Research Activities

Papers

2025

• Lei Ding, Mingrui Ai, Xinyi Luo, Meiqi Li, Yingjie Xue and Lutong Chen*. A Blockchain-Based Trustworthy Data Transmission Scheme in UAV Networks. IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China, 2025.
• Chensa Du, Jinrui Ma, Lutong Chen*, Xuanbo Huang, Yan Zhuang and Kaiping Xue*. PhishLens: An Interactive Phishing Email Training Platform with Customizable Email Generation. IEEE/CIC International Conference on Communications in China, 2025.
• Xuanbo Huang, Kaping Xue*, Lutong Chen, Jiangping Han, Jian Li, David S.L. Wei. ForenSiX: Automated Network Forensics and Diagnostics for Beyond-5G and 6G Networks Using Large Language Models. IEEE Network, 2025. [WEB]
• Dengfeng Fu, Yan Zhuang*, Lutong Chen, Xuanbo Huang, Huanjie Zhang and Kaiping Xue*. A NAT Network Host Probing Method Through NTP Traffic Analysis. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2025.
• Ye Zhang, Feng Wang*, Jianbin Zeng, Lutong Chen, Xuanbo Huang, Zhonghui Li, Kaiping Xue*. User Behavior-Based Dynamic Authentication Design for Enhanced Identity Security. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2025. (最佳论文奖) [News]
• Bing Yang,Zhonghui Li*,Kaiping Xue*,Lutong Chen,Qibin Sun,Jun Lu. SwappingBoost: Optimizing Entanglement Routing by Mitigating Bottlenecks in Quantum Networks. International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing (IWCMC 2025).[WEB]
• Yuqi Yang, Zhonghui Li, Jian Li*, Shaochuang Heng, Lutong Chen, Qibin Sun, Jun Lu. An On-demand Routing Scheme with QoS Provisioning for QKD Networks. International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC 2025). [WEB]

2024

• Zixu Huang, Xuanbo Huang, Kaiping Xue*, Jiangping Han, Lutong Chen, Qibin Sun, Jun Lu. Defending Against Link-Flooding Attacks with Adversary Interest Prediction and Grouped Online Load Balancing. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2024.[WEB]
• Xuanbo Huang, Kaiping Xue*, Zixu Huang, Jiangping Han, Lutong Chen, David S.L. Wei, Qibin Sun, Jun Lu. SpiderNet: Enabling Bot Identification in Network Topology Obfuscation against Link Flooding Attacks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2024. [WEB]
• Zhaoying Wang, Jian Li*, Zhonghui Li, Lutong Chen, Nenghai Yu, Qibin Sun and Jun Lu. Efficient Routing Design Based on Entanglement Flow Loss Effect in Quantum Networks. International Conference on Quantum Communications, Networking, and Computing (QCNC 2024), 2024. [WEB]
• Zhonghui Li, Jian Li*, Kaiping Xue*, Lutong Chen, Nenghai Yu, Qibin Sun, Jun Lu. NarrowGap: Reducing Bottlenecks for End-to-End Entanglement Distribution in Quantum Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2024. [WEB]
• Jinrui Ma, Lutong Chen, Kaiping Xue*, Bo Luo, Xuanbo Huang, Mingrui Ai, Huanjie Zhang, David S.L. Wei, Yan Zhuang. FakeBehalf: Imperceptible Email Spoofing Attacks against the Delegation Mechanism in Email Systems. USENIX Security'24. [WEB] [Paper] [Slides]
• Xuanbo Huang, Kaiping Xue*, Lutong Chen, Mingrui Ai, Huancheng Zhou, Bo Luo, Guofei Gu, Qibin Sun. You Can Obfuscate, but You Cannot Hide: CrossPoint Attacks against Network Topology Obfuscation. USENIX Security'24, 2024. [WEB] [Paper] [Slides]
• Lutong Chen, Kaiping Xue*, Jian Li, Zhonghui Li, Nenghai Yu. Q-CSKDF: A Continuous and Security Key Derivation Function for Quantum Key Distribution. IEEE Network, 2024. [WEB]
• Lutong Chen, Kaiping Xue*, Jian Li*, Zhonghui Li, Nenghai Yu. Security-Enhanced WireGuard Protocol Design using Quantum Key Distribution. International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC’ 2024), 2024. [WEB]
• Wu Jiaqi, Lutong Chen, Jing Zhang, Zixuan Huang, Zhonghui Li, Jian Li*, Kaiping Xue* and Nenghai Yu. A Distributed Routing Protocol Based on Key Reservation in Quantum Key Distribution Networks. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2024. [WEB]

Earlier

• Lutong Chen, Kaiping Xue*, Jian Li, Zhonghui Li, Ruidong Li, Nenghai Yu, Qibin Sun, Jun Lu. REDP: Reliable Entanglement Distribution Protocol Design for Large-scale Quantum Networks. IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC), 2023. [WEB]
• Lutong Chen, Kaiping Xue*, Jian Li, Ruidong Li, Nenghai Yu, Qibin Sun, Jun Lu. Q-DDCA: Decentralized Dynamic Congestion Avoid Routing in Large-Scale Quantum Networks. IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (ToN), 2023. [WEB]
• Lutong Chen, Kaiping Xue*, Jian Li*, Nenghai Yu, Ruidong Li, Qibin Sun, Jun Lu. SimQN: a Network-layer Simulator for the Quantum Network Investigation. IEEE Network, 2023. [WEB] [Code]
• Zhonghui Li, Kaiping Xue*, Jian Li, Lutong Chen, Ruidong Li, Zhaoying Wang, Nenghai Yu, David S. L. Wei, et al. Entanglement-Assisted Quantum Networks: Mechanics, Enabling Technologies, Challenges, and Research Directions. IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 2023.
• Lutong Chen, Kaiping Xue*, Jian Li, Nenghai Yu, Ruidong Li, Jianqing Liu, Qibin Sun, Jun Lu. A Heuristic Remote Entanglement Distribution Algorithm on Memory-Limited Quantum Paths. IEEE Transactions of Communications (TCOM), 2022. [WEB]
• Mingrui Ai, Kaiping Xue, Bo Luo, Lutong Chen, Nenghai Yu, Qibin Sun, Jun Lu. Blacktooth: Breaking through the Defense of Bluetooth in Silence. In Proceedings of 2022 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2022. [WEB]

Research Activities

• TPC member of the International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC’ 2025), 2025.
• TPC member of the IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM’ 2025), 2025.
• Session Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC’ 2024), 2024.
• Session Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC’ 2024), 2024.

Awards

• 2024/5/17, 2024年全国高校网络安全管理运维赛一等奖、华东赛区第一名.
• 2024/4, 中科院院长奖学金.
• 2023/12/01, 博士研究生国家奖学金.
• 2021/11/08, 2nd place in FinTechathon 2021, Blockchain race trace. (微众银行第三届金融科技高校技术大赛，区块链赛道第二名).