8 papers
Practical Zero-Trust for Mission-Critical Robotic Fleets via Hardware Attestation and Packet Timing Watermarking
Ryne Gonzales, Ethan Liesdyanto, Rex Worley +3
Autonomous unmanned vehicles are vital to tactical missions, mission-critical public-safety operations like search and rescue and disaster response. However, their reliance on open…
Resilient Control Loops in Autonomous Vehicles Under Adversarial Jamming via Spectral Perception and Network-Layer Failover
Luis Barajas, Colin Jeardoe, Jaewon Kim +1
The operational integrity of autonomous mobile robots relies on the continuous availability of wireless control loops, making them highly attractive targets for adversarial intenti…
Parameters Overshadowed by Price Lags: Load, Climate, and Calendar Effects in ERCOT Day-Ahead Price Formation
Yunus Bicen, Eman Hammad
Accurate electricity price forecasting is critical for smart grid stability, yet the heavy reliance on historical price lags in modern predictive models often obscures the fundamen…
Towards Cyber-Physical Cognition: A Unified Ontology-Driven Knowledge Graph for Real-Time Autonomous Grid Operations
Sathvik Sankaranarayanan, Michael Mandulak, Ibrahim Shahbaz +1
Modern power systems and smart grids are often composed of fragmented and heterogeneous data silos, which lack the cohesion needed for effective cross-domain analysis. For this, th…
Engineering Trustworthy Agentic AI for Critical Systems
Omar Al-Refai, Ibrahim Shahbaz, Adam Ali Husseinat +3
Agentic artificial intelligence systems, capable of autonomous perception, planning, tool use, and multi-step action, are increasingly proposed for critical engineering domains whe…
Bridging High-Level Intent and Network Execution: Detecting Violations and Intent Drift Through Low-Level Traffic Analysis
Tonia Haikal, Shereen Ismail, Eman Hammad
Intent-Based Networking (IBN) structures a core management pillar for autonomous 6G networks by translating high-level administrative goals into autonomous configurations, yet a cr…
Characterizing Large-Scale Adversarial Activities Through Large-Scale Honey-Nets
Tonia Haikal, Eman Hammad, Shereen Ismail
The increasing sophistication of cyber threats demands novel approaches to characterize adversarial strategies, particularly those targeting critical infrastructure and IoT ecosyst…
Merit Network Telescope: Processing and Initial Insights from Nearly 20 Years of Darknet Traffic for Cybersecurity Research
Shereen Ismail, Eman Hammad, William Hatcher +3
This paper presents an initial longitudinal analysis of unsolicited Internet traffic collected between 2005 and 2025 by one of the largest and most persistent network telescopes in…