In a recent paper [1], Zhang and Xiao describe a technique on constructing almost optimal resilient functions on even number of variables. In this paper, we will present an extensive study of the constructions of almost optimal resilient functions by using the generalized MaioranaMcFarland (GMM) construction technique. It is shown that for any given m, it is possible to construct infinitely man...

In this paper, we present a class of 2k-variable balanced Boolean functions and a class of 2k-variable 1-resilient Boolean functions for an integer k ≥ 2, which both have the maximal algebraic degree and very high nonlinearity. Based on a newly proposed conjecture by Tu and Deng, it is shown that the proposed balanced Boolean functions have optimal algebraic immunity and the 1-resilient Boolean...

Understanding and modeling leakage in the context of cryptographic systems (connecting physical protection of keys and cryptographic operation) is an emerging area with many missing issues and hard to understand aspects. In this work we initiate the study of leakage out of cryptographic devices when the operation is inherently replicated in multiple locations. This setting (allowing the adversa...

The problem of communication and computation in the presence of errors is difficult, and general solutions can be time consuming and inflexible (particularly when implemented with a prescribed error detection/correction). A reasonable approach is to investigate reliable communication in carefully selected areas of fundamental interest where specific solutions may be more practical than general ...

We present the design and initial evaluation of a resilient operating system architecture that leverages HW architectures combining few resilient with many non-resilient CPU cores. To this end, we build our system around a Reliable Computing Base (RCB) consisting of those software components that must work for reliable operation, and run the RCB on the resilient cores. The remainder of the syst...

This paper attempts to construct a resilient sensor network model with an example of space weather forecasting. The proposed model is based on a dynamic relational network. Space weather forecasting is vital for a satellite operation because an operational team needs to make a decision for providing its satellite service. The proposed model is resilient to failures of sensors or missing data du...

1. Project Goals ● Develop a resilient cyber-physical control strategy for FREEDM system to secure the energy scheduling and physical operation: ○ Extending to cyber-physical security: Explore possible attacks on both energy scheduling and physical operation, analyze the impacts in terms of economic benefit and system stability. ○ Interaction between cyber/physical layer detection: Investigate ...

The IEEE 802.17 is a standardized ring topology network architecture, called the Resilient Packet Ring (RPR), to be used mainly in metropolitan and wide area networks. This paper introduces destination differentiation in ingress aggregated fairness for RPR and focuses on the RPR MAC client implementation of the IEEE 802.17 RPR MAC in the aggressive mode of operation. It also introduces an enhan...

One of the International Development Targets agreed by the UN Social Summit in 1995 is to halve the 1990 incidence of dollar-a-day poverty in developing and transitional countries by 2015. This note estimates progress towards that target. If China, each country in South Asia, and each other region changes incidence in 1998-2015 at the same rate as in 1990-98, then overall dollar poverty inciden...