SSS Lab

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Advanced Vehicular Systems

Securing vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-pedestrian, and intra-vehicle communication.

What we work on

Modern vehicles are computers on wheels. They talk to phones, to each other, to pedestrian devices, and to roadside infrastructure. Every one of those channels needs a way to establish trust, and the existing methods (cellular PKI, manual Bluetooth pairing, pre-shared certificates) either don’t scale to shared mobility or fail when the network drops.

The lab builds lightweight, sensor-grounded trust for V2X. We exploit signals that are physically bound to the vehicle (tire-pressure-monitor RF, cabin vibration, GPS + visual fusion) so that legitimate co-located parties can authenticate each other in seconds, with no infrastructure or user effort, while remote attackers cannot.

Selected systems

  • TPKEY, zero-involvement intra-vehicle authentication using TPMS RF transmissions.
  • ivPair, pin-equivalent pairing extracted from a vehicle’s vibration response under real driving.
  • PEDRO, V2P pedestrian-mobility verification that admits real, moving pedestrians and rejects stationary remote attackers.
  • V2V trust via sensor fusion, combining GPS and visual data so two AVs can verify physical co-location without infrastructure.

Publications in this area

  • Securing the Lifeline: Enforcing Read and Write Access Control in Vehicular Safety Services

    Muhammad Baqer Mollah, George Zouridakis, Kyu In Lee

    Accepted in IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) · 2026

  • Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Internet of Vehicles via Spectral-Residual Preprocessing and Adversarial Variational Autoencoding

    Arash Heidari, Mohammed Ababneh, Roberto Passerone, Jamal N. Al-Karaki, Ahmad Khonsari, Seyed Hamed Rastegar, Muhammad Baqer Mollah, Kyu In Lee

    Computers and Electrical Engineering (Elsevier) · 2026

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  • A Dynamic Decision and Security Framework for Internet of Vehicles by Enhanced Localization Using Deep Reinforcement Learning

    Arash Heidari, Haoran Li, Roberto Passerone, Nima Jafari Navimipour, Kyu In Lee

    IEEE Internet of Things Journal (IoT-J) · 2026

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  • Mapping Extended Reality Threats in Connected Vehicles with Attack-Defense Tree

    Mujtabaa Adam, Muhammad Baqer Mollah, Kyu In Lee

    Accepted in IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics – Berlin (ICCE-Berlin) · 2026

  • In-Progress: Exploring Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) for Secure Key Generation for Intra-Vehicular Device Authentication

    Omar Achkar, Shahryar Raza, James McAvoy, Rushikesh Shirsat, Neil Klingensmith, Kyu In Lee

    IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW) · 2025 ★ Best Short Paper, SecureTrans Workshop

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  • TPKey: Using TPMS Signals for Secure and Usable Intra-Vehicle Device Authentication

    Omar Achkar, Larry Nissen, Shahryar Raza, Rushikesh Shirsat, Neil Klingensmith, George Zouridakis, Kyu In Lee

    IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) · 2025

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  • Establishing Trust in Vehicle-to-Vehicle Coordination: A Sensor Fusion Approach

    Jakob Veselsky, Jack West, Isaac Ahlgren, Abhinav Goel, Wenxin Jiang, Kyuin Lee, Younghyun Kim, James Davis, George K. Thiruvathukal, Neil Klingensmith

    IEEE Workshop on Data-Driven and Intelligent Cyber-Physical Systems (DI-CPS) · 2022

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  • PEDRO: Secure Pedestrian Mobility Verification in V2P Communication using COTS Mobile Devices

    Yucheng Yang*, Kyuin Lee*, Younghyun Kim, Kassem Fawaz

    ACM Workshop on CPS & IoT Security and Privacy (CPSIoTSec) · 2021

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  • ivPair: Context-Based Fast Intra-Vehicle Device Pairing for Secure Wireless Connectivity

    Kyuin Lee, Neil Klingensmith, Dong He, Suman Banerjee, Younghyun Kim

    ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks (WiSec) · 2020

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