Ke Sun | Shanghai University | Publications

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Most of my publications are also available on arXiv if you or your institution does not have access to certain databases.

Preprint

• K. Sun, J. Yan, Z. Li*, and S. Xie*, ‘‘The Role of Information Incompleteness in Defending Against Stealth Attacks’’, 2025 (Submitted to IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security)

• K. Sun*, I. Esnaola, and H. V. Poor, ‘‘Stealth Attacks Against Moving Target Defense for Smart Grid’’, 2024. (Submitted to IEEE Trans. Information Forensics and Security)

Book Chapter

• I. Esnaola, S. M. Perlaza, and K. Sun, ‘‘Data-Injection Attacks,’’ in ‘‘Advanced Data Analytics for Power Systems’’, A. Tajer, S. M. Perlaza and H. V. Poor, Eds., Chapter 9, pp. 197-229, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, 2021.

Journals

• J. Yan, K. Sun*, Z. Li, and H. Jia, ‘‘BT-MTD: Bus Traversal-based Moving Target Defense for Smart Grid’’, IEEE Systems J., vol. 20, no. 3, pp.1177 - 1188, Sep. 2026. Code

• Y. Li, Y. Xu, G. Zhang, J. Li*, K. Sun, and Q. Liu, ‘‘HIPCAM: Data Stream-Driven Group Key Management for In-Vehicle Network with Seamless Key Updates’’, IEEE Trans. Vehicular Technology , vol. 75, no. 7, pp.14738 - 14753, Jul. 2026.

• Z. Li, Q. Zhu, Y. Cai, K. Sun*, Z. Wang, and Y. Peng, ‘‘Dynamic Multi-Scale Integration Network with Multivariate Interaction for Probabilistic Sea Surface Temperature Forecasting,’’ IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 53, pp.4209312, Jul. 2025.

• C. Deng, Y. Li*, Q. Liu, X. Zheng, K. Sun*, ‘‘Quantitative Risk Assessment for Autonomous Vehicles: Integrating Functional Resonance Analysis Method and Bayesian Network,’’ Quality and Reliability Engineering International, vol. 41, no. 3. pp.970 - 991, Apr. 2025.

• Q. Liu, K. Sun, W. Liu, Y. Li*, X. Zheng, C. Cao, J. Li. and W. Tao, ‘‘Quantitative risk assessment for connected automated vehicles: Integrating improved STPA-SafeSec and Bayesian network,’’ Reliability Engineering & System Safety, vol. 253, pp.110528, Jan. 2025.

• X. Dang, G. Zhang, K. Sun, and Y. Li*, ‘‘A trust model for VANETs using malicious-aware multiple routing,’’ Computers & Security, vol. 148, pp. 104145, Jan. 2025.

• K. Sun, Y. Li, S. Xie*, and X. Zheng, ‘‘Vulnerability Mining and Integrated Security Protection Framework for Unmanned Systems,’’ Artificial Intelligence Security, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 65-71, Dec. 2024. (in Chinese)

• Q. Liu, X. Li, K. Sun, Y. Li*, and Y. Liu*, ‘‘SISSA: Real-time monitoring of hardware functional safety and cybersecurity with in-vehicle SOME/IP ethernet traffic,’’ IEEE Internet of Things J., vol. 11, no. 16, pp.27322-27339, Aug. 2024.

• Y. Li, W. Liu, Q. Liu, X. Zheng, K. Sun*, C. Huang, Complying with ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434: A Safety and Security Co-Analysis Method for Intelligent Connected Vehicle,’’ Sensors, vol. 24, no. 6, pp.1848, Mar. 2024.

• Y. Li, C. Huang, Q. Liu, X. Zheng, and K. Sun*, ‘‘Integrating security in hazard analysis using STPA-Sec and GSPN: A case study of automatic emergency braking system,’’ Computers & Security, vol. 142, pp. 103890, Jul. 2024.

• K. Sun*, I. Esnaola, A. M. Tulino and H. V. Poor, ‘‘Asymptotic learning requirements for stealth attacks on linearized state estimation,’’ IEEE Trans. Smart Grid, vol. 14, no. 4, pp. 3189 - 3200, Jul. 2023.

• K. Sun and Z. Li*, ‘‘Sparse data injection attacks on smart grid: An information-theoretic approach,’’ IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 22, no. 14, pp. 14553 - 14562, Jul. 2022.

• K. Sun*, I. Esnaola, O. Okorie, F. Charnley, M. Moreno, and A. Tiwari, ‘‘Data-driven modeling and monitoring of fuel cell performance,’’ International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, vol. 46, no. 66, pp. 33206-33217, Sep. 2021.

• K. Sun*, I. Esnaola, S. M. Perlaza, and H. V. Poor, ‘‘Stealth attacks on the smart grid,’’ IEEE Trans. Smart Grid, vol. 11 , no. 2, pp. 1276-1285, Mar. 2020.

Conferences

• J. Wang, Z. Li*, K. Sun, X. Liu, and Y. Zhou, ‘‘DVPE: Divided view position embedding for multi-view 3Dobject detection,’’ in Proc. Int. Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Jeju, South Korea, Aug. 2024, pp. 6877 - 6885.

• D. Li, Y. Li*, G. Zhang, K. Sun, and J. Li, ‘‘Fooling object detectors in the physical world with natural adversarial camouflage,’’ in Proc. IEEE Conf. on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, Exeter, UK, Nov. 2023, pp. 141 - 148.

• K. Sun*, S. M. Perlaza, and A. Jean-Marie, ‘‘2×2 zero-sum games with commitments and noisy observations,’’, in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. on Information Theory, Taipei, Taiwan, Jun. 2023, pp. 2254 - 2259.

• K. Sun*, I. Esnaola, A. M. Tulino and H. V. Poor, ‘‘Learning requirements for stealth attacks,’’ in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoust., Speech, and Signal Process., Brighton, UK, May 2019, pp. 8102-8106. (invited paper)

• K. Sun*, I. Esnaola, S. M. Perlaza, and H. V. Poor, ‘‘Information-theoretic attacks in the smart grid,’’ in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Smart Grid Commun., Dresden, Germany, Oct. 2017, pp. 455-460.

• Z. Yu*, W. Shao, H. Qu, K. Sun, and W. Xu, ‘‘A comparative study of pricing control algorithms in deregulated electricity market,’’ in Proc. of Chinese Intelligent Automation Conf., Fuzhou, China, Jan. 2015, pp. 373-381.

• K. Sun, W. Shao, Z. Xu, and W. Xu*, ‘‘Islanding partition of the distribution system with distributed generations based on Memetic algorithm,’’ in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems and Informatics, Shanghai, China, Nov. 2014, pp. 197-201.

Patents

• K. Sun, W. Zhang, J. Yan, Z. Li, S. Xie, H. You, Y. Li, and X. Luo, ‘‘A Low-Cost Moving Target Defense Method Against False Data Injection Attacks,’’ China Patent 202511426221.X, Sep. 30, 2025. (Application Accepted）

• K. Sun, J. Yan, Z. Li, S. Xie, Y. Li, and X. Luo, ‘‘Construction and Countermeasures of Stealth Data Injection Attacks under Incomplete System Information,’’ China Patent ZL202411673255.4, Oct. 10, 2025. (Issued)

Technical Reports

• K. Sun, ‘‘Some properties of the Nash Equilibrium in 2 × 2 zero-sum games,’’, RR-9492, INRIA, 2022.

Thesis

• K. Sun, ‘‘Information-theoretic data injection attacks on the smart grid,’’ Ph.D. dissertation, Dept. of Automatic Control and Systems Eng., Univ. of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, Jan. 2020.