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Sketch-based algorithms for network traffic monitoring have drawn increasing interest in recent years due to their sub-linear memory efficiency and high accuracy. As the volume of network traffic grows, software-based sketch implementations…

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To provide Uplink Centric Broadband Communication (UCBC), New Radio Unlicensed (NR-U) network has been standardized to exploit the unlicensed spectrum using Listen Before Talk (LBT) scheme to fairly coexist with the incumbent Wireless…

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Practical attacks that exploit speculative execution can leak confidential information via microarchitectural side channels. The recently-demonstrated Spectre attacks leverage speculative loads which circumvent access checks to read…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-11 Vladimir Kiriansky , Carl Waldspurger

Efficient data transfers over high-speed, long-distance shared networks require proper utilization of available network bandwidth. Using parallel TCP streams enables an application to utilize network parallelism and can improve transfer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Hasibul Jamil , Elvis Rodrigues , Jacob Goldverg , Tevfik Kosar

Last Level Cache (LLC) is a precious and critical resource that impacts the performance of applications running on top of CPUs. In this paper, we reveal the significant impact of LLC on the performance of the 5G user plane function (UPF)…

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A Load Balancing Relay Algorithm (LBRA) was proposed to solve the unfair spectrum resource allocation in the traditional mobile MTC relay. In order to obtain reasonable use of spectrum resources, and a balanced MTC devices (MTCDs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-07 Yifu Yang , Gang Wu , Weidang Lu , Yizhong Zhang

With the dense deployment of millimeter wave (mmWave) front ends and popularization of bandwidth-intensive applications, shared backhaul in fiber-wireless (FiWi) networks is still facing a bandwidth crunch. To alleviate the backhaul…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Zhuojia Gu , Hancheng Lu , Zuqing Zhu

Sequence alignment is a fundamental process in computational biology which identifies regions of similarity in biological sequences. With the exponential growth in the volume of data in bioinformatics databases, the time, processing power,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Nasrin Akbari , Mehdi Modarressi , Alireza Khadem

Different from the traditional software vulnerability, the microarchitecture side channel has three characteristics: extensive influence, potent threat, and tough defense. The main reason for the micro-architecture side channel is resource…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Yue Zhang , Ziyuan Zhu , Dan Meng

Covert channel networks are a well-known method for circumventing the security measures organizations put in place to protect their networks from adversarial attacks. This paper introduces a novel method based on bit-rate modulation for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-25 Simone Soderi , Rocco De Nicola

Future autonomous systems require wireless connectivity able to support extremely stringent requirements on both latency and reliability. In this paper, we leverage recent developments in the field of finite-blocklength information theory…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-29 Johan Östman , Giuseppe Durisi , Erik G. Ström , Jingya Li , Henrik Sahlin , Gianluigi Liva

This work considers the multiple-access multicast error-correction scenario over a packetized network with $z$ malicious edge adversaries. The network has min-cut $m$ and packets of length $\ell$, and each sink demands all information from…

With the goal of improving the security of Internet protocols, we seek faster, semi-automatic methods to discover new vulnerabilities in protocols such as DNS, BGP, and others. To this end, we introduce the LLM-Assisted Protocol Attack…

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Caching at base stations (BSs) is a promising approach for supporting the tremendous traffic growth of content delivery over future small-cell wireless networks with limited backhaul. This paper considers exploiting spatial caching…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-09 Wei Han , An Liu , Wei Yu , Vincent K. N. Lau

Over the last decade the relative latency of access to shared memory by multicore increased as wire resistance dominated latency and low wire density layout pushed multiport memories farther away from their ports. Various techniques were…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Ashish Shrivastava , Alan Gatherer , Tong Sun , Sushma Wokhlu , Alex Chandra

Large language models (LLMs) possess extensive knowledge and question-answering capabilities, having been widely deployed in privacy-sensitive domains like finance and medical consultation. During LLM inferences, cache-sharing methods are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Xinyao Zheng , Husheng Han , Shangyi Shi , Qiyan Fang , Zidong Du , Xing Hu , Qi Guo

Large Language Models face an emerging and critical threat known as latency attacks. Because LLM inference is inherently expensive, even modest slowdowns can translate into substantial operating costs and severe availability risks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Tianyi Wang , Huawei Fan , Yuanchao Shu , Peng Cheng , Cong Wang

This paper presents Packet Chasing, an attack on the network that does not require access to the network, and works regardless of the privilege level of the process receiving the packets. A spy process can easily probe and discover the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-27 Mohammadkazem Taram , Ashish Venkat , Dean Tullsen

Modern processors dynamically control their operating frequency to optimize resource utilization, maximize energy savings, and conform to system-defined constraints. If, during the execution of a software workload, the running average of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Chen Liu , Abhishek Chakraborty , Nikhil Chawla , Neer Roggel

This paper proposes an online cross-layered defense strategy for multi-channel systems with switched dynamics under DoS attacks. The enabling condition of a channel under attacks is formulated with respect to attack flow and channel…

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