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Over the last years, considerable attention has been given to the privacy of individuals in wireless environments. Although significantly improved over the previous generations of mobile networks, LTE still exposes vulnerabilities that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Christian Sørseth , Xianyu Shelley Zhou , Stig F. Mjølsnes , Ruxandra F. Olimid

Formal verification is increasingly recognized as a critical foundation for building reliable software systems. However, the need for specialized expertise to write precise specifications, navigate complex proof obligations, and learn…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Changjie Wang , Mariano Scazzariello , Anoud Alshnakat , Roberto Guanciale , Dejan Kostić , Marco Chiesa

Reverse engineering of protocol message formats is critical for many security applications. Mainstream techniques use dynamic analysis and inherit its low-coverage problem -- the inferred message formats only reflect the features of their…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Qingkai Shi , Xiangzhe Xu , Xiangyu Zhang

Wi-Fi deauthentication attacks remain a practical denial-of-service (DoS) threat by exploiting unprotected management frames to disrupt client connectivity. In this work, we introduce a software-defined testbed to measure Wi-Fi resilience…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Alex Carbajal , Asma Jodeiri Akbarfam

Following fast growth of cellular networks, more users have drawn attention to the contradiction between dynamic user data traffic and static data plans. To address this important but largely unexplored issue, in this paper, we design a new…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-22 Hai Wang , Zhe Chen , Qingyuan Gong , Weidong Xu , Xu Zhang , Xin Wang

With the rapid growth in the number of IoT devices being added to the network, a major concern that arises is the security of these systems. As these devices are resource constrained, safety measures are difficult to implement on the edge.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-12 A. Bhanpurawala , K. El-Fakih , I. Zualkernan

Advances in Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) have revolutionized the digital age to a point where animate and inanimate objects can be used as a communication channel. In addition, the ubiquity of mobile phones with increasing…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2012-10-04 Zhenxin Feng , Kwan-Wu Chin

The recent Meltdown and Spectre attacks highlight the importance of automated verification techniques for identifying hardware security vulnerabilities. We have developed a tool for synthesizing microarchitecture-specific programs capable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Caroline Trippel , Daniel Lustig , Margaret Martonosi

Real-time applications require latencies on the order of a millisecond with very high reliabilities, paralleling the requirements for high-performance industrial control. Current wireless technologies like WiFi, Bluetooth, LTE, etc. are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-03-15 Vasuki Narasimha Swamy , Paul Rigge , Gireeja Ranade , Anant Sahai , Borivoje Nikolic

Use of persistent identifiers in wireless communication protocols is a known privacy concern as they can be used to track the location of mobile devices. Furthermore, inherent structure in the assignment of hardware identifiers as well as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-07 Brian Thompson , Dave Cedel , Jeremy Martin , Peter Ryan , Sarah Kern

The smooth operation of largely deployed Internet of Things (IoT) applications will depend on, among other things, effective infrastructure failure detection. Access failures in wireless network Base Stations (BSs) produce a phenomenon…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-05 Orestes Manzanilla-Salazar , Filippo Malandra , Hakim Mellah , Constant Wette , Brunilde Sanso

The ubiquitous presence of mobile communication devices and the continuous development of mo- bile data applications, which results in high level of mobile devices' activity and exchanged data, often transparent to the user, makes privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-09-12 Myrto Arapinis , Loretta Ilaria Mancini , Eike Ritter , Mark Ryan

Context: Smart contract vulnerabilities pose significant security risks for the Ethereum ecosystem, driving the development of automated tools for detection and mitigation. Smart contracts are written in Solidity, a programming language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Gerardo Iuliano , Davide Corradini , Michele Pasqua , Mariano Ceccato , Dario Di Nucci

Remote attestation protocols are widely used to detect device configuration (e.g., software and/or data) compromise in Internet of Things (IoT) scenarios. Unfortunately, the performances of such protocols are unsatisfactory when dealing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Moreno Ambrosin , Mauro Conti , Riccardo Lazzeretti , Md Masoom Rabbani , Silvio Ranise

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) embedded in IoT devices provide a deployable solution to secure IoT applications at the hardware level. By design, in TEEs, the Trusted Operating System (Trusted OS) is the primary component. It enables…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Qinying Wang , Boyu Chang , Shouling Ji , Yuan Tian , Xuhong Zhang , Binbin Zhao , Gaoning Pan , Chenyang Lyu , Mathias Payer , Wenhai Wang , Raheem Beyah

With the development of blockchain technology, the detection of smart contract vulnerabilities is increasingly emphasized. However, when detecting vulnerabilities in inter-contract interactions (i.e., cross-contract vulnerabilities) using…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Xiao Chen

This paper introduces PROTEUS, a fully automated system that produces data-driven hypotheses from raw data files. We apply PROTEUS to clinical proteogenomics, a field where effective downstream data analysis and hypothesis proposal is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Shang Qu , Ning Ding , Linhai Xie , Yifei Li , Zaoqu Liu , Kaiyan Zhang , Yibai Xiong , Yuxin Zuo , Zhangren Chen , Ermo Hua , Xingtai Lv , Youbang Sun , Yang Li , Dong Li , Fuchu He , Bowen Zhou

The diversity of web configuration interfaces for IoT devices has exacerbated issues such as inadequate permission controls and insecure interfaces, resulting in various vulnerabilities. Owing to the varying interface configurations across…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Jiahui Xiang , Lirong Fu , Tong Ye , Peiyu Liu , Huan Le , Liming Zhu , Wenhai Wang

The application layer of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a growing source of security vulnerabilities, as developers often neglect to implement critical protections such as encryption, authentication, and freshness. While formal verification…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Biwei Yan , Yue Zhang , Minghui Xu , Runyu Pan , Jinku Li , Xiuzhen Cheng

We report on the fault-tolerant operation of logical qubits on a neutral atom quantum computer, with logical performance surpassing physical performance for multiple circuits including Bell states (12x error reduction), random circuits…