Institute for Systems Research Technical Reports

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This archive contains a collection of reports generated by the faculty and students of the Institute for Systems Research (ISR), a permanent, interdisciplinary research unit in the A. James Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland. ISR-based projects are conducted through partnerships with industry and government, bringing together faculty and students from multiple academic departments and colleges across the university.

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    Temperature Tracking: An Innovative Run-Time Approach for Hardware Trojan Detection
    (2013-02) Forte, Domenic; Bao, Chongxi; Srivastava, Ankur; Srivastava, Ankur
    The hardware Trojan threat has motivated development of Trojan detection schemes at all stages of the integrated circuit (IC) lifecycle. While the majority of existing schemes focus on ICs at test-time, there are many unique advantages offered by post-deployment/run-time Trojan detection. However, run-time approaches have been underutilized with prior work highlighting the challenges of implementing them with limited hardware resources. In this paper, we propose innovative low-overhead approaches for run-time Trojan detection which exploit the thermal sensors already available in many modern systems to detect deviations in power/thermal profiles caused by Trojan activation. Simulation results using state-of-the-art tools on publicly available Trojan benchmarks verify that our approaches can detect active Trojans quickly and with few false positives.
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    Energy and Thermal-Aware Video Coding via Encoder/Decoder Workload Balancing
    (2010) Forte, Domenic; Srivastava, Ankur; Srivastava, Ankur
    Even with consistent advances in storage and transmission capacity, video coding and compression are essential components of multimedia services. Traditional video coding paradigms result in excessive computation at either the encoder or decoder. However, several recent papers have proposed a hybrid PVC/DVC (Predictive/ Distributed Video Coding) codec which shares the video coding workload. In this paper, we propose a controller for such hybrid coders that considers energy and temperature to dynamically split the coding workload of a system comprised of one encoder and one decoder. Results show that the proposed controller results in more balanced energy utilization, improving overall system lifetime and reducing operating temperatures when compared to strictly PVC and DVC systems.