Slobodan Petrovic

About

I am professor in Information Security at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Department of Information Security and Communication Technology (IIK), Faculty of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (IE) , Gjøvik, Norway, with research interest mainly in the following fields:

Cryptology
Intrusion Detection Systems
Wireless Communication Security

I teach Cryptology and Intrusion Detection and Prevention on our Master in Information Security (MIS), as well as on our PhD program in Information Security. I am a member of Cryptology Research Group (Norwegian Applied Crypto Lab - NaCl) https://www.ntnu.edu/iik/nacl-lab at NTNU.

Publications

2024

Petrovic, Slobodan. (2024) Towards a Framework for the Design of Nonlinear Combiners in Ternary Logic. NIKT: Norsk IKT-konferanse for forskning og utdanning
Academic article

2023

Peinado, A.; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2023) Dynamic LFSRs as an alternative to LFSRs inextended fields - A comparative study. NIKT: Norsk IKT-konferanse for forskning og utdanning
Academic article
Hasan, Mohammad Mahmudul; Cheffena Gebresilassie, Michael; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2023) Physical-Layer Security Improvement in MIMO OFDM Systems Using Multilevel Chaotic Encryption. IEEE Access
Academic article
Solnør, Petter; Petrovic, Slobodan; Fossen, Thor I.. (2023) Towards Oblivious Guidance Systems for Autonomous Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Academic article
Oruma, Samson Ogheneovo; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2023) Security Threats to 5G Networks for Social Robots in Public Spaces: A Survey. IEEE Access
Academic article

2022

Herrero, Álvaro; Corchado, Emilio; Wozniak, Michal; Bae-Cho, Sung; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2022) Cybersecurity applications of computational intelligence. Neural Computing & Applications
Editorial
Solnør, Petter; Volden, Øystein; Gryte, Kristoffer; Petrovic, Slobodan; Fossen, Thor I.. (2022) Hijacking of unmanned surface vehicles: A demonstration of attacks and countermeasures in the field. Journal of Field Robotics (JFR)
Academic article

2021

Volden, Øystein; Solnør, Petter; Petrovic, Slobodan; Fossen, Thor I.. (2021) Secure and Efficient Transmission of Vision-Based Feedback Control Signals. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
Academic article

2020

Petrovic, Slobodan; Sidorova, Julia. (2020) Constrained Approximate Search Algorithms in Knowledge Discovery. Modern Information Technologies and IT-Education
Academic article

2019

Chitrakar, Ambika Shrestha; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2019) Efficient k-means Using Triangle Inequality on Spark for Cyber Security Analytics. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Shi, Lelai; Liu, Suhui; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2019) Cryptanalysis of a Pseudorandom Generator for Cross-Border E-Commerce . Ingénierie des Systèmes d'Information
Academic article

2018

Porter, Kyle; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2018) Obtaining precision-recall trade-offs in fuzzy searches of large email corpora. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Academic article
Petrovic, Slobodan. (2018) Approximate Search in Digital Forensics. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Chitrakar, Ambika Shrestha; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2018) Analyzing Digital Evidence Using Parallel k-means with Triangle Inequality on Spark. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Chitrakar, Ambika Shrestha; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2018) Collecting Network Evidence Using Constrained Approximate Search Algorithms. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Academic article

2017

Chitrakar, Ambika Shrestha; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2017) CRBP-OpType: A Constrained Approximate Search Algorithm for Detecting Similar Attack Patterns. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Porter, Kyle; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2017) On Application of Constrained Edit Distance Algorithms to Cryptanalysis and Digital Forensics. Norsk Informasjonssikkerhetskonferanse (NISK)
Academic article

2016

Gunleifsen, Håkon; Kemmerich, Thomas; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2016) An End-to-End Security Model of Inter-Domain Communication in Network Function Virtualization . Norsk Informasjonssikkerhetskonferanse (NISK)
Academic article
Chitrakar, Ambika Shrestha; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2016) Constrained Row-Based Bit-Parallel Search in Intrusion Detection. Norsk Informasjonssikkerhetskonferanse (NISK)
Academic article

2015

Chitrakar, Ambika Shrestha; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2015) Approximate search with constraints on indels with application in SPAM filtering. Norsk Informasjonssikkerhetskonferanse (NISK)
Academic article

2014

Yang, Bian; Chu, Huiguang; Li, Guoqiang; Petrovic, Slobodan; Busch, Christoph. (2014) Cloud Password Manager Using Privacy-Preserved Biometrics. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2013

Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Torrano-Gimenez, Carmen; Alvarez, Gonzalo; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2013) Enhancing the effectiveness of Web Application Firewalls by generic feature selection. Logic Journal of the IGPL
Academic article
Abt, Sebastian; Dietz, Christian; Baier, Harald; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2013) Passive Remote Source NAT Detection Using Behavior Statistics Derived from NetFlow. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2012

Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2012) Reliability in A Feature-Selection Process for Intrusion Detection. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2012) Feature Extraction Methods for Intrusion Detection Systems. IGI Global
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wold, Knut; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2012) Security properties of oscillator rings in true random number generators. IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2011

Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2011) On General Definition of L1-norm Support Vector Machines for Feature Selection. International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing
Academic article
Torrano-Gimenez, Carmen; Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Alvarez, Gonzalo; Petrovic, Slobodan; Franke, Katrin. (2011) Applying feature selection to payload-based web application firewalls. Høgskolen i Gjøvik
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Hartung, Daniel; Wold, Knut; Graffi, Kalman; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2011) Towards a Biometric Random Number Generator - A General Approach For True Random Extraction From Biometric Samples. Gesellschaft für Informatik
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2011) A New Ensemble-Feature-Selection Framework for Intrusion Detection. IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2011) A General L1-norm Support Vector Machine for Feature Selection. IEEE Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2011) Improving Effectiveness of Intrusion Detection by Correlation Feature Selection. International Journal on Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications
Academic article
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Torrano-Gimenez, Carmen; Alvarez, Gonzalo; Petrovic, Slobodan; Franke, Katrin. (2011) Application of the Generic Feature Selection Measure in Detection of Web Attacks. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wold, Knut; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2011) Behavioral model of TRNG based on oscillator rings implemented in FPGA. IEEE Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2010

Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2010) Improving effectiveness of intrusion detection by correlation feature selection. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wold, Knut; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2010) Robustness of TRNG against attacks that employ superimposing signal on FPGA supply voltage. Tapir Akademisk Forlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Petrovic, Slobodan; Franke, Katrin. (2010) A Comparison of Feature-Selection Methods for Intrusion Detection. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2010) Towards a Generic Feature-Selection Measure for Intrusion Detection. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2009

Wold, Knut; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2009) Optimizing speed of a true random number generator in FPGA by spectral analysis. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Petrovic, Slobodan; Franke, Katrin. (2009) A New Two-Stage Search Procedure for Misuse Detection. International Journal of Security and Its Applications
Academic article

2008

Petrovic, Slobodan; Bakke, Sverre. (2008) Improving the efficiency of misuse detection by means of the q-gram distance. IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Petrovic, Slobodan; Bakke, Sverre. (2008) Application of q-gram distance in digital forensic search. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2007

Seeberg, Vidar Evenrud; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2007) A new classification scheme for anonymization of real data used in ids benchmarking. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Petrovic, Slobodan; Franke, Katrin. (2007) A new two-stage search procedure for misuse detection. IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Petrovic, Slobodan; Franke, Katrin. (2007) Improving the efficiency of digital forensic search by means of the constrained edit distance. IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Petrovic, Slobodan; Fuster-Sabater, Amparo. (2007) Reconstruction of suboptimal paths in the constrained edit distance array with application in cryptanalysis. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2006

Petrovic, Slobodan; Alvarez, Gonzalo; Orfila, Agustin; Carbo, Javier. (2006) Labelling clusters in an intrusion detection system using a combination of clustering evaluation techniques. IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Petrovic, Slobodan; Álvarez, Gonzalo; Orfila, Agustín; Carbó, Javier. (2006) Labelling Clusters in an Intrusion Detection System Using a Combination of Clustering Evaluation Techniques. IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Journal publications

Petrovic, Slobodan. (2024) Towards a Framework for the Design of Nonlinear Combiners in Ternary Logic. NIKT: Norsk IKT-konferanse for forskning og utdanning
Academic article
Peinado, A.; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2023) Dynamic LFSRs as an alternative to LFSRs inextended fields - A comparative study. NIKT: Norsk IKT-konferanse for forskning og utdanning
Academic article
Hasan, Mohammad Mahmudul; Cheffena Gebresilassie, Michael; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2023) Physical-Layer Security Improvement in MIMO OFDM Systems Using Multilevel Chaotic Encryption. IEEE Access
Academic article
Solnør, Petter; Petrovic, Slobodan; Fossen, Thor I.. (2023) Towards Oblivious Guidance Systems for Autonomous Vehicles. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
Academic article
Oruma, Samson Ogheneovo; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2023) Security Threats to 5G Networks for Social Robots in Public Spaces: A Survey. IEEE Access
Academic article
Herrero, Álvaro; Corchado, Emilio; Wozniak, Michal; Bae-Cho, Sung; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2022) Cybersecurity applications of computational intelligence. Neural Computing & Applications
Editorial
Solnør, Petter; Volden, Øystein; Gryte, Kristoffer; Petrovic, Slobodan; Fossen, Thor I.. (2022) Hijacking of unmanned surface vehicles: A demonstration of attacks and countermeasures in the field. Journal of Field Robotics (JFR)
Academic article
Volden, Øystein; Solnør, Petter; Petrovic, Slobodan; Fossen, Thor I.. (2021) Secure and Efficient Transmission of Vision-Based Feedback Control Signals. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems
Academic article
Petrovic, Slobodan; Sidorova, Julia. (2020) Constrained Approximate Search Algorithms in Knowledge Discovery. Modern Information Technologies and IT-Education
Academic article
Shi, Lelai; Liu, Suhui; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2019) Cryptanalysis of a Pseudorandom Generator for Cross-Border E-Commerce . Ingénierie des Systèmes d'Information
Academic article
Porter, Kyle; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2018) Obtaining precision-recall trade-offs in fuzzy searches of large email corpora. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Academic article
Chitrakar, Ambika Shrestha; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2018) Collecting Network Evidence Using Constrained Approximate Search Algorithms. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
Academic article
Porter, Kyle; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2017) On Application of Constrained Edit Distance Algorithms to Cryptanalysis and Digital Forensics. Norsk Informasjonssikkerhetskonferanse (NISK)
Academic article
Gunleifsen, Håkon; Kemmerich, Thomas; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2016) An End-to-End Security Model of Inter-Domain Communication in Network Function Virtualization . Norsk Informasjonssikkerhetskonferanse (NISK)
Academic article
Chitrakar, Ambika Shrestha; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2016) Constrained Row-Based Bit-Parallel Search in Intrusion Detection. Norsk Informasjonssikkerhetskonferanse (NISK)
Academic article
Chitrakar, Ambika Shrestha; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2015) Approximate search with constraints on indels with application in SPAM filtering. Norsk Informasjonssikkerhetskonferanse (NISK)
Academic article
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Torrano-Gimenez, Carmen; Alvarez, Gonzalo; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2013) Enhancing the effectiveness of Web Application Firewalls by generic feature selection. Logic Journal of the IGPL
Academic article
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2011) On General Definition of L1-norm Support Vector Machines for Feature Selection. International Journal of Machine Learning and Computing
Academic article
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2011) Improving Effectiveness of Intrusion Detection by Correlation Feature Selection. International Journal on Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communications
Academic article
Petrovic, Slobodan; Franke, Katrin. (2009) A New Two-Stage Search Procedure for Misuse Detection. International Journal of Security and Its Applications
Academic article

Part of book/report

Chitrakar, Ambika Shrestha; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2019) Efficient k-means Using Triangle Inequality on Spark for Cyber Security Analytics. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Petrovic, Slobodan. (2018) Approximate Search in Digital Forensics. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Chitrakar, Ambika Shrestha; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2018) Analyzing Digital Evidence Using Parallel k-means with Triangle Inequality on Spark. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Chitrakar, Ambika Shrestha; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2017) CRBP-OpType: A Constrained Approximate Search Algorithm for Detecting Similar Attack Patterns. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Yang, Bian; Chu, Huiguang; Li, Guoqiang; Petrovic, Slobodan; Busch, Christoph. (2014) Cloud Password Manager Using Privacy-Preserved Biometrics. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Abt, Sebastian; Dietz, Christian; Baier, Harald; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2013) Passive Remote Source NAT Detection Using Behavior Statistics Derived from NetFlow. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2012) Reliability in A Feature-Selection Process for Intrusion Detection. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2012) Feature Extraction Methods for Intrusion Detection Systems. IGI Global
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wold, Knut; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2012) Security properties of oscillator rings in true random number generators. IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Torrano-Gimenez, Carmen; Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Alvarez, Gonzalo; Petrovic, Slobodan; Franke, Katrin. (2011) Applying feature selection to payload-based web application firewalls. Høgskolen i Gjøvik
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Hartung, Daniel; Wold, Knut; Graffi, Kalman; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2011) Towards a Biometric Random Number Generator - A General Approach For True Random Extraction From Biometric Samples. Gesellschaft für Informatik
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2011) A New Ensemble-Feature-Selection Framework for Intrusion Detection. IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2011) A General L1-norm Support Vector Machine for Feature Selection. IEEE Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Torrano-Gimenez, Carmen; Alvarez, Gonzalo; Petrovic, Slobodan; Franke, Katrin. (2011) Application of the Generic Feature Selection Measure in Detection of Web Attacks. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wold, Knut; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2011) Behavioral model of TRNG based on oscillator rings implemented in FPGA. IEEE Press
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2010) Improving effectiveness of intrusion detection by correlation feature selection. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wold, Knut; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2010) Robustness of TRNG against attacks that employ superimposing signal on FPGA supply voltage. Tapir Akademisk Forlag
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Petrovic, Slobodan; Franke, Katrin. (2010) A Comparison of Feature-Selection Methods for Intrusion Detection. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Nguyen, Hai Thanh; Franke, Katrin; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2010) Towards a Generic Feature-Selection Measure for Intrusion Detection. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Wold, Knut; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2009) Optimizing speed of a true random number generator in FPGA by spectral analysis. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Petrovic, Slobodan; Bakke, Sverre. (2008) Improving the efficiency of misuse detection by means of the q-gram distance. IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Petrovic, Slobodan; Bakke, Sverre. (2008) Application of q-gram distance in digital forensic search. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Seeberg, Vidar Evenrud; Petrovic, Slobodan. (2007) A new classification scheme for anonymization of real data used in ids benchmarking. IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers)
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Petrovic, Slobodan; Franke, Katrin. (2007) A new two-stage search procedure for misuse detection. IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Petrovic, Slobodan; Franke, Katrin. (2007) Improving the efficiency of digital forensic search by means of the constrained edit distance. IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Petrovic, Slobodan; Fuster-Sabater, Amparo. (2007) Reconstruction of suboptimal paths in the constrained edit distance array with application in cryptanalysis. Springer
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Petrovic, Slobodan; Alvarez, Gonzalo; Orfila, Agustin; Carbo, Javier. (2006) Labelling clusters in an intrusion detection system using a combination of clustering evaluation techniques. IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Petrovic, Slobodan; Álvarez, Gonzalo; Orfila, Agustín; Carbó, Javier. (2006) Labelling Clusters in an Intrusion Detection System Using a Combination of Clustering Evaluation Techniques. IEEE conference proceedings
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

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