CSR: Small: Leveraging Physical Side-Channels for Good

CSR：小：利用物理侧通道做好事

• 批准号: 2312089
• 负责人: Nader Sehatbakhsh
• 金额: $ 59.99万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2312089&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSR; Small; Leveraging; Physical; Side

Internet-of-things and cyber-physical systems are becoming increasingly applicable in industrialand residential environments, opening up new opportunities for smart homes, sensor networks,and smart manufacturing. While becoming progressively more capable, this class of computingdevices is typically resource-constrained with limited energy and data storage. It is thusimperative that critical applications commonly used in these devices, such as communicationand debugging, be carefully designed to have minimal energy, performance, and area overheadwhile embracing the diversity of software and hardware present within these systems. Theproject’s novelties are presenting new approaches for enabling low-power low-overheadcommunication, fingerprinting, and debugging in internet-of-things systems. The commoninsight in all the proposed solutions is, instead of imposing additional overhead for achieving aparticular functionality (e.g., communication or debugging), we leverage unintentional physicalsignals created by the system (called side-channels) to enable the desired functionalities. As aresult, we are able to propose innovative and radically different methods. The project's broadersignificance and importance is that the proposed solutions enjoy lower energy, performance,and area storage overheads since it eliminates the need for additional infrastructure on thedevice to achieve the required functionality while being applicable to a wide range of systems.The objective of this project is to set out a research agenda for developing techniques andsystems for addressing the fundamental challenges of internet-of-things systems. The key ideain this proposal is to leverage physical side-channels, unintentionally created by the targetsystem, for useful purposes. Specifically, this research aims to fulfill three major objectives: (i)we design a new method for transmitting AND receiving data using side-channels. The proposedmethod relies only on software and is extremely low overhead. (ii) We develop a new strategyfor device detection and authentication by relying only on physical side-channels as opposed toleveraging radio frequency signals which are extensively used in the state-of-the-art. (iii) Wepropose a new method for debugging Internet of Things devices by using physical side-channels.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

物联网和网络物理系统越来越适用于工业和住宅环境，为智能家居、传感器网络和智能制造带来了新的机遇，尽管此类计算设备的能力逐渐增强，但通常资源有限。因此，必须仔细设计这些设备中常用的关键应用程序（例如通信和调试），以实现最小的能源、性能和面积开销，同时拥抱这些系统中存在的软件和硬件的多样性。该项目的新颖之处提出了在物联网系统中实现低功耗低开销通信、指纹识别和调试的新方法，所有提出的解决方案的共同点是，不要为实现特定功能（例如通信或调试）施加额外的开销。 ，我们利用系统创建的无意的物理信号（称为侧通道）来实现所需的功能，因此，我们能够提出该项目的更广泛的意义和根本不同的方法。重要的是，所提出的解决方案具有较低的能源、性能和面积存储开销，因为它不需要设备上额外的基础设施来实现所需的功能，同时适用于广泛的系统。该项目的目标是制定该提案的关键思想是利用目标系统无意中创建的物理侧通道来实现有用的专门开发目的。实现三大目标： (i) 我们设计了一种使用侧信道传输和接收数据的新方法，所提出的方法仅依赖于软件，并且开销极低。 (ii) 我们开发了一种仅依赖于物理侧的设备检测和身份验证的新策略。 (iii) 我们提出了一种使用物理侧信道调试物联网设备的新方法。该奖项广泛地反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并得到了广泛认可。被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来获得支持。