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The proliferation of deep learning accelerators calls for efficient and cost-effective hardware design solutions, where parameterized modular hardware generator and electronic design automation (EDA) tools play crucial roles in improving…

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The detection of network flows that send excessive amounts of traffic is of increasing importance to enforce QoS and to counter DDoS attacks. Large-flow detection has been previously explored, but the proposed approaches can be used on…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Hao Wu , Hsu-Chun Hsiao , Daniele E. Asoni , Simon Scherrer , Adrian Perrig , Yih-Chun Hu

This paper investigates a flow- and path-sensitive static information flow analysis. Compared with security type systems with fixed labels, it has been shown that flow-sensitive type systems accept more secure programs. We show that an…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2017-06-22 Peixuan Li , Danfeng Zhang

Mobile and IoT applications have greatly enriched our daily life by providing convenient and intelligent services. However, these smart applications have been a prime target of adversaries for stealing sensitive data. It poses a crucial…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Ning Xi , Chao Chen , Jun Zhang , Cong Sun , Shigang Liu , Pengbin Feng , Jianfeng Ma

Edge-AI applications demand high-throughput, low-latency inference on FPGAs under tight resource and power constraints. This survey provides a comprehensive review of two key architectural decisions for FPGA-based neural network…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Richie Li

Security analysis is an essential activity in security engineering to identify potential system vulnerabilities and achieve security requirements in the early design phases. Due to the increasing complexity of modern systems, traditional…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Jinghua Yu , Stefan Wagner , Feng Luo

Large language models (LLMs) for code editing have achieved remarkable progress, yet recent empirical studies reveal a fundamental disconnect between technical accuracy and developer productivity. Despite their strong benchmark performance,…

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The predominant use of wireless access networks is for media streaming applications, which are only gaining popularity as ever more devices become available for this purpose. However, current access networks treat all packets identically,…

Quantum error correction (QEC) promises to exponentially suppress qubit noise, but typically assumes spatially-uniform and temporally-constant noise rates. However, real quantum hardware exhibits variation in noise levels over time, which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-08 Maxwell Poster , Jason Chadwick , Jonathan Mark Baker

Superconducting circuits, like Adiabatic Quantum-Flux-Parametron (AQFP), offer exceptional energy efficiency but face challenges in physical design due to sophisticated spacing and timing constraints. Current design tools often neglect the…

In the traditional Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) design flow, the concept of timing closure implies to reach convergence during physical synthesis such that, under a given area and power budget, the design works at the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Mohammad Eslami , Ashira Johara , Kyungbin Park , Samuel Pagliarini

Data-flow testing (DFT) aims to detect potential data interaction anomalies by focusing on the points at which variables receive values and the points at which these values are used. Such test objectives are referred as \emph{def-use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Ting Su , Chengyu Zhang , Yichen Yan , Lingling Fan , Geguang Pu , Yang Liu , Zhoulai Fu , Zhendong Su

Computing systems, including real-time embedded systems, are becoming increasingly connected to allow for more advanced and safer operation. Such embedded systems are resource-constrained, such as lower processing capabilities, as compared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Tanmaya Mishra , Thidapat Chantem , Ryan Gerdes

Split DNNs enable edge devices by offloading intensive computation to a cloud server, but this paradigm exposes privacy vulnerabilities, as the intermediate features can be exploited to reconstruct the private inputs via Feature Inversion…

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Rising device use and third-party IP integration in semiconductors raise security concerns. Unauthorized access, fault injection, and privacy invasion are potential threats from untrusted actors. Different security techniques have been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Geraldine Shirley Nicholas , Dhruvakumar Vikas Aklekar , Bhavin Thakar , Fareena Saqib

As energy efficiency became a critical factor in the embedded systems domain, dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) techniques have emerged as means to control the system's power and energy efficiency. Additionally, due to the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2016-01-11 Jonatan Waern , Per Ekemark , Konstantinos Koukos , Stefanos Kaxiras , Alexandra Jimborean

Quantum computing offers significant acceleration capabilities over its classical counterpart in various application domains. Consequently, there has been substantial focus on improving quantum computing capabilities. However, to date, the…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Chao Lu , Esha Telang , Aydin Aysu , Kanad Basu

We develop a new notion of security against timing attacks where the attacker is able to simultaneously observe the execution time of a program and the probability of the values of low variables. We then show how to measure the security of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-07-25 Alessandra Di Pierro , Chris Hankin , Herbert Wiklicky

Edge computing provides an agile data processing platform for latency-sensitive and communication-intensive applications through a decentralized cloud and geographically distributed edge nodes. Gaining centralized control over the edge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Poornima Mahadevappa , Raja Kumar Murugesan

The PQDSS standardization process requires cryptographic primitives to be free from vulnerabilities, including timing and cache side-channels. Resistance to timing leakage is therefore an essential property, and achieving this typically…