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In this paper, we mainly investigate an integrated system operating under a software defined network (SDN) protocol. SDN is a new networking paradigm in which network intelligence is centrally administered and data is communicated via…

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The Software Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm decouples control and data planes, offering high programmability and a global view of the network. However, it is a challenge not only provide security in these next generation networks as well…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Maxli Campos , Joberto Martins

Safety-critical applications like autonomous vehicles and industrial IoT are adopting semantic communication (SemCom) systems using deep neural networks to reduce bandwidth and increase transmission speed by transmitting only task-relevant…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-23 Thanh Le , Hai Duong , ThanhVu Nguyen , Takeshi Matsumura

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks are highly sophisticated and employ a multitude of advanced methods and techniques to target organizations and steal sensitive and confidential information. APT attacks consist of multiple stages and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Huynh Thai Thi , Ngo Duc Hoang Son , Phan The Duy , Nghi Hoang Khoa , Khoa Ngo-Khanh , Van-Hau Pham

We tackle the problem of deciding whether two probabilistic programs are equivalent in Probabilistic NetKAT, a formal language for specifying and reasoning about the behavior of packet-switched networks. We show that the problem is…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Steffen Smolka , Praveen Kumar , Nate Foster , Justin Hsu , David Kahn , Dexter Kozen , Alexandra Silva

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) is an emerging paradigm that promises to change this state of affairs, by breaking vertical integration, separating the network's control logic from the underlying routers and switches, promoting (logical)…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-10-09 Diego Kreutz , Fernando M. V. Ramos , Paulo Verissimo , Christian Esteve Rothenberg , Siamak Azodolmolky , Steve Uhlig

Recent research points toward LLMs being manipulated through adversarial and seemingly benign inputs, resulting in harmful, biased, or policy-violating outputs. In this paper, we study an underexplored issue concerning harmful and toxic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Sagnik Basu , Subhrajit Mitra , Aman Juneja , Somnath Banerjee , Rima Hazra , Animesh Mukherjee

Software Defined Networking (SDN) is a network architecture that aims at providing high flexibility through the separation of the network logic from the forwarding functions. The industry has already widely adopted SDN and researchers…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-08-18 Mauro Conti , Fabio De Gaspari , Luigi V. Mancini

End-point monitoring solutions are widely deployed in today's enterprise environments to support advanced attack detection and investigation. These monitors continuously record system-level activities as audit logs and provide deep…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Hao Zhang , Shuo Shao , Song Li , Zhenyu Zhong , Yan Liu , Zhan Qin

Deep learning is increasingly used as a building block of security systems. Unfortunately, neural networks are hard to interpret and typically opaque to the practitioner. The machine learning community has started to address this problem by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Alexander Warnecke , Daniel Arp , Christian Wressnegger , Konrad Rieck

ProbNetKAT is a probabilistic extension of NetKAT with a denotational semantics based on Markov kernels. The language is expressive enough to generate continuous distributions, which raises the question of how to compute effectively in the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-12-18 Steffen Smolka , Praveen Kumar , Nate Foster , Dexter Kozen , Alexandra Silva

Learning to compare two objects are essential in applications, such as digital forensics, face recognition, and brain network analysis, especially when labeled data is scarce and imbalanced. As these applications make high-stake decisions…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Chao Chen , Yifan Shen , Guixiang Ma , Xiangnan Kong , Srinivas Rangarajan , Xi Zhang , Sihong Xie

Cloud computing has grown in importance in recent years which has led to a significant increase in Data Centre (DC) network requirements. A major driver of this change is virtualisation, which allows computing resources to be deployed on a…

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Software-Defined Network (SDN) is a new arising terminology of network architecture with outstanding features of orchestration by decoupling the control plane and the data plane in each network element. Even though it brings several…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-05 Phan The Duy , Hien Do Hoang , Do Thi Thu Hien , Anh Gia-Tuan Nguyen , Van-Hau Pham

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are decentralized wireless networks, characterized by their dynamic topologies and node mobility. In the era of cutting-edge technologies, integrating Software-Defined Networking (SDN) with MANETs offers a…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Riccardo Fonti , Andrea Piroddi

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) allows to control the available network resources by an intelligent and centralized authority in order to optimize traffic flows in a flexible manner. However, centralized control may face scalability…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-08-29 Benjamin J. van Asten , Niels L. M. van Adrichem , Fernando A. Kuipers

The Spectre family of speculative execution attacks have required a rethinking of formal methods for security. Approaches based on operational speculative semantics have made initial inroads towards finding vulnerable code and validating…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Hernán Ponce-de-León , Johannes Kinder

The accelerated development of social media websites has posed intricate security issues in cyberspace, where these sites have increasingly become victims of criminal activities including attempts to intrude into them, abnormal traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Aditi Sanjay Agrawal

Providing safety guarantees for autonomous systems is difficult as these systems operate in complex environments that require the use of learning-enabled components, such as deep neural networks (DNNs) for visual perception. DNNs are hard…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Corina Pasareanu , Ravi Mangal , Divya Gopinath , Huafeng Yu

A common requirement in policy specification languages is the ability to map policies to the underlying network devices. Doing so, in a provably correct way, is important in a security policy context, so administrators can be confident of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-05-31 Dinesha Ranathunga , Matthew Roughan , Phil Kernick , Nick Falkner