Seyed Behnam Andarzian, Cristian Daniele, Erik Poll
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Abstract
Fuzzing is a widely used and effective technique to test software. Unfortunately, certain systems, including network protocols, are more challenging to fuzz than others. An important complication with fuzzing network protocols is that this tends to be a slow process, which is problematic as fuzzing involves many test inputs. This article analyzes the root causes behind the inefficiency of fuzzing network protocols and strategies to avoid them. It extends our earlier work on network protocol fuzzers, which explored some of these strategies, to give a more comprehensive overview of overheads in fuzzing and ways to reduce them.
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Annals of Telecommunications is an international journal publishing original peer-reviewed papers in the field of telecommunications. It covers all the essential branches of modern telecommunications, ranging from digital communications to communication networks and the internet, to software, protocols and services, uses and economics. This large spectrum of topics accounts for the rapid convergence through telecommunications of the underlying technologies in computers, communications, content management towards the emergence of the information and knowledge society. As a consequence, the Journal provides a medium for exchanging research results and technological achievements accomplished by the European and international scientific community from academia and industry.
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