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In this work, we aim to evaluate different Distributed Lock Management service designs with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA). In specific, we implement and evaluate the centralized and the RDMA-enabled lock manager designs for fast…

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The combination of energy harvesting (EH), cognitive radio (CR), and non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is a promising solution to improve energy efficiency and spectral efficiency of the upcoming beyond fifth generation network (B5G),…

Recurrent neural networks can be large and compute-intensive, yet many applications that benefit from RNNs run on small devices with very limited compute and storage capabilities while still having run-time constraints. As a result, there…

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Recent deep neural networks (DNNs) have came to rely on vast amounts of training data, providing an opportunity for malicious attackers to exploit and contaminate the data to carry out backdoor attacks. However, existing backdoor attack…

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As Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) are widely adopted in clouds to accelerate Deep Neural Networks (DNN), such virtualization environments have posed many new security issues. This work investigates the integrity of DNN FPGA…

Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly augmented with long-term memory systems to overcome finite context windows and enable persistent reasoning across interactions. However, recent research finds that LLMs become more vulnerable…

Adversarial examples pose significant threats to deep neural networks (DNNs), and their property of transferability in the black-box setting has led to the emergence of transfer-based attacks, making it feasible to target real-world…

Rate-splitting multiple access (RSMA) has been proven as an effective communication scheme for 5G and beyond. However, current approaches to RSMA resource management require complicated iterative algorithms, which cannot meet the stringent…

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have transformed several artificial intelligence research areas including computer vision, speech recognition, and natural language processing. However, recent studies demonstrated that DNNs are vulnerable to…

As large language models (LLMs) and generative AI become increasingly integrated into customer service and moderation applications, adversarial threats emerge from both external manipulations and internal label corruption. In this work, we…

Reducing the memory footprint of Machine Learning (ML) models, particularly Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), is essential to enable their deployment into resource-constrained tiny devices. However, a disadvantage of DNN models is their…