Compared to a stateless data plane, a stateful data plane offloads part of state information and control logic from a controller to a data plane to reduce communication overhead and improve packet processing efficiency. However, existing methods for...
Stateful network protocol fuzzing is one of the essential means for ensuring network communication security. However, the existing methods have problems, including frequent auxiliary message interaction, no in-depth state-space exploration, and high...
Microservice architecture is a preferred way to build applications. Being flexible and loosely coupled, it allows to deploy code at a high pace. State, or, in other words, data is not only a commodity but crucial to any business. The high availabilit...
As fifth-generation (5G) networks evolve toward open and software-based architectures, security verification of the NG Application Protocol (NGAP) between the radio access network and the 5G core has become increasingly important. This paper proposes...
Programmable data planes are increasingly essential for enabling In-band Network Telemetry (INT), fine-grained monitoring, and congestion-aware packet processing. Although the P4 language provides a high-level abstraction to describe such behaviors,...
Microservice architecture enables the development of flexible, loosely coupled applications that support elasticity and adaptability. As data availability is critical in any application, maintaining consistent access becomes a top priority. However,...
Embedded systems have attracted more attention and have become more critical due to the recent computer technology advancements and applications in various areas, such as healthcare, transportation, and manufacturing. Traditional software design appr...
Maintaining high-fidelity character personas and tracking trusted narrative facts remain significant challenges for LLM-based role-playing systems, particularly in long-context scenarios. Traditional Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) approaches, w...
Mobility-aware digital twin (DT) migration is increasingly used in edge computing to sustain low-latency service as physical entities and service demand move across domains. However, stateful DT migration across administrative domains requires more t...
Quantum computers endanger the security of digital signatures as they are generated today, e.g., by cryptographic algorithms like RSA, DSA, and ECDSA, whose security is based on algebraic problems. They have to be replaced by quantum-computer-resista...
Software-defined networking (SDN) is a network approach achieved by decoupling of the control and data planes. The control plane is logically centralized and the data plane is distributed across the network elements. The real-time network is in need...
Advances in micro-electro-mechanical systems technology have led to the emergence of compact attitude measurement sensor products that integrate acceleration, magnetometer, and gyroscope sensors on a single chip, making them important devices in the...
REST APIs have become a dominant interface for modern web applications and cloud services, and a growing body of work has studied automated testing and reproducible error discovery for such systems. Prior approaches have explored dependency inference...
Cyber attacks against the web management interface of Internet of Things (IoT) devices often have serious consequences. Current research uses fuzzing technologies to test the web interfaces of IoT devices. These IoT fuzzers generate messages (a test...
This paper presents SPARK_AI, a prompt-orchestrated system architecture for governing how large language models (LLMs) conduct structured and adaptive reasoning in human–AI interaction. The framework mitigates ad hoc LLM use by replacing direct...
The expected advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) has triggered a large demand of embedded devices, which envisions the autonomous interaction of sensors and actuators while offering all sort of smart services. However, these IoT devices are limite...
The Computing Network is an emerging paradigm that integrates network and computing resources. One of its goals is to satisfy the requirements of delay-sensitive services through network scheduling capabilities. However, traditional TCP/IP networks a...
Nonlinear systems, such as guitar distortion effects, play an important role in musical signal processing. One major problem encountered in digital nonlinear systems is aliasing distortion. Consequently, various aliasing reduction methods have been p...
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) and Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) attacks pose significant threats to the security of Software-Defined Internet of Things (SD-IoT) networks. The standard Software-Defined Networking (SDN) architecture faces ch...
In an IoT (Internet of Things) system, the autonomy of battery-operated edge devices is of paramount importance. When such devices operate intermittently, reducing power consumption during standby improves such a characteristic. The deep-sleep operat...
Traditional container orchestration platforms often suffer from resource wastage in educational settings, and stateless serverless services face challenges in maintaining container state persistence during the teaching process. To address these issue...
We propose stateful order-preserving encryption (SOPE), a novel framework designed to realize human-centric data security and privacy, the fundamental values of the Fifth Industrial Revolution. Conventional order-preserving encryption supports effici...
For the past 8 years, Cameroon has been witnessing a deadly conflict between anglophone separatist fighters and the Cameroon military over the form of governance. This study seeks to highlight anglophone attitudes and preferences towards forms of gov...
This paper proposes a new theory of non-state actors who engage in irregular warfare to seize territory and govern openly, called emerging-state actors. Emerging-state actors arise in periods of irregular conflict, such as the so-called Islamic State...
In the stateful data plane, the switch can record the state and forward packets based on the local state. This approach makes it possible to integrate complex network applications into the data plane, thus reducing the amount of communication require...
We propose two multi-layer controlled multi-output remote state preparation (RSP) schemes for arbitrary single-qubit and single-qudit states. Twelve-particle entangled channels are constructed in two-dimensional and d-dimensional Hilbert spaces, and...
Task-oriented dialogue systems depend on dialogue state tracking to keep track of the intentions of users in the course of conversations. Although recent models in dialogue state tracking exhibit good performance, the errors in predicting the value o...
Smartphones are currently extensively used worldwide, and advances in hardware quality have engendered improvements in smartphone image quality, which is occasionally comparable to the quality of medical imaging systems. This paper proposes two algor...
In this paper, we investigate the problem of estimating the phase of a coherent state in the presence of unavoidable noisy quantum states. These unwarranted quantum states are represented by outlier quantum states in this study. We first present a st...
We consider bipartite mixed states
From experimental studies of protein folding, it is now clear that there are two types of folding behavior, i.e., two-state folding and non-two-state folding, and understanding the relationships between these apparently different folding behaviors is...
Due to its advantages of high voltage level, high specific energy, low self-discharging rate and relatively longer cycling life, the lithium-ion battery has been widely used in electric vehicles. To ensure safety and reduce degradation during the lit...
The inherent problems of state-owned enterprises (SOEs), such as the lack of external monitoring, may harm their accounting quality. However, the results from prior research are not consistent. Therefore, this study investigates the effect of state o...
Among the various statements related to the political philosophy of the Laozi《老子》, Chapter 80 is distinguished by its particular depiction of what may be dubbed an ideal state. By examining the viewpoints of various author...
Different strategies for the combination of merging and splitting transformation procedures for incompletely specified finite state machines implemented on field-programmable logic devices are offered. In these methods, such optimization criteria as...
The protocols for controlled remote state preparation of a single qubit and a general two-qubit state are presented in this paper. The general pure three-qubit states are chosen as shared quantum channel, which are not Local operations and classical...
State-to-state numerical simulations of high-speed reacting flows are the most detailed but also often prohibitively computationally expensive. In this work, we explore the usage of machine learning algorithms to alleviate such a burden. Several task...
Mexico has had a non-state forest certification system under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) since it was initiated in 1993, and developed a new state-sponsored Mexican Forest Certification System (MFCS) that began in 2008. Several analyses have...
We introduce, generate and study a family of supersymmetric displaced number states (SDNS) that can be considered generalized coherent states of the supersymmetric harmonic oscillator. The family is created from the seminal supersymmetric boson-fermi...
As a critical technological foundation for electric vehicles, power battery state estimation primarily involves estimating the State of Charge (SOC), the State of Health (SOH) and the Remaining Useful Life (RUL). This paper systematically categorizes...
We summarize our research program on the use of coherent states and covariant integral quantization in quantum cosmology. In particular, we present a recent development within this framework and include new results that shed light on some of its basi...
In the differential approach elaborated, we study the evolution of the parameters of Gaussian, mixed, continuous variable density matrices, whose dynamics are given by Hermitian Hamiltonians expressed as quadratic forms of the position and momentum o...
This essay will explore white Americans’ use of the rhetoric of church/state separation as a discourse of racial difference during the period from roughly the Revolution to the Spanish American war, when the United States both conquered vast spaces o...
In recent years, the error-state Kalman filter (ErKF) has been widely employed in various applications, including robotics, aerospace, and localization. However, incorporating state constraints into the ErKF framework using the estimate projection me...
In sand constitutive models, it is of cardinal importance to consider a state parameter to distinguish the real dilatancy for cohesionless soils (sand), which is different from cohesive soils (clay). Thus, one of the key issues in simulating the sand...
This article presents a new approach to the problem of transforming one quantum state into another. It is shown that an
In this paper, we propose a Lyapunov-based state feedback control for state transfer based on the on-line quantum state estimation (OQSE). The OQSE is designed based on continuous weak measurements and compressed sensing. The controlled system is des...
In this review, we present a rigorous construction of an algebraic method for quantum unstable states, also called Gamow states. A traditional picture associates these states to vectors states called Gamow vectors. However, this has some difficulties...
Quantum state tomography (QST) is a central technique to fully characterize an unknown quantum state. However, standard QST requires an exponentially growing number of quantum measurements against the system size, which limits its application to smal...
In this paper, our concern is to design some criteria for deterministic remote state preparation for preparing an arbitrary three-particle state via a genuinely entangled six-qubit state. First, we put forward two schemes in both the real and complex...
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