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Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science

Dr. Yantian Hou joined the Department of Computer Science at Boise State University in 2016, and is currently an Assistant Professor. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Utah State University, and an M.S. and B.S. both in Electrical Engineering from Beihang University in China. Dr. Hou previously worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Arizona in its Wireless Network and Cyber Security Research (WiSeR) lab. His research interests are in the areas of mobile computing and cloud computing security, which includes: message integrity protection and initial key establishment for mobile devices of insecure wireless channel; coexistence of heterogeneous wireless mobile devices; searchable encryption and computation on encrypted data.

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Dr. Yantian Hou joined the Department of Computer Science at Boise State University in 2016, and is currently an Assistant Professor. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Utah State University, and an M.S. and B.S. both in Electrical Engineering from Beihang University in China. Dr. Hou previously worked as a Research Assistant at the University of Arizona in its Wireless Network and Cyber Security Research (WiSeR) lab. His research interests are in the areas of mobile computing and cloud computing security, which includes: message integrity protection and initial key establishment for mobile devices of insecure wireless channel; coexistence of heterogeneous wireless mobile devices; searchable encryption and computation on encrypted data.

Articles (3)

QuickN: Practical and Secure Nearest Neighbor Search on Encrypted Large-Scale Data (Boyang Wang, Yantian Hou and Ming Li) IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (2022)

In this article, we propose a scheme, named QuickN, which can efficiently and securely enable nearest neighbor search over encrypted data on untrusted clouds. Specifically, we modify the search algorithm of nearest neighbors in tree ...

Message Integrity Protection Over Wireless Channel: Countering Signal Cancellation via Channel Randomization (Yanjun Pan, Yantian Hou, Ming Li, et al.) IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2020)

Physical layer message integrity protection and authentication by countering signal-cancellation has been shown as a promising alternative to traditional pure cryptographic message authentication protocols, due to the non-necessity of neither pre-shared secrets nor secure channels. ...

Making Wireless Body Area Networks Robust Under Cross-Technology Interference (Yantian Hou, Ming Li and Shucheng Yu) IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications (2016)

Wireless body area networks (BANs) demand high-quality service. However, as BANs will be widely deployed in densely populated areas, they inevitably face RF cross-technology interference (CTI) from non-protocol-compliant wireless devices operating in the same spectrum ...

FlowCon: Elastic Flow Configuration for Containerized Deep Learning Applications (Wenjia Zheng, Michael Tynes, Henry Gorelick, et al.) ICPP 2019: Proceedings of the 48th International Conference on Parallel Processing (2019)

An increasing number of companies are using data analytics to improve their products, services, and business processes. However, learning knowledge effectively from massive data sets always involves nontrivial computational resources. Most businesses thus choose to ...

Flexibly and Securely Shape Your Data Disclosed to Others (Qingqing Xie, Yantian Hou, Ke Cheng, et al.) Asia CCS '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (2019)

This work is to enhance existing fine-grained access control to support a more expressive access policy over arithmetic operation results. We aim to enable data owners to flexibly bind a user's identity with his/her authorized ...

Edge-Assisted CNN Inference Over Encrypted Data for Internet of Things (Yifan Tian, Jiawei Yuan, Shucheng Yu, et al.) SecureComm 2019: Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (2019)

Supporting the inference tasks of convolutional neural network (CNN) on resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices in a timely manner has been an outstanding challenge for emerging smart systems. To mitigate the burden on IoT ...

Edge-Assisted Image Processing with Joint Optimization of Responding and Placement Strategy (Anil Acharya, Yantian Hou, Ying Mao, et al.) 2019 International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData) (2019)

Cloud computing is a prevailing approach for running various data-analysis algorithms to obtain insight from massive raw data. However, the current cloud computing architecture suffers from large computation and communication overhead when processing data in ...

PDF-DS: Privacy-Preserving Data Filtering for Distributed Data Streams in Cloud (Yifan Tian, Jiawei Yuan and Yantian Hou) 2019 International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing and Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData) (2019)

Many real-world applications, from traditional wireless sensor networks to today's Internet of Thing (loT), generate a large amount of data streams distributively. To meet challenges of handling distributed data streams, deploying data streams management systems ...

Privacy-Preserving Genomic Data Publishing via Differentially-Private Suffix Tree (Tanya Khatri, Gaby G. Dagher and Yantian Hou) Security and Privacy in Communication Networks: 15th EAI International Conference, SecureComm 2019, Orlando, FL, USA, October 23-25, 2019, Proceedings, Part I (2019)

Privacy-preserving data publishing is a mechanism for sharing data while ensuring that the privacy of individuals is preserved in the published data, and utility is maintained for data mining and analysis. There is a huge ...

Workload-Aware Task Placement in Edge-Assisted Human Re-Identification (Anil Acharya, Yantian Hou, Ying Mao, et al.) 2019 16th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON) (2019)

This work is a cross-domain study by utilizing the most recent cloud and edge computing techniques in the human re-identification, which is a popular computer-vision application motivated by the demand of connecting and monitoring our ...

On the Throughput Limit of Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with Reconfigurable Antennas (Yanjun Pan, Ming Li, Neng Fan, et al.) 2018 15th Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON) (2018)

Reconfigurable antenna (RA) has emerged as a disruptive antenna technology with the potential of significantly improving the capacity of wireless links, by agilely reconfiguring its antenna states. Through jointly optimizing antenna state selection, routing and ...

Secure Similar Sequence Query on Outsourced Genomic Data (Ke Cheng, Yantian Hou and Liangmin Wang) ASIACCS '18: Proceedings of the 2018 on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security (2018)

The growing availability of genomic data is unlocking research potentials on genomic-data analysis. It is of great importance to outsource the genomic-analysis tasks onto clouds to leverage their powerful computational resources over the large-scale genomic ...

CAPIA: Cloud Assisted Privacy-Preserving Image Annotation (Yifan Tian, Yantian Hou and Jiawei Yuan) 2017 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS) (2017)

Using public cloud for image storage has become a prevalent trend with the rapidly increasing number of pictures generated by various devices. For example, today's most smartphones and tablets synchronize photo albums with cloud storage ...

EDOS: Edge Assisted Offloading System for Mobile Devices (Hank H. Harvey, Ying Mao, Yantian Hou, et al.) ICCN 2017: 26th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (2017)

Offloading resource-intensive jobs to the cloud and nearby users is a promising approach to enhance mobile devices. This paper investigates a hybrid offloading system that takes both infrastructure-based networks and Ad-hoc networks into the scope. ...

Game Theoretical Analysis of Coexistence in MIMO-Empowered Cognitive Radio Networks (Yantian Hou, Ming Li and Dejun Yang) 2017 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) (2017)

In Cognitive Radio Networks (CRNs), the spectrum underlay approach enables primary and secondary networks to transmit simultaneously, as long as the interference from the secondary network to the primary network is below certain threshold. As ...

Throughput Optimization in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks with Reconfigurable Antennas (Yantian Hou, Ming Li and Kai Zeng) 2017 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) (2017)

In multi-hop wireless networks (MWNs), interference and connectivity are two key factors that affect end-to-end network throughput. Traditional omni-directional antennas and directional antennas either generate significant interference or provide poor network connectivity. Reconfigurable antenna (RA) ...

A Game Theoretical Approach to Coexistence of Heterogeneous Mimo Wireless Networks with Interference Cancellation (Yantian Hou, Ming Li and Dejun Yang) 2016 International Conference on Computing, Networking and Communications (ICNC) (2016)

MIMO is an emerging technology which can substantially increase the link capacity of wireless communications. MIMO has also been shown to enhance the throughput in the coexistence of heterogeneous wireless networks due to its capability ...

Practical and Secure Nearest Neighbor Search on Encrypted Large-Scale Data (Boyang Wang, Yantian Hou and Ming Li) IEEE INFOCOM 2016 - The 35th Annual IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (2016)

Nearest neighbor search (or k-nearest neighbor search in general) is one of the most fundamental queries on massive datasets, and it has extensive applications such as pattern recognition, statistical classification, graph algorithms, Location-Based Services and ...

Message Integrity Protection Over Wireless Channel by Countering Signal Cancellation: Theory and Practice (Yantian Hou, Ming Li, Ruchir Chauhan, et al.) ASIA CCS '15 Proceedings of the 10th ACM Symposium on Information, Computer and Communications Security (2015)

Physical layer message integrity protection and authentication by countering signal-cancellation has been shown as a promising alternative to traditional pure cryptographic message authentication protocols, due to the non-necessity of neither pre-shared secrets nor secure channels. ...

Tree-Based Multi-Dimensional Range Search on Encrypted Data with Enhanced Privacy (Boyang Wang, Yantian Hou, Ming Li, et al.) Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks (SecureComm '14) (2014)

With searchable encryption, a data user is able to perform meaningful search on encrypted data stored in the public cloud without revealing data privacy. Besides handling simple queries (e.g., keyword queries), complex search functions, such ...