Energy attacks and defense techniques for wireless systems

  • Authors:
  • Sheng Wei;Jong Hoon Ahnn;Miodrag Potkonjak

  • Affiliations:
  • University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA;University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA;University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the sixth ACM conference on Security and privacy in wireless and mobile networks
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This paper addresses the energy attacks towards wireless systems, where energy is the most critical constraint to lifetime and reliability. We for the first time propose a hardware-based energy attack, namely energy hardware Trojans (HTs), which can be well hidden in the wireless systems and trigger ultra-high energy increases at runtime. Then, we develop a non-destructive HT detection approach to identify the energy attack by remotely sampling the power profiles of the system and characterizing the gate-level temperatures. Our evaluation results on ISCAS benchmarks indicate the effectiveness of the proposed energy attacks and defense techniques.