5 papers
RangeFactory: Scalable Construction of Multi-Hop Cyber Ranges
Hanlin Jiang, Puyi Wang, Jiandong Jin +10
Real-world cyberattacks often require sustained progress across multiple hosts and network segments, making multi-hop cyber ranges essential infrastructure for studying and improvi…
STAIR: Effective Incident Response Using an End-to-End Agentic Planning Framework
Hanlin Jiang, Jionghao Huang, Shaofei Li +6
Incident response planning is critical for restoring compromised software systems after cyberattacks. Common practice relies on expert-driven playbooks that encode fixed response p…
Connect the Dots: Knowledge Graph-Guided Crawler Attack on Retrieval-Augmented Generation Systems
Mengyu Yao, Ziqi Zhang, Ning Luo +5
Stealing attacks pose a persistent threat to the intellectual property of deployed machine-learning systems. Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) intensifies this risk by extending…
Moss: Proxy Model-based Full-Weight Aggregation in Federated Learning with Heterogeneous Models
Yifeng Cai, Ziqi Zhang, Ding Li +2
Modern Federated Learning (FL) has become increasingly essential for handling highly heterogeneous mobile devices. Current approaches adopt a partial model aggregation paradigm tha…
Interference-free Operating System: A 6 Years' Experience in Mitigating Cross-Core Interference in Linux
Zhaomeng Deng, Ziqi Zhang, Ding Li +5
Real-time operating systems employ spatial and temporal isolation to guarantee predictability and schedulability of real-time systems on multi-core processors. Any unbounded and un…