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A conceptual model of self-monitoring multi-core systems

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Dipankar Dasgupta,

Harkeerat Bedi,

Deon GarrettAuthors Info & Claims

CSIIRW '10: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Workshop on Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research

Article No.: 83, Pages 1 - 4

https://doi.org/10.1145/1852666.1852760

Published: 21 April 2010 Publication History

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The paper discusses a conceptual model of building a self-monitoring mechanism in a multi-core system such that the health of the entire system can be monitored securely and in an implicit manner. Accordingly, a many-core system is vertically partitioned (from hardware to application level) so that a small set of processors (security core) is separated from other user data processing cores to build a security subsystem. Then the model delegates security handling tasks to this isolated subsystem and uses a set of privileged instructions to monitor the other part (user side) and interact using a secure message exchange protocol. Simulation of the proposed security mechanism using several off-the-shelf software tools will be performed in order to demonstrate the proof-of-concept.

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Dasgupta DCarvalho M(2010)Configurable and Secure System ArchitecturesProceedings of the 2010 Second Vaagdevi International Conference on Information Technology for Real World Problems10.1109/VCON.2010.18(57-62)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/VCON.2010.18

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CSIIRW '10: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Workshop on Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research

April 2010

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ISBN:9781450300179

DOI:10.1145/1852666

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Dasgupta DCarvalho M(2010)Configurable and Secure System ArchitecturesProceedings of the 2010 Second Vaagdevi International Conference on Information Technology for Real World Problems10.1109/VCON.2010.18(57-62)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/VCON.2010.18

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