Analysis and Evaluation of PUF-Based SoC Designs for Security Applications

The integration of multicore processors and peripherals from multiple intellectual property core providers as hardware components of IoT multiprocessor systems-on-chip (SoC) represents a source of security vulnerabilities for the in-chip communication. This paper describes the concept and the practical results of a SoC security implementation that is illustrative for IoT applications. The mechanism employed in this approach uses physically unclonable functions (PUF) and symmetric cryptography in order to encrypt the transferred messages within the SoC between the microprocessor and its peripherals. The mechanism is experimentally validated at FPGA level, the paper describing also an implementation scenario for an IoT ARM based device.

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“…Extracting keys from FPGA-based PUFs using the highly structured nature of modern FPGAs is solution whose feasibility was demonstrated in [23].…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…7a, b, are presented in Table 1. The main properties of PUF circuits (randomness and uniqueness) were also analyzed in [23,24]. Our proof-of-concept study considers 30 identical Spartan 3E devices and 4 Spartan 6 devices.…”

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A PUF-based cryptographic security solution for IoT systems on chip

Bălan

Cirstea

et al. 2020

J Wireless Com Network

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“…In most previous studies, the performance was estimated based on the frequency of pulses generated by the RO [3,5,7,8,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19]. The frequency of RO pulses was measured using an oscilloscope or a logic analyzer.…”

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Runtime Analysis of Area-Efficient Uniform RO-PUF for Uniqueness and Reliability Balancing

et al. 2021

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The main issue of ring oscillator physical unclonable functions (RO-PUF) is the existence of unstable ROs in response to environmental variations. The RO pairs with close frequency differences tend to contribute bit flips, reducing the reliability. Research on improving reliability has been carried out over the years. However, it has led to other issues, such as decreasing the uniqueness and increasing the area utilized. Therefore, this paper proposes a uniform RO-PUF, requiring a smaller area than a conventional design, aiming to balance reliability and uniqueness. We analyzed RO runtimes to increase reliability. In general, our method (uniqueness = 47.48%, reliability = 99.16%) performs better than previously proposed methods for a similar platform (Altera), and the reliability is as good as the latest methods using the same IC technology (28 nm). Moreover, the reliability is higher than that of RO-PUF with challenge and response pair (CRP) enhancements. The evaluation was performed in longer runtimes, where the pulses produced by ROs exceeded the counter capacity. This work recommends choosing ranges of the runtime of RO for better performance. For the 11-stage ROs, the range should be 1.598–4.30 ms, or 6.12–8.61 ms, or 12.24–12.91 ms. Meanwhile, for the 20-stage, the range should be 2.717–8.37 ms, or 10.97–16.74 ms, or 21.93–25.10 ms.

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“…IoT and step-by-step analyzed from security conformance point of view based on X.805 standard that proposes three security layers (application, services, and infrastructure); three security planes (end-user, control, and management), which are based on the performed activates over the network, and eight security dimensions to address general system vulnerabilities (access control, authentication, nonreputation, data confidentiality, communication security, data integrity, availability, and privacy) [42,43].…”

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Multihoming for Mobile Internet of Multimedia Things

Bălan¹,

Robu²,

Sandu³

2017

Mobile Information Systems

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Mobility, redundancy, and bandwidth requirements are transforming the communication models used for IoT, mainly in case of Critical Communications and multimedia streaming ("IoMT, Internet of Multimedia Things"), as wireless video traffic is expected to be 60-75% of the global mobile traffic by 2020. One of the characteristics of 5G networks will be the proliferation of different/heterogeneous radio networks (virtualized radio access networks, RAN, new energy-efficient radios, femtocells, and offloading capabilities) and the possibility for IoT objects to connect and load-balance between dual and multiple RANs. This paper focuses on the possibility of using LISP (Locator Identifier Separation Protocol) for multihoming and load-balancing purposes and presents an illustrative scenario for the case of mobile IoT (e.g., the "things" part of vehicular or public transportation systems, PTS) that are also intensive bandwidth consumers, like the case of connected multimedia "things." We have implemented and tested a demonstrator of a mobile LISP IoT gateway that is also integrated with Cloud-based video analytics.

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Analysis and Evaluation of PUF-Based SoC Designs for Security Applications

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A PUF-based cryptographic security solution for IoT systems on chip

A PUF-based cryptographic security solution for IoT systems on chip

Runtime Analysis of Area-Efficient Uniform RO-PUF for Uniqueness and Reliability Balancing

Multihoming for Mobile Internet of Multimedia Things

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