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The rapid evolution of mobile networks from 5G to 6G has necessitated the development of autonomous network management systems, such as Zero-Touch Networks (ZTNs). However, the increased complexity and automation of these networks have also…

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This paper develops a feedback-based method to preserve the topology privacy of consensus protocols in network systems. The key idea is to intentionally violate topology identifiability conditions, thereby preventing unique or accurate…

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To analyse cryptographic properties of distributed systems in a systematic way, a formal theory is required. In this paper, we present a theory that allows (1) to specify distributed systems formally, (2) to verify their cryptographic wrt.…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-06 Maria Spichkova , Radhika Bhat

Software-defined systems revolutionized the management of hardware devices but introduced quality assurance challenges that remain to be tackled. For example, software defined networks (SDNs) became a key technology for the prompt…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Jahanzaib Malik , Fabrizio Pastore

Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), have long been the first layer of defense against malicious attacks. Most sensitive systems employ instances of them (e.g. Firewalls) to secure the network perimeter and filter out attacks or unwanted…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Mohammad Sayad Haghighi , Faezeh Farivar

Network protocols are programs with inputs and outputs that follow predefined communication patterns to synchronize and exchange information. There are many protocols and each serves a different purpose, e.g., routing, transport, secure…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Max von Hippel

At our behest or otherwise, while our software is being executed, a huge variety of design assumptions is continuously matched with the truth of the current condition. While standards and tools exist to express and verify some of these…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-05-09 Vincenzo De Florio

In this paper, we introduce an SMT-based method that automatically synthesizes a distributed self-stabilizing protocol from a given high-level specification and network topology. Unlike existing approaches, where synthesis algorithms…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Fathiyeh Faghih , Borzoo Bonakdarpour , Sebastien Tixeuil , Sandeep Kulkarni

Software engineers are faced with the challenge of creating control algorithms for increasingly complex dynamic systems, such as the management of communication network topologies. To support rapid prototyping for these increasingly complex…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Maximilian Kratz , Sebastian Ehmes , Philipp Maximilian Menzel , Andy Schürr

A modern approach to engineering correct-by-construction systems is to synthesize them automatically from formal specifications. Oftentimes, a system can only satisfy its guarantees if certain environment assumptions hold, which motivates…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-07-10 Roderick Bloem , Ruediger Ehlers , Robert Koenighofer

Synthetic data has been widely applied in the real world recently. One typical example is the creation of synthetic data for privacy concerned datasets. In this scenario, synthetic data substitute the real data which contains the privacy…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Xiao Ling , Tim Menzies , Christopher Hazard , Jack Shu , Jacob Beel

We propose a robust transformer architecture designed to prevent prompt injection attacks and ensure secure, reliable response generation. Our PICO (Prompt Isolation and Cybersecurity Oversight) framework structurally separates trusted…

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Internet of Things (IoT) based applications face an increasing number of potential security risks, which need to be systematically assessed and addressed. Expert-based manual assessment of IoT security is a predominant approach, which is…

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With the increasing frequency and sophistication of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, it has become critical to develop more efficient and interpretable detection methods. Traditional detection systems often struggle with…

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The focus of the tool FTOS is to alleviate designers' burden by offering code generation for non-functional aspects including fault-tolerance mechanisms. One crucial aspect in this context is to ensure that user-selected mechanisms for the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2009-05-26 Chih-Hong Cheng , Christian Buckl , Javier Esparza , Alois Knoll

Privacy analysis is critical but also a time-consuming and tedious task. We present a formalization which eases designing and auditing high-level privacy properties of software architectures. It is incorporated into a larger policy analysis…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-11 Marcel von Maltitz , Cornelius Diekmann , Georg Carle

In this work we provide algorithmic solutions to five fundamental problems concerning the verification, synthesis and correction of concurrent systems that can be modeled by bounded p/t-nets. We express concurrency via partial orders and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-02-14 Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira

Scenarios, or Message Sequence Charts, offer an intuitive way of describing the desired behaviors of a distributed protocol. In this paper we propose a new way of specifying finite-state protocols using scenarios: we show that it is…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Rajeev Alur , Milo Martin , Mukund Raghothaman , Christos Stergiou , Stavros Tripakis , Abhishek Udupa

We present a new method for the automated synthesis of digital controllers with formal safety guarantees for systems with nonlinear dynamics, noisy output measurements, and stochastic disturbances. Our method derives digital controllers…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-21 Fedor Shmarov , Sadegh Soudjani , Nicola Paoletti , Ezio Bartocci , Shan Lin , Scott A. Smolka , Paolo Zuliani