Solar cell based physically unclonable function for cybersecurity in IoT Devices

S. Dinesh Kumar; Carson Labrado; Riasad Badhan; Himanshu Thapliyal; Vijay Singh

doi:10.1109/ISVLSI.2018.00131

Solar cell based physically unclonable function for cybersecurity in IoT Devices

S. Dinesh Kumar, Carson Labrado, Riasad Badhan, Himanshu Thapliyal, Vijay Singh

Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) devices are mostly small and operate wirelessly on limited battery supply, and therefore have stringent constraints on power consumption and hardware resources. Therefore, energy-efficient (low energy) design is paramount for the successful deployment of resource constrained IoT devices. Further, Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) have evolved as a popular hardware security primitive for low cost, mass produced IoT devices with very constrained resources. Energy harvesting technologies utilizing solar cells are being used in ultra-low power IoT devices to satisfy the energy requirement. In this paper, we utilize the intrinsic variations in solar cells to design a novel solar cell based PUF. As a proof of concept, we have used the Tiva TM4C123GH6PM microcontroller to build our solar cell based PUF. From our experiments, we found that the proposed solar cell based PUF has the uniformity value of 49.21% which is close to the ideal value of 50%. Further, the proposed solar cell based PUF has worst case reliabilities of 92.97% and 90.62% with variations in temperature and light intensity, respectively.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings - 2018 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2018
Pages	697-702
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ISVLSI.2018.00131
State	Published - Aug 7 2018
Event	17th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2018 - Hong Kong, Hong Kong Duration: Jul 9 2018 → Jul 11 2018

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI
Volume	2018-July
ISSN (Print)	2159-3469
ISSN (Electronic)	2159-3477

Conference

Conference	17th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2018
Country/Territory	Hong Kong
City	Hong Kong
Period	7/9/18 → 7/11/18

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Keywords

Cybersecurity
Energy Harvesting
Hardware Security
Internet of Things (IoT)
Physically Unclonable Function
Solar Cells

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Hardware and Architecture
Control and Systems Engineering
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Dinesh Kumar, S., Labrado, C., Badhan, R., Thapliyal, H., & Singh, V. (2018). Solar cell based physically unclonable function for cybersecurity in IoT Devices. In Proceedings - 2018 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2018 (pp. 697-702). Article 8429452 (Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI; Vol. 2018-July). https://doi.org/10.1109/ISVLSI.2018.00131

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Dinesh Kumar, S, Labrado, C, Badhan, R, Thapliyal, H & Singh, V 2018, Solar cell based physically unclonable function for cybersecurity in IoT Devices. in Proceedings - 2018 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2018., 8429452, Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI, vol. 2018-July, pp. 697-702, 17th IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2018, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 7/9/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISVLSI.2018.00131

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Proceedings - 2018 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI 2018. 2018. p. 697-702 8429452 (Proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI, ISVLSI; Vol. 2018-July).

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