CRII: CPS: Design of Secure and Dependable Next Generation Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems

Abstract: This project aims at simultaneous integration of  security and dependability while minimizing energy consumption and ensuring that real-time constraints of  the application are not violated. We have proposed novel electronic control unit (ECU) architectures for real-time automotive CPS that incorporate security and dependability primitives with low resources and energy overhead. We have further proposed an evolving side-channel attacks resistant reconfigurable hardware for elliptic curve cryptography that can be used in cyber-transportation systems (CTS) and other CPS applications requiring asymmetric cryptography. We have also developed a true random number generator (TRNG) that is resistant to PVT variations and can be used for generating secure secret keys in automotive and other CPS.