8 papers
Safe Skill Retirement for Physical Agents
Zhonghao Zhan, Xiao Ma, Hamed Haddadi
Agent skills bundle procedural guidance with execution conditions governing authority, user consent, and live environment state. When model capabilities advance, maintainers prune…
Auto-Policy, not Auto-Skill: Compiled Agent Skills for the Physical World
Zhonghao Zhan, Hamed Haddadi
Self-evolving Skill harnesses (AutoSkills, Hermes Agent) generate more advisory orchestration automatically; their reported gains are efficiency, not safety. This misses the actual…
SimVerity: When Does Simulated Agent Success Survive Physical Deployment?
Zhonghao Zhan, Yefan Zhang, Krinos Li +1
Simulated evaluation is widely used to benchmark AI agents, yet how much evidence a simulated pass provides about physical deployment has not been systematically quantified. We pre…
CERTIoT-6G: Continuous Cybersecurity Certification for IoT Devices in 5G/6G Networks
Evangelos Lempesis, Fabio Palmese, Hamed Haddadi +1
The massive adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) devices across critical domains such as healthcare, smart cities, industrial automation, and critical infrastructure introduces sig…
HearthNet: Edge Multi-Agent Orchestration for Smart Homes
Zhonghao Zhan, Krinos Li, Yefan Zhang +1
Smart-home users increasingly want to control their homes in natural language rather than assemble rules, dashboards, and API integrations by hand. At the same time, real deploymen…
Systems-Level Attack Surface of Edge Agent Deployments on IoT
Zhonghao Zhan, Krinos Li, Yefan Zhang +1
Edge deployment of LLM agents on IoT hardware introduces attack surfaces absent from cloud-hosted orchestration. We present an empirical security analysis of three architectures (c…
Intelligent Detection of Non-Essential IoT Traffic on the Home Gateway
Fabio Palmese, Anna Maria Mandalari, Hamed Haddadi +1
The rapid expansion of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, particularly in smart home environments, has introduced considerable security and privacy concerns due to their persistent…
SunBlock: Cloudless Protection for IoT Systems
Vadim Safronov, Anna Maria Mandalari, Daniel J. Dubois +2
With an increasing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices present in homes, there is a rise in the number of potential information leakage channels and their associated securit…