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The rise of cloud computing demands secure memory systems that ensure data confidentiality, integrity, and freshness against replay attacks. Existing schemes such as AES-XTS, AES-GCM, and AES-CTR each trade performance for security, with…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Haoran Geng , Yuezhi Che , Dazhao Chen , Michael Niemier , Xiaobo Sharon Hu

We develop a low-complexity coding scheme to achieve covert communications over binary-input discrete memoryless channels (BI-DMCs). We circumvent the impossibility of covert communication with linear codes by introducing non-linearity…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-11-27 Ishaque Ashar Kadampot , Mehrdad Tahmasbi , Matthieu R Bloch

To improve efficiency, nearly all parallel processing units (CPUs and GPUs) implement relaxed memory models in which memory operations may be re-ordered, i.e., executed out-of-order. Prior testing work in this area found that memory…

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Over the last three decades, innovations in the memory subsystem were primarily targeted at overcoming the data movement bottleneck. In this paper, we focus on a specific market trend in memory technology: 3D-stacked memory and caches. We…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-10-17 Jens Domke , Emil Vatai , Balazs Gerofi , Yuetsu Kodama , Mohamed Wahib , Artur Podobas , Sparsh Mittal , Miquel Pericàs , Lingqi Zhang , Peng Chen , Aleksandr Drozd , Satoshi Matsuoka

Manycore SoC architectures based on on-chip shared memory are preferred for flexible and programmable solutions in many application domains. However, the development of many ported memory is becoming increasingly challenging as we approach…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Hao Luan , Alan Gatherer

Multicore processors have proved to be the right choice for both desktop and server systems because it can support high performance with an acceptable budget expenditure. In this work, we have compared several works in cache contention and…

Operating Systems · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Maruthi Rohit Ayyagari

Attacks on the microarchitecture of modern processors have become a practical threat to security and privacy in desktop and cloud computing. Recently, cache attacks have successfully been demonstrated on ARM based mobile devices, suggesting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-03-30 Marc Green , Leandro Rodrigues-Lima , Andreas Zankl , Gorka Irazoqui , Johann Heyszl , Thomas Eisenbarth

Parallel programming is emerging fast and intensive applications need more resources, so there is a huge demand for on-chip multiprocessors. Accessing L1 caches beside the cores are the fastest after registers but the size of private caches…

Performance · Computer Science 2016-09-27 Diman Zad Tootaghaj , Farshid Farhat

The trend in industry is towards heterogeneous multicore processors (HMCs), including chips with CPUs and massively-threaded throughput-oriented processors (MTTOPs) such as GPUs. Although current homogeneous chips tightly couple the cores…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2013-10-30 Blake A. Hechtman , Daniel J. Sorin

Network-on-Chips (NoCs) have been widely employed in the design of multiprocessor system-on-chips (MPSoCs) as a scalable communication solution. NoCs enable communications between on-chip Intellectual Property (IP) cores and allow those…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Simran Preet Kaur , Manojit Ghose , Ananya Pathak , Rutuja Patole

Molecular communication (MC) can enable the transfer of information between nanomachines using molecules as the information carrier. In MC systems, multiple receiver nanomachines often co-exist in the same communication channel to serve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Nithin V. Sabu , Abhishek K. Gupta , Neeraj Varshney , Anshuman Jindal

Covert channels can be utilized to secretly deliver information from high privileged processes to low privileged processes in the context of a high-assurance computing system. In this case study, we investigate the possibility of covert…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-08-24 Wolfgang Schmidt , Michael Hanspach , Jörg Keller

A key challenge in scaling shared-L1 multi-core clusters towards many-core (more than 16 cores) configurations is to ensure low-latency and efficient access to the L1 memory. In this work we demonstrate that it is possible to scale up the…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Matheus Cavalcante , Samuel Riedel , Antonio Pullini , Luca Benini

Advances in manufacturing technologies have enabled System-on-Chip (SoC) designers to integrate an increasing number of cores on a single SoC. Increasing SoC complexity coupled with tight time-to-market deadlines has led to increased…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Subodha Charles , Prabhat Mishra

Electronic control systems used for quantum computing have become increasingly complex as multiple qubit technologies employ larger numbers of qubits with higher fidelity targets. Whereas the control systems for different technologies share…

Secure Multi-party Computation (MPC) enables untrusted parties to jointly compute a function without revealing their inputs. Its application to machine learning (ML) has gained significant attention, particularly for secure inference…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Tingting Tang , Yongqin Wang , Murali Annavaram

SoCs are now designed with their own AI accelerator segment to accommodate the ever-increasing demand of Deep Learning (DL) applications. With powerful MAC engines for matrix multiplications, these accelerators show high computing…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Kaniz Mishty , Mehdi Sadi

Molecular Communication (MC) is an emerging field of research focused on understanding how cells in the human body communicate and exploring potential medical applications. In theoretical analysis, the goal is to investigate cellular…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Wafa Labidi , Vida Gholamian , Yaning Zhao , Christian Deppe , Holger Boche

Embedded heterogeneous systems-on-chip (SoCs) rely on domain-specific hardware accelerators to improve performance and energy efficiency. In particular, programmable multi-core accelerators feature a cluster of processing elements and…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Cyril Koenig , Enrico Zelioli , Luca Benini

In this paper, we identify that memory performance plays a crucial role in the feasibility and effectiveness for performing denial-of-service attacks on shared cache. Based on this insight, we introduce new cache DoS attacks, which can be…

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