Self-Aware Network-on-Chip Control in Real-Time Systems

Kostrzewa, Adam; Tobuschat, Sebastian; Ernst, Rolf

doi:10.1109/mdat.2017.2763598

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“…Its main advantage is to unify the management of different device vendors, removing the control from the network device, and bring it to a software Controller. Recent works investigate SDN for MCSoCs using a centralized approach [8,9,20], while others propose distributed SDN management [7,21], including cluster-based organizations [7].…”

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“…Some SDN proposals target specific goals, as power management [21] and QoS [8], while other works are generic, focusing on the SDN paradigm support over the MCSoC architecture [9,22]. Ellinidou et al [20] address security, proposing a secure protocol to the Controller to configure SDN routers at runtime, using an architecture based on a Chiplet design, and not MCSoCs.…”

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“…A cluster has a set of SPs, managed by one M PE. Figure 1 , which may be a task running in a given PE (centralized SDN [8,9,20]) or several tasks distributed in the system (distributed SDN [7,21]). The Controller is a task with OS privileges.…”

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“…The Controller keeps the NoC resources status and, based on its rules, defines paths at runtime for communicating tasks. The main benefit of SDN is its global knowledge of the NoC, which allows multi-objective communication path search and the possibility to the designer to update the search rules without the need to design a new NoC [7,8].…”

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SDN-Based Secure Application Admission and Execution for Many-Cores

2020

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General-purpose many-core system-on-chip (MCSoC) requires support to the execution of dynamic workloads, i.e., admission of new applications at runtime. Some applications may require QoS and security from the MCSoC, not tolerating that malicious tasks or hardware Trojans steal or corrupts their data. A robust method to provide security is to isolate the communication and computation. Most current works employ such isolation in continuous regions named secure zones (SZ). Motivated by the recent study of the Software-Defined Networking (SDN) paradigm for MCSoCs, this work proposes to use SDN-based management to implement the communication isolation at runtime. The computation isolation occurs by mapping only tasks of the same application at each core. The communication isolation is supported by the SDN paradigm, which establishes dedicating paths for secure applications. Results show that the SDN-based approach presents a negligible latency to admit and execute a secure application, with a reduced hardware cost and higher computational resources utilization compared to SZs.

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“…The system controller is a logical extension of an existing networkon-chip (NoC) controller, the resource manager (RM) [11]. The protocol-based synchronisation was already successfully applied for NoCs by the RM to improve performance while ensuring temporal guarantees of the safety-critical functions.…”

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The information processing factory

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et al. 2019

Proceedings of the International Conference on Hardware/Software Codesign and System Synthesis Companion

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The number and complexity of embedded system platforms used in mixed-criticality applications are rapidly growing. They run large and evolving applications on heterogeneous multi-or manycore processing platforms requiring dependable operation and long lifetime. Examples include automated and autonomous driving, smart buildings, industry 4.0, and personal medical devices. The Information Processing Factory (IPF) applies principles inspired by factory management to master the complexity of future, highlyintegrated embedded systems and to provide continuous operation and optimization at runtime. A general objective is to identify a sweet spot between a maximum of autonomy among IPF constituent components and a minimum of centralized control in order to ensure guaranteed service even under strict safety and availability requirements. This paper addresses the challenges of IPF and how to tackle them with a set of techniques: self-diagnosis for early detection of degradation and imminent failures combined with unsupervised platform self-adaptation to meet performance and safety targets.• Computer systems organization → Embedded and cyberphysical systems; Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks; Real-time systems.

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A Systemic and Secure SDN Framework for NoC-Based Many-Cores

2020

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Recent exploration of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) for Many-Core Systems-on-Chip (MCSoCs) showed higher management flexibility and reduced physical complexity compared to other runtime communication management. In SDN, there is a software SDN Controller (control layer) that configures generic routers (data layer). The adoption of SDN makes the path establishment programmable and straightforward, according to different network policies, such as low power, QoS, fault-tolerance. It is also possible to change the path establishment policies at runtime without the need to redesign the NoC. Current works focus on proposing SDN architectures, lacking a systemic framework that describes the steps required to implement SDN into a Many-core environment. Security is an observed gap in SDN designs. A malicious task could configure SDN routers and take control of the NoC. The contribution of this work is to present a systemic and secure SDN framework (SDN-SS), detailing the steps required to support SDN in MCSoCs. This work also describes the iteration between the hardware, operating system, and user's tasks. The SDN-SS manages a Multiple-Physical NoC, with one packet-switching subnet and a set of circuitswitching subnets. The originality of SDN-SS includes (i) a step-by-step framework description addressing the phases required to support a secure SDN management; (ii) a secure SDN router configuration protocol; (iii) a protocol to change the subnet at runtime. Experimental results show the framework's capability to avoid DoS and Spoofing attacks while presents a low SDN router configuration overhead, corresponding up to 2% of a related work delay and a small impact over the user's task communication.

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Self-Aware Network-on-Chip Control in Real-Time Systems

Cited by 9 publications

References 11 publications

SDN-Based Secure Application Admission and Execution for Many-Cores

SDN-Based Secure Application Admission and Execution for Many-Cores

The information processing factory

A Systemic and Secure SDN Framework for NoC-Based Many-Cores

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