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most citedBlockHammer: Preventing RowHammer at Low Cost by Blacklisting Rapidly-Accessed DRAM Rows

124 citations · 388 across the 53 of their papers we have counts for

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58 papers

cs.CR2026

HULK: An Efficient Algorithm for Enabling Fast Bulk Bitwise Operations on Homomorphically Encrypted Data

Mayank Kabra, Phillip Widdowson, Harshita Gupta +9

A wide range of important cloud applications, e.g., database analytics, graph analytics, and genome analysis, spend a considerable amount of time performing bulk bitwise operations…

cs.AR2026

Terracotta: Enabling the Adoption of New DRAM Techniques via a Flexible DRAM Interface and Memory Controller

Harsh Songara, Konstantinos Kanellopoulos, F. Nisa Bostancı +6

DRAM continues to limit the performance, energy efficiency, and robustness of modern systems. Many prior works propose DRAM techniques that support in-DRAM computation, improve mem…

cs.AR2026

CertiFlash: A Formal Verification Framework for Flash Translation Layers in Computational Solid State Drives

Harshita Gupta, Mayank Kabra, Rakesh Nadig +10

Data-intensive applications move large amounts of data from storage to the compute unit, incurring significant data movement overhead. Storage-centric computing reduces this overhe…

cs.CR2026

ColumnKeeper: Efficient Solutions to the ColumnDisturb Vulnerability in DRAM-based Systems

Andreas Kosmas Kakolyris, F. Nisa Bostanci, Ataberk Olgun +7

Modern DRAM chips are vulnerable to read disturbance phenomena such as RowHammer and RowPress, which induce bitflips after accessing nearby rows a certain number of times (the read…

cs.AR2026

Clutch: High Performance Vector-Scalar Comparison using DRAM via Chunked Temporal Coding

Daichi Tokuda, Tatsuya Kubo, Ismail Emir Yuksel +8

Vector-scalar comparison is a fundamental computation primitive that compares each element in a vector against a single scalar value. It is widely used in various data-intensive wo…

cs.AR2026

DejaVu: Why You Should Write to Your DRAM Rows Twice, Carefully

Haocong Luo, İsmail Emir Yüksel, Ataberk Olgun +4

We provide the first experimental demonstration of DejaVu, a phenomenon where the data previously written to DRAM cells affects DRAM's vulnerability to read disturbance. Our experi…

cs.AR2026

PuDGhost: Experimental Analysis of Computation Result Corruption in Processing-using-DRAM Operations on Real DRAM Chips and Implications for Future Systems

Daichi Tokuda, İsmail Emir Yüksel, Tatsuya Kubo +7

Processing-using-DRAM (PuD) is a promising computation paradigm that alleviates frequent data movement between main memory and processing units by using each DRAM column as a compu…

cs.AR2026

A Modern Large-Scale Memory Characterization Laboratory

Ataberk Olgun, Haocong Luo, Ismail Emir Yuksel +3

Real memory chip characterization yields insights into fundamental operational characteristics of modern memory, enabling new mechanisms that improve memory performance, robustness…

cs.CR2026

ScaleDisturb: Exploiting Temporal Asymmetry to Amplify Read Disturbance in Modern DRAM Chips

Jikun Wang, Haocong Luo, Ataberk Olgun +6

DRAM suffers from read disturbance phenomena (e.g., RowHammer and RowPress), where repeatedly accessing or continuously keeping open a DRAM row (aggressor row) induces bitflips in…

cs.AR2026

DiscoRD: An Experimental Methodology for Quickly Discovering the Reliable Read Disturbance Threshold of Real DRAM Chips

Ataberk Olgun, F. Nisa Bostanci, Ismail Emir Yuksel +4

State-of-the-art DRAM read disturbance mitigations rely on the read disturbance threshold (RDT) (e.g., the number of aggressor row activations needed to induce the first read distu…

cs.AR2025

In-DRAM True Random Number Generation Using Simultaneous Multiple-Row Activation: An Experimental Study of Real DRAM Chips

Ismail Emir Yuksel, Ataberk Olgun, F. Nisa Bostanci +5

In this work, we experimentally demonstrate that it is possible to generate true random numbers at high throughput and low latency in commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) DRAM chips by…

cs.AR2025

ColumnDisturb: Understanding Column-based Read Disturbance in Real DRAM Chips and Implications for Future Systems

İsmail Emir Yüksel, Ataberk Olgun, F. Nisa Bostancı +3

We experimentally demonstrate a new widespread read disturbance phenomenon, ColumnDisturb, in real commodity DRAM chips. By repeatedly opening or keeping a DRAM row (aggressor row)…

cs.AR2025

Cleaning up the Mess: Re-Evaluating the Real-System Modeling Accuracy of Ramulator 2.0

F. Nisa Bostanci, Haocong Luo, Ataberk Olgun +4

A MICRO 2024 best paper runner-up publication (the Mess paper) with all three artifact badges awarded (including ``Reproducible'') proposes a new benchmark to evaluate real and sim…

cs.DC2025

TeraAgent: A Distributed Agent-Based Simulation Engine for Simulating Half a Trillion Agents

Lukas Breitwieser, Ahmad Hesam, Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı +3

Agent-based simulation is a method for studying highly complex systems in disciplines as diverse as biology, medicine, sociology, economics, finance, and more. In this method, an a…

cs.CR2025

Understanding and Mitigating Covert Channel and Side Channel Vulnerabilities Introduced by RowHammer Defenses

F. Nisa Bostancı, Oğuzhan Canpolat, Ataberk Olgun +5

DRAM chips are vulnerable to read disturbance phenomena (e.g., RowHammer and RowPress), where repeatedly accessing or keeping open a DRAM row causes bitflips in nearby rows. Attack…

cs.AR2025

Variable Read Disturbance: An Experimental Analysis of Temporal Variation in DRAM Read Disturbance

Ataberk Olgun, F. Nisa Bostanci, Ismail Emir Yuksel +6

Modern DRAM chips are subject to read disturbance errors. State-of-the-art read disturbance mitigations rely on accurate and exhaustive characterization of the read disturbance thr…

cs.AR2025

Understanding RowHammer Under Reduced Refresh Latency: Experimental Analysis of Real DRAM Chips and Implications on Future Solutions

Yahya Can Tuğrul, A. Giray Yağlıkçı, İsmail Emir Yüksel +6

RowHammer is a major read disturbance mechanism in DRAM where repeatedly accessing (hammering) a row of DRAM cells (DRAM row) induces bitflips in physically nearby DRAM rows (victi…

cs.CR2025

Chronus: Understanding and Securing the Cutting-Edge Industry Solutions to DRAM Read Disturbance

Oğuzhan Canpolat, A. Giray Yağlıkçı, Geraldo F. Oliveira +6

We 1) present the first rigorous security, performance, energy, and cost analyses of the state-of-the-art on-DRAM-die read disturbance mitigation method, Per Row Activation Countin…

cs.CR2024

Enabling Efficient and Scalable DRAM Read Disturbance Mitigation via New Experimental Insights into Modern DRAM Chips

Abdullah Giray Yağlıkçı

Increasing storage density exacerbates DRAM read disturbance, a circuit-level vulnerability exploited by system-level attacks. Unfortunately, existing defenses are either ineffecti…

cs.AR2024★ 1 cited

An Experimental Characterization of Combined RowHammer and RowPress Read Disturbance in Modern DRAM Chips

Haocong Luo, Ismail Emir Yüksel, Ataberk Olgun +3

DRAM read disturbance can break memory isolation, a fundamental property to ensure system robustness (i.e., reliability, security, safety). RowHammer and RowPress are two different…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

Understanding the Security Benefits and Overheads of Emerging Industry Solutions to DRAM Read Disturbance

Oğuzhan Canpolat, A. Giray Yağlıkçı, Geraldo F. Oliveira +3

We present the first rigorous security, performance, energy, and cost analyses of the state-of-the-art on-DRAM-die read disturbance mitigation method, Per Row Activation Counting (…

cs.AR2024

RowPress Vulnerability in Modern DRAM Chips

Haocong Luo, Ataberk Olgun, A. Giray Yağlıkçı +6

Memory isolation is a critical property for system reliability, security, and safety. We demonstrate RowPress, a DRAM read disturbance phenomenon different from the well-known RowH…

cs.AR2024

Simultaneous Many-Row Activation in Off-the-Shelf DRAM Chips: Experimental Characterization and Analysis

Ismail Emir Yuksel, Yahya Can Tugrul, F. Nisa Bostanci +8

We experimentally analyze the computational capability of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) DRAM chips and the robustness of these capabilities under various timing delays between DR…

cs.CR2024

BreakHammer: Enhancing RowHammer Mitigations by Carefully Throttling Suspect Threads

Oğuzhan Canpolat, A. Giray Yağlıkçı, Ataberk Olgun +5

RowHammer is a major read disturbance mechanism in DRAM where repeatedly accessing (hammering) a row of DRAM cells (DRAM row) induces bitflips in other physically nearby DRAM rows.…