Publication
Beatrice M. Cerda, Ester Martinez-Belmares, and Shengli Yuan, “Protection from Black Hole Attacks in Communication Networks,” Proceedings, 15th International Conference on Security and Management (SAM’17), in conjunction with 2017 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing. July 17-20, 2017, Las Vegas, USA
Beatrice M. Cerda, Ester Martinez-Belmares, and Shengli Yuan, “Detection and Protection against Black Hole Attacks in Wired Networks,” 28th HENAAC Conference. October 2016, Anaheim, CA. First place award in posters
Lila Ghemri and Shengli Yuan, “Teaching Mobile Security Using Modules,” Proceedings, 12th International Conference on Frontiers in Education: Compute Science and Computer Engineering (FECS’16), in conjunction with 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing. July 25-28, 2016, Las Vegas, USA
Joseph Flinn, Hen Su Choi-Ortiz, and Shengli Yuan, “A Secure Routing Scheme for Networks with Unknown or Dynamic Topology using A-star Algorithm,” Proceedings, 14th International Conference on Security and Management (SAM’16), in conjunction with 2016 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, & Applied Computing. July 25-28, 2016, Las Vegas, USA
Lila Ghemri and Shengli Yuan, “Security in Mobile Environments (A teaching module),” Proceedings, 23rd Annual Southwestern Business Administration Teaching Conference. Houston, TX. October 29 - 30, 2015
Joseph Flinn, Hen Su Choi-Ortiz, and Shengli Yuan, “A Secure Routing Scheme in Unknown Networks Using A-star Algorithm”. Proceedings, Computing Alliance of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (CAHSI) Summit 2015. September 10-12, 2015.
Mario Pagan, Audrey Hession, Shengli Yuan, “A Security-Enhanced Routing Algorithm with Path Randomization,” IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICN
Shengli Yuan and Daniel Stewart, “Protection of Optical Networks against Interchannel Eavesdropping and Jamming Attacks”, IEEE 2014 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI'14), March 10-13, 2014, Las Vegas, USA
Lei Chen, Narasimha Shashidhar, Shengli Yuan, and Ming Yang, "Chapter 4 - Security in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks", Wireless Network Security: Theories and Applications, Higher Education Press (HEP) & Springer. 2013.
Shengli Yuan, L. Chen and M. Yang, "Minimizing Interchannel Attacks in WDM Optical Networks," 4th International Conference on Future Computer and Communication (ICFCC 2012), Hong Kong, China, August 3 - 5, 2012.
Shengli Yuan and B. Wang, "Highly Available Path Routing in Mesh Networks Under Multiple Link Failures," IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 60, Issue 4, pp 823-832, Dec. 2011.M. Yang, L. Chen, Shengli Yuan, and W. Hu, "Secure Processing and Delivery of Medical Images for Patient Information Protection", Proceedings, 2011 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'11) under the 2011 World Congress in Computer Science, computer Engineering and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP 2011), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 18-21, 2011 Shengli Yuan, B. Raghavachari and L. Chen, "A threat-aware routing algorithm for maximum physical-layer
path survivability," IEEEGlobecom2010, December 5-10, Miami, FL
ARTICLES PUBLISHED
- S. Yuan, W. Waller and E. Delavina, "Heuristic algorithms for finding reliable lightpath under multiple failures,"Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Ultra Modern Telecommunications, October 2009
- S. Yuan, "Reliable lightpath routing in optical mesh networks under multiple link failures,” Proceedings, IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage, pp. 114-120, July 2009
- S. Yuan, "Maximum reliable path under multiple failures",Proceedings, the Internationals Conference on Computational and Information Science 2009, vol. 2, pp. 333-337, April 30 – May 2, 2009.
- S. Yuan, S. Varma and J. P. Jue, "Lightpath Routing for Maximum Reliability in Optical Mesh Networks," Journal of Optical Networking (OSA), vol. 7, no. 5, pp. 449-466, May 2008.
- S. Yuan, "Minimum-Multiplicity Routing Problems of Multimedia Communications,” Proceeding, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, pp. 919-922, July 2007.
- S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, "Dynamic Lightpath Protection in WDM Mesh Networks under Wavelength-Continuity and Risk-Disjoint Constraints," Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 91-112, June 2005.
- S. Yuan, S. Varma and J. P. Jue, "Minimum Color Problem for Reliability in Mesh Networks," Proceedings, IEEE INFOCOM, vol. 4, pp. 2658- 2669, March 2005.
- S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, "Dynamic Path Protection in WDM Mesh Networks under Wavelength Continuity Constraint,"Proceedings, IEEE Globecom, vol. 3, pp. 2019-2023, November 2004.
- S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, "Dynamic Path Protection in WDM Mesh Networks under Risk-Disjoint Constraint,"Proceedings, IEEE Globecom, vol. 3, pp. 1770-1774, November 2004.
- K. Lu, J. P. Jue, T. Zhang, S. Yuan, I. Chlamtac, G. Xiao, "Blocking Analysis of Multi-fiber Wavelength-Routed Networks," Proceedings, IEEE Globecom, vol. 3, pp. 1958-1962, November 2004.
- S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, "Shared Protection Routing Algorithm for Optical Networks,”SPIE Optical Network Magazine, vol. 3, May/June Issue, 2002.
- S. Yuan and J. P. Jue, "A Heuristic Routing Algorithm for Shared Protection in Connection-oriented Networks,"Proceedings, SPIE OptiComm, August, 2001
Book Chapter
Lei Chen, Narasimha Shashidhar, Shengli Yuan, and Ming Yang, "Chapter 4 - Security in Wireless Metropolitan Area Networks", Wireless Network Security: Theories and Applications, Higher Education Press (HEP) & Springer. 2013.
External Grants
· NSF CNS 1262928: REU Site: Research Experiences in Algorithm Design and Analysis for Students in Undergraduate Institutions, PI (previous PI: P. Chen), 9/2012 - 8/2015. Award amount: $ 358,734
· NSF DUE 1241661: Enriching Security Curricula and Enhancing Awareness of Security in Computer Science and Beyond, co-PI (PI: P. Chen), 9/2012 - 8/2015. Total joint award amount with UH, TSU: $ 770,454
· NSF CNS 0851984: Research Experiences in Algorithm Design and Analysis for Students in Undergraduate Institutions. Co-PI (PI: P. Chen), 6/1/2009 - 5/31/2012. Award amount: $ 308,288
· NSF MRI 0619312: Acquisition of a Computational Cluster Grid for Research and Education in Science and Mathematics. Co-PI (PI: H. Lin), 9/1/2006 - 8/31/2010. Award amount: $ 57,173
Internal Grants
Faculty Development Grant, 2015, University of Houston – Downtown
Faculty Development Grant, 2012, University of Houston – Downtown
Faculty Development Grant, 2009, University of Houston – Downtown
Faculty Development Grant, 2008, University of Houston – Downtown
Faculty Development Grant 2007, University of Houston – Downtown
Faculty Development Grant, 2005, University of Houston – Downtown
Organized Research Grant, 2013, University of Houston – Downtown
Organized Research Grant, 2011, University of Houston – Downtown
Organized Research Grant, 2009, University of Houston – Downtown
Organized Research Grant 2007, University of Houston – Downtown
Organized Research Grant 2005, University of Houston – Downtown
Awards
Excellence in Research Fellowship: Erik Johnson School of Engineering and Computer Science, the University of Texas at Dallas. ($24,000 annual stipend + full tuition)
Texas Public Education Grant Scholarship: the University of Texas at Dallas.
Doctoral Scholarship: the University of Texas at Dallas.
Truman Scholarship: Department of Electrical Engineering, the University of Missouri at Columbia.
Academic Interest
His main research interests include computer network reliability and security, communication algorithms, optical and wireless networks.
Book reviews:
Geoffrey Steinberg, Information Technology, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co., 2007.
K. Kazi, et al, Comprehensive Guide to Optical Networking Standards, Springer, 2004.
Hui Zang, WDM Networks, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
Journal reviews:
IEEE Transactions on Reliability, 2011 & 2012
International Journal of Network Protocols and Algorithms, 2009
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, 2009 & 2012
Computer Communications, 2005, 2006 & 2008
Journal of Communications and Networks, 2007
IEEE Multimedia, 2007
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, 2006
Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), 2005 & 2006
IEEE Communication Letters, 2006.
IEEE Journal of Systems and Software, 2006
IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2005
Conference reviews:
IEEE INFOCOM, 2009 & 2011
IEEE Global Communication Conference (GLOBECOM), 2003 – 2006, 2009, 2010, 2011
9th International Conference on Cybernetics and Information Technologies, Systems and Applications (CITSA) 2012
IEEE International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 2008.
The 12th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, 2008.
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 2007.
IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2003 - 2006
IEEE Broadband Optical Networking Symposium (BroadNets), 2004 & 2005
International Conference on Intelligent Technologies (InTech), 2004.
SPIE OptiComm, 2001-2003.
Professional Memberships
IEEE Senior Member.
Faculty Mentor, Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) since 2004.
