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Multi-process concurrency is effective in improving program efficiency and maximizing CPU utilization. The correct execution of concurrency is ensured by the mutual exclusion and synchronization mechanism (MESM) that manages the shared…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Chaoqun Shen , Jiliang Zhang , Gang Qu

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks exhaust victim's bandwidth or services. Traditional architecture of Internet is vulnerable to DDoS attacks and an ongoing cycle of attack & defense is observed. In this paper, different types and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-03-24 Muhammad Aamir , Mustafa Ali Zaidi

The emerging hybrid DRAM-NVM architecture is challenging the existing memory management mechanism in operating system. In this paper, we introduce memos, which can schedule memory resources over the entire memory hierarchy including cache,…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2017-03-23 Lei Liu , Mengyao Xie , Hao Yang

Denial of Service (DOS) attack is one of the most attack that attract the cyber criminals which aims to reduce the network performance from doing its intended functions. Moreover, DOS Attacks can cause a huge damage on the data…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Yousef Khaled Shaheen , Mohammad Al Kasassbeh

The threats of caching poisoning attacks largely stimulate the deployment of DNSSEC. Being a strong but demanding cryptographical defense, DNSSEC has its universal adoption predicted to go through a lengthy transition. Thus the DNSSEC…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-02-29 Zheng Wang

In recent times, I've encountered a principle known as cloud computing, a model that simplifies user access to data and computing power on a demand basis. The main objective of cloud computing is to accommodate users' growing needs by…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Peyman Khordadpour , Saeed Ahmadi

Neural networks are increasingly used in real-time systems, such as automated driving applications. This requires high-performance hardware with predictable timing behavior. State-of-the-art real-time hardware is limited in memory and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Maximilian Kirschner , Konstantin Dudzik , Jürgen Becker

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to produce humongous traffic within a network by overwhelming a targeted server or its neighboring infrastructure with a flood of service requests ceaselessly coming from multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Mohammad Arafat Ullah , Arthy Anjum , Rashedul Amin Tuhin , Shamim Akhter

We present a kernel-level infrastructure that allows system-wide detection of malicious applications attempting to exploit cache-based side-channel attacks to break the process confinement enforced by standard operating systems. This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Stefano Carnà , Serena Ferracci , Francesco Quaglia , Alessandro Pellegrini

The detection of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks remains a challenge for the cloud environment, affecting a massive number of services and applications hosted by such virtualized infrastructures. Typically, in the literature, the detection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-04-15 João Henrique Corrêa , Patrick Marques Ciarelli , Moises R. N. Ribeiro , Rodolfo da Silva Villaca

Double-fetch bugs are a special type of race condition, where an unprivileged execution thread is able to change a memory location between the time-of-check and time-of-use of a privileged execution thread. If an unprivileged attacker…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-06 Michael Schwarz , Daniel Gruss , Moritz Lipp , Clémentine Maurice , Thomas Schuster , Anders Fogh , Stefan Mangard

Many cache designs have been proposed to guard against contention-based side-channel attacks. One well-known type of cache is the randomized remapping cache. Many randomized remapping caches provide fixed or over protection, which leads to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Xiao Liu , Mark Zwolinski , Basel Halak

Cloud computing environments are increasingly vulnerable to security threats such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and SQL injection. Traditional security mechanisms, based on rule matching and feature recognition, struggle…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yuqing Wang , Xiao Yang

Hardware caches are essential performance optimization features in modern processors to reduce the effective memory access time. Unfortunately, they are also the prime targets for attacks on computer processors because they are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Guangyuan Hu , Ruby B. Lee

The growing performance gap between multi-core CPUs and main memory necessitates hardware-aware software design paradigms. This study provides a comprehensive performance analysis of Data Oriented Design (DOD) versus the traditional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Gabriel M. Arantes , Giancarlo Lucca , Eduardo N. Borges , Richard F. Pinto , Bruno L. Dalmazo , Rafael A. Berri

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks remain a serious threat to online infrastructure, often bypassing detection by altering traffic in subtle ways. We present a method using hive-plot sequences of network data and a 3D…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Landon Bragg , Nathan Dorsey , Josh Prior , John Ajit , Ben Kim , Nate Willis , Pablo Rivas

This paper presents the Neural Cache architecture, which re-purposes cache structures to transform them into massively parallel compute units capable of running inferences for Deep Neural Networks. Techniques to do in-situ arithmetic in…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Charles Eckert , Xiaowei Wang , Jingcheng Wang , Arun Subramaniyan , Ravi Iyer , Dennis Sylvester , David Blaauw , Reetuparna Das

This study investigates the use of reinforcement learning to guide a general purpose cache manager decisions. Cache managers directly impact the overall performance of computer systems. They govern decisions about which objects should be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Sami Alabed

This paper investigates an emerging cache side channel attack defense approach involving the use of hardware performance counters (HPCs). These counters monitor microarchitectural events and analyze statistical deviations to differentiate…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-18 William Kosasih

Distributed Denial of Service attacks have become a significant threat to industries and governments leading to substantial financial losses. With the growing reliance on internet services, DDoS attacks can disrupt services by overwhelming…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Debashis Kar Suvra