Ping Wang School of Electronic Engineering & Computer Science University of Central Florida Lab:     ENGR III 313 Tel:     (407)823-2524 Email:  pwang @ cs.ucf.edu

I am currently a Ph.D student in School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of Central Florida. My advisor is Professor Cliff C. Zou.

Education

• Ph.D. Candidate   Computer Science, 2004 - Present
           University of Central Florida, FL, USA
• M.S.   Computer Science, 2004
           Beijing Univerisity of Aeronautics & Astronautics (BUAA),Beijing, P.R. China
• B.S.   Computer Science, 2001
           Beijing Univerisity of Aeronautics & Astronautics (BUAA), Beijing, P.R. China

Research Interests

Computer and network security

Publications

Book Chapter

• Peer-to-Peer Botnets
  Ping Wang, Baber Aslam, and Cliff C. Zou
  In Handbook of Information and Communication Security, edited by Peter Stavroulakis and Mark Stamp, 335-350. Springer, 2010.

Journal

• Analysis of Peer-to-Peer Botnet Attacks and Defenses
  Ping Wang, Lei Wu, Baber Aslam and Cliff C. Zou
  Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems.
• Honeypot Detection in Advanced Botnet Attacks
  Ping Wang, Lei Wu, Ryan Cunningham, and Cliff C. Zou
  In International Journal of Information and Computer Security (IJICS), 4(1), 30-51, 2010.
• An Advanced Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Botnet (Extended from workshop paper in HotBots '07)
  Ping Wang, Sherri Sparks, and Cliff C. Zou
  In IEEE Transaction on Dependable and Secure Computing, 7(2), 113-127, April-June,2010.

Conference

• A Systematic Study on Peer-to-Peer Botnets
  Ping Wang, Lei Wu, Baber Aslam, and Cliff C. Zou
  In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN '09), San Francisco, CA, August 2-6, 2009 (acceptance ratio: 114/387 = 29.5%).
• Pervasive Internet Access by Vehicles through Satellite Receive-only Terminals
  Baber Aslam, Ping Wang, and Cliff C. Zou
  In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN '09), San Francisco, CA, August 2-6, 2009 (acceptance ratio: 114/387 = 29.5%).
• An Economical, Deployable and Secure Vehicular Ad hoc Network
  Baber Aslam, Ping Wang, and Cliff C. Zou
  In Proceedings of IEEE Military Communications Conference (MILCOM '08), San Diego, CA, November 17-19, 2008.
• An Advanced Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Botnet
  Ping Wang, Sherri Sparks, and Cliff C. Zou
  In Proceedings of the USENIX 1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Understanding Botnets (HotBots '07), Cambridge, MA, April, 2007 (acceptance ratio: 11/32=34.4%).

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Last Updated July 7, 2010