Selected SST and IoTAuth publications, with links to paper pages, PDFs, proceedings entries, or related project artifacts.

SST Core Papers​

• A Toolkit for Construction of Authorization Service Infrastructure for the Internet of Things Hokeun Kim, Eunsuk Kang, Edward A. Lee, and David Broman. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), Pittsburgh, PA, April 18–21, 2017. ACM/IEEE Best Paper Award.

• A Secure Network Architecture for the Internet of Things Based on Local Authorization Entities Hokeun Kim, Armin Wasicek, Benjamin Mehne, and Edward A. Lee. In Proceedings of the 4th IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud (FiCloud), Vienna, Austria, August 22–24, 2016.

• Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things Hokeun Kim and Edward A. Lee. IEEE IT Professional, Volume 9, Issue 5, October 2017.

• Securing the Internet of Things via Locally Centralized, Globally Distributed Authentication and Authorization Hokeun Kim. Ph.D. Dissertation, EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley, Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2017-139, August 2017.

Access Control of Agentic AI using SST​

• Access Controlled Website Interaction for Agentic AI with Delegated Critical Tasks Sunyoung Kim and Hokeun Kim. In Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (WWW) 2026, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, June 29 – July 3, 2026.

• A Case Study on Delegating Critical Tasks to Agentic AI and Prototype Access Control Methods Sunyoung Kim and Hokeun Kim. In Proceedings of the IEEE 5th Cyber Awareness and Research Symposium 2025 (CARS'25), Grand Forks, ND, October 27–30, 2025.

Storage and File System Security Using SST​

• Secure and Lightweight Access Control for Highly Decentralized and Distributed File Systems Yeongbin Jo, Yunsang Cho, and Hokeun Kim. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Middleware for the Computing Continuum (Mid4CC '23), ACM, Bologna, Italy, December 11, 2023.

• SHIELD: Encrypting Persistent Data of LSM-KVS from Monolithic to Disaggregated Storage Viraj Thakkar*, Dongha Kim*, Yingchun Lai, Hokeun Kim, and Zhichao Cao. In Proceedings of ACM Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD), Berlin, Germany, June 22–27, 2025. (* Equally contributed lead authors.)

Resilience of SST Against Cyberattacks​

• SST Testbed: An Experimental Platform of Attacks and Defenses for Networked Embedded Systems Carlos Beltran Quinonez, Dongha Kim, and Hokeun Kim. In Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), Monterrey, Mexico, March 4–6, 2026. 1st place at ESSC, ESWEEK '25.

• Resilient Authentication and Authorization for the Internet of Things Using Edge Computing Hokeun Kim, Eunsuk Kang, David Broman, and Edward A. Lee. ACM Transactions on Internet of Things, Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2020.

• Creating a Resilient IoT With Edge Computing Hokeun Kim, Edward A. Lee, and Schahram Dustdar. IEEE Computer, Volume 52, Issue 8, August 2019.

• An Architectural Mechanism for Resilient IoT Services Hokeun Kim, Eunsuk Kang, David Broman, and Edward A. Lee. In Proceedings of the 1st ACM Workshop on Internet of Safe Things (SafeThings 2017), Delft, The Netherlands, November 5, 2017.

SST Programming Model and Integration​

• A Case Study of API Design for Interoperability and Security of the Internet of Things Dongha Kim, Chanhee Lee, and Hokeun Kim. In Proceedings of the 2nd EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Vehicles (SmartSP), New Orleans, LA, November 7–8, 2024.

• SST v1.0.0 with C API: Pluggable security solution for the Internet of Things Dongha Kim, Yeongbin Jo, Taekyung Kim, and Hokeun Kim. SoftwareX, Volume 22, Article 101390, May 2023.

• Secure Programming Platform for Edge-Based IoT Hokeun Kim. In Proceedings of the 26th Forum on specification and Design Languages (FDL 2023), Turin, Italy, September 13–25, 2023.

More Papers on SST​

• Contextual Callbacks for Resource Discovery and Trust Negotiation on the Internet of Things: Work-in-Progress Marten Lohstroh, Hokeun Kim, and Edward A. Lee. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGBED International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT), Seoul, Korea, October 15–20, 2017.

• Poster Abstract: Securing Edge-Based Real-Time IoT Systems Dongha Kim and Hokeun Kim. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys'23), Istanbul, Türkiye, November 15, 2023.

• Empirical Analysis of Security Vulnerabilities in Open Source Software Using Static Analysis Tools Donghoon Kim and Hokeun Kim. In Proceedings of the IEEE 5th Cyber Awareness and Research Symposium 2025 (CARS'25), Grand Forks, ND, October 27–30, 2025.