Robustness Analysis of Mesh-Based Network-on-Chip Architecture under Flooding-Based Denial of Service Attacks

Fang, Dabin; Li, Huikai; Han, Jianda; Zeng, Xiaoyang

doi:10.1109/nas.2013.29

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“…XY routing is simple, it basically takes all the X links first followed by Y links. There are also adaptive routing algorithms such as odd-even, west-first, north-last, and negative-first [36].…”

Section: Routing Protocolmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The flooded packets will fill up buffers and eat up processing time of the routers in the path making extremely high latency for legitimate packets. Several flooding based DoS attack scenarios in mesh-based NoC has been implemented and evaluated in [36]. The authors present a novel congestion based attack model to evaluate bandwidth based congestion attack on NoC.…”

Section: Availabilitymentioning

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Security of Electrical, Optical and Wireless On-Chip Interconnects: A Survey

Weerasena¹,

Mishra²

2023

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The advancement of manufacturing technologies has enabled the integration of more intellectual property (IP) cores on the same system-on-chip (SoC). Scalable and high throughput on-chip communication architecture has become a vital component in today's SoCs. Diverse technologies such as electrical, wireless, optical, and hybrid are available for on-chip communication with different architectures supporting them. Security of the on-chip communication is crucial because exploiting any vulnerability would be a goldmine for an attacker. In this survey, we provide a comprehensive review of threat models, attacks and countermeasures over diverse on-chip communication technologies as well as sophisticated architectures.CCS Concepts: • Hardware → Network on chip; • Security and privacy → Hardware security implementation.

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Section: Routing Protocolmentioning

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Section: Availabilitymentioning

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Security of Electrical, Optical and Wireless On-Chip Interconnects: A Survey

Weerasena¹,

Mishra²

2023

Preprint

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“…HT-assisted DoS attacks [26,16,27,28,29] can directly target the NoC of a many-core chip, as malfunctioning of NoC can cause the entire chip to be disconnected and disintegrated, even though each single core might still be fully functional. In [26], a bandwidth denial attack that increases the network latency by rejecting the resource request was described, and a detection method referred as RLAN (Runtime Latency Auditor for NoCs) was suggested.…”

Section: Ht-enabled Dos Attacks On Nocmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The authors also proposed a DoS resilient wireless architecture to defend against such an attack, and they also suggested countermeasures that can alleviate the effect of the DoS attack with defense methods at both physical and data routing levels. In [28], various flooding-based DoS attacks were evaluated and the robustness of mesh-based NoC architectures under these attacks was examined. In [29], a target-activated sequential payload (TASP) HT in support of a new type of DoS attack was proposed.…”

Section: Ht-enabled Dos Attacks On Nocmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effectiveness of HT-assisted sinkhole and blackhole denial of service attacks targeting mesh networks-on-chip

Zhang

Wang

Jiang

et al. 2018

Journal of Systems Architecture

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There are ample opportunities at both design and manufacturing phases to meddle in a many-core chip system, especially its underlining communication fabric, known as the networks-on-chip (NoC), through the inclusion of malicious hardware Trojans (HT). In this paper, we focus on studying two specific HT-assisted Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks, namely the sinkhole and blackhole attacks, that directly target the NoC of a many-core chip. As of the blackhole attacks, those intermediate routers with inserted HTs can stop forwarding data packets/flits towards the packets' destination; instead, packets are either dropped from the network or diverted to some other malicious nodes. Sinkhole attacks, which exhibit similar attack effects as blackhole attacks, can occur when the NoC supports adaptive routing. In this case, a malicious node actively solicits packets from its neighbor nodes by pretending to have sufficient free buffer slots. Effects and efficiencies of both sinkhole and blackhole DoS attacks are modeled and quantified in this paper, and a few factors that influence attack effects are found to be critical. Through fine-tuning of these parameters, both attacks are shown to cause more damages to the NoC, measured as over 30% increase in packet loss rate. Even with current detection and defense methods in place, the packet loss rate is still remarkably high, suggesting the need of new and more effective detection and defense methods against the enhanced blackhole and sinkhole attacks as described in the paper.

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“…These three classes can be directly applied in NoC infrastructures, which result in an increase in the end-to-end communication latency of the sensitive packet flows [6]. Previous published research outlines the possibility of executing DoS attacks in NoCs and propose new router architectures to mitigate them.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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DoS Attack Detection and Path Collision Localization in NoC-Based MPSoC Architectures

Chaves

Azad

Hollstein

et al. 2019

JLPEA

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Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are an increasing threat for Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MPSoC) architectures. By exploiting the shared resources on the chip, an attacker is able to prevent completion or degrade the performance of a task. This is extremely dangerous for MPSoCs used in critical applications. The Network-on-Chip (NoC), as a central MPSoC infrastructure, is exposed to this attack. In order to maintain communication availability, NoCs should be enhanced with an effective and precise attack detection mechanism that allows the triggering of effective attack mitigation mechanisms. Previous research works demonstrate DoS attacks on NoCs and propose detection methods being implemented in NoC routers. These countermeasures typically led to a significantly increased router complexity and to a high degradation of the MPSoC’s performance. To this end, we present two contributions. First, we provide an analysis of information that helps to narrow down the location of the attacker in the MPSoC, achieving up to a 69% search space reduction for locating the attacker. Second, we propose a low cost mechanism for detecting the location and direction of the interference, by enhancing the communication packet structure and placing communication degradation monitors in the NoC routers. Our experiments show that our NoC router architecture detects single-source DoS attacks and determines, with high precision, the location and direction of the collision, while incurring a low area and power overhead.

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Robustness Analysis of Mesh-Based Network-on-Chip Architecture under Flooding-Based Denial of Service Attacks

Cited by 24 publications

References 24 publications

Security of Electrical, Optical and Wireless On-Chip Interconnects: A Survey

Security of Electrical, Optical and Wireless On-Chip Interconnects: A Survey

Effectiveness of HT-assisted sinkhole and blackhole denial of service attacks targeting mesh networks-on-chip

DoS Attack Detection and Path Collision Localization in NoC-Based MPSoC Architectures

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