Algebraic side-channel attacks are a type of side-channel analysis which can recover the secret information with a small number of samples (e.g., power traces). However, this type of side-channel analysis is sensitive to measurement errors which may make the attacks fail. In this paper, we propose a new method of algebraic side-channel attacks which considers noisy leakages as integers restrict...

Energy harvesting capabilities enable totally untethered operation of mobile and ubiquitous systems for extended periods of time without requiring battery replacement. This paper examines technical issues with solar energy harvesting. First, maximum power point tracking (MPPT) techniques are compared in terms of solar cell model, tracking source, and controller style. For energy harvesting in c...

The recent availability of cheap Beowulf clusters has generated much interest for Parallel and Distributed Evolutionary Computations (PDEC) [1]. Another often neglected source of CPU power for PDEC are networks of PCs, in many case very powerful workstations, that run idle each day for long periods of time. To exploit efficiently both Beowulfs and networks of heterogeneous workstations we argue...

Purpose The outbreak and the spreading of COVID-19 pandemic have impacted global financial sector, including alternative clean renewable energy sector. This paper aims to assess impact pandemic, on stock market indices sector using quantile regression methods. Design/methodology/approach study utilized daily data sets four major categories stocks: (1) Morgan Stanley Capital International Global...

The relational model developed for the Integrated Relational Model of Installed Systems (IRMIS) toolkit has been successfully used to capture the Advanced Photon Source (APS) control system software (EPICS process variables and their definitions). The relational tables are populated by a crawler script that parses each Input/Output Controller (IOC) start-up file when an IOC reboot is detected. ...

This paper makes two main contributions: (1) we define an experiment design and analysis approach that can be adapted to determine relative importance and best settings for control parameters in any evolutionary computation algorithm and (2) we determine the relative importance and best settings for the control parameters of a classic genetic algorithm (GA). We plan to use these control setting...

Mirai is botnet which targets out-of-date Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. The disruptive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack last year has hit major Internet companies, causing intermittent service for millions of Internet users. Since the affected devices typically do not support firmware update, it becomes challenging to expel these vulnerable devices in the wild. Both industry and ...

Microreboots restart fine-grained components of software systems " with a clean slate, " and only take a fraction of the time needed for full system reboot. Microreboots provide an application-generic recovery technique for In-ternet services, which can be supported entirely in middle-ware and requires no changes to the applications or any a priori knowledge of application semantics. This paper...

Patching, upgrading, and maintaining operating system software is a growing management complexity problem that can result in unacceptable system downtime. We introduce AutoPod, a system that enables unscheduled operating system updates while preserving application service availability. AutoPod provides a group of processes and associated users with an isolated machineindependent virtualized env...

The evolvable avionics systems such as the X2000 at NASA/JPL are able to have software upgrades during a long-life mission for dependability, performance and functionality improvement (we call it “on-board software upgrade”) [1]. While evolvability itself can be viewed as on-board perfective maintenance, it necessitates preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance for eliminating or mitiga...