• @ARTICLE{Alex08FirewallQuery,
    author = {Alex X. Liu and Mohamed G. Gouda},
    title = {Firewall Policy Queries},
    journal = {IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)},
    year = {to appear},
    }

  • @ARTICLE{Alex08Redundancy,
    author = {Alex X. Liu and Mohamed G. Gouda},
    title = {Complete Redundancy Removal for Packet Classifiers in TCAMs},
    journal = {IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)},
    year = {to appear}
    }

  • @ARTICLE{Alex08DiverseJournal,
    author = {Alex X.\ Liu and Mohamed G.\ Gouda},
    title = {Diverse Firewall Design},
    journal = {IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS)},
    year = {2008},
    volume = {19},
    number = {8}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{AlexCollaborativePODC2008,
    author = {Alex X.\ Liu and Fei Chen},
    title = {Collaborative Enforcement of Firewall Policies in Virtual Private Networks},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual ACM SIGACT-SIGOPS Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing (PODC)},
    year = {2008},
    address = {Toronto, Canada},
    month = {August}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{alex08xengine,
    author = {Alex X. Liu and Fei Chen and JeeHyun Hwang and Tao Xie},
    title = {XEngine: A Fast and Scalable XACML Policy Evaluation Engine},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems (Sigmetrics)},
    year = {2008},
    address = {Annapolis, Maryland},
    month = {June}
    }


  • @INPROCEEDINGS{Alex08NewRedundancy,
    author = {Alex X. Liu and Chad R. Meiners and Yun Zhou},
    title = {All-Match Based Complete Redundancy Removal for Packet Classifiers in {TCAMs}},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom)},
    year = {2008},
    address = {Phoenix, Arizona},
    month = {April}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{FirewallCompressorInfocom,
    author = {Alex X. Liu and Eric Torng and Chad Meiners},
    title = {Firewall Compressor: An Algorithm for Minimizing Firewall Policies},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th Annual IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (Infocom)},
    year = {2008},
    address = {Phoenix, Arizona},
    month = {April}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{Bruhadeshwar2008symmetric,
    author = {Bezawada Bruhadeshwar and Sandeep S. Kulkarni and Alex X. Liu},
    title = {Symmetric Key Approaches to Securing BGP -- A Little Bit Trust is Enough},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th European Symposium Research Computer Security (ESORICS)},
    year = {2008},
    address = {Malaga, Spain},
    month = {October}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{Alex08FirewallTesting,
    author = {JeeHyun Hwang and Tao Xie and Fei Chen and Alex X. Liu.},
    title = {Systematic Structural Testing of Firewall Policies},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Reliable Distributed Systems (SRDS)},
    year = {2008},
    address = {Napoli, Italy},
    month = {October}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{Pongaliur2008securing,
    author = {Kanthakumar Pongaliur and Zubin Abraham and Alex X. Liu and Li Xiao and Leo Kempel},
    title = {Securing Sensor Nodes Against Side Channel Attacks},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th IEEE High Assurance Systems Engineering Symposium (HASE)},
    year = {2008},
    address = {Nanjing, China},
    month = {December}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{Liu2008pap,
    author = {Alex X. Liu and LeRoy Bailey},
    title = {PAP: A Privacy and Authentication Protocol for Passive RFID Tags},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN)},
    year = {2008},
    address = {St. Thomas, U.S},
    month = {August}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{alex08distributed,
    author = {Mohamed Gouda and Alex X. Liu and Mansoor Jafry},
    title = {Verification of Distributed Firewalls},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} Global Communications Conference {(GLOBECOM)}},
    year = {2008},
    address = {New Oreleans, Louisiana},
    month = {Novembrt}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{Liu2008formal,
    author = {Alex X. Liu},
    title = {Formal Verification of Firewall Policies},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC)},
    year = {2008},
    address = {Beijing,China},
    month = {May}
    }

  • @article{Bailey2008rfid,
    author = {LeRoy A. Bailey and Alex X. Liu and Adithya H. Krishnamurthy},
    title = {RFIDGuard: A Lightweight Privacy and Authentication Protocol for Passive RFID Tags},
    journal = {Journal of Security and Communication Networks, to appear.},
    year = {2008},
    }

  • @INBOOK{Bailey2008RfidChapter,
    chapter = {in Book RFID and Sensor Networks: Architectures, Protocols, Security and Integrations},
    title = {RFID Authentication and Privacy Protocols},
    publisher = {Taylor \& Francis Group},
    editor = {Yan Zhang and Laurence T. Yang and Jiming Chen},
    author = {LeRoy Bailey and Alex X. Liu}
    }

  • @ARTICLE{Mohamed08Formal,
    author = {Mohamed G. Gouda and Alex X. Liu},
    title = {Formal Specification and Verification of a Micropayment Protocol},
    journal = {International Journal of Network Security},
    year = {2008},
    volume = {7},
    pages = {82-88},
    number = {1}
    }

  • @ARTICLE{Gouda2007spp,
    author = {Mohamed G. Gouda and Alex X. Liu and Lok M. Leung and Mohamed A. Alam},
    title = {SPP: An Anti-phishing Single Password Protocol},
    journal = {Journal of Computer Networks (Elsevier)},
    year = {2007},
    volume = {51},
    pages = {1389-1286},
    number = {13}
    }

  • @ARTICLE{alex05FddJournal,
    author = {Mohamed G. Gouda and Alex X. Liu},
    title = {Structured Firewall Design},
    journal = {Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier)},
    year = {2007},
    volume = {51},
    pages = {1106-1120},
    number = {4},
    month = {March}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{Meiners2007tcam,
    author = {Chad R. Meiners and Alex X. Liu and Eric Torng},
    title = {TCAM Razor: A Systematic Approach Towards Minimizing Packet Classifiers in TCAMs},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP)},
    year = {2007},
    address = {Beijing, China},
    month = {October}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{alex07change,
    author = {Alex X. Liu},
    title = {Change-Impact Analysis of Firewall Policies},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 12th European Symposium Research Computer Security(ESORICS), LNCS 4734, Springer-Verlag},
    year = {2007},
    address = {Dresden, Germany},
    month = {October}
    }

  • @ARTICLE{alex05key,
    author = {Eunjin Jung and Alex X. Liu and Mohamed G. Gouda},
    title = {Key Bundles and Parcels: Secure Communication in Many Groups},
    journal = {Computer Networks Journal (Elsevier), a preliminary version appeared in the Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Networked Group Communications (NGC-03), LNCS 2816, B. Stiller Ed., Springer-Verlag},
    year = {2006},
    volume = {50},
    pages = {1781-1798},
    number = {11},
    month = {August}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{Huang2006oncapturing,
    author = {Chin-Tser Huang and Nathan L. Johnson and Jeff Janies and Alex X. Liu},
    title = {On Capturing and Containing E-mail Worms},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Performance Computing and Communications Conference (IPCCC)},
    year = {2006},
    address = {Phoenix, Arizona},
    month = {April}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{alex05stateful,
    author = {Mohamed G. Gouda and Alex X. Liu},
    title = {A Model of Stateful Firewalls and its Properties},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-05)},
    year = {2005},
    address = {Yokohama, Japan},
    month = {June}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{alex05redundancy,
    author = {Alex X. Liu and Mohamed G. Gouda},
    title = {Complete Redundancy Detection in Firewalls},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 19th Annual IFIP Conference on Data and Applications Security, LNCS 3654},
    year = {2005},
    pages = {196-209},
    address = {Connecticut, US},
    month = {August},
    url = {http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/alex/publications/Redundancy/redundancy.pdf}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{alex05password,
    author = {Mohamed G. Gouda and Alex X. Liu and Lok M. Leung and Mohamed A. Alam},
    title = {Single Password, Multiple Accounts},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Applied Cryptography and Network Security Conference (industry track)},
    year = {2005},
    pages = {176-187},
    address = {New York City, US},
    month = {June},
    url = {http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/alex/publications/}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{alex05cookie,
    author = {Alex X. Liu and Jason M. Kovacs and Chin-Tser Huang and Mohamed G. Gouda},
    title = {A Secure Cookie Protocol},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks},
    year = {2005},
    pages = {333-338},
    address = {San Diego, California},
    month = {October},
    url = {http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/alex/publications/}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{alex05zmail,
    author = {Benjamin J. Kuipers and Alex X. Liu and Aashin Gautam and Mohamed G. Gouda},
    title = {Zmail : Zero-Sum Free Market Control of Spam},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Assurance in Distributed Systems and Networks (ADSN-05)},
    year = {2005},
    pages = {20-26},
    address = {Columbus, Ohio},
    month = {June}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{alex04dsn,
    author = {Alex X. Liu and Mohamed G. Gouda},
    title = {Diverse Firewall Design},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN-04)},
    year = {2004},
    pages = {595-604},
    address = {Florence, Italy},
    month = {June}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{alex04fdd,
    author = {Mohamed G. Gouda and Alex X. Liu},
    title = {Firewall design: consistency, completeness and compactness},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS-04)},
    year = {2004},
    pages = {320-327},
    address = {Tokyo, Japan},
    month = {March}
    url = {http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/alex/publications/fdd.pdf}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{alex04query,
    author = {Alex X. Liu and Mohamed G. Gouda and Huibo Heidi Ma and Anne HH. Ngu},
    title = {Firewall Queries},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, LNCS 3544, T. Higashino Ed., Springer-Verlag},
    year = {2004},
    pages = {124-139},
    address = {Grenoble, France},
    month = {December}
    url = {http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/alex/publications/query.pdf}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{alex04test,
    author = {Alex X. Liu and Mohamed G. Gouda and Huibo Heidi Ma and Anne HH. Ngu},
    title = {Non-Intrusive Testing of Firewalls},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 1st International Computer Engineering Conference},
    year = {2004},
    pages = {196-201},
    address = {Cairo, Egypt},
    month = {December}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{alex04cash,
    author = {Mohamed G. Gouda and Alex X. Liu},
    title = {Formal Specification and Verification of a Micropayment Protocol},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks},
    year = {2004},
    pages = {489-494},
    address = {Chicago, Illinois},
    month = {October}
    }

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{alex03key,
    author = {Eunjin Jung and Alex X. Liu and Mohamed G. Gouda},
    title = {Key Bundles and Parcels: Secure Communication in Many Groups},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Networked Group Communications (NGC-03), LNCS 2816, B. Stiller Ed., Springer-Verlag},
    year = {2003},
    pages = {119-130},
    address = {Munich, Germany},
    month = {September},
    url = {http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/alex/publications/}
    }