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Measuring Statistical Evidence: A Short Report
Mahdi Zamani
This short text tried to establish a big picture of what evidential statistics is about and how an ideal inference method should behave. Moreover, by examining shortcomings of some…
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Financial Data Sharing
Panagiotis Chatzigiannis, Wanyun Catherine Gu, Srinivasan Raghuraman +2
Today, financial institutions (FIs) store and share consumers' financial data for various reasons such as offering loans, processing payments, and protecting against fraud and fina…
Universal Payment Channels: An Interoperability Platform for Digital Currencies
Mihai Christodorescu, Erin English, Wanyun Catherine Gu +7
With the innovation of distributed ledger technology (DLT), often known as blockchain technology, there has been significant growth of digital tokens in the form of cryptocurrencie…
Horizon: A Gas-Efficient, Trustless Bridge for Cross-Chain Transactions
Rongjian Lan, Ganesha Upadhyaya, Stephen Tse +1
With the rise of digital currency systems that rely on blockchain to ensure ledger security, the ability to perform cross-chain transactions is becoming a crucial interoperability…
Towards a Two-Tier Hierarchical Infrastructure: An Offline Payment System for Central Bank Digital Currencies
Mihai Christodorescu, Wanyun Catherine Gu, Ranjit Kumaresan +8
Digital payments traditionally rely on online communications with several intermediaries such as banks, payment networks, and payment processors in order to authorize and process p…
PriFi: Low-Latency Anonymity for Organizational Networks
Ludovic Barman, Italo Dacosta, Mahdi Zamani +5
Organizational networks are vulnerable to traffic-analysis attacks that enable adversaries to infer sensitive information from the network traffic - even if encryption is used. Typ…
REMOTEGATE: Incentive-Compatible Remote Configuration of Security Gateways
Abhinav Aggarwal, Mahdi Zamani, Mihai Christodorescu
Imagine that a malicious hacker is trying to attack a server over the Internet and the server wants to block the attack packets as close to their point of origin as possible. Howev…
TorBricks: Blocking-Resistant Tor Bridge Distribution
Mahdi Zamani, Jared Saia, Jedidiah Crandall
Tor is currently the most popular network for anonymous Internet access. It critically relies on volunteer nodes called bridges for relaying Internet traffic when a user's ISP bloc…
On Optimal Decision-Making in Ant Colonies
Mahnush Movahedi, Mahdi Zamani
Colonies of ants can collectively choose the best of several nests, even when many of the active ants who organize the move visit only one site. Understanding such a behavior can h…
Secure Anonymous Broadcast
Mahnush Movahedi, Jared Saia, Mahdi Zamani
In anonymous broadcast, one or more parties want to anonymously send messages to all parties. This problem is increasingly important as a black-box in many privacy-preserving appli…
A DDoS-Aware IDS Model Based on Danger Theory and Mobile Agents
Mahdi Zamani, Mahnush Movahedi, Mohammad Ebadzadeh +1
We propose an artificial immune model for intrusion detection in distributed systems based on a relatively recent theory in immunology called Danger theory. Based on Danger theory,…
Machine Learning Techniques for Intrusion Detection
Mahdi Zamani, Mahnush Movahedi
An Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is a software that monitors a single or a network of computers for malicious activities (attacks) that are aimed at stealing or censoring inform…
Broadcast Approaches to the Diamond Channel
Mahdi Zamani, Amir K. Khandani
The problem of dual-hop transmission from a source to a destination via two parallel full-duplex relays in block Rayleigh fading environment is investigated. All nodes in the netwo…
Maximum Throughput in Multiple-Antenna Systems
Mahdi Zamani, Amir K. Khandani
The point-to-point multiple-antenna channel is investigated in uncorrelated block fading environment with Rayleigh distribution. The maximum throughput and maximum expected-rate of…