Hardware/software co-designed security extensions for embedded devices

Maja Malenko; Marcel Baunach

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-18656-2_1

Hardware/software co-designed security extensions for embedded devices

Maja Malenko^*
, Marcel Baunach

^*Corresponding author for this work

Institute of Technical Informatics (4480)

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review

Abstract

The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) has dramatically increased the number of low-cost embedded devices. Being introduced into today’s connected cyber-physical world, these devices now become vulnerable, especially if they offer no protection mechanisms. In this work we present a hardware/software co-designed memory protection approach that provides efficient, cheap, and effective isolation of tasks. The security extensions are implemented into a RISC-V-based MCU and a microkernel-based operating system. Our FPGA prototype shows that the hardware extensions use less than 5.5% of its area in terms of LUTs, and 24.7% in terms of FFs. They impose an extra 28% of context switch time, while providing protection of shared on-chip peripherals and authenticated communication via shared memory.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2019 - 32nd International Conference, Proceedings
Editors	Thilo Pionteck, Jürgen Brehm, Sascha Uhrig, Christian Hochberger, Martin Schoeberl
Publisher	Springer-Verlag Italia
Pages	3-14
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783030186555
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18656-2_1
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2019
Event	32nd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2019 - Copenhagen, Denmark Duration: 20 May 2019 → 23 May 2019

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	11479 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	32nd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2019
Country/Territory	Denmark
City	Copenhagen
Period	20/05/19 → 23/05/19

Keywords

Inter-task communication
Memory protection
MPU
Resource protection
RISC-V

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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Malenko, M., & Baunach, M. (2019). Hardware/software co-designed security extensions for embedded devices. In T. Pionteck, J. Brehm, S. Uhrig, C. Hochberger, & M. Schoeberl (Eds.), Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2019 - 32nd International Conference, Proceedings (pp. 3-14). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11479 LNCS). Springer-Verlag Italia. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18656-2_1

Hardware/software co-designed security extensions for embedded devices. / Malenko, Maja; Baunach, Marcel.
Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2019 - 32nd International Conference, Proceedings. ed. / Thilo Pionteck; Jürgen Brehm; Sascha Uhrig; Christian Hochberger; Martin Schoeberl. Springer-Verlag Italia, 2019. p. 3-14 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 11479 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference paper › peer-review

Malenko, M & Baunach, M 2019, Hardware/software co-designed security extensions for embedded devices. in T Pionteck, J Brehm, S Uhrig, C Hochberger & M Schoeberl (eds), Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2019 - 32nd International Conference, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 11479 LNCS, Springer-Verlag Italia, pp. 3-14, 32nd International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems, ARCS 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark, 20/05/19. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18656-2_1

Malenko M, Baunach M. Hardware/software co-designed security extensions for embedded devices. In Pionteck T, Brehm J, Uhrig S, Hochberger C, Schoeberl M, editors, Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2019 - 32nd International Conference, Proceedings. Springer-Verlag Italia. 2019. p. 3-14. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18656-2_1

Malenko, Maja ; Baunach, Marcel. / Hardware/software co-designed security extensions for embedded devices. Architecture of Computing Systems - ARCS 2019 - 32nd International Conference, Proceedings. editor / Thilo Pionteck ; Jürgen Brehm ; Sascha Uhrig ; Christian Hochberger ; Martin Schoeberl. Springer-Verlag Italia, 2019. pp. 3-14 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Hardware/software co-designed security extensions for embedded devices

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Hardware/software co-designed security extensions for embedded devices

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