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Traffic Steering (TS) dynamically allocates user traffic across cells to enhance Quality of Experience (QoE), load balance, and spectrum efficiency in 5G networks. However, TS algorithms remain vulnerable to adversarial conditions such as…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Seyed Bagher Hashemi Natanzi , Hossein Mohammadi , Bo Tang , Vuk Marojevic

Buffer-overruns are a prevalent vulnerability in software libraries and applications. Fuzz testing is one of the effective techniques to detect vulnerabilities in general. Greybox fuzzers such as AFL automatically generate a sequence of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Raveendra Kumar Medicherla , Malathy Nagalakshmi , Tanya Sharma , Raghavan Komondoor

FuSeBMC is a test generator for finding security vulnerabilities in C programs. In earlier work [4], we described a previous version that incrementally injected labels to guide Bounded Model Checking (BMC) and Evolutionary Fuzzing engines…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Kaled M. Alshmrany , Mohannad Aldughaim , Ahmed Bhayat , Lucas C. Cordeiro

The increasing complexity of embedded software has made comprehensive manual testing impractical, motivating the use of automated techniques such as fuzzing. Coverage-guided fuzzers like AFL++ have shown strong results for conventional…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Chiara Ghinami , Igor Pontes Tresolavy , Luis Seibt , Nils Bosbach , Rainer Leupers

Monolithic Firmware is widespread. Unsurprisingly, fuzz testing firmware is an active research field with new advances addressing the unique challenges in the domain. However, understanding and evaluating improvements by deriving metrics…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Mathew Duong , Michael Chesser , Guy Farrelly , Surya Nepal , Damith C. Ranasinghe

This paper introduces a novel fuzzing framework, SyzParam which incorporates runtime parameters into the fuzzing process. Achieving this objective requires addressing several key challenges, including valid value extraction, inter-device…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-20 Yue Sun , Yan Kang , Chenggang Wu , Kangjie Lu , Jiming Wang , Xingwei Li , Yuhao Hu , Jikai Ren , Yuanming Lai , Mengyao Xie , Zhe Wang

Android devices are shipped in several flavors by more than 100 manufacturer partners, which extend the Android "vanilla" OS with new system services, and modify the existing ones. These proprietary extensions expose Android devices to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Domenico Cotroneo , Antonio Ken Iannillo , Roberto Natella

Appropriate test data is a crucial factor to reach success in dynamic software testing, e.g., fuzzing. Most of the real-world applications, however, accept complex structure inputs containing data surrounded by meta-data which is processed…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Morteza Zakeri Nasrabadi , Saeed Parsa , Akram Kalaee

Testing ultra-large microservices-based FinTech systems presents significant challenges, including restricted access to production environments, complex dependencies, and stringent security constraints. We propose SandBoxFuzz, a scalable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Jiazhao Yu , Yanlun Tu , Zhanlei Zhang , Tiehua Zhang , Cheng Xu , Weigang Wu , Hong Jin Kang , Xi Zheng

Modern computing systems heavily rely on hardware as the root of trust. However, their increasing complexity has given rise to security-critical vulnerabilities that cross-layer at-tacks can exploit. Traditional hardware vulnerability…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-11 Mohamadreza Rostami , Marco Chilese , Shaza Zeitouni , Rahul Kande , Jeyavijayan Rajendran , Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

In this paper, we introduce a comprehensive approach to bolstering the security, reliability, and comprehensibility of OpenAirInterface5G (OAI5G), an open-source software framework for the exploration, development, and testing of 5G…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Huan Wu , Brian Fang , Fei Xie

Multi-modality fusion is the guarantee of the stability of autonomous driving systems. In this paper, we propose a general multi-modality cascaded fusion framework, exploiting the advantages of decision-level and feature-level fusion,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Hongwu Kuang , Xiaodong Liu , Jingwei Zhang , Zicheng Fang

The rapid development of large language models (LLMs) has revolutionized software testing, particularly fuzz testing, by automating the generation of diverse and effective test inputs. This advancement holds great promise for improving…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Linghan Huang , Peizhou Zhao , Huaming Chen

Fuzzing is an effective bug-finding technique but it struggles with complex systems like JavaScript engines that demand precise grammatical input. Recently, researchers have adopted language models for context-aware mutation in fuzzing to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Jueon Eom , Seyeon Jeong , Taekyoung Kwon

Traditional database fuzzing techniques primarily focus on syntactic correctness and general SQL structures, leaving critical yet obscure DBMS features, such as system-level modes (e.g., GTID), programmatic constructs (e.g., PROCEDURE),…

Databases · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yongxin Chen , Zhiyuan Jiang , Chao Zhang , Haoran Xu , Shenglin Xu , Jianping Tang , Zheming Li , Peidai Xie , Yongjun Wang

The proliferation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) embedded with vulnerable monolithic software has recently raised serious concerns about their security due to concurrency aspects and fragile communication links. However, verifying…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-14 Omar M. Alhawi , Mustafa A. Mustafa , Lucas C. Cordeiro

Greybox fuzzing is a proven and effective testing method for the detection of security vulnerabilities and other bugs in modern software systems. Greybox fuzzing can also be used in combination with a sanitizer, such as AddressSanitizer…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Jinsheng Ba , Gregory J. Duck , Abhik Roychoudhury

Mutation testing consists of generating test cases that detect faults injected into software (generating mutants) which its original test suite could not. By running such an augmented set of test cases, it may discover actual faults that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Jaekwon Lee , Enrico Viganò , Fabrizio Pastore , Lionel Briand

Gray-box fuzzing is widely used for testing embedded systems (ESes). State-of-the-art (SOTA) gray-box fuzzers test ES firmware in fully emulated environments without real peripherals. They emulate missing peripherals to achieve decent code…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Wei-Lun Huang , Kang G. Shin

Multi-sensor fusion plays a critical role in enhancing perception for autonomous driving, overcoming individual sensor limitations, and enabling comprehensive environmental understanding. This paper first formalizes multi-sensor fusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Chuheng Wei , Ziye Qin , Ziyan Zhang , Guoyuan Wu , Matthew J. Barth