Visible to the public Security Threats in Channel Access Mechanism of Wireless NoC and Efficient Countermeasures

TitleSecurity Threats in Channel Access Mechanism of Wireless NoC and Efficient Countermeasures
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsRout, Sidhartha Sankar, Singh, Akshat, Patil, Suyog Bhimrao, Sinha, Mitali, Deb, Sujay
Conference Name2020 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Date Publishedoct
KeywordsAccess Control, Communication system security, Lenses, Metrics, network on chip security, pubcrawl, Registers, Resiliency, Scalability, Trojan horses, Wireless communication
AbstractWireless 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.
DOI10.1109/ISCAS45731.2020.9180581
Citation Keyrout_security_2020