Lattices of oscillator groups

This paper is concerned with discrete, uniform subgroups (lattices) of oscillator groups, which are certain semidirect products of the Heisenberg group and the additive group of real numbers. The present paper rectifies the uncertainties in [1] of Medina and Revoy and gives a complete classification of the lattices of the 4-dimensional oscillator group up to isomorphism. [1] Medina, A.; Revoy, P. Les groups oscillateurs et leurs reseaux Manuscripta Mathematica, 1985, 52, 81-9

Vincia for Hadron Colliders

We present the first public implementation of antenna-based QCD initial- and final-state showers. The shower kernels are $2\to 3$ antenna functions, which capture not only the collinear dynamics but also the leading soft (coherent) singularities of QCD matrix elements. We define the evolution measure to be inversely proportional to the leading poles, hence gluon emissions are evolved in a $p_\perp$ measure inversely proportional to the eikonal, while processes that only contain a single pole (e.g., $g\to q\bar{q}$) are evolved in virtuality. Non-ordered emissions are allowed, suppressed by an additional power of $1/Q^2$. Recoils and kinematics are governed by exact on-shell $2\to 3$ phase-space factorisations. This first implementation is limited to massless QCD partons and colourless resonances. Tree-level matrix-element corrections are included for QCD up to $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^4)$ (4 jets), and for Drell-Yan and Higgs production up to $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^3)$ ($V/H$ + 3 jets). The resulting algorithm has been made publicly available in Vincia 2.0

Resilience of Virtualized Embedded IoT Networks

Embedded IoT networks are the backbone of safetycritical systems like smart factories, autonomous vehicles, and airplanes. Therefore, their resilience against failures and attacks should be a prior concern. The design of more capable IoT devices enables the flexible deployment of network services by virtualization but it also increases the complexity of the systems and makes them more error-prone. In this paper, we discuss the issues and challenges to ensure resilience in virtualized embedded IoT networks by presenting proactive and reactive measures

Scan Correlation -- Revealing distributed scan campaigns

Public networks are exposed to port scans from the Internet. Attackers search for vulnerable services they can exploit. In large scan campaigns, attackers often utilize different machines to perform distributed scans, which impedes their detection and might also camouflage the actual goal of the scanning campaign. In this paper, we present a correlation algorithm to detect scans, identify potential relations among them, and reassemble them to larger campaigns. We evaluate our approach on real-world Internet traffic and our results indicate that it can summarize and characterize standalone and distributed scan campaigns based on their tools and intention.Comment: Accepted for publication at DISSECT '2