Securing Photonic NoC Architectures from Hardware Trojans

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

doi:10.1109/NOCS.2018.8512167

Securing Photonic NoC Architectures from Hardware Trojans

Sudeep Pasricha, Sai Vineel Reddy Chittamuru, Ishan G. Thakkar, 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 photonic waveguides to attain high bandwidth on-chip data transfers. A Hardware Trojan 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. This introduces a serious security threat. This paper presents a framework that utilizes process variation based authentication signatures along with architecture-level enhancements to protect data in PNoCs from data-snooping Hardware Trojans. Evaluation results indicate that our approach can significantly enhance the hardware security in DWDM-based PNoCs with minimal overheads of up to 17.3% in average latency and of up to 15.2% in energy-delay-product (EDP).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2018
ISBN (Electronic)	9781538648933
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/NOCS.2018.8512167
State	Published - Oct 26 2018
Event	12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2018 - Torino, Italy Duration: Oct 4 2018 → Oct 5 2018

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Name	2018 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2018

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Conference	12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2018
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Torino
Period	10/4/18 → 10/5/18

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© 2018 IEEE.

Funding

This research is supported by grants from SRC, NSF (CCF-1252500, CCF-1302693, CCF-1813370), AFOSR (FA9550-13-1-0110), and Micron Technology, Inc.

Funders	Funder number
National Science Foundation (NSF)	CCF-1252500, CCF-1813370, CCF-1302693
Semiconductor Research Corporation
Air Force Office of Scientific Research, United States Air Force	FA9550-13-1-0110
Micron Technology Incorporated

Keywords

Hardware Security
Photonic NoCs
Process Variations

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture

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Pasricha, S, Chittamuru, SVR, Thakkar, IG & Bhat, V 2018, Securing Photonic NoC Architectures from Hardware Trojans. in 2018 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2018., 8512167, 2018 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2018, 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Networks-on-Chip, NOCS 2018, Torino, Italy, 10/4/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/NOCS.2018.8512167

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