Publications

ProfP.-Y. Chen, S.-M. Cheng, W. C. Ao, H.-Y. Hsu, and K.-C. Chen, "Delay models for epidemic-like routing in multihop secondary networks," invited chapter in Introduction to Cognitive Radio Networks and Applications, G. Tomar, A. Bagwari, and J. Kanti (eds.), CRC Press, July 2016.

ProfS.-M. Cheng, P.-Y. Chen, and K.-C. Chen, "Malware propagation and control in Internet of Things," invited chapter in Security and Privacy in Internet of Things (IoTs): Models, Algorithms, and Implementations, F. Hu (ed.), CRC Press, Mar. 2016.

ProfS.-M. Cheng and K.-C. Chen, "Cognitive radios to mitigate interference in macro/femto heterogeneous networks," invited chapter in Heterogeneous Cellular Networks, R. Q. Hu and Y. Qian (eds.), Wiley, June 2013.

ProfC.-F. Hung, S.-H. Chang, T.-Y. Hsieh, S.-M. Cheng, T. Ban, and T. Takahashi, "Conformance Testing of F1AP Protocol in 5G O-RAN", IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 7, pp. 407–420, Jan. 2026.

ProfC.-F. Hung, C.-C. Kuo, and S.-M. Cheng, "Low-rate Denial-of-Service attack detection in Open Radio Access Network: Integrating federated learning", IEEE Vehicular Technology Magazine, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 75–83, Dec. 2025. SI on AI for 6G O-RAN Intelligent, Cost-Efficient and Secure Automation

ProfC.-H. Yang, B. M. Maina, S.-M. Cheng, and H.-M. Lee, "An adversarial attack on artificial intelligence malware detection in consumer Internet of Things", IEEE Consumer Electronic Magazine, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 53–66, May/June 2025. SI on Adversarial Examples in CE: Deceptive Threats to AI Systems

ProfC.-F. Hung, C.-H. Tseng, and S.-M. Cheng, "Anomaly detection for mitigating xApp and E2 interface threats in O-RAN Near-RT RIC", IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 6, pp. 1682–1694, Mar. 2025.

ProfG.-Y. Lin, P.-Y. Wang, S.-M. Cheng, and H.-M. Lee, "Improving robustness in IoT malware detection through execution order analysis", ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, vol. 24, no. 1, Jan. 2025.

ProfM. B. Mwangi and S.-M. Cheng, "An adversarial attack on ML-based IoT malware detection using binary diversification techniques", IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 185172–185186, Dec. 2024.

ProfS.-M. Cheng, Y.-C. Lui, N.-J. Tsai, and B.-K. Hong, "Toward intelligent IoT endpoint detection and response using digital twins via firmware emulation", IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, vol. 7, no. 6, pp. 20–26, Nov. 2024. SI on IoT Security and Provisioning in Cyber-Enabled Niche Critical Infrastructure

ProfC.-F. Hung, Y.-R. Chen, C.-H. Tseng, and S.-M. Cheng, "Security threats to xApps access control and E2 interface in O-RAN", IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society, vol. 5, pp. 1197–1203, Feb. 2024. Top O-RAN Papers of 2024–2025 in OJCOMS

ProfR. Kaliski and S.-M. Cheng, "Supporting 6G mission critical services on O-RAN", IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 32–37, Sep. 2023. SI on 6G Mission-Critical IoT

ProfC.-Y. Wu, T. Ban, S.-M. Cheng, T. Takahashi, and D. Inoue, "IoT malware classification based on reinterpreted function-call graphs", Computers & Security, vol. 125, Feb. 2023.

ProfB.-R. Chen, S.-M. Cheng, and M. B. Mwangi, "A mobility-based epidemic model for IoT malware spread," IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 107929–107941, Oct. 2022.

ProfS.-M. Cheng, B.-K. Hong, and C.-F. Hung, "Attack detection and mitigation in MEC-Enabled 5G networks for AIoT," IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 76–81, Sep. 2022. SI on Secure Communications over IoAIT

ProfZ. Kotulski, W. Niewolski, T. Nowak, M. Sepczuk, R.-H. Hsu, S.-M. Cheng, S.-C. Chang, T.-Y. Yu, and C.-F. Hung, "ACMEC — Access control in 5G MEC, joint research project of NTUST and WUT," Telecommunications Review – Telecommunications News, vol. 4, pp. 172–176, Apr. 2022.

ProfC.-H. Lee, R. Y. Chang, S.-M. Cheng, C.-H. Lin, and C.-H. Hsiao, "Joint beamforming and power allocation for M2M/H2H co-existence in green dynamic TDD networks," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 6, pp. 4799–4815, Mar. 2022.

ProfT.-L. Wan, T. Ban, S.-M. Cheng, Y.-T. Lee, B. Sun, R. Isawa, T. Takahashi, and D. Inoue, "An efficient approach to detect and classify IoT malware based on byte sequences from executable files," IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society, vol. 1, pp. 262–275, Nov. 2020.

ProfS.-Y. Lien, D.-J. Deng, C.-C. Lin, H.-L. Tsai, T. Chen, C. Cuo, and S.-M. Cheng, "3GPP NR sidelink transmissions toward 5G V2X," IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 35368–35382, Feb. 2020.

ProfY.-C. Li and S.-M. Cheng, "Privacy preserved mobile sensing using region-based group signature," IEEE Access, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 61556–61568, Dec. 2018.

ProfS.-C. Hung, H. Hsu, S.-M. Cheng, Q. Chu, and K.-C. Chen, "Delay guaranteed network association for mobile machines in heterogeneous cloud radio access network," IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 2744–2760, Dec. 2018.

ProfP.-Y. Chen, S.-M. Cheng, and M.-H. Sung, "Analysis of data dissemination and control in Social Internet of Vehicles," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 2467–2477, Aug. 2018. SI on Recent Advances on Social Internet of Vehicles

ProfP.-Y. Chen, S.-M. Cheng, and H.-Y. Hsu, "Analysis of information delivery dynamics in cognitive sensor networks using epidemic models," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 2333–2342, Aug. 2018. SI on Cognitive Internet of Things

ProfY.-J. Liu, S.-M. Cheng, and Y.-L. Hsueh, "eNB selection for machine type communications using reinforcement learning based Markov decision process," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 66, no. 12, pp. 11330–11338, Dec. 2017.

ProfS.-M. Cheng, P.-Y. Chen, C.-C. Lin, and H.-C. Hsiao, "Traffic-aware patching for cyber security in mobile IoT," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 55, no. 7, pp. 29–35, July 2017. SI on Traffic Measurements for Cyber Security · IEEE Xplore Innovation Spotlight

ProfS.-Y. Lien, S.-M. Cheng, K.-C. Chen, and D. I. Kim, "Resource-optimal licensed-assisted access in heterogeneous cloud RAN with heterogeneous carrier communications," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 65, no. 12, pp. 9915–9930, Dec. 2016.

ProfP.-Y. Chen, C.-C. Lin, S.-M. Cheng, H.-C. Hsiao, and C.-Y. Huang, "Decapitation via digital epidemics: A bio-inspired transmissive attack," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 54, no. 6, pp. 75–81, June 2016. SI on Bio-inspired Cyber Security

ProfP.-Y. Chen, S.-M. Cheng, P.-S. Ting, C.-W. Lien, and F.-J. Chu, "When crowdsourcing meets mobile sensing: A social network perspective," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 53, no. 10, pp. 157–163, Oct. 2015.

ProfP.-Y. Chen and S.-M. Cheng, "Sequential defense against random and intentional attacks in complex networks," Physical Review E, vol. 91, no. 2, p. 022805, Feb. 2015.

ProfP.-Y. Chen, S.-M. Cheng, and K.-C. Chen, "Optimal control of epidemic information dissemination over networks," IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 2316–2328, Dec. 2014.

ProfP.-Y. Chen, S.-M. Cheng, and K.-C. Chen, "Information fusion to defend intentional attack in Internet of Things," IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 337–348, Aug. 2014.

ProfS.-Y. Lien, S.-M. Cheng, and K.-C. Chen, "Interference mitigation in CR-enabled heterogeneous networks," IEICE Transactions on Communications, vol. E96-B, no. 6, June 2013. (invited)

ProfD. Liau, K.-C. Chen, and S.-M. Cheng, "A predator-prey model for dynamics of cognitive radios," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 467–470, Mar. 2013.

PostdocS.-Y. Lien, S.-M. Cheng, S.-Y. Shih, and K.-C. Chen, "Radio resource management for QoS guarantees in cyber-physical systems," IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 1752–1761, Sep. 2012.

PostdocP.-Y. Chen, S.-M. Cheng, and K.-C. Chen, "Smart attacks in smart grid communication networks," IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 50, no. 8, pp. 24–29, Aug. 2012. SI on Cyber Security for Smart Grid · IEEE COMSOC Technology News, Sep. 2012

PostdocS.-M. Cheng, W. C. Ao, F.-M. Tseng, and K.-C. Chen, "Design and analysis of downlink spectrum sharing in two-tier cognitive femto networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 2194–2207, June 2012.

PostdocW. C. Ao, S.-M. Cheng, and K.-C. Chen, "Connectivity of multiple cooperative cognitive radio ad hoc networks," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, vol. 30, no. 2, pp. 263–270, Feb. 2012.

PostdocS.-M. Cheng, P.-Y. Chen, and K.-C. Chen, "Ecology of cognitive radio ad hoc networks," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 764–766, July 2011.

PostdocS.-M. Cheng, S.-Y. Lien, F.-S. Chu, and K.-C. Chen, "On exploiting cognitive radio to mitigate interference in Macro/femto heterogeneous networks," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 40–47, June 2011.

PostdocS.-M. Cheng, W. C. Ao, and K.-C. Chen, "Efficiency of a cognitive radio link with opportunistic interference mitigation," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 1715–1720, June 2011.

PostdocS.-M. Cheng, W. C. Ao, P.-Y. Chen, and K.-C. Chen, "On modeling malware propagation in generalized social networks," IEEE Communications Letters, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 25–27, Jan. 2011.

PostdocC.-K. Yu, K.-C. Chen, and S.-M. Cheng, "Cognitive radio network tomography," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 59, no. 4, pp. 1980–1997, May 2010.

PhDP. Lin, S.-M. Cheng, and W. Liao, "Modeling key caching for mobile IP authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) services," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 58, no. 7, pp. 3596–3608, Sep. 2009.

PhDY.-C. Lai, P. Lin, and S.-M. Cheng, "Performance modeling for application-level integration of heterogeneous wireless networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 2426–2434, June 2009.

PhDM. Guizani, P. Lin, S.-M. Cheng, D.-W. Huang, and H.-L. Fu, "Performance evaluation for minislot allocation for wireless mesh networks," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 57, no. 6, pp. 3732–3745, Nov. 2008.

PhDS.-M. Cheng, W.-R. Lai, P. Lin, and K.-C. Chen, "Key management for UMTS MBMS," IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 7, no. 9, pp. 3619–3628, Sep. 2008.

PhDP. Lin, H.-M. Chang, Y. Fang, and S.-M. Cheng, "HISNs: distributed gateways for application-level integration of heterogenous wireless networks," ACM Wireless Network, vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 71–85, Feb. 2008.

PhDR.-G. Cheng, S.-M. Cheng, and P. Lin, "Power-efficient routing (PER) mechanism for ODMA systems," IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 55, no. 4, pp. 1311–1319, July 2006.

PhDS.-M. Cheng, P. Lin, G.-H. Tu, L.-C. Fu, and C.-F. Liang, "An intelligent GGSN dispatching mechanism for UMTS," Computer Communications, vol. 28, no. 8, pp. 947–955, May 2005.

ProfP.-L. Lai, T. Ban, and S.-M. Cheng, "Seeing through compression: Static detection of packed IoT malware", in Proc. ICICS 2026, Fukui, Japan, Oct. 2026.

ProfG.-J. Lin, C.-F. Hung, C.-H. Ke, and S.-M. Cheng, "Race condition attack on E2 subscription in O-RAN near-RT RIC", in Proc. ICBIR 2026, Bangkok, Thailand, May 2026. Best Paper Award

ProfT.-J. Wu, C.-F. Hung, W.-H. Dai, and S.-M. Cheng, "Malicious rApps for eavesdropping and data exfiltration in O-RAN Non-RT RIC", in Proc. CANDAR 2025, Yamagata, Japan, Nov. 2025.

ProfI-C. Cheng, T. Ban, S.-M. Cheng, T. Takahashi, and W.-C. Teng, "Rule-based function call graph refinement for enhanced IoT malware detection", in Proc. IEEE CyberSciTech 2025, Hakodate, Japan, Oct. 2025.

ProfY.-S. Cheng, T. Ban, S.-M. Cheng, T. Takahashi, and W.-C. Teng, "Lightweight, architecture-agnostic IoT malware detection via printable strings", in Proc. ACM CCS – ARTMAN Workshop 2025, Taipei, Oct. 2025.

ProfY.-C. Lin, T. Ban, S.-M. Cheng, T. Takahashi, and W.-C. Teng, "Cross-architecture IoT malware analysis using P-code intermediate representation", in Proc. ACM CCS – ARTMAN Workshop 2025, Taipei, Oct. 2025.

ProfT.-Y. Hsieh, P.-H. Chen, C.-F. Hung, and S.-M. Cheng, "Enabling hybrid edge-level threat detection in O-RAN private networks for resilience enhancement", in Proc. IEEE CNS – Cyber Resilience Workshop 2025, Avignon, France, Sep. 2025.

ProfM.-Y. Chen, T. Ban, S.-M. Cheng, and T. Takahashi, "TOM-Net: Few-shot IoT malware classification via open-set aware transductive meta-learning", in Proc. PST 2025, Fredericton, Canada, Aug. 2025.

ProfY.-C. Chiu, M. B. Mwangi, S.-M. Cheng, and H.-M. Lee, "Structural backdoor attack on IoT malware detectors via graph explainability", in Proc. ICST – SAFE-ML Workshop 2025, Naples, Italy, Mar. 2025.

ProfW.-R. Zhuang, T. Ban, S.-M. Cheng, T. Morikawa, and T. Takahashi, "Novel malware similarity analysis: Regional longest common substring algorithm with elastic suffix tree", in Proc. I-SPAN 2025, Bangkok, Jan. 2025.

ProfM.-Y. Chen, T. Ban, S.-M. Cheng, and T. Takahashi, "Classifying IoT malware with limited data: A few-shot learning framework", in Proc. ICONIP 2024, Auckland, NZ, Dec. 2024.

ProfW.-J. Liao, T. Ban, S.-M. Cheng, and T. Takahashi, "Reinterpreting system calls for enhanced IoT malware analysis using function call graphs," in Proc. ICISC 2024, Seoul, Nov. 2024. Best Paper Award

ProfS.-M. Cheng, B.-H. ChangChien, W.-H. Lin, C.-C. Fan, C.-Y. Chen, and C.-C. Liao, "A highly scalable automated universal binary malware analysis framework for healthcare and medical SaaS", in Proc. ICMHI 2024, Yokohama, May 2024, pp. 102–107.

ProfJ.-W. Huang, N.-J. Tsai, and S.-M. Cheng, "Poster: Discovering authentication bypass vulnerabilities in IoT devices through guided concolic execution," in Proc. NDSS 2024, San Diego, Feb. 2024.

ProfY.-T. Cheng and S.-M. Cheng, "Firmulti Fuzzer: Discovering multi-process vulnerabilities in IoT devices with full system emulation and VMI," in Proc. ACM CCS – CPSIoTSec Workshop 2023, Copenhagen, Nov. 2023.

ProfC.-H. Tseng, C.-F. Hung, B.-K. Hong, and S.-M. Cheng, "On manipulating routing table to realize redirect attacks in O-RAN by malicious xApp," in Proc. IEEE WPMC 2023, Tampa, FL, Nov. 2023.

ProfG.-Y. Lin, M. H. Lin, C.-F. Hung, and S.-M. Cheng, "Hash-based function call graph fusion method for IoT malware detection," in Proc. IEEE WPMC 2023, Tampa, FL, Nov. 2023.

ProfF. Lo, S.-M. Cheng, and R. Kaliski, "Optimization of lightweight malware detection models for AIoT devices," in Proc. IEEE WF-IoT 2023, Aveiro, Portugal, Oct. 2023.

ProfG.-Y. Lin, S.-M. Cheng, and H.-M. Lee, "A framework for robustness evaluation in AI-based malware detectors," in Proc. IEEE ICCE-TW 2023, Pingtung, July 2023.

ProfJ.-H. Huang, S.-M. Cheng, R. Kaliski, and C.-F. Hung, "Developing xApps for rogue base station detection in SDR-enabled O-RAN," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM – NG-OPERA Workshop 2023, Hoboken, NJ, May 2023.

ProfY.-X. Lin, B.-K. Hong, and S.-M. Cheng, "Conformance testing for 5G O-RAN entities through MEC," in Proc. CANDAR 2022, Himeji, Japan, Nov. 2022.

ProfC.-Y. Wu, T. Ban, S.-M. Cheng, B. Sun, and T. Takahashi, "IoT malware detection using Function-Call-Graph embedding," in Proc. PST 2021, Auckland, NZ, Dec. 2021.

ProfS.-M. Cheng and M.-W. Tseng, "Analysis of invisible data poisoning backdoor attacks against malware classifiers," in Proc. HITCON 2021, Taipei, Nov. 2021.

ProfY.-T. Lee, T. Ban, T.-L. Wan, S.-M. Cheng, R. Isawa, T. Takahashi, and D. Inoue, "Cross platform IoT-malware family classification based on printable strings," in Proc. IEEE TrustCom 2020, Guangzhou, Dec. 2020, pp. 775–784. Best Paper Award

ProfS.-M. Cheng and B.-K. Hong, "Development of signaling spoofing attacks using function containerization of rogue base stations," in Proc. HITCON 2020, Taipei, Sep. 2020.

ProfS.-H. Ma and S.-M. Cheng, "Reversing in wonderland: Neural network based malware detection techniques," in Proc. HITCON 2020, Taipei, Sep. 2020.

ProfC.-H. Lee, R. Y. Chang, and S.-M. Cheng, "Beamforming and power allocation in dynamic TDD based H2H/M2M networks with energy harvesting," in Proc. IEEE PIMRC 2020, London, Aug. 2020.

ProfT.-L. Wan, T. Ban, Y.-T. Lee, S.-M. Cheng, R. Isawa, T. Takahashi, and D. Inoue, "IoT-malware detection based on byte sequences of executable files," in Proc. AsiaJCIS 2020, Taipei, Aug. 2020, pp. 143–150.

ProfC.-H. Lee, R. Y. Chang, C.-T. Lin, and S.-M. Cheng, "Beamforming and power allocation in dynamic TDD networks supporting machine-type communication," in Proc. IEEE ICC 2020, Dublin, June 2020.

ProfS.-M. Cheng, T. Ban, J.-W. Huang, B.-K. Hong, and D. Inoue, "ELF analyzer demo: Online identification for IoT malwares with multiple hardware architectures," in Proc. IEEE S&P – SafeThings Workshop 2020, San Francisco, May 2020, p. 126.

ProfJ. Feng, B.-K. Hong, and S.-M. Cheng, "DDoS attacks in experimental LTE networks," in Proc. AINA 2020, Caserta, Italy, Apr. 2020, pp. 545–553.

ProfC.-C. Tu, P. Ting, P.-Y. Chen, S. Liu, H. Zhang, J. Yi, C.-J. Hsieh, and S.-M. Cheng, "Toward large-scale rogue base station attacks using container-based virtualization," in Proc. IEEE VTC-Fall 2019, Honolulu, Sep. 2019.

ProfB.-K. Hong, J.-W. Huang, T. Ban, R. Isawa, S.-M. Cheng, D. Inoue, and K. Nakao, "Measurement study towards a unified firmware updating scheme for legacy IoT devices," in Proc. AsiaJCIS 2019, Kobe, Aug. 2019.

ProfS.-M. Cheng and S.-H. Ma, "Demo: An emulator-based active protection system against IoT malware," in Proc. IEEE S&P – SafeThings Workshop 2019, San Francisco, May 2019, pp. 9–15.

ProfC.-C. Tu, P. Ting, P.-Y. Chen, S. Liu, H. Zhang, J. Yi, C.-J. Hsieh, and S.-M. Cheng, "AutoZOOM: Autoencoder-based zeroth order optimization method for attacking black-box neural networks," in Proc. AAAI 2019, Honolulu, Jan. 2019, pp. 742–749.

ProfC.-H. Lee, R. Y. Chang, C.-T. Lin, and S.-M. Cheng, "Energy-efficient D2D underlaid MIMO cellular networks with energy harvesting," in Proc. IEEE Globecom 2018, Abu Dhabi, Dec. 2018.

ProfB.-R. Chen, S.-M. Cheng, and J.-J. Lin, "Energy-efficient BLE device discovery for Internet of Things," in Proc. CANDAR 2017, Aomori, Nov. 2017, pp. 75–79.

ProfC.-H. Lee, R. Y. Chang, C.-T. Lin, and S.-M. Cheng, "Sum-rate maximization for energy harvesting-aided D2D communications underlaid cellular networks," in Proc. IEEE PIMRC 2017, Montreal, Oct. 2017.

ProfJ.-W. Ciou, S.-M. Cheng, and Y.-H. Hsu, "Retransmission-based access class barring for Machine Type Communications," in Proc. IoTaaS 2017, Taichung, Sep. 2017, pp. 145–154.

ProfJ.-J. Lin, K.-C. Wang, S.-M. Cheng, and Y.-C. Liu, "On exploiting SDN to facilitate IPv4/IPv6 coexistence and transition," in Proc. IEEE DSC 2017, Taipei, Aug. 2017, pp. 473–474.

ProfS.-M. Cheng, Y.-J. Wang, and Y.-C. Chen, "Secure location tracking of femtocells in heterogeneous cellular networks," in Proc. IEEE DSC 2017, Taipei, Aug. 2017, pp. 267–272.

ProfC.-C. Liao, S.-M. Cheng, and M. Domb, "On designing energy efficient Wi-Fi P2P connections for Internet of Things," in Proc. IEEE VTC 2017-Spring, Sydney, June 2017.

ProfP.-S. Ting, C.-C. Tu, P.-Y. Chen, Y.-Y. Lo, and S.-M. Cheng, "FEAST: An automated feature selection framework for compilation tasks," in Proc. IEEE AINA 2017, Taipei, Mar. 2017, pp. 1138–1145.

ProfE. Loe, H.-C. Hsiao, T. Kim, S.-C. Lee, and S.-M. Cheng, "SandUSB: An installation-free sandbox for USB peripherals," in Proc. IEEE WF-IoT – SUIT Workshop 2016, Reston, VA, Dec. 2016, pp. 621–626.

ProfH.-C. Lee, S.-M. Cheng, K.-P. Wu, and H.-M. Lee, "A responsive probing approach to detect dynamic intrusion in a MANET," in Proc. IISA 2016 Workshop, Piraeus, Greece, July 2016.

ProfZ.-Y. Yang, S.-M. Cheng, and Y. J. Wang, "Mode selection for device-to-device communications with Voronoi tessellation," in Proc. IGBSG 2016, Prague, June 2016.

ProfS.-M. Cheng and P.-Y. Chen, "Ecology-based DoS attack in cognitive radio networks," in Proc. IEEE S&P – BioSTAR Workshop 2016, San Jose, CA, May 2016, pp. 104–110.

ProfP.-Y. Chen, C.-W. Lien, F.-J. Chu, P.-S. Ting, and S.-M. Cheng, "Supervised collective classification for crowdsourcing," in Proc. IEEE Globecom Workshop 2015, San Diego, Dec. 2015.

ProfP.-Y. Chen, Z. Qi, Y. Pan, and S.-M. Cheng, "Multivariate and categorical analysis of gaming statistics," in Proc. NBiS 2015, Taipei, Sep. 2015.

ProfS.-M. Cheng, W.-R. Huang, R.-G. Cheng, and C.-H. Gan, "Experimential emergency communication systems using USRP and GNU radio platform," in Proc. QShine 2015, Taipei, Aug. 2015, pp. 75–79.

ProfY.-J. Liu, S.-M. Cheng, and P.-Y. Huang, "Cognitive vertical handover in heterogeneous networks," in Proc. QShine 2015, Taipei, Aug. 2015, pp. 392–397.

ProfH.-F. Lin, S.-M. Cheng, and P.-Y. Huang, "Cognitive access in multichannel wireless networks using two-dimension Markov chain," in Proc. IWCMC 2014, Nicosia, Cyprus, Aug. 2014, pp. 169–173.

ProfS.-M. Cheng, C.-H. Ho, S. Chen, and S.-H. Chang, "Distributed anonymous authentication in heterogeneous networks," in Proc. IWCMC 2014, Nicosia, Cyprus, Aug. 2014, pp. 505–510.

ProfS.-Y. Lien, S.-M. Cheng, and Y.-Y. Lin, "Duality on timing alignment and radio resources orthogonality toward 5G heterogeneous networks," in Proc. VITAE 2014, Aalborg, May 2014.

ProfP.-Y. Chen, H.-F. Lin, K.-H. Hsu, and S.-M. Cheng, "Modeling dynamics of malware with incubation period from the view of individual," in Proc. IEEE VTC 2014-Spring, Seoul, May 2014.

ProfS.-H. Chang, Y.-S. Chen, and S.-M. Cheng, "Detection of Sybil attacks in participatory sensing using cloud based trust management system," in Proc. ISWPC 2013, Taipei, Nov. 2013.

ProfN.-T. Chou, S.-H. Lin, S.-M. Cheng, and S.-H. Chang, "Performance evaluation of self-configured two-tier heterogeneous cellular networks," in Proc. IEEE SMC 2013, Manchester, Oct. 2013, pp. 2968–2972.

ProfW. C. Ao and S.-M. Cheng, "A lower bound on multi-hop transmission delay in cognitive radio ad hoc networks," in Proc. IEEE PIMRC 2013, London, Sep. 2013, pp. 3323–3327. Best Paper Award

ProfS.-Y. Lien and S.-M. Cheng, "Resource-optimal network resilience for real-time data exchanges in cyber-physical systems," in Proc. IEEE PIMRC 2013, London, Sep. 2013, pp. 1603–1608.

ProfS.-Y. Lien and S.-M. Cheng, "Performance guaranteed statistical traffic control in cognitive cellular networks," in Proc. WPMC 2013, Atlantic City, NJ, June 2013.

PostdocP.-Y. Chen, S.-M. Cheng, W. C. Ao, and K.-C. Chen, "Multi-path routing with end-to-end statistical QoS provisioning in underlay cognitive radio networks," in Proc. IEEE INFOCOM – Cognitive and Cooperative Network Workshop 2011, Shanghai, Apr. 2011, pp. 7–14.

PostdocW. C. Ao, S.-M. Cheng, and K.-C. Chen, "Phase transition diagram for underlay heterogeneous cognitive radio networks," in Proc. IEEE Globecom 2010, Miami, Dec. 2010.

PostdocH.-B. Chang, S.-M. Cheng, S.-Y. Lien, and K.-C. Chen, "Statistical delay control of opportunistic links in cognitive radio networks," in Proc. IEEE PIMRC 2010, Istanbul, Sep. 2010, pp. 2248–2252.

PostdocS.-M. Cheng, W. C. Ao, and K.-C. Chen, "Downlink capacity of two-tier cognitive femto networks," in Proc. IEEE PIMRC 2010, Istanbul, Sep. 2010, pp. 1303–1308.

PostdocW. C. Ao, S.-M. Cheng, and K.-C. Chen, "Power and interference control with relaying in cooperative cognitive radio networks," in Proc. IEEE ICC – CRISP Workshop 2010, Cape Town, May 2010.

PostdocS.-M. Cheng, K.-C. Chen, and P. Lin, "Performance modeling on handover latency in mobile IP regional registration," in Proc. IEEE PIMRC 2008, Cannes, Sep. 2008.

PhDS.-M. Cheng, W.-R. Lai, and P. Lin, "A Hash function scheme for key management in UMTS MBMS," in Proc. IEEE Globecom 2007, Washington DC, Nov. 2007, pp. 5148–5152.

PhDS.-M. Cheng, P. Lin, D.-W. Huang, and S.-R. Yang, "A study on distributed/centralized scheduling for wireless mesh network," in Proc. ACM IWCMC 2006, Vancouver, July 2006, pp. 599–604.

PhDS.-M. Cheng, P. Lin, and W.-H. Chen, "Key caching mechanism for AAA over mobile IP," in Proc. IEEE VTC 2005-Fall, vol. 2, Dallas, Sep. 2005, pp. 1222–1226.

PhDR.-G. Cheng, S.-M. Cheng, and P. Lin, "Power-efficient routing (PER) mechanism for ODMA systems," in Proc. IEEE WirelessCom, vol. 1, Maui, HI, June 2005, pp. 129–134.

ProfY.-K. Lee, S.-H. Wang, W.-K. Tseng, S.-M. Cheng, J.-D. Cheng, T.-Y. Lin, Y.-H. Huang, C.-W. Lai, and Y.-C. Huang, "醫療用容器中液量變化偵測裝置," ROC Application Number: M525194, July 2016.

ProfR.-G. Cheng, W.-R. Huang, S.-M. Cheng, and T.-H. Liu, "Method and System for Detecting and Locating Trapped People," with NTUST, ROC Patent Number: I533727, May 2016.

PhDR.-L. Li, C.-E. Wang, C.-C. Chen, P.-T. Huang, C.-W. Lin, P. Lin, S.-M. Cheng, and C.-I. Cheng, "Integrated with OSS/J for telecommunication support," with Chunghwa Telecom, ROC Patent Number: I348293, Sep. 2011.

PhDP. Lin, S.-M. Cheng, S.-R. Yang, and P.-T. Huang, "Intelligent method for dynamically switching communication modes of a dual-mode communication module," with Inventec Appliances Corp., ROC Patent Number: I342148, May 2011.

PhDP. Lin, S.-M. Cheng, S.-R. Yang, and P.-T. Huang, "Application-oriented and intelligent method of switching communication modes of a dual-mode communication module," with Inventec Appliances Corp., ROC Patent Number: I326550, June 2010.

PhDF. Lin, S.-M. Cheng, S.-R. Yang, and P.-T. Huang, "Intelligent method for dynamically switching communication modes of a dual-mode communication module," with Inventec Appliances Corp., US Patent Number: 7630735, Dec. 2009.

PhDF. Lin, S.-M. Cheng, S.-R. Yang, and P.-T. Huang, "Application-oriented and intelligent method for switching communication modes of a dual-mode communication module," with Inventec Appliances Corp., US Patent Number: 7627339, Dec. 2009.

PhDP. Lin, H.-C. Hsu, S.-M. Cheng, W.-H. Chen, and K.-L. Chen, "A mobile IP Authentication method with AAA and key cache and a recordable medium thereof," with ITRI/CCL, ROC Patent Number: I301027, Sep. 2008.

ProfCVE-2024-34473, "An issue was discovered in appmgr in O-RAN Near-RT RIC I-Release. An attacker could register an unintended RMR message type during xApp registration to disrupt other service components," O-RAN Software Community, May 2024. CVSS v3.1: 5.3 (Medium) 5G/6G

ProfCVE-2023-42358, "An issue was discovered in O-RAN Software Community ric-plt-e2mgr in the G-Release environment, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via a crafted request to the E2Manager API component," O-RAN Software Community, Sep. 2023. CVSS v3.1: 7.7 (High) 5G/6G

ProfCVE-2023-41628, "An issue in O-RAN Software Community E2 G-Release allows attackers to cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by incorrectly initiating the messaging procedure between the E2Node and E2Term components," O-RAN Software Community, Sep. 2023. CVSS v3.1: 7.5 (High) 5G/6G

ProfCVE-2023-41627, "O-RAN Software Community ric-plt-lib-rmr v4.9.0 does not validate the source of the routing tables it receives, potentially allowing attackers to send forged routing tables to the device," O-RAN Software Community, Sep. 2023. CVSS v3.1: 7.5 (High) 5G/6G

ProfCVE-2023-40998, "Buffer Overflow vulnerability in O-RAN Software Community ric-plt-lib-rmr v.4.9.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via the packet size component," O-RAN Software Community, Aug. 2023. CVSS v3.1: 7.5 (High) 5G/6G

ProfCVE-2023-40997, "Buffer Overflow vulnerability in O-RAN Software Community ric-plt-lib-rmr v.4.9.0 allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service via a crafted packet," O-RAN Software Community, Aug. 2023. CVSS v3.1: 7.5 (High) 5G/6G

ProfB.-K. Hong, S.-S. He, Y.-X. Lin, J.-H. Huang, and S.-M. Cheng, "Detection and notification of rogue BS attack in 4G LTE non-public networks," Communications of the CCISA, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 15–35, Nov. 2021.

ProfH.-C. Hsiao, C.-Y. Huang, S.-M. Cheng, S.-K. Huang, Y.-C. Liu, and T.-C. Wu, "台灣資安菁英人才培育," Communications of the CCISA, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 58–72, Oct. 2018.

PostdocS.-M. Cheng, C.-Y. Shen, and K.-C. Chen, "Introduction to network science behind social networks," NCP Newsletters, no. 22, pp. 2–9, Dec. 2010.

PhDP. Lin, S.-M. Cheng, P.-T. Huang, J.-Y. Jeng, and Y.-K. Chen, "A survey for GAN: A generic access standard for 3G and WLAN interworking," TL Technical Journal, vol. 37, no. 5, pp. 635–658, Oct. 2007.

PhDS.-M. Cheng, C.-H. Gan, P. Lin, and G.-H. Tu, "Key issues and technologies for UMTS high speed downlink packet access," Bulletin of the College of Engineering, NTU, no. 90, pp. 57–63, Feb. 2004.