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2011

Detecting Kernel-Level Rootkits using Data Structure Invariants. A. Baliga, V. Ganapathy and L. Iftode. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDCS), 2011.
An Approach to Evaluating Usability of VANET Applications. C. Dobre, C. Fratila and L. Iftode. First IEEE Workshop on Design, Modeling and Evaluation of Cyber Physical Systems (CyPhy'11), July 2011.
Security versus Energy Tradeoffs in Host-based Mobile Malware Detection. J. Bickford, H. A. Lagar-Cavilla, A. Varshavsky, V. Ganapathy, and L. Iftode. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (Mobisys), June/July 2011.
A Policy Enforcing Mechanisms for Trusted Ad Hoc Network. G. Xu, C. Borcea and L. Iftode. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), Vol 8 (3), May/June 2011, pp 321-336.
Finding Hierarchy in Directed Online Social Networks. M. Gupte, P. Shankar, J. Li, S. Muthukrishnan and L. Iftode. To appear in the Proceedings of the 20th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), March 2011.
Social Farm: Making Social Networks Work for Profit . V. Pathak, S. Smaldone and L. Iftode. To appear in the Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Social Media Engagement (SoME), March 28-29, 2011. In conjunction with WWW'11.
The Cyber-Physical Bike: A Step Towards Safer Green Transportation. S. Smaldone, C. Tonde, V. Ananthanarayanan, A. Elgammal and L. Iftode. Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), March 2011.

2010

Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth: Transient PCs Everywhere. M. Satyanarayanan, S. Smaldone, B. Gilbert, J. Harkes and L. Iftode. International Workshop on Mobile Computing and Clouds (MobiCloud 2010), Santa Clara, CA, October 2010.
Improving NFA-Based Signature Matching using Ordered Binary Decision Diagrams. Liu Yang, Rezwana Karim, Vinod Ganapathy, and Randy Smith. To appear in the 13th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), Ottawa, Canada, September 2010.
The Case for JavaScript Transactions . Mohan Dhawan, Chung-chieh Shan, and Vinod Ganapathy. ACM SIGPLAN 5th Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS), Toronto, Canada, June 2010.
Detecting Kernel-Level Rootkits using Data Structure Invariants. A. Baliga, V. Ganapathy and L. Iftode. To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDCS), 2010.
Ad-hoc Voice-based Group Communication. L. Han, S. Smaldone, P. Shankar, J. Boyce and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 8th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Mannheim, Germany, March 29 - April 2, 2010.
Rootkits on Smart Phones: Attacks, Implications and Opportunities. J. Bickford, R. O'Hare, A. Baliga, V. Ganapathy and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile 2010), Annapolis, MD, February 22-23, 2010.
A Policy Enforcing Mechanisms for Trusted Ad Hoc Network. G. Xu, C. Borcea and L. Iftode. To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2010.

2009

News Posting by Strategic Users in a Social Network (short paper). M. Gupte, M.T. Hajiaghayi, L. Han, L. Iftode, P. Shankar and R. Ursu. In the Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Internet and Network Economics (WINE'09), Rome, Italy, Dec 2009.
Analyzing Information Flow in JavaScript-based Browser Extensions . Mohan Dhawan and Vinod Ganapathy. In the Proceedings of the 25th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'09), Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2009.
Protecting Commodity Operating System Kernels from Vulnerable Device Drivers . Shakeel Butt, Vinod Ganapathy, Michael Swift and Chih-Cheng Chang. In the Proceedings of the 25th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC'09), Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2009.
Detecting Identity Spoofs in 802.11e Wireless Networks . Gayathri Chandrashekaran, John Austen Francisco, Vinod Ganapathy, Marco Gruteser, Wade Trappe. To appear in the Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2009), Honolulu, Hawaii, November 30-December 4, 2009.
Building Robust Authentication Systems With Activity-Based Personal Questions. A. Babic, H. Xiong, D. Yao and L. Iftode. To appear in the Proceedings of the ACM Workshop on Assurable and Usable Security Configuration (co-located with CCS), Chicago, Illinois, November 2009.
Privacy-Aware Identity Management for Client-side Mashup Applications . Saman Zarandioon, Danfeng Yao, and Vinod Ganapathy. To appear in the Proceedings of the 5th ACM Workshop on Digital Identity Management (DIM '09, co-located with CCS), Chicago, Illinois, November 2009.
Identifying Systemic Threats to Kernel Data: Attacks and Defense Techniques. A. Baliga, P. Kamat, V. Ganapathy and L. Iftode. To appear in the Advanced Operating Systems and Kernel Applications, Y. Wiseman and S. Jiang (Eds), Information Science Reference, September 2009.
Privately Querying Location-based Services with SybilQuery . P Shankar, V. Ganapathy and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2009), Orlando, September 2009.
A Policy Enforcing Mechanisms for Trusted Ad Hoc Network . G. Xu, C. Borcea and L. Iftode. To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (TDSC), 2009.
Leveraging Smart Phones to Reduce Mobility Footprints . S. Smaldone, B. Gilbert, N. Bila, L. Iftode, E. Lara and M. Satyanarayanan. Proceedings of the 7th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys 2009), Krakow, Poland, June 22-25, 2009.
Working Set-Based Access Control for Network File Systems . S. Smaldone, V. Ganapathy and L. Iftode. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Access Control Models and Technologies (SACMAT), Stresa, Italy, June 3-5, 2009.
Evaluating Attack Amplification in Online Social Networks . Blase E. Ur and Vinod Ganapathy. In the Proceedings of the Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Workshop (W2SP'09), Oakland, California, May 2009.
Simulation of VANET Applications. V. Cristea, V. Gradinescu, C. Gorgorin, R. Diaconescu and L. Iftode. In Automotive Informatics and Communicative Systems, H. Guo (ed.), Information Science Reference, April 2009.
Evaluating the Security Risks of Freedom on Social Networking Websites Blase E. Ur, Crystal Maung and Vinod Ganapathy. Rutgers University, Department of Computer Science Technical Report 646 - Piscataway, New Jersey, January 2009.

2008

Automatic Inference and Enforcement of Kernel Data Structure Invariants (Awarded Best Student Paper). Arati Baliga, Vinod Ganapathy, and Liviu Iftode. 24th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference. Anaheim, California, December 2008.
Automated Defense from Rootkit Attacks A. Baliga, L. Iftode and X. Chen. In Computers and Security, Elsevier, Volume 27, Issues 7-8, December 2008, pp. 323-334.
Working Set-Based Access Control for Network File Systems Stephen Smaldone, Vinod Ganapathy and Liviu Iftode. Rutgers University, Department of Computer Science Technical Report 643 - Piscataway, New Jersey, November 2008.
CARS: Context Aware Rate Selection for Vehicular NetworksPravin Shankar, Tamer Nadeem, Justinian Rosca, Liviu Iftode. Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 2008), October 2008.
Enforcing Authorization Policies using Transactional Memory Introspection . Arnar Birgisson, Mohan Dhawan, Ulfar Erlingsson, Vinod Ganapathy, and Liviu Iftode. 15th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. Alexandria, Virginia, October 2008.
Securing Location Aware Services Over VANET Using Geographical Secure Path Routing . V. Pathak, D. Yao, and L. Iftode. Proceedings of the International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety - ICVES, September 2008.
Active Highways (Position Paper). Liviu Iftode, Stephen Smaldone, Mario Gerla and James Misener. Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Personal, Indoor, and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), Intelligent Transportation Special Session, September 2008.
Improving Email Trustworthiness through Social-Group Key Authentication. V. Pathak, D. Yao, and L. Iftode. Fifth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam - CEAS, August 2008.
Smart Phones as Self-Cleaning Portable Caches for Infrastructure-Based Mobile Computing. Stephen Smaldone, Benjamin Gilbert, Matt Toups, Liviu Iftode, and Mahadev Satyanarayanan. Carnegie Mellon University Technical Report, CMU-CS-08-140, July 2008.
Mobile Virtual Sensors: A Scalable Programming and Execution Framework for Smart Surveillance (Position Paper R. Kumar, J. Shin, L. Iftode and U. Ramachandran. To appear in the Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors (Hot EmNets 2008), June 2008.
RoadSpeak: Enabling Voice Chat on Roadways using Vehicular Social Networks Stephen Smaldone, Lu Han, Pravin Shankar and Liviu Iftode.Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Social Network Systems (SocialNets'08, in conjunction with EuroSys'08), April 1, 2008.
Context-aware Battery Management for Mobile Phones N. Ravi, J. Scott and L. Iftode. To appear in the Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), March 2008.

2007

Lane Reservation for Highways (Position Paper). N Ravi, S.Smaldone, L. Iftode and M. Gerla. Proceedings of the 10th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), September 2007.
Trusted Application-Centric Ad-Hoc Networks. G Xu, C. Borcea and L. Iftode. Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-Hoc andSensor Systems (MASS'07), October 2007.
Filewall: A Firewall for Network File Systems S. Smaldone, A. Bohra and L. Iftode. To appear in the Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Symposium on Dependable,Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC'07), September 2007.
Location-aware Services over Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks using Car-to-Car CommunicationM. Dikaiakos, A. Florides, T. Nadeem and L. Iftode. IEEEJournal on Selected Areas in Communications, Vol 15 No. 8, October 2007.
FRAC: Implementing Role-Based Access Control for Network File Systems . A. Bohra, S. Smaldone and L. Iftode. To appear in the Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'07), Baltimore, July 2007.
Improving Network Processing Concurrency using TCPServers . A. Bohra and L. Iftode. To appear in the Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Symposium on Network Computing and Applications (NCA'07), Baltimore, July 2007.
A Web Based Covert File System . A. Baliga, J. Kilian and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XI), San Diego, May 2007.
Lurking in the Shadows: Identifying Systemic Threats to Kernel Data (Short Paper). A. Baliga, P. Kamat and L. Iftode. To appear in the Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, Oakland, California, May 2007.
Context-aware Migratory Services in Ad-Hoc Networks. O. Riva, T. Nadeem, C. Borcea and L. Iftode. To appear in the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2007.

2006

An Integrated Vehicular and Network Simulator for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks. C. Gorgorin, V. Gradinescu, R. Diaconescu, V. Cristea and L. Ifode. To appear in the Proceedings of the 20th European Simulation and Modelling Conference, October 2006.
Satem: Trusted Service Code Execution across Transactions. G. Xu, C. Borcea and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 25th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS), October 2006.
Probabilistic Validation of Aggregated Data in Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks. F. Picconi, N. Ravi, M. Gruteser and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANET), September 2006.
A Comparative Study of Data Dissemination Models for VANETs. T Nadeem, P. Shankar and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (MOBIQUITOUS), July 2006.
Non-Inference: An Information Flow Control Model for Location-Based Services. N. Ravi, M. Gruteser and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 3rd Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems (MOBIQUITOUS), July 2006.
Byzantine Fault Tolerant Public Key Authentication in Peer-to-Peer Systems.V. Pathak and L. Iftode. Computer Networks,Special issue on Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Trust, Reputation and Security, Vol 50/4, March 2006.
Paladin: Automated Detection and Containment of Rootkit Attacks A. Baliga, L. Iftode and X. Chen. Rutgers University, Department of Computer Science Technical Report, DCS-TR-593, Jan 2006.
Indoor Localization Using Camera Phones. N. Ravi, P.Shankar, A. Frankel, A. Elgammal and L. Iftode. To appear in the Proceedings of the 7th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, April 2006.

2005

VITP: An Information Transfer Protocol for Vehicular Computing. M. Dikaiakos, S. Iqbal, T. Nadeem and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Workshop on Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks (VANET), September 2005.
Byzantine Fault Tolerant Public Key Authentication in Peer-to-Peer Systems. V. Pathak and L. Iftode. To appear in Computer Networks, Special issue on Management in Peer-to-Peer Systems: Trust, Reputation and Security, 2005.
Orion: Looking for Constellations in Physical Memory A. Bohra, A. Baliga and L. Iftode. Rutgers University Technical Report DCS-TR-569, January 2005.
Programming Ad Hoc Networks of Mobile and Resource-Constrained Devices. Y. Ni, U. Kremer, A. Stere and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN 2005 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), June 2005.
Recovering Internet Services from Operating System Failures. F. Sultan, A. Bohra, P. Gallard, I Neamtiu, S. Smaldone, Y. Pan and L. Iftode. To appear in IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 2005.
Accessing Ubiquitous Services using Smart Phones. N. Ravi, P. Stern, N. Desai and L. Iftode. To appear in the Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), March 2005.
EZCab: A Cab Booking Application Using Short-Range Wireless Communication. P. Zhou, T. Nadeem, P. Kang, C. Borcea and L. Iftode. To appear in the Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), March 2005.
Split Smart Messages: Middleware for Pervasive Computing on Smart Phones. N. Ravi, C. Borcea and L. Iftode. Submitted for publication.

2004

Mobile Services: Context-Aware Service Migration in Ad-Hoc Networks. O. Riva, T. Nadeem, C. Borcea and L. Iftode. Submitted for publication.
Locality Driven Key Management Architecture for Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks. G. Xu and L. Iftode. Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2004), October 2004.
Portable Smart Message Architecture for Ubiquitous Java-Enabled Devices. N. Ravi, C. Borcea, P. Kang and L. Iftode. Proceedings of the First Annual International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems Networking and Services (MobiQuitous 2004), August 2004.
TrafficView: Traffic Data Dissemination Using Car-to-Car Communication. T. Nadeem, S. Dashtinezhad, C. Liao and L. Iftode. ACM Sigmobile Mobile Computing and Communications Review, Special Issue on Mobile Data Management, Vol 8, Issue 3 (July 2004), pp 6-19.
Citadel: Defensive Architectures for Computer Systems and Networks. F. Sultan, A. Bohra, P. Gallard, S. Smaldone, Y. Pan, B. Nath and L. Iftode. Rutgers University Technical Report, DCS-TR-554, March 2004.
Remote Repair of Operating System State Using Backdoors. A. Bohra, I. Neamtiu, P. Gallard, F. Sultan and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 2004 International Conference on Autonomic Computing, New York, May 17-18, 2004.
TrafficView: A Driver Assistant Device for Traffic Monitoring based on Car-to-Car Communication S. Dashtinezhad, T. Nadeem, B. Dorohonceanu, C. Borcea, P. Kang and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the IEEE Semiannual Vehicular Technology, Milan, May 17-19, 2004.
Smart Phone: An Embedded System for Universal Interactions. L. Iftode, C. Borcea, N. Ravi, P. Kang and P. Zhou. In the Proceedings of FTDCS Workshop, May 2004.
Cooperative Computing in Sensor Networks. L. Iftode, C. Borcea and P. Kang. To appear in the Handbook of Sensor Networks: Compact Wireless and Wired Sensing Systems, M. Ilyas (ed), CRC Press, 2004.
Smart Messages: A Distributed Computing Platform for Networks of Embedded Systems P. Kang, C. Borcea, G. Xu, A. Saxena, U. Kremer and L. Iftode. To appear in The Computer Journal, Special Focus Mobile and Pervasive Computing, British Computer Society, Oxford University Press, Vol 47/4, pp 475-494, July 2004.
Spatial Programming using Smart Messages: Design and Implementation. C. Borcea, C. Intanagonwiwat, P. Kang, U. Kremer and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of ICDCS-2004, Tokyo, Japan, March 23-26, 2004.
Building a User-Level Direct Access File System over Infiniband. M. Rangarajan and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 4th Annual Workshop on System Area Networks (SAN-4), Madrid, February 2004.
TrafficView: A Scalable Traffic Monitoring System. S. Dashtinezhad, T. Nadeem, C. Liao (University of Maryland) and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management,Berkeley, January 19-22, 2004.

2003

Service Continuations: An Operating System Mechanism for Dynamic Migration of Internet Service Sessions . F.Sultan, A. Bohra and L. Iftode. In the Proceedings of the 22th Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems, SRDS 2003, Florence, Italy, October 6-8, 2003.
Backdoor: Nonintrusive Remote Healing using Remote Memory Communication. F. Sultan, A. Bohra, I Neamtiu and L. Iftode. Proceedings of the First Workshop on Algorithms and Architectures for Self-Managing Systems, FCRC San Diego, June 11, 2003.
Byzantine Fault Tolerant Authentication. V. Pathak and L. Iftode. Rutgers University Technical Report, DCS-TR-492, June 2002.
Self-Routing in Pervasive Computing Environments using Smart Messages. C. Borcea, C. Intanagonwiwat, A. Saxena and L. Iftode. Proceedings of The First IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication, PerCom 2003.
Programming Computers Embedded in the Physical World. L. Iftode, C. Borcea, A. Kochut, C. Intanagonwiwat and U. Kremer. Proceedings of the 9th IEEE Workshop onFuture Trends of Distributed Computing Systems (FTDCS 2003), May 2003.
Towards a Security Architecture for Smart Messages: Challenges, Solutions and Open Issues. G. Xu, C. Borcea and L. Iftode. Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Mobile Distributed Computing (MDC'03), May 2003.

2002

MemNet: Efficient Offloading of TCP/IP Processing Using Memory-Mapped Communication. M. Rangarajan, K. Banerjee, J. Yeo and L. Iftode. Rutgers University Technical Report, DCS-TR-485, May 2002.
TCP Servers: Offloading TCP Processing in Internet Servers. Design, Implementation and Performance. M. Rangarajan, A. Bohra, K. Banerjee, E. Carrera, R. Bianchini, L. Iftode and W. Zwaenepoel. Rutgers University Technical Report, DCS-TR-481, March 2002.
Autonomous Transport Protocols for Content-based Networks. F. Sultan, A. Bohra and L. Iftode. Rutgers University Technical Report, DCS-TR-479, March 2002.
Cooperative Computing for Distributed Embedded Systems. C. Borcea, D. Iyer, P. Kang, A. Saxena and L. Iftode. Proceedings of The 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), July 2002.
Migratory TCP: Highly Available Internet Services using Connection Migration. F. Sultan, K. Srinivasan, D. Iyer and L. Iftode. Proceedings of The 22nd International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), July 2002. Also Rutgers Univesity Technical Report DCS-TR-462, November 2001.
Impact of Next-Generation I/O Architectures on the Design and Performance of Network Servers. E. V. Carrera, M. Rangarajan, R. Bianchini, and L. Iftode. Proceedings of the First Workshop of Novel Uses of System Area Networks (in conjunction with HPCA-8), February 2002.
Lazy Garbage Collection of Recovery State for Scalable Fault-Tolerant Distributed Shared Memory. F. Sultan, T. Nguyen and L. Iftode. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Vol 13. No. 7, July 2002.

2001

Federated File Systems for Clusters with Remote Memory Communication. S. Gopalakrishnan, A. Arumugam and L. Iftode. Work in Progress, FAST'02. Rutgers University Technical Report, DCS-TR-472, December 2001.
Smart Messages: A System Architecture for Large Networks of Embedded Systems. Phillip Stanley-Marbell, Cristian Borcea, Kiran Nagaraja and Liviu Iftode. Position summary in the Proceedings of HotOS-VIII, May 2001. Rutgers University Technical Report DCS-TR-430, January 2001.
Transport Layer Support for Highly-Available Network Services. Florin Sultan, Kiran Srinivasan, Liviu Iftode. Position summary in the Proceedings of HotOS-VIII, May 2001. Rutgers University Technical Report DCS-TR-429, January 2001.

2000

Scalable Fault-Tolerant Distributed Shared Memory. Florin Sultan, Thu D. Nguyen and Liviu Iftode. Proceedings of Supercomputing Conference, Dallas, November 2000.
Software Distributed Shared Memory over Virtual Interface Architecture: Implementation and Performance. Muralidharan Rangarajan and Liviu Iftode. Proceedings of 4th Annual Linux Conference, Atlanta, October 12-14, 2000.
Limited-size Logging for Fault-Tolerant Distributed Shared Memory with Independent Checkpointing. Florin Sultan, Thu D. Nguyen and Liviu Iftode. Rutgers University Technical Report DCS-TR-409, February 2000.

1999

Multi-threaded Home-based LRC Distributed Shared Memory. Murali Rangarajan, Srikrishna Divakaran, Thu D. Nguyen and Liviu Iftode. The 8th Workshop of Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessors (held in conjunction with ISCA), May 1999.
Fault Tolerant HLRC Distributed Shared Memory. Florin Sultan, Thu D. Nguyen and Liviu Iftode. The 8th Workshop of Scalable Shared Memory Multiprocessors (held in conjunction with ISCA), May 1999.

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