A. Stavrou

Most-cited papers

The Mirai botnet and the IoT Zombie Armies
G. Kambourakis, C. Kolias, A. Stavrou
2017IEEE Military Communications Conference208 citations
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PILOT: High-Precision Indoor Localization for Autonomous Drones
Alireza Famili, A. Stavrou, Haining Wang, J. Park
2022IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology77 citations Open access
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FIRMSCOPE: Automatic Uncovering of Privilege-Escalation Vulnerabilities in Pre-Installed Apps in Android Firmware
Mohamed Elsabagh, Ryan V. Johnson, A. Stavrou, Chaoshun Zuo +2 more
2020USENIX Security Symposium64 citations
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iDROP: Robust Localization for Indoor Navigation of Drones With Optimized Beacon Placement
Alireza Famili, A. Stavrou, Haining Wang, J. Park
2022IEEE Internet of Things Journal43 citations Open access
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End-Users Get Maneuvered: Empirical Analysis of Redirection Hijacking in Content Delivery Networks
Shuai Hao, Yubao Zhang, Hai-Ning Wang, A. Stavrou
2018USENIX Security Symposium40 citations
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Securing Your Airspace: Detection of Drones Trespassing Protected Areas
Alireza Famili, A. Stavrou, Haining Wang, Jung-Min Park +1 more
2021Italian National Conference on Sensors36 citations Open access
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Distributed Ledger Technologies
F. Douglis, A. Stavrou
2020IEEE Internet Computing35 citations Open access
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Securing 5G OpenRAN with a Scalable Authorization Framework for xApps
Tolga O. Atalay, Sudip Maitra, Dragoslav Stojadinovic, A. Stavrou +1 more
2022IEEE Conference on Computer Communications29 citations Open access
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Detecting ROP with Statistical Learning of Program Characteristics
Mohamed Elsabagh, Daniel Barbará, D. Fleck, A. Stavrou
2017Conference on Data and Application Security and Privacy29 citations Open access
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FedMADE: Robust Federated Learning for Intrusion Detection in IoT Networks Using a Dynamic Aggregation Method
Shihua Sun, Pragya Sharma, Kenechukwu Nwodo, A. Stavrou +1 more
2024Information Security Conference27 citations
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Function Secret Sharing for PSI-CA: With Applications to Private Contact Tracing
S. Dittmer, Y. Ishai, Steve Lu, R. Ostrovsky +4 more
2020IACR Cryptology ePrint Archive26 citations
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OPTILOD: Optimal Beacon Placement for High-Accuracy Indoor Localization of Drones
Alireza Famili, A. Stavrou, Haining Wang, J. Park
2022Italian National Conference on Sensors25 citations Open access
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RAIL: Robust Acoustic Indoor Localization for Drones
Alireza Famili, A. Stavrou, Haining Wang, J. Park
2021IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference25 citations Open access
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Scaling Network Slices with a 5G Testbed: A Resource Consumption Study
Tolga O. Atalay, Dragoslav Stojadinovic, A. Stavrou, Haining Wang
2022IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference24 citations
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OFDRA: Optimal Femtocell Deployment for Accurate Indoor Positioning of RIS-Mounted AVs
Alireza Famili, Tolga O. Atalay, A. Stavrou, Haining Wang +1 more
2023IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications23 citations
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Microservices made attack-resilient using unsupervised service fissioning
A. F. Baarzi, G. Kesidis, D. Fleck, A. Stavrou
2020EuroSec@EuroSys21 citations Open access
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Verified Time
A. Stavrou, J. Voas
2017Computer19 citations
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Detecting and Measuring Misconfigured Manifests in Android Apps
Yu-Qing Yang, Mohamed Elsabagh, Chaoshun Zuo, Ryan V. Johnson +2 more
2022Conference on Computer and Communications Security18 citations
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Network-Slice-as-a-Service Deployment Cost Assessment in an End-to-End 5G Testbed
Tolga O. Atalay, Dragoslav Stojadinovic, Alireza Famili, A. Stavrou +1 more
2022Global Communications Conference18 citations
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Partner in Crime: Boosting Targeted Poisoning Attacks Against Federated Learning
Shihua Sun, Shridatt Sugrim, A. Stavrou, Haining Wang
2024IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security17 citations Open access
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Isochrons in tunable photonic oscillators and applications in precise positioning
Georgia Himona, Alireza Famili, A. Stavrou, V. Kovanis +1 more
2023OPTO17 citations
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21 Years of Distributed Denial-of-Service: A Call to Action
E. Osterweil, A. Stavrou, Li-Xia Zhang
2020Computer17 citations
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21 Years of Distributed Denial-of Service: Current State of Affairs
E. Osterweil, A. Stavrou, Li-Xia Zhang
2020Computer15 citations
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SPIN: Sensor Placement for Indoor Navigation of Drones
Alireza Famili, A. Stavrou, Haining Wang, J. Park
2022IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications14 citations
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Demystifying 5G Traffic Patterns with an Indoor RAN Measurement Campaign
Tolga O. Atalay, Alireza Famili, Dragoslav Stojadinovic, A. Stavrou
2023Global Communications Conference13 citations
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Streaming and Unbalanced PSI from Function Secret Sharing
S. Dittmer, Y. Ishai, Steve Lu, R. Ostrovsky +4 more
2022International Conference on Security and Cryptography for Networks13 citations
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Stars and Towers on the Wheels: Global Perspective on Satellite Networks vs. Terrestrial 5G
A. Ghafoori, Alireza Famili, A. Stavrou
2024Global Communications Conference12 citations
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DEFInit: An Analysis of Exposed Android Init Routines
Yuede Ji, Mohamed Elsabagh, Ryan V. Johnson, A. Stavrou
2021USENIX Security Symposium12 citations
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Detecting and Characterizing Web Bot Traffic in a Large E-commerce Marketplace
Haitao Xu, Zhao Li, Chen Chu, Yuanmi Chen +4 more
2018European Symposium on Research in Computer Security12 citations
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Wi-Five: Optimal Placement of Wi-Fi Routers in 5G Networks for Indoor Drone Navigation
Alireza Famili, Tolga O. Atalay, A. Stavrou, Haining Wang
2023IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference11 citations
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Cybertrust in the IoT Age
J. Voas, Rick Kuhn, C. Kolias, A. Stavrou +1 more
2018Computer11 citations Open access
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Preliminary study of fission defenses against low-volume DoS attacks on proxied multiserver systems
Y. Shan, G. Kesidis, D. Fleck, A. Stavrou
2017International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software11 citations
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An Empirical Investigation of Ecommerce-Reputation-Escalation-as-a-Service
Haitao Xu, Daiping Liu, Hai-Ning Wang, A. Stavrou
2017ACM Transactions on the Web11 citations
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Dial "N" for NXDomain: The Scale, Origin, and Security Implications of DNS Queries to Non-Existent Domains
Guan-Nan Liu, Lin Jin, Shuai Hao, Yubao Zhang +3 more
2023ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference10 citations Open access
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Wi-Six: Precise Positioning in the Metaverse via Optimal Wi-Fi Router Deployment in 6G Networks
Alireza Famili, Tolga O. Atalay, A. Stavrou, Haining Wang
20232023 IEEE International Conference on Metaverse Computing, Networking and Applications (MetaCom)10 citations
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GPS Spoofing Detection by Leveraging 5G Positioning Capabilities
Alireza Famili, M. Foruhandeh, Tolga O. Atalay, A. Stavrou +1 more
2022IEEE Latin-American Conference on Communications10 citations
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Certificate Transparency in Google Chrome: Past, Present, and Future
Emily Stark, Joe DeBlasio, Devon O'Brien, D. Balzarotti +3 more
2021IEEE Security and Privacy10 citations Open access
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Towards Transparent Debugging
Feng-Wei Zhang, Kevin Leach, A. Stavrou, Hai-Ning Wang
2018IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing10 citations
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5G-WAVE: A Core Network Framework with Decentralized Authorization for Network Slices
Pragya Sharma, Tolga O. Atalay, Hans Andrew Gibbs, Dragoslav Stojadinovic +2 more
2024IEEE Conference on Computer Communications9 citations Open access
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ViTGuard: Attention-aware Detection against Adversarial Examples for Vision Transformer
Shihua Sun, Kenechukwu Nwodo, Shridatt Sugrim, A. Stavrou +1 more
2024Asia-Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference9 citations Open access
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20 Years of DDoS: a Call to Action
E. Osterweil, A. Stavrou, Li-Xia Zhang
2019arXiv.org9 citations
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Towards xApp Conflict Evaluation with Explainable Machine Learning and Causal Inference in O-RAN
Pragya Sharma, Shihua Sun, Prachi Badarayani, A. Stavrou +1 more
2025Conference on Network Function Virtualization and Software Defined Network8 citations Open access
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Revealing Protocol Architecture’s Design Patterns in the Volumetric DDoS Defense Design Space
Zhiyi Zhang, Guorui Xiao, Sichen Song, R. Aygun +3 more
2025IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials8 citations
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An OpenRAN Security Framework for Scalable Authentication, Authorization, and Discovery of xApps With Isolated Critical Services
Tolga O. Atalay, Sudip Maitra, Dragoslav Stojadinovic, A. Stavrou +1 more
2025IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing8 citations
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Vehicular Teamwork for Better Positioning
Alireza Famili, V. Slyusar, Yun-Ho Lee, A. Stavrou
2023IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics8 citations
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A First Look at 5G Core Deployments on Public Cloud: Performance Evaluation of Control and User Planes
Tolga O. Atalay, Dragoslav Stojadinovic, Alireza Famili, A. Stavrou +1 more
2023arXiv.org8 citations
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Characterization of AES Implementations on Microprocessor-based IoT Devices
Sunanda Roy, A. Stavrou, Brian L. Mark, Kai Zeng +2 more
2022IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference8 citations
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Your data in your hands: Privacy-preserving user behavior models for context computation
Rahul Murmuria, A. Stavrou, Daniel Barbará, Vincent Sritapan
20172017 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)8 citations
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Revisiting the Spaceborne Illuminators of Opportunity for Airborne Object Tracking
John Robie, Alireza Famili, A. Stavrou
2023Computer7 citations Open access
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Understanding the Security Implication of Aborting Virtual Machine Live Migration
Xing Gao, Jidong Xiao, Hai-Ning Wang, A. Stavrou
2022IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing7 citations Open access
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