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Softwarization and virtualization in 5G and beyond require rigorous testing against vulnerabilities and unintended emergent behaviors for critical infrastructure and network security assurance. Formal methods operates efficiently in…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Jingda Yang , Ying Wang

Existing LLM-based compiler fuzzers often produce syntactically or semantically invalid test programs, limiting their effectiveness in exercising compiler optimizations and backend components. We introduce ReFuzzer, a framework for refining…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-02 Iti Shree , Karine Even-Mendoza , Tomasz Radzik

Fuzzing has proven to be a highly effective approach to uncover software bugs over the past decade. After AFL popularized the groundbreaking concept of lightweight coverage feedback, the field of fuzzing has seen a vast amount of scientific…

The state-of-the-art DGF techniques redefine and optimize the fitness metric to reach the target sites precisely and quickly. However, optimizations for fitness metrics are mainly based on heuristic algorithms, which usually rely on…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Peihong Lin , Pengfei Wang , Xu Zhou , Wei Xie , Gen Zhang , Kai Lu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained widespread use in various applications due to their powerful capability to generate human-like text. However, prompt injection attacks, which involve overwriting a model's original instructions with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Jiahao Yu , Yangguang Shao , Hanwen Miao , Junzheng Shi

One of the biggest attack surfaces of embedded systems is their network interfaces, which enable communication with other devices. Unlike their general-purpose counterparts, embedded systems are designed for specialized use cases, resulting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Moritz Bley , Tobias Scharnowski , Simon Wörner , Moritz Schloegel , Thorsten Holz

Statistical verification of a quantum state aims to certify whether a given unknown state is close to the target state with confidence. So far, sample-optimal verification protocols based on local measurements have been found only for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Ninnat Dangniam , Yun-Guang Han , Huangjun Zhu

Consensus, state-machine replication (SMR) and total order broadcast (TOB) protocols are notorious for being poorly scalable with the number of participating nodes. Despite the recent race to reduce overall message complexity of…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Chrysoula Stathakopoulou , Matej Pavlovic , Marko Vukolić

Directed fuzzing focuses on automatically testing specific parts of the code by taking advantage of additional information such as (partial) bug stack trace, patches or risky operations. Key applications include bug reproduction, patch…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-08-18 Manh-Dung Nguyen , Sébastien Bardin , Richard Bonichon , Roland Groz , Matthieu Lemerre

Following the advent of the American Fuzzy Lop (AFL), fuzzing had a surge in popularity, and modern day fuzzers range from simple blackbox random input generators to complex whitebox concolic frameworks that are capable of deep program…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-20 François Gauthier , Behnaz Hassanshahi , Benjamin Selwyn-Smith , Trong Nhan Mai , Max Schlüter , Micah Williams

Testing with randomly generated inputs (fuzzing) has gained significant traction due to its capacity to expose program vulnerabilities automatically. Fuzz testing campaigns generate large amounts of data, making them ideal for the…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Maria-Irina Nicolae , Max Eisele , Andreas Zeller

Achieving robust and scalable remote quantum entanglement is a fundamental challenge for the development of distributed quantum networks and modular quantum computing systems. Along this, perfect state transfer (PST) and fractional state…

Information leakage is a class of error that can lead to severe consequences. However unlike other errors, it is rarely explicitly considered during the software testing process. LeakFuzzer advances the state of the art by using a…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Daniel Blackwell , Ingolf Becker , David Clark

Blockchain smart contracts have given rise to a variety of interesting and compelling applications and emerged as a revolutionary force for the Internet. Quite a few practitioners have devoted themselves to developing tools for detecting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Zhenguang Liu , Peng Qian , Jiaxu Yang , Lingfeng Liu , Xiaojun Xu , Qinming He , Xiaosong Zhang

Firmware fuzzing has gained attention for identifying firmware bugs. However, current approaches often directly integrate fuzzing tools for general software. General software receives input as it encounters I/O functions, but firmware input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shandian Shen , Wei Zhou , Keming Zhao , Peng Liu , Chung Hwan Kim , Le Guan

This paper studies the throughput performance of HARQ (hybrid automatic repeat request) protocols over block fading Gaussian channels. It proposes new protocols that use the available feedback bit(s) not only to request a retransmission,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Daniela Tuninetti

Sequential decision-making processes (SDPs) are fundamental for complex real-world challenges, such as autonomous driving, robotic control, and traffic management. While recent advances in Deep Learning (DL) have led to mature solutions for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Junda He , Zhou Yang , Jieke Shi , Chengran Yang , Kisub Kim , Bowen Xu , Xin Zhou , David Lo

Fast large-scale network scanning is an important way to understand internet service configurations and security in real time, among which stateless scan is representative. Existing stateless scanners can perform single-packet scans for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Chiyu Chen , Yuliang Lu , Guozheng Yang , Yi Xie , Shasha Guo

LockDoc is an approach to extract locking rules for kernel data structures from a dynamic execution trace recorded while the system is under a benchmark load. These locking rules can e.g. be used to locate synchronization bugs. For high…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Alexander Lochmann , Robin Thunig , Horst Schirmeier

Firmware serves as the critical interface between hardware and software in computing systems, making any bugs or vulnerabilities particularly dangerous as they can cause catastrophic system failures. While fuzzing is a promising approach…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Dakshina Tharindu , Aruna Jayasena , Prabhat Mishra