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Computer Science
Hungary
2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
56
Citations
17543
World Ranking
3984
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Hungary Leader Award
  • 2020 - ACM Senior Member

Overview

Levente Buttyán is affiliated with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in Hungary. Their research primarily falls within the field of Computer Science, with 28 publications contributing to this domain. The scientist's work spans several subfields of study, including Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Signal Processing, Information Systems, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The main research topics associated with Buttyán include Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, Security and Verification in Computing, Network Security and Intrusion Detection, Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs), Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications, Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) and Hardware Security, and Software Testing and Debugging Techniques.

The scientist has a record of publication in a variety of venues, some more frequent than others. Notable publication venues include:

  • Acta Cybernetica
  • Scientific Data
  • Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola tudományos közleményei. Tanulmányok a matematikai tudományok köréből / Annales mathematicae et informaticae
  • Híradástechnika / Infocommunications journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Buttyán include:

  • "CrySyS dataset of CAN traffic logs containing fabrication and masquerade attacks" (2023), published in Scientific Data
  • "Rootkit Detection on Embedded IoT Devices" (2021), published in Acta Cybernetica
  • "TEE-based protection of cryptographic keys on embedded IoT devices" (2021), published in Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola tudományos közleményei / Annales mathematicae et informaticae
  • "GrAMeFFSI: Graph Analysis Based Message Format and Field Semantics Inference For Binary Protocols, Using Recorded Network Traffic" (2020), published in Híradástechnika / Infocommunications journal
  • "Protocol State Machine Reverse Engineering with a Teaching-Learning Approach" (2021), published in Acta Cybernetica

The scientist has collaborated frequently with several co-authors over their career. These include Máté Horváth (10 joint publications), Roland Nagy (3 joint publications), Dorottya Papp (3), András Gazdag (2), and Gergő Ládi (2).

Buttyán has contributed to book publications as well, notably a title published by Springer Nature: "Cryptographic Obfuscation" (2020), which has been cited multiple times.

Recognition includes being designated an ACM Senior Member in 2020, indicating professional standing within the computing community.

Best Publications

  • Stimulating cooperation in self-organizing mobile ad hoc networks

    Levente Buttyán;Jean-Pierre Hubaux

  • Self-organized public-key management for mobile ad hoc networks

    S. Capkun;L. Buttyan;J.-P. Hubaux

  • The quest for security in mobile ad hoc networks

    Jean-Pierre Hubaux;Levente Buttyán;Srdan Capkun

  • Enforcing service availability in mobile ad-hoc WANs

    Levente Buttyán;Jean-Pierre Hubaux

  • Secure vehicular communication systems: design and architecture

    P. Papadimitratos;L. Buttyan;T. Holczer;E. Schoch

  • SECTOR: secure tracking of node encounters in multi-hop wireless networks

    Srdjan Čapkun;Levente Buttyán;Jean-Pierre Hubaux

  • Self organization in mobile ad hoc networks: the approach of Terminodes

    L. Blazevic;L. Buttyan;S. Capkun;S. Giordano

  • Nuglets: a Virtual Currency to Stimulate Cooperation in Self-Organized Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

    Levente Buttyan;Jean-Pierre Hubaux

  • Security and Cooperation in Wireless Networks: Thwarting Malicious and Selfish Behavior in the Age of Ubiquitous Computing

    Levente Buttyan;Jean-Pierre Hubaux

  • Nash equilibria of packet forwarding strategies in wireless ad hoc networks

    M. Felegyhazi;J.-P. Hubaux;L. Buttyan

  • Mobility helps security in ad hoc networks

    Srdjan Čapkun;Jean-Pierre Hubaux;Levente Buttyán

  • Micro-payment scheme encouraging collaboration in multi-hop cellular networks

    Bjorn Markus Jakobsson;Jean-Pierre Hubaux;Levente Buttyán

  • A charging and rewarding scheme for packet forwarding in multi-hop cellular networks

    Naouel Ben Salem;Levente Buttyán;Jean-Pierre Hubaux;Markus Jakobsson

  • On the effectiveness of changing pseudonyms to provide location privacy in VANETS

    Levente Buttyán;Tamás Holczer;István Vajda

  • Secure vehicular communication systems: implementation, performance, and research challenges

    F. Kargl;P. Papadimitratos;L. Buttyan;M. Muter

  • Provably Secure On-Demand Source Routing in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks

    G. Acs;L. Buttyan;I. Vajda

  • Architecture for Secure and Private Vehicular Communications

    P. Papadimitratos;L. Buttyan;J.-P. Hubaux;F. Kargl

  • A micro-payment scheme encouraging collaboration in multi-hop cellular networks

    Markus Jakobsson;Jean Pierre Hubaux;Levente Buttyán

  • The Cousins of Stuxnet: Duqu, Flame, and Gauss

    Boldizsár Bencsáth;Gábor Pék;Levente Buttyán;Márk Félegyházi

  • VeRA - Version Number and Rank Authentication in RPL

    Amit Dvir;T´mas Holczer;Levente Buttyan

  • A Charging and Rewarding Scheme for Packet Forwarding

    Naouel Ben Salem;Levente Buttyan;Jean-Pierre Hubaux;M. Jakobsson

Frequent Co-Authors

Jean-Pierre Hubaux
Jean-Pierre Hubaux École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Srdjan Capkun
Srdjan Capkun ETH Zurich
Frank Kargl
Frank Kargl University of Ulm
Virgil D. Gligor
Virgil D. Gligor Carnegie Mellon University
Panos Papadimitratos
Panos Papadimitratos Royal Institute of Technology
Tansu Alpcan
Tansu Alpcan University of Melbourne
John S. Baras
John S. Baras University of Maryland, College Park
Silvia Giordano
Silvia Giordano University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland
Xiang-Yang Li
Xiang-Yang Li University of Science and Technology of China

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