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Research Contract: Computing Infrastructure Performance and Interoperability Research – Integration. K. Falkner and C. Szabo, DSTO Research Contract ($465,000) (2015)

This research agreement will be supporting research in the areas of combat system margins recovery and integration, as well as the research and development of a combat system modelling and analysis capability, continuing our existing collaborative research relationship with DSTO within the space of Systems Execution Modelling within distributed application contexts. The areas of research […]

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CDIT Summer Intern – Integration of Video Streaming within MODPIE

Josiah Saunders has recently completed his CDIT Summer Internship, working on integrating video streaming capabilities within the MODPIE performance prediction environment. The MODPIE environment supports early performance prediction of distributed software systems, through the construction of performance models for the distributed software system that may be executed above realistic deployment scenarios. This enables the gathering […]

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Computer Standards & Interfaces: ASE – A Comprehensive Pattern-Driven Security Methodology for Distributed Systems

Anton Uzunov’s thesis work has been in the area of pattern-based security methodologies for distributed systems. Final work from thesis has been recently accepted for Computer Standards & Interfaces. Incorporating security features is one of the most important and challenging tasks in designing distributed systems. Over the last decade, researchers and practitioners have come to […]

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Information and Software Technology: A Comprehensive Pattern-Oriented Approach to Engineering Security Methodologies

Anton Uzunov is leading work into the development of a pattern-oriented approach to the engineering of secure software methodologies. Recent work in this space, accepted for publication in the Journal of Information and Software Technology, builds upon existing method engineering ideas to form a new comprehensive approach to engineering security methodologies. Developing secure software systems […]

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Research Grant: Assessment and OS-Level Mitigation of Timing Channels. K. Falkner and Y. Yarom, NICTA CRP ($232,167) (2014-2015)

Assessment and OS-Level Mitigation of Timing Channels. K. Falkner and Y. Yarom, NICTA CRP ($232,167) (2014-2015) CDIT will be working with Professor Gernot Heiser’s team at NICTA/UNSW on a new collaborative project exploring timing channels and side channels on modern architectures. Led at Adelaide by Yuval Yarom, this project will explore the design and implementation […]

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CDIT team presenting at USENIX Security and ECSA 2014

Yuval Yarom recently attended the  USENIX Security 2014 conference in San Diego to present our work in defining the Flush+Reload side-channel attack: FLUSH+RELOAD: A High Resolution, Low Noise, L3 Cache Side-Channel Attack, Yuval Yarom and Katrina Falkner, The University of Adelaide Sharing memory pages between non-trusting processes is a common method of reducing the memory footprint of […]

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Book Chapter: A model driven engineering method for DRE defense systems performance analysis and prediction

An extended description of our performance modelling framework has been accepted for publication as part of a forthcoming book, Industry and Research Perspectives on Embedded System Design (IGI Global). K. Falkner, V. Chiprianov, N. Falkner, C. Szabo and G. Puddy, A Model Driven Engineering Method for DRE Defence Systems Performance Analysis and Prediction. In Industry […]

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Student Projects: Semester 2, 2014

CDIT has a range of projects available for students undertaking projects in Semester 2, whether you are studying the BCS(Advanced) or Masters of CS/Honours. Please review the projects page for more details!

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USENIX 2014: FLUSH+RELOAD: a High Resolution, Low Noise, L3 Cache Side-Channel Attack

A new side-channel attack that came out of our research into security within virtualised environments has been accepted for publication at USENIX 2014: Y. Yarom and K. Falkner, FLUSH+RELOAD: a High Resolution, Low Noise, L3 Cache Side-Channel Attack. Accepted for USENIX Security, August 2014.

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Visitor from University of Pau: Dr Vanea Chiprianov

Dr Vanea Chiprianov, formally a member of the DIG (CDIT) group and now at University of Pau  (France), is visiting DIG (CDIT) this week, while attending the SOSE conference. Dr Chiprianov will be presenting a joint paper with DIG on our work in performance modelling of systems of systems.

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