EAGER: SARE: Collaborative: Low Energy Secure Wireless Transceiversfor IoT Trusted Communications

EAGER：SARE：协作：用于物联网可信通信的低能耗安全无线收发器

• 批准号: 2029407
• 负责人: Hossein Lavasani
• 金额: $ 15.5万
• 依托单位: Case Western Reserve University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2029407&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; SARE; Collaborative; Low; Energy

Low-energy wireless communication is gaining currency as the preferred method to maintain connectivity between users in a network. Establishing the security and trust in the wireless communication link is vital to maintaining the security and privacy of users. Existing solutions to create a secure and trustworthy data communication link have primarily focused on complicated energy-intensive digital encoding performed in the backend. While effective, this approach is inherently inconsistent with the low-energy nature of the wireless link. This project aims to address this challenge by developing low-energy radio frequency (RF) and analog security features that can be implemented in the RF front-end. The new knowledge gained from this research will form the foundation for low-power low-latency trusted wireless communications. Besides consumer electronics, the successful development of low-energy secure radio transceivers will have profound impact on various applications and industries, where secure and trusted access to the electromagnetic spectrum is paramount. In addition to the technical impact, the project broadly benefits the society. By bringing much-needed low-cost security to low-energy devices connected through the internet of things (IoT), this research will have a far-reaching positive impact in enhancing the lives and privacy of people from disadvantageous social economic groups who increasingly use these devices in their daily life.The objective of this project is to create a new framework for low-energy low-latency secure and trustworthy wireless communication transceivers by employing security features in the RF and analog domain that obviate the need for energy-hungry real-time digital backend encryption. The research takes advantage of the real-time nature of many low-energy wireless connectivity applications to trade off energy-heavy bit-by-bit digital encryption done in the digital backend with low-energy RF and analog security features implemented in the RF front-end. By obfuscating the modulated waveform in the analog domain, a secure wireless link is envisaged. Once a secure wireless link/channel is established, device authentication is applied in the analog domain using unique device attributes. The intellectual merits of this project involve two important areas of security and authentication. (i) The research offers a holistic system- and circuit-level approach that uses RF/analog techniques to create low-energy low-latency trusted wireless communication links with minimal dependence on the digital backend. (ii) It creates a two-step RF/analog obfuscation and encryption system that combines the channel security with device authentication to create an analog-inspired end-to-end secure wireless communication link.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.

低能无线通信正在获得货币作为维持网络中用户之间连接性的首选方法。在无线通信链接中建立安全性和信任对于维持用户的安全性和隐私至关重要。创建安全且值得信赖的数据通信链接的现有解决方案主要集中在后端执行的复杂能源密集型数字编码上。虽然有效，但这种方法与无线链接的低能性本质上不一致。该项目旨在通过开发可在RF前端实现的低能射频（RF）和模拟安全功能来应对这一挑战。从这项研究中获得的新知识将构成低功率低延迟信任的无线通信的基础。除了消费电子产品外，低能安全无线电收发器的成功开发将对各种应用和行业产生深远的影响，在这些应用程序和行业中，安全和值得信赖的电磁频谱至关重要。除了技术影响外，该项目还广泛地使社会受益。通过将急需的低成本安全性带到通过物联网（IoT）相关的低能能设备（IoT），这项研究将对人们从不利的社会经济团体中越来越多地利用这些设备来增强人们的生活和隐私，他们在日常生活中使用这些设备，这些项目的目标是通过实现低级安全和信任的新框架，这些设备越来越多。模拟域消除了对耗能实时数字后端加密的需求。该研究利用了许多低能无线连接应用程序的实时性质，以使用低能RF和RF前端实现的模拟安全功能进行数字后端中完成的逐个能量的数字加密。通过混淆模拟域中的调制波形，设想了一个安全的无线链接。一旦建立了安全的无线链接/通道，就可以使用唯一的设备属性在模拟域中应用设备身份验证。该项目的智力优点涉及安全和身份验证的两个重要领域。 （i）该研究提供了一种整体系统和电路级方法，该方法使用RF/模拟技术来创建低能量的低延迟可信赖的无线通信链接，对数字后端的依赖性最小。 （ii）它创建了一个两步的RF/模拟混淆和加密系统，该系统将通道安全性与设备身份验证相结合，以创建一个模拟的端到端端到端的安全无线通信链接。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用该基金会的知识分子的优点和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被视为值得的支持。

项目成果

Analog-Inspired Hardware Security: A Low-Energy Solution for IoT Trusted Communications

• DOI: 10.1109/socc52499.2021.9739611
• 发表时间: 2021-09
• 期刊: 2021 IEEE 34th International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC)
• 作者: Samuel Ellicott;Michael Kines;W. Khalil;Yu Qi;Abdullah Kurtoglu;H. M. Lavasani