Cyclic redundancy codes (CRCs) provide a first line of defense against data corruption in
many networks. Unfortunately, many commonly used CRC polynomials provide significantly …

Botnets have become one of the major intrusion threats to cybersecurity. P2P botnets have
high concealment and resilience because of their distributed structure, which are difficult to …

Online social networks (OSNs) have attracted millions of users worldwide over the last
decade. In response to a series of urgent issues faced by existing OSNs, such as information …

A common network analysis task is comparison of two networks to identify unique
characteristics in one network with respect to the other. For example, when comparing …

Norms are a valuable means of establishing coherent cooperative behaviour in
decentralised systems in which there is no central authority. Axelrod's seminal model of …

Contrastive learning (CL) is an emerging analysis approach that aims to discover unique
patterns in one dataset relative to another. By applying this approach to network analysis …

This paper develops a novel approach for formally verifying both safety and liveness
properties of designs using sequential ATPG tools. The properties are automatically mapped …

The traditional optical access network architecture is fixed, and passive optical networking
(PON) is only used as the transmission pipeline, which fails to make full use of the exchange …

An ad hoc social network (ASNET), which explores social connectivity between users of
mobile devices, is becoming one of the most important forms of today's Internet. In this …

Content discovery is a critical issue in unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks as nodes
maintain only local network information. However, similarly without global information about …