Yang Xiao
University of Alabama
624 Papers
5.4K Citations
Yang Xiao is an academic researcher from University of Alabama. The author has contributed to research in topics: Wireless sensor network & Computer science. The author has an hindex of 67, co-authored 554 publications. Previous affiliations of Yang Xiao include University of Tsukuba & Canada Foundation for Innovation.
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Papers
Cyber Security and Privacy Issues in Smart Grids
TL;DR: In order to build a reliable smart grid, an overview of relevant cyber security and privacy issues is presented and several potential research fields are discussed at the end of this paper.
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Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing
Zhifeng Xiao,Yang Xiao +1 more
TL;DR: The authors obtain a common goal to provide a comprehensive review of the existing security and privacy issues in cloud environments to present the relationships among them, the vulnerabilities that may be exploited by attackers, the threat models, as well as existing defense strategies in a cloud scenario.
A survey of communication/networking in Smart Grids
TL;DR: A systematic review of communication/netsworking technologies in Smart Grid is conducted, including communication/networking architecture, different communication technologies that would be employed into this architecture, quality of service (QoS), optimizing utilization of assets, control and management, etc.
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An effective key management scheme for heterogeneous sensor networks
Xiaojiang Du,Yang Xiao,Mohsen Guizani,Hsiao-Hwa Chen +3 more
- 01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: This paper presents an effective key management scheme that takes advantage of the powerful high-end sensors in heterogeneous sensor networks and provides better security with low complexity and significant reduction on storage requirement, compared with existing key management schemes.
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IEEE 802.11n: enhancements for higher throughput in wireless LANs
TL;DR: This article proposes several MAC enhancements via various frame aggregation mechanisms that overcome the theoretical throughput limit and reach higher throughput and introduces some PHY proposals and study the fundamental issue of MAC inefficiency.
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