Publications

Network architecture, data-centric security, and decentralized systems.

2026

SRAN: Scaling NDN Routing via Map-and-Attach

Tianyuan Yu, Sirapop Theeranantachai, Lixia Zhang

IEEE ICNP 2026Conference / workshop paper(to appear)

Maps application prefixes at the edge to keep core forwarding state tied to topology.

Enhancing NAC-ABE to Support Access Control for mHealth Applications and Beyond

Saurab Dulal, Suravi Regmi, Tianyuan Yu, Adam Thieme, Lixia Zhang, Lan Wang

IEEE/ACM CHASE · mHealth Security Workshop 2026Conference / workshop paper

From Map-and-Encap to BIER: Observations on Network Routing Scalability

Tianyuan Yu, Lan Wang, Beichuan Zhang, Lixia Zhang

arXiv:2605.07071Preprint

Examines recurring design principles behind scalable unicast and multicast routing.

2025

SRM at 30: Lessons from Early Data-Centric Networking and Their Impact on Named Data Networking

Tianyuan Yu, Adam Thieme, Junxiao Shi, Lan Wang, Lixia Zhang

NDN Technical Report 0078 · arXiv:2512.23928Technical report

Identifying Roadblocks in Building Decentralized Apps

Tianyuan Yu, Adam Thieme, Lixia Zhang

ACM/IRTF ANRW 2025Conference / workshop paper

Identifies practical obstacles to realizing decentralized applications and puts their architectural requirements in focus.

Towards Establishing a Systematic Security Framework for Next Generation Cellular Networks

Tolga O. Atalay, Tianyuan Yu, Lixia Zhang, Angelos Stavrou

NDSS · FutureG Workshop 2025Conference / workshop paper

Explores data-centric trust management for dynamic, multi-domain cellular core networks.

Developing a Trust Plane for Interconnected Networks

Tianyuan Yu

Ph.D. dissertation · UCLADissertation

A framework for making authentication, authorization, and auditing systematic across interconnected networks.

2024

On Empowering End Users in Future Networking

Tianyuan Yu, Xinyu Ma, Lixia Zhang

ACM CoNEXT · DIN Workshop 2024Conference / workshop paper

Secure Web Objects: Building Blocks for Metaverse Interoperability and Decentralization

Tianyuan Yu, Xinyu Ma, Varun Patil, Yekta Kocaoğullar, Yulong Zhang, Jeff Burke, Dirk Kutscher, Lixia Zhang

IEEE MetaCom 2024Conference / workshop paper

Exploring the Design of Collaborative Applications via the Lens of NDN Workspace

Tianyuan Yu, Xinyu Ma, Varun Patil, Yekta Kocaoğullar, Lixia Zhang

IEEE MetaCom 2024Conference / workshop paper

Secure collaborative editing with user-controlled data.

Repo: Application Agnostic and Oblivious In-Network Data Store

Tianyuan Yu, Jacob Zhi, Xinyu Ma, Yekta Kocaoğullar, Varun Patil, Ryuji Wakikawa, Lixia Zhang

IEEE MetaCom 2024Conference / workshop paper

Provides replicated storage for decentralized applications while keeping data protection under application control.

PythonRepo: Persistent In-Network Storage for Named Data Networking

Tianyuan Yu, Zhaoning Kong, Xinyu Ma, Lan Wang, Lixia Zhang

IEEE ICNC 2024Conference / workshop paper

Hydra: A Scalable Decentralized P2P Storage Federation for Large Scientific Datasets

Justin Presley, Xi Wang, Xusheng Ai, Tianyuan Yu, Tym Brandel, Proyash Podder, Varun Patil, Alex Afanasyev, F. Alex Feltus, Lixia Zhang, Susmit Shannigrahi

IEEE ICNC 2024Conference / workshop paper

2023

Cornerstone: Automating Remote NDN Entity Bootstrapping

Tianyuan Yu, Xinyu Ma, Hongcheng Xie, Dirk Kutscher, Lixia Zhang

ACM AINTEC 2023Conference / workshop paper

A New API in Support of NDN Trust Schema

Tianyuan Yu, Xinyu Ma, Hongcheng Xie, Yekta Kocaoğullar, Lixia Zhang

ACM ICN 2023Conference / workshop paper

An API for expressing and applying NDN trust schemas.

Decentralized Photo Sharing via Named Data Networking

Varun Patil, Tianyuan Yu, Xinyu Ma, Lixia Zhang

ACM ICN 2023 · PosterPoster

CLedger: A Secure Distributed Certificate Ledger via Named Data

Tianyuan Yu, Hongcheng Xie, Siqi Liu, Xinyu Ma, Varun Patil, Xiaohua Jia, Lixia Zhang

IEEE ICC 2023Conference / workshop paper

Replicates an immutable certificate ledger across distributed loggers to support certificate availability and auditing.

On the Security Bootstrapping in Named Data Networking

Tianyuan Yu, Xinyu Ma, Hongcheng Xie, Xiaohua Jia, Lixia Zhang

arXiv:2308.06490Preprint

Lessons Learned from Fixing the Dead Nonce List in NFD

Philipp Moll, Varun Patil, Xinyu Ma, Tianyuan Yu, Lixia Zhang, Alex Afanasyev, Junxiao Shi

NDN Technical Report 0077Technical report

2022

Hydra—A Federated Data Repository over NDN

Justin Presley, Xi Wang, Tym Brandel, Susmit Shannigrahi, Xusheng Ai, F. Alex Feltus, Proyash Podder, Alex Afanasyev, Tianyuan Yu, Varun Patil, Lixia Zhang

NDN Technical Report 0076 · Revision 1Technical report

CertRevoke: A Certificate Revocation Framework for Named Data Networking

Tianyuan Yu, Hongcheng Xie, Siqi Liu, Xinyu Ma, Xiaohua Jia, Lixia Zhang

ACM ICN 2022Conference / workshop paper

Verifiable certificate revocation through named records and caching.

Intertrust: Establishing Inter-zone Trust Relationships

Tianyuan Yu, Xinyu Ma, Hongcheng Xie, Yekta Kocaoğullar, Lixia Zhang

ACM ICN 2022 · PosterPoster

Building a Secure mHealth Data Sharing Infrastructure over NDN

Saurab Dulal, Nasir Ali, Adam Robert Thieme, Tianyuan Yu, Siqi Liu, Suravi Regmi, Lixia Zhang, Lan Wang

ACM ICN 2022Conference / workshop paper

Sovereign: Self-contained Smart Home with Data-centric Network and Security

Zhiyi Zhang, Tianyuan Yu, Xinyu Ma, Yu Guan, Philipp Moll, Lixia Zhang

IEEE Internet of Things Journal 2022 · 9(15)Journal article

Self-contained smart homes with user-controlled data and security.

Names to Rule Them All: Unifying Vehicular Networking via Named Secured Data

Tianyuan Yu, Zhiyi Zhang, Eric Newberry, Alexander Afanasyev, Giovanni Pau, Lan Wang, Lixia Zhang

NDN Technical Report 0072 · Revision 2Technical report

2021

Enabling Plug-n-Play in Named Data Networking

Tianyuan Yu, Philipp Moll, Zhiyi Zhang, Alex Afanasyev, Lixia Zhang

IEEE MILCOM 2021Conference / workshop paper

Designing Hydra with Centralized versus Decentralized Control: A Comparative Study

Siqi Liu, Varun Patil, Tianyuan Yu, Alexander Afanasyev, Frank Alex Feltus, Lixia Zhang

ACM CoNEXT · IWCI Workshop 2021Conference / workshop paper

A Pub/Sub API for NDN-Lite with Built-in Security

Tianyuan Yu, Zhiyi Zhang, Xinyu Ma, Philipp Moll, Lixia Zhang

NDN Technical Report 0071Technical report

2018

NDNoT: A Framework for Named Data Network of Things

Zhiyi Zhang, Edward Lu, Yanbiao Li, Lixia Zhang, Tianyuan Yu, Davide Pesavento, Junxiao Shi, Lotfi Benmohamed

ACM ICN 2018 · PosterPoster

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