Publications

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[FutureG 2026] "Towards Bridging the Telemetry Gap for Security Applications in 6G OpenRANs via eBPF". Haohuang Wen, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras, Ashish Gehani, Prakhar Sharma, and Zhiqiang Lin. In Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG) 2026 (Co-located with NDSS'26), San Diego, CA, USA, February, 2026. [link] ​

Topic: OpenRAN, Telemetry, eBPF, Multi-vendor RAN, KPM

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[6GSECC 2025] "MobiLLM: An Agentic AI Framework for Closed-Loop Threat Mitigation in 6G Open RANs". Prakhar Sharma, Haohuang Wen, Vinod Yegneswaran, Ashish Gehani, Phillip Porras, and Zhiqiang Lin. In Workshop on 6G and Spectrum Security for Critical Communication (6GSECC) (Co-located with MILCOM'25), Los Angeles, CA, USA, October, 2025. [link][code][video]

Topic: Agentic AI, LLM, Closed-Loop Defense, Configuration Tuning, Threat Classification

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[FutureG 2025] "MobiDojo: A Virtual Security Combat Platform for 5G Cellular Networks". Hyunwoo Lee, Haohuang Wen, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, Ashish Gehani, Prakhar Sharma, and Zhiqiang Lin. In Workshop on Security and Privacy of Next-Generation Networks (FutureG) 2025 (Co-located with NDSS'25), San Diego, CA, U.S.A, February, 2025. [link][code][video]

Topic: Exploit Testing, Virtual Testbed, Graphic User Interface, OpenAirInterface

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[HotNets 2024] "6G-XSec: Explainable Edge Security for Emerging OpenRAN Architectures". Haohuang Wen, Prakhar Sharma, Vinod Yegneswaran, Phillip Porras, Ashish Gehani, and Zhiqiang Lin. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets 2024), Irvine, CA, U.S.A, November, 2024. [link][code][video]

Topic: Anomaly Detection, Unsupervised Learning, Deep Learning, Threat Explainability, LLM

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[NDSS 2024] "5G-Spector: An O-RAN Compliant Layer-3 Cellular Attack Detection Service". Haohuang Wen, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, Ashish Gehani, and Zhiqiang Lin. In Proceedings of the ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, U.S.A, February, 2024. [link][code][video]

(★ NDSS 2024 Distinguished Artifact Award)

Topic: Intrusion Detection, OpenRAN, xApp, E2 Interface, Layer-3 Protocols

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[Technical Whitepaper] "5G Security-Enhanced Open Radio Access Networks". Phillip Porras, Project SE-RAN. In Nephio's Technical Blog, May, 2023. [link]

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[NDSS 2023] "Thwarting smartphone SMS attacks at the Radio Interface Layer". Haohuang Wen, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, and Zhiqiang Lin. In Proceedings of the ISOC Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS), San Diego, CA, U.S.A, February, 2023. [link][code][video]

Topic: Inline Prevention, Android, Radio Interface Layer, Baseband, SMS Attack

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[EW Workshop 2022] Haohuang Wen, Phillip Porras, Vinod Yegneswaran, and Zhiqiang Lin, "A fine-grained telemetry stream for security services in 5G open radio access networks," in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Emerging Topics in Wireless (EmergingWireless '22) [link]

Topic: Telemetry, OpenRAN, Security Analytics