Title | Security Threats in Channel Access Mechanism of Wireless NoC and Efficient Countermeasures |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2020 |
Authors | Rout, Sidhartha Sankar, Singh, Akshat, Patil, Suyog Bhimrao, Sinha, Mitali, Deb, Sujay |
Conference Name | 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) |
Date Published | oct |
Keywords | Access Control, Communication system security, Lenses, Metrics, network on chip security, pubcrawl, Registers, Resiliency, Scalability, Trojan horses, Wireless communication |
Abstract | Wireless Network-on-Chip (WNoC) broadly adopts single channel for low overhead data transmission. Sharing of the channel among multiple wireless interfaces (WIs) is controlled by a channel access mechanism (CAM). Such CAM can be malfunctioned by a Hardware Trojan (HT) in a malicious WI or a rogue third party intellectual property (IP) core present on the same System-on-Chip (SoC). This may result in denial-of-service (DoS) or spoofing in WNoC leading to starvation of healthy WIs and under-utilization of wireless channel. Our work demonstrates possible threat model on CAM and proposes low overhead decentralized countermeasures for both DoS and spoofing attacks in WNoC. |
DOI | 10.1109/ISCAS45731.2020.9180581 |
Citation Key | rout_security_2020 |