Selected Publications

Network security

• Yajuan Tang, Xiapu Luo, and Rocky K. C. Chang, "On Generalized Low-Rate Denial-of-Quality Attack Against Internet Services," Proc. IEEE IWQoS (a short paper), July 2009. [Paper]
• Xiapu Luo, Edmond W. W. Chan, and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Detecting Pulsing Denial-of-Service Attacks with Nondeterministic Attack Intervals," In EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing (A Special Issue on “Signal Processing Applications in Network Intrusion Detection Systems), 2009. [Paper]
• Xiapu Luo, Edmond W. W. Chan and Rocky K. C. Chang, "CLACK: A Network Covert Channel Based on Partial Acknowledgment Encoding. In Proc. IEEE ICC, June 2009. [Paper] [Slides]
• Xiapu Luo, Edmond W. W. Chan and Rocky K. C. Chang, "TCP Covert Timing Channels: Design and Detection," Proc. IEEE/IFIP Intl. Conf. Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2008. [Paper] [Slides]
• Yajuan Tang, Xiapu Luo and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Protecting Internet Services from Low-Rate DoS Attacks," A book chapter in Criticial Infrastructure Protection (editors: E. Goetz and S. Shenoi), Springer, November 2007. [Paper]
• Xiapu Luo, Edmond W. W. Chan and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Cloak: A Ten-fold Way for Reliable Covert Communications,'' Proc. ESORICS, September 2007. [Paper] [Slides]
• Xiapu Luo, Edmond W. W. Chan and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Crafting Web Counters into Covert Channels,'' Proc. The 22nd TC-11 IFIP Intl. Information Security Conf., May 2007. (Best Student Paper Award) [Paper] [Slides]
• Xiapu Luo, Edmond W. W. Chan, and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Vanguard: A new detection scheme for a class of TCP-targeted denial-of-service attacks," Proc. IEEE/IFIP Network Operations & Management Symp., April 2006. [Paper] [Slides]
• Xiapu Luo, Rocky K. C. Chang, and Edmond W. W. Chan, "Performance Analysis of TCP/AQM Under Denial-of-Service Attacks." Proc. IEEE MASCOTS, September 2005. [Paper] [Slides]
• Xiapu Luo and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Optimizing the Pulsing Denial-of-Service Attacks," Proc. IEEE/IFIP Intl. Conf. Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2005. [Paper] [Slides]
• Xiapu Luo and Rocky K. C. Chang, "On a New Class of Pulsing Denial-of-Service Attacks and the Defense," Proc. Network and Distributed System Security Symp. (NDSS), February 2005. [Paper] [Slides]
• Rocky K. C. Chang, "Defending Against Flooding-Based, Distributed Denial-of-Service Attacks: A Tutorial," IEEE Communications Magazine (A Special Issue on Telecommunication Network Security), vol. 40, no. 10, pp. 42-51, 2002. [Paper]
• Kalman K. K. Wan and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Engineering of a Global Defense Infrastructure for DDoS Attacks," Proc. IEEE Intl. Conf. Networks , pp. 419-427, Aug. 2002. [Paper] [Slides]
• King P. Fung and Rocky K. C. Chang, "A Transport-Level Proxy for Secure Multimedia Streams," IEEE Internet Computing (A Special Issue on Widely Deployed Security Solutions),  pp. 57-67, Nov/Dec., 2000. [Paper]

Internet measurement

• Edmond W. W. Chan, Xiapu Luo, and Rocky K. C. Chang, "A Minimum-Delay-Difference Method for Mitigating Cross-Traffic Impact on Capacity Measurement," Proc.  ACM CoNext, December 2009. [Paper] [Slides]
• Xiapu Luo, Edmond W. W. Chan and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Design and Implementation of TCP Data Probes for Reliable Network Path Monitoring," Proc.  USENIX Annual Tech. Conf., June 2009. [Paper] [Slides]
• Rocky K. C. Chang, Edmond W. W. Chan, Waiting W. T. Fok, and Xiapu Luo, "Sampling TCP Data-Path Quality with TCP Data Probes," Proc. PFLDNet, May 2009. [Paper] [Slides]
• Samantha Lo, Rocky K. C. Chang, and Lorenzo Colitti, "An Active Approach to Measuring Routing Dynamics Induced by Autonomous Systems,'' in Proc. ACM Workshop on Experimental Computer Science, June 2007. [Paper] [Slides]
• Samantha Lo and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Measuring the Effects of Route Prepending for Stub Autonomous Systems,'' in Proc. ICC Workshop on Traffic Engineering in Next Generation IP Networks, June 2007. [Paper] [Slides]
• Hui Wang, Dah-Ming Chiu, John Lui, and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Inter-AS Inbound Traffic Engineering via ASPP," IEEE Transaction on Network and Service Management, vol. 4, pp. 62-70, June 2007. [Paper]
• Xiapu Luo and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Novel Approaches to End-to-End Packet Reordering Measurement,” in Proc. ACM/USENIX Conf. Internet Measurement, October 2005. [Paper] [Slides]
• Hui Wang, Rocky K. C. Chang, Dah-Ming Chiu, and John C. S. Lui, "Characterizing the Performance and Stability Issues of the AS Path Prepending Method: Taxonomy, Measurement Study and Analysis," in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Asia Conf., April 2005. [Paper] [Slides]
• Rocky K. C. Chang and Michael Lo, "Inbound Traffic Engineering for Multihomed ASs Using AS Path Prepending," IEEE Network, pp. 18-25, March/Apr. 2005. [Paper]
• Rocky K. C. Chang, H. Y. Chan, and A. W. Yeung, "Deadlock-Free TCP Over High-Speed Internet," (invited) in Deadlock Resolution in Computer Integrated Systems (edited by Fanti and Zhou), pp. 531-553, Dec. 2004. [Paper]
• Hang T. Chan and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Strifeshadow Fantasy: A Massive Multi-Player Online Game," Proc. IEEE Consumer Commun. and Networking Conf., Jan. 2004. [Paper] [Slides]

Wireless

• Yi Xie, Xiapu Luo, and Rocky K. C. Chang. "Centralized PSM: An AP-centric Power Saving Mode for 802.11 Infrastructure Networks," In Proc. IEEE Sarnoff Symposium, March 2009. [Paper] [Slides]
• Yi Xie and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Optimizing Energy Efficiency in Polling-Based Wireless Networks with Stability Constraints," Proc. IEEE Globecom, 2006. [Paper] [Slides]
• Yi Xie and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Stability-Constrained Optimization for Energy Efficiency in Polling-Based Wireless Networks," Proc. VALUETOOLS, 2006. [Paper] [Slides]

Queue stability

• Sum Lam, Rocky K. C. Chang, and Yi Xie, "Towards a General Framework for Analyzing Stability of Multiple Queues," Proc. VALUETOOLS, 2006. [Paper] [Slides]
• Rocky K. C. Chang and Sum Lam, "Per-queue Stability Analysis of a Random Access System," IEEE Trans. Automatic Control, vol. 46, no. 9, pp. 1466-1470 , September 2001. [Paper] [Slides]
• Rocky K. C. Chang and Sum Lam, "A Novel Approach to Queue Stability Analysis of Polling Models," Performance Evaluation, vol. 40, issues 1-3, pp. 27-46, March 2000. [Paper] [Slides]

Others

• Fai Siu and Rocky K. C. Chang, "Effectiveness of Optimal Node Assignments in WDM Networks with Fixed Regular Virtual Topologies," Computer Networks, vol. 38, pp. 61-74, January 2002. [Paper] [Slides]
• Rocky K. C. Chang and Hong Y. Wang, "Routing Properties of a Recursive Interconnection Network," J. Parallel and Distributed Computing , vol. 61, no. 6,  pp. 838-849, June 2001. [Paper] [Slides]

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