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Journal Publications
Systematic Analysis of Moving Target Defenses for Branch Prediction Attacks
Authors: Gnanambikai Krishnakumar, Chester Rebeiro
Venue: IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (IEEE TDSC 2025)
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11037664
ALEXIA: A Processor with Light Weight Extensions for Memory Safety
Authors: Gnanambikai Krishnakumar, Kommuru Alekhya Reddy, Chester Rebeiro
Venue: ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (ACM TECS 2019)
Link: https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3362064
GANDALF: A Fine-Grained Hardware-Software Co-design for Preventing Memory Attacks
Authors: Gnanambikai Krishnakumar, Patanjali SLPSK, Prasanna Karthik Vairam, Chester Rebeiro, Kamakoti Veezhinathan
Venue: IEEE Embedded Systems Letters (IEEE ESL 2018)
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8290931
Conference Publications
MSMPX: Microarchitectural Extensions for Meltdown Safe Memory Protection
Authors: Gnanambikai Krishnakumar, Chester Rebeiro
Venue: IEEE System on Chip Conference (IEEE SOCC 2019)
Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9087945
Posters and Extended Abstracts
HASFire - Hardware-Software Co-design for Accurate Packet Filtering at Line-Rate, ACM ASIACCS 2026.
Trip down the memory lane: Memory Safety for Edge Devices, Indo-Japanese Smart City Conference 2023.
ALEXIA: A Processor with Light Weight Extensions for Meltdown Safe Memory Safety, at SPACE conference, 2019.
ALEXIA: A Processor with Light Weight Extensions for Meltdown Safe Memory Safety, at Micro-Architectural Security Workshop held at IIT Madras, 2019.
Gandalf: A fine-grained hardware-software co-design for preventing memory attacks} at Embedded Security Challenge at Cyber Security Awareness Week, held at IIT Kanpur, 2016.