Publications

A Hard-Label Black-Box Evasion Attack against ML-based Malicious Traffic Detection Systems

Zixuan Liu, Yi Zhao, Zhuotao Liu, Qi Li, Chuanpu Fu, Guangmeng Zhou, Ke Xu

Achieving Interpretable DL-based Web Attack Detection through Malicious Payload Localization

Peiyang Li, Fukun Mei, Ye Wang, Zhuotao Liu, Ke Xu, Chao Shen, Qian Wang, Qi Li

Anonymization-Enhanced Privacy Protection for Mobile GUI Agents: Available but Invisible

Lepeng Zhao, Zhenhua Zou, Shuo Li, Zhuotao Liu^†

† Corresponding author

Avoiding routing polarization for OCS-based GPU clusters

Xinchi Han, Weihao Jiang, Yingming Mao, Yike Liu, Zhuoran Liu, Yongxi Lv, Peirui Cao, Zhuotao Liu, Ximeng Liu, Xinbing Wang, Changbo Wu, Zihan Zhu, Dongchao Wu, Jian Yang, Zhanbang Zhang, Yuansen Cheng, Shizhen Zhao

Blind Gods and Broken Screens: Architecting a Secure, Intent-Centric Mobile Agent Operating System

Zhenhua Zou, Sheng Guo, Qiuyang Zhan, Lepeng Zhao, Shuo Li, Qi Li, Ke Xu, Mingwei Xu, Zhuotao Liu^†

† Corresponding author

Enhancing Website Fingerprinting Attacks against Traffic Drift

Xinhao Deng, Yixiang Zhang, Qi Li, Zhuotao Liu, Yabo Wang, Ke Xu

Euston: Efficient and User-Friendly Secure Transformer Inference with Non-Interactivity

Xinwen Gao, Shaojing Fu, Lin Liu, Zhuotao Liu, Yuchuan Luo, Yongjun Wang

InterSAGE: The Secure and Verifiable Interoperability Protocol for An Internet of Agents

Zhenhua Zou, Sheng Guo, Qiuyang Zhan, Lepeng Zhao, Shuo Li, Zhuotao Liu

Learning Flow Semantics for Encrypted Traffic Analysis: A Contrastive Pre-Training Approach

Ruijie Zhao, Mingwei Zhan, Qi Li, Zhuotao Liu, Xianwen Deng, Yanhao Wang, Guang Cheng, Zhi Xue, Ke Xu

SafeSearch: Automated Red-Teaming of LLM-Based Search Agents

Jianshuo Dong, Sheng Guo, Hao Wang, Xun Chen, Zhuotao Liu, Tianwei Zhang, Ke Xu, Minlie Huang, Han Qiu

Towards Practical Few-shot Multi-tab Website Fingerprinting

Lin Liu, Ziling Wei, Zhuotao Liu^†, Xinhao Deng, Zixuan Dong, Shuhui Chen

† Corresponding author

Towards Robust Detection of Malicious Encrypted Traffic Using Only Low-Quality Training Data

Yuqi Qing, Qilei Yin, Xinhao Deng, Yihao Chen, Zhuotao Liu, Kun Sun, Ke Xu, Jia Zhang, Qi Li

Towards robust multi-tab website fingerprinting

Xinhao Deng, Xiyuan Zhao, Qilei Yin, Zhuotao Liu, Qi Li, Mingwei Xu, Ke Xu, Jianping Wu

TrustedARI: Towards Trust-Native Agentic Routing Infrastructure for Agentic AI

Qi Li, Zhenhua Zou, Shuo Li, Mingwei Xu, Zhuotao Liu

Understanding the Security Boundary of Obfuscation-based On-Device LLM Protection

Hanyi Zhou, Chenyang Li, Yuanzhe Pang, Ke Xu, Mingwei Xu, Zhuotao Liu^†

† Corresponding author

Understanding the Stealthy BGP Hijacking Risk in the ROV Era

Yihao Chen, Qi Li, Ke Xu, Zhuotao Liu, Jianping Wu

When memory becomes authority: Benchmarking authority collapse at the memory consolidation boundary

Qiuyang Zhan, Rui Zhang, Sheng Guo, Lepeng Zhao, Zhuotao Liu

A highly scalable llm clusters with optical interconnect

Xinchi Han, Yongxi Lv, Weihao Jiang, Shuyuan Zhang, Yingming Mao, Shizhen Zhao, ZhuoRan Liu, Zhuotao Liu, Peirui Cao, Ximeng Liu, Xinbing Wang

Brain-on-Switch: Towards Advanced Intelligent Network Dataplane via NN-Driven Traffic Analysis at Line-Speed

Jinzhu Yan^*, Haotian Xu^*, Zhuotao Liu^†, Qi Li, Ke Xu, Mingwei Xu, Jianping Wu

† Corresponding author · * Equal contribution

CoGNN: Towards Secure and Efficient Collaborative Graph Learning

Zhenhua Zou, Zhuotao Liu^†, Jinyong Shan, Qi Li, Ke Xu, Mingwei Xu

† Corresponding author

Defending Against Data Reconstruction Attacks in Federated Learning: An Information Theory Approach

Qi Tan, Li Qi, Yi Zhao, Zhuotao Liu, Xiaobing Guo, Ke Xu

Detection of Adversarial Attacks via Disentangling Natural Images and Perturbations

Yuanyuan Qing, Tao Bai, Zhuotao Liu, Pierre Moulin, Bihan Wen

Effective DDoS Mitigation via ML-Driven In-Network Traffic Shaping

Ziming Zhao, Zhuotao Liu^†, Huan Chen, Fan Zhang, Zhuoxue Song, Zhaoxuan Li

† Corresponding author

Efficient clustering on encrypted data

Mengyu Zhang, Long Wang, Xiaoping Zhang, Zhuotao Liu, Yisong Wang, Han Bao

Enhancing the Resilience of LLMs Against Grey-box Extractions

Hanbo Huang, Yihan Li, Bowen Jiang, Bo Jiang, Lin Liu, Zhuotao Liu, Ruoyu Sun, Shiyu Liang

Learning with Semantics: Towards a Semantics-Aware Routing Anomaly Detection System

Yihao Chen, Qilei Yin, Qi Li, Zhuotao Liu, Ke Xu, Mingwei Xu, Ziqian Liu, Jianping Wu

Low-Quality Training Data Only? A Robust Framework for Detecting Encrypted Malicious Network Traffic

Yuqi Qing, Qilei Yin, Xinhao Deng, Yihao Chen, Zhuotao Liu, Kun Sun, Ke Xu, Jia Zhang, Qi Li

NetSentry: Scalable volumetric DDoS detection with programmable switches

Junchen Pan, Kunpeng He, Lei Zhang, Zhuotao Liu, Xinggong Zhang, Yong Cui

Pencil: Private and Extensible Collaborative Learning without Non-Colluding Assumption

Xuanqi Liu, Zhuotao Liu^†, Qi Li, Ke Xu, Mingwei Xu

† Corresponding author

Stable byzantine fault tolerance in wide area networks with unreliable links

Sitong Ling, Zhuotao Liu, Qi Li, Xinle Du, Jing Chen, Ke Xu

Towards Fine-Grained Webpage Fingerprinting at Scale

Xiyuan Zhao, Xinhao Deng, Qi Li, Yunpeng Liu, Zhuotao Liu, Kun Sun, Ke Xu

VFIX: Facilitating Software Maintenance of Smart Contracts via Automatically Fixing Vulnerabilities

Pengcheng Fang, Peng Gao, Yun Peng, Qingzhao Zhang, Tao Xie, Dawn Song, Prateek Mittal, Sanjeev Kulkarni, Zhuotao Liu, Xusheng Xiao

Automated Multi-Tab Website Fingerprinting Attack

Qilei Yin, Zhuotao Liu, Qi Li, Tao Wang, Qian Wang, Chao Shen, Yixiao Xu

Back-Propagating System Dependency Impact for Attack Investigation

Pengcheng Fang, Peng Gao, Changlin Liu, Erman Ayday, Kangkook Jee, Ting Wang, Tanfang (Fanny) Ye, Zhuotao Liu, Xusheng Xiao

DIP: unifying network layer innovations using shared L3 core functions

Ziqiang Wang, Zhuotao Liu, Xiaoliang Wang, Songtao Fu, Ke Xu

Dynamic Network Security Function Enforcement via Joint Flow and Function Scheduling

Qi Li, Xinhao Deng, Zhuotao Liu^†, Yuan Yang, Xiaoyue Zou, Qian Wang, Mingwei Xu, Jianping Wu

† Corresponding author

FlowTele: Remotely Shaping Traffic on Internet-Scale Networks

Bo-Rong Chen, Zhuotao Liu^†, Jinhui Song, Fanhui Zeng, Zhoushi Zhu, Siva Phani Keshav Bachu, Yih-Chun Hu

† Corresponding author

Good Learning, Bad Performance: A Novel Attack Against RL-Based Congestion Control Systems

Zijie Yang, Jiahao Cao, Zhuotao Liu^†, Xiaoli Zhang, Kun Sun, Qi Li

† Corresponding author

Make Web3.0 Connected

Zhuotao Liu, Yangxi Xiang, Jian Shi, Peng Gao, Haoyu Wang, Xusheng Xiao, Bihan Wen, Qi Li, Yih-Chun Hu

Practical differentially private online advertising

Jie Sun, Lingchen Zhao, Zhuotao Liu, Qi Li, Xinhao Deng, Qian Wang, Yong Jiang

RapidPatch: Firmware Hotpatching for Real-Time Embedded Devices

Yi He, Zhenhua Zou, Kun Sun, Zhuotao Liu, Ke Xu, Qian Wang, Chao Shen, Zhi Wang, Qi Li

Unsupervised Contextual Anomaly Detection for Database Systems

Sainan Li, Qilei Yin, Guoliang Li, Qi Li, Zhuotao Liu, Jinwei Zhu

Verifying the quality of outsourced training on clouds

Peiyang Li, Ye Wang, Zhuotao Liu, Ke Xu, Qian Wang, Chao Shen, Qi Li