We present a new protocol for reliable delivery of messages over a network that might lose, duplicate, reorder, or arbitrarily delay packets. It is the first protocol that guarantees exactly-once and ordered delivery on a connection while avoiding precursory handshakes. Avoiding handshakes reduces the overhead for sending small, intermittent messages as in remote procedure calls and protocols l...

Data transfer between arbitrary asynchronous clock domains is complicated, and practical solutions can be subject to synchronisation failure. But many practical systems use quotient frequencies and the direct conversion method (DCM) exploits this to achieve reliable data transfer without any handshaking. DCM minimises throughput, even between distant cores, is provably correct and has been asse...

Network protocols that provide efficient, reliable, and totally-ordered message delivery to large numbers of users will be needed to support many future Internet applications. The Reliable Multicast Protocol (aMP) is implemented on top ofIP multicast [14] to facilitate reliable transfer of data for replicated databases and groupware applications that will emerge on the Internet over the next de...

Abstract Several cybersecurity domains, such as ransomware detection, forensics and data analysis, require methods to reliably identify encrypted fragments. Typically, current approaches employ statistics derived from byte-level distribution, entropy estimation, However, modern content types use compression techniques which alter distribution pushing it closer the uniform distribution. The resu...