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Bryan C. Ward

Publications

This page is updated periodically (last in March 2026). See my Google Scholar page for more up-to-date publications list.

  • Z. Li, M. Sudvarg, C. Chan, R. Burrow, N. Burow, C. Lemieux-Mack, S. Baruah, N. Zhang, and B. Ward. “Balancing Security and Schedulability: WCET Evaluation and Security Optimization in CPS,” 32nd IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS). 2026. (To appear).
  • T. He and B. Ward. “MIRAGE: MILP-Based Block Grouping for Real-Time Signal Processing,” 32nd IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS). 2026. (To appear).
  • B. Bjorkman, S. Zheng, A. Coursey, C. Lemieux-Mack, S. Gonzalez, A. Diaz-Gonzalez, N. W. Dahle, N. Koroma, R. E. Canady, X. Koutsoukos, G. Biswas, A. Taye, and B. Ward. “Remote ID Spoofing Attacks and Defenses,” AIAA SciTech Forum. January 2026. DOI: 10.2514/6.2026-2665.
  • A. Diaz-Gonzalez, A. Coursey, B. Bjorkman, D. Shatokhin, C. Lemieux-Mack, N. W. Dahle, A. Taye, R. E. Canady, X. Koutsoukos, G. Biswas, and B. Ward. “Networked Simulation for Cybersecurity Evaluation of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Dense Urban Environments,” AIAA SciTech Forum. January 2026. DOI: 10.2514/6.2026-1797.
  • N. W. Dahle, R. Canady, A. Coursey, A. Diaz-Gonzalez, C. Lemieux-Mack, B. Bjorkman, A. Taye, B. Ward, G. Biswas, and X. Koutsoukos. “Detection of Compromised UAVs Using Graph Machine Learning,” AIAA SciTech Forum. January 2026. DOI: 10.2514/6.2026-2667.
  • M. Ghazanfari, I. Sharifi, P. Wei, A. Taye, B. Ward, X. Koutsoukos, G. Biswas, M. Ghasemi, V. Gupta, H. T. Kim, M. Ahmed, U. Topcu, F. Fotiadis, A. Chen, J. Lu, I. Amundson, S. Hasan, A. Shirkhodaie, N. Aryal, A. Ibrahim, A. K. Ras, H. Herencia-Zapana, N. W. Dahle, A. Diaz-Gonzalez, A. Coursey, B. Bjorkman, C. Lemieux-Mack, and R. E. Canady. “A Survey of Security Challenges and Solutions for Advanced Air Mobility and eVTOL Aircraft,” AIAA SciTech Forum. January 2026. DOI: 10.2514/6.2026-2891.
  • I. Sharifi, M. Ghazanfari, A. Taye, P. Wei, M. Ahmed, H. T. Kim, M. Ghasemi, V. Gupta, N. W. Dahle, R. Canady, A. Diaz-Gonzalez, A. Coursey, B. Bjorkman, C. Lemieux-Mack, B. Ward, X. Koutsoukos, G. Biswas, H. Herencia-Zapana, S. Hasan, I. Amundson, F. Fotiadis, U. Topcu, J. Lu, A. Chen, N. Aryal, A. Ibrahim, A. K. Ras, and A. Shirkhodaie. “A Survey of Security Challenges and Solutions for UAS Traffic Management (UTM) and Small Unmanned Aerial Systems (sUAS),” AIAA SciTech Forum. January 2026. DOI: 10.2514/6.2026-2892.
  • F. Frick, P. Neher, A. Lechler, B. Ward, D. Balasubramanian, A. Gokhale. “Security in Converged IT-OT Manufacturing Systems: Challenges and Opportunities,” International Workshop on Middleware for IT/OT Integration (MITOTI), December 2025.
  • B. Bjorkman, B.C. Ward, S. Hasan. “Towards Automated Design-Time Explainability of Assurance Cases and Trade Spaces,” Workshop on Explainability of Real-Time Systems and Their Analysis (ERSA), December 2025.
  • T. He and B. Ward. “MIRAGE: MILP-Based Block Grouping for Real-Time Signal Processing,” 1st Workshop on Open-Source Platforms for Embedded Real-time Applications (OPERA), December 2025.
  • E. Zhang, T. He, B. Ward. “Buffered Scheduling: Hiding Decision Latency with Asynchronous Scheduling,” 33rd Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS). November 2025.
  • T. He, B. Ward. “Real-Time Scheduling and Batching in GNU Radio for Bounded Response Times,” 15th GNU Radio Conference (GRCon). September 2025.
  • A. Al Arafat, K. Wilson, S. Vaidhun, B. Ward, and Z. Guo. “Resilient Scheduling of Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems against Memory-Corruptions,” 31st IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA). August 2025. DOI: 10.1109/RTCSA66114.2025.00023.
  • A. Eisenklam, W. Hedgecock, and B. Ward. “Job-Level Batching for Software-Defined Radio on Multi-Core,” 45th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS). December 2024. Best Student Paper Award. Best Presentation Award. ISIS Director’s Best Paper Award. DOI: 10.1109/RTSS62706.2024.00039. Artifact that passed evaluation available online.
  • Y. Wang, C. Lemieux-Mack, T. Chantem, S. Baruah, N. Zhang, and B. Ward. “Partial Context-Sensitive Pointer Integrity for Real-Time Embedded Systems,” 45th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS). December 2024. DOI: 10.1109/RTSS62706.2024.00042.
  • Y. Wang, C. Lemieux-Mack, X. Tan, N. Zhang, Z. Zhao, S. Baruah, and B. Ward. “InsectACIDE: Debugger-Based Holistic Asynchronous CFI for Embedded System,” 30th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS). May 2024. DOI: 10.1109/RTAS61025.2024.00036.
  • S. Baruah, P. Ekberg, M. Hosseinzadeh, A. Li, B. Ward, and N. Zhang. “Who’s Afraid of Butterflies? A Close Examination of the Butterfly Attack,” 44th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS). December 2023. Outstanding Paper Award. DOI: 10.1109/RTSS59052.2023.00015.
  • S. Jero, N. Burow, B. Ward, R. Skowyra, R. Khazan, H. Shrobe, H. Okhravi. “TAG: Tagged Architecture Guide,” ACM Computing Surveys, Volume 55, Issue 6, Article 124, pp. 1–34. December 2022. DOI: 10.1145/3533704.
  • A. Al Arafat, S. Vaidhun, B. Ward, and Z. Guo. “SR3: A Secure Resilient Real-Time Recovery Model, Scheduler, and Analysis,” 9th Workshop on Mixed Criticality Systems (WMC). December 2022.
  • S. Mergendahl, S. Jero, B. Ward, J. Furgala, G. Parmer, and R. Skowyra. “The Thundering Herd: Amplifying Kernel Interference to Attack Response Times,” 28th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS). May 2022. DOI: 10.1109/RTAS54340.2022.00016.
  • C. Nord, S. Caspin, C. Nemitz, H. Shrobe, H. Okhravi, J. Anderson, N. Burow, and B. Ward. “TORTIS: Retry-Free Software Transactional Memory for Real-Time Systems,” 42nd IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS). December 2021. Outstanding Paper Award. DOI: 10.1109/RTSS52674.2021.00049.
  • C. Nemitz, S. Caspin, J. Anderson, and B. Ward. “Light Reading: Optimizing Reader/Writer Locking for Read-Dominant Real-Time Workloads,” 33rd Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS). July 2021. DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2021.6.
  • S. Jero, J. Furgala, R. Pan, P. Gadepalli, A. Clifford, B. Ye, R. Khazan, B. Ward, G. Parmer, and R. Skowyra. “Practical Principle of Least Privilege for Secure Embedded Systems,” 27th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS). May 2021. DOI: 10.1109/RTAS52030.2021.00009.
  • N. Burow, R. Burrow, R. Khazan, H. Shrobe, and B. Ward. “Moving Target Defense Considerations in Real-Time Safety- and Mission-Critical Systems,” 7th ACM Workshop on Moving Target Defense (MTD). November 2020. DOI: 10.1145/3411496.3421224.
  • H. Okhravi, N. Burow, R. Skowyra, B. Ward, S. Jero, R. Khazan, and H. Shrobe. “One Giant Leap for Computer Security,” IEEE Security & Privacy, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 8–19. 2020. DOI: 10.1109/MSEC.2020.2977586.
  • B. Ward and R. Burrow. “Control Systems Need Software Security Too,” Signal Magazine, June 2020. Winner: Cyber Edge Writing Contest.
  • B. Ward, R. Skowyra, C. Spensky, J. Martin, H. Okhravi. “The Leakage-Resilience Dilemma,” 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS). September 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-29959-0_5.
  • R. Walls, N. Brown, T. Le Baron, C. Shue, H. Okhravi, B. Ward. “Control-Flow Integrity for Real-Time Embedded Systems,” 31st Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS). July 2019. DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ECRTS.2019.2.
  • S. Gomez, S. Jero, R. Skowyra, J. Martin, P. Sullivan, D. Bigelow, Z. Ellenbogen, B. Ward, H. Okhravi, J. Landry. “Controller-Oblivious Dynamic Access Control in Software-Defined Networks,” 49th IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN). June 2019. DOI: 10.1109/DSN.2019.00053.
  • B. Ward, R. Skowyra, S. Jero, N. Burow, H. Okhravi, H. Shrobe, R. Khazan. “Security Considerations for Next-Generation Operating Systems for Cyber-Physical Systems,” 1st Workshop on Next-Generation Operating Systems for Cyber-Physical Systems (NGOSCPS). April 2019.
  • B. Ward, S. Gomez, R. Skowyra, D. Bigelow, J. Martin, J. Landry, and H. Okhravi. “Survey of Cyber Moving Targets Second Edition,” MIT Lincoln Laboratory Technical Report 1228. January 2018.
  • Z. Guo, S. Sruti, B. Ward, S. Baruah. “Sustainability in Mixed-Criticality Scheduling,” 38th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS). December 2017. DOI: 10.1109/RTSS.2017.00010.
  • N. Kim, B. Ward, M. Chisholm, J. Anderson, and F.D. Smith. “Attacking the One-Out-Of-m Multicore Problem by Combining Hardware Management with Mixed-Criticality Provisioning,” Real-Time Systems, Volume 53, Number 5, pp. 709–759. September 2017. DOI: 10.1007/s11241-017-9272-9.
  • M. Chisholm, N. Kim, B. Ward, N. Otterness, J. Anderson, and F.D. Smith. “Reconciling the Tension Between Hardware Isolation and Data Sharing in Mixed-Criticality, Multicore Systems,” 37th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS). December 2016. DOI: 10.1109/RTSS.2016.015.
  • N. Kim, B. Ward, M. Chisholm, C.-Y. Fu, J. Anderson, and F.D. Smith. “Attacking the One-Out-Of-m Multicore Problem by Combining Hardware Management with Mixed-Criticality Provisioning,” 22nd IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS). 2016. Best Student Paper Award. DOI: 10.1109/RTAS.2016.7461323.
  • B. Ward. “Relaxing Resource-Sharing Constraints for Improved Hardware Management and Schedulability,” 36th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS). 2015. DOI: 10.1109/RTSS.2015.22.
  • M. Chisholm, B. Ward, N. Kim, and J. Anderson. “Cache Sharing and Isolation Tradeoffs in Multicore Mixed-Criticality Systems,” 36th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS). 2015.
  • C. Jarrett, B. Ward, and J. Anderson. “A Contention-Sensitive Fine-Grained Locking Protocol for Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems,” 23rd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS). 2015. DOI: 10.1145/2834848.2834874.
  • B. Ward and J. Anderson. “A Contention-Sensitive Multi-Resource Locking Protocol for Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems,” 35th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Work-in-Progress Session. 2014.
  • B. Ward, A. Thekkilakattil, and J. Anderson. “Optimizing Preemption-Overhead Accounting in Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems,” 22nd International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS). 2014.
  • B. Ward and J. Anderson. “Multi-Resource Real-Time Reader/Writer Locks for Multiprocessors,” 28th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). 2014.
  • J. Erickson, J. Anderson, and B. Ward. “Fair Lateness Scheduling: Reducing Maximum Lateness in G-EDF-Like Scheduling,” Real-Time Systems, Volume 50, Number 1, pp. 5–47. 2014. DOI: 10.1007/s11241-013-9190-4.
  • G. Elliott, B. Ward, J. Anderson. “GPUSync: A Framework for Real-Time GPU Management,” 34th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS). 2013. DOI: 10.1109/RTSS.2013.12.
  • B. Ward and J. Anderson. “Fine-Grained Multiprocessor Real-Time Locking with Improved Blocking,” 21st International Conference on Real-Time Networks and Systems (RTNS). 2013. DOI: 10.1145/2516821.2516843.
  • B. Ward, J. Herman, C. Kenna, and J. Anderson. “Making Shared Caches More Predictable on Multicore Platforms,” 25th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS). July 2013. Outstanding Paper Award.
  • B. Ward, J. Erickson, and J. Anderson. “A Linear Model for Setting Priority Points in Soft Real-Time Systems,” Real-Time Systems: The Past, the Present, and the Future. 2013.
  • L. F. Perrone, C. Main, and B. Ward. “SAFE: Simulation Automation Framework for Experiments,” 2012 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC). 2012. DOI: 10.1109/WSC.2012.6465286.
  • B. Ward, G. Elliott, and J. Anderson. “Replica-Request Priority Donation: A Real-Time Progress Mechanism for Global Locking Protocols,” 18th IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA). 2012. DOI: 10.1109/RTCSA.2012.26.
  • B. Ward and J. Anderson. “Supporting Nested Locking in Multiprocessor Real-Time Systems,” 24th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS). 2012.
  • N. Ryan, B. Ward, and R. Ward. “Some Conjectures on the Maximal Height of the Divisors of x^n – 1,” Involve, a Journal of Mathematics, Volume 3, Number 4, pp. 451–457. 2010. DOI: 10.2140/involve.2010.3.451.
  • A. Hallagan, B. Ward, and L. F. Perrone. “An Experiment Automation Framework for ns-3,” 3rd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools), poster. 2010. DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2010.8821.
  • L. F. Perrone, C. Cicconetti, G. Stea, and B. Ward. “On the Automation of Computer Network Simulators,” 2nd International Conference on Simulation Tools and Techniques (SIMUTools). 2009. DOI: 10.4108/ICST.SIMUTOOLS2009.5684.
  • L. F. Perrone, C. Kenna, and B. Ward. “Enhancing the Credibility of Wireless Network Simulations with Experiment Automation,” IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communication (WiMOB). 2008. DOI: 10.1109/WiMob.2008.106.