Dr Minzhao Lyu
Research Associate

Dr Minzhao Lyu

Engineering
Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications

Minzhao Lyu received his B.Eng. (First Class Hons.) and Ph.D. degree from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 2017 and 2022 respectively. He has worked at CSIRO’s Data61, Sydney, Australia as a student fellow; and at the National Telemedicine Center of China as a research intern. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. His research interests include network data analytics, network security, programmable networks, and applied machine learning. Please check https://minzhaolyu.github.io/ for more inforamtion.

  • Journal articles | 2023
    2023, 'A Survey on DNS Encryption: Current Development, Malware Misuse, and Inference Techniques', ACM COMPUTING SURVEYS, 55, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3547331
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Classifying and tracking enterprise assets via dual-grained network behavioral analysis', Computer Networks, 218, pp. 109387 - 109387, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comnet.2022.109387
    Journal articles | 2022
    2022, 'Enterprise DNS Asset Mapping and Cyber-Health Tracking via Passive Traffic Analysis', IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, pp. 1 - 1, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2022.3221981
    Journal articles | 2021
    Chen B; Qiao S; Zhao J; Liu D; Shi X; Lyu M; Chen H; Lu H; Zhai Y, 2021, 'A Security Awareness and Protection System for 5G Smart Healthcare Based on Zero-Trust Architecture', IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 8, pp. 10248 - 10263, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2020.3041042
    Journal articles | 2021
    Lyu M; Gharakheili HH; Russell C; Sivaraman V, 2021, 'Hierarchical Anomaly-Based Detection of Distributed DNS Attacks on Enterprise Networks', IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, 18, pp. 1031 - 1048, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2021.3050091
    Journal articles | 2021
    2021, 'Application of telemedicine services based on a regional telemedicine platform in China from 2014 to 2020: Longitudinal trend analysis', Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23, pp. e28009, http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/28009
    Journal articles | 2019
    Gharakheili HH; Lyu M; Wang Y; Kumar H; Sivaraman V, 2019, 'iTeleScope: Softwarized Network Middle-Box for Real-Time Video Telemetry and Classification', IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNSM.2019.2929511
  • Preprints | 2022
    Lyu M; Gharakheili HH; Russell C; Sivaraman V, 2022, Analyzing Enterprise DNS Traffic to Classify Assets and Track Cyber-Health, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2201.07352
    Conference Papers | 2022
    2022, 'On the Validity of Internet Speed Test Tools and Broadband Measurement Programs', in ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, ACM, pp. 1 - 9, presented at AINTEC'22: The 17th Asian Internet Engineering Conference, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3570748.3570749
    Preprints | 2022
    2022, A Survey on DNS Encryption: Current Development, Malware Misuse, and Inference Techniques, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2201.00900
    Preprints | 2021
    2021, Application of Telemedicine Services Based on a Regional Telemedicine Platform in China From 2014 to 2020: Longitudinal Trend Analysis (Preprint), , http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/preprints.28009
    Conference Papers | 2019
    Lyu M; Habibi Gharakheili H; Russell C; Sivaraman V, 2019, 'Mapping an Enterprise Network by Analyzing DNS Traffic', in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Puerto Varas, Chile, pp. 129 - 144, presented at 20th International Conference, PAM 2019 Puerto Varas, Chile, March 27-29, 2019, proceedings, Puerto Varas, Chile, 27 March 2019 - 29 March 2019, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15986-3_9
    Conference Papers | 2018
    Madanapalli SC; Lyu M; Kumar H; Gharakheili HH; Sivaraman V, 2018, 'Real-time detection, isolation and monitoring of elephant flows using commodity SDN system', in IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium: Cognitive Management in a Cyber World, NOMS 2018, pp. 1 - 5, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/NOMS.2018.8406200
    Preprints | 2018
    2018, iTeleScope: Intelligent Video Telemetry and Classification in Real-Time using Software Defined Networking, , http://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1804.09914
    Conference Papers | 2017
    Lyu M; Sherratt D; Sivanathan A; Gharakheili HH; Radford A; Sivaraman V, 2017, 'Quantifying the reflective DDoS attack capability of household IoT devices', in Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, WiSec 2017, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A, pp. 46 - 51, presented at 10th ACM Conference on Security and Privacy in Wireless and Mobile Networks, Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A, 18 July 2017 - 20 July 2017, http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3098243.3098264

I am working on research projects using network traffic analytics and programmable networks to solve emerging problems in application (e.g., Metaverse, cloud gaming, video streaming) Quality-of-Experience and cybersecurity.