By Associate Professor Sushmita Ruj

Journal articles

Conti M; Gangwal A; Ruj S, 2018, 'On the economic significance of ransomware campaigns: A Bitcoin transactions perspective', Computers and Security, 79, pp. 162 - 189, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2018.08.008

Conti M; Sandeep KE; Lal C; Ruj S, 2018, 'A survey on security and privacy issues of bitcoin', IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 20, pp. 3416 - 3452, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMST.2018.2842460

Ruj S; Maitra S; Roy B, 2018, 'Key predistribution using transversal design on a grid of wireless sensor network', Ad Hoc and Sensor Wireless Networks, 5, pp. 247 - 264

Chatterjee T; Ruj S; Bit SD, 2018, 'Security issues in named data networks', Computer, 51, pp. 66 - 75, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/MC.2018.1151010

Bag S; Ruj S; Sakurai K, 2017, 'Bitcoin Block Withholding Attack: Analysis and Mitigation', IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 12, pp. 1967 - 1978, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TIFS.2016.2623588

Ruj S; Stojmenovic M; Nayak A, 2014, 'Decentralized access control with anonymous authentication of data stored in clouds', IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 25, pp. 384 - 394, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2013.38

Huang Z; Ruj S; Cavenaghi MA; Stojmenovic M; Nayak A, 2014, 'A social network approach to trust management in VANETs', Peer to Peer Networking and Applications, 7, pp. 229 - 242, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12083-012-0136-8

Stojmenovic M; Nayak A; Prado A; Ruj S, 2014, 'Applying transmission-coverage algorithms for secure geocasting in VANETs', International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, 1, pp. 1 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijcse.2014.10006161

Ruj S; Nayak A; Stojmenovic I, 2013, 'Pairwise and triple key distribution in wireless sensor networks with applications', IEEE Transactions on Computers, 62, pp. 2224 - 2237, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TC.2012.138

Ruj S; Nayak A, 2013, 'A decentralized security framework for data aggregation and access control in smart grids', IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 4, pp. 196 - 205, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TSG.2012.2224389

Bhattacharya S; Ruj S; Roy B, 2012, 'Combinatorial batch codes: A lower bound and optimal constructions', Advances in Mathematics of Communications, 6, pp. 165 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/amc.2012.6.165

Stankovski P; Ruj S; Hell M; Johansson T, 2012, 'Improved distinguishers for HC-128', Designs Codes and Cryptography, 63, pp. 225 - 240, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10623-011-9550-9

Ruj S; Roy B, 2011, 'Key pre-distribution using partially balanced designs in wireless sensor networks', International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking, 7, pp. 19 - 28, http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/IJHPCN.2011.038707

Ruj S; Roy B, 2009, 'Key predistribution using combinatorial designs for grid-group deployment scheme in wireless sensor networks', ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1653760.1653764

Ruj S; Roy B, 2009, 'Revisiting Key Predistribution Using Transversal Designs for a Grid-Based Deployment Scheme', International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 5, pp. 660 - 674, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15501320802581466

Conference Papers

Krul E; Paik HY; Ruj S; Kanhere SS, 2026, 'ACCORD: Accountable Credential Disclosure for Self-Sovereign Identity', in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Web Services Icws, pp. 1173 - 1176, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICWS72778.2026.00138

Luu N; Pathak V; Liu J; Hua Z; Hilsberg J; Ruj S, 2026, 'Data Inclusion Proofs for Account-based Blockchains Storage Nodes', in 2026 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Icbc 2026, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICBC67748.2026.11575490

Mukherjee S; Ruj S; Ballouz S, 2026, 'Privacy Preserving Search on Genomic Data', in Proceedings 2026 IEEE International Conference on Digital Health Icdh 2026, pp. 284 - 293, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICDH72779.2026.00040

Cai M; Ruj S; Masood R; Kanhere SS, 2025, 'Empirical Analysis of DNS Abuse Cases within Australian Domain', in 2025 IEEE 50th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), IEEE, pp. 1 - 7, presented at 2025 IEEE 50th Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), 13 October 2025 - 16 October 2025, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/lcn65610.2025.11146062

Hilsberg J; Ruj S, 2025, 'Storage Proofs for Historical Ethereum Data', Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1 - 12, presented at Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3709016.3737805

Chamikara MAP; Jang SI; Oppermann I; Liu D; Roberto M; Ruj S; Pal A; Mohammady M; Camtepe S; Young S; Dorrian C; David N, 2025, 'Towards Usability of Data with Privacy: A Unified Framework for Privacy-Preserving Data Sharing with High Utility', in Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pp. 790 - 806, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3708821.3736187

McGowan C; Liu J; Ruj S, 2025, 'Security Considerations for Post-Quantum Signatures in DNSSEC via Request-Based Fragmentation', in Www Companion 2025 Companion Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2025, pp. 1189 - 1193, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3701716.3715585

Orang AV; Dorri A; Gaspers S; Ruj S, 2024, 'Blockchain-Enabled Private and Secure Task Allocation Framework', in 2024 16th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks Comsnets 2024, pp. 666 - 670, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS59351.2024.10427531

Zhang X; Steinfeld R; Esgin MF; Liu JK; Liu D; Ruj S, 2024, 'Loquat: A SNARK-Friendly Post-quantum Signature Based on the Legendre PRF with Applications in Ring and Aggregate Signatures', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 3 - 38, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68376-3_1

Ruj S, 2024, 'Zero-Knowledge Proofs for Blockchains', in Proceedings 2024 54th Annual IEEE IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks Supplemental Volume Dsn S 2024, pp. 67 - 68, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/DSN-S60304.2024.00028

Heikamp F; Pan L; Doss R; Trujillo-Rasua R; Ruj S, 2023, 'ForTrac: a Secure NFT-based Forward Traceability System for Providing Data Accuracy and Completeness', Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 1 - 10, presented at Proceedings of the 5th ACM International Symposium on Blockchain and Secure Critical Infrastructure, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3594556.3594608

Singh RG; Ruj S, 2023, 'Encoding of security properties for transparent consent data processing', in 2023 IEEE Guwahati Subsection Conference Gcon 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/GCON58516.2023.10183463

Das D; Muthaiah A; Ruj S, 2022, 'Blockchain-Enabled Secure and Smart Healthcare System', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), St. Petersburg, Florida, The United States of America, pp. 97 - 109, presented at 17th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology, DESTRIST 2022, St. Petersburg, Florida, The United States of America, 01 June 2022 - 03 June 2022, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06516-3_8

Sengupta J; Ruj S; Bit SD, 2022, 'SPRITE: A Scalable Privacy-Preserving and Verifiable Collaborative Learning for Industrial IoT', in Proceedings 22nd IEEE ACM International Symposium on Cluster Cloud and Internet Computing Ccgrid 2022, pp. 249 - 258, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CCGrid54584.2022.00034

Ahmed N; Michelin RA; Xue W; Putra GD; Song W; Ruj S; Kanhere SS; Jha S, 2021, 'Towards privacy-preserving digital contact tracing', in IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Icbc 2021, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICBC51069.2021.9461052

Banerjee P; Muthaiah A; Ruj S, 2021, 'Blockchain Enabled Data Trading with User Consent', in 2021 International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks Comsnets 2021, pp. 263 - 271, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS51098.2021.9352817

Sardar L; Bansal G; Ruj S; Sakurai K, 2021, 'Securely Computing Clustering Coefficient for Outsourced Dynamic Encrypted Graph Data', in 2021 International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks Comsnets 2021, pp. 465 - 473, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS51098.2021.9352809

Samadi M; Schriemer H; Ruj S; Erol-Kantarci M, 2021, 'Energy Blockchain for Demand Response and Distributed Energy Resource Management', in 2021 IEEE International Conference on Communications Control and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids Smartgridcomm 2021, pp. 425 - 431, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SmartGridComm51999.2021.9632326

Mazumdar S; Banerjee P; Ruj S, 2020, 'Time is money: Countering griefing attack in lightning network', in Proceedings 2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications Trustcom 2020, pp. 1036 - 1043, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TrustCom50675.2020.00138

Banerjee P; Govindarajan C; Jayachandran P; Ruj S, 2020, 'Reliable, Fair and Decentralized Marketplace for Content Sharing Using Blockchain', in Proceedings 2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Blockchain 2020, pp. 365 - 370, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/Blockchain50366.2020.00053

Mazumdar S; Ruj S; Singh RG; Pal A, 2020, 'HushRelay: A Privacy-Preserving, Efficient, and Scalable Routing Algorithm for Off-Chain Payments', in IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Icbc 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICBC48266.2020.9169405

Dutta S; Sardar MK; Adhikari A; Ruj S; Sakurai K, 2020, 'Color Visual Cryptography Schemes Using Linear Algebraic Techniques over Rings', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 198 - 217, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65610-2_13

Chatterjee R; Ruj S; Dasbit S, 2020, 'Public Key Infrastructure for Named Data Networks', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3369740.3369790

Chatterjee T; Ruj S; Dasbit S, 2019, 'LowSHeP: Low-overhead forwarding and update Solution in ndn with Hexadecimal Patricia trie', in International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems Ants, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ANTS47819.2019.9117924

Pannuto P; Pan S; Salim F; Kjærgaard M, 2019, 'Message from the chairs', in Data 2019 Proceedings of the 2nd ACM Workshop on Data Acquisition to Analysis Part of Sensys 2019

Lokam S; Ruj S; Sakurai K, 2019, 'BCC'19 chairs' welcome', in Bcc 2019 Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Blockchains Cryptocurrencies and Contracts Co Located with Asiaccs 2019, pp. III

Pal P; Ruj S, 2019, 'BlockV: A blockchain enabled peer-peer ride sharing service', in Proceedings 2019 2nd IEEE International Conference on Blockchain Blockchain 2019, pp. 463 - 468, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/Blockchain.2019.00070

Pachal S; Ruj S, 2019, 'Rational Mining of Bitcoin', in 2019 11th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks Comsnets 2019, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/COMSNETS.2019.8711445

Sengupta J; Ruj S; Bit SD, 2019, 'End to end secure anonymous communication for secure directed diffusion in IoT', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, pp. 445 - 450, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3288599.3295577

Sardar L; Ruj S, 2019, 'FSPVDsse: A Forward Secure Publicly Verifiable Dynamic SSE Scheme', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, pp. 355 - 371, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31919-9_23

Sengupta J; Ruj S; Bit SD, 2018, 'An efficient and secure directed diffusion in industrial wireless sensor networks', in Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking MOBICOM, pp. 41 - 46, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3243318.3243320

Sengupta B; Nikam N; Ruj S; Narayanamurthy S; Nandi S, 2018, 'An Efficient Secure Distributed Cloud Storage for Append-Only Data', in IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Cloud, pp. 146 - 153, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2018.00026

Ruj S; Rahman MS; Basu A; Kiyomoto S, 2018, 'BlockStore: A secure decentralized storage framework on blockchain', in Proceedings International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications AINA, pp. 1096 - 1103, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AINA.2018.00157

Chatterjee T; Ruj S; Dasbit S, 2018, 'Data forwarding and update propagation in grid network for NDN: A low-overhead approach', in International Symposium on Advanced Networks and Telecommunication Systems Ants, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ANTS.2018.8710136

Ghose S; Ruj S, 2018, 'Secrecy performance analysis of relay selection in adaptive DF relaying network with active adversary', in 11th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Networks and Telecommunications Systems Ants 2017, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ANTS.2017.8384089

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