Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad

21 papers A 1B 3Journal 14Unranked 2
YearRankTypeTitle / Venue / Authors
2026 J jnl
CoRR
Mona Ghassemian, Andres Meseguer Valenzuela, Ana García Armada, Dejan Vukobratovic, Periklis Chatzimisios, Kaspar Althoefer, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad
2026 J jnl
IEEE Open J. Commun. Soc.
Fabrizio Granelli, Yan-Ping Lu, Qingqing Wu, Zhenhui Yuan, Aly Sabri Abdalla, Vuk Marojevic, Yifan Jiang, Fatemeh Afghah, Giovanni Geraci, Anandarup Mukherjee, Sabur Baidya, Giovanni Grieco, Abid Yaqoob, Muhammad Abul Hassan, Kamesh Namuduri, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Laaziz Lahlou, John Sengendo, Gabriel-Miro Muntean
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Serv. Comput.
Fei Teng, Hao Zhao, Qiyang Zhang, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Schahram Dustdar
2025 conf
ICCPS
Herman Kroep, Stijn Coppens, Koen Wösten, Anup Bhattacharjee, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad
2025 J jnl
CoRR
Sathwik Narkedimilli, Sujith Makam, Amballa Venkata Sriram, Sai Prashanth Mallellu, MSVPJ Sathvik, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad
2025 A conf
DATE
C. A. J. Hanselaar, M. M. Selva Kumar, Yuting Fu, Andrei Terechko, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Emilia Silvas
2025 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things Mag.
Jinsong Wu, Xianfu Chen, Hong Wen, Brij B. Gupta, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Mostafa M. Fouda, Lei Zhong, Charilaos C. Zarakovitis
2025 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Mob. Comput.
Qiyang Zhang, Shangguang Wang, Jinglong Guan, Praveen Kumar Donta, Xiao Ma, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Schahram Dustdar, Xuanzhe Liu
2025 J jnl
IEEE Internet Things Mag.
Jinsong Wu, Xianfu Chen, Hong Wen, Brij B. Gupta, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Mostafa Fouda, Lei Zhong, Charilaos C. Zarakovitis
2024 B conf
WCNC
Dejan Vukobratovic, Nikolaos G. Bartzoudis, Mona Ghassemian, Firooz B. Saghezchi, Peizheng Li, Adnan Aijaz, Ricardo Martinez, Xueli An, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Helge Lüders, Shahid Mumtaz
2024 B conf
IFIP Networking
Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad
2023 J jnl
CoRR
Dejan Vukobratovic, Nikolaos G. Bartzoudis, Mona Ghassemian, Firooz B. Saghezchi, Peizheng Li, Adnan Aijaz, Ricardo Martinez, Xueli An, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Helge Lüders, Shahid Mumtaz
2022 B ed.
EWSN
Alois Ferscha, Mun Choon Chan, Salil S. Kanhere, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad
2021 book
Shruthi Kashyap, Vijay S. Rao, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Toine Staring
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Green Commun. Netw.
Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Shahid Mumtaz, Varun G. Menon, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, Mohsen Guizani
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst.
Sahil Garg, Mohsen Guizani, Ying-Chang Liang, Fabrizio Granelli, Neeli R. Prasad, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad
2021 J jnl
IEEE Trans. Green Commun. Netw.
Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Shahid Mumtaz, Varun G. Menon, Anwer Al-Dulaimi, Mohsen Guizani
2018 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
Jinsong Wu, John Thompson, Honggang Zhang, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Song Guo
2018 conf
WF-IoT
Nikolaos Kouvelas, Venkatraman Balasubramanian, Artemios G. Voyiatzis, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Dirk Pesch
2016 J jnl
IEEE Commun. Mag.
JaeSeung Song, Andreas Kunz, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Zhengguo Sheng, Richard Yu
2012 J jnl
Scalable Comput. Pract. Exp.
Gianmarco Baldini, Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad, Abdur Rahim Biswas, Klaus Moessner, Matti Eteläperä, Juha-Pekka Soininen, Septimiu-Cosmin Nechifor, Vera Stavroulaki, Panagiotis Vlacheas
redb/extractors/decompiler/bninja/analysis/scores.py
← Index redb/extractors/decompiler/bninja/analysis/scores.py python
from collections import deque
from binaryninja import highlevelil
from binaryninja.enums import HighLevelILOperation


class ObfuscationScores:
    def __init__(self, hlil_function):
        self.function = hlil_function
        self._basic_blocks = list(hlil_function.basic_blocks) if hlil_function and hlil_function.basic_blocks else []
        self._block_count = len(self._basic_blocks)

    def flattened_score(self):
        """
        A heuristic for detecting control flow flattening from Tim Blazytko.
        Source: https://www.synthesis.to/2021/03/03/flattening_detection.html
        """
        if self._block_count == 0:
            return 0.0

        max_flattening_ratio = 0.0

        for basic_block in self._basic_blocks:
            dominated = get_dominated_by(basic_block)
            if not any(edge.source in dominated for edge in basic_block.incoming_edges):
                continue
            ratio = len(dominated) / self._block_count
            if ratio > max_flattening_ratio:
                max_flattening_ratio = ratio

        return max_flattening_ratio

    def MBA_score(self):
        """
        Score for MBA is obtained by the number of instructions that have at least one arithmetic operation and
        one logic operation DIVIDED by the number of instructions.
        """
        total = 0
        mba_count = 0

        for ins in self.function.instructions:
            total += 1
            if uses_mba(ins):
                mba_count += 1

        if total == 0:
            return 0.0

        return mba_count / total

def get_dominated_by(dominator):
    """
    Get the dominators that are dominated by the given dominator.
    (To recall the theory, a basic block B is called dominator for A if every path from START
    to A must include B)
    """
    result = set()
    worklist = deque([dominator])

    while worklist:
        block = worklist.popleft()
        if block in result:
            continue
        result.add(block)
        worklist.extend(block.dominator_tree_children)

    return result

_ARITHMETIC_OPS = frozenset({
    HighLevelILOperation.HLIL_ADD,
    HighLevelILOperation.HLIL_NEG,
    HighLevelILOperation.HLIL_SUB,
    HighLevelILOperation.HLIL_MUL,
    HighLevelILOperation.HLIL_DIVS,
    HighLevelILOperation.HLIL_MODS,
})

_LOGIC_OPS = frozenset({
    HighLevelILOperation.HLIL_NOT,
    HighLevelILOperation.HLIL_AND,
    HighLevelILOperation.HLIL_OR,
    HighLevelILOperation.HLIL_XOR,
    HighLevelILOperation.HLIL_LSR,
    HighLevelILOperation.HLIL_LSL,
})

_MBA_OPS = _ARITHMETIC_OPS | _LOGIC_OPS

def uses_mba(hlil_instruction):
    uses_logic = False
    uses_arithmetic = False
    stack = [hlil_instruction]

    while stack:
        instruction = stack.pop()

        if not isinstance(instruction, highlevelil.HighLevelILInstruction):
            continue

        op = instruction.operation

        if op not in _MBA_OPS:
            for operand in instruction.operands:
                if isinstance(operand, highlevelil.HighLevelILInstruction):
                    stack.append(operand)
            continue

        if op in _ARITHMETIC_OPS:
            uses_arithmetic = True
        else:
            uses_logic = True

        if uses_logic and uses_arithmetic:
            return True

        for operand in instruction.operands:
            if isinstance(operand, highlevelil.HighLevelILInstruction):
                stack.append(operand)

    return False