Buffer Overflow (BOF) has been a ubiquitous security vulnerability for more than three decades, potentially compromising any software application or system. This vulnerability occurs primarily when someone attempts to write more bytes of data (shellc...
One of the most important problems of data transmission in packet networks, in particular in wireless sensor networks, are periodic overflows of buffers accumulating packets directed to a given node. In the case of a buffer overflow, all new incoming...
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADASs) are crucial components of intelligent vehicles, equipped with a vast code base. To enhance the security of ADASs, it is essential to mine their vulnerabilities and corresponding exploitation methods. However...
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In this paper, an optical buffering solution based on label switching is proposed, where packets are buffered by identifying and renewing the light labels of pseudo-orthogonal codes. The buffer overflow occurs when label switching fails to perform on...
In this paper, we examine a buffer with active management that rejects packets basing on the buffer occupancy. Specifically, we derive several metrics characterizing how effectively the algorithm can prevent the queue of packets from becoming too lon...
With the increasing popularity of IoT (Internet-of-Things) devices, their security becomes an increasingly important issue. Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been known for decades, but are still relevant, especially for embedded devices where cer...
Packet losses cause a decline in the performance of packet networks, and this decline is related not only to the percentage of losses but also to the clustering of them together in series. We study how the correlation of packet sizes influences this...
In wireless rechargeable sensor networks, mobile vehicles (MVs) combining energy replenishment and data collection are studied extensively. To reduce data overflow, most recent work has utilized more vehicles to assist the MV to collect buffered data...
Memory errors are still a serious threat affecting millions of devices worldwide. Recently, bounty programs have reached a new record, paying up to USD 2.5 million for one single vulnerability in Android and up to USD 2 million for Apple’s oper...
Different Machine Learning techniques to detect software vulnerabilities have emerged in scientific and industrial scenarios. Different actors in these scenarios aim to develop algorithms for predicting security threats without requiring human interv...
The use of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) technologies is an attractive option to support wide-scale monitoring applications, such as the ones that can be found in precision agriculture, environmental monitoring and industrial automation. The IEEE 802...
High water usage is necessary while ore passes through the many stages of a mineral processing plant. However, a dewatering system filters the final ore pulp product to remove the water, which is reutilized in the previous processes. This step is fun...
Climate changes, intensive agricultural production, and expanding urban areas make the study of runoff and its possible impact on stream quality increasingly important. In this study, we examined large datasets concerning catchment type, stream quali...
Software vulnerability discovery is currently a hot topic, and buffer overflow remains a prevalent security vulnerability. One of the key issues in vulnerability discovery and analysis is how to quickly analyze buffer overflow vulnerabilities and sel...
The issue of combined sewer overflow (CSO) triggered by rainfall has become a significant obstacle to the improvement of water environment quality. This study conducted a long-term monitoring of three types of rainwater outlets, i.e., combined sewer...
Cyber-physical systems for agricultural automation require predictable performance across sensing, communication, edge, fog, and cloud resources, yet buffer sizes and offloading decisions are often selected empirically. This paper presents a five-tie...
In this paper, error resilience is achieved by adaptive, application-layer rateless channel coding, which is used to protect H.264/Advanced Video Coding (AVC) codec data-partitioned videos. A packetization strategy is an effective tool to control er...
Optimizing routes and paths improves network performance. Due to the encapsulation and tunneling of the packets, mobile IP-based communication contributes to packet drops or significant delays between the sender and receiver. Packet loss during hando...
The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) is a simple and lightweight machine-to-machine (M2M) protocol for constrained devices for use in lossy networks which offers a small memory capacity and limited processing. Designed and developed by the Int...
In most railway divisions the results of scheduled inspections of automation and telemechanics field devices are still recorded on paper. Such records reach engineering management with a delay, are easy to lose, and are difficult to verify. This pape...
Wireless multimedia sensor networks (WMSNs) have stringent constraints and need to deliver data packets to the sink node within a predefined limited time. However, due to congestion, buffer overflow occurs and leads to the degradation of the quality-...
The deployment of deep-learning vulnerability detectors in production remains difficult. Models are large, false-positive rates are high, output is opaque, and a persistent gap separates benchmark performance from real-world utility. The objective of...
The fast-paced utilization of innovative Internet of Things (IoT) applications emphasizes the critical role that routing protocols play in designing an efficient communication system between network nodes. In this context, the lack of adaptive routin...
Safety-critical maritime navigation depends on machine-readable data products. Their digital signatures establish provenance and integrity but do not guarantee that authenticated content can be parsed safely: even passive data containing no executabl...
In this paper, we analyze the Network and System Management (NSM) requirements and NSM data objects for the intrusion detection of power systems; NSM is an IEC 62351-7 standard. We analyze a SYN flood attack and a buffer overflow attack to cause the...
Embedded Operating Systems (OSs) are often developed in the C programming language. Developers justify this choice by the performance that can be achieved, the low memory footprint, and the ease of mapping hardware to software, as well as the strong...
Mobile platforms such as high-speed trains and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) experience quasi-periodic variation in link quality as they move through a cellular base-station lattice, so the service rate of their on-board uplink buffer is itself tim...
As Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are increasingly connected and integrated into the industrial Internet of things, cybersecurity threats to PLCs are also increasing. Adversaries can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack based on the transm...
In the radio telemetry systems of spacecraft, various data compression methods are used for data processing. When using any compression methods, the data obtained as a result of compression is formed randomly, and transmission over radio communicatio...
The RPL (Routing Protocol for LLN) protocol is a routing protocol for low power and lossy networks. In such a network, energy is a very scarce resource, so many studies are focused on minimizing global energy consumption. End-to-end latency is anothe...
With the increasing number of ubiquitous terminals and the continuous expansion of network scale, the problem of unbalanced energy consumption in sensor networks has become increasingly prominent in recent years. However, a node scheduling strategy o...
Water quality in urban streams is critical for the health of aquatic and human life, as it impacts both the environment and water availability. The strong impacts of changing climate and land use on water quality necessitate a better understanding of...
In the field of computational biology, sequence alignment is a very important methodology. BLAST is a very common tool for performing sequence alignment in bioinformatics provided by National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the USA. Th...
In arid inland watersheds, the compounding impacts of climate change and intensive human activities have severely altered hydrological regimes and accelerated landscape degradation. However, conventional spatial planning often overlooks the critical...
Existing hop-by-hop congestion control algorithms are mainly divided into two categories: those improving the sending rate and those suppressing the receiving rate. However, these congestion control algorithms have problems with validity and limitati...
The development of new technologies has significantly enhanced the monitoring and analysis of network traffic. Modern solutions like the Extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) demonstrate a clear advancement over traditional techniques, allowing for...
The advancement in the domain of IoT accelerated the development of new communication technologies such as the Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol. Although MQTT servers/brokers are considered the main component of all MQTT-based IoT...
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Battery-powered IoT sensor nodes require energy-efficient Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols to extend network lifetime while supporting priority-sensitive traffic. This paper proposes a Priority-Aware Packet Aggregation/Piggybacking-Based (Priori...
Fecal indicator bacteria (FIB), such as E. coli and Enterococci, are used to indicate the potential of fecal contamination in waterways. One known source of FIB in urbanized areas is the occurrence of combined sewer overflows (CSOs). To explore the i...
Congestion in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) can lead to buffer overflow, resource waste and delay or loss of critical information from the sensors. In this paper, we propose the Priority-based Coverage-aware Congestion Control (PCC) algorithm which...
This work presents a methodology to represent logical decisions in differential algebraic equation simulation and constrained optimization problems using a set of continuous algebraic equations. The formulations may be used when state variables trigg...
Stormwater harvesting (SWH) is emerging as a vital adaptive strategy for urban climate resilience. In South Korea, different types of storage facilities have been constructed under different regulations and laws. Each type of storage facility has its...
Nanostructures with sufficiently large areas are necessary for the development of practical devices. Current efforts to fabricate large-area nanostructures using step-and-repeat nanoimprint lithography, however, result in either wide seams or low eff...
In this paper, we investigate a UAV-assisted wireless powered communication network (WPCN) where UAVs act as access points (APs) to periodically serve a group of ground sensor nodes (SNs). Unlike fixed APs in traditional WPCNs, UAV-assisted WPCNs can...
With its exponential growth, the Internet of Things (IoT) has produced unprecedented levels of connectivity and data. Anomaly detection is a security feature that identifies instances in which system behavior deviates from the expected norm, facilita...
In Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks (SAGINs), the inherent high bit error rate (BER) and prolonged propagation latency of satellite links, compounded by the highly dynamic topologies and multi-hop nature of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UA...
Automated operation of urban stormwater pumping stations is a sequential decision-making problem that must prevent detention-basin overflow during intense rainfall while coordinating pump switching, pump use, and dry-running risk. This study proposes...
The LU factorization of very large sparse matrices requires a significant amount of computing resources, including memory and broadband communication. A hybrid MPI + OpenMP + CUDA algorithm named SuperLU3D can efficiently compute the LU factorization...
The concepts brought by Industry 4.0 have been explored and gradually applied.The cybersecurity impacts on the progress of Industry 4.0 implementations and their interactions with other technologies require constant surveillance, and it is important...
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