Analysis of impersonation attacks on systems using RF fingerprinting and low-end receivers

Recently, physical layer security commonly known as Radio Frequency (RF) fingerprinting has been proposed to provide an additional layer of security for wireless devices. A unique RF fingerprint can be used to establish the identity of a specific wireless device in order to prevent masquerading/impersonation attacks. In the literature, the performance of RF fingerprinting techniques is typically assessed using high-end (expensive) receiver hardware. However, in most practical situations receivers will not be high-end and will suffer from device specific impairments which affect the RF fingerprinting process. This paper evaluates the accuracy of RF fingerprinting employing low-end receivers. The vulnerability to an impersonation attack is assessed for a modulation-based RF fingerprinting system employing low-end commodity hardware (by legitimate and malicious users alike). Our results suggest that receiver impairment effectively decreases the success rate of impersonation attack on RF fingerprinting. In addition, the success rate of impersonation attack is receiver dependent.     

LDBR: Low-deflection bufferless router for cost-sensitive network-on-chip design

In network-on-chip (NoC) designs, the bufferless router is more energy-efficient than the conventional router with buffers. However, in the bufferless network, deflections cause great performance loss. In this paper, three deflection models are firstly constructed for analyzing the causes of deflections. Then, we propose a low-deflection bufferless router (LDBR), in which a multi-channel network interface and a novel deflection routing based on turn model are designed for reducing the deflections during packet transmissions. Finally, LDBR is evaluated against the latest bufferless routers using synthetic and real-world traffic patterns. The experimental results exhibit that the deflection rate of LDBR network is reduced by 41% compared to other bufferless networks, and LDBR also shows superiority in cost and power consumption across all workloads.     

Non-derivative algorithm design for efficient routing over unreliable stochastic networks

We study the question of routing for minimum average drop rate over unreliable servers that are susceptible to random buffer failures, which arises in unreliable data or manufacturing networks. Interestingly, we first reveal that the traditional Join-the-Shortest-Queue (JSQ) or optimal Randomized Splitting (RS) strategies are consistently outperformed by the Constant Splitting Rule (CSR) where the incoming traffic is split with a constant fraction towards the available servers.This finding motivates us to obtain the optimal splitting fraction under CSR. However, the objective function to be minimized depends on the mean queue length of the servers, whose closed-form expression is not available and often intractable for general arrival and service processes. Thus, we use non-derivative methods to solve this optimization problem by approximately evaluating the objective value at each iteration. To that end, we explicitly characterize the approximation error by utilizing the regenerating nature of unreliable buffers. By adaptively controlling the precision of this approximation, we show that our proposed algorithm converges to an optimal splitting decision in the almost sure sense. Yet, previous works on non-derivative methods assume continuous differentiability of the objective function, which is not the case in our setup. We relax this strong assumption to the case when the objective function is locally Lipschitz continuous, which is another contribution of this paper.     

Caching and optimized request routing in cloud-based content delivery systems

Geographically distributed cloud platforms enable an attractive approach to large-scale content delivery. Storage at various sites can be dynamically acquired from (and released back to) the cloud provider so as to support content caching, according to the current demands for the content from the different geographic regions. When storage is sufficiently expensive that not all content should be cached at all sites, two issues must be addressed: how should requests for content be routed to the cloud provider sites, and what policy should be used for caching content using the elastic storage resources obtained from the cloud provider. Existing approaches are typically designed for non-elastic storage and little is known about the optimal policies when minimizing the delivery costs for distributed elastic storage.In this paper, we propose an approach in which elastic storage resources are exploited using a simple dynamic caching policy, while request routing is updated periodically according to the solution of an optimization model. Use of pull-based dynamic caching, rather than push-based placement, provides robustness to unpredicted changes in request rates. We show that this robustness is provided at low cost. Even with fixed request rates, use of the dynamic caching policy typically yields content delivery cost within 10% of that with the optimal static placement. We compare request routing according to our optimization model to simpler baseline routing policies, and find that the baseline policies can yield greatly increased delivery cost relative to optimized routing. Finally, we present a lower-cost approximate solution algorithm for our routing optimization problem that yields content delivery cost within 2.5% of the optimal solution.     

基于MIKE Flood的中小河流溃堤洪水演进数值模拟

针对水文资料缺乏的中小河流,以贵溪市罗塘河下游段为例,应用MIKE软件对河流溃堤洪水演进进行了研究。采用瞬时单位线法推求断面各频率的设计洪水,并将其作为洪水演进模型的输入;利用MIKE软件建立了贵溪市罗塘河下游段的一、二维耦合水动力模型,对该河下游段溃堤洪水演进过程进行了模拟;通过模拟分析,得到了溃口流量过程和堤防保护区洪水淹没过程。研究成果可为中小河流洪水风险分析和灾害损失评估提供技术支撑。     

A DFT study on the physical adsorption of cyclophosphamide derivatives on the surface of fullerene C60 nanocage

The physical sorption of a series of cyclophosphamide drug derivatives with formula

where x = 2, X = F (2), Cl (3), Br (4); x = 3, X = F (5), Cl (6), Br (7) and x = 4, X = F (8), Cl (9), Br (10) on the surface of fullerene C₆₀ was studied using density functional theory (DFT) at B3LYP and B3PW91 levels. The most negative binding energies obtained using the B3LYP approach and corrected for geometrical BSSE and dispersion energies (gCP-D3-ΔE_binding) were measured for compounds 8 (among isolated drugs) and 13 (among complexes). The dipole moments of isolated drugs were obtained close to those of their complexes with C₆₀ (∼4.0–5.5 Debye) indicating their hydrophililic nature that is an appropriate property appealing for drug delivery in biological media. The adsorption of all drugs on the surface of fullerene was endergonic with all of the ΔG_adsorption > 0. The ΔH_adsorption values at B3PW91 level were only negative for complexes 14–16 indicating their exothermic adsorption nature. The HOMO–LUMO band gaps of complexes 11–19 were about 2.7 eV and are comparable with the gap in C₆₀ but are much smaller than the gaps in isolated drugs 2–10 (6.5–8.0 eV) reflecting the increase in electrical conductivities upon complexation. The QTAIM data supported the covalent character of the C–O, C–N and N–H bonds, the intermediate character of PO, P–O and P–N bonds while the electrostatic nature of PO…C(fullerene) interactions. According to the gCP-D3-ΔE_binding binding energies and ΔH_adsorption values at B3LYP level, it seems that the complexes 12 and 13 can be the most promising prodrug + carrier delivery systems.

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A data porting tool for coupling models with different discretization needs

The presented work is part of a larger research program dealing with developing tools for coupling biogeochemical models in contaminated landscapes. The specific objective of this article is to provide researchers with a data porting tool to build hexagonal raster using information from a rectangular raster data (e.g. GIS format). This tool involves a computational algorithm and an open source software (written in C). The method of extending the reticulated functions defined on 2D networks is an essential key of this algorithm and can also be used for other purposes than data porting. The algorithm allows one to build the hexagonal raster with a cell size independent from the geometry of the rectangular raster. The extended function is a bi-cubic spline which can exactly reconstruct polynomials up to degree three in each variable. We validate the method by analyzing errors in some theoretical case studies followed by other studies with real terrain elevation data. We also introduce and briefly present an iterative water routing method and use it for validation on a case with concrete terrain data.     

LBMBS： A Load-Balanced Moveable Bubble Scheme for Tori Interconnection Networks

Moveable bubble flow control is an efficient technique to avoid deadlock for torus networks. However, it does not take into consideration the load balance feature. Therefore, this leads to inefficient resources utilization. Moreover, packets may be discarded due to the congestion of a network area. On the other hand, there are other algorithms that consider load balancing such as rHALB （r hop adaptive load-balanced）routing technique. Nonetheless, rHALB detects deadlock using the timeout threshold. This concept of deadlock detection may give incorrect responses in case the traffic is high. Therefore, packets are dropped although there is no deadlock. At the end, this affects the whole performance of the network. This paper proposes a new routing algorithm for tori interconnection networks, namely, the LBMBS （load-balanced moveable bubble scheme）. LBMBS integrates both concepts of moveable bubble and rHALB in order to provide at the end a load-balanced efficient deadlock-free algorithm. The protocol details are given and compared against other routing algorithms in the literature.     

基于贪婪路由协议的动态单/多链路故障恢复策略

针对现有的贪婪方法不能有效处理拓扑结构中链路故障的问题,提出单链路故障和多链路故障本地化恢复策略。首先,通过利用克莱因伯格的贪婪嵌入给出单链路故障恢复策略;然后,将其扩展到多链路故障的情况;最后,在基于Python/C++的仿真环境下对提出的技术进行评估。实验结果表明,该技术仅需要非常有限的资源,且造成的路由质量损耗也有限,可以实现快速切换,可依网络生成树中链路数目扩展。该技术的可扩展性、简单性和低开销使其适合于大型网络。     

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