Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications

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Legend: Journal papers and book chapters are listed in red; conference papers are listed in black.

  • Filippo Maria Bianchi, Lorenzo Livi, Alberto Ferrante, Jelena Milosevic, and Miroslaw Malek. Time series kernel similarities for predicting paroxysmal atrial fibrillation from ecgs. In IJCNN 2018 : International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Rio, Brazil, 07/2018 In Press. IEEE, IEEE
  • Alberto Ferrante, Miroslaw Malek, Fabio Martinelli, Francesco Mercaldo, and Jelena Milosevic. Extinguishing Ransomware - A Hybrid Approach to Android Ransomware Detection, volume 10723, pages 242–258. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 02/2018 2018
  • Jelena Milosevic, Miroslaw Malek, and Alberto Ferrante. Runtime Classification of Mobile Malware for Resource-constrained Devices, volume 764, pages 195–215. Springer International Publishing AG, 2017
  • Jelena Milosevic, Miroslaw Malek, and Alberto Ferrante. A friend or a foe? detecting malware using memory and cpu features. In SECRYPT 2016, 13th International Conference on Security and Cryptography, Lisbon, Portugal, 07/2016 2016. SciTePress Digital Library, SciTePress Digital Library
  • Jelena Milosevic, Alberto Ferrante, and Miroslaw Malek. Malaware: Effective and efficient run-time mobile malware detector. In The 14th IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing (DASC 2016), Auckland, New Zealand, 08/2016 2016. IEEE Computer Society Press, IEEE Computer Society Press
  • Alberto Ferrante, Francesco Mercaldo, Jelena Milosevic, and Corrado Aaron Visaggio. Spotting the malicious moment: Characterizing malware behavior using dynamic features. In Eric Medvet, editor, 2016 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES), Salzburg, Austria, 08/2016 2016
  • Jelena Milosevic, Alberto Ferrante, and Miroslaw Malek. Trojan families identification using dynamic features and low complexity classifiers. In 24th EICAR Annual Conference 2016 ”Trustworthiness in IT Security Products”, Nuremberg, Germany, 10/2016 2016. EICAR, EICAR
  • Jelena Milosevic, Alberto Ferrante, and Miroslaw Malek. What does the memory say? towards the most indicative features for efficient malware detection. In CCNC 2016, The 13th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 01/2016 2016. IEEE Communication Society, IEEE Communication Society
  • Jelena Milosevic, Alberto Ferrante, and Miroslaw Malek. Can we achieve both privacy protection and efficient malware detection on smartphones? In 1st Interdisciplinary Cyber Research Workshop 2015, Tallin, Estona, 07/2015 2015. Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn University of Technology
  • Jelena Milosevic, Alberto Ferrante, and Miroslaw Malek. A general practitioner or a specialist for your infected smartphone?. Poster at the 36th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, San Jose, CA, USA
  • Jelena Milosevic, Alberto Ferrante, and Francesco Regazzoni. Security challenges for hardware designers of mobile systems. In 2015 Mobile Systems Technologies Workshop (MST), May 2015
  • Jelena Milosevic, Andreas Dittrich, Alberto Ferrante, and Miroslaw Malek. A resource-optimized approach to efficient early detection of mobile malware. In 3rd International Workshop on Security of Mobile Applications - IWSMA 2014, Fribourg, Switzerland, September 2014
  • Jelena Milosevic, Andreas Dittrich, Alberto Ferrante, Miroslaw Malek, Camilo Rojas Quiros, RubénBraojos, Giovanni Ansaloni, and David Atienza. Risk assessment of atrial fibrillation: a failure prediction approach. In Computing in Cariology (CinC), Cambridge, MA, USA, September 2014
  • Alberto Ferrante, Igor Kaitovi ́c, and Jelena Milosevic. Modeling requirements for security-enhanced design of embedded systems. In ICETE SECRYPT, Vienna, Austria, August 2014. ICETE
  • Ferrante, A., J. Milosevic, and M. Janjusevic, A Security-enhanced Design Methodology For Embedded Systems, ICETE SECRYPT 2013, Reykjavik, Iceland, ICETE, 07/2013.

  • Ferrante A, Chelodi M, Bruschi F, Mozzetti V.  2013.  An Algorithm for Extended Dynamic Range Video in Embedded Systems. SENSORNETS 2013 - 2nd International Conference on Sensor Networks. Barcelona, Spain.

  • Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Marcello Mura and Alberto Ferrante, Dynamic Adaptation of Security and QoS in Energy-harvesting Sensors Nodes  in e-Business and Telecommunications Communications in Computer and Information Science Volume 222. Springer 2012, pp 243-258.

  • Leandro Fiorin, Alberto Ferrante, Konstantinos Padarnitsas, Francesco Regazzoni, Security Enhanced Linux on Embedded Systems: a Hardware-accelerated Implementation, 17th Asia and South Pacific Design Automation Conference, ASP-DAC 2012. Jan. 30- Feb. 2, 2012, Sydney, Australia.

  • Christian Gamrat, Jean-Marc Philippe, Chris Jesshope, Alex Shafarenko, Labros Bisdounis, Umberto Bondi, Alberto Ferrante, Joan Cabestany, Michael Hübner, Juha Pärsinnen, Jiri Kadlec, Martin Danek, Benoit Tain, Susan Eisenbach, Michel Auguin, Jean-Philippe Diguet, Eric Lenormand, and Jean-Luc Roux, AETHER: Self-Adaptive Networked Entities: Autonomous Computing Elements for Future Pervasive Applications and Technologies, in Reconfigurable Computing, From FPGAs to Hardware/Software Codesign, Cardoso, João M. P.; Hübner, Michael (Eds.),1st Edition., 2011, ISBN 978-1-4614-0060-8, Chapter 7, pp. 149-184.

  • Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Luis Germán García Morales and Alberto Ferrante, A Framework For Security and Workload Gradual Adaptation in proceedings of SECRYPT 2011, Sevilel, Spain, July 2011.

  • Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Luis Germán García Morales, Alberto Ferrante, System Policies for Gradual Tuning of Security and Workload in Wireless Sensor Networks in Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Telecommunication Symposium (WTS), New York, USA, April, 2011. Presentation (pdf).

  • Leandro Fiorin, Alberto Ferrante, Konstantinos Padarnitsas, Stefano Carucci, Hardware-assisted Security Enhanced Linux in Embedded Systems: a Proposal in the proceedings of the Workshop on Embedded Systems Security (WESS), Scottsdale, AZ, US, October 2010. Full text (pdf)

  • Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Marcello Mura and Alberto Ferrante, QoS and Security in Energy-harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks, in proceedings of SECRYPT 2010, Athens, Greece, July 2010. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

  • Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Laura Micconi, and Alberto Ferrante, Gradual Adaptation of Security for Sensor Networks, in IEEE WoWMoM 2010: Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless Mobile and Multimedia Networks, Montreal, Canada, June 2010.

  • Onur Derin and  Alberto Ferrante, Scheduling Energy Consumption With Local Renewable Micro-generation and Dynamic Electricity Prices.  In  CPSWEEK/GREEMBED 2010: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Green and Smart Embedded System Technology: Infrastructures, Methods and Tools,  Stockholm, Sweden,  April 2010. Full text (pdf)

  • Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Alberto Ferrante, Security and Packets Delivery Trade-off for WSN, in prooceedings of CCNC 2010, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 09-12 January 2010.

  • Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Pierpaolo Marcon, and Alberto Ferrante, Negotiation of Security Services: a Multi-criteria Decision Approach. In Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Embedded Systems Security, Grenoble, France, October 2009.

  • Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo and Alberto Ferrante, Run-time Selection of Security Algorithms For Networked Devices. In 5th ACM International Symposium on QoS and Security for Wireless and Mobile Networks, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, October 2009.

  • O. Derin and A. Ferrante, Enabling Self-adaptivity in Component-based Streaming Applications, APRES ’09: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Adaptive and Reconfigurable Embedded Systems, Grenoble, France, October 11 2009. Full text (pdf)

  • O. Derin and A. Ferrante, Simulation Of a Self-adaptive Run-time Environment With Hardware and Software Components, in SINTER ’09: Proceedings of the 2009 ESEC/FSE workshop on Software integration and evolution @ runtime. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: ACM, August 2009, pp. 37–40. Full text (pdf)

  • O. Derin, A. Ferrante, and A. V. Taddeo, Coordinated management of hardware and software self-adaptivity, J. Syst. Archit., vol. 55, no. 3, pp. 170–179, 2009. Published online on July 2008. Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture. Full text (pdf)

  • Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Alberto Ferrante, A Security Service Protocol for MANETs, in proceedings of CCNC 2009, Las Vegas, NV, USA, 10-13 January 2009.

  • Alberto Ferrante, Roberto Pompei, Anastasia Stulova, Antonio Taddeo, A Protocol For Pervasive Distributed Computing Reliability. In proceedings of SecPri_WiMob 2008, Avignon, France, October 12, 2008. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

  • Alberto Ferrante, Satish Chandra, and Vincenzo Piuri, IPSec Database Query Acceleration, in Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science, M. S. O. Joaquim Filipe, Ed., vol. 23. Springer, 11 2008, pp. 188–200. Full text (pdf).

  • Alberto Ferrante, Satish Chandra, and Vincenzo Piuri, A Query Unit for the IPSec Databases, in SECRYPT-2007, Barcelona, Spain, Jul. 2007. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

  • Luigi Dadda, Alberto Ferrante, and Marco Macchetti, A Memory Unit for Priority Management in IPSec Accelerators, in ICC 2007. Glasgow, Scotland: IEEE Communications Society, 24 June 2007. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

  • Alberto Ferrante, Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Mariagiovanna Sami, Fabrizio Mantovani, and Jurijs Fridkins, Self-adaptive Security at Application Level: a Proposal, in ReCoSoC 2007. Montpellier, France, Jun. 2007. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf) | Video of the presentation (conference website)

  • Alberto Ferrante and Vincenzo Piuri, High-level Architecture of an IPSec-dedicated System on Chip, in NGI 2007. Trondheim, Norway: IEEE Press, May 2007, pp. 159-166. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

  • Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Alberto Ferrante, Scheduling Small Packets in IPSec Multi-accelerator Based Systems, in Journal of Communications (JCM). Academy Publisher, Mar. 2007, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 53–60. Full text (pdf)

  • Antonio Vincenzo Taddeo, Alberto Ferrante, and Vincenzo Piuri, Scheduling Small Packets in IPSec-based Systems, in CCNC 2006. Las Vegas, NV, USA: IEEE, 8 Jan. 2006. Full text (pdf)

  • Alberto Ferrante, Vincenzo Piuri, and Fabien Castanier, A QoS-enabled Packet Scheduling Algorithm for IPSec Multi-accelerator Based Systems. In proceedings of Computing Frontiers 2005. Ischia, Italy: ACM, May 2005, pp. 221-229. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

  • Alberto Ferrante, Vincenzo Piuri, and Jeff Owen, IPSec Hardware Resource Requirements Evaluation, in proceedings of NGI 2005. Rome, Italy: EuroNGI, 18 Apr. 2005. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

  • Alberto Ferrante, Giuseppe Piscopo, and Stefano Scaldaferri, Application-driven Optimization of VLIW Architectures: a Hardware-Software Approach, in proceedings of  Real-Time and Embedded Technology Applications 2005. San Francisco, CA, USA: IEEE Computer Society, 7 Mar. 2005, pp. 128-137. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

  • Alberto Ferrante, Uljiana Boiko, Antonietta Lo Duca, and Vincenzo Piuri, A Testing Methodology for IPSec-based Systems, in proceedings of  SoftCOM 2004.Dubrovnik and Split, Croatia, Venice, Italy: University of Split, Oct. 2004, pp. 22-26. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

  • Fabien Castanier, Alberto Ferrante, and Vincenzo Piuri, A Packet Scheduling Algorithm for IPSec Multi-Accelerator Based Systems, in ASAP 2004. Galveston, TX, USA: IEEE Computer Society Press, Sept. 2004, pp. 387-397. Full text (pdf) | Presentation (pdf)

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Theses

  • PhD Thesis (University of Milano):

A Design Methodology for HW/SW Security Protocols

Advisors: Prof. Vincenzo Piuri (Università degli Studi di Milano), Prof. Luigi Dadda (ALaRI - University of Lugano), Jeff Owen (ST Microelectronics)

Final dissertation will be on March 6-7, 2006 at the Computer Science department of the University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano).

Full text of Introduction and Chapter 1-2 (pdf) | Thesis summary (pdf) | Presentation in Italian (pdf)

 

  • MSc Thesis (Politecnico di Milano):

Security Association Caching of a Dedicated IPSec Crypto-processor: Dimensioning the Cache and Software Interface

Advisors: Prof. Roberto Negrini (Politecnico di Milano), Jefferson Owen (ST Microelectronics)

Discussed on June 19, 2002 at the Como seat of Politecnico di Milano.

Full text (pdf) | Presentation in Italian (pdf)

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