Publications | IIS Laboratory

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2025

SAC
DDSNet: A Lightweight Dense Depthwise Separable Network for Tumor Classification

An Huang , Junggab Son , and Zuobin Xiong^†

In 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing, Mar 2025

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Deep learning-based medical image processing plays a significant role in modern computer-aided diagnosis, which facilitates doctors in various disease analysis. However, most researchers focus on the accuracy of medical image classification tasks with ever-increasing model size and the number of parameters but overlook the high diagnostic costs and model efficiency. To reduce such costs and broaden the application scenarios, a low-cost and efficient medical image classification is imperative. To achieve this goal, this paper designs a lightweight model, named Dense Depthwise Separable Network (DDSNet), which combines the merits of Dense Convolution Network and Depthwise Separable Convolution, rendering a low-cost and efficient medical imaging. Moreover, a quantization-based method is invented to deploy the proposed model on real-world IoT devices by converting the original model to an integer-type model while maintaining its classification performance. Extensive experiments are conducted on four cancer image datasets on the IoT device, showing the promising performance of this proposed method against 5 baseline models, including data visualization and interoperability aspects. Notably, compared to DenseNet, the proposed model is about 32x smaller and 5x faster after quantization, with a competitive classification accuracy preserved. Our code is available at https://github.com/OldDreamInWind/DDSNet.
@inproceedings{huang2025ddsnet, title = {DDSNet: A Lightweight Dense Depthwise Separable Network for Tumor Classification}, author = {Huang, An and Son, Junggab and Xiong, Zuobin}, booktitle = {40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium on Applied Computing}, pages = {1--8}, year = {2025}, month = mar, url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3672608.3707780} }

2024

SecureComm

Ensuring Integrity in Online Content Usage and Download Counting with Smart Contracts

Shubham Joshi , Dillon Davidson , Yeonjoon Lee , and 2 more authors

In 20th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Mar 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{joshi2024ensuring,
  title = {Ensuring Integrity in Online Content Usage and Download Counting with Smart Contracts},
  author = {Joshi, Shubham and Davidson, Dillon and Lee, Yeonjoon and Cho, Homook and Son, Junggab},
  booktitle = {20th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm)},
  pages = {1--23},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://securecomm.eai-conferences.org/2024/accepted-papers/}
}

SecureComm

Anti-EMP: Encrypted Malware Packets Filtering Algorithm Leveraging Ciphertext Patterns under Zero Knowledge Setting

Junggab Son^† , Jeehyung Kim , Jemin Ahn , and 3 more authors

In 20th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Mar 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{son2024anti,
  title = {Anti-EMP: Encrypted Malware Packets Filtering Algorithm Leveraging Ciphertext Patterns under Zero Knowledge Setting},
  author = {Son, Junggab and Kim, Jeehyung and Ahn, Jemin and Kim, Doowon and Cho, Homook and Kim, Daeyoung},
  booktitle = {20th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm)},
  pages = {1--25},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://securecomm.eai-conferences.org/2024/accepted-papers/}
}

SecureComm

Encoder-based Multimodal Ensemble Learning for High Compatibility and Accuracy in Phishing Website Detection

Jemin Ahn , Dorian Akhavan , Woohwan Jung , and 2 more authors

In 20th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm), Mar 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{ahn2024encoder,
  title = {Encoder-based Multimodal Ensemble Learning for High Compatibility and Accuracy in Phishing Website Detection},
  author = {Ahn, Jemin and Akhavan, Dorian and Jung, Woohwan and Kang, Kyungtae and Son, Junggab},
  booktitle = {20th EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm)},
  pages = {1--19},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://securecomm.eai-conferences.org/2024/accepted-papers/}
}

ECML-PKDD

FCFL: A Fairness Compensation-based Federated Learning Scheme with Accumulated Queues

Lingfu Wang , Zuobin Xiong , Chunguang Luo , and 2 more authors

In European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, Mar 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{wang2024fcfl,
  title = {FCFL: A Fairness Compensation-based Federated Learning Scheme with Accumulated Queues},
  author = {Wang, Lingfu and Xiong, Zuobin and Luo, Chunguang and Li, Wei and Chen, Aiguo},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases},
  pages = {386--402},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-70352-2_23}
}

ICCCN

Appro-Fun: Approximate Machine Unlearning in Federated Setting

Zuobin Xiong , Wei Li , and Zhipeng Cai

In 2024 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Mar 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{xiong2024appro,
  title = {Appro-Fun: Approximate Machine Unlearning in Federated Setting},
  author = {Xiong, Zuobin and Li, Wei and Cai, Zhipeng},
  booktitle = {2024 International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)},
  pages = {1--8},
  year = {2024},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10637564/}
}

2023

TDSC

Leveraging Smart Contracts for Secure and Asynchronous Group Key Exchange Without Trusted Third Party

Victor Youdom Kemmoe , Youngseok Kwon , Rasheed Hussain , and 2 more authors

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Jul 2023

Bib

@article{kemmoe2023leveraging,
  title = {Leveraging Smart Contracts for Secure and Asynchronous Group Key Exchange Without Trusted Third Party},
  author = {Kemmoe, Victor Youdom and Kwon, Youngseok and Hussain, Rasheed and Cho, Sunghyun and Son, Junggab},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing},
  volume = {20},
  number = {4},
  pages = {3176--3193},
  year = {2023},
  month = jul,
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

IoT-J

Blockchain-Based One-Time Authentication for Secure V2X Communication Against Insiders and Authority Compromise Attacks

Jaewon Noh , Youngseok Kwon , Junggab Son , and 1 more author

IEEE Internet of Things Journal, Jul 2023

Bib

@article{noh2023blockchain,
  title = {Blockchain-Based One-Time Authentication for Secure V2X Communication Against Insiders and Authority Compromise Attacks},
  author = {Noh, Jaewon and Kwon, Youngseok and Son, Junggab and Cho, Sunghyun},
  journal = {IEEE Internet of Things Journal},
  volume = {10},
  number = {7},
  pages = {6255--6248},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

Drones

Cooperative Obstacle-Aware Surveillance for Virtual Emotion Intelligence with Low Energy Configuration

Seunghyeon Lee , Sooeon Lee , Yumin Choi , and 3 more authors

Drones, Feb 2023

Bib

@article{lee2023cooperative,
  title = {Cooperative Obstacle-Aware Surveillance for Virtual Emotion Intelligence with Low Energy Configuration},
  author = {Lee, Seunghyeon and Lee, Sooeon and Choi, Yumin and Son, Junggab and Bellavista, Paolo and Kim, Hyunbum},
  journal = {Drones},
  volume = {7},
  number = {3},
  pages = {159},
  year = {2023},
  month = feb,
  publisher = {MDPI},
}

DCN

3-multi Ranked Searchable Encryption With Enhanced Security in Cloud Computing

YeEun Kim , Junggab Son^† , Reza M. Parizi , and 2 more authors

Digital Communications and Networks, Apr 2023

Bib

@article{kim2023multi,
  title = {3-multi Ranked Searchable Encryption With Enhanced Security in Cloud Computing},
  author = {Kim, YeEun and Son, Junggab and Parizi, Reza M. and Srivastava, Gautam and Oh, Heekuck},
  journal = {Digital Communications and Networks},
  volume = {9},
  number = {2},
  pages = {313--326},
  year = {2023},
  month = apr,
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

Cluster Comp.

An Empirical Analysis of Image Augmentation Against Model Inversion Attack in Federated Learning

Seunghyeon Shin , Mallika Boyapati , Kun Suo , and 2 more authors

Cluster Computing, Apr 2023

Bib

@article{shin2023empirical,
  title = {An Empirical Analysis of Image Augmentation Against Model Inversion Attack in Federated Learning},
  author = {Shin, Seunghyeon and Boyapati, Mallika and Suo, Kun and Kang, Kyungtae and Son, Junggab},
  journal = {Cluster Computing},
  volume = {26},
  number = {1},
  pages = {349--366},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {Springer},
}

2022

BIBM

Defensive Adversarial Training for Enhancing Robustness of ECG based User Identification

Hongbi Jeong , Junggab Son^† , Hyunbum Kim , and 1 more author

In 2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM), Apr 2022

Bib

@inproceedings{jeong2022defensive,
  title = {Defensive Adversarial Training for Enhancing Robustness of ECG based User Identification},
  author = {Jeong, Hongbi and Son, Junggab and Kim, Hyunbum and Kang, Kyungtae},
  booktitle = {2022 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM)},
  pages = {3362--3369},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

ICMLA

Improving Fashion Attribute Classification Accuracy with Limited Labeled Data Using Transfer Learning

Tong Chen , Jiho Noh , Luke Cranfill , and 2 more authors

In 2022 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA), Apr 2022

Bib

@inproceedings{chen2022improving,
  title = {Improving Fashion Attribute Classification Accuracy with Limited Labeled Data Using Transfer Learning},
  author = {Chen, Tong and Noh, Jiho and Cranfill, Luke and Morris, John and Son, Junggab},
  booktitle = {2022 21st IEEE International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA)},
  pages = {1210--1217},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

INFOCOM

A Novel TCP/IP Header Hijacking Attack on SDN

Ali Akbar Mohammadi , Rasheed Hussain , Alma Oracevic , and 4 more authors

In IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Poster, Apr 2022

Bib

@inproceedings{mohammadi2022novel,
  title = {A Novel TCP/IP Header Hijacking Attack on SDN},
  author = {Mohammadi, Ali Akbar and Hussain, Rasheed and Oracevic, Alma and Kazmi, Syed Huhammad Ahsan Raza and Hussain, Fatima and Aloqaily, Moayad and Son, Junggab},
  booktitle = {IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) Poster},
  pages = {1--2},
  year = {2022},
  organization = {IEEE},
}

Book Chapter
Anti-Phishing Approaches in the Era of the Internet of Things

Mallika Boyapati , Bala Chaitanya Gutta , Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan , and 1 more author

In Towards a Wireless Connected World: Achievements and New Technologies, May 2022

Bib
@incollection{boyapati2022anti, title = {Anti-Phishing Approaches in the Era of the Internet of Things}, author = {Boyapati, Mallika and Gutta, Bala Chaitanya and Bhuiyan, Md Zakirul Alam and Son, Junggab}, booktitle = {Towards a Wireless Connected World: Achievements and New Technologies}, pages = {35--63}, year = {2022}, month = may, publisher = {Springer}, }

2021

SCN

Efficient yet Robust Privacy Preservation for MPEG-DASH Based Video Streaming

Luke Cranfill , Jeehyeong Kim , Hongkyu Lee , and 3 more authors

Security and Communication Networks, Aug 2021

Bib

@article{cranfill2021efficient,
  title = {Efficient yet Robust Privacy Preservation for MPEG-DASH Based Video Streaming},
  author = {Cranfill, Luke and Kim, Jeehyeong and Lee, Hongkyu and Kemmoe, Victor Youdom and Cho, Sunghyun and Son, Junggab},
  journal = {Security and Communication Networks},
  pages = {1--14},
  year = {2021},
  month = aug,
  publisher = {Hindawi},
}

MLWA

A Federated Approach for Fine-Grained Classification of Fashion Apparel

Tejasvi Gutta , Jiho Noh , Luke Cranfill , and 4 more authors

Machine Learning with Application, Dec 2021

Bib

@article{gutta2021federated,
  title = {A Federated Approach for Fine-Grained Classification of Fashion Apparel},
  author = {Gutta, Tejasvi and Noh, Jiho and Cranfill, Luke and Kim, Eunhye and Parizi, Reza M. and Morris, John and Son, Junggab},
  journal = {Machine Learning with Application},
  volume = {6},
  number = {15},
  pages = {1--12},
  year = {2021},
  month = dec,
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

CLUSTER

Tackling Cold Start of Serverless Applications by Efficient and Adaptive Container Runtime Reusing

Kun Suo , Junggab Son , Dazhao Cheng , and 2 more authors

In IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER), Sep 2021

Bib

@inproceedings{suo2021tackling,
  title = {Tackling Cold Start of Serverless Applications by Efficient and Adaptive Container Runtime Reusing},
  author = {Suo, Kun and Son, Junggab and Cheng, Dazhao and Chen, Wei and Baidya, Sabur},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER)},
  pages = {433--443},
  year = {2021},
  month = sep,
  organization = {IEEE},
}

COSE

Digestive Neural Networks: A Novel Defense Strategy Against Inference Attacks in Federated Learning

Hongkyu Lee , Jeehyeong Kim , Seyoung Ahn , and 3 more authors

Computers & Security, Oct 2021

Bib

@article{lee2021digestive,
  title = {Digestive Neural Networks: A Novel Defense Strategy Against Inference Attacks in Federated Learning},
  author = {Lee, Hongkyu and Kim, Jeehyeong and Ahn, Seyoung and Hussain, Rasheed and Cho, Sunghyun and Son, Junggab},
  journal = {Computers \& Security},
  volume = {109},
  pages = {1--20},
  year = {2021},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {Elsevier},
}

ICC

On Defensive Neural Networks Against Inference Attack in Federated Learning

Hongkyu Lee , Jeehyeong Kim , Rasheed Hussain , and 2 more authors

In IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) - Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (CISS), Jun 2021

Bib

@inproceedings{lee2021defensive,
  title = {On Defensive Neural Networks Against Inference Attack in Federated Learning},
  author = {Lee, Hongkyu and Kim, Jeehyeong and Hussain, Rasheed and Cho, Sunghyun and Son, Junggab},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) - Communication and Information Systems Security Symposium (CISS)},
  pages = {1--6},
  year = {2021},
  month = jun,
  organization = {IEEE},
}

2020

GlobeCom

A Novel Resource Allocation scheme for NOMA-V2X-Femtocell with Channel Aggregation

Jeehyeong Kim , Junggab Son , William Stone , and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GlobeCom 2020), Dec 2020

Bib

@inproceedings{kim2020novel,
  title = {A Novel Resource Allocation scheme for NOMA-V2X-Femtocell with Channel Aggregation},
  author = {Kim, Jeehyeong and Son, Junggab and Stone, William and Kim, Hyunbum and Noh, Jaewon and Cho, Sunghyun},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GlobeCom 2020)},
  pages = {1--6},
  year = {2020},
  month = dec,
  organization = {IEEE},
}

IEEE Network

Research Challenges and Security Threats to AI-driven 5G Virtual Emotion Applications Using Autonomous Vehicles, Drones and Smart Devices

Hyunbum Kim , Talel Ben-Othman , Lynda Mokdad , and 2 more authors

IEEE Network Magazine, Nov 2020

Bib

@article{kim2020research,
  title = {Research Challenges and Security Threats to AI-driven 5G Virtual Emotion Applications Using Autonomous Vehicles, Drones and Smart Devices},
  author = {Kim, Hyunbum and Ben-Othman, Talel and Mokdad, Lynda and Son, Junggab and Li, Chunquo},
  journal = {IEEE Network Magazine},
  volume = {34},
  number = {6},
  pages = {288--294},
  year = {2020},
  month = nov,
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

IEEE Access

Rethinking the Weakness of Stream Ciphers and Its Application to Encrypted Malware Detection

William Stone , Daeyoung Kim , Victor Youdom Kemmoe , and 2 more authors

IEEE ACCESS, Oct 2020

Bib

@article{stone2020rethinking,
  title = {Rethinking the Weakness of Stream Ciphers and Its Application to Encrypted Malware Detection},
  author = {Stone, William and Kim, Daeyoung and Kemmoe, Victor Youdom and Kang, Mingon and Son, Junggab},
  journal = {IEEE ACCESS},
  volume = {8},
  pages = {191602--191616},
  year = {2020},
  month = oct,
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

SMC

Leveraging Smart Contracts for Asynchronous Group Key Agreement in Internet of Things

Victor Youdom Kemmoe , Youngseok Kwon , Seunghyeon Shin , and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2020), Oct 2020

Bib

@inproceedings{kemmoe2020leveraging,
  title = {Leveraging Smart Contracts for Asynchronous Group Key Agreement in Internet of Things},
  author = {Kemmoe, Victor Youdom and Kwon, Youngseok and Shin, Seunghyeon and Hussain, Rasheed and Cho, Sunghyun and Son, Junggab},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2020)},
  pages = {1--6},
  year = {2020},
  month = oct,
  organization = {IEEE},
}

ICCCN

SuperB: Superior Behavior-based Anomaly Detection Defining Authorized Users’ Traffic Patterns

Daniel Y. Karasek , Jeehyeong Kim , Victor Youdom Kemmoe , and 3 more authors

In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN), Aug 2020

Bib

@inproceedings{karasek2020superb,
  title = {SuperB: Superior Behavior-based Anomaly Detection Defining Authorized Users' Traffic Patterns},
  author = {Karasek, Daniel Y. and Kim, Jeehyeong and Kemmoe, Victor Youdom and Bhuiyan, Md Zakirul Alam and Cho, Sunghyun and Son, Junggab},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)},
  pages = {1--9},
  year = {2020},
  month = aug,
  organization = {IEEE},
}

IEEE Access

Recent Advances in Smart Contracts: A Technical Overview and State of the Art

Victor Youdom Kemmoe , William Stone , Jeehyeong Kim , and 2 more authors

IEEE ACCESS, Jun 2020

Bib

@article{kemmoe2020recent,
  title = {Recent Advances in Smart Contracts: A Technical Overview and State of the Art},
  author = {Kemmoe, Victor Youdom and Stone, William and Kim, Jeehyeong and Kim, Daeyoung and Son, Junggab},
  journal = {IEEE ACCESS},
  volume = {8},
  pages = {117782--117801},
  year = {2020},
  month = jun,
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

TSUSC

Privacy Enhanced Location Sharing for Mobile Online Social Networks

Junggab Son , Donghyun Kim , Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan , and 3 more authors

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, Apr 2020

Bib

@article{son2020privacy,
  title = {Privacy Enhanced Location Sharing for Mobile Online Social Networks},
  author = {Son, Junggab and Kim, Donghyun and Bhuiyan, Md Zakirul Alam and Tashakkori, Rahman and Seo, Junghaek and Lee, Dong Hoon},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing},
  volume = {5},
  number = {2},
  pages = {97--204},
  year = {2020},
  month = apr,
  publisher = {IEEE},
}

TST

A Novel Transparent and Auditable Fog-Assisted Cloud Storage with Compensation Mechanism

Donghyun Kim , Junggab Son , Daehee Seo , and 3 more authors

Tsinghua Science and Technology, Feb 2020

Bib

@article{kim2020novel_transparent,
  title = {A Novel Transparent and Auditable Fog-Assisted Cloud Storage with Compensation Mechanism},
  author = {Kim, Donghyun and Son, Junggab and Seo, Daehee and Kim, Yoojin and Kim, Hyobin and Seo, Jung Taek},
  journal = {Tsinghua Science and Technology},
  volume = {25},
  number = {1},
  pages = {28--43},
  year = {2020},
  month = feb,
  publisher = {Tsinghua University Press},
}