Security Threats in Channel Access Mechanism of Wireless NoC and Efficient Countermeasures

Rout, Sidhartha Sankar; Singh, Akshat; Patil, Suyog Bhimrao; Sinha, Mangalika; Deb, Sujay

doi:10.1109/iscas45731.2020.9180581

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“…On-off keying modulation and medium access control (MAC) are the most popular techniques to ensure simple circuit and collision-free wireless communication. Token-based MAC is frequently used to allocate WI slots, making it an easy target for attacks that aim to disrupt communication through unauthorized access to data or tokens [48], [49]. The use of error control coding in wireless interfaces can improve communication reliability [50], but this does not prevent attacks from taking place.…”

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%

“…Wireless interface-based availability and integrity attacks are tackled in [48] and [49]. Shared single channels and allocation of slots using a token-based scheme are also considered here.…”

Section: Wireless Interface (Wi)mentioning

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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“…Such attacks can be initiated by implanting a time-bomb HT as shown in Fig. 5 [8]. Whenever the register value reaches zero, the payload circuit activates the load enable signal (LEn*).…”

Section: Wireless Noc Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a decentralized CACM, a distributed ranking-based channel access controller (DRCAC) is deployed within the WI as shown in Fig. 6(a) [8]. Initially, the information related to the traffic density and the data criticality status of all the WIs is broadcast over the wireless channel.…”

Section: Wireless Noc Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Electronic, Wireless, and Photonic Network-on-Chip Security: Challenges and Countermeasures

2022

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Networks-on-chips (NoCs) are an integral part of emerging manycore computing chips. They play a key role in facilitating communication among processing cores and between cores and memory. To meet the aggressive performance and energy-efficiency targets of machine learning and big data applications, NoCs have been evolving to leverage emerging paradigms such as silicon photonics and wireless communication. Increasingly, these NoC fabrics are becoming susceptible to security vulnerabilities, such as from hardware trojans that can snoop, corrupt, or disrupt information transfers on NoCs. This article surveys the landscape of security challenges and countermeasures across electronic, wireless, and photonic NoCs.

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“…In [112], the authors have utilized a distributed channel access mechanism (CAM). Each CAM controller determines the access time needed for its corresponding WI according to the local load level [113].…”

Section: Wireless Nocs Countermeasuresmentioning

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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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Security Threats in Channel Access Mechanism of Wireless NoC and Efficient Countermeasures

Cited by 5 publications

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

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

Electronic, Wireless, and Photonic Network-on-Chip Security: Challenges and Countermeasures

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

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