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Confidential Consortium Framework: Secure Multiparty Applications with Confidentiality, Integrity, and High Availability

Heidi Howard, Fritz Alder, Eddy Ashton, Amaury Chamayou, Sylvan Clebsch, Manuel Costa, Antoine Delignat-Lavaud, Cédric Fournet, Andrew Jeffery, Matthew Kerner, Fotios Kounelis, Markus Kuppe, Julien Maffre, Mark Russinovich, Christoph M. Wintersteiger

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment | October 2023, Vol 17(2)

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Conservative State Value Estimation for Offline Reinforcement Learning

Liting Chen, Jie Yan, Zhengdao Shao, Lu Wang, Qingwei Lin 林庆维, Dongmei Zhang

NeurIPS 2023 | October 2023

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A Holistic View of AI-driven Network Incident Management

Pouya Hamadanian, Behnaz Arzani, Sadjad Fouladi, Siva Kesava Reddy Kakarla, Rodrigo Fonseca, Denzican Billor, Ahmad Cheema, Edet Nkposong, Ranveer Chandra

Hot topics in networking (HotNets) | October 2023

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Verified Telemetry: A General, Easy to use, Scalable and Robust Fault Detection SDK for IoT Sensors

Tanmaey Gupta, Shubhankar Handa, Akshay Nambi

Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE Conference on Internet of Things Design and Implementation | October 2023

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AgriTera: Accurate Non-Invasive Fruit Ripeness Sensing via Sub-Terahertz Wireless Signals

Sayed Saad Afzal, Atsutse Kludze, Subhajit Karmakar, Ranveer Chandra, Yasaman Ghasempour

ACM MobiCom | October 2023

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Accelerating Open RAN Research Through an Enterprise-scale 5G Testbed

Victor Bahl, Matthew Balkwill, Xenofon Foukas, Anuj Kalia, Daehyeok Kim, Manikanta Kotaru, Zhihua Lai, Sanjeev Mehrotra, Bozidar Radunovic, Stefan Saroiu, Connor Settle, Ankit Verma, Alec Wolman, Francis Y. Yan, Yongguang Zhang

Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom ’23) | October 2023

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PMSat: Optimizing Passive Metasurface for Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communication

Hao Pan, Lili Qiu, Bei Ouyang, Shicheng Zheng, Yongzhao Zhang, Yi-Chao Chen, Guangtao Xue

MobiCom | October 2023

Microsoft Research Blog

Research Focus: Week of September 25, 2023

September 27, 2023

Chunked prefills & decode-maximal batching boost LLM inference; DragNUWA combines text, image, and trajectory for fine-grained video content control; reconstructing images from human brain signals; structural inequalities in creator-audience relationships.

Research Focus 25 | Week of September 25, 2023

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