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CAO, ZHEN

PhD Candidate

Network and Information Security Laboratory

Department of Computer Science

Peking University

Beijing, 100871, China

Office: Science Building 1534

E-mail: caozhen¡¡ (domain: infosec.pku.edu.cn)

ZHEN CAO is a Ph. D student of the School of Electronics Engineering and Computer Science of Peking University and study in Network and Information Security Laboratory from Sept. 2004. He received one B.S. in 2004 majored in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science, and another B.S. majored in Finance from the School of Business, both from Wuhan University. Zhen Cao¡¯s research interests are in the networking area.

 

Education

2007.9~Now: University of California Los Angeles, Networks Research Lab of CS Department Visiting Researcher under supervision of Prof. Mario Gerla;

2004.9~Now: Peking University, Ph. D Student, Advisor: Prof. Zhong Chen;

2000.9~2004.7: Wuhan University, majored in Computer Science and minored in Finance;

 

Publications

 

Journal Papers

 

3. Zhen Cao, Zhi Guan, et al, ¡°Towards Risk Evaluation of DoS Vulnerabilities in Security Protocols,¡± JCST Special Issue on Trust Evaluation. Under view.¡¡

 

2. Zhen Cao, Jiejun Kong, Uichin Lee, Mario Gerla, Zhong Chen, ¡°Filtering False Data via Authentic Consensus in Vehicle Ad-hoc Networks, ¡± IJAACS Special Issue on Vehicular Security. To appear.

 

1. Zhen Cao, Jianbin Hu, Zhong Chen, Maoxing Xu, and Xia Zhou. ¡°FBSR: Feedback based Secure Routing for Wireless Sensor Networks,¡± Special Issue of International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communication (JPCC), 2008. Volume 1, Issue 4. [PDF]

 

Conference Papers

 

11. Biao Zhou, Zhen Cao, Mario Gerla, ¡°Cluster-based Inter Domain Routing for Ad-hoc Networks¡±, IEEE & IFIP Conference on Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services, pp. 19-26, 2009.

 

10. Mario Gerla, R. Cascella, Zhen Cao, Bruno Crispo and Roberto Battiti, ¡°An efficient weak secrecy scheme for network coding data dissemination in VANET,¡± the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications (PIMRC), 2008. To appear

 

9. R. Cascella, Zhen Cao, Mario Gerla, Bruno Crispo and Roberto Battiti, ¡°Exploiting Network Coding Vulnerability for Weak Data Privacy Protection,¡± IFIP Ad-hoc Networks. Under review.

 

8. Xiaoyan Hong, Dijiang Huang, Mario Gerla, Zhen Cao, ¡°SAT: Building New Trust Architecture for Vehicular Networks,¡± MobiArch¡¯08, in conjunction with SIGCOMM¡¯08. pp.31-36. [pdf]

 

7. Zhen Cao, Jiejun Kong, Mario Gerla, Dapeng Wu¡°A Randomized Complexity-theoretic Model of Bioinspired Mobile Epidemics via Close Contact,¡± Information Theory and Statistical Learning

(ITSL¡¯08), co-locate with WORLDCOMP, 2008. [pdf][slides]

 

6. Zhen Cao, Jiejun Kong, Uichin Lee, Mario Gerla, Zhong Chen, ¡°Proof-of-Relevance: Filtering False Data via Authentic Consensus in Vehicle Ad-hoc Networks, ¡± INFOCOM MOVE Workshop, April, 2008. [PDF] [slides]

 

5. Zhi Guan, Zhen Cao, Xuan Zhao, Zhong Chen, Xianghao Nan, ¡°WebIBC: Identity Based Cryptography for Client Side Security in Web Applications,¡± ICDCS 2008. [PDF]

 

4. Zhen Cao, Hui Deng, Yuanchen Ma, Po Hu, ¡°Integrating Identity based Cryptography with Cryptographically Generated Addresses in Mobile IPv6,¡± ICCSA 2007, LNCS 4706, pp. 514-525, 2007.

 

3. Zhen Cao, Zhi Guan, et al, ¡°An Economical Model for the Risk Evaluation of DoS Vulnerabilities in Cryptography Protocols,¡± the 3rd Information Security Practice and Experience Conference (ISPEC 2007), LNCS 4464, pp. 129-144, 2007. [PDF]

 

2. Zhen Cao, Xia Zhou, Maoxing Xu, et al, ¡°Enhancing Base Station Security against DoS Attacks In Wireless Sensor Networks,¡± In Proceedings of the 2rd IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing (WiCOM2006), Sept 2006; [PDF]

 

1. Zhen Cao, Jianbin Hu, Zhong Chen, et al, ¡°Feedback: Towards Dynamic Behavior and Secure Routing In Wireless Sensor Networks,¡± In Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA2006), April 2006; [PDF]

 

Technical Referee

IEEE IPMMA 2008 with ICC

IEEE Information Assurance Workshop 2007

ACM Mobihoc 2008

IFIP International Information Security Conference (SEC 2008)

 

Useful resources

 

 

Useful Computer Science Research Links

By Alan Abrahams at University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

Advice for CS majors

Prof. Brian Kernighan of Princeton

On the Road to the Naissance of a Good Paper (in CS & EEE)

by Shujun Lee in Chinese [local copy]. Note: For Chinese graduate students, the unavoidable price of not reading here will be doing it later from other sources.

How to Read, Write, Present Papers

by Prof. Nitin H. Vaidya of UIUC [local copy] Note: A comprehensive illustration of HOWTO, and the way to be a real professional

 

 

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