Liyang Zhang

Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant

Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems Laboratory
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Northeastern University
Office: 460 ISEC, Boston, MA 02115
Mail: 460-472 ISEC, Northeastern University, 360 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115

Email: zhang.liy@husky.neu.edu

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Biography

Liyang Zhang is a PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University. Liyang received his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY in 2014, and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China in 2008. From 2008 to 2011 he was an engineer of Infinova Technology in Shenzhen, China. He was an intern at Huawei Research Center, Santa Clara, CA from Nov. 2016 to May. 2017. Currently he is working in the Wireless Networks and Embedded Systems Laboratory under Professor Tommaso Melodia.

Research

Wireless Security
Wireless Communication and Networking Theory
Internet of Things
Machine Learning

Publications

L. Zhang, T. Melodia, S. Pudlewski "Jam Sessions: Understanding Protocol Vulnerabilities Against Jamming Attacks," submitted to IEEE Conference on Communications and Networking Security (CNS), 2018.
L. Zhang, F. Restuccia, T. Melodia, and S. Pudlewski, "Taming Cross-Layer Attacks in Wireless Networks: A Bayesian Learning Approach," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2018. [pdf] [bibtex]
L. Zhang, S. Amin, C. Westphal "Demo: VR Video Conferencing Over Named Data Networks," ACM Conference on Information-Centric Networking (ICN), Berlin, Germany, Sep. 2017. [pdf] [bibtex]
L. Zhang, S. Amin, C. Westphal "VR Video Conferencing Over Named Data Networks," ACM SIGCOMM 2017 Workshop on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Network, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Aug. 2017. [pdf] [bibtex]
L. Zhang, F. Restuccia, T. Melodia, S. Pudlewski "Learning to Detect and Mitigate Cross-layer Attacks in Wireless Networks: Framework and Applications," IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Las Vegas, NV, USA, Oct. 2017. [pdf] [bibtex]
L. Zhang, Z. Guan, T. Melodia "United Against the Enemy: Anti-jamming Based on Cross- layer Cooperation in Wireless Networks," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 15, no. 8, pp. 5733-5747, August 2016. [pdf] [bibtex]
L. Zhang, T. Melodia, "Hammer and Anvil: The Threat of a Cross-Layer Jamming-aided Data Control Attack in Multihop Wireless Networks," in Proc. of IEEE Conf. on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Florence, Italy, September 2015. [pdf] [bibtex]
L. Zhang, Z. Guan, T. Melodia, "Cooperative Anti-jamming for Infrastructure-less Wireless Networks with Stochastic Relaying," in Proc. of IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM), Toronto, Canada, April 2014. [pdf] a href="wines_bibtex/Zhang14INFOCOM.txt">[bibtex]

Service

Reviewer
- IEEE Journals: IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Systems Journal
- Elsevier Journals: Elsevier Journal on Ad Hoc Networks , Elsevier Journal on Computer Networks
- Conferences: : INFOCOM, SECON, ICC, GLOBECOM, PIMRC, NTMS, MILCOM, WCNC, Med-Hoc-Net, CNS