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2020-01-20
Wu, Di, Chen, Tianen, Chen, Chienfu, Ahia, Oghenefego, Miguel, Joshua San, Lipasti, Mikko, Kim, Younghyun.  2019.  SECO: A Scalable Accuracy Approximate Exponential Function Via Cross-Layer Optimization. 2019 IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED). :1–6.

From signal processing to emerging deep neural networks, a range of applications exhibit intrinsic error resilience. For such applications, approximate computing opens up new possibilities for energy-efficient computing by producing slightly inaccurate results using greatly simplified hardware. Adopting this approach, a variety of basic arithmetic units, such as adders and multipliers, have been effectively redesigned to generate approximate results for many error-resilient applications.In this work, we propose SECO, an approximate exponential function unit (EFU). Exponentiation is a key operation in many signal processing applications and more importantly in spiking neuron models, but its energy-efficient implementation has been inadequately explored. We also introduce a cross-layer design method for SECO to optimize the energy-accuracy trade-off. At the algorithm level, SECO offers runtime scaling between energy efficiency and accuracy based on approximate Taylor expansion, where the error is minimized by optimizing parameters using discrete gradient descent at design time. At the circuit level, our error analysis method efficiently explores the design space to select the energy-accuracy-optimal approximate multiplier at design time. In tandem, the cross-layer design and runtime optimization method are able to generate energy-efficient and accurate approximate EFU designs that are up to 99.7% accurate at a power consumption of 3.73 pJ per exponential operation. SECO is also evaluated on the adaptive exponential integrate-and-fire neuron model, yielding only 0.002% timing error and 0.067% value error compared to the precise neuron model.

2020-01-13
Hu, Jizhou, Qu, Hemi, Guo, Wenlan, Chang, Ye, Pang, Wei, Duan, Xuexin.  2019.  Film Bulk Acoustic Wave Resonator for Trace Chemical Warfare Agents Simulants Detection in Micro Chromatography. 2019 20th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems Eurosensors XXXIII (TRANSDUCERS EUROSENSORS XXXIII). :45–48.
This paper reported the polymer coated film bulk acoustic resonators (FBAR) as a sensitive detector in micro chromatography for the detection of trace chemical warfare agents (CWA) simulants. The FBAR sensor was enclosed in a microfluidic channel and then coupled with microfabricated separation column. The subsequent chromatographic analysis successfully demonstrated the detection of parts per billion (ppb) concentrations of chemical warfare agents (CWAs) simulants in a five components gas mixture. This work represented an important step toward the realization of FBAR based handheld micro chromatography for CWA detection in the field.
2019-12-30
Dewoprabowo, Ridhwan, Arzaki, Muhammad, Rusmawati, Yanti.  2018.  Formal Verification of Divide and Conquer Key Distribution Protocol Using ProVerif and TLA+. 2018 International Conference on Advanced Computer Science and Information Systems (ICACSIS). :451-458.

We conduct formal verification of the divide and conquer key distribution scheme (DC DHKE)-a contributory group key agreement that uses a quasilinear amount of exponentiations with respect to the number of communicating parties. The verification is conducted using both ProVerif and TLA+ as tools. ProVerif is used to verify the protocol correctness as well as its security against passive attacker; while TLA+ is utilized to verify whether all participants in the protocol retrieve the mutual key simultaneously. We also verify the ING and GDH.3 protocol for comparative purposes. The verification results show that the ING, GDH.3, and DC DHKE protocols satisfy the pre-meditated correctness, security, and liveness properties. However, the GDH.3 protocol does not satisfy the liveness property stating that all participants obtain the mutual key at the same time.

2019-12-05
Hayashi, Masahito.  2018.  Secure Physical Layer Network Coding versus Secure Network Coding. 2018 IEEE Information Theory Workshop (ITW). :1-5.

Secure network coding realizes the secrecy of the message when the message is transmitted via noiseless network and a part of edges or a part of intermediate nodes are eavesdropped. In this framework, if the channels of the network has noise, we apply the error correction to noisy channel before applying the secure network coding. In contrast, secure physical layer network coding is a method to securely transmit a message by a combination of coding operation on nodes when the network is given as a set of noisy channels. In this paper, we give several examples of network, in which, secure physical layer network coding realizes a performance that cannot be realized by secure network coding.

2019-11-25
Kışlal, Ahmet Oguz, Pusane, Ali Emre, Tuğcu, Tuna.  2018.  A comparative analysis of channel coding for molecular communication. 2018 26th Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU). :1–4.
Networks established among nanomachines, also called nanonetworks, are crucial since, a single nanomachine most likely cannot handle task by itself. At the nano scale, electromagnetic waves lose their effectiveness. Molecular communication via diffusion (MCvD) is a new concept that aims to solve this problem. Information is carried out by either the type of molecules, or their concentration. The robustness of this communication method, as in the example of classical communication, is very important. Channel coding is the component that make communication less erroneous. If the desired error performance is high, channel coding is mandatory. In this paper, the performance of Bose-Chaudhuri-Hocquenghem (BCH) and Reed-Solomon (RS) codes for MCvD are evaluated by simulation and results are analyzed.
2019-08-05
Severson, T., Rodriguez-Seda, E., Kiriakidis, K., Croteau, B., Krishnankutty, D., Robucci, R., Patel, C., Banerjee, N..  2018.  Trust-Based Framework for Resilience to Sensor-Targeted Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems. 2018 Annual American Control Conference (ACC). :6499-6505.

Networked control systems improve the efficiency of cyber-physical plants both functionally, by the availability of data generated even in far-flung locations, and operationally, by the adoption of standard protocols. A side-effect, however, is that now the safety and stability of a local process and, in turn, of the entire plant are more vulnerable to malicious agents. Leveraging the communication infrastructure, the authors here present the design of networked control systems with built-in resilience. Specifically, the paper addresses attacks known as false data injections that originate within compromised sensors. In the proposed framework for closed-loop control, the feedback signal is constructed by weighted consensus of estimates of the process state gathered from other interconnected processes. Observers are introduced to generate the state estimates from the local data. Side-channel monitors are attached to each primary sensor in order to assess proper code execution. These monitors provide estimates of the trust assigned to each observer output and, more importantly, independent of it; these estimates serve as weights in the consensus algorithm. The authors tested the concept on a multi-sensor networked physical experiment with six primary sensors. The weighted consensus was demonstrated to yield a feedback signal within specified accuracy even if four of the six primary sensors were injecting false data.

2019-06-28
Kulik, T., Tran-Jørgensen, P. W. V., Boudjadar, J., Schultz, C..  2018.  A Framework for Threat-Driven Cyber Security Verification of IoT Systems. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Software Testing, Verification and Validation Workshops (ICSTW). :89-97.

Industrial control systems are changing from monolithic to distributed and interconnected architectures, entering the era of industrial IoT. One fundamental issue is that security properties of such distributed control systems are typically only verified empirically, during development and after system deployment. We propose a novel modelling framework for the security verification of distributed industrial control systems, with the goal of moving towards early design stage formal verification. In our framework we model industrial IoT infrastructures, attack patterns, and mitigation strategies for countering attacks. We conduct model checking-based formal analysis of system security through scenario execution, where the analysed system is exposed to attacks and implement mitigation strategies. We study the applicability of our framework for large systems using a scalability analysis.

2019-05-01
Berjab, N., Le, H. H., Yu, C., Kuo, S., Yokota, H..  2018.  Hierarchical Abnormal-Node Detection Using Fuzzy Logic for ECA Rule-Based Wireless Sensor Networks. 2018 IEEE 23rd Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing (PRDC). :289-298.

The Internet of things (IoT) is a distributed, networked system composed of many embedded sensor devices. Unfortunately, these devices are resource constrained and susceptible to malicious data-integrity attacks and failures, leading to unreliability and sometimes to major failure of parts of the entire system. Intrusion detection and failure handling are essential requirements for IoT security. Nevertheless, as far as we know, the area of data-integrity detection for IoT has yet to receive much attention. Most previous intrusion-detection methods proposed for IoT, particularly for wireless sensor networks (WSNs), focus only on specific types of network attacks. Moreover, these approaches usually rely on using precise values to specify abnormality thresholds. However, sensor readings are often imprecise and crisp threshold values are inappropriate. To guarantee a lightweight, dependable monitoring system, we propose a novel hierarchical framework for detecting abnormal nodes in WSNs. The proposed approach uses fuzzy logic in event-condition-action (ECA) rule-based WSNs to detect malicious nodes, while also considering failed nodes. The spatiotemporal semantics of heterogeneous sensor readings are considered in the decision process to distinguish malicious data from other anomalies. Following our experiments with the proposed framework, we stress the significance of considering the sensor correlations to achieve detection accuracy, which has been neglected in previous studies. Our experiments using real-world sensor data demonstrate that our approach can provide high detection accuracy with low false-alarm rates. We also show that our approach performs well when compared to two well-known classification algorithms.

2019-03-15
Xue, M., Bian, R., Wang, J., Liu, W..  2018.  A Co-Training Based Hardware Trojan Detection Technique by Exploiting Unlabeled ICs and Inaccurate Simulation Models. 2018 17th IEEE International Conference On Trust, Security And Privacy In Computing And Communications/ 12th IEEE International Conference On Big Data Science And Engineering (TrustCom/BigDataSE). :1452-1457.

Integrated circuits (ICs) are becoming vulnerable to hardware Trojans. Most of existing works require golden chips to provide references for hardware Trojan detection. However, a golden chip is extremely difficult to obtain. In previous work, we have proposed a classification-based golden chips-free hardware Trojan detection technique. However, the algorithm in the previous work are trained by simulated ICs without considering that there may be a shift which occurs between the simulation and the silicon fabrication. It is necessary to learn from actual silicon fabrication in order to obtain an accurate and effective classification model. We propose a co-training based hardware Trojan detection technique exploiting unlabeled fabricated ICs and inaccurate simulation models, to provide reliable detection capability when facing fabricated ICs, while eliminating the need of fabricated golden chips. First, we train two classification algorithms using simulated ICs. During test-time, the two algorithms can identify different patterns in the unlabeled ICs, and thus be able to label some of these ICs for the further training of the another algorithm. Moreover, we use a statistical examination to choose ICs labeling for the another algorithm in order to help prevent a degradation in performance due to the increased noise in the labeled ICs. We also use a statistical technique for combining the hypotheses from the two classification algorithms to obtain the final decision. The theoretical basis of why the co-training method can work is also described. Experiment results on benchmark circuits show that the proposed technique can detect unknown Trojans with high accuracy (92% 97%) and recall (88% 95%).

Ye, J., Yang, Y., Gong, Y., Hu, Y., Li, X..  2018.  Grey Zone in Pre-Silicon Hardware Trojan Detection. 2018 IEEE International Test Conference in Asia (ITC-Asia). :79-84.

Pre-Silicon hardware Trojan detection has been studied for years. The most popular benchmark circuits are from the Trust-Hub. Their common feature is that the probability of activating hardware Trojans is very low. This leads to a series of machine learning based hardware Trojan detection methods which try to find the nets with low signal probability of 0 or 1. On the other hand, it is considered that, if the probability of activating hardware Trojans is high, these hardware Trojans can be easily found through behaviour simulations or during functional test. This paper explores the "grey zone" between these two opposite scenarios: if the activation probability of a hardware Trojan is not low enough for machine learning to detect it and is not high enough for behaviour simulation or functional test to find it, it can escape from detection. Experiments show the existence of such hardware Trojans, and this paper suggests a new set of hardware Trojan benchmark circuits for future study.

2019-03-06
Man, Y., Ding, L., Xiaoguo, Z..  2018.  Nonlinear System Identification Method Based on Improved Deep Belief Network. 2018 Chinese Automation Congress (CAC). :2379-2383.

Accurate model is very important for the control of nonlinear system. The traditional identification method based on shallow BP network is easy to fall into local optimal solution. In this paper, a modeling method for nonlinear system based on improved Deep Belief Network (DBN) is proposed. Continuous Restricted Boltzmann Machine (CRBM) is used as the first layer of the DBN, so that the network can more effectively deal with the actual data collected from the real systems. Then, the unsupervised training and supervised tuning were combine to improve the accuracy of identification. The simulation results show that the proposed method has a higher identification accuracy. Finally, this improved algorithm is applied to identification of diameter model of silicon single crystal and the simulation results prove its excellent ability of parameters identification.

2019-02-08
Zou, Z., Wang, D., Yang, H., Hou, Y., Yang, Y., Xu, W..  2018.  Research on Risk Assessment Technology of Industrial Control System Based on Attack Graph. 2018 IEEE 3rd Advanced Information Technology, Electronic and Automation Control Conference (IAEAC). :2420-2423.

In order to evaluate the network security risks and implement effective defenses in industrial control system, a risk assessment method for industrial control systems based on attack graphs is proposed. Use the concept of network security elements to translate network attacks into network state migration problems and build an industrial control network attack graph model. In view of the current subjective evaluation of expert experience, the atomic attack probability assignment method and the CVSS evaluation system were introduced to evaluate the security status of the industrial control system. Finally, taking the centralized control system of the thermal power plant as the experimental background, the case analysis is performed. The experimental results show that the method can comprehensively analyze the potential safety hazards in the industrial control system and provide basis for the safety management personnel to take effective defense measures.

2018-08-23
Ziegler, A., Luisier, M..  2017.  Phonon confinement effects in diffusive quantum transport simulations with the effective mass approximation and k·p method. 2017 International Conference on Simulation of Semiconductor Processes and Devices (SISPAD). :25–28.

Despite the continuous shrinking of the transistor dimensions, advanced modeling tools going beyond the ballistic limit of transport are still critically needed to ensure accurate device investigations. For that purpose we present here a straight-forward approach to include phonon confinement effects into dissipative quantum transport calculations based on the effective mass approximation (EMA) and the k·p method. The idea is to scale the magnitude of the deformation potentials describing the electron-phonon coupling to obtain the same low-field mobility as with full-band simulations and confined phonons. This technique is validated by demonstrating that after adjusting the mobility value of n- and p-type silicon nanowire transistors, the resulting EMA and k·p I-V characteristics agree well with those derived from full-band studies.

Keeler, G. A., Campione, S., Wood, M. G., Serkland, D. K., Parameswaran, S., Ihlefeld, J., Luk, T. S., Wendt, J. R., Geib, K. M..  2017.  Reducing optical confinement losses for fast, efficient nanophotonic modulators. 2017 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (SUM). :201–202.

We demonstrate high-speed operation of ultracompact electroabsorption modulators based on epsilon-near-zero confinement in indium oxide (In$_\textrm2$$_\textrm3$\$) on silicon using field-effect carrier density tuning. Additionally, we discuss strategies to enhance modulator performance and reduce confinement-related losses by introducing high-mobility conducting oxides such as cadmium oxide (CdO).

2018-06-20
Jiao, L., Yin, H., Guo, D., Lyu, Y..  2017.  Heterogeneous Malware Spread Process in Star Network. 2017 IEEE 37th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW). :265–269.

The heterogeneous SIS model for virus spread in any finite size graph characterizes the influence of factors of SIS model and could be analyzed by the extended N-Intertwined model introduced in [1]. We specifically focus on the heterogeneous virus spread in the star network in this paper. The epidemic threshold and the average meta-stable state fraction of infected nodes are derived for virus spread in the star network. Our results illustrate the effect of the factors of SIS model on the steady state infection.

2018-06-11
Armstrong, D., Nasri, B., Karri, R., Shahrjerdi, D..  2017.  Hybrid silicon CMOS-carbon nanotube physically unclonable functions. 2017 IEEE SOI-3D-Subthreshold Microelectronics Technology Unified Conference (S3S). :1–3.

Physically unclonable functions (PUFs) are used to uniquely identify electronic devices. Here, we introduce a hybrid silicon CMOS-nanotube PUF circuit that uses the variations of nanotube transistors to generate a random response. An analog silicon circuit subsequently converts the nanotube response to zero or one bits. We fabricate an array of nanotube transistors to study and model their device variability. The behavior of the hybrid CMOS-nanotube PUF is then simulated. The parameters of the analog circuit are tuned to achieve the desired normalized Hamming inter-distance of 0.5. The co-design of the nanotube array and the silicon CMOS is an attractive feature for increasing the immunity of the hybrid PUF against an unauthorized duplication. The heterogeneous integration of nanotubes with silicon CMOS offers a new strategy for realizing security tokens that are strong, low-cost, and reliable.

Cai, Y., Huang, H., Cai, H., Qi, Y..  2017.  A K-nearest neighbor locally search regression algorithm for short-term traffic flow forecasting. 2017 9th International Conference on Modelling, Identification and Control (ICMIC). :624–629.

Accurate short-term traffic flow forecasting is of great significance for real-time traffic control, guidance and management. The k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) model is a classic data-driven method which is relatively effective yet simple to implement for short-term traffic flow forecasting. For conventional prediction mechanism of k-NN model, the k nearest neighbors' outputs weighted by similarities between the current traffic flow vector and historical traffic flow vectors is directly used to generate prediction values, so that the prediction results are always not ideal. It is observed that there are always some outliers in k nearest neighbors' outputs, which may have a bad influences on the prediction value, and the local similarities between current traffic flow and historical traffic flows at the current sampling period should have a greater relevant to the prediction value. In this paper, we focus on improving the prediction mechanism of k-NN model and proposed a k-nearest neighbor locally search regression algorithm (k-LSR). The k-LSR algorithm can use locally search strategy to search for optimal nearest neighbors' outputs and use optimal nearest neighbors' outputs weighted by local similarities to forecast short-term traffic flow so as to improve the prediction mechanism of k-NN model. The proposed algorithm is tested on the actual data and compared with other algorithms in performance. We use the root mean squared error (RMSE) as the evaluation indicator. The comparison results show that the k-LSR algorithm is more successful than the k-NN and k-nearest neighbor locally weighted regression algorithm (k-LWR) in forecasting short-term traffic flow, and which prove the superiority and good practicability of the proposed algorithm.

Zeng, J., Dong, L., Wu, Y., Chen, H., Li, C., Wang, S..  2017.  Privacy-Preserving and Multi-Dimensional Range Query in Two-Tiered Wireless Sensor Networks. GLOBECOM 2017 - 2017 IEEE Global Communications Conference. :1–7.

With the advancement of sensor electronic devices, wireless sensor networks have attracted more and more attention. Range query has become a significant part of sensor networks due to its availability and convenience. However, It is challenging to process range query while still protecting sensitive data from disclosure. Existing work mainly focuses on privacy- preserving range query, but neglects the damage of collusion attacks, probability attacks and differential attacks. In this paper, we propose a privacy- preserving, energy-efficient and multi-dimensional range query protocol called PERQ, which not only achieves data privacy, but also considers collusion attacks, probability attacks and differential attacks. Generalized distance-based and modular arithmetic range query mechanism are used. In addition, a novel cyclic modular verification scheme is proposed to verify the data integrity. Extensive theoretical analysis and experimental results confirm the high performance of PERQ in terms of energy efficiency, security and accountability requirements.

Chen, X., Qu, G., Cui, A., Dunbar, C..  2017.  Scan chain based IP fingerprint and identification. 2017 18th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). :264–270.

Digital fingerprinting refers to as method that can assign each copy of an intellectual property (IP) a distinct fingerprint. It was introduced for the purpose of protecting legal and honest IP users. The unique fingerprint can be used to identify the IP or a chip that contains the IP. However, existing fingerprinting techniques are not practical due to expensive cost of creating fingerprints and the lack of effective methods to verify the fingerprints. In the paper, we study a practical scan chain based fingerprinting method, where the digital fingerprint is generated by selecting the Q-SD or Q'-SD connection during the design of scan chains. This method has two major advantages. First, fingerprints are created as a post-silicon procedure and therefore there will be little fabrication overhead. Second, altering the Q-SD or Q'-SD connection style requires the modification of test vectors for each fingerprinted IP in order to maintain the fault coverage. This enables us to verify the fingerprint by inspecting the test vectors without opening up the chip to check the Q-SD or Q'-SD connection styles. We perform experiment on standard benchmarks to demonstrate that our approach has low design overhead. We also conduct security analysis to show that such fingerprints are robust against various attacks.

2018-06-07
Yang, L., Murmann, B..  2017.  SRAM voltage scaling for energy-efficient convolutional neural networks. 2017 18th International Symposium on Quality Electronic Design (ISQED). :7–12.

State-of-the-art convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) are now able to achieve near human performance on a wide range of classification tasks. Unfortunately, current hardware implementations of ConvNets are memory power intensive, prohibiting deployment in low-power embedded systems and IoE platforms. One method of reducing memory power is to exploit the error resilience of ConvNets and accept bit errors under reduced supply voltages. In this paper, we extensively study the effectiveness of this idea and show that further savings are possible by injecting bit errors during ConvNet training. Measurements on an 8KB SRAM in 28nm UTBB FD-SOI CMOS demonstrate supply voltage reduction of 310mV, which results in up to 5.4× leakage power reduction and up to 2.9× memory access power reduction at 99% of floating-point classification accuracy, with no additional hardware cost. To our knowledge, this is the first silicon-validated study on the effect of bit errors in ConvNets.

2018-05-09
Wang, Z., Hu, H., Zhang, C..  2017.  On achieving SDN controller diversity for improved network security using coloring algorithm. 2017 3rd IEEE International Conference on Computer and Communications (ICCC). :1270–1275.

The SDN (Software Defined Networking) paradigm rings flexibility to the network management and is an enabler to offer huge opportunities for network programmability. And, to solve the scalability issue raised by the centralized architecture of SDN, multi-controllers deployment (or distributed controllers system) is envisioned. In this paper, we focus on increasing the diversity of SDN control plane so as to enhance the network security. Our goal is to limit the ability of a malicious controller to compromise its neighboring controllers, and by extension, the rest of the controllers. We investigate a heterogeneous Susceptible-Infectious-Susceptible (SIS) epidemic model to evaluate the security performance and propose a coloring algorithm to increase the diversity based on community detection. And the simulation results demonstrate that our algorithm can reduce infection rate in control plane and our work shows that diversity must be introduced in network design for network security.

2018-05-02
Menezes, B. A. M., Wrede, F., Kuchen, H., Neto, F. B. de Lima.  2017.  Parameter selection for swarm intelligence algorithms \#x2014; Case study on parallel implementation of FSS. 2017 IEEE Latin American Conference on Computational Intelligence (LA-CCI). :1–6.

Swarm Intelligence (SI) algorithms, such as Fish School Search (FSS), are well known as useful tools that can be used to achieve a good solution in a reasonable amount of time for complex optimization problems. And when problems increase in size and complexity, some increase in population size or number of iterations might be needed in order to achieve a good solution. In extreme cases, the execution time can be huge and other approaches, such as parallel implementations, might help to reduce it. This paper investigates the relation and trade off involving these three aspects in SI algorithms, namely population size, number of iterations, and problem complexity. The results with a parallel implementations of FSS show that increasing the population size is beneficial for finding good solutions. However, we observed an asymptotic behavior of the results, i.e. increasing the population over a certain threshold only leads to slight improvements.

2018-04-02
Doynikova, E., Kotenko, I..  2017.  CVSS-Based Probabilistic Risk Assessment for Cyber Situational Awareness and Countermeasure Selection. 2017 25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing (PDP). :346–353.

The paper suggests several techniques for computer network risk assessment based on Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and attack modeling. Techniques use a set of integrated security metrics and consider input data from security information and event management (SIEM) systems. Risk assessment techniques differ according to the used input data. They allow to get risk assessment considering requirements to the accuracy and efficiency. Input data includes network characteristics, attacks, attacker characteristics, security events and countermeasures. The tool that implements these techniques is presented. Experiments demonstrate operation of the techniques for different security situations.

2018-02-15
Sheppard, J. W., Strasser, S..  2017.  A factored evolutionary optimization approach to Bayesian abductive inference for multiple-fault diagnosis. 2017 IEEE AUTOTESTCON. :1–10.

When supporting commercial or defense systems, a perennial challenge is providing effective test and diagnosis strategies to minimize downtime, thereby maximizing system availability. Potentially one of the most effective ways to maximize downtime is to be able to detect and isolate as many faults in a system at one time as possible. This is referred to as the "multiple-fault diagnosis" problem. While several tools have been developed over the years to assist in performing multiple-fault diagnosis, considerable work remains to provide the best diagnosis possible. Recently, a new model for evolutionary computation has been developed called the "Factored Evolutionary Algorithm" (FEA). In this paper, we combine our prior work in deriving diagnostic Bayesian networks from static fault isolation manuals and fault trees with the FEA strategy to perform abductive inference as a way of addressing the multiple-fault diagnosis problem. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach on several networks derived from existing, real-world FIMs.

2018-02-06
Nojoumian, M., Golchubian, A., Saputro, N., Akkaya, K..  2017.  Preventing Collusion between SDN Defenders Anc Attackers Using a Game Theoretical Approach. 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS). :802–807.

In this paper, a game-theoretical solution concept is utilized to tackle the collusion attack in a SDN-based framework. In our proposed setting, the defenders (i.e., switches) are incentivized not to collude with the attackers in a repeated-game setting that utilizes a reputation system. We first illustrate our model and its components. We then use a socio-rational approach to provide a new anti-collusion solution that shows cooperation with the SDN controller is always Nash Equilibrium due to the existence of a long-term utility function in our model.