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Hardware Fuzzing emerged as one of the crucial techniques for finding security flaws in modern hardware designs by testing a wide range of input scenarios. One of the main challenges is creating high-quality input seeds that maximize…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Raghul Saravanan , Sudipta Paria , Aritra Dasgupta , Swarup Bhunia , Sai Manoj P D

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

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

Firmware fuzzing has gained attention for identifying firmware bugs. However, current approaches often directly integrate fuzzing tools for general software. General software receives input as it encounters I/O functions, but firmware input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Shandian Shen , Wei Zhou , Keming Zhao , Peng Liu , Chung Hwan Kim , Le Guan

This paper addresses efficient hardware/software implementation approaches for the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) algorithm and describes the design and performance testing algorithm for embedded system. Also, with the spread of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2009-09-15 Zine El Abidine Alaoui Ismaili , Ahmed Moussa

4G and 5G represent the current cellular communication standards utilized daily by billions of users for various applications. Consequently, ensuring the security of 4G and 5G network implementations is critically important. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Ilja Siroš , Dave Singelée , Bart Preneel

The quality of control (QoC) of a resource-constrained embedded control system may be jeopardized in dynamic environments with variable workload. This gives rise to the increasing demand of co-design of control and scheduling. To deal with…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2008-12-18 Feng Xia , Youxian Sun , Yu-Chu Tian , Moses Tade , Jinxiang Dong

One of the biggest attack surfaces of embedded systems is their network interfaces, which enable communication with other devices. Unlike their general-purpose counterparts, embedded systems are designed for specialized use cases, resulting…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Moritz Bley , Tobias Scharnowski , Simon Wörner , Moritz Schloegel , Thorsten Holz

Storage systems are fundamental to modern computing infrastructures, yet ensuring their correctness remains challenging in practice. Despite decades of research on system testing, many storage-system failures (including durability,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Ying Wang , Jiahui Chen , Dejun Jiang

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

GPUs have gained significant popularity over the past decade, extending beyond their original role in graphics rendering. This evolution has brought GPU security and reliability to the forefront of concerns. Prior research has shown that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Saurabh Singh , Ruobing Han , Jaewon Lee , Seonjin Na , Yonghae Kim , Taesoo Kim , Hyesoon Kim

Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), which incorporates the Cloud, edge nodes and end devices, has shown great potential in bringing data processing closer to the data sources. Meanwhile, Federated learning (FL) has emerged as a promising…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Wentai Wu , Ligang He , Weiwei Lin , Rui Mao

The wireless sensor networks combines sensing, computation, and communication into a single small device. These devices depend on battery power and may be placed in hostile environments replacing them becomes a tedious task. Thus improving…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-12-20 A. M Nirmala , P. Subramaniam , A. Anusha priya , M. Ravi

Fuzzing is a well-established technique in the software domain to uncover bugs and vulnerabilities. Yet, applications of fuzzing for security vulnerabilities in hardware systems are scarce, as principal reasons are requirements for design…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Maik Ender , Felix Hahn , Marc Fyrbiak , Amir Moradi , Christof Paar

Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) are deployed in many CPU designs because of the confidentiality and integrity guarantees they provide. ARM TrustZone is a TEE extensively deployed on smart phones, IoT devices, and notebooks.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Haoqi Shan , Sravani Nissankararao , Yujia Liu , Moyao Huang , Shuo Wang , Yier Jin , Dean Sullivan

Fuzzing is a widely used technique for detecting software bugs and vulnerabilities. Most popular fuzzers generate new inputs using an evolutionary search to maximize code coverage. Essentially, these fuzzers start with a set of seed inputs,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Dongdong She , Rahul Krishna , Lu Yan , Suman Jana , Baishakhi Ray

The rapid expansion of heterogeneous Internet of Things (IoT) environments has heightened security risks, as resource-constrained devices remain vulnerable to diverse cyberattacks. Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a privacy-preserving…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Saadat Izadi , Mahmood Ahmadi

Fuzz Testing is a largely automated testing technique that provides random and unexpected input to a program in attempt to trigger failure conditions. Much of the research conducted thus far into Fuzz Testing has focused on developing…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Matthew Kelly , Christoph Treude , Alex Murray

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

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