Publication

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2026

  1. Zheng Hu, Hui Lin, Yanfeng Qu, and Dong Jin. I-DETECT: In-network Deep Packet Inspection for Timed Event Correlation in Industrial Control Systems. IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN) (Accepted).
  2. Luke Waind and Dong Jin. Data-Plane Programmable Network Emulation Testbed with Dynamic Hardware Offloading. ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS) (Accepted).
  3. Zhiyao He, Reuben Samson Raj, Yanfeng Qu, Dong Jin. Programmable Data Plane Approaches for ML-Based Anomalous Event Classification in Grid Sensor Networks. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) (Accepted).

2025

  1. Gong Chen, Zheng Hu, Yanfeng Qu, Dong Jin. Enhancing P4-Based Network Emulation Fidelity Through a Lightweight Virtual Time System and Application Evaluation. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), April 2025.
  2. Eva Casto, Xiaoyu Guo, Yanfeng Qu, Dong Jin. In-Network Recovery of Delayed and Missing PMU Measurements using Programmable Switches. IEEE Resilience Week (RWS), November 2025.
  3. Grace Harding and Dong Jin. Self-Healing PMU Networks Using Data Plane Programmable Switches. IEEE Design Methodologies for Power Electronics Conference (DMC), November 2025.
  4. Max Thursby, Kevin Zheng, Joseph Wilkin, Joseph Dumond, Chris Farnell, and Dong Jin. Developing P4-Based Applications on Academic Cloud Platforms for Smart Grid Security, Resilience, and Workforce Development. IEEE Design Methodologies for Power Electronics Conference (DMC), November 2025.
  5. Jamison Jangula, Gavin Mewes, Tanzim Jim Hassan, Prakash Ranganathan, Hossein Salehfar, Massimiliano Albanese, Sicong Shao, Jielun Zhang, Dong Jin, and Christopher Farnell. Physical and Cyber Security Vulnerabilities in Substation Infrastructure. 57th North American Power Symposium (NAPS), October 2025.
  6. Jack Norris, Zhiyao He, Yanfeng Qu, Gong Chen, Christine Hertzog, and Dong Jin. An In-Network Approach for PMU Missing Data Recovery with Data Plane Programmability. 2025 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), September 2025.
  7. Reuben Samson Raj and Dong Jin. Leveraging Data Plane Programmability Towards a Policy-driven In-Network Security Framework for Industrial Control Systems. ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems (e-Energy), June 2025.
  8. Zhiyao He, Yanfeng Qu, Dong Jin. Real-Time Power System Event Detection on Programmable Network Switches with Synchrophasor Data. IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), June 2025.

2024

  1. Reuben Samson Raj and Dong Jin. Dynamic Data Driven Security Framework for Industrial Control Networks Using Programmable Switches. 5th International Conference on InfoSymbiotics/DDDAS, November 2024.
  2. Xiaoyu Guo, Yanfeng Qu, Gong Chen, and Dong Jin. A Deep Learning Approach for In-Network Synchrophasor Missing Data Recovery Using Programmable Network Switches. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), October 2024.
  3. Zheng Hu, Hui Lin, Yanfeng Qu, and Dong Jin. Leveraging Compact Data Accumulator to Enable In-Network Anomaly Detection in Programmable Switches for Power Grids. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), October 2024.
  4. Jack Norris, Zhiyao He, Yanfeng Qu, Gong Chen, Christine Hertzog, Dong Jin. An In-Network Approach for PMU Missing Data Recovery with Data Plane Programmability. 4th International Conference on Smart Grid Synchronized Measurements and Analytics (SGSMA), May 2024.
  5. Zhiyao He, Yanfeng Qu, Gong Chen, Reuben Samson Raj, Hui Lin, Dong Jin. Towards Secure and Resilient Synchrophasor Networks Using P4 Programmable Switches. 16th IEEE Green Technologies (GreenTech) Conference, April 2024.
  6. Gong Chen, Zheng Hu, Yanfeng Qu, Dong Jin. VT-IO: A Virtual Time System Enabling High-fidelity Container-based Network Emulation for I/O Intensive Applications. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), April 2024.
  7. Xiaoliang Wu, Alexander Kolar, Joaquin Chung, Dong Jin, Martin Suchara, and Rajkumar Kettimuthu. Parallel Simulation of Quantum Networks with Distributed Quantum State Management. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), February 2024.

2023

  1. Zheng Hu, Hui Lin, Luke Waind, Yanfeng Qu, Gong Chen, and Dong Jin. Industrial Network Protocol Security Enhancement Using Programmable Switches. 2023 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), October 2023.
  2. Gong Chen, Zheng Hu, and Dong Jin. Virtual-time-enabled Mininet for Scalable and Accurate Programmable Network Emulation. 2023 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS), June 2023.
  3. Sayeb Mohammad Tadvin, Dong Jin and Hui Lin. HELICSAuto: Automating the Development of Cyber-Physical Co-Simulation Framework for Smart Grids. 2023 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS), June 2023.
  4. Dong Jin, Yanfeng Qu, Xin Liu, Christopher Hannon, Jiaqi Yan, Alex Aved, Philip Morrone. Dynamic Data-Driven Approach for Cyber Resilient and Secure Critical Energy Systems. Handbook of Dynamic Data Driven Applications Systems, Volume 2, Springer, September 2023. [Book Chapter]

2022

  1. Reuben Samson Raj and Dong Jin. A Framework to Evaluate PMU Networks for Resiliency Under Network Failure Conditions. IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), October 2022.
  2. Gong Chen, Zheng Hu and Dong Jin. Integrating I/O Time to Virtual Time System for High Fidelity Container-based Network Emulation. ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS), June 2022. Finalist for the Best Paper Award
  3. Xiaoliang Wu, Bo Zhang, Gong Chen, and Dong Jin. A Scalable Quantum Key Distribution Network Testbed Using Parallel Discrete-Event Simulation. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), April 2022. [pdf]
  4. Xin Liu, Bo Zhang, Bo Chen, Alex Aved, and Dong Jin. Towards Optimal and Executable Distribution Grid Restoration Planning with a Fine-Grained Power-Communication Interdependency Model. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, February 2022. [pdf]

2021

  1. Xiaoliang Wu, Alexander Kolar, Joaquin Chung, Dong Jin, Tian Zhong, Rajkumar Kettimuthu, and Martin Suchara. SeQUeNCe: A Customizable Discrete-Event Simulator of Quantum Networks. Quantum Science and Technology, vol. 6, no. 4, September 2021. [pdf]
  2. Christopher Hannon, Deepjyoti Deka, Dong Jin, Marc Vuffray, and Andrey Y. Lokhov. Real-time Anomaly Detection and Classification in Streaming PMU Data. 14th IEEE PowerTech Conference, June 2021. [pdf]
  3. Christopher Hannon, Jiaqi Yan, Dong Jin. Distributed Virtual Time Based Synchronization for Simulation of Cyber-Physical Systems. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), April 2021. [pdf]
  4. Neil Getty, Thomas Brettin, Dong Jin, Rick Stevens, and Fangfang Xia. Deep Medical Image Analysis with Representation Learning and Neuromorphic Computing. Interface Focus, February 2021. [pdf]

2020

  1. Xin Liu, Dong Jin, and Tairan Zhang. Simulation-based Evaluation of Handover Mechanisms in High-Speed Railway Control and Communication Systems. 2020 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), December 2020. [pdf]
  2. Yanfeng Qu, Gong Chen, Xin Liu, Jiaqi Yan, Bo Chen, and Dong Jin. Cyber-Resilience Enhancement of PMU Networks Using Software-Defined Networking. 2020 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (SmartGridComm), November 2020. Best Paper Award [pdf]
  3. Yanfeng Qu, Xin Liu, Jiaqi Yan, and Dong Jin. Dynamic Data-Driven Self-Healing Application for Phasor Measurement Unit Networks. 3rd International Conference on InfoSymbiotics/DDDAS, October 2020. [pdf]
  4. Xiaoliang Wu, Bo Zhang, and Dong Jin. Parallel Simulation of Quantum Key Distribution Networks. 2020 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS), June 2020. Finalist for the Best Paper Award [pdf]

2019

  1. Xin Liu, Bo Chen, Chen Chen, and Dong Jin. Electric Power Grid Resilience with Interdependencies between Power and Communication Networks — A Review. IET Smart Grid, December 2019. [pdf]
  2. Xin Liu, Dong Jin, and Tairan Zhang. A Parallel Simulation Platform for Train Communication Networks. 2019 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), December 2019. [pdf]
  3. Shangyu Xie, Han Wang, Shengbin Wang, Haibing Lu, Yuan Hong, Dong Jin, and Qi Liu. Discovering Communities for Microgrids with Spatial-Temporal Net Energy. Journal of the Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy (MPCE), July 2019. [pdf]
  4. Jiaqi Yan, Guanhua Yan, and Dong Jin. Classifying Malware Represented as Control Flow Graphs using Deep Graph Convolutional Neural Network. 2019 IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 2019. [pdf]
  5. Xiaoliang Wu, Jiaqi Yan and Dong Jin. Virtual-Time-Accelerated Emulation for Blockchain Network and Application Evaluation. 2019 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS), June 2019. [pdf]
  6. Christopher Hannon, Jiaqi Yan, Dong Jin, and Yuan-An Liu. A Distributed Virtual Time System on Embedded Linux for Evaluating Cyber-Physical Systems. 2019 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS), June 2019. Best Paper Award [pdf]
  7. Christopher Hannon and Dong Jin. Bitcoin Payment-Channels for Resource Limited IoT Devices. 2019 International Conference on Omni-Layer Intelligent Systems (COINS), May 2019. [pdf]

2018

  1. Christopher Hannon, Nandakishore Santhi, Stephan Eidenbenz, Jason Liu, and Dong Jin. Just-In-Time Parallel Simulation. 2018 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), December 2018. [pdf]
  2. Richard Fujimoto, Joseph Barjis, Erik Blasch, Wentong Cai, Dong Jin, Seunghan Lee and Young-Jun Son. Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems: Research Challenges and Opportunities. 2018 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), December 2018. [pdf]
  3. Christopher Hannon, Jiaqi Yan, Dong Jin, Chen Chen, and Jianhui Wang. Combining Simulation and Emulation Systems for Smart Grid Planning and Evaluation. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), August 2018. [pdf]
  4. Jiaqi Yan, Dong Jin, and Cheol Won Lee. A Comparative Study of Off-Line Deep Learning Based Network Intrusion Detection. 2018 Tenth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), July 2018. [pdf]
  5. Hellen Maziku, Sachin Shetty, Dong Jin, Charles A. Kamhoua, Laurent Njilla and Kevin Kwiat. Diversity Modeling to Evaluate Security of Multiple SDN Controllers. International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC): Communications and Information Security Symposium, March 2018. [pdf]
  6. Yanfeng Qu, Xin Liu, Dong Jin, Yuan Hong, and Chen Chen. Enabling a Resilient and Self-healing PMU Infrastructure Using Centralized Network Control. 2018 ACM International Workshop on Security in Software Defined Networks & Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV Security), March 2018. [pdf]

2017

  1. Xiaoliang Wu, Qi Yang, Xin Liu, Dong Jin and Cheol Won Lee. A Hardware-in-the-loop Emulation Testbed for High Fidelity and Reproducible Network Experiments. 2017 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), December 2017. [pdf]
  2. Ning Liu, Adnan Haider, Dong Jin and Xian-He Sun. A Modeling and Simulation of Extreme-Scale Fat-Tree Networks for HPC Systems and Data Centers. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), July 2017. [pdf]
  3. Dong Jin, Zhiyi Li, Christopher Hannon, Chen Chen, Jianhui Wang, Mohammad Shahidehpour and Cheol Won Lee. Towards a Cyber Resilient and Secure Microgrid Using Software-Defined Networking. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Special section on Smart Grid Cyber-Physical Security, May 2017. [pdf]
  4. Jiaqi Yan, Xin Liu and Dong Jin. Simulation of a Software-Defined Network as One Big Switch. 2017 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation (PADS), Singapore, May 2017. [pdf]
  5. Christopher Hannon, Dong Jin, Chen Chen and Jianhui Wang. Ultimate Forwarding Resilience in OpenFlow Networks. ACM International Workshop on Security in Software Defined Networks & Network Function Virtualization (SDN-NFV Security), March 2017. [pdf]

2016

  1. Dong Jin, Christopher Hannon, Zhiyi Li, Pablo Cortes, Srinivasan Ramaraju, Patrick Burgess, Nathan Buch, and Mohammad Shahidehpour. Smart Street Lighting System: A platform for innovative smart city applications and a new frontier of cyber-security. The Electricity Journal, December 2016. [pdf]
  2. Zhiyi Li, Dong Jin, Christopher Hannon, Mohammad Shahidehpour, and Jianhui Wang. Assessing and Mitigating Cybersecurity Risks of Traffic Light Systems in Smart Cities. IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications, November 2016. [pdf]
  3. Jiaqi Yan and Dong Jin. A Lightweight Container-based Virtual Time System for Software-defined Network Emulation. Journal of Simulation, November 2016. [link]
  4. Hui Lin, Chen Chen, Jianhui Wang, Junjian Qi, Dong Jin, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, and Ravishankar K. Iyer. Self-Healing Attack-Resilient PMU Network for Power System Operation. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, July 2016. [pdf]
  5. Xin Liu and Dong Jin. ConVenus: Congestion Verification of Network Updates in Software-defined Networks. Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), December 2016. [pdf]
  6. Richard Fujimoto, Nurcin Celik, Haluk Damgacioglu, Michael Hunter, Dong Jin, Young-Jun Son and Jie Xu. Dynamic Data Driven Application Systems for Smart Cities and Urban Infrastructures. Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), December 2016. [pdf]
  7. Christopher Hannon, Jiaqi Yan and Dong Jin. DSSnet: A Smart Grid Modeling Platform Combining Electrical Power Distribution System Simulation and Software Defined Networking Emulation. 2016 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, Banff, Canada, 2016. Finalist for the Best Paper Award [pdf] [source code]
  8. Dong Jin, Jiaqi Yan, Xin Lin, Christopher Hannon, Hui Lin, Zbigniew Kalbarczyk, Ravishankar K. Iyer, Chen Chen, Jianhui Wang, Cheol Won Lee. Towards a Secure and Resilient Industrial Control System with Software-Defined Networking. Workshop on Science of Security through Software-Defined Networking, June 2016. Best Poster Award
  9. Jiaqi Yan, Xu Yang, Dong Jin and Zhiling Lan. Cerberus: A Three-Phase Burst-Buffer-Aware Batch Scheduler for High Performance Computing. Supercomputing (SC) 2016.

2015

  1. Dong Jin and David Nicol. Parallel Simulation and Virtual-machine-based Emulation of Software-defined Networks. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS), December 2015. [pdf]
  2. Ning Liu, Adnan Haider, Xian-He Sun and Dong Jin. FatTreeSim: Modeling a Large-scale Fat-Tree Network for HPC Systems and Data Centers Using Parallel and Discrete Event Simulation. ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, London, UK, June 2015. Best Paper Award [pdf]
  3. Jiaqi Yan and Dong Jin. VT-Mininet: Virtual-time-enabled Mininet for Scalable and Accurate Software-Defined Network Emulation. ACM SIGCOMM Symposium on SDN Research (SOSR15), Santa Clara, CA, June 2015. [pdf] [source code]
  4. Ning Liu, Xian-He Sun and Dong Jin. On Massively Parallel Simulation of Large-Scale Fat-Tree Networks for HPC Systems and Data Centers. ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, London, UK, June 2015. [Poster] Best Poster Award [pdf]
  5. Jiaqi Yan and Dong Jin. A Virtual Time System for Linux-container-based Emulation of Software-defined Networks. ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, London, UK, June 2015. Finalist for the Best Paper Award [pdf] [poster]
  6. Wenxuan Zhou, Dong Jin, Jason Croft, Matthew Caesar, and P. Brighten Godfrey. Enforcing Customizable Consistency Properties in Software-Defined Networks. USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI), Oakland, CA, May 2015, pp. 73–85. [pdf]

2014

  1. Dong Jin and Yi Ning. Securing Industrial Control Systems with a Simulation-based Verification System. 2014 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, Denver, CO, May 2014. [Short Paper] [pdf]
  2. Dong Jin, Yuhao Zheng, and David Nicol. A parallel network simulation and virtual-time-based network emulation testbed. Journal of Simulation, February 2014. [pdf]

2013

  1. Yuhao Zheng, Dong Jin, and David Nicol. Impacts of application lookahead on distributed network emulation. 2013 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Washington D.C., December 2013. [pdf]
  2. Dong Jin and David Nicol. Parallel simulation of software defined networks. 2013 ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, Montreal, Quebec, May 2013, pp. 91–102. [pdf]
  3. Dong Jin. Network-Simulation-Based Evaluation of Smart Grid Applications. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, August 2013. [pdf]

2012

  1. Yuhao Zheng, Dong Jin, and David Nicol. Validation of application behavior on a virtual time integrated network emulation testbed. 2012 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Berlin, Germany, 2012. [pdf]
  2. Dong Jin, Yuhao Zheng, Huaiyu Zhu, David M. Nicol, and Lenhard Winterrowd. Virtual time integration of emulation and parallel simulation. 26th Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS), Zhangjiajie, China, 2012, pp. 120–130. Best Paper Award [pdf]
  3. Yuhao Zheng, David Nicol, Dong Jin, and Naoki Tanaka. A virtual time system for virtualization-based network emulations and simulations. Journal of Simulation, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 205–213, August 2012. [pdf]
  4. Dong Jin, Xiaoxuan Zhang, and Souymadip Ghosh. Simulation models for evaluation of network design and hierarchical transactive control mechanisms in smart grids. 2012 IEEE/PES Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), Washington, D.C., January 2012, pp. 1–8. [pdf]

2011

  1. Dong Jin, David Nicol, and Guanhua Yan. An event buffer flooding attack in DNP3 controlled SCADA systems. 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Phoenix, AZ, December 2011, pp. 2614–2626. [pdf]
  2. David Nicol, Dong Jin, and Yuhao Zheng. S3F: The scalable simulation framework revisited. 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Phoenix, AZ, December 2011, pp. 3283–3294. [pdf]
  3. Jeff Green, Joshua Juen, Omid Fatemieh, Ravinder Shankesi, Dong Jin, and Carl Gunter. Reconstructing hash reversal proof of work. 4th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET), Boston, MA, March 2011, pp. 10–18. [pdf]
  4. David C. Bergman, Dong Jin, Joshua Juen, Naoki Tanaka, Carl Gunter, and Andrew Wright. Distributed non-intrusive load monitoring. 2011 IEEE/PES Conference on Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), Anaheim, CA, January 2011, pp. 1–8. [pdf]
  5. David C. Bergman, Dong Jin, Joshua Juen, Naoki Tanaka, Carl Gunter, and Andrew Wright. Non-intrusive load shed verification. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Special Issue on Smart Energy Systems, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 49–57, Jan–Mar 2011. [pdf]

2010

  1. Dong Jin and David M. Nicol. Fast simulation of background traffic through fair queueing networks. 2010 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC), Baltimore, MD, December 2010, pp. 2935–2946. [pdf]
  2. Dong Jin, David M. Nicol, and Matthew Caesar. Efficient gigabit Ethernet switch models for large scale simulation. 2010 Workshop on Principles of Advanced and Distributed Simulation (PADS), Atlanta, GA, May 2010, pp. 1–10. [pdf]

2009

  1. David C. Bergman, Dong Jin, David M. Nicol, and Tim Yardley. The virtual power system testbed and inter-testbed integration. USENIX Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET), Montreal, Canada, August 2009, pp. 5–10. [pdf]