Ari Trachtenberg

CNS Core: Small: Building Resilience into Blockchains

Blockchains and cryptocurrencies have emerged as disruptive technologies with profound financial and societal impact. This state of affairs makes it imperative to gain better understanding of the dynamics and resilience of the underlying peer-to-peer networks on which blockchains operate. To this end, this project researches novel measurement methodologies, statistical modeling, and design approaches for distributed […]

CIF: NeTS: Medium: Collaborative Research: Unifying Data Synchronization

This project addresses the technical means of maintaining and sharing the huge amounts of diverse data that are being generated from the computing devices that increasingly envelop everyday lives, specifically by improving synchronization technology. The goal is to synthesize various approaches that have been developed, often in an ad hoc manner and in various fields, […]

TC: Large: Securing the Open Softphone

Mobile phones are in the midst of a dramatic transformation; they are becoming highly powerful sensor-rich software-controlled computing and communication devices. These “softphones” are increasingly entrusted with maintaining users’ electronic identity, calendars, social networks, and even bank accounts. However, the vast increases in the flexibility of softphones comes with equally large security issues and opportunities, […]