Conference Program

The technical sessions of WiSec 2025 will take place over 3 days, from June 3 to July 2. All times are shown in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). The conference is single-track, and all sessions will be held in the main conference space (Room 1311) of the Fuse Building. Presentation slots are 25 minutes for full papers, including Q&A, and 15 minutes for short papers, including Q&A.

Monday 30 June

EDT Session Chair
09:00 Welcome (General Chairs and TPC Chairs)
09:30 Keynote: Exploring Unanticipated Functionality in Cellular Devices and Networks
Dr. Kevin Butler
10:30 Break (30 min)
11:00 Session 1: Location, Location, Location Aanjhan Ranganathan
  • Distributed Multi-Antenna GPS Spoofing Attack using Off-the-shelf Devices (Full)
  • Universal Spoofing of Real-World Aircraft Multilateration (Short)
  • Guardian Positioning System (GPS) for Location Based Services (Full)
12:05 Lunch Break (85 min)
13:30 Session 2: Jamming and Interference
  • SpaceJam: Protocol-aware Jamming Attacks against Space Communications (Full)
  • BlindSpot: Efficient Single-Node Selective Jamming for LoRaWAN (Short)
  • RIPPLE: Software-Only Detection of Signal Injection Attacks in Drone Temperature Sensors (Full)
14:35 Break (25 min)
15:00 Session 3: Wi-Fi and Ultrasound Martin Strohmeier
  • SoK: Security in the Inaudible World (Full)
  • Cloud Nine Connectivity: Security Analysis of In-Flight Wi-Fi Paywall Systems (Full)
  • Fragile Frames: Wi-Fi's Fraught Fight Against FragAttacks (Short)
16:30 Posters and Demo
17:30 End of Day 1

Tuesday 1 July

EDT Session Chair
09:00 Keynote 2: Dr. Venki Ramaswamy
10:00 Break (30 min)
10:30 Session 4: Cellular 1 Yongdae Kim
  • Low-Layer Attacks Against 4G/5G Networks (Short)
  • Evaluating Time-Bounded Defense Against RRC Relay in 5G Broadcast Messages (Short)
  • Assessing the Latency of Network Layer Security in 5G Networks (Short)
  • AI5GTest: AI-Driven Specification-Aware Automated Testing and Validation of 5G O-RAN Components (Full)
  • SoK: Evaluating 5G-Advanced Protocols Against Legacy and Emerging Privacy and Security Attacks (Full)
12:05 Working Lunch with Industry Speaker Balázs Nagy, NewPush
From Classroom to Cyber Front Lines: How Universities Became AI Security Labs
13:30 Session 5: Cellular 2 Syed Rafiul Hussain
  • FirmState: Bringing Cellular Protocol States to Shannon Baseband Emulation (Short)
  • Standing Firm in 5G: A Single-Round, Dropout-Resilient Secure Aggregation for Federated Learning (Short)
  • FlashCatch: Minimizing Disruption in IMSI Catcher Operations (Full)
  • On the Performance and Consistency Trade-off of the eSIM M2M Remote Provisioning Protocol (Full)
14:50 Break (30 min)
15:20 Vision Talks
- Panos Papadimitratos, KTH Royal Institute of Technology: "Secure perception for cyber-physical systems"
- Yongdae Kim, KAIST: "Cellular Dual-Use Technologies"
16:30 End of Day 2
18:00 Banquet Dinner

Wednesday 2 July

EDT Session Chair
09:00 Session 6: Mobile Device and Data Privacy Aanjhan Ranganathan
  • Wireless-Tap: Automatic Transcription of Phone Calls Using Millimeter-Wave Radar Sensing (Full)
  • Improving Wireless Security Research: Cost-Effective Detection of Wireless Charging Vulnerabilities (Short)
  • ARMOUR US: Android Runtime Zero-permission Sensor Usage Monitoring from User Space (Full)
  • Unveiling Privacy Risks in WebGPU through Hardware-based Device Fingerprinting (Full)
10:30 Break (30 min)
11:00 Session 7: RF-based Authentication and Verification Panos Papadimitratos
  • Augmenting BLE Fingerprinting Using Instantaneous Frequency (Short)
  • Anti-Tamper Radio meets Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for System-Level Tamper Detection (Full)
  • RFinger: Environmental Fingerprint Embedding for Harmless mmWave Dataset Ownership Verification (Full)
12:05 Lunch (85 min)
13:30 Session 8: IoT Dave Singelee
  • "Alexa, Is Dynamic Content Safe?" (Full)
  • Practical Inner Product Encryption for Privacy-Preserved Internet-of-Things Applications (Full)
  • Run-time Attestation and Auditing: the Verifier’s Perspective (Full)
14:45 Concluding Remarks (End of Main Conference)
15:00 George Mason University Tour of Facilities