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Xavier Worthy injury update: Chiefs WR cleared from concussion protocol after hard fall in practice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/xavier-

Next Generation Authentication for Data Spaces: An Authentication Flow Based On Grant Negotiation And Authorization Protocol For Verifiable Presentations (GNAP4VP)
Rodrigo Men\'endez, Andres Munoz-Arcentales, Joaqu\'in Salvach\'ua, Carlos Aparicio, Irene Plaza, Gabriel Huecas
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24698

Next Generation Authentication for Data Spaces: An Authentication Flow Based On Grant Negotiation And Authorization Protocol For Verifiable Presentations (GNAP4VP)
Identity verification in Data Spaces is a fundamental aspect of ensuring security and privacy in digital environments. This paper presents an identity verification protocol tailored for shared data environments within Data Spaces. This protocol extends the Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol (GNAP) and integrates OpenID Connect for Verifiable Presentations (OIDC4VP) along with support for Linked Verifiable Presentations (LVP), providing a robust foundation for secure and privacy-preser…

Effectiveness of the DEJAMPS purification protocol in noisy entangled photon systems, a Monte Carlo simulation
Vasilis Skarlatos, Nikos Konofaos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22830

Effectiveness of the DEJAMPS purification protocol in noisy entangled photon systems, a Monte Carlo simulation
Entanglement purification is a critical enabling technology for quantum communication, allowing high-fidelity entangled pairs to be distilled from noisy resources. We present a comprehensive Monte Carlo study of the DEJMPS purification protocol applied to polarization-entangled photon pairs subject to both amplitude-damping noise (gamma) and dephasing noise (p). By sweeping (gamma, p) over a two-dimensional grid and performing repeated stochastic trials, we map out the average fidelity and aver…

Still chasing a tricky bug in ngscopeclient that will have to wait until tomorrow.
Scenario:
* Open a pre-existing scopesession containing a protocol analyzer online
* Start acquiring new data
The very first waveform acquired seems to not end up in history, but all other processing works normally including protocol decodes (so we basically end up with a phantom waveform in the protocol analyzer that doesn't match up with one in history).

Protocol insecurity with finitely many sessions and XOR
R Ramanujam, Vaishnavi Sundararajan, S P Suresh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.24072 https://

Protocol insecurity with finitely many sessions and XOR
We present a different proof of the insecurity problem for XOR, solved in by Chevalier, Kuesters, Rusinowitch and Turuani (2005). Our proof uses the notion of typed terms and well-typed proofs, and removes a restriction on the class of protocols to which the [CKRT05] proof applies, by introducing a slightly different (but very natural) notion of protocols, where honest agent sends are derivable from previous receives in the same session.

Chiefs place WR Worthy in concussion protocol https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45860860/chiefs-xavier-worthy-bangs-head-enters-concussion-protocol

Singularity Protocol for Cross Chain AMM without Intermediate Tokens or Bridges
Sumit Vohra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24337 https://…

Singularity Protocol for Cross Chain AMM without Intermediate Tokens or Bridges
Automated Market Makers (AMMs) are decentralized exchange protocols that provide continuous access to token liquidity without the need for order books or traditional market makers. However, this innovation has failed to scale when it comes to cross-chain swaps. Modern cross-chain swaps employ double-sided AMMs, which are not only inefficient due to liquidity fragmentation but also require an intermediate token. This introduces inherent volatility risk as well as blockchain and bridging risk, es…

General many-body entanglement swapping protocol
Santeri Huhtanen, Yousef Mafi, Ali G. Moghaddam, Teemu Ojanen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22430 https://

General many-body entanglement swapping protocol
Sharing entangled pairs between non-signaling parties via entanglement swapping constitutes a striking demonstration of the nonlocality of quantum mechanics and a crucial building block for future quantum technologies. In this work, we generalize pair-swapping methods by introducing a many-body entanglement swapping protocol, which allows two non-signaling parties to share general many-body states along an arbitrary partitioning. The shared many-body state retains exactly the same Schmidt vecto…

A Large-Scale Evolvable Dataset for Model Context Protocol Ecosystem and Security Analysis
Zhiwei Lin, Bonan Ruan, Jiahao Liu, Weibo Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23474

A Large-Scale Evolvable Dataset for Model Context Protocol Ecosystem and Security Analysis
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) has recently emerged as a standardized interface for connecting language models with external tools and data. As the ecosystem rapidly expands, the lack of a structured, comprehensive view of existing MCP artifacts presents challenges for research. To bridge this gap, we introduce MCPCorpus, a large-scale dataset containing around 14K MCP servers and 300 MCP clients. Each artifact is annotated with 20+ normalized attributes capturing its identity, interface conf…

Experimental Construction of NOON State Dynamics in Photonic Flat Band Lattices
Rishav Hui, Trideb Shit, Marco Di Liberto, Diptiman Sen, Sebabrata Mukherjee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21700

Experimental Construction of NOON State Dynamics in Photonic Flat Band Lattices
We investigate the transport of path-entangled multi-photon NOON states in a flat-band photonic rhombic lattice and observe intriguing localization-delocalization features that depend on the phase as well as the photon number of the NOON states. To experimentally emulate photon number correlations, we develop an intensity correlation measurement protocol using coherent laser light with tunable relative phases. We first apply this protocol to show spatial bunching and anti-bunching of two-photon…

Automated Test Data Generation for Enterprise Protobuf Systems: A Metaclass-Enhanced Statistical Approach
Y. Du
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22070 https://ar…

Automated Test Data Generation for Enterprise Protobuf Systems: A Metaclass-Enhanced Statistical Approach
Large-scale enterprise systems utilizing Protocol Buffers (protobuf) present significant challenges for performance testing, particularly when targeting intermediate business interfaces with complex nested data structures. Traditional test data generation approaches are inadequate for handling the intricate hierarchical and graph-like structures inherent in enterprise protobuf schemas. This paper presents a novel test data generation framework that leverages Python's metaclass system for dynami…

Anybody have access to an oscilloscope with a 100baseTX Ethernet decoder on it? Curious how fast commercial protocol decodes are compared to mine.
I'd love benchmarks:
* 2 channels, 10M points, 500 Msps, on P/N
* Simple edge trigger, saturated or nearly saturated link
* Decode to Ethernet frames
How many waveforms per second / seconds per waveform do you get?

From Cloud-Native to Trust-Native: A Protocol for Verifiable Multi-Agent Systems
Muyang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22077 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.2207…

From Cloud-Native to Trust-Native: A Protocol for Verifiable Multi-Agent Systems
As autonomous agents powered by large language models (LLMs) proliferate in high-stakes domains -- from pharmaceuticals to legal workflows -- the challenge is no longer just intelligence, but verifiability. We introduce TrustTrack, a protocol that embeds structural guarantees -- verifiable identity, policy commitments, and tamper-resistant behavioral logs -- directly into agent infrastructure. This enables a new systems paradigm: trust-native autonomy. By treating compliance as a design constra…

FastSet: Parallel Claim Settlement
Xiaohong Chen, Grigore Rosu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23395 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.23395

FastSet: Parallel Claim Settlement
FastSet is an actor-based distributed protocol for decentralized finance and settlement, which is inspired from blockchains. Account holders cooperate by making claims, which can include payments, holding and transferring assets, accessing and updating shared data, medical records, digital identity, and mathematical theorems, among many others. The claims are signed by their owners and are broadcast to a decentralized network of validators, which validate and settle them. Validators replicate t…

This Company Wants to Bring End-to-End Encrypted Messages to Bluesky’s AT Protocol https://www.404media.co/this-company-wants-to-bring-end-to-end-encrypted-messages-to-blueskys-at-protocol/

What if each voxel were measured with a different diffusion protocol?
Santiago Coelho, Gregory Lemberskiy, Ante Zhu, Hong-Hsi Lee, Nastaren Abad, Thomas K. F. Foo, Els Fieremans, Dmitry S. Novikov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22650

What if each voxel were measured with a different diffusion protocol?
Expansion of diffusion MRI (dMRI) both into the realm of strong gradients, and into accessible imaging with portable low-field devices, brings about the challenge of gradient nonlinearities. Spatial variations of the diffusion gradients make diffusion weightings and directions non-uniform across the field of view, and deform perfect shells in the q-space designed for isotropic directional coverage. Such imperfections hinder parameter estimation: Anisotropic shells hamper the deconvolution of fi…

Our company sells products to test internet protocol implementations under unusual, but possible, situations. (Many fail.)
We sell worldwide, so we have to attach various code numbers to identify the type of product to the import/export (tariff/duty) government agents who make sure that things coming into their countries pay the proper fees.
Well, that list of code numbers appears to have been created in the 1970s and not updated since. So if you are selling a VHS VCR or a Fax m…

Xavier Worthy injury: Emerging Chiefs WR enters concussion protocol after leaving practice

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/xavier-worthy-…

Dynamic Exponent Market Maker: Personalized Portfolio Manager and One Pool to Trade Them All
Wittawat Kositwattanarerk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22732 https://

Dynamic Exponent Market Maker: Personalized Portfolio Manager and One Pool to Trade Them All
Decentralized exchange platforms such as Uniswap and Balancer operate on several pools where each pool contains two or more cryptocurrencies and constitutes direct trading pairs. The drawbacks here are that liquidity providing requires contribution of tokens in a specific proportion, and trading may require hopping between pools, hence increasing transaction fee and gas fee. We propose an automated market maker (AMM) protocol where liquidity providers can deposit any amount of tokens into the p…

AgentMaster: A Multi-Agent Conversational Framework Using A2A and MCP Protocols for Multimodal Information Retrieval and Analysis
Callie C. Liao, Duoduo Liao, Sai Surya Gadiraju
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21105

AgentMaster: A Multi-Agent Conversational Framework Using A2A and MCP Protocols for Multimodal Information Retrieval and Analysis
The rise of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially integrated with Large Language Models (LLMs), has greatly facilitated the resolution of complex tasks. However, current systems are still facing challenges of inter-agent communication, coordination, and interaction with heterogeneous tools and resources. Most recently, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) by Anthropic and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) communication protocol by Google have been introduced, and to the best of o…

From Prompt Injections to Protocol Exploits: Threats in LLM-Powered AI Agents Workflows
Mohamed Amine Ferrag, Norbert Tihanyi, Djallel Hamouda, Leandros Maglaras, Merouane Debbah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23260

From Prompt Injections to Protocol Exploits: Threats in LLM-Powered AI Agents Workflows
Autonomous AI agents powered by large language models (LLMs) with structured function-calling interfaces have dramatically expanded capabilities for real-time data retrieval, complex computation, and multi-step orchestration. Yet, the explosive proliferation of plugins, connectors, and inter-agent protocols has outpaced discovery mechanisms and security practices, resulting in brittle integrations vulnerable to diverse threats. In this survey, we introduce the first unified, end-to-end threat m…

Great article. And has this gem as a closing statement: „Somewhere, a protocol is being used exactly as intended. This is deeply suspicious.“
https://darmstadt.social/@claudius/114766051184046904

Measurement and preparation protocols for quantum field theory on curved spacetimes
Christopher J. Fewster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.21426 https://arxiv.o…

Measurement and preparation protocols for quantum field theory on curved spacetimes
In this conference proceedings contribution, I describe work in progress concerning two problems in the measurement theory of quantum fields. First, it is proved that all local observables can be obtained from local measurement schemes. Second, I describe a protocol for preparing a Hadamard local product state of given Hadamard states relative to the local algebras of specified spacelike separated regions.

Reliable Transmission of LTP Using Reinforcement Learning-Based Adaptive FEC
Liang Chen, Yu Song, Kanglian Zhao, Juan A. Fraire, Wenfeng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22470

Reliable Transmission of LTP Using Reinforcement Learning-Based Adaptive FEC
Delay/Disruption Tolerant Networking (DTN) employs the Licklider Transmission Protocol (LTP) with Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) for reliable data delivery in challenging interplanetary networks. While previous studies have integrated packet-level Forward Erasure Correction (FEC) into LTP to reduce retransmission time costs, existing static and delay-feedback-based dynamic coding methods struggle with highly variable and unpredictable deep space channel conditions. This paper proposes a reinfor…

Introduction to AT Protocol – mackuba.eu https://mackuba.eu/2025/08/20/introduction-to-atproto/

Introduction to AT Protocol
Walkthrough of the various parts and concepts in Bluesky's AT Protocol (ATProto), the types of servers involved and how it all fits together

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Continuous Variable Terahertz Quantum Key Distribution
Mingqi Zhang, Kaveh Delfanazari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22985

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing Continuous Variable Terahertz Quantum Key Distribution
We propose a novel continuous-variable quantum key distribution (CVQKD) protocol that employs orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) in the terahertz (THz) band to enable high-throughput and secure quantum communication. By encoding quantum information across multiple subcarriers, the protocol enhances spectral efficiency and mitigates channel dispersion and atmospheric attenuation. We present a comprehensive security analysis under collective Gaussian attacks, considering both terre…

MCP4EDA: LLM-Powered Model Context Protocol RTL-to-GDSII Automation with Backend Aware Synthesis Optimization
Yiting Wang, Wanghao Ye, Yexiao He, Yiran Chen, Gang Qu, Ang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19570

MCP4EDA: LLM-Powered Model Context Protocol RTL-to-GDSII Automation with Backend Aware Synthesis Optimization
This paper presents MCP4EDA, the first Model Context Protocol server that enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to control and optimize the complete open-source RTL-to-GDSII design flow through natural language interaction. The system integrates Yosys synthesis, Icarus Verilog simulation, OpenLane place-and-route, GTKWave analysis, and KLayout visualization into a unified LLM-accessible interface, enabling designers to execute complex multi-tool EDA workflows conversationally via AI assistants s…

are you a platform/embedded developer?
do you need to interact with hardware in a semi-custom manner?
would you like to suffer a lot less doing it?
if so, #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer might be for you. the code below is all you need to build a custom testbench for a DUT you've never seen before. just as easily you can add JTAG/SWD debug, protocol analyzers, etc.…

Signatures of rigidity and second sound in dipolar supersolids
G. A. Bougas, T. Bland, H. R. Sadeghpour, S. I. Mistakidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22290 …

Signatures of rigidity and second sound in dipolar supersolids
We propose a dynamical protocol to probe the rigidity and phase coherence of dipolar supersolids by merging initially separated fragments in quasi-one-dimensional (1D) double-well potentials. Simulations based on the extended Gross-Pitaevskii equation reveal distinct dynamical signatures across phases. Supersolids exhibit damped crystal oscillations following barrier removal, with the damping rate reflecting superfluid connectivity. A phase-imprinted jump additionally triggers metastable dark s…

Wait-Only Broadcast Protocols are Easier to Verify
Lucie Guillou, Arnaud Sangnier, Nathalie Sznajder
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22144 https://

Wait-Only Broadcast Protocols are Easier to Verify
We study networks of processes that all execute the same finite-state protocol and communicate via broadcasts. We are interested in two problems with a parameterized number of processes: the synchronization problem which asks whether there is an execution which puts all processes on a given state; and the repeated coverability problem which asks if there is an infinite execution where a given transition is taken infinitely often. Since both problems are undecidable in the general case, we inves…

Tensor Network Representations for Intrinsically Mixed-State Topological Orders
Bader Aldossari, Sergey Blinov, Zhu-Xi Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22989 https://

Tensor Network Representations for Intrinsically Mixed-State Topological Orders
Tensor networks are an efficient platform to represent interesting quantum states of matter as well as to compute physical observables and information-theoretic quantities. We present a general protocol to construct fixed-point tensor network representations for intrinsically mixed-state topological phases, which exhibit nontrivial topological phenomena and do not have pure-state counterparts. The method exploits the power of anyon condensation in Choi states and is applicable to the cases wher…

Everyone, if you can than do a donation to https://ntp.org
https://www.ntp.org/donate/

Did you know the Palermo Protocol was adopted by the United Nations in 2000 and says “the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring, or receipt of people through force, fraud, or deception, with the aim of exploiting them” is human trafficking?
#ice #USpol

A Protocol to Address Ecological Redirection for Digital Practices in Organizations
Valentin Girard, Antoine Martin, Maud Rio, Romain Couillet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19078 h…

A Protocol to Address Ecological Redirection for Digital Practices in Organizations
The digitalization of societies raises questions about its sustainability and the socio-technical impacts it generates. Ecological redirection applied to organizations is a field of research aiming for achieving sustainability as a direction, rather than for technical means. Arbitration and renunciation to some digital usage and technologies are investigated. Ecological redirection is, however, not yet addressing concrete methodologies for its implementation in organizations. This paper therefo…

DRIVE Through the Unpredictability:From a Protocol Investigating Slip to a Metric Estimating Command Uncertainty
Nicolas Samson, William Larriv\'ee-Hardy, William Dubois, \'Elie Roy-Brouard, Edith Brotherton, Dominic Baril, Julien L\'epine, Fran\c{c}ois Pomerleau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16593

DRIVE Through the Unpredictability:From a Protocol Investigating Slip to a Metric Estimating Command Uncertainty
Off-road autonomous navigation is a challenging task as it is mainly dependent on the accuracy of the motion model. Motion model performances are limited by their ability to predict the interaction between the terrain and the UGV, which an onboard sensor can not directly measure. In this work, we propose using the DRIVE protocol to standardize the collection of data for system identification and characterization of the slip state space. We validated this protocol by acquiring a dataset with two…

from my link log —
Re-implementing the Nix protocol in Rust.
https://tweag.io/blog/2024-04-25-nix-protocol-in-rust/
saved 2024-05-06

Re-implementing the Nix protocol in Rust
We re-implemented the nix remote protocol, declaratively

Brook-2PL: Tolerating High Contention Workloads with A Deadlock-Free Two-Phase Locking Protocol
Farzad Habibi, Juncheng Fang, Tania Lorido-Botran, Faisal Nawab
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18576

Brook-2PL: Tolerating High Contention Workloads with A Deadlock-Free Two-Phase Locking Protocol
The problem of hotspots remains a critical challenge in high-contention workloads for concurrency control (CC) protocols. Traditional concurrency control approaches encounter significant difficulties under high contention, resulting in excessive transaction aborts and deadlocks. In this paper, we propose Brook-2PL, a novel two-phase locking (2PL) protocol that (1) introduces SLW-Graph for deadlock-free transaction execution, and (2) proposes partial transaction chopping for early lock release. …

Weird flex, both @… and @… are mentioned on "Introduction to AT Protocol" https://

Introduction to AT Protocol
Walkthrough of the various parts and concepts in Bluesky's AT Protocol (ATProto), the types of servers involved and how it all fits together

BlueSky Isn't Dying - and There's a Larger Ecosystem Growing Around Its Open Protocol - Slashdot
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/21/046247/bluesky-isnt-dying---and-theres-a-larger-ecosystem-growing-around-its-open-protocol

A double selection entanglement distillation-based state estimator
Joshua Carlo A. Casapao, Ananda G. Maity, Naphan Benchasattabuse, Michal Hajdu\v{s}ek, Akihito Soeda, Rodney Van Meter, David Elkouss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24280

A double selection entanglement distillation-based state estimator
With the advent of practical quantum communication networks drawing closer, there is a growing need for reliable estimation protocols that can efficiently characterize quantum resources with minimum resource overhead requirement. A novel approach to this problem is to integrate an estimator into an existing network task, thereby removing the need for an additional characterization protocol. In this work, we show that the measurement statistics of a double selection distillation protocol alone c…

Cycles Protocol: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Clearing System
Ethan Buchman, Paolo Dini, Shoaib Ahmed, Andrew Miller, Toma\v{z} Fleischman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.22309 https://…

Cycles Protocol: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Clearing System
For centuries, financial institutions have responded to liquidity challenges by forming closed, centralized clearing clubs with strict rules and membership that allow them to collaborate on using the least money to discharge the most debt. As closed clubs, much of the general public has been excluded from participation. But the vast majority of private sector actors consists of micro or small firms that are vulnerable to late payments and generally ineligible for bank loans. This low liquidity …

Poseidon, an AI-focused decentralized data layer built on the Story protocol, raised a $15M seed led by a16z (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/363702/a16z-leads-15-million-seed-roun…

Model Context Protocols in Adaptive Transport Systems: A Survey
Gaurab Chhetri, Shriyank Somvanshi, Md Monzurul Islam, Shamyo Brotee, Mahmuda Sultana Mimi, Dipti Koirala, Biplov Pandey, Subasish Das
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19239

Model Context Protocols in Adaptive Transport Systems: A Survey
The rapid expansion of interconnected devices, autonomous systems, and AI applications has created severe fragmentation in adaptive transport systems, where diverse protocols and context sources remain isolated. This survey provides the first systematic investigation of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a unifying paradigm, highlighting its ability to bridge protocol-level adaptation with context-aware decision making. Analyzing established literature, we show that existing efforts have impli…

as_skitter: Skitter IP graph (2005)
An aggregate snapshot of the Internet Protocol (IP) graph, as measured by the traceroute tool on CAIDA's skitter infrastructure, in 2005.
This network has 1696415 nodes and 11095298 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/as_s…

Rational Miner Behaviour, Protocol Stability, and Time Preference: An Austrian and Game-Theoretic Analysis of Bitcoin's Incentive Environment
Craig Steven Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20965

Rational Miner Behaviour, Protocol Stability, and Time Preference: An Austrian and Game-Theoretic Analysis of Bitcoin's Incentive Environment
This paper integrates Austrian capital theory with repeated game theory to examine strategic miner behaviour under different institutional conditions in blockchain systems. It shows that when protocol rules are mutable, effective time preference rises, undermining rational long-term planning and cooperative equilibria. Using formal game-theoretic analysis and Austrian economic principles, the paper demonstrates how mutable protocols shift miner incentives from productive investment to political…

huh, i just found this. it is clearly llm generated, and thus riddled with inaccuracies and hallucinations. but on first glance, i am very much impressed by the stuff that doesn't immediately jump at me as wrong: https://deepwiki.com/stef/libopaque and

MCP-Bench: Benchmarking Tool-Using LLM Agents with Complex Real-World Tasks via MCP Servers
Zhenting Wang, Qi Chang, Hemani Patel, Shashank Biju, Cheng-En Wu, Quan Liu, Aolin Ding, Alireza Rezazadeh, Ankit Shah, Yujia Bao, Eugene Siow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20453

MCP-Bench: Benchmarking Tool-Using LLM Agents with Complex Real-World Tasks via MCP Servers
We introduce MCP-Bench, a benchmark for evaluating large language models (LLMs) on realistic, multi-step tasks that demand tool use, cross-tool coordination, precise parameter control, and planning/reasoning for solving tasks. Built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), MCP-Bench connects LLMs to 28 representative live MCP servers spanning 250 tools across domains such as finance, traveling, scientific computing, and academic search. Unlike prior API-based benchmarks, each MCP server provides a …

Rethinking Testing for LLM Applications: Characteristics, Challenges, and a Lightweight Interaction Protocol
Wei Ma, Yixiao Yang, Qiang Hu, Shi Ying, Zhi Jin, Bo Du, Zhenchang Xing, Tianlin Li, Junjie Shi, Yang Liu, Linxiao Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20737

Rethinking Testing for LLM Applications: Characteristics, Challenges, and a Lightweight Interaction Protocol
Applications of Large Language Models~(LLMs) have evolved from simple text generators into complex software systems that integrate retrieval augmentation, tool invocation, and multi-turn interactions. Their inherent non-determinism, dynamism, and context dependence pose fundamental challenges for quality assurance. This paper decomposes LLM applications into a three-layer architecture: \textbf{\textit{System Shell Layer}}, \textbf{\textit{Prompt Orchestration Layer}}, and \textbf{\textit{LLM In…

V2X Intention Sharing for Cooperative Electrically Power-Assisted Cycles
Felipe Valle Quiroz, Johan Elfing, Joel P{\aa}lsson, Elena Haller, Oscar Amador Molina
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22223

V2X Intention Sharing for Cooperative Electrically Power-Assisted Cycles
This paper introduces a novel intention-sharing mechanism for Electrically Power-Assisted Cycles (EPACs) within V2X communication frameworks, enhancing the ETSI VRU Awareness Message (VAM) protocol. The method replaces discrete predicted trajectory points with a compact elliptical geographical area representation derived via quadratic polynomial fitting and Least Squares Method (LSM). This approach encodes trajectory predictions with fixed-size data payloads, independent of the number of foreca…

1. Order two bags of cat litter.
2. The seller doesn't send it on time. No matter, you're not in a hurry.
3. Recall that they still didn't send it. Decide to resign.
4. Turns out they send it just before you resign.
5. The parcels come. Open the box.
6. Discover that the bag is damaged. Take a photo just in case.
7. Carefully take it out and check how damaged it is. Well, it's only ripped at the top, no point in returning it over that.
8. Notice they've sent the wrong litter (you've ordered non-scented) 🤦.
9. Call them asking whether there's a point in opening the other box. They say it's going to be the wrong litter too, just make a return request and attach photos.
10. You do that, requesting money return. They request you to make damage protocol from delivery company.
11. You do that. Maybe you'd agree to a 20 PLN discount for next shopping instead of returning two bags of the wrong cat litter?
12. They finally accept the return. And they prepare the return… for one bag 🤦.
So I was supposed to work less today. Instead, I've wasted a lot of time on dealing with damaged parcel and the vendor. And a lot of tape, so it wouldn't fall apart on the return journey.

Time-energy tradeoff in stochastic resetting using optimal control
R\'emi Goerlich, Kristian St{\o}levik Olsen, Hartmut L\"owen, Yael Roichman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19387

Time-energy tradeoff in stochastic resetting using optimal control
Stochastic resetting is a driving mechanism that is known to minimize the first passage time to reach a target, at the cost of energy expenditure. The choice of the physical implementation of each resetting event determines the tradeoff between the acceleration of the search process and its energetic cost. Here, we present an optimal transport protocol that balances the duration and the energetic cost of each resetting event. This protocol drives a harmonically trapped Brownian particle between…

Towards Multi-Agent Economies: Enhancing the A2A Protocol with Ledger-Anchored Identities and x402 Micropayments for AI Agents
Awid Vaziry, Sandro Rodriguez Garzon, Axel K\"upper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19550

Towards Multi-Agent Economies: Enhancing the A2A Protocol with Ledger-Anchored Identities and x402 Micropayments for AI Agents
This research article presents a novel architecture to empower multi-agent economies by addressing two critical limitations of the emerging Agent2Agent (A2A) communication protocol: decentralized agent discoverability and agent-to-agent micropayments. By integrating distributed ledger technology (DLT), this architecture enables tamper-proof, on-chain publishing of AgentCards as smart contracts, providing secure and verifiable agent identities. The architecture further extends A2A with the x402 …

VARRHO & StereoKollektor – Vertical Protocol
#breakbeats

A Formalization of the Correctness of the Floodsub Protocol
Ankit Kumar (Northeastern University), Panagiotis Manolios (Northeastern University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19013

A Formalization of the Correctness of the Floodsub Protocol
Floodsub is a simple, robust and popular peer-to-peer publish/subscribe (pubsub) protocol, where nodes can arbitrarily leave or join the network, subscribe to or unsubscribe from topics and forward newly received messages to all of their neighbors, except the sender or the originating peer. To show the correctness of Floodsub, we propose its specification: Broadcastsub, in which implementation details like network connections and neighbor subscriptions are elided. To show that Floodsub does re…

A New Quantum Interferometric Protocol Using Spin-Dependent Displacements
Necati Celik, Songul Akbulut Ozen, Burhan Engin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19544 …

A New Quantum Interferometric Protocol Using Spin-Dependent Displacements
We propose a quantum interferometric protocol that leverages spin-dependent spatial displacements to enable high-precision parameter estimation beyond classical limits. By inducing a unitary coupling between a particles spin degree of freedom and its momentum, the protocol generates entanglement between spin states and spatial positions, resulting in coherent spatial superpositions. Interferometric reconstruction of the resulting phase differences enables Heisenberg limited sensitivity for para…

Esto se ve realmente interesante. Una herramienta que permite migrar cuentas entre activitypub y ATprotocol conservando publicaciones y seguidores. Y, según entiendo, también permite migrar entre plataformas del mismo protocolo. Habrš que ver qué tal va.
https://blog.anew.social/bounce-a-cros…

Formal Modeling and Verification of the Algorand Consensus Protocol in CADP
Andrea Esposito, Francesco P. Rossi, Marco Bernardo, Francesco Fabris, Hubert Garavel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19452

Formal Modeling and Verification of the Algorand Consensus Protocol in CADP
Algorand is a scalable and secure permissionless blockchain that achieves proof-of-stake consensus via cryptographic self-sortition and binary Byzantine agreement. In this paper, we present a process algebraic model of the Algorand consensus protocol with the aim of enabling rigorous formal verification. Our model captures the behavior of participants with respect to the structured alternation of consensus steps toward a committee-based agreement by means of a probabilistic process calculus. We…

With moving my calendar away from Google I was looking for a Caldev solution, but ...
Interesting take on CalDev and encryption on Cryptpad's github page.
No chance that that will happen encrypted.
It's waiting for an solution in the Caldev protocol. 😇
[Feature request] Possibility to have CalDAV for the Calendar · Issue #823 · cryptpad/cryptpad

Replaced article(s) found for cs.NI. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.NI/new
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- Retrieval Augmented Generation Based LLM Evaluation For Protocol State Machine Inference With Cha...
Youssef Maklad, Fares Wael, Wael Elsersy, Ali Hamdi

Looking for Attention: Randomized Attention Test Design for Validator Monitoring in Optimistic Rollups
Suhyeon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24393 https:/…

Looking for Attention: Randomized Attention Test Design for Validator Monitoring in Optimistic Rollups
Optimistic Rollups (ORUs) significantly enhance blockchain scalability but inherently suffer from the verifier's dilemma, particularly concerning validator attentiveness. Current systems lack mechanisms to proactively ensure validators are diligently monitoring L2 state transitions, creating a vulnerability where fraudulent states could be finalized. This paper introduces the Randomized Attention Test (RAT), a novel L1-based protocol designed to probabilistically challenge validators in ORUs, t…

Asking for no reason whatsoever: Lots of oscilloscopes have protocol decodes for various flavors of Ethernet.
Have you ever encountered one, from any manufacturer, that is able to decode 100mbit ethernet in real time without dropping packets?

from my link log —
Critical analysis of the Meshtastic protocol.
https://www.disk91.com/2024/technology/lora/critical-analysis-of-the-meshtastic-protocol/
saved 2025-06-16

Critical Analysis of the Meshtastic Protocol - disk91.com - the IoT blog
Analysis of the Mestastic LoRa mesh solution in details, what's good and wrong with that communication solution.

Institutional Noise, Strategic Deviation, and Intertemporal Collapse: A Formal Model of Miner Behaviour under Protocol Uncertainty
Craig Steven Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20992

Institutional Noise, Strategic Deviation, and Intertemporal Collapse: A Formal Model of Miner Behaviour under Protocol Uncertainty
This paper develops a formal game-theoretic model to examine how protocol mutability disrupts cooperative mining behaviour in blockchain systems. Using a repeated game framework with stochastic rule shocks, we show that even minor uncertainty in institutional rules increases time preference and induces strategic deviation. Fixed-rule environments support long-term investment and stable equilibrium strategies; in contrast, mutable protocols lead to short-termism, higher discounting, and collapse…

Sparse Regression Codes for Secret Key Agreement: Achieving Strong Secrecy and Near-Optimal Rates for Gaussian Sources
Emmanouil M. Athanasakos, Hariprasad Manjunath
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20157

Sparse Regression Codes for Secret Key Agreement: Achieving Strong Secrecy and Near-Optimal Rates for Gaussian Sources
Secret key agreement from correlated physical layer observations is a cornerstone of information-theoretic security. This paper proposes and rigorously analyzes a complete, constructive protocol for secret key agreement from Gaussian sources using Sparse Regression Codes (SPARCs). Our protocol systematically leverages the known optimality of SPARCs for both rate-distortion and Wyner-Ziv (WZ) coding, facilitated by their inherent nested structure. The primary contribution of this work is a compr…

MCP-Universe: Benchmarking Large Language Models with Real-World Model Context Protocol Servers
Ziyang Luo, Zhiqi Shen, Wenzhuo Yang, Zirui Zhao, Prathyusha Jwalapuram, Amrita Saha, Doyen Sahoo, Silvio Savarese, Caiming Xiong, Junnan Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14704

MCP-Universe: Benchmarking Large Language Models with Real-World Model Context Protocol Servers
The Model Context Protocol has emerged as a transformative standard for connecting large language models to external data sources and tools, rapidly gaining adoption across major AI providers and development platforms. However, existing benchmarks are overly simplistic and fail to capture real application challenges such as long-horizon reasoning and large, unfamiliar tool spaces. To address this critical gap, we introduce MCP-Universe, the first comprehensive benchmark specifically designed to…

contact: Haggle human proximity network (2006)
A network of human proximities, as measured by carried wireless devices. Each node represents a person, and an edge denotes when two people were within a certain proximity of each other, as measured by a wireless protocol (Bluetooth or Wifi). The edges are timestamped.
This network has 274 nodes and 28244 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

The Aegis Protocol: A Foundational Security Framework for Autonomous AI Agents
Sai Teja Reddy Adapala, Yashwanth Reddy Alugubelly
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19267 https://

The Aegis Protocol: A Foundational Security Framework for Autonomous AI Agents
The proliferation of autonomous AI agents marks a paradigm shift toward complex, emergent multi-agent systems. This transition introduces systemic security risks, including control-flow hijacking and cascading failures, that traditional cybersecurity paradigms are ill-equipped to address. This paper introduces the Aegis Protocol, a layered security framework designed to provide strong security guarantees for open agentic ecosystems. The protocol integrates three technological pillars: (1) non-s…

Reliable Image Transmission in CPS-based Pub/Sub
Everson Flores, Bruna Guterres, Thomaz Pereira Junior, Paula Barros, Alberto Cabral, Cristiana Lima Dora, Marcelo Malheiros, Marcelo Pias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22875

Reliable Image Transmission in CPS-based Pub/Sub
Developments in communication and automation have driven the expansion of distributed networks, essential for IoT and CPS development in industrial applications requiring reliable image processing and real-time adaptability. Although broadly adopted, there is a literature gap regarding the performance of MQTT protocol for image sharing and transmission under high-traffic scenarios with intermittent connectivity, restricting its use in critical IoT and CPS applications. In this context, the pres…

Experiences with Model Context Protocol Servers for Science and High Performance Computing
Haochen Pan, Ryan Chard, Reid Mello, Christopher Grams, Tanjin He, Alexander Brace, Owen Price Skelly, Will Engler, Hayden Holbrook, Song Young Oh, Maxime Gonthier, Michael Papka, Ben Blaiszik, Kyle Chard, Ian Foster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18489

Experiences with Model Context Protocol Servers for Science and High Performance Computing
Large language model (LLM)-powered agents are increasingly used to plan and execute scientific workflows, yet most research cyberinfrastructure (CI) exposes heterogeneous APIs and implements security models that present barriers for use by agents. We report on our experience using the Model Context Protocol (MCP) as a unifying interface that makes research capabilities discoverable, invokable, and composable. Our approach is pragmatic: we implement thin MCP servers over mature services, includi…

The Linux Foundation unveils the Agent2Agent project, with founding members including Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft; Google donated the protocol spec and SDK (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-cloud-donates-a2…

Google Cloud donates A2A to Linux Foundation- Google Developers Blog
Explore how Google, Amazon, and Cisco form the Agent2Agent Foundation under the Linux Foundation to drive AI innovation via interoperability as an industry standard.

Robot Context Protocol (RCP): A Runtime-Agnostic Interface for Agent-Aware Robot Control
Lambert Lee, Joshua Lau
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11650 https://

Robot Context Protocol (RCP): A Runtime-Agnostic Interface for Agent-Aware Robot Control
The Robot Context Protocol (RCP) is a lightweight, middleware-agnostic communication protocol designed to simplify the complexity of robotic systems and enable seamless interaction between robots, users, and autonomous agents. RCP provides a unified and semantically meaningful interface that decouples client-facing operations from backend implementations, supporting a wide range of deployment environments including physical robots, cloud-based orchestrators, and simulated platforms. Built on HT…

The Stated Protocol: A Decentralized Framework for Digital Diplomacy
Christopher J. P. Rieckmann
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13517 https://

The Stated Protocol: A Decentralized Framework for Digital Diplomacy
International coordination faces significant friction due to reliance on periodic summits, bilateral consultations, and fragmented communication channels that impede rapid collective responses to emerging global challenges while limiting transparency to constituents. We present the Stated Protocol, a decentralized framework that enables organizations to coordinate through standardized text statements published on their website domains. While applicable to all organizations, this work focuses pr…

AGI Enabled Solutions For IoX Layers Bottlenecks In Cyber-Physical-Social-Thinking Space
Amar Khelloufi, Huansheng Ning, Sahraoui Dhelim, Jianguo Ding
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22487

AGI Enabled Solutions For IoX Layers Bottlenecks In Cyber-Physical-Social-Thinking Space
The integration of the Internet of Everything (IoX) and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has given rise to a transformative paradigm aimed at addressing critical bottlenecks across sensing, network, and application layers in Cyber-Physical-Social Thinking (CPST) ecosystems. In this survey, we provide a systematic and comprehensive review of AGI-enhanced IoX research, focusing on three key components: sensing-layer data management, network-layer protocol optimization, and application-layer …

An Open-source Implementation and Security Analysis of Triad's TEE Trusted Time Protocol
Matthieu Bettinger, Sonia Ben Mokhtar, Anthony Simonet-Boulogne
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20851

An Open-source Implementation and Security Analysis of Triad's TEE Trusted Time Protocol
The logic of many protocols relies on time measurements. However, in Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) like Intel SGX, the time source is outside the Trusted Computing Base: a malicious system hosting the TEE can manipulate that TEE's notion of time, e.g., jumping in time or affecting the perceived time speed. Previous work like Triad propose protocols for TEEs to maintain a trustworthy time source. However, in this paper, based on a public implementation of Triad that we contribute, we emp…

Making REST APIs Agent-Ready: From OpenAPI to Model Context Protocol Servers for Tool-Augmented LLMs
Meriem Mastouri, Emna Ksontini, Wael Kessentini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.16044

Making REST APIs Agent-Ready: From OpenAPI to Model Context Protocol Servers for Tool-Augmented LLMs
Large Language Models (LLMs) are evolving from passive text generators into active agents that invoke external tools. To support this shift, scalable protocols for tool integration are essential. The Model Context Protocol (MCP), introduced by Anthropic in 2024, offers a schema-driven standard for dynamic tool discovery and invocation. Yet, building MCP servers remains manual and repetitive, requiring developers to write glue code, handle authentication, and configure schemas by hand-replicatin…

Decentralized messaging protocol XMTP developer Ephemera raised a $20M Series B at a $300M equity and $750M network valuation, following a $20M Series A in 2021 (Yogita Khatri/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/363026/ephemera-xmtp-fu…

Help or Hurdle? Rethinking Model Context Protocol-Augmented Large Language Models
Wei Song, Haonan Zhong, Ziqi Ding, Jingling Xue, Yuekang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12566 ht…

Help or Hurdle? Rethinking Model Context Protocol-Augmented Large Language Models
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables large language models (LLMs) to access external resources on demand. While commonly assumed to enhance performance, how LLMs actually leverage this capability remains poorly understood. We introduce MCPGAUGE, the first comprehensive evaluation framework for probing LLM-MCP interactions along four key dimensions: proactivity (self-initiated tool use), compliance (adherence to tool-use instructions), effectiveness (task performance post-integration), and o…

Protocol for Purifying Noisy Preparation and Measurements of Qubits
Jaemin Kim, Seungchan Seo, Jiyoung Yun, Benjamin Lienhard, Joonwoo Bae
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16136 https…

Protocol for Purifying Noisy Preparation and Measurements of Qubits
Noise affecting qubit preparation and measurements accounts for a significant fraction of errors in quantum information processing. This is especially critical in tasks like variational quantum algorithms, quantum error correction, and entanglement distribution through repeaters. In this work, we present a protocol to purify noisy SPAM, effectively suppressing these errors to an arbitrarily low level. For instance, in a realistic scenario where qubits contain error rates around $0.05$ in both p…

MultiFuzz: A Dense Retrieval-based Multi-Agent System for Network Protocol Fuzzing
Youssef Maklad, Fares Wael, Ali Hamdi, Wael Elsersy, Khaled Shaban
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14300

MultiFuzz: A Dense Retrieval-based Multi-Agent System for Network Protocol Fuzzing
Traditional protocol fuzzing techniques, such as those employed by AFL-based systems, often lack effectiveness due to a limited semantic understanding of complex protocol grammars and rigid seed mutation strategies. Recent works, such as ChatAFL, have integrated Large Language Models (LLMs) to guide protocol fuzzing and address these limitations, pushing protocol fuzzers to wider exploration of the protocol state space. But ChatAFL still faces issues like unreliable output, LLM hallucinations, …

Lions' Norris in concussion protocol, 'doing well' https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45943846/coach-lions-morice-norris-concussion-protocol-doing-well

An ETSI GS QKD compliant TLS implementation
Thomas Pr\'evost (I3S), Bruno Martin (I3S), Olivier Alibart (INPHYNI)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19409 http…

An ETSI GS QKD compliant TLS implementation
A modification of the TLS protocol is presented, using our implementation of the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) standard ETSI GS QKD 014 v1.1.1. We rely on the Rustls library for this. The TLS protocol is modified while maintaining backward compatibility on the client and server side. We thus wish to participate in the effort to generalize the use of QKD on the Internet. We used our protocol for a video conference call encrypted by QKD. Finally, we analyze the performance of our protocol, compa…

Walmart consolidates its AI agents into four "super agents", for customers, staff, engineers, and sellers/suppliers, using Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.co…

Agent Communications toward Agentic AI at Edge -- A Case Study of the Agent2Agent Protocol
Qiang Duan, Zhihui Lu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15819 https://a…

Agent Communications toward Agentic AI at Edge -- A Case Study of the Agent2Agent Protocol
The current evolution of artificial intelligence introduces a paradigm shift toward agentic AI built upon multi-agent systems (MAS). Agent communications serve as a key to effective agent interactions in MAS and thus have a significant impact on the performance of agentic AI applications. The recent research on agent communications has made exciting rapid progress that leads to a variety of protocol designs, among which the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol is considered the most representative one. S…

Equally entangled multiqubit states
Francisco Albarr\'an-Arriagada, Guillermo Romero, Juan Carlos Retamal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20770 https://arxi…

Equally entangled multiqubit states
We present a protocol for generating multiqubit quantum states with translationally invariant pairwise entanglement. Our approach is tailored for digital quantum computers with restricted qubit connectivity, a common limitation in state-of-the-art hardware platforms. We examine two configurations: star connectivity, which enables rotationally invariant entanglement, and linear connectivity, which achieves translationally invariant entanglement. For the linear configuration, we use a variant of …

Dan Campbell says Morice Norris is in concussion protocol after scary injury https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6546644/2025/08/11/lions-morice-norris-injury-update-concussion-protocol/

Custody Transfer and Compressed Status Reporting for Bundle Protocol Version 7
Alice Le Bihan, Felix Flentge, Juan A. Fraire
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17403 https://

Custody Transfer and Compressed Status Reporting for Bundle Protocol Version 7
As space missions increase, there is a growing need to replace point-to-point communication with an efficient and reliable network-centric communication approach. Disruption/Delay Tolerant Networking (DTN) with the Bundle Protocol (BP) has been selected as an interoperable network protocol in the LunaNet Interoperability Specification. It is also considered for future Earth Observation and Mars communication scenarios. In a DTN, the "bundle" -- the fundamental data unit of BP -- requires dedica…

Application of Optimal Control to Time-Resolution Protocol for Quantum Sensing
Chungwei Lin, Qi Ding, Yanting Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.13405 https://a…

Application of Optimal Control to Time-Resolution Protocol for Quantum Sensing
Time-resolution protocol of quantum sensing aims to measure the fast temporal variation of an external field and demands a high field sensitivity in a short interrogation time $τ$. Since any operation that evolves the quantum state takes time and is counted as part of the interrogation, evaluating the performance of time-resolution protocol requires a complete end-to-end description of the measurement process. In particular, the initial state has to be one of the sensor qubit's eigenstates in …

Bridging Cloud Convenience and Protocol Transparency: A Hybrid Architecture for Ethereum Node Operations on Amazon Managed Blockchain
S M Mostaq Hossain, Amani Altarawneh, Maanak Gupta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18774

Bridging Cloud Convenience and Protocol Transparency: A Hybrid Architecture for Ethereum Node Operations on Amazon Managed Blockchain
As blockchain technologies are increasingly adopted in enterprise and research domains, the need for secure, scalable, and performance-transparent node infrastructure has become critical. While self-hosted Ethereum nodes offer operational control, they often lack elasticity and require complex maintenance. This paper presents a hybrid, service-oriented architecture for deploying and monitoring Ethereum full nodes using Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB), integrated with EC2-based observability, IA…

A Three-Party Lightweight Quantum Key Distribution Protocol in a Restricted Quantum Environment
Mustapha Anis Younes, Sofia Zebboudj, Abdelhakim Gharbi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11188

A Three-Party Lightweight Quantum Key Distribution Protocol in a Restricted Quantum Environment
This study proposes a new lightweight quantum key distribution (LQKD) protocol based on the four-particle cluster state within a quantum-restricted environment. The protocol enables a quantum-capable user to simultaneously establish two separate secret keys with two "classical" users, who are limited to performing only the Hadamard operation and measurements in the $Z$ basis. By adopting a one-way qubit transmission approach, the proposed protocol addresses several limitations of existing semi-…

A Theory of Goal-Oriented Medium Access: Protocol Design and Distributed Bandit Learning
Federico Chiariotti, Andrea Zanella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19141 https://

A Theory of Goal-Oriented Medium Access: Protocol Design and Distributed Bandit Learning
The Goal-oriented Communication (GoC) paradigm breaks the separation between communication and the content of the data, tailoring communication decisions to the specific needs of the receiver and targeting application performance. While recent studies show impressive encoding performance in point-to-point scenarios, the multi-node distributed scenario is still almost unexplored. Moreover, the few studies to investigate this consider a centralized collision-free approach, where a central schedul…

ZAPS: A Zero-Knowledge Proof Protocol for Secure UAV Authentication with Flight Path Privacy
Shayesta Naziri, Xu Wang, Guangsheng Yu, Christy Jie Liang, Wei Ni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17043

ZAPS: A Zero-Knowledge Proof Protocol for Secure UAV Authentication with Flight Path Privacy
The increasing deployment of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) for military, commercial, and logistics applications has raised significant concerns regarding flight path privacy. Conventional UAV communication systems often expose flight path data to third parties, making them vulnerable to tracking, surveillance, and location inference attacks. Existing encryption techniques provide security but fail to ensure complete privacy, as adversaries can still infer movement patterns through metadata an…

Quantum optical shallow networks
Simone Roncallo, Angela Rosy Morgillo, Seth Lloyd, Chiara Macchiavello, Lorenzo Maccone
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21036 https://

Quantum optical shallow networks
Classical shallow networks are universal approximators. Given a sufficient number of neurons, they can reproduce any continuous function to arbitrary precision, with a resource cost that scales linearly in both the input size and the number of trainable parameters. In this work, we present a quantum optical protocol that implements a shallow network with an arbitrary number of neurons. Both the input data and the parameters are encoded into single-photon states. Leveraging the Hong-Ou-Mandel ef…

Digital Twin-Guided Energy Management over Real-Time Pub/Sub Protocol in 6G Smart Cities
Kubra Duran, Lal Verda Cakir, Sana Ullah Jan, Kerem Gursu, Berk Canberk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18516

Digital Twin-Guided Energy Management over Real-Time Pub/Sub Protocol in 6G Smart Cities
Although the emergence of 6G IoT networks has accelerated the deployment of enhanced smart city services, the resource limitations of IoT devices remain as a significant problem. Given this limitation, meeting the low-latency service requirement of 6G networks becomes even more challenging. However, existing 6G IoT management strategies lack real-time operation and mostly rely on discrete actions, which are insufficient to optimise energy consumption. To address these, in this study, we propose…

PRZK-Bind: A Physically Rooted Zero-Knowledge Authentication Protocol for Secure Digital Twin Binding in Smart Cities
Yagmur Yigit, Mehmet Ali Erturk, Kerem Gursu, Berk Canberk
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17913

PRZK-Bind: A Physically Rooted Zero-Knowledge Authentication Protocol for Secure Digital Twin Binding in Smart Cities
Digital twin (DT) technology is rapidly becoming essential for smart city ecosystems, enabling real-time synchronisation and autonomous decision-making across physical and digital domains. However, as DTs take active roles in control loops, securely binding them to their physical counterparts in dynamic and adversarial environments remains a significant challenge. Existing authentication solutions either rely on static trust models, require centralised authorities, or fail to provide live and v…

Observation of Inelastic Meson Scattering in a Floquet System using a Digital Quantum Simulator
Ziting Wang, Zi-Yong Ge, Yun-Hao Shi, Zheng-An Wang, Si-Yun Zhou, Hao Li, Kui Zhao, Yue-Shan Xu, Wei-Guo Ma, Hao-Tian Liu, Cai-Ping Fang, Jia-Cheng Song, Tian-Ming Li, Jia-Chi Zhang, Yu Liu, Cheng-Lin Deng, Guangming Xue, Haifeng Yu, Kai Xu, Kaixuan Huang, Franco Nori, Heng Fan

Observation of Inelastic Meson Scattering in a Floquet System using a Digital Quantum Simulator
Lattice gauge theories provide a non-perturbative framework for understanding confinement and hadronic physics, but their real-time dynamics remain challenging for classical computations. However, quantum simulators offer a promising alternative for exploring such dynamics beyond classical capabilities. Here, we experimentally investigate meson scattering using a superconducting quantum processor. Employing a digital protocol, we realize a Floquet spin chain equivalent to a one-dimensional Floq…

Is Crunching Public Data the Right Approach to Detect BGP Hijacks?
Alessandro Giaconia, Muoi Tran, Laurent Vanbever, Stefano Vissicchio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20434 https://…

Is Crunching Public Data the Right Approach to Detect BGP Hijacks?
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) remains a fragile pillar of Internet routing. BGP hijacks still occurr daily. While full deployment of Route Origin Validation (ROV) is ongoing, attackers have already adapted, launching post-ROV attacks such as forged-origin hijacks. To detect these, recent approaches like DFOH [Holterbach et al., USENIX NSDI '24] and BEAM [Chen et al., USENIX Security '24] apply machine learning (ML) to analyze data from globally distributed BGP monitors, assuming anomalies w…

Trivial Trojans: How Minimal MCP Servers Enable Cross-Tool Exfiltration of Sensitive Data
Nicola Croce, Tobin South
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19880 https://

Trivial Trojans: How Minimal MCP Servers Enable Cross-Tool Exfiltration of Sensitive Data
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) represents a significant advancement in AI-tool integration, enabling seamless communication between AI agents and external services. However, this connectivity introduces novel attack vectors that remain largely unexplored. This paper demonstrates how unsophisticated threat actors, requiring only basic programming skills and free web tools, can exploit MCP's trust model to exfiltrate sensitive financial data. We present a proof-of-concept attack where a malicio…

MindGuard: Tracking, Detecting, and Attributing MCP Tool Poisoning Attack via Decision Dependence Graph
Zhiqiang Wang, Junyang Zhang, Guanquan Shi, HaoRan Cheng, Yunhao Yao, Kaiwen Guo, Haohua Du, Xiang-Yang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20412

MindGuard: Tracking, Detecting, and Attributing MCP Tool Poisoning Attack via Decision Dependence Graph
The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is increasingly adopted to standardize the interaction between LLM agents and external tools. However, this trend introduces a new threat: Tool Poisoning Attacks (TPA), where tool metadata is poisoned to induce the agent to perform unauthorized operations. Existing defenses that primarily focus on behavior-level analysis are fundamentally ineffective against TPA, as poisoned tools need not be executed, leaving no behavioral trace to monitor. Thus, we propose M…

Development and analysis of a secured VoIP system for surveillance activities
M. Matsive Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.21038 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.21…

Development and analysis of a secured VoIP system for surveillance activities
Since the 1990s, the telephone has been the primary mode of communication. However, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which is a highly straightforward and affordable form of data transfer, is now becoming an important part of daily communication. VoIP is the technology that makes it possible to send speech and multimedia data packets across either a public or private IP network. However, a cyberattack known as a man-in-the-middle attack poses a serious concern in transferring data through a…

Cryptographic Data Exchange for Nuclear Warheads
Neil Perry, Daniil Zhukov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20074 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.20074

Cryptographic Data Exchange for Nuclear Warheads
Nuclear arms control treaties have historically focused on strategic nuclear delivery systems, leaving nuclear warheads outside formal verification frameworks. This paper presents a cryptographic protocol for secure and verifiable warhead tracking, addressing challenges in nuclear warhead verification without requiring intrusive physical inspections. Our system leverages commitment schemes and zero-knowledge succinct non-interactive arguments of knowledge (zkSNARKs) to ensure compliance with tr…