Detection of and Countermeasure Against Thermal Covert Channel in Many-Core Systems

doi:10.1109/TCAD.2021.3059245

	Detection of and Countermeasure Against Thermal Covert Channel in Many-Core Systems
	Huang, Hengli 1; Wang, Xiaohang 1,2; Jiang, Yingtao 3; Singh, Amit Kumar 4; Yang, Mei 3; Huang, Letian 5
	2022-02-01
发表期刊	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
ISSN	0278-0070
卷号	41 期号:2 页码:252-265
摘要	The thermal covert channels (TCCs) in many-core systems can cause detrimental data breaches. In this article, we present a three-step scheme to detect and fight against such TCC attacks. Specifically, in the detection step, each core calculates the spectrum of its own CPU workload traces that are collected over a few fixed time intervals, and then it applies a frequency scanning method to detect if there exists any TCC attack. In the next positioning step, the logical cores running the transmitter threads are located. In the last step, the physical CPU cores suspiciously engaging in a TCC attack have to undertake dynamic voltage frequency scaling (DVFS) such that any possible TCC trace will be essentially wiped out. Our experiments have confirmed that on average 97% of the TCC attacks can be detected, and with the proposed defense, the packet error rate (PER) of a TCC attack can soar to more than 70%, literally shutting down the attack in practical terms. The performance penalty caused by the inclusion of the proposed DVFS countermeasures is found to be only 3 % for an 8 x 8 many-core system.
关键词	Defense against covert channel attack detection of covert channel many-core systems thermal covert channel (TCC)
DOI	10.1109/TCAD.2021.3059245
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[61971200] ; Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province[2018A030313166] ; Pearl River S&T Nova Program of Guangzhou[201806010038] ; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities[2019MS087] ; Open Research Grant of State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences[CARCH201916] ; Key Laboratory of Big Data and Intelligent Robot (South China University of Technology), Ministry of Education ; Zhejiang Lab[2021LE0AB01] ; National Key Research and Development Program of China[2019QY0705]
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Engineering
WOS类目	Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic
WOS记录号	WOS:000744531400008
出版者	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
引用统计	被引频次：11[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.204/handle/2XEOYT63/18199
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文_英文
通讯作者	Wang, Xiaohang
作者单位	1.South China Univ Technol, Sch Software Engn, Guangzhou 510006, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, State Key Lab Comp Architecture, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 3.Univ Nevada, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Las Vegas, NV 89154 USA 4.Univ Essex, Sch Comp Sci & Elect Engn, Colchester CO4 3SQ, Essex, England 5.Univ Elect Sci & Technol China, Sch Elect Sci & Engn, Chengdu 610054, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Huang, Hengli,Wang, Xiaohang,Jiang, Yingtao,et al. Detection of and Countermeasure Against Thermal Covert Channel in Many-Core Systems[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS,2022,41(2):252-265.
APA	Huang, Hengli,Wang, Xiaohang,Jiang, Yingtao,Singh, Amit Kumar,Yang, Mei,&Huang, Letian.(2022).Detection of and Countermeasure Against Thermal Covert Channel in Many-Core Systems.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS,41(2),252-265.
MLA	Huang, Hengli,et al."Detection of and Countermeasure Against Thermal Covert Channel in Many-Core Systems".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 41.2(2022):252-265.