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Angelos Stavrou

Angelos Stavrou

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Computer Science

D-Index
46
Citations
10314
World Ranking
6765
National Ranking
2980

Overview

Angelos Stavrou is a researcher affiliated with Virginia Tech in the United States. Their work primarily spans fields of computer science and engineering, with a strong focus on computer networks and communications as well as electrical and electronic engineering.

The scientist's research covers a variety of subfields and topics including robotics and sensor-based localization, indoor and outdoor localization technologies, underwater vehicles and communication systems, software-defined networks and 5G, network security and intrusion detection, internet traffic analysis and secure e-voting, and IoT and edge/fog computing.

Their recent notable papers include:

  • PILOT: High-Precision Indoor Localization for Autonomous Drones (2023), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • iDROP: Robust Localization for Indoor Navigation of Drones With Optimized Beacon Placement (2023), IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • RAIL: Robust Acoustic Indoor Localization for Drones (2022), 2022 IEEE 95th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2022-Spring)
  • OFDRA: Optimal Femtocell Deployment for Accurate Indoor Positioning of RIS-Mounted AVs (2023), IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
  • Scaling Network Slices with a 5G Testbed: A Resource Consumption Study (2022), 2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)

Frequently publishing venues for Stavrou include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computer
  • IEEE Internet of Things Journal
  • 2022 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC)
  • Sensors

Key frequent co-authors collaborating with Stavrou are:

  • Haining Wang
  • Alireza Famili
  • Tolga Atalay
  • Dragoslav Stojadinovic
  • Jung-Min Park

The main subjects of Stavrou's research show an intensive involvement in the development and evaluation of localization technologies for autonomous drones and network systems. This includes contributions to indoor localization precision, robust beacon placement for navigation, acoustic indoor localization techniques, and optimization of network slices within 5G testbeds.

Best Publications

  • DDoS in the IoT: Mirai and Other Botnets

    Constantinos Kolias;Georgios Kambourakis;Angelos Stavrou;Jeffrey Voas

  • Intrusion Detection in 802.11 Networks: Empirical Evaluation of Threats and a Public Dataset

    Constantinos Kolias;Georgios Kambourakis;Angelos Stavrou;Stefanos Gritzalis

  • Malicious PDF detection using metadata and structural features

    Charles Smutz;Angelos Stavrou

  • Casting out Demons: Sanitizing Training Data for Anomaly Sensors

    G.F. Cretu;A. Stavrou;M.E. Locasto;S.J. Stolfo

  • HyperCheck: a hardware-assisted integrity monitor

    Jiang Wang;Angelos Stavrou;Anup Ghosh

  • The Mirai botnet and the IoT Zombie Armies

    Georgios Kambourakis;Constantinos Kolias;Angelos Stavrou

  • Methods and apparatus for application isolation

    Anup Ghosh;Yih Huang;Jiang Wang;Angelos Stavrou

  • 2015 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy SP 2015

    Jonathan Woodruff;Peter G. Neumann;Simon W. Moore;Jonathan Anderson

  • Using graphic turing tests to counter automated DDoS attacks against web servers

    William G. Morein;Angelos Stavrou;Debra L. Cook;Angelos D. Keromytis

  • On the infeasibility of modeling polymorphic shellcode

    Yingbo Song;Michael E. Locasto;Angelos Stavrou;Angelos D. Keromytis

  • A whitebox approach for automated security testing of Android applications on the cloud

    Riyadh Mahmood;Naeem Esfahani;Thabet Kacem;Nariman Mirzaei

  • MOTAG: Moving Target Defense against Internet Denial of Service Attacks

    Quan Jia;Kun Sun;Angelos Stavrou

  • SQLProb: a proxy-based architecture towards preventing SQL injection attacks

    Anyi Liu;Yi Yuan;Duminda Wijesekera;Angelos Stavrou

  • Catch Me If You Can: A Cloud-Enabled DDoS Defense

    Quan Jia;Huangxin Wang;Dan Fleck;Fei Li

  • A moving target DDoS defense mechanism

    Huangxin Wang;Quan Jia;Dan Fleck;Walter Powell

  • Methods, media and systems for responding to a denial of service attack

    Angelos Stavrou;Angelos D. Keromytis;Jason Nieh;Vishal Misra

  • Exploiting smart-phone USB connectivity for fun and profit

    Zhaohui Wang;Angelos Stavrou

  • Learning Internet-of-Things Security "Hands-On"

    Constantinos Kolias;Angelos Stavrou;Jeffrey Voas;Irena Bojanova

  • Universal Multi-Factor Authentication Using Graphical Passwords

    A.P. Sabzevar;A. Stavrou

  • A Study of Malcode-Bearing Documents

    Wei-Jen Li;Salvatore Stolfo;Angelos Stavrou;Elli Androulaki

  • On the infeasibility of modeling polymorphic shellcode

    Yingbo Song;Michael E. Locasto;Angelos Stavrou;Angelos D. Keromytis

Frequent Co-Authors

Angelos D. Keromytis
Angelos D. Keromytis Georgia Institute of Technology
Salvatore J. Stolfo
Salvatore J. Stolfo Columbia University
Haining Wang
Haining Wang Virginia Tech
Kun Sun
Kun Sun George Mason University
Sushil Jajodia
Sushil Jajodia George Mason University
Dan Rubenstein
Dan Rubenstein Columbia University
Jason Nieh
Jason Nieh Columbia University
Jeffrey Voas
Jeffrey Voas National Institute of Standards and Technology
Daniel Barbará
Daniel Barbará George Mason University
George Kesidis
George Kesidis Pennsylvania State University

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