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.

低能耗无线通信作为维持网络中用户之间连接的首选方法正在流行。在无线通信链路中建立安全和信任对于维护用户的安全和隐私至关重要。创建安全和可信的数据通信链路的现有解决方案主要集中在后端执行的复杂的能量密集型数字编码。虽然有效，但这种方法本质上与无线链路的低能量性质不一致。该项目旨在通过开发可在射频前端实现的低能量射频（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为低功耗、低延迟的可信无线通信奠定基础。除消费电子产品外，低能耗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影响，在这些应用和行业中，安全和可信地访问电磁频谱至关重要。除了技术影响外，该项目还广泛造福社会。通过为通过物联网（IoT）连接的低能耗设备带来急需的低成本安全性，这项研究将产生深远的积极影响，在改善生活和隐私的人从不利的社会经济群体谁越来越多地使用这些设备在他们的日常生活。该项目的目标是建立一个新的框架，低能耗低，通过在RF和模拟域中采用安全特性，消除了对高能耗实时数字后端加密的需求，实现了延迟安全和值得信赖的无线通信收发器。该研究利用了许多低能耗无线连接应用的实时性，以权衡在数字后端完成的高能耗逐位数字加密与在RF前端实现的低能耗RF和模拟安全功能。通过在模拟域中混淆调制波形，设想了安全的无线链路。一旦建立了安全的无线链路/信道，就使用唯一的设备属性在模拟域中应用设备认证。这个项目的智力价值涉及两个重要领域：安全和认证。(i)该研究提供了一种整体的系统和电路级方法，该方法使用RF/模拟技术来创建低能耗、低延迟的可信无线通信链路，同时最大限度地减少对数字后端的依赖。(ii)该奖项体现了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力评审标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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