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Andrea Basso

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Exploiting Aggregate Programming in a Multi-Robot Service Prototype

Multi-robot systems are becoming increasingly relevant within diverse application domains, such as healthcare, exploration, and rescue missions. However, building such systems is still a significant challenge, since it adds the complexities of the physical nature of robots and their environments to those inherent in coordinating any distributed (multi-agent) system. Aggregate Programming (AP) has recently emerged as a promising approach to engineering resilient, distributed systems with proximity-based communication, and is notably supported by practical frameworks. In this paper we present a prototype of a multi-robot service system, which adopts AP for the design and implementation of its coordination software. The prototype has been validated both with simulations, and with tests in a University library.

cs.DC

Lambdas at the Far Edge: a Tale of Flying Lambdas and Lambdas on Wheels

Aggregate Programming (AP) is a paradigm for programming the collective behaviour of sets of distributed devices, possibly situated at the network far edge, by relying on asynchronous proximity-based interactions. The eXchange Calculus (XC), a recently proposed foundational model for AP, is essentially a typed lambda calculus extended with an operator (the exchange operator) providing an implicit communication mechanism between neighbour devices. This paper provides a gentle introduction to XC and to its implementation as a C++ library, called FCPP. The FCPP library and toolchain has been mainly developed at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Turin, where Stefano Berardi spent most of his academic career conducting outstanding research about logical foundation of computer science and transmitting his passion for research to students and young researchers, often exploiting typed lambda calculi. An FCCP program is essentially a typed lambda term, and FCPP has been used to write code that has been deployed on devices at the far edge of the network, including rovers and (soon) Uncrewed Aerial Vehicles (UAVs); hence the title of the paper.

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Design Space Exploration of SABER in 65nm ASIC

This paper presents a design space exploration for SABER, one of the finalists in NIST's quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic standardization effort. Our design space exploration targets a 65nm ASIC platform and has resulted in the evaluation of 6 different architectures. Our exploration is initiated by setting a baseline architecture which is ported from FPGA. In order to improve the clock frequency (the primary goal in our exploration), we have employed several optimizations: (i) use of compiled memories in a 'smart synthesis' fashion, (ii) pipelining, and (iii) logic sharing between SABER building blocks. The most optimized architecture utilizes four register files, achieves a remarkable clock frequency of 1GHz while only requiring an area of 0.314mm2. Moreover, physical synthesis is carried out for this architecture and a tapeout-ready layout is presented. The estimated dynamic power consumption of the high-frequency architecture is approximately 184mW for key generation and 187mW for encapsulation or decapsulation operations. These results strongly suggest that our optimized accelerator architecture is well suited for high-speed cryptographic applications.

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On the supersingular GPST attack

We explain why the first Galbraith-Petit-Shani-Ti attack on the Supersingular Isogeny Diffie-Hellman and the Supersingular Isogeny Key Encapsulation fails in some cases.

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