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The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) has become essential to secure inter-domain routing. Despite its critical role, RPKI software remains largely untested beyond shallow parsing. Existing fuzzers, like AFL++ or libFuzzer, do not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Haya Schulmann , Niklas Vogel

In the past few years, several attacks against the vulnerabilities of EOSIO smart contracts have caused severe financial losses to this prevalent blockchain platform. As a lightweight test-generation approach, grey-box fuzzing can open up…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Jianfei Zhou , Tianxing Jiang , Shuwei Song , Ting Chen

This paper presents a scalable, practical approach to quantifying information leaks in software; these errors are often overlooked and downplayed, but can seriously compromise security mechanisms such as address space layout randomisation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Daniel Blackwell , Ingolf Becker , David Clark

The fronthaul connection is a key component of Centralized RAN (C-RAN) architectures, consistently required to handle high capacity demands. However, this critical feature is at risk when the transport link relies on wireless technology.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-22 Marcello Morini , Eugenio Moro , Ilario Filippini , Danilo De Donno , Salvatore Moscato , Antonio Capone

While fuzzing is widely accepted as an efficient program testing technique, it is still unclear how to measure the comparative quality of different fuzzers. The current de facto quality metrics are edge coverage and the number of discovered…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Gwangmu Lee

Mutation testing can help minimize the delivery of faulty software. Therefore, it is a recommended practice for developing embedded software in safety-critical cyber-physical systems (CPS). However, state-of-the-art mutation testing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Jaekwon Lee , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel Briand

Modern CPUs are black boxes, proprietary, and increasingly characterized by sophisticated microarchitectural flaws that evade traditional analysis. While some of these critical vulnerabilities have been uncovered through cumbersome manual…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Johannes Lenzen , Mohamadreza Rostami , Lichao Wu , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

For improving the efficiency and the reliability of the opportunistic routing algorithm, in this paper, we propose the cross-layer and reliable opportunistic routing algorithm (CBRT) for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks, which introduces the improved…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Ning Li , Jose-Fernan Martinez-Ortega , Vicente Hernandez Diaz

In recent years, fuzz testing has proven itself to be one of the most effective techniques for finding correctness bugs and security vulnerabilities in practice. One particular fuzz testing tool, American Fuzzy Lop or AFL, has become…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Caroline Lemieux , Koushik Sen

We propose a novel framework for optimizing antenna parameter settings in a heterogeneous cellular network. We formulate an optimization problem for both coverage and capacity - in both the downlink (DL) and uplink (UL) - which configures…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-31 Ezgi Tekgul , Thomas Novlan , Salam Akoum , Jeffrey G. Andrews

Greybox fuzzing is a scalable and practical approach for software testing. Most greybox fuzzing tools are coverage-guided as reaching high code coverage is more likely to find bugs. However, since most covered codes may not contain bugs,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Pengfei Wang , Xu Zhou , Tai Yue , Peihong Lin , Yingying Liu , Kai Lu

One of the main challenges in IoT is providing communication support to an increasing number of connected devices. In recent years, narrowband radio technology has emerged to address this situation: Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT),…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Emmanuel Luján , Juan A. Zuloaga Mellino , Alejandro D. Otero , Leonardo Rey Vega , Cecilia G. Galarza , Esteban E. Mocskos

We present a new benchmark (ProFuzzBench) for stateful fuzzing of network protocols. The benchmark includes a suite of representative open-source network servers for popular protocols, and tools to automate experimentation. We discuss…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Roberto Natella , Van-Thuan Pham

The fifth generation of mobile broadband is more than just an evolution to provide more mobile bandwidth, massive machine-type communications, and ultra-reliable and low-latency communications. It relies on a complex, dynamic and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Zujany Salazar , Huu Nghia Nguyen , Wissam Mallouli , Ana R Cavalli , Edgardo Montes de Oca

In the modern era where software plays a pivotal role, software security and vulnerability analysis are essential for secure software development. Fuzzing test, as an efficient and traditional software testing method, has been widely…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Linghan Huang , Peizhou Zhao , Huaming Chen , Lei Ma

The control logic models built by Simulink or Ptolemy have been widely used in industry scenes. It is an urgent need to ensure the safety and security of the control logic models. Test case generation technologies are widely used to ensure…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Yixiao Yang

Fuzzing is a security testing methodology effective in finding bugs. In a nutshell, a fuzzer sends multiple slightly malformed messages to the software under test, hoping for crashes or weird system behaviour. The methodology is relatively…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Cristian Daniele , Seyed Behnam Andarzian , Erik Poll

Trustworthiness especially for service oriented system is very important topic now a day in IT field of the whole world. Certain Trust Model depends on some certain values given by experts and developers. Here, main parameters for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-03-05 Kawser Wazed Nafi , Tonny Shekha kar , Amjad Hossain , M. M. A Hashem

Distributed SDN (Software-Defined Networking) controllers have rapidly become an integral element of Wide Area Networks (WAN), particularly within SD-WAN, providing scalability and fault-tolerance for expansive network infrastructures.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Jinwoo Kim , Minjae Seo , Eduard Marin , Seungsoo Lee , Jaehyun Nam , Seungwon Shin

Quantifying vulnerabilities of network systems has been a highly controversial issue in the fields of network security and IoT. Much research has been conducted on this purpose; however, these have many ambiguities and uncertainties. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Mohammad Shojaeshafiei , Letha Etzkorn , Michael Anderson