Limited research efforts have been made for Mobile CrowdSensing (MCS) to address quality
of the recruited crowd, ie, quality of services/data each individual mobile user and the whole …

Drive-by downloads are the preferred distribution vector for many malware families. In the
drive-by ecosystem, many exploit servers run the same exploit kit and it is a challenge …

An access classification device includes: a processor con figured to: construct a plurality of
trees in each of which at least a first destination and a second destination are set as nodes …

Programmable logic controllers (PLCs), which are used to control much of the world's critical
infrastructures, are highly vulnerable and exposed to the Internet. Many efforts have been …

Microservices enable rapid service deployment and scaling. Integrating poorly-understood
microservice components into Service Function Chains (SFCs) or graphs limits a provider's …

In this work, we examine the challenges that service providers encounter in managing
complex service function graphs, while controlling service delivery latency. Based on the …

An access classifying device includes a tree building unit, a similarity-degree calculating
unit, and a classifying unit. The tree building unit generates multiple trees, in which a first …

The growing connectivity across the globe has been made possible due to Internet and web
applications. Social networking and e-commerce web applications are dominating the …

Advances in virtualization technologies have revolutionized the design of the core of cellular
networks. However, the adoption of microservice design patterns and migration of services …

In this thesis, two areas of software testing are presented, namely the random testing of
JavaScript engines and the automatic reduction of interesting or failure triggering test cases …