TerraSwarm Funded Paper "Security-Aware Design Methodology and Optimization for Automotive Systems" Receives ACM TODAES 2016 Best Paper Award

The paper, "Security-Aware Design Methodology and Optimization for Automotive Systems" has been selected as the winner of the ACM TODAES 2016 Best Paper Award. The award will be presented at the 2016 DAC General Session.

The paper states: "This work was supported in part by the TerraSwarm Research Center, one of six centers supported by the STARnet phase of the Focus Center Research Program (FCRP), a Semiconductor Research Corporation program sponsored by MARCO and DARPA. This work was supported in part by the Industrial Cyber- Physical Systems Center (iCyPhy)."

Chung-Wei Lin, Bowen Zheng, Qi Zhu, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. "Security-Aware Design Methodology and Optimization for Automotive Systems". ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES), Volume 21, Issue 1, November 2015.

Abstract:
In this paper, we address both of security and safety requirements and solve security-aware design problems for the Controller Area Network (CAN) protocol and Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) based protocols. To provide insights and guidelines for other similar security problems with limited resources and strict timing constraints, we propose a general security-aware design methodology to address security with other design constraints in a holistic framework and optimize design objectives. The security-aware design methodology is further applied to solve a security-aware design problem for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) communications with the Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) technology. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approaches in system design without violating design constraints and indicate that it is necessary to consider security together with other metrics during design stages.