The rapid developments of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart mobile devices in recent
years have been dramatically incentivizing the advancement of edge computing. On the one …

Side-channel attacks on mobile devices have gained increasing attention since their
introduction in 2007. While traditional side-channel attacks, such as power analysis attacks …

Serverless computing is an emerging paradigm in which an application's resource
provisioning and scaling are managed by third-party services. Examples include AWS …

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) has quickly evolved to a new appified era where third-party
developers can write apps for IoT platforms using programming frameworks. Like other …

IPFS [1] is a peer-to-peer version controlled filesystem that synthesizes learnings from many
previous successful systems. IPFS combines a distributed Hash table, an incentivized block …

Virtual personal assistants (VPA)(eg, Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant) today mostly rely
on the voice channel to communicate with their users, which however is known to be …

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are commonly integrated with computing devices to
enhance the performance and capabilities of graphical workloads. In addition, they are …

Mobile operating systems like Android failed to provide sufficient protection on personal
data, and privacy leakage becomes a major concern. To understand the security risks and …

Mobile applications are part of the everyday lives of billions of people, who often trust them
with sensitive information. These users identify the currently focused app solely by its visual …

The effectiveness of the Android permission system fundamentally hinges on the user's
correct understanding of the capabilities of the permissions being granted. In this paper, we …