Attacks Toward Wireless Network-on-Chip and Countermeasures

Biswas, Arnab; Chatterjee, Navonil; Mondal, Hemanta Kumar; Gogniat, Guy; Diguet, Jean-Philippe

doi:10.1109/tetc.2020.2973427

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“…Similarly, spoofing is detected by monitoring the channel against a threshold idle time. In [57], various novel attacks, namely, Malicious threshold configuration attacks, Disruptive token passing attacks, Data stealing by broad-cast attacks, and Hybrid attacks in wireless interfaces, are described. These attacks involve tampering with the router, NI, and wireless hub configuration (HC) registers to cause various security vulnerabilities.…”

Section: Wireless Interface (Wi)mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Wireless Network-on-Chip Security Review: Attack Taxonomy, Implications, and Countermeasures

Kondoth,

Shankaran,

Sheng

et al. 2023

IEEE Access

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The Network-on-chip (NoC) technology emerged as an on-chip communication backbone for high-performance multi-core computing and network system architectures. This technology is becoming more widespread as several types of NoC platforms are constantly being introduced in the market. Wireless NoC technology has gained traction in recent years because of its ability to offer high bandwidth connectivity with improved energy efficiency. However, with the introduction of wireless interfaces, potential attack points on NoC have also proliferated, targeting confidentiality, integrity, and system availability. Although a number of research studies on NoC security have surfaced in the recent past, a comprehensive survey on the cause, impact, and mitigation of security attacks on wireless NoC is yet to be carried out. In this article, we conduct a detailed survey of the most recent advances and research activities in wireless NoC security by providing a comprehensive analysis, summary, and comparison of existing work in the area along with their limitations. We finally conclude this article with the future directions for further study.

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Section: Wireless Interface (Wi)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Monitors packet transmission, reception, and token access counts [57] Tailored to suit token-based channel access mechanism limiting their adaptability.…”

Section: Access Time Manipulationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wireless Network-on-Chip Security Review: Attack Taxonomy, Implications, and Countermeasures

Kondoth,

Shankaran,

Sheng

et al. 2023

IEEE Access

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“…The malicious configuration attacks discussed in Section III-B are addressed in [114]. The authors have used reconfigurable routers, NIs, and wireless hubs.…”

Section: Wireless Nocs Countermeasuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Survey on the Security of Wired, Wireless, and 3D Network-on-Chips

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Network-on-Chips (NoCs) have been widely used as a scalable communication solution in the design of multiprocessor system-on-chips (MPSoCs). NoCs manage communications between on-chip Intellectual Property (IP) cores and allow processing cores to achieve higher performance by outsourcing their communication tasks. NoC paradigm is based on the idea of resource sharing where hardware resources, including buffers, communication links, routers, etc., are shared between all IPs of the MPSoC. In fact, the data being routed by each NoC router might not be related to the router's local core. Such a utilization-centric design approach can raise security issues in MPSoCs-based designs, e.g., integrity and confidentiality of the data being routed in an NoC might be compromised by unauthorized accesses/modifications of intermediate routers. Many papers in the literature have discovered and addressed security holes of NoCs, aiming at improving the security of the NoC paradigm. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no solid survey study on the security vulnerabilities and countermeasures for NoCs. This paper will review security threats and countermeasures proposed so far for wired NoCs, wireless NoCs, and 3D NoCs. The paper aims at giving the readers an insight into the attacks and weaknesses/strengths of countermeasures.

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“…Recent technological advances makes it feasible to integrate wireless transceivers on a silicon die [18]. Consequently, various contributions have been made in literature to improve the power and performance efficiency of traditional wirebased NoCs by augmenting long ranged wireless channels in the form of mm-wave forming hybrid architectures [19], [20].…”

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On the Cooperative Relaying Strategies for Multi-Core Wireless Network-on-Chip

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Recently, hybrid wired-wireless Network-on-Chip (WiNoC) has been proposed as a suitable communication fabric to provide scalability and satisfy high performance demands of the exascale era of modern multi/many-core System-on-Chip (SoC) design. A well accepted low-latency wireless communication fabric for WiNoCs is millimeter wave (mm-Wave). However, the wireless channel of mm-Wave is lossy due to free space signal radiation with both dielectric propagation loss (DPL) and molecular absorption attenuation (MAA). This is exacerbated for edge situated cores and in macro-chips embodying thousands of cores. To this end, this paper proposes efficient relaying techniques to improve the signal strength of the wireless channel in the WiNoCs using on-chip networking approaches under the realistic SoC channel conditions. First, we propose a realistic relay communication channel for the WiNoCs to characterise both MAA and DPL which have drastic effect on the performance. We then derive and show that the channel capacity for a single-relay WiNoC employing Amplify-and-Forward (AF) and Decode-and-Forward (DF) relaying protocols increases by up to 20% and 25%, respectively, compared to the conventional direct transmission. The AF protocol outperforms the DF mode for shorter transmissions between the relay and the destination cores, while the reverse is observed in other conditions. A hybrid protocol is then proposed to exploit the performance advantages of both relaying protocols to address the unbalanced distance between the cores, providing the maximal channel capacity close to the cutset bound. Finally, our approach is further validated in multi-relay WiNoCs where the communications of the remote cores is assisted by multiple intermediate cores along with the details of associated realistic channel model in emerging many-core SoCs. INDEX TERMS channel modeling, cooperative diversity, relay networks, Wireless network-on-chip, WiNoC.

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Attacks Toward Wireless Network-on-Chip and Countermeasures

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

Wireless Network-on-Chip Security Review: Attack Taxonomy, Implications, and Countermeasures

Wireless Network-on-Chip Security Review: Attack Taxonomy, Implications, and Countermeasures

A Survey on the Security of Wired, Wireless, and 3D Network-on-Chips

On the Cooperative Relaying Strategies for Multi-Core Wireless Network-on-Chip

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