Dr. Yongning Tang
Professor of Computer Networking
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OU Old Union 107
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Biography
Dr. Tang is a Professor in the School of Information Technology and an award-winning researcher with expertise in cyberinfrastructure and cybersecurity.
Current Courses
IT 254.001 Hardware And Software Concepts
IT 499.002 Independent Research For The Master's Thesis
IT 400.008 Independent Study
IT 400.009 Independent Study
IT 498.001 Professional Practice: Information Technology
IT 380.001 Wireless Communication Systems
Teaching Interests & Areas
Computer Networking; Cybersecurity; Machine Learning; Programming
Research Interests & Areas
Network Security; Data Privacy; IoT; Blockchain; Artificial Intelligence;
Ph D Computer Science
DePaul University
Chicago, IL
Outstanding Faculty Researcher Award
CAST
2024
Runner-Up: International Intelligent Water Systems Challenge
"Develop Advanced Models to Predict and Optimize Chemical Dosage for Odor and Corrosion Control." Water Environment Federation (WEF) & Water Research Foundation (WRF)
2019
Best Paper Award
"Prioritized Adaptive Max-Min Fair Residual Bandwidth Allocation for Software-Defined Data Center Networks". The 13th International Conference on Networks (ICN2014)
2014
Best Paper Award
"Yet Another Bounded Broadcasting for Random Key Predistribution Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks". The 12th International Conference on Networks (ICN2013)
2013
Grants and Contracts
NSF CC* Networking Infrastructure: “Building a Scalable and Polymorphic Cyberinfrastructure for Diverse Research and Education Needs at Illinois State University”
Yongning Tang, Charles Edamala.
National Science Foundation (NSF). May 1 2024 - April 30 2027
NSF CC*: Fostering Data Driven STEM Research and Education Through Cyberinfrastructure at Illinois State University
Yongning Tang, Shaoen Wu, Charles Edamala.
National Science Foundation (NSF). 2022 - 2023
OSF Healthcare System IIN Grant: “The Design, Development, and Deployment of a Mobile-based Child Vaccination Program for Underserved Communities in Illinois Using Novel Digital Analytics and AI Tools.”
Yongning Tang.
Illinois Innovation Network. 2022 - 2023
ISU University Cross-Disciplinary Research Grant: "Curriculum-aware Learning Recommender System for Higher Education."
Yongning Tang.
Multidisciplinary Research Grant. March 31 2016 - March 30 2017
ISU University Research Grant: "Reasoning under Uncertainty for Internet Fault Diagnosis"
Yongning Tang.
University Research Grant. 2008 - 2008
Book, Authored
Uncertainty Reasoning in Network Fault Diagnosis
Yongning Tang.
(2009), VDM-Verlag
Conference Proceeding
2FiA: Towards WiFi Sensing-Based Authentication with Unique Biometrics
Bofan Li, Zhankai Ye, Weikuan Yu, Yongning Tang, Xin Liu.
IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (S&P), (2026)
BeamCovert: Spatial Covert Communication for Secure and Efficient IIoT in 5G Smart Factories
Yongning Tang, Feng Wang, Zutong Hu, Chung-Chih Li.
The 7th International IEEE Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networking, (2025)
Fusion-Based Traffic Prediction for 5G Slicing: A Hybrid LSTM-Transformer Model
Yongning Tang, Feng Wang, Zutong Hu, Chung-Chih Li.
The 28th IEEE/ISIF Information Fusion conference, (2025)
SDT: Towards a Blockchain-Based Secure Data Trading Application
Manish Adhikari, Feng Wang, Chung-Chih Li, Guang Cheng, Yongning Tang.
2024 IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures., (2024)
The Diminished Importance of Connection-based Features in Intrusion Detection
Jessil Fuhr, Isaac Hanna, Feng Wang, Yongning Tang.
IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, (2021)
BC-Sketch: A Simple Reversible Sketch for Detecting Network Anomalies
Feng Wang, Yongning Tang, Lixin Gao, Guang Cheng.
IEEE International Conference on Smart Data Services (SMDS 2020), (2020)
Intelligence Enabled SDN Fault Localization via Programmable In-band Network Telemetry
Yongning Tang, Yangxuan Wu, Guang Cheng, Zhiwei Xu.
IEEE International Conference on High Performance Switching and Routing, (2019)
WENC: HTTPS Encrypted Traffic Classification Using Weighted Ensemble Learning and Markov Chain
Wubin Pan, Guang Cheng, Yongning Tang.
16th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications, (2017)
eOpenFlow: Software Defined Sampling via a Highly Adoptable OpenFlow Extension
Guang Chen, Yongning Tang.
2017 IEEE International Conference on Communications, (2017)
Optimizing Firewall Policy Deployment with Software Defined Networking
Rupesh Kothari, Yongning Tang.
The 14th Annual Conference on Telecommunications & Information Technology, (2016)
Towards QoE Assessment of Encrypted YouTube Adaptive Video Streaming in Mobile Networks
Wubin Pan, Guang Cheng, Hua Wu, Yongning Tang.
IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Quality of Service., (2016)
A Lightweight Approach to Manifesting Responsible Parties for TCP Packet Loss
Guang Cheng, Yongning Tang, Tibor Gyires.
The 14th International Conference on Networks, 2015, (2015)
Prioritized Adaptive Max-Min Fair Residual Bandwidth Allocation for Software-Defined Data Center Networks
Andrew Andrew, Yongning Tang, Tibor Gyires.
(2014)
Prioritized Adaptive Max-Min Fair Residual Bandwidth Allocation for Software-Defined Data Center Networks
Andrew Lester, Yongning Tang, Tibor Gyires.
IARIA, Proceedings of the ICN 2014 Conference, February 23-27, Nice, France, (2013)
Yet Another Bounded Broadcasting for Random Key Predistribution Schemes
Aishwarya Mishra, Tibor Gyires, Yongning Tang.
IARIA, Proceedings of the ICN 2013 Conference, January 27- February 1, Seville, Spain, pp. 53-58, (2013)
Towards A Theoretically Bounded Path Key Establishment Mechanism in Wireless Sensor Networks
Aishwarya Mishra, Tibor Gyires, Yongning Tang.
Proceeding of the Eleventh International Conference on Networks, 147-152, (2012)
Towards An Efficient Verification Approach on Network Configuration
Khalid Elbadawi, Yongning Tang, James Yu.
IEEE International Conference on Network and Service Management, (2012)
Towards a Theoretically Bounded Path Key Establishment Mechanism for Wireless Sensor Networks
Aishwarya Mishra, Tibor Gyires, Yongning Tang.
The 11th International Conference on Networks, (2012)
Towards a theoretically bounded path key establishment mechanism in wireless sensor networks
A Mishra, Tibor Gyires, Yongning Tang.
147--152, (2012)
An Analytic and Experimental Study on the Impact of Jitter Playout Buffer on the E-model in VoIP Quality Measurement
Olusegun Obafemi, Tibor Gyires, Yongning Tang.
The 10th International Conference on Networks, (2011)
An analytic and experimental study on the impact of jitter playout buffer on the E-model in VoIP quality measurement
Olusegun Obafemi, Tibor Gyires, Yongning Tang.
(c), 151--156, (2011)
In-situ Optimal Control of Nutrient Solution for Soilless Cultivation
Feng Chen, Haidong He, Yongning Tang.
2011 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Computer Control, (2011)
Cross sensitivity Calibration of Ion Selective Electrode for the Measurement of Nutrient Solution Components
Feng Chen, Yajie Xu, Yongning Tang.
2010 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Application, (2010)
Multipath Forwarding in WiMAX Mesh Networks with Dynamic Metrics
Tibor Gyires, Yongning Tang.
The 9th International Conference on Networks, (2010)
Multipath Forwarding in WiMAX Mesh Networks with Dynamic Metrics
Tibor Gyires, Yongning Tang.
115--120, (2010)
Journal Article
Order Preserving Pattern Matching: Review
Yu Zhou, Feng Wang, Yongning Tang.
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, (2026)
Diverse Intrusion and Malware Detection: AI-Based and Non-AI-Based Solutions
Feng Wang, Yongning Tang.
Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 4 (2), 382-387, (2024)
Mitigating IoT Privacy-Revealing Features by Time Series Data Transformation
Feng Wang, Yongning Tang, Hongbing Fang.
Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, 3 (2), 209-226, (2023)
SINT: Towards a Blockchain-based Secure In-band Network Telemetry Architecture
Yuyu Zhao, Guang Cheng, Yongning Tang.
IEEE Transaction on Information Forensics and Security, (2023)
MoCA: A Network Intrusion Monitoring and Classification System
Jessil Fuhr, Feng Wang, Yongning Tang.
Journal of Cybersecurity and Privacy, (2022)
Advanced machine learning application for odor and corrosion control at a water resource recovery facility
Fenghua Yang, Thaís Pluth, Xing Xing, Kyle Francq, Matthew Jurjovec, Yongning Tang.
Water Environment Research, Wiley Journal, (2021), https://doi.org/10.1002/wer.1618
On Detecting and Identifying Faulty IoT Devices and Outages
Feng Wang, Eduard Babulak, Yongning Tang.
Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, 9, (2021)
A practical design of hash functions for IPv6 using multi-objective genetic programming
Ying Hu, Guang Cheng, Yongning Tang, Feng Wang.
Computer Communications/ELSEVIER, 162, 160-168, (2020)
SL-RPL: Stability-Aware Load Balancing for RPL
Feng Wang, Eduard Babulak, Yongning Tang.
Transactions on Machine Learning and Data Mining, (ISBN: 978-3-942952-73-6), (2020)
Global Convergence of Curve Search Methods for Unconstrained Optimization
Zhiwei Xu, Yongning Tang, Zhen-Jun Shi.
Journal of Applied Mathematics, 7 (7), 721-735, (2016)
Application-Aware Bandwidth Scheduling for Data Center Networks
Andrew Lester, Yongning Tang.
International Journal on Advances in Network and Services, 3&4, (2014)
Application-Aware Bandwidth Scheduling for Data Center Networks
Andrew Lester, Yongning Tang, Tibor Gyires.
Journal on Advances in Networks and Services, 7, (2014)
Catching Modern Botnets Using Active Integrated Evidential Reasoning
Yongning Tang, Guang Cheng, James T. Yu, Bin Zhang.
Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications, (2013)
Line Speed Accurate Superspreader Identification Using Dynamic Error Compensation
Guang Cheng, Yongning Tang.
Elsevier Journal: Computer Communications, 36 (13), Pages 1460-1470, (2013)
PortView: Identifying Port Role Based on its Fuzzy Macroscopic Behavior
Guang Cheng, Yongning Tang.
Springer Journal of Internet Services and Applications, (2013)
Reasoning under Uncertainty in Overlay Fault Diagnosis
Yongning Tang, Ehab Al-Shaer, Kaustubh Joshi.
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 9 (1), (2012)
Towards Statistical Analysis of the Impact of Playout Buffer on Quality of Experience in VoIP Applications
Tibor Gyires, Yongning Tang, Aishwarya Mishra, Olusegun Obafemi.
The International Journal on Advances in Telecommunications, 4 (3&4), 229-239, (2012)
Coordination Control of Greenhouse Environmental Factors
Feng Chen, Yongning Tang, Mingyu Shen.
International Journal of Automation and Computing (Springer), (2011)
Probabilistic and Reactive Fault Diagnosis for Dynamic Overlay Networks
Yongning Tang, Guang Cheng, Zhiwei Xu.
International Journal of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications (Springer), (2011)
Several New Line Search Methods and Their Convergence
Zhen-Jun Shi, Zhiwei Xu, Yongning Tang.
International Journal of Applied Numerical Mathematics (Elsevier), (2011)
Virtual ion selective electrode for on-line measurement of nutrient solution components
Feng Chen, Dali Wei, Yongning Tang.
IEEE Journal of Sensors, (2011)
Efficient Fault Diagnosis Using Incremental Alarm Correlation and Active Investigation for Internet and Overlay Networks
Yongning Tang, Ehab Al-Shaer, Raouf Boutaba.
IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 5 (1), 36-49, (2008)
QoS Path Monitoring for Multicast Networks
Ehab Al-Shaer, Yongning Tang.
Journal of Network and System Management (JNSM), (2002)
Toward Integrating IP Multicasting in Internet Network Management Protocols
Ehab Al-Shaer, Yongning Tang.
Journal of Computer and Communications Review (Elsevier), (2000)
Yet Another Bounded Broadcasting for Random Key Predistribution Schemes in Wireless Sensor Networks
Aishwarya Mishra, Tibor Gyires, Yongning Tang.
Presentations
Fusion-Based Traffic Prediction for 5G Slicing
Yongning Tang.
The 28th IEEE/ISIF Information Fusion conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 10, 2025
SDT: Towards a Blockchain-Based Secure Data Trading Application
Yongning Tang.
2024 IEEE International Conference on Decentralized Applications and Infrastructures, Shanghai China, July, 2024
Deep Learning Based Malware Detection - Gaps, Challenges, and Future Research Directions
Yongning Tang.
Research seminar of Southeast University, Nanjing China, June, 2024
BC-Sketch: A Sketch for Detecting Network Flow Anomalies
Yongning Tang.
IEEE International Conference on Smart Data Services (SMDS 2020)., Online, October 20, 2020
IWS and Machine Learning
Yongning Tang.
IWEA LIFT Virtual Innovative Technologies Webinar, Online, October 1, 2020
IWS and Machine Learning
Yongning Tang.
WEF LIFT IWS Challenge Webinar, Online, May 28, 2020
Develop Advanced Models to Predict and Optimize Chemical Dosage for Odor and Corrosion Control
Fenghua Yang, Yongning Tang, Matt Jurjovec, Xing Fang.
the WEFTEC 2019 Intelligent Water Systems Challenge, Chicago, IL, September 23, 2019
Network Verification & Fault Diagnosis in SDN
Yongning Tang.
University of Science and Technology of China, April 20, 2015
Identifying Symptom-Fault Causality in SDN
Yongning Tang.
Southeast University, March 26, 2015
Tackling Network Resource Management in SDN
Yongning Tang.
Hefei University of Technology, November 20, 2013
Towards A Theoretically Bounded Path Key Establishment Mechanism in Wireless Sensor Networks
Tibor Gyires, Aishwarya Mishra Mishra, Yongning Tang.
Proceeding of the Eleventh International Conference on Networks, Saint Gilles, Reunion Island