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Greybox fuzzing has been widely used in stateless programs and has achieved great success. However, most state-of-the-art greybox fuzzers generally have the problems of slow speed and shallow state depth coverage in the process of fuzzing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Junqiang Li , Senyi Li , Gang Sun , Ting Chen , Hongfang Yu

SystemC-based virtual prototypes have emerged as widely adopted tools to test software ahead of hardware availability, reducing the time-to-market and improving software reliability. Recently, fuzzing has become a popular method for…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Chiara Ghinami , Jonas Winzer , Nils Bosbach , Lennart M. Reimann , Lukas Jünger , Simon Wörner , Rainer Leupers

Fuzzing is the process of finding security vulnerabilities in input-processing code by repeatedly testing the code with modified inputs. In this paper, we formalize fuzzing as a reinforcement learning problem using the concept of Markov…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Konstantin Böttinger , Patrice Godefroid , Rishabh Singh

Fuzzing is a widely used software security testing technique that is designed to identify vulnerabilities in systems by providing invalid or unexpected input. Continuous fuzzing systems like OSS-FUZZ have been successful in finding security…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chaitanya Rahalkar

Hardware-firmware co-verification is critical to design trustworthy systems. While formal methods can provide verification guarantees, due to the complexity of firmware and hardware, it can lead to state space explosion. There are promising…

Symbolic Computation · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Aruna Jayasena , Prabhat Mishra

Fuzz testing is a fundamental technique employed to identify vulnerabilities within software systems. However, the process can be protracted and resource-intensive, especially when confronted with extensive codebases. In this work, I…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Saket Upadhyay

Binary-only fuzzing often struggles with achieving thorough code coverage and uncovering hidden vulnerabilities due to limited insight into a program's internal dataflows. Traditional grey-box fuzzers guide test case generation primarily…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Kai Feng , Jeremy Singer , Angelos K Marnerides

This work investigates a new erase scheme in NAND flash memory to improve the lifetime and performance of modern solid-state drives (SSDs). In NAND flash memory, an erase operation applies a high voltage (e.g., > 20 V) to flash cells for a…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Sungjun Cho , Beomjun Kim , Hyunuk Cho , Gyeongseob Seo , Onur Mutlu , Myungsuk Kim , Jisung Park

In order to achieve faster and more robust convergence (especially under noisy working environments), a sliding mode theory-based learning algorithm has been proposed to tune both the premise and consequent parts of type-2 fuzzy neural…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-06 Erkan Kayacan , Erdal Kayacan , Mojtaba Ahmadieh Khanesar

Fuzzing has proven to be very effective for discovering certain classes of software flaws, but less effective in helping developers process these discoveries. Conventional crash-based fuzzers lack enough information about failures to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Allison Naaktgeboren , Sean Noble Anderson , Andrew Tolmach , Greg Sullivan

Context: Exhaustive fuzzing of modern JavaScript engines is infeasible due to the vast number of program states and execution paths. Coverage-guided fuzzers waste effort on low-risk inputs, often ignoring vulnerability-triggering ones that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Kishan Kumar Ganguly , Tim Menzies

Validating FPGA firmware logic used in particle physics is becoming increasingly difficult as the implementation logic scales and becomes more complex with the expansion of FPGA resources. In order to address this issue efficiently, we have…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-04-09 Ryugo Mizuhiki , Junpei Maeda , Seiya Marumoto

Greybox fuzzing is a lightweight testing approach that effectively detects bugs and security vulnerabilities. However, greybox fuzzers randomly mutate program inputs to exercise new paths; this makes it challenging to cover code that is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Valentin Wüstholz , Maria Christakis

To investigate the effect and ability of FACTS devices using the Fast and Flexible Holomorphic Embedding technique (FFHE), it is necessary to develop an embedded system for these devices. Therefore, this paper presents FFHE based embedded…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-29 Pradeep Singh , Nilanjan Senroy

Digital image steganography requires a careful trade-off among payload capacity, visual fidelity, and statistical undetectability. Fixed-depth least significant bit embedding remains attractive because of its simplicity and high capacity,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Aadi Joshi , Kavya Bhand

Performance issues in software-defined network (SDN) controllers can have serious impacts on the performance and availability of networks. In this paper, we consider a special class of SDN vulnerabilities called stateful performance issues…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Ao Li , Rohan Padhye , Vyas Sekar

We present a method for incremental modeling and time-varying control of unknown nonlinear systems. The method combines elements of evolving intelligence, granular machine learning, and multi-variable control. We propose a State-Space…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-19 Daniel Leite , Pedro Coutinho , Iury Bessa , Murilo Camargos , Luiz Cordovil Junior , Reinaldo Palhares

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

Recent efforts in practical symbolic execution have successfully mitigated the path-explosion problem to some extent with search-based heuristics and compositional approaches. Similarly, due to an increase in the performance of cheap…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Saahil Ognawala , Ana Petrovska , Kristian Beckers

Software-defined systems revolutionized the management of hardware devices but introduced quality assurance challenges that remain to be tackled. For example, software defined networks (SDNs) became a key technology for the prompt…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Jahanzaib Malik , Fabrizio Pastore