%0 Journal Article
%T QoSS Hierarchical NoC-Based Architecture for MPSoC Dynamic Protection
%A Johanna Sepulveda
%A Ricardo Pires
%A Guy Gogniat
%A Wang Jiang Chau
%A Marius Strum
%J International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing
%D 2012
%I Hindawi Publishing Corporation
%R 10.1155/2012/578363
%X As electronic systems are pervading our lives, MPSoC (multiprocessor system-on-chip) security is becoming an important requirement. MPSoCs are able to support multiple applications on the same chip. The challenge is to provide MPSoC security that makes possible a trustworthy system that meets the performance and security requirements of all the applications. The network-on-chip (NoC) can be used to efficiently incorporate security. Our work proposes the implementation of QoSS (quality of security service) to overcome present MPSoC vulnerabilities. QoSS is a novel concept for data protection that introduces security as a dimension of QoS. QoSS takes advantage of the NoC wide system visibility and critical role in enabling system operation, exploiting the NoC components to detect and prevent a wide range of attacks. In this paper, we present the implementation of a layered dynamic security NoC architecture that integrates agile and dynamic security firewalls in order to detect attacks based on different security rules. We evaluate the effectiveness of our approach over several MPSoCs scenarios and estimate their impact on the overall performance. We show that our architecture can perform a fast detection of a wide range of attacks and a fast configuration of different security policies for several MPSoC applications. 1. Introduction SoC designers have to face up tight development times as well as the rapid evolution of current applications [1]. To be cost effective, SoCs are often programmable and integrate different applications on the same chip (i.e., cell-phone, personal digital assistant) [1]. Although sharing many of the hardware components on the SoC, different applications executed on a single chip may present very different requirements and design constraints. Such type of system is called multiapplication [2]. MPSoCs have been proposed as a promising architecture choice to overcome the new challenging application requirements. A MPSoC integrates multiple programmable processor cores, specialized memories, and other intellectual property (IP) components into a single chip [1]. MPSoC platforms allow simultaneous execution of several applications in the same structure.Current ubiquitous computing and flexibility in SoC design trends promote the resource sharing and upgrading capabilities. As MPSoCs are pervading our lives, security is emerging as an extremely important design requirement. Many of the current electronic systems embedded into an MPSoC are used to capture, store, manipulate and access sensitive data, and perform several critical
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