Visible to the public UP2DATE: Safe and secure over-the-air software updates on high-performance mixed-criticality systems

TitleUP2DATE: Safe and secure over-the-air software updates on high-performance mixed-criticality systems
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2020
AuthorsAgirre, I., Onaindia, P., Poggi, T., Yarza, I., Cazorla, F. J., Kosmidis, L., Grüttner, K., Abuteir, M., Loewe, J., Orbegozo, J. M., Botta, S.
Conference Name2020 23rd Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD)
Date Publishedaug
KeywordsAvailability, composability, Computer architecture, contracts, Hardware, Heterogeneous computing, mixed-criticality, OTASU, pubcrawl, Safety, security, Software, Testing
AbstractFollowing the same trend of consumer electronics, safety-critical industries are starting to adopt Over-The-Air Software Updates (OTASU) on their embedded systems. The motivation behind this trend is twofold. On the one hand, OTASU offer several benefits to the product makers and users by improving or adding new functionality and services to the product without a complete redesign. On the other hand, the increasing connectivity trend makes OTASU a crucial cyber-security demand to download latest security patches. However, the application of OTASU in the safety-critical domain is not free of challenges, specially when considering the dramatic increase of software complexity and the resulting high computing performance demands. This is the mission of UP2DATE, a recently launched project funded within the European H2020 programme focused on new software update architectures for heterogeneous high-performance mixed-criticality systems. This paper gives an overview of UP2DATE and its foundations, which seeks to improve existing OTASU solutions by considering safety, security and availability from the ground up in an architecture that builds around composability and modularity.
DOI10.1109/DSD51259.2020.00063
Citation Keyagirre_up2date_2020