Xu, Dingbang

Book chapters

• Peng Ning and Dingbang Xu, Toward Automated Intrusion Alert Analysis, in a book titled Network Security, edited by Scout C.-H. Huang, David MacCallum and Ding-Zhu Du, Pages 175-205. ISBN 978-0-387-73820-8, published by Springer, 2010. This book can be found online at http://www.springer.com/computer/theoretical+computer+science/book/978-0-387-73820-8. 
• Dingbang Xu and Peng Ning, Correlation Analysis of Intrusion Alerts, in a book titled Intrusion Detection Systems, published by Springers, ISBN 978-0-387-77265-3, Pages 65-92, 2008. Web link http://www.springer.com/computer/security+and+cryptology/book/978-Q-387-77265-3 

Journal papers

• Dingbang Xu, YuWang, Xinghua Shi and Xiaohang Yin, User identification and anonymization in 802.11 wireless LANs, Security and Communication Networks (John Wiley & Sons), Vol. 5, No. 1, Pages 15-27, January 2012. 
• Peng Ning and Dingbang Xu, Hypothesizing and Reasoning about Attacks Missed by Intrusion Detection Systems, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Vol. 7, No.4, Pages 591-627, November 2004.
• Peng Ning, Yun Cui, Douglas Reeves, and Dingbang Xu, Tools and Techniques for Analyzing Intrusion Alerts, ACM Transactions on Information and System Security (TISSEC), Vol. 7, No. 2, Pages 273-318, May 2004.

Conference papers

• Yu Wang, Dingbang Xu, Fan Li, Xiao He, Chao Zhang, and Bin Xu, L2P2: Location-aware Location Privacy Protection for Location-based Services, in Proceedings of The 31st Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM 2012), Orlando, Florida, USA, March 2012. 
• Dingbang Xu, Yu Wang, Xinghua Shi and Xiaohang Yin, 802.11 User Anonymization, in Proceedings of IEEE Global Communications Conference (IEEE GLOBECOM 2010) – Wireless Networking Symposium, Miami, Florida, USA, December 2010. 
• Dingbang Xu, Yu Wang and Xinghua Shi, Enhanced Feature Selection and Generation for 802.11 User Identification, in Proceedings of The 18th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2009), Aug 2009. 
• Dingbang Xu and Peng Ning, A Flexible Approach to Intrusion Alert Anonymization and Correlation, in Proceedings of The 2nd IEEE Communications Society/CreateNet International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm 2006), Aug 2006.
• Dingbang Xu and Peng Ning, Privacy-Preserving Alert Correlation: A Concept Hierarchy Based Approach, in Proceedings of 21st Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, December 2005.
• Dingbang Xu and Peng Ning, Alert Correlation through Triggering Events and Common Resources, in Proceedings of 20th Annual Computer Security Applications Conference, December2004.
• Peng Ning, Dingbang Xu, Christopher G. Healey, and Robert A. St. Amant, Building Attack Scenarios through Integration of Complementary Alert Correlation Methods, in Proceedings of the 11th Annual Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS'04), February 2004.
• Peng Ning and Dingbang Xu, Learning Attack Strategies from Intrusion Alerts, in Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS'03), Washington D.C., October 2003.
• Peng Ning and Dingbang Xu, Adapting Query Optimization Techniques for Efficient Intrusion Alert Correlation, in Proceedings of the 17th IFI? WG 11.3 Working Conference on Data and Application Security, August 2003.
• Dingbang Xu, Hong Chen, Jianmin Wang, and Yujian Chen, Implementation of Web-based Distributed Applications with CORBA and Java, The 3rd International Asia-Pacific Web Conference. XiAn, China, October 2000.
• Dingbang Xu, Xin Han, Jianmin Wang, and Yujian Chen, A Strategy for Persistent Object Service under CORBA and WEB Environment, The 36th International Conference on Technology of Object Oriented Languages and Systems. XiAn, China. October 2000.
• Network Security and Privacy. My research focuses on the techniques to understand and enhance the security of networks. Specially, I am interested in intrusion detection techniques, security data management, and privacy-preserving techniques.

Workshop Papers

• Peng Ning, Yun Cui, Douglas S. Reeves, and Dingbang Xu, Towards Automating Intrusion Alert Analysis, in 2003 Workshop on Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques in Computer Intrusion Detection, September 2003. (Invited paper which summarizes our previous work on intrusion alert analysis.) 

Research Abstract/Research Presentation 

• Daniel Jagoda and Dingbang Xu, A Preliminary Analysis of Wireless Network Packets, The 16th Annual GSU Student Research Conference, Governors State University, May 2010. 
• Daniel Jagoda and Dingbang Xu, Network Traffic Analysis: A Preliminary Study, The 21st Annual Illinois Student Research Conference, Chicago State University, April 2010. 
• Krzysztof Tralka, Dingbang Xu, Steve Shih, and Karen D’Arcy, A Preliminary Data Analysis of A Few Network Traffic Traces, The 20th Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, November 2009. 
• Karen D’Arcy, David Green, Dingbang Xu, CPATH CB: Content and Context: Building Collaborative Partnerships in Higher Education and Industry. The 2009 GSU Faculty Summer Institute, Governors State University, May 2009. 
• Amy Stevens, Angela Delaney, Dingbang Xu, Soon-Ok Park, Clare Tang, and Karen D’Arcy, Hiring Requirements for Computer Science Students: A Preliminary Study from A Few Interviews, CPATH Faculty Workshop 2009, Joliet Junior College, March 2009. 
• Amy Stevens, Angela Delaney, Dingbang Xu, A Case Study of Industry Requirements for Computer Science Students, (later it has been changed to: Amy Stevens, Angela Delaney, Dingbang Xu, Soon-Ok Park, Clare Tang, and Karen D’Arcy, Industry Requirements for Computer Science Students: A Preliminary Study through The Internet), The 19th Annual Argonne Symposium for Undergraduates in Science, Engineering and Mathematics, November 2008.