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T
he Internet of Things envisions the
integrationof computers and thephysical
world intoa seamless global communica-
tionnetwork. Low-endembeddeddevices,
contribute to this goal by sensing the stateof the
realworldandcontinuouslyupdating itsdigital
representation.With thegrowing impact of the
Internet of Things the trustworthinessof all its
components isof utmost importance. Those
deviceswill likelybeoneof themost vulnerable
link in the chainof trust, because theymay run
unattended theycansuffer fromnetworkbased
attacksor physical tampering. Protecting those
devices is essential since compromiseddevices
put thewhole systemat risk.
TheTAMPRESproject aims at significantly
improving the trustworthinessof thosedevices
by investigatingprotectionmechanisms in the
preventionof hardwareattacks (side-channel
and fault-injectionattacks) andagainst software
attacks. Oneof themaingoal of theTAMPRES
project is toprovide those stateof theart features
inacost effectiveway, consideringenergycon-
sumptionandsiliconarea.
Theproject includes academic (TUGraz,
UCLouvain, ETH) and industrypartners (NXP,
Orange, IHP, Coalesenses). AurélienFrancillon
was themain instigator of theproject at ETH
Zurich. Followinghismoveas anassistant
professor at Eurecom, ETHZurich isnowtrans-
ferring theproject toEurecom. In theTAMPRES
project he is responsible for theworkpackage
whosegoal is tomake thosedevicesmore resist-
ant tosoftwareattacksbyproviding lightweight
hardware support for software security.
Thisproject is in linewith thegrowing inter-
est insoftware securityof embeddedsystems
in the researchgrouponsoftwareandsystem
securityof thenetworkandsecuritydepartment
at EURECOM. Thisproject is alsoagreat oppor-
tunity towork foster cooperationwithEurecom
members (Orange) or tobuildnewcooperation
with large companies (e.g. NXP) on the topic.
TAMPRES:
tamper resistant sensor node
young researcher
FIGARO: a Future Internet architecture
based on gateway-oriented federation
of residential networks
Marco
Milanesio
Nationality
Italian
Contact
marco.milanesio@eurecom.fr
T
he FP-7 integrated project FIGARO
designs a Future Internet architecture
based on gateway-oriented federa-
tion of residential networks. In this project,
we assume that each home is equipped with
a so-called home-gateway that mediates the
communication between devices in the home
and the Internet, having thus a key role as
integrator of different networks and services,
and as coordinator of Internet-wide distributed
content management. The novel content man-
agement architecture proposed by the project
will deliver a networkmanagement architecture
which includes monitoring and real-time trou-
supervisor:
Ernst Biersack
University of origin:
University of Turin
bleshooting techniques, as well as leveraging
community and heterogeneous networks.
The involvement of EURECOM in this project
is two-fold:
Home network trouble shooting: Due to
the large number of networked devices, net-
work problems inside the home will occur fre-
quently. EURECOM designs and implements
a set of algorithms that allows home users to
investigate the causes of their performance
problems, with particular focus on interactive
Web sessions: As soon as a user is not satisfied
with his/her browsing experience, a distrib-
uted troubleshooting framework is queried to
identify the source and the possible causes of
the inefficiency.
Long-termbackup of digital content stored at
home: Users produce more andmore personal
content such as pictures, films or scanned
documents that is highly valuable since and
must be permanently protected against loss. To
this purpose, EURECOM is designing a fully dis-
tributed backup service, combining ideas from
both P2P and cloud services. User data are first
encrypted and then backed-up in a distributed
way acrossmultiple home-gateways located in
different homes. On the other hand, metadata
(e.g., file information) are stored in a replicated
database running inside a data center.
web:
http://www.ict-figaro.eu
The Figaro architecture.
Home networks are connected
each other by means of a
federated overlay network.
“SMART”: lightweight
dynamic root of trust
mechanism for low-end
embedded devices.
networking and security
contact:
Aurelien.Francillon@eurecom.fr
FIGAROExternal Federation
(overlay network)
Internet Core
Edge/Home
Network
Edge/Home
Network
Edge/Home
Network
FIGAROInternationalFederation
Home
automation
Gateway
Gateway
e-health
Quadruple
play
Remoteaccess
Gateway
Instructions
Instruction
fetch and
decode
Memory
load / store
AVR core
Status
Programaddress space
Programaddress bus
Memory access controls
Data address bus
Data
SRAM
Data address space
Key ROM
SMART
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