 2007, Proceedings of the Fiftieth Aunnual IEEE Telecommunications Conference, Pages ???-???.

• An attack on the Zhou-Fan-Li authenticated multiple-key agreement protocol.

Sheng Zhong.

Cryptologia, Volume 31, Number 4, Pages 324-325, 2007.

• On Designing Collusion-resistant Routing Schemes for Non-cooperative Wireless Ad Hoc Networks.

Sheng Zhong and Fan Wu.

In MOBICOM 2007, Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (regular paper; acceptance ratio: 11.2%), Pages 278-289.

• Understanding and Utilizing the Hierarchy of Abnormal BGP Events.

Dejing Dou, Jun Li, Han Qin, Shiwoong Kim, and Sheng Zhong.

In SDM 2007, Proceedings of the Seventh SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (short paper; full+short paper acceptance ratio: 25%), Pages 467-472.

• Privacy-Preserving Algorithms for Distributed Mining of Frequent Itemsets.

Sheng Zhong.

Information Sciences, Volume 177, Number 2, Pages 490-503, 2007.

• On Designing Incentive-Compatible Routing and Forwarding Protocols in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks ― An Integrated Approach Using Game Theoretical and Cryptographic Techniques.

Sheng Zhong, Li Erran Li, Yanbin Grace Liu, and Yang Richard Yang.

ACM Wireless Network (WINET) journal, Volume 13, Number 6, Pages 799-816, 2007.

• An Efficient Algorithm for Topology Discovery of a Blackbox Communication Network.

Sheng Zhong.

Applied Mathematics and Computation, Volume 186, Number 1, Pages 506-508, 2007.

Year of 2006

• Privacy-Preserving Queries on Encrypted Data.

Zhiqiang Yang, Sheng Zhong, and Rebecca N. Wright.

In ESORICS 2006, Proceedings of the 11th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (acceptance ratio: 20%), Pages 479-495.

• Verifiable Distributed Oblivious Transfer and Mobile Agent Security.

Sheng Zhong and Yang Richard Yang.

ACM Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) journal, Special Issue on Foundations of Mobile Computing (acceptance ratio: 19%), Volume 11, Number 2, Pages 201-210, 2006.

• Breaking a Remote User Authentication Scheme for Multi-server Architecture.

Xiang Cao and Sheng Zhong.

IEEE Communications Letters, Volume 10, Number 8, 580-581, 2006.

• An Efficient and Secure Cryptosystem for Encrypting Long Messages.

Sheng Zhong.

Fundamenta Informaticae, Volume 71, Number 4, Pages 493-497, 2006.

Year of 2005

• Distributed Data Mining Protocols for Privacy: A Review of Some Recent Results.

Rebecca N. Wright, Zhiqiang Yang, and Sheng Zhong.

In MADNES 2005, Proceedings of the Secure Mobile Ad-hoc Networks and Sensors Workshop, Pages 67-79.

• On Designing Incentive-Compatible Routing and Forwarding Protocols in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks ― An Integrated Approach Using Game Theoretical and Cryptographic Techniques.

Sheng Zhong, Li Erran Li, Yanbin Grace Liu, and Yang Richard Yang.

In MOBICOM 2005, Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (acceptance ratio: 10.3%), Pages 117-131.

We are invited to submit this paper, as one of the selected papers from MOBICOM 2005, to the ACM Wireless Network (WINET) journal.

• Anonymity-Preserving Data Collection. (NOTE: In the KDD version of this paper, the proof of Theorem 3 contained some bugs. These bugs are fixed in the electronic version linked here.)

Zhiqiang Yang, Sheng Zhong, and Rebecca N. Wright.

In KDD 2005, Proceedings of the Eleventh ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (full paper, acceptance ratio: 12%), Pages 334-343.

• Privacy-Enhancing k-Anonymization of Customer Data. (NOTE: In the PODS version of this paper, the proof of Lemma 5 contained some bugs. These bugs are fixed in the electronic version linked here.)

Sheng Zhong, Zhiqiang Yang, and Rebecca N. Wright.

In PODS 2005, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Databases (acceptance ratio: 20.4%), Pages 139-147.

• Privacy-Preserving Classification without Loss of Accuracy.

Zhiqiang Yang, Sheng Zhong, and Rebecca N. Wright.

In SDM 2005, Proceedings of the Fifth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (full paper, acceptance ratio: 18.3%), Pages 92-102.

Year of 2004

• Cooperation-Optimal Protocols: A New Solution Framework for Designing Incentive-Compatible Routing and Forwarding Protocols in Wireless Ad-Hoc Networks.

Sheng Zhong, Li Erran Li, Yanbin Grace Liu, and Yang Richard Yang.

(Peer-Reviewed) Poster Session of MOBICOM 2004, the Tenth Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking.

• Towards a Theory of Data Entanglement.

James Aspnes, Joan Feigenbaum, Aleksandr Yampolskiy, and Sheng Zhong.

In ESORICS 2004, Proceedings of the Ninth European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (acceptance ratio: 17%).

Year of 2003

• Attacks on the (Enhanced) Yang-Shieh Authentication.

Ke-Fei Chen and Sheng Zhong.

Computers & Security (the official journal of IFIP TC11), Vol. 22, No. 8, 2003.

• Verifiable Distributed Oblivious Transfer and Mobile Agent Security.

Sheng Zhong and Yang Richard Yang.

In Proceedings of DialM-POMC Joint Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing 2003 (acceptance ratio: 29.6%).

• A Comment on the Chen-Chung Scheme for Hierarchical Access Control.

Sheng Zhong and Tianwen Lin.

Computers & Security (the official journal of IFIP TC11), Vol. 22, No. 5, 2003.

• Sprite: A Simple, Cheat-Proof, Credit-Based System for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks.

Sheng Zhong, Jiang Chen, and Yang Richard Yang.

In INFOCOM 2003, Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Joint Conference of Computer and Communications Societies (acceptance ratio: 20.8%).

Year of 2002

• A Practical Key Management Scheme for Access Control in a User Hierarchy.

Sheng Zhong.

Computers & Security (the official journal of IFIP TC11), Vol. 21, No. 8, 2002.

• Optimistic Mixing for Exit-Polls.

Philippe Golle, Sheng Zhong, Dan Boneh, Markus Jakobsson, and Ari Juels.

In ASIACRYPT 2002, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security (acceptance ratio: 19.7%).