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Modern enterprise networks comprise diverse and heterogeneous systems that support a wide range of services, making it challenging for administrators to track and analyze sophisticated attacks such as advanced persistent threats (APTs),…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Seunghyeon Lee , Hyunmin Seo , Hwanjo Heo , Anduo Wang , Seungwon Shin , Jinwoo Kim

End-user-devices in the current cellular ecosystem are prone to many different vulnerabilities across different generations and protocol layers. Fixing these vulnerabilities retrospectively can be expensive, challenging, or just infeasible.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Mitziu Echeverria , Zeeshan Ahmed , Bincheng Wang , M. Fareed Arif , Syed Rafiul Hussain , Omar Chowdhury

As 5G networks become more mainstream, privacy has come to the forefront of end users. More scrutiny has been shown to previous generation cellular technologies such as 3G and 4G on how they handle sensitive metadata transmitted from an end…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Abshir Ali , Guanqun Song , Ting Zhu

Predicting faults before they occur helps to avoid potential safety hazards. Furthermore, planning the required maintenance actions in advance reduces operation costs. In this article, the focus is on electrochemical cells. In order to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Daniel Buades Marcos , Soumaya Yacout , Said Berriah

Software vulnerabilities can pose severe harms to a computing system. They can lead to system crash, privacy leakage, or even physical damage. Correctly identifying vulnerabilities among enormous software codes in a timely manner is so far…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Jin Wang , Hui Xiao , Shuwen Zhong , Yinhao Xiao

Over the last decades, numerous security and privacy issues in all three active mobile network generations have been revealed that threaten users as well as network providers. In view of the newest generation (5G) currently under…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-03-07 David Rupprecht , Adrian Dabrowski , Thorsten Holz , Edgar Weippl , Christina Pöpper

To more effectively control and allocate network resources, MAC CE has been introduced into the network protocol, which is a type of control signaling located in the MAC layer. Since MAC CE lacks encryption and integrity protection…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Jin Cao , Yuanyuan Yang , Ruhui Ma , Sheng Li , Hui Li

With the ongoing adoption of 5G for communication in industrial systems and critical infrastructure, the security of industrial UEs such as 5G-enabled industrial robots becomes an increasingly important topic. Most notably, to meet the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Sotiris Michaelides , Daniel Eguiguren Chavez , Martin Henze

Industrial components are of high importance because they control critical infrastructures that form the lifeline of modern societies. However, the rapid evolution of industrial components, together with the new paradigm of Industry 4.0,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-16 Ángel Longueira-Romero , Rosa Iglesias , Jose Luis Flores , Iñaki Garitano

Existing benchmarks for LLM-based vulnerability detection compress model performance into a single metric, which fails to reflect the distinct priorities of different stakeholders. For example, a CISO may emphasize high recall of critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Subho Halder , Siddharth Saxena , Kashinath Kadaba Shrish , Thiyagarajan M

Privacy policies have emerged as the predominant approach to conveying privacy notices to mobile application users. In an effort to enhance both readability and user engagement, the concept of contextual privacy policies (CPPs) has been…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Shidong Pan , Zhen Tao , Thong Hoang , Dawen Zhang , Tianshi Li , Zhenchang Xing , Sherry Xu , Mark Staples , Thierry Rakotoarivelo , David Lo

Security teams face a challenge: the volume of newly disclosed Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) far exceeds the capacity to manually develop detection mechanisms. In 2025, the National Vulnerability Database published over 48,000…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Ayush Garg , Sophia Hager , Jacob Montiel , Aditya Tiwari , Michael Gentile , Zach Reavis , David Magnotti , Wayne Fullen

This paper presents LProtector, an automated vulnerability detection system for C/C++ codebases driven by the large language model (LLM) GPT-4o and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). As software complexity grows, traditional methods face…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Ze Sheng , Fenghua Wu , Xiangwu Zuo , Chao Li , Yuxin Qiao , Lei Hang

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) play a significant role in our critical infrastructure networks from power-distribution to utility networks. The emerging smart-grid concept is a compelling critical CPS infrastructure that relies on two-way…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Leonardo Babun , Hidayet Aksu , A. Selcuk Uluagac

Security vulnerability analysis of Integrated Circuits using conventional design-time validation and verification techniques (like simulations, emulations, etc.) is generally a computationally intensive task and incomplete by nature,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Faiq Khalid , Imran Hafeez Abbassi , Semeen Rehman , Awais Mehmood Kamboh , Osman Hasan , Muhammad Shafique

We introduce CellARC, a synthetic benchmark for abstraction and reasoning built from multicolor 1D cellular automata (CA). Each episode has five support pairs and one query serialized in 256 tokens, enabling rapid iteration with small…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Miroslav Lžičař

Mobile communication networks connect much of the world's population. The security of users' calls, SMSs, and mobile data depends on the guarantees provided by the Authenticated Key Exchange protocols used. For the next-generation network…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-01-13 David Basin , Jannik Dreier , Lucca Hirschi , Saša Radomirović , Ralf Sasse , Vincent Stettler

The rapid evolution of mobile networks from 5G to 6G has necessitated the development of autonomous network management systems, such as Zero-Touch Networks (ZTNs). However, the increased complexity and automation of these networks have also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Li Yang , Abdallah Shami

Wireless positioning technologies hold significant value for applications in autonomous driving, extended reality (XR), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and more. With the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI), leveraging AI to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-06 Guangjin Pan , Yuan Gao , Yilin Gao , Wenjun Yu , Zhiyong Zhong , Xiaoyu Yang , Xinyu Guo , Shugong Xu

Software security is becoming a high priority for both large companies and start-ups alike due to the increasing potential for harm that vulnerabilities and breaches carry with them. However, attaining robust security assurance while…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2019-08-06 David N. Palacio , Daniel McCrystal , Kevin Moran , Carlos Bernal-Cárdenas , Denys Poshyvanyk , Chris Shenefiel