Combating Stealthy Thermal Covert Channel Attack With Its Thermal Signal Transmitted in Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum

doi:10.1109/TCAD.2022.3197344

	Combating Stealthy Thermal Covert Channel Attack With Its Thermal Signal Transmitted in Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum
	Wang, Xiaohang 1,2,3,4; Wang, Shengjie 2; Jiang, Yingtao 5; Singh, Amit Kumar 6; Yang, Mei 5; Huang, Letian 7
	2022-11-01
发表期刊	IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS
ISSN	0278-0070
卷号	41 期号:11 页码:4064-4075
摘要	Many-core systems are susceptible to attacks launched by thermal covert channel (TCC) attacks. Detection of TCC attacks often relies on the use of threshold-based approaches or variants, and a countermeasure to thwart the channel can be applied only after an attack is deemed to be present. In this article, we describe a direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS)-based TCC, where its thermal data are modulated by a pseudo-random bit sequence. Unfortunately, such DSSS-based TCC has an extremely low signal strength that the signal is nearly indistinguishable from the noise and thus cannot be detected by any existing threshold-based detection methods. To combat this stealthy TCC, we propose a novel detection scheme that lets the received signal pass through a differential filter where irrelevant frequency components occupied mainly by the noise gets eliminated and the filtered signal is next compared against a threshold for successful detection. Experimental results show that the DSSS-based TCC can effectively survive detection by the existing detection methods with its BER as low as 4%. In contrast, with the proposed detection and countermeasure applied, the detection accuracy jumps to 89%, and the BER of the DSSS-based TCC soars to 50%, which indicates that the TCC is practically shut down.
关键词	Spread spectrum communication Transmitters Encoding Bit error rate Receivers Codes Thermal noise Defense against covert channel attack many-core systems thermal covert channel (TCC) attack
DOI	10.1109/TCAD.2022.3197344
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[61971200] ; Major Scientific Research Project of Zhejiang Lab[2021LE0AC01] ; Open Research Grant of State Key Laboratory of Computer Architecture Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences[CARCH201916] ; Key Technologies Research and Development Program of Jiangsu (Prospective and Key Technologies for Industry)[BE2021003] ; Key Laboratory of Big Data and Intelligent Robot (South China University of Technology), Ministry of Education ; National Key Research and Development Program of China[2019QY0705] ; Zhejiang Lab[2021LE0AB01] ; Zhejiang Lab[2021PC0AC01]
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:000877295000046
出版者	IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC
引用统计	被引频次：2[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/2XEOYT63/19868
专题	中国科学院计算技术研究所期刊论文
通讯作者	Wang, Xiaohang
作者单位	1.Zhejiang Univ, Sch Cyber Sci & Technol, Hangzhou 310027, Peoples R China 2.South China Univ Technol, Sch Software Engn, Guangzhou 510006, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, Zhejiang Lab, Beijing 100045, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Comp Technol, State Key Lab Comp Architecture, Beijing 100045, Peoples R China 5.Univ Nevada, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Las Vegas, NV 89154 USA 6.Univ Essex, Sch Comp Sci & Elect Engineer, Colchester CO4 3SQ, Essex, England 7.Univ Elect Sci & Technol China, Sch Commun & Informat Engn, Chengdu 610054, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wang, Xiaohang,Wang, Shengjie,Jiang, Yingtao,et al. Combating Stealthy Thermal Covert Channel Attack With Its Thermal Signal Transmitted in Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum[J]. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS,2022,41(11):4064-4075.
APA	Wang, Xiaohang,Wang, Shengjie,Jiang, Yingtao,Singh, Amit Kumar,Yang, Mei,&Huang, Letian.(2022).Combating Stealthy Thermal Covert Channel Attack With Its Thermal Signal Transmitted in Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum.IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS,41(11),4064-4075.
MLA	Wang, Xiaohang,et al."Combating Stealthy Thermal Covert Channel Attack With Its Thermal Signal Transmitted in Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum".IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF INTEGRATED CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 41.11(2022):4064-4075.