Zhimin Yang
Brief Bio
Zhimin Yang is a Ph.D student at the Department of Computer Science and
Engineering at The Ohio State University. His advisor is Dr. Dong Xuan.
His broad research interests are in the areas of Network Security and
Distributed Systems.
Research Interests
- Security in Wireless Local Area
Networks (WLANs): Security in WLANs has been receiving wide
attention these years due to the wide deployment of WLANs. The first
WLANs security standard, WEP, was shown to be weak across all aspects
of security services. The current WLANs security standards, WPA and
802.11i, are believed to provide satisfactory privacy, integrity/replay
protection. However, security vulnerabilities in authentication and
availability have been disclosed in recent years. We would like to
model those attacks, and propose defense mechanisms against them.
- Security in Wireless Sensor
Networks (WSNs)
- Localization in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Security in WEB Applications using
Mobile Phones
- Security in Smartphones
Publications
- Wenjun Gu, Zhimin
Yang, Can Que, Dong Xuan and Weijia Jia, On Security Vulnerabilities of
Null Data Frames in IEEE 802.11 based WLANs, in Proc. of
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), June 2008.
- Zhimin Yang,
Eylem Ekici and Dong Xuan, A
Localization-Based Anti-Sensor Network System, in
mini-symposia in conjunction with IEEE INFOCOM, May 2007.