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This paper presents a new paradigm for abnormality detection using a novel power signature that characterizes the rising and descending patterns of energy consumption. The proposed methodology includes a low-overhead power signature generation circuit, computation-light analysis methods, and optimal generation of the golden signature used in the analysis. The proposed power signature generation circuit is designed using 90 nm CMOS technology, and its operation is validated via circuit simulations. The effectiveness of the proposed method in detecting the insertion of potentially malicious code is demonstrated with data obtained from hardware experiments and circuit simulations. 

Per-flow size measurement is key to many streaming applications and management systems, particularly in high-speed networks. Performing such measurement on the data plane of a network device at the line rate requires on-chip memory and computing resources that are shared by other key network functions. It leads to the need for very compact and fast data structures, called sketches, which trade off space for accuracy. Such a need also arises in other application context for extremely large data sets. The goal of sketch design is two-fold: to measure flow size as accurately as possible and to do so as efficiently as possible (for low overhead and thus high processing throughput). The existing sketches can be broadly categorized to multi-update sketches and single update sketches. The former are more accurate but carry larger overhead. The latter incur small overhead but their accuracy is poor. This paper proposes a Single update Sketch with a Variable counter Structure (SSVS), a new sketch design which is several times faster than the existing multi-update sketches with comparable accuracy, and is several times more accurate than the existing single update sketches with comparable overhead. The new sketch design embodies several technical contributions that integrate the enabling properties from both multi-update sketches and single update sketches in a novel structure that effectively controls the measurement error with minimum processing overhead. 

Data streaming has many applications in network monitoring, web services, e-commerce, stock trading, social networks, and distributed sensing. This paper introduces a new problem of real-time burst detection in flow spread, which differs from the traditional problem of burst detection in flow size. It is practically significant with potential applications in cybersecurity, network engineering, and trend identification on the Internet. It is a challenging problem because estimating flow spread requires us to remember all past data items and detecting bursts in real time requires us to minimize spread estimation overhead, which was not the priority in most prior work. This paper provides the first efficient, real-time solution for spread burst detection. It is designed based on a new real-time super spreader identifier, which outperforms the state of the art in terms of both accuracy and processing overhead. The super spreader identifier is in turn based on a new sketch design for real-time spread estimation, which outperforms the best existing sketches.