Yinglian Xie's Publications
Ph.D. Thesis
- Yinglian Xie, A Spatiotemporal Event Correlation Approach to Computer Security , August 2005
Conference/Workshop Papers
- Zhou Li, Sumayah Alrwais, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, and Xiaofeng Wang, Finding the Linchpins of the Dark Web: a Study on Topologically Dedicated Hosts on Malicious Web Infrastructures, in IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, 2013, to appear, IEEE, 19 May 2013
- Junxian Huang, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Qifa Ke, Martin Abadi, Eliot Gillum, and Z. Morley Mao, SocialWatch: Detection of Online Service Abuse via Large-Scale Social Graphs, in 8th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (AsiaCCS), to appear, ACM, 7 May 2013
- Martín Abadi, Andrew Birrell, Ilya Mironov, Ted Wobber, and Yinglian Xie, Global Authentication in an Untrustworthy World, in 14th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XIV), USENIX Association, May 2013
- Junjie Zhang, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, David Soukal, and Wenke Lee, Intention and Origination: An Inside Look at Large-Scale Bot Queries, in the 20th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2013, to appear, Internet Society, 26 February 2013
- Junxian Huang, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Qifa Ke, Martin Abadi, Eliot Gillum, and Z. Morley Mao, SocialWatch: Detection of Online Service Abuse via Large-Scale Social Graphs, no. MSR-TR-2013-24, 20 February 2013
- Zhou Li, Kehuan Zhang, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, and Xiaofeng Wang, Knowing Your Enemy: Understanding and Detecting Malicious Web Advertising, in ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, October 2012
- Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Qifa Ke, Martin Abadi, Eliot Gillum, Krish Vitaldevaria, Jason Walter, Junxian Huang, and Z. Morley Mao, Innocent by Association: Early Recognition of Legitimate Users, in ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, October 2012
- Chi-Yao Hong, Fang Yu, and Yinglian Xie, Populated IP Addresses: Classification and Applications, in ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, October 2012
- Zhiyun Qian, Z. Morley Mao, and Yinglian Xie, Collaborative TCP Sequence Number Inference Attack: How to Crack Sequence Number Under A Second, in ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), ACM, October 2012
- Rina Panigrahy, Marc Najork, and Yinglian Xie, How User Behavior is Related to Social Affinity, in 5th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), ACM, February 2012
- Ting-Fang Yen, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Roger Peng Yu, and Martin Abadi, Host Fingerprinting and Tracking on the Web:Privacy and Security Implications, in The 19th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2012, Internet Society, February 2012
- John P John, Fang Yu, Yinglian Xie, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Martin Abadi, deSEO: Combating Search-Result Poisoning, in Usenix Security Symposium, USENIX, August 2011
- Ding Yuan, Yinglian Xie, Rina Panigrahy, Junfeng Yang, Chad Verbowski, and Arunvijay Kumar, Context-based Online Configuration-Error Detection, in The 2011 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, USENIX, June 2011
- Qifa Ke, Vijayan Prabhakaran, Yinglian Xie, Yuan Yu, Jingyue Wu, and Junfeng Yang, Optimizing Data Partitioning for Data-Parallel Computing, in Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS XIII), USENIX, May 2011
- John P. John, Fang Yu, Yinglian Xie, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Martin Abadi, Heat-seeking Honeypots: Design and Experience, WWW 2011, March 2011
- Andreas Pitsillidis, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Martin Abadi, Geofferey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage, How to Tell an Airport from a Home: Techniques and Applications, in HotNets 2010, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., October 2010
- John P. John, Fang Yu, Yinglian Xie, Martin Abadi, and Arvind Krishnamurthy, Searching the Searchers with SearchAudit, in USENIX Security Symposium, USENIX, August 2010
- Feng Qian, Abhinav Pathak, Y. Charlie Hu, Z. Morley Mao, and Yinglian Xie, A Case for Unsupervised-Learning-based Spam Filtering (Extended Abstract), in SIGMETRICS 2010, June 2010
- Zhiyun Qian, Zhuoqing Morley Mao, Yinglian Xie, and Fang Yu, Investigation of Triangular Spamming: a Stealthy and Efficient Spamming Technique , in IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) 2010, May 2010
- Zhiyun Qian, Zhuoqing Mao, Yinglian Xie, and Fang Yu, On Network-level Clusters for Spam Detection, in The 17th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) 2010, February 2010
- Fang Yu, Yinglian Xie, and Qifa Ke, SBotMiner: Large Scale Search Bot Detection, in ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM), February 2010
- Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, and Martin Abadi, De-anonymizing the Internet Using Unreliable IDs, in ACM SIGCOMM, August 2009
- Yao Zhao, Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Qifa Ke, Yuan Yu, Yan Chen, and Eliot Gillum, BotGraph: Large Scale Spamming Botnet Detection, in The 6th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '09), USENIX, April 2009
- Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Kannan Achan, Rina Panigrahy, Geoff Hulten, and Ivan Osipkov, Spamming Botnet: Signatures and Characteristics, in ACM SIGCOMM 2008, Seattle, WA, August 2008
- Yinglian Xie, Fang Yu, Kannan Achan, Eliot Gillum, Moisés Goldszmidt, and Ted Wobber, How Dynamic are IP Addresses, in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, Inc., Kyoto, Japan, August 2007
- Úlfar Erlingsson, Benjamin Livshits, and Yinglian Xie, End-to-End Web Application Security, in Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on Hot Topics in Operating Systems (HotOS'07), San Diego, CA, May 2007
- Jimeng Sun, Yinglian Xie, Hui Zhang, and Christos Faloutsos, Less is More: Compact Matrix Decomposition for Large Sparse Graphs(Best research paper award!), in the 2007 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM), Minneapolis, MN, April 2007
- Yinglian Xie, David O'Hallaron, and Mike Reiter, Protecting Privacy in Key-Value Search Systems, in the 2006 Annual Computer Security Applications Conference (ACSAC 06), Miami Beach, FL, December 2006
- Yinglian Xie, Vyas Sekar, Mike Reiter, and Hui Zhang, Forensic Analysis for Epidemic Attacks in Federated Networks, in the 14th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP 06), Santa Barbara, CA, November 2006
- Yuezhi Zhou, Yaoxue Zhang, and Yinglian Xie, Virtual Disk based Centralized Management for Enterprise Networks, in ACM Sigcomm Workshop on Internet Network Managment (INM 06), Pisa, Italy, September 2006
- Vyas Sekar, Yinglian Xie, Dave Maltz, Michael Reiter, and Hui Zhang, A Multi-Resolution Approach For Worm Detection and Containment, in IEEE/IFIP DSN 2006, Philadelphia, PA, June 2006
- Yinglian Xie, Vyas Sekar, David A. Maltz, Michael K. Reiter, and Hui Zhang, Worm Origin Identification Using Random Moonwalks, in IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, May 2005
- Vyas Sekar, Yinglian Xie, David Maltz, Michael Reiter, and Hui Zhang, Toward a Framework For Internet Forensic Analysis , in Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets) 2004, November 2004
- Yinglian Xie, Hyang-ah Kim, David O'Hallaron, Michael Reiter, and Hui Zhang, Seurat: A Pointillist Approach to Anomaly Detection , in Proc. of The Seventh International Symposium on Recent Advances in Intrusion Detection (RAID), September 2004
- Yinglian Xie, David O'Hallaron, and Michael Reiter, A Secure Distributed Search System , in Proc. of The Eleventh IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC), July 2002
- Yinglian Xie and David O'Hallaron, Locality in Search Engine Queries and Its Implications for Caching , in Proc. of the Infocom 2002, June 2002
- Balachander Krishnamurthy, Jia Wang, and Yinglian Xie, Early Measurements of a Cluster-based Architecture for P2P Systems , in Proc. of the ACM SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Workshop, November 2001
- Andy Myers, John Chuang, Urs Hengartner, Yinglian Xie, Weiqiang Zhuang, and Hui Zhang, A Secure, Publisher-Centric Web Caching Infrasture , in Proc. of the Infocom, June 2001
