2020

Enabling optimal access and error correction for the repair of Reed-Solomon codes

Zitan Chen, Min Ye, Alexander Barg

Reed-Solomon codes possess a repair scheme that supports repair of failed nodes with optimal repair bandwidth. This paper extends this result in two directions.

arXiv.org

2020

Real-Time Reconstruction of a Counting Process through First-Come-First-Serve Queue Systems

Meng Wang, Wei Chen, Anthony Ephremides

One of the most critical problems for the emerging Internet of Things is the real-time remote reconstruction of ongoing signals (or their functions) from a set of measurements that are under-sampled and delayed in the network. The authors address this problem under three special sampling policies.

IEEE Transactions on Information Theory

Optimal Sampling Cost in Wireless Networks with Age of Information Constraints

Emmanouil Fountoulakis, Nikolaos Pappas, Marian Codreanu, Anthony Ephremides

Considers the problem of minimizing the time average cost of sampling and transmitting status updates by users over a wireless channel subject to average Age of Information constraints. A stochastic optimization problem is formulated and solved with a dynamic algorithm that takes decisions in a slot-by-slot basis.

arXiv.org

Non-Linear Age of Information in a Discrete Time Queue: Stationary Distribution and Average Performance Analysis

Antzela Kosta, Nikolaos Pappas, Anthony Ephremides, Vangelis Angelakis

Investigates a sample path of the age of information (AoI) stochastic process and provides a general framework that establishes a relation among the AoI, the system delay, and the peak AoI. The aim is to be able to analyze any non-linear function of AoI and provide a wide range of potential uses of information ageing depending on the application.

arXiv.org

Status Updates with Priorities: Lexicographic Optimality

Ali Maatouk, Yin Sun, Anthony Ephremides, Mohamad Assaad

Introduces the idea of lex-age-optimality that captures both age-optimality and the order of time-cruciality betweeen streams in a general multi-class priority-based scheduling scenario.

Laboratoire des Signaux & Systemes, L2S Central Supelec, France

On the Optimality of the Whittle’s Index Policy for Minimizing the Age of Information

Ali Maatouk, Saad Kriouile, Mohamad Assaad, Tony Ephremides

The authors prove that the Whittle’s index policy is age-optimal for the general asymmetrical case in the burgeoning many-users regime of Internet of Things interconnected devices.

arXiv.org

2019

Bandwidth Partition and Allocation for Efficient Spectrum Utilization in Cognitive Communications

Song Huang, Di Yuan, Anthony Ephremides

This article related to spectrum scarcity studies bandwidth partition and allocation to optimize spectrum utilitzation in cognitive communications under the interweave paradigm.

IEEE Journal of Communications & Networks

2019

Multi-Corpus Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion

Nadee Seneviratne, Ganesh Sivaraman, Carol Espy-Wilson

This paper proposes a multi-corpus speech inversion system for automatic speech recognition, pronounciation training and speech therapy.

Interspeech 2019

Assessing Neuromotor Coordination in Depression Using Inverted Vocal Tract Variables

Carol Espy-Wilson, Adam Lammert, Nadee Seneviratne, Thomas Quatieri

A new articulary inversion process provides a potentially powerful way of detecting depression based on speech patterns.

Interspeech 2019

Multi-modal learning for speech emotion recognition: An analysis and comparison of ASR outputs with ground truth transcription

Saurabh Sahu, Vikramjit Mitra, Nadee Seneviratne, Carol Espy-Wilson

The paper leverages multi-modal learning and automated speech recognition (ASR) systems toward building a speech-only emotion recognition model.

Interspeech 2019

2019

Low-Frequency Compensated Synthetic Impulse Responses for Improved Far-Field Speech Recognition

Zhenyu Tang, Hsien-Yu Meng, Dinesh Manocha

This paper proposes a method for generating low-frequency compensated synthetic impulse responses that improve the performance of automatic speech recognition, lowering word error rates. This method generates more realistic synthetic IRs with low-frequency compensation for far-field ASR training.

2020

Queing Subject to Action-Dependent Server Performance: Utilization Rate Reduction

Michael Lin, Nuno Martins, Richard La

This work expands on stabilizability results recently obtained for a framework to establish methods to design scheduling policies that not only stabilize the queue but also reduce the utilization rate—understood as the infinite-horizon time-averaged expected portion of time the server is working.

arXiv.org

2020

VoltJockey: Breaking SGX by Software-Controlled Voltage-Induced Hardware Faults

Pengfei Qiu, Dongsheng Wang, Yongqiang Lyu, Gang Qu

Intel software-guard extensions (SGX) allows applications to run in a trusted space (enclave), which provides a highly secure primitive for the running codes and data. The authors propose the first fault injection attack to break SGX by using voltage-induced hardware faults.

voltjockey.com

2019

VoltJockey: Breaching TrustZone by Software-ControlledVoltage Manipulation over Multi-Core Frequencies

Pengfei Qiu, Dongsheng Wang, Yongqiang Lyu, Gang Qu

VoltJockey is an innovative software-controlled, hardware fault-based attack on multi-core processors that adopt dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) techniques for energy efficiency.

Proceedings of the 2019 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Physical Unclonable Function-based Key Sharing via Machine Leaning for IoT Security

Jiliang Zhang, Gang Qu

In many Industry Internet of Things (IIoT) applications, resources like CPU, memory, and battery power are limited and cannot afford the classic cryptographic security solutions. Silicon Physical Unclonable Function (PUF) is a lightweight security primitive that exploits manufacturing variations during the chip fabrication process for key generation and/or device authentication. The paper proposes a PUF-based key sharing method for the first time.

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

LEAP: A Lightweight Encryption and Authentication Protocol for In-Vehicle Communications

Zhaojun Lu, Qian Wang, Xi Chen, Gang Qu, Yongqiang Lyu, Zhenglin Liu

Controller Area Network is standard for in-vehicle communications, but attackers can compromise to remotely control vehicles. The researchers have developed a low-cost, high-efficiency encryption and authentication protocol to improve security.

arXiv.org

Pass and Run: A Privacy Preserving Delay Tolerant Network Communication Protocol for CyberVehicles

Zhaojun Lu, Zhenglin Liu, Carson Dunbar, Mingze Gao, Gang Qu

This paper on intelligent transportation systems proposes pass and run protocol for vehicular delay tolerant networks to address vehicle location privacy in communicating with roadside units.

IEEE Design & Test

2020

DRAMsim3: a Cycle-Accurate, Thermal-Capable DRAM Simulator

Ankur Srivastava , Zhiyuan Yang, Bruce Jacob, Shang Li, Dhiraj Reddy

The paper develops DRAMsim3, a successor to the earlier simulator DRAMSim2 developed by Jacob and his two former students Paul Rosenfeld (ECE Ph.D. 2014), and Elliott Cooper-Balis (ECE Ph.D. 2012). It is is a fast, cycle-accurate, validated, thermal-capable DRAM simulator that can simulate and model almost all modern DRAM protocols along with many of their unique features.

IEEE Computer Architecture Letters

2019

Hardware-Software Co-Design Based Obfuscation of Hardware Accelerators

Abhishek Chakraborty and Ankur Srivastava

Paper on hardware-software co-design based obfuscation of hardware accelerators proposes hardware-software co-design based obfuscation approach to render unactivated accelerator chip functionally useless.

IEEE Annual Symposium on VLSI 2019

Energy-efficient Design of MTJ-based Neural Networks with Stochastic Computing

Ankit Mondal, Ankur Srivastava

The research proposes the use of magnetic tunnel junctions as stochastic number generators in an SC-based hardware implementation of neural networks. The proposed algorithm brings about a 40% reduction in energy consumption with less than 1% accuracy loss on the 2-layer MNIST network.

ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems

Keynote: A Disquisition on Logic Locking

Abhishek Chakraborty, Nithyashankari Gummidipoondi Jayasankaran, Yuntao Liu, Jeyavijayan Rajendran, Ozgur Sinanoglu, Ankur Srivastava, Yang Xie, Muhammad Yasin, Michael Zuzak

A survey of the evolution of logic locking and a primer for researchers interested in developing novel techniques in new domains. The authors introduce various “cat and mouse” games involved in logic locking along with its novel applications—including, processor pipelines, graphics-processing units, and analog circuits.

IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems

2020

Who Should Google Scholar Update More Often?

Melih Bastopcu, Sennur Ulukus

If Google can update only a fraction of all researchers, how should it prioritize the updating process? The authors show the updater should allocate its total update capacity to researchers proportional to the square roots of their mean citation rates.

arXiv.org

Age of Information with Gilbert-Elliot Servers and Samplers

Baturalp Buyukates, Sennur Ulukus

This work looks at an information update system in which status update packets are generated by a sampler and sent to a monitor node through a server node. Two scenarios are considered: Gilbert-Elliot service times and i.i.d. interarrival times; and Gilbert-Elliot interarrival times and i.i.d. service times. The authors determined the average age at the monitor node for both scenarios and characterized the age-optimal state transition matrix for the underlying Markov chain with and without an average cost constraint on the operation of the system.

arXiv.org

Partial Updates: Losing Information for Freshness

Melih Bastopcu, Sennur Ulukus

This work considers an information updating system where a source produces updates as requested by a transmitter, and observes a tradeoff between the attained average age and the mutual information between the original and partial updates.

arXiv.org

Who Should Google Scholar Update More Often?

Melih Bastopcu, Sennur Ulukus

This work addresses the problem of optimal operation of a resource-constrained sampler that wishes to track multiple independent counting processes in a way that is as up to date as possible.

arXiv.org

Optimal Selective Encoding for Timely Updates

Melih Bastopcu, Baturalp Buyukates, Sennur Ulukus

The researchers consider a status updating system in which an information source generates independent and identically distributed update packets based on an observed random variable X which takes n values based on a known probability mass function (pmf). The proposed selective policy achieves a lower average age than encoding all the realizations and determine the age-optimal k values for arbitrary pmfs.

arXiv.org

Scaling Laws for Age of Information in Wireless Networks

Baturalp Buyukates, Alkan Soysal, Sennur Ulukus

A study of age of information in a multiple source-multiple destination setting with a focus on its scaling in large wireless networks.

ece.umd.edu

Private Set Intersection: A Multi-Message Symmetric Private Information Retrieval Perspective

Zhusheng Wang, Karim Banawan, Sennur Ulukus

An information theoretic approach to the Private Set Intersection (PSI) problem shows that it can be successfully recast as a multi-message symmetric private information retrieval (MM-SPIR) problem with message size 1.

arXiv.org

2019

Age of Information for Updates with Distortion: Constant and Age-Dependent Distortion Constraints

Melih Bastopcu, Sennur Ulukus

The authors design an information update system that strikes a desired balance between information quality and freshness by solving for the optimum update scheme subject to a desired distortion level.

arXiv.org

Timely Distributed Computation with Stragglers

Baturalp Buyukates, Sennur Ulukus

Investigates the age performance of uncoded and coded computation distribution algorithms and shows that a minimum data set-coded task distribution scheme asymptotically outperforms uncoded and repetition coded schemes.

arXiv.org

Secure Degrees of Freedom in Networks with User Misbehavior

Karim Banawan, Sennur Ulukus

Explores the secure degrees of freedom of three new channel models: broadcast channel with combating helper, interference channel with selfish users, and multiple-access wiretap channel with deviating users. The paper investigates various malicious interactions that arise in networks, including active adversaries, and proves that a deviating user can drive the secure degrees of freedom to zero. However, the remaining users can exploit the intentional jamming signals as cooperative jamming signals against the eavesdropper and achieve an optimum secure degrees of freedom.

Entropy