Publications
PuRe Defender: A Game-Theoretic Pull Request Assignment with Deep RL
Javad Mokhtari Koushyar, Mina Guirguis and George Atia
In proceedings of the Conference on Game Theory and AI for Security (GameSec), Athens, Greece, October 2025 PDFTopology-Aware Hybrid FDIA Against Third-Party Aggregators in Smart Grids
Javad Mokhtari Koushyar, Mina Guirguis and George Atia
In proceedings of the IEEE SmartGridComm, Toronto, Canada, October 2025 PDFThe Role of Aggregator Topology on the Impact of False Data Injection Attacks
Javad Mokhtari Koushyar, Mina Guirguis and George Atia
In proceedings of the In IEEE 11th International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security (IDS), New York, NY, July 2025Hindering Search and Rescue Missions with Selective Wireless Jamming Attacks
Javad Mokhtari Koushyar, Mina Guirguis and George Atia
In proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA), Montreal, Canada, May 2024DeepBLOC: A Framework for Securing CPS through Deep Reinforcement Learning on Stochastic Games
Alireza Tahsini, Noah Dunstatter, Mina Guirguis and Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed
In proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), June 2020 PDFSolving Cyber Alert Allocation Markov Games With Deep Reinforcement Learning
Noah Dunstatter, Alireza Tahsini, Mina Guirguis and Jelena Tešić
In proceedings of the 10th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec), Stockholm, Sweden, October 2019Pinball Attacks Against Dynamic Channel Assignment in Wireless Networks
Ahmed Anwar, Janiece Kelly, George Atia and Mina Guirguis
The Elsevier International Journal of Computer Communications, May 2019A Game-Theoretic Framework for the Virtual Machines Migration Timing Problem
Ahmed Anwar, George Atia and Mina Guirguis
The IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, March 2019Adaptive Topologies Against Jamming Attacks in Wireless Networks: A Game-Theoretic Approach
Ahmed Anwar, George Atia and Mina Guirguis
The Elsevier International Journal of Network and Computer Applications, November 2018Towards a Protected Cloud Against Side Channel Attacks: A Game Theoretic Framework
Ahmed Anwar, George Atia and Mina Guirguis
In proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing (Allerton), Monticello, IL, October 2018A Game-Theoretic Two-Stage Stochastic Programing Model to Protect CPS against Attacks
Clara Novoa, Khan Siddique, Mina Guirguis and Alireza Tahsini
In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Industrial Informatics, Porto, Portugal, July 2018It’s Time to Migrate! A Game-Theoretic Framework for Protecting a Multi-tenant Cloud against Collocation Attacks
Ahmed Anwar, George Atia and Mina Guirguis
In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD), San Francisco, CA, July 2018Allocating Security Analysts to Cyber Alerts Using Markov Games
Noah Dunstatter, Mina Guirguis and Alireza Tahsini
In proceedings of the National Cyber Summit (NCS), Huntsville, AL, June 2018BLOC: A Game-Theoretic Approach to Orchestrate CPS against Cyber Attacks
Mina Guirguis, Alireza Tahsini, Khan Siddique, Clara Novoa, Justin Moore, Christine Julien and Noah Dunstatter
In proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Beijing, China, May 2018 PDFDynamic Game-Theoretic Defense Approach against Stealthy Jamming Attacks in Wireless Networks
Ahmad Anwar, George Atia and Mina Guirguis
In proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing (Allerton), Monticello, IL, October 2017Assignment and Collaborative Execution of Tasks on Transient Clouds
Mina Guirguis, Qijun Gu, Terry Penner, Lavanya Tammineni, et al.
Springer Annals of Telecommunications, August 2017Don't Bury your Head in Warnings: A Game-Theoretic Approach for Intelligent Allocation of Cyber-security Alerts
Aaron Schlenker, Haifeng Xu, Mina Guirguis, Chris Kiekintveld, Arunesh Sinha, Milind Tambe, Solomon Sonya, Darryl Balderas, and Noah Dunstatter
In proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Melbourne, Australia, August 2017Towards a Game-theoretic Framework for Intelligent Cyber-security Alert Allocation
Aaron Schlenker, Haifeng Xu, Chris Kiekintveld, Arunesh Sinha, Milind Tambe, Mina Guirguis, Solomon Sonya, Darryl Balderas, and Noah Dunstatter
In proceedings of the 3rd IJCAI workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory, Melbourne, Australia, August 2017Combating the Bandits in the Cloud: A Moving Target Defense Approach
Terry Penner and Mina Guirguis
In proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGRID), Madrid, Spain, May 2017 PDFToward Local Overlay-based Mobile Clouds
Lavanya Tammineni and Mina Guirguis
In proceedings of the Smart Cloud Networks and Systems Conference (SCNS), Dubai UAE, December 2016Game Theoretic Defense Approach to Wireless Networks Against Stealthy Decoy Attacks
Ahmad Anwar, George Atia and Mina Guirguis
In proceedings of Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing (Allerton), Monticello, IL, October 2016Measuring the Impact of Unique Entry-Level Instructional Course Modules Designed to Inspire Computer Science Interest
Araceli Ortiz and Mina Guirguis
In proceedings of the Annual ASEE Conference & Exposition, June 2016Pinball Attacks: Exploiting Channel Allocation in Wireless Networks
Janiece Kelly, Mina Guirguis and George Atia
In proceedings of the IEEE ICC, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 2016 PDFContext Awareness over Transient Clouds
Andrea Sciarrone, Igor Bisio, Fabio Lavagetto, Terrence Penner and Mina Guirguis
In proceedings of the IEEE Globecom, San Diego, CA, December 2015Context-Awareness over Transient Cloud in D2D networks: Energy Performance Analysis and Evaluation
Andrea Sciarrone, Igor Bisio, Fabio Lavagetto, Terrence Penner and Mina Guirguis
Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies, John Wiley & Sons Lt, November 2015Stealthy Edge Decoy Attacks Against Dynamic Channel Assignment in Wireless Networks
Ahmed Anwar, Janiece Kelly, George Atia, and Mina Guirguis
In proceedings of the International Conference for Military Communications (Milcom), Tampa, FL, October 2015 PDFDisrupting Adaptive Traffic Lights Cycles through Selective Jamming Attacks
Heather Hinze, Mike Ruth and Mina Guirguis
In proceedings of the IEEE 81st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Glasgow, UK, May 2015Demo: Transient Clouds
Terry Penner, Alison Johnson, Brandon Van Slyke, Mina Guirguis and Qijun Gu
In proceedings of MobiCASE, Demo, Austin, TX, November 2014 PDFA Framework for Identifying Stealthy Attacks on Mobile CPS Applications
Vu Nguyen, Mina Guirguis and George Atia
In proceedings of Symposium on the Control of Network Systems (SCONES), Poster, Boston, MA, October 2014Transient Clouds: Assignment and Collaborative Execution of Tasks on Mobile Devices
Terry Penner, Alison Johnson, Brandon Van Slyke, Mina Guirguis and Qijun Gu
In proceedings of IEEE Globecom, Austin, TX, December 2014 PDFA Unifying Approach for the Identification of Application-driven Stealthy Attacks on Mobile CPS
Vu Nguyen, Mina Guirguis and George Atia
In proceedings of the 52nd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Monticello, IL, September 2014 PDFSecure Mobile Cloud Computing and Security Issues
Qijun Gu and Mina Guirguis
In K. Han, B. Choi and S. Song, High Performance Cloud Auditing and Applications, Chapter 3, Springer, New York, 2014Transient Clouds: Assignment and Collaborative Execution of Tasks on Mobile Devices
Terry Penner, Alison Johnson, Mina Guirguis and Qijun Gu
Grace Hopper Conference, Poster Session, Minneapolis, MN, October 2013Collaborative Computing On-Demand: Harnessing Mobile Devices in Executing On-the-Fly Jobs
Thomas Langford, Qijun Gu, Agustin Rivera-Longoria and Mina Guirguis
In proceedings of the Tenth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), ZheJiang, China, October 2013 PDFAn Abstraction Layer for Controlling Heterogeneous Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems
Trevor Hanz and Mina Guirguis
In proceedings of the Ninth IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Madison, WI, August 2013Control Theoretic Adaptive Monitoring Tools for the Android Platform
David Reynolds and Mina Guirguis
In proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Cloud Security Auditing, Santa Clara, CA, June 2013 PDFStuck in Traffic (SiT) Attacks: A Framework for Identifying Stealthy Attacks that Cause Traffic Congestion
Mina Guirguis and George Atia
In proceedings of the IEEE 77th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC), Dresden, Germany, June 2013 arXivStealthy Attacks on Pheromone Swarming
Janiece Kelly, Seth Richter and Mina Guirguis
In proceedings of the IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA), San Diego, CA February, 2013 PDFA Case for Low-level Jamming Attacks on Mobile CPS in Target Tracking Applications
Emad Guirguis, Mina Guirguis and Nikhil Halkude
In proceedings of the International Symposium on Pervasive Systems, Algorithms, and Networks, San Marcos, TX, December 2012Earlier Publications| Prior to ISL
Performance Evaluation of Path Splicing on the GEANT and the Sprint Networks
Christopher Page, Emad Guirguis and Mina Guirguis
The Elsevier International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking (COMNET), Volume 55, Issue 17, Pages 3947–3958, December 2011Can you Help Me Run These Code Segments on Your Mobile Device?
Mina Guirguis, Robert Ogden, Zhaochen Song, Sobit Thapa and Qijun Gu
In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communication Conference, Houston, Texas, December 2011An Expanding Reference Library for Peer-to-Peer Content
Jason Valdez, Mina Guirguis, David Wingate and Rory Rinkevich
In Proceedings of Sixth APWG eCrime Researchers Summit (eCRS'11), San Diego, California, November 2011Traffic Shaping via Congestion Signals Delegation
Mina Guirguis and Jason Valdez
The IARIA International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services, Volume 3, Issue 4, December 2010Lexical Steganography Using Prime Based Mimic Functions
W. Connell, D. Tamir and M. Guirguis
The International Journal of Wireless Communications and Networking, 2010SKWeak Attacks on Path Splicing: Vulnerability Assessment and Defense Mechanisms
Emad Guirguis, Mina Guirguis and Christopher Page
In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communication Conference, Miami, Florida, December 2010Prime-based Mimic Functions for the Implementation of Covert Channels
Wesley Connell, Dan Tamir and Mina Guirguis
In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Wireless Communication, Networking and Information Security, Beijing, China, June 2010On the Safety and Security of Path Splicing: A Case Study for Path Splicing on the GEANT Network
Christopher Page and Mina Guirguis
In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communication Conference (Globecom'09), Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2009Stealthy IP Prefix Hijacking Attacks
Christian McArthur and Mina Guirguis
In Proceedings of the IEEE Global Communication Conference (Globecom'09), Honolulu, Hawaii, December 2009Burn Before Reading: A Stealthy Framework for Combating Live Forensics Investigations
Mina Guirguis, Jason Valdez, Bassam El Lababedi and Joseph Valdez
In Proceedings of 4th APWG eCrime Researchers Summit, Tacoma, Washington, October 2009HELP:// Hypertext in-Emergency Leveraging Protocol
Mina Guirguis and Hideo Goto
In Proceedings of the 44th IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'09), Dresden, Germany, June 2009Assessment of Vulnerability of Content Adaptation Mechanisms to RoQ Attacks
Mina Guirguis, Joshua Tharp, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta
In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Networks (ICN'09), Gosier, Guadeloupe, March 2009Masquerading a Wired Covert Channel into a Wireless-like Channel
Mina Guirguis and Jason Valdez
In Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Workshop on Network Security and Privacy (NSP'08), Austin, Texas, December 2008Stealthy IP Prefix Hijacking: Don’t Bite Off More Than You Can Chew
Christian McArthur and Mina Guirguis
In Proceedings of ACM SIGCOMM, Poster Session Paper, Seattle, Washington, August 2008Liberating TCP: The Free and the Stunts
Jason Valdez and Mina Guirguis
In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Networks (ICN'08), Cancun, Mexico, April 2008Reduction of Quality Attacks on Content Adaptation Mechanisms
Joshua Tharp and Mina Guirguis
In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid'07), Poster Session Paper, Austin, Texas, September 2007Reduction of Quality (RoQ) Attacks on Dynamic Load Balancers: Vulnerability Assessment and Design Tradeoffs
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta and Yuting Zhang
In Proceedings of the 26th IEEE INFOCOM (INFOCOM'07), Anchorage, Alaska, May 2007Adversarial Exploits of End-Systems Adaptation Dynamics
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta and Yuting Zhang
The Elsevier International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC), Volume 67, Issue 3, Pages 318-335, March 2007Exogenous-Loss Aware Traffic Management in Overlay Networks: Toward Global Fairness
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta
The Computer Networks Journal (COMNET): The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking, Volume 50, Issue 13, Pages 2331-2348, September 2006On the Impact of Low-Rate Attacks
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta
In Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC'06), Istanbul, Turkey, June 2006Friendly Virtual Machines: Leveraging a Feedback-Control Model for Application Adaptation
Yuting Zhang, Azer Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Ibrahim Matta and Rich West
In Proceedings of the first ACM/USENIX Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'05), Chicago, Illinois, June 2005Reduction of Quality (RoQ) Attacks on Internet End-Systems
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta and Yuting Zhang
In Proceedings of the 24th IEEE INFOCOM (INFOCOM'05), Miami, Florida, March 2005Routing Tradeoffs inside a d-dimensional Torus with applicability to CAN
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta
In Proceedings of the 1st International Computer Engineering Conference New Technologies for the Information Society (ICENCO'04), Cairo, Egypt, December 2004Bandwidth Stealing via Link Targeted RoQ Attacks
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta
In Proceedings of the 2nd IASTED International Conference on Communication and Computer Networks (CCN'04), Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2004itmBench: Generalized API for Internet Traffic Managers
Gali Diamant, Leonid Veytser, Ibrahim Matta, Azer Bestavros, Mina Guirguis, Liang Guo, Yuting Zhang and Sean Chen
In Proceedings of the 10th IEEE Globecom Workshop on Computer-Aided Modeling, Analysis and Design of Communication Links and Networks (CAMAD'04), Dallas, Texas, November 2004Exploiting the Transients of Adaptation for RoQ Attacks on Internet Resources
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta
In Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP'04), Berlin, Germany, October 2004Adaptation=Vulnerability: Under RoQ Attacks
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta
In ACM SIGCOMM 2004, Poster Session Paper, Portland, Oregon, September 2004Providing Soft Bandwidth Guarantees Using Elastic TCP-based Tunnels
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros, Ibrahim Matta, Niky Riga, Gali Diamant and Yuting Zhang
In proceedings of the 9th IEEE Symposium on Computer and Communications (ISCC'2004), Alexandria, Egypt, July 2004XQM: eXogenous-loss aware Queue Management
Mina Guirguis, Azer Bestavros and Ibrahim Matta
In IEEE ICNP 2003, Poster Session Paper, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2003Sponsors
