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This paper addresses the challenges of throughput optimization in wireless cache-aided cooperative networks. We propose an opportunistic cooperative probing and scheduling strategy for efficient content delivery. The strategy involves the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Zhou Zhang , Saman Atapattu , Yizhu Wang , Marco Di Renzo

We introduce a new timing side-channel attack on Intel CPU processors. Our Frontal attack exploits timing differences that arise from how the CPU frontend fetches and processes instructions while being interrupted. In particular, we observe…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ivan Puddu , Moritz Schneider , Miro Haller , Srdjan Čapkun

Deep neural networks are becoming popular and important assets of many AI companies. However, recent studies indicate that they are also vulnerable to adversarial attacks. Adversarial attacks can be either white-box or black-box. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Yun Xiang , Zhuangzhi Chen , Zuohui Chen , Zebin Fang , Haiyang Hao , Jinyin Chen , Yi Liu , Zhefu Wu , Qi Xuan , Xiaoniu Yang

To protect cryptographic implementations from side-channel vulnerabilities, developers must adopt constant-time programming practices. As these can be error-prone, many side-channel detection tools have been proposed. Despite this, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Antoine Geimer , Mathéo Vergnolle , Frédéric Recoules , Lesly-Ann Daniel , Sébastien Bardin , Clémentine Maurice

Operating Systems enforce logical isolation using abstractions such as processes, containers, and isolation technologies to protect a system from malicious or buggy code. In this paper, we show new types of side channels through the file…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Cheng Gu , Yicheng Zhang , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh

Scaling up language models has significantly increased their capabilities. But larger models are slower models, and so there is now an extensive body of work (e.g., speculative sampling or parallel decoding) that improves the (average case)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Nicholas Carlini , Milad Nasr

This paper focuses on robust transceiver design for throughput enhancement on the interference channel (IC), under imperfect channel state information (CSI). In this paper, two algorithms are proposed to improve the throughput of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-02 Ali Dalir , Hassan Aghaeinia , Mohammad Kazemi

Side-channel attacks pose serious threats to many security models, especially sandbox-based browsers. While transient-execution side channels in out-of-order processors have previously been blamed for vulnerabilities such as Spectre and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Haocheng Xiao , Sam Ainsworth

Deployed large language models (LLMs) often rely on speculative decoding, a technique that generates and verifies multiple candidate tokens in parallel, to improve throughput and latency. In this work, we reveal a new side-channel whereby…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Jiankun Wei , Abdulrahman Abdulrazzag , Tianchen Zhang , Adel Muursepp , Gururaj Saileshwar

Coded caching schemes are used to reduce computer network traffics in peak time. To determine the efficiency of the schemes, \cite{MN} defined the information rate of the schemes and gave a construction of optimal coded caching schemes.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Ruizhong Wei

Trusted execution environments (TEEs) provide an environment for running workloads in the cloud without having to trust cloud service providers, by offering additional hardware-assisted security guarantees. However, main memory encryption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Jan Wichelmann , Anna Pätschke , Luca Wilke , Thomas Eisenbarth

The rise of on-chip accelerators signifies a major shift in computing, driven by the growing demands of artificial intelligence (AI) and specialized applications. These accelerators have gained popularity due to their ability to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-26 Farshad Dizani , Azam Ghanbari , Joshua Kalyanapu , Darsh Asher , Samira Mirbagher Ajorpaz

Side-channel attacks exploit unintended information leakage from system behavior and continue to pose serious privacy risks in modern platforms. Despite extensive prior work, side-channel analysis remains largely manual and fragmented,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Zhen Xu , Zihao Wang , Yuhua Sun , XiaoFeng Wang

Cryptographic signatures can be used to increase the resilience of distributed systems against adversarial attacks, by increasing the number of faulty parties that can be tolerated. While this is well-studied for consensus, it has been…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Christoph Lenzen , Julian Loss

Last-level cache side-channel attacks have been mostly demonstrated in highly-controlled, quiescent local environments. Hence, it is unclear whether such attacks are feasible in a production cloud environment. In the cloud, side channels…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zirui Neil Zhao , Adam Morrison , Christopher W. Fletcher , Josep Torrellas

Decentralized proactive caching and coded delivery is studied in a content delivery network, where each user is equipped with a cache memory, not necessarily of equal capacity. Cache memories are filled in advance during the off-peak…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Mohammad Mohammadi Amiri , Qianqian Yang , Deniz Gunduz

Caching is an effective technique to improve user perceived experience for content delivery in wireless networks. Wireless caching differs from traditional web caching in that it can exploit the broadcast nature of wireless medium and hence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Youlong Cao , Meixia Tao , Fan Xu , Kangqi Liu

The large amount of deployed smart devices put tremendous traffic pressure on networks. Caching at the edge has been widely studied as a promising technique to solve this problem. To further improve the successful transmission probability…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Tianming Feng , Shuo Shi , Shushi Gu , Ning Zhang , Wei Xiang , Xuemai Gu

Power side-channel analysis (SCA) has been of immense interest to most embedded designers to evaluate the physical security of the system. This work presents profiling-based cross-device power SCA attacks using deep learning techniques on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-08 Anupam Golder , Debayan Das , Josef Danial , Santosh Ghosh , Shreyas Sen , Arijit Raychowdhury

This paper presents channel-aware adversarial attacks against deep learning-based wireless signal classifiers. There is a transmitter that transmits signals with different modulation types. A deep neural network is used at each receiver to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-22 Brian Kim , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Kemal Davaslioglu , Tugba Erpek , Sennur Ulukus