Conference paper
TARN: Trust Aware Routing to Enhance Security in 3D Network-on-Chips
Proceedings - Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, pp 1-7
31 Mar 2025
Abstract
The growing complexity and performance demands of modern computing systems resulted in a shift from traditional System-on-Chip (SoC) designs to Network-on-Chip (NoC) architectures, and further to three-dimensional Network-on-Chip (3D NoC) solutions. Despite their performance and power efficiency, the increased complexity and inter-layer communication of 3D NoCs can create opportunities for adversaries who opt to prevent reliable communications between embedded nodes by inserting hardware Trojans in such nodes. The hardware Trojans, introduced through untrusted third-party Intellectual Property (IP) blocks, can severely compromise 3D NoCs by tampering with data integrity, misrouting packets, or dropping them; thus triggering denial-of-service attacks. Detecting such behaviors is particularly difficult due to their infrequent activation. Thereby it is of utmost importance to take the trustworthiness of the embedded nodes into account when routing the packets in the NoCs. Accordingly, this paper proposes a trust-aware routing scheme, so-called TARN, to significantly reduce the rate of packet loss that can occur due to malicious behaviors of one or more nodes (or interconnects). Our distributed trust-aware path selection protocol bypasses malicious IPs and securely routes packets to their destination. Furthermore, we introduce a low-overhead mechanism for delegating trust scores to neighboring routers, thereby enhancing network efficiency. Experimental results demonstrate significant improvements in packet loss while imposing low performance and energy overhead.
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- Title
- TARN: Trust Aware Routing to Enhance Security in 3D Network-on-Chips
- Creators
- Hasin Ishraq Reefat - University of Maryland, Baltimore CountyAlec Aversa - Drexel UniversityIoannis Savidis - Drexel UniversityNaghmeh Karimi - University of Maryland, Baltimore County
- Publication Details
- Proceedings - Design, Automation, and Test in Europe Conference and Exhibition, pp 1-7
- Conference
- 2025 Design, Automation & Test in Europe Conference (DATE) (Lyon, France, 31 Mar 2025–02 Apr 2025)
- Publisher
- EDAA
- Number of pages
- 7
- Resource Type
- Conference paper
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-105006895968
- Other Identifier
- 991022054301804721