VLDB 2026 Research / reviewers in the wild / expert
Meenal Yadav
dblp:424/3677
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Computer networks · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Network and information security
1 paper |
Network security · 100% |
Topics — the 3 heaviest of 3, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Network security
anonymity networks |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | ADEFTOR: Adaptive Adversarial Example Generation for Website Fingerprinting Defense in Tor · IEEE Trans. Netw. 2026 |
Network security › anonymity networks
traffic analysis resistance |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | ADEFTOR: Adaptive Adversarial Example Generation for Website Fingerprinting Defense in Tor · IEEE Trans. Netw. 2026 |
Network security › traffic analysis
website fingerprinting defense |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | ADEFTOR: Adaptive Adversarial Example Generation for Website Fingerprinting Defense in Tor · IEEE Trans. Netw. 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
deep learning · 1.0adversarial example generation · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | ADEFTOR: Adaptive Adversarial Example Generation for Website Fingerprinting Defense in TorabstractWebsite Fingerprinting (WF) attacks significantly endanger user privacy in Anonymous Communication Networks, such as Tor, by allowing adversaries to infer the user’s browsing activity. Contemporary research has demonstrated that WF attacks using Deep Learning techniques transcend conventional rule-based defenses. Deep Learning models, in particular, have achieved remarkable accuracy in identifying websites visited through Tor, exhibiting the elevated threat posed by advanced WF attacks. This paper presents a novel WF defense mechanism, ADEFTOR, incorporating incremental distance reduction and universal distortion for individual sites. This approach involves selecting random target traces and progressively decreasing the distance between the modified examples and these targets. It also generates a universal distortion applicable across different user sessions and traffic types, allowing perturbations to blend into real-time network traffic seamlessly. ADEFTOR is evaluated against DL-based attacks using a public Tor traffic dataset. Experimental results demonstrate that ADEFTOR reduces the accuracy of the top-1 attack from 98% to between 29% and 39% and the accuracy of the top-2 to 47%. ADEFTOR reduces the bandwidth overhead of Full-Duplex and Half-Duplex to 45% and 60%, respectively. ADEFTOR presents a promising solution for improving privacy in the Tor networks by addressing WF attacks, effectively degrading the accuracy of sophisticated classifiers. Krishan Pal Singh, Emmanuel S. Pilli, Vijay Laxmi, Kashish Yusuf, Meenal Yadav |
IEEE Trans. Netw. | 5 |