Exploiting Process Variations to Secure Photonic NoC Architectures from Snooping Attacks

Sai Vineel Reddy Chittamuru; Ishan G. Thakkar; Sudeep Pasricha; Sairam Sri Vatsavai; Varun Bhat

doi:10.1109/TCAD.2020.3014184

Exploiting Process Variations to Secure Photonic NoC Architectures from Snooping Attacks

Sai Vineel Reddy Chittamuru, Ishan G. Thakkar, Sudeep Pasricha, Sairam Sri Vatsavai, Varun Bhat

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Abstract

The compact size and high wavelength-selectivity of microring resonators (MRs) enable photonic networks-on-chip (PNoCs) to utilize dense-wavelength-division-multiplexing (DWDM) in their photonic waveguides, and as a result, attain high bandwidth on-chip data transfers. Unfortunately, a hardware Trojan (HT) in a PNoC can manipulate the electrical driving circuit of its MRs to cause the MRs to snoop data from the neighboring wavelength channels in a shared photonic waveguide, which introduces a serious security threat. This article presents a framework that utilizes process variation-based authentication signatures along with architecture-level enhancements to protect against data-snooping HT during unicast as well as multicast transfers in PNoCs. The evaluation results indicate that our framework can improve hardware security across various PNoC architectures with minimal overheads of up to 14.2% in average latency and of up to 14.6% in energy-delay-product (EDP).

Original language	English
Article number	9158389
Pages (from-to)	850-863
Number of pages	14
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems
Volume	40
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TCAD.2020.3014184
State	Published - May 2021

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© 1982-2012 IEEE.

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Manuscript received November 29, 2019; revised March 19, 2020 and June 3 2020; accepted July 16, 2020. Date of publication August 4, 2020; date of current version April 21, 2021. This work was supported in part by a seed grant from the University of Kentucky, and in part by NSF under Grant CCF-1813370. (Corresponding author: Ishan G. Thakkar.) Sai Vineel Reddy Chittamuru is with Micron Technology, Inc., Austin, TX 78728 USA (e-mail: [email protected]).

Funders	Funder number
National Science Foundation (NSF)	CCF-1813370
Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering	1813370
University of Kentucky

Keywords

Data encryption
data snooping
hardware Trojan (HT)
photonic networks-on-chip (PNoCs)
process variations (PVs)
security

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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