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- Abbas, Haider, 1979-
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Options-Based Security-Oriented Framework for Addressing Uncerainty Issues in IT Security
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Continuous development and innovation in Information Technology introduces novel configuration methods, software development tools and hardware components. This steady state of flux is very desirable as it improves productivity and the overall quality of life in societies. However, the same phenomenon also gives rise to unseen threats, vulnerabilities and security concerns that are becoming more critical with the passage of time. As an implication, technological progress strongly impacts organizations’ existing information security methods, policies and techniques, making obsolete existing security measures and mandating reevaluation, which results in an uncertain IT infrastructure. In order to address these critical concerns, an options-based reasoning borrowed from corporate finance is proposed and adapted for evaluation of security architecture and decision- making to handle them at organizational level. Options theory has provided significant guidance for uncertainty management in several domains, such as Oil & Gas, government R&D and IT security investment projects. We have applied options valuation technique in a different context to formalize optimal solutions in uncertain situations for three specific and identified uncertainty issues in IT security. In the research process, we formulated an adaptation model for expressing options theory in terms useful for IT security which provided knowledge to formulate and propose a framework for addressing uncertainty issues in information security. To validate the efficacy of this proposed framework, we have applied this approach to the SHS (Spridnings- och Hämtningssystem) and ESAM (E-Society) systems used in Sweden. As an ultimate objective of this research, we intend to develop a solution that is amenable to automation for the three main problem areas caused by technological uncertainty in information security: i) dynamically changing security requirements, ii) externalities caused by a security system, iii) obsoleteness of evaluation. The framework is general and capable of dealing with other uncertainty management issues and their solutions, but in this work we primarily deal with the three aforementioned uncertainty problems. The thesis presents an in-depth background and analysis study for a proposed options-based security-oriented framework with case studies for SHS and ESAM systems. It has also been assured that the framework formulation follows the guidelines from industry best practices criteria/metrics. We have also proposed how the whole process can be automated as the next step in development.
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- Badawi, Mohammad, 1981-
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Adaptive Coarse-grain Reconfigurable Protocol Processing Architecture
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Digital signal processors and their variants have provided significant benefit to efficient implementation of Physical Layer (PHY) of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model’s seven-layer protocol processing stack compared to the general purpose processors. Protocol processors promise to provide a similar advantage for implementing higher layers in the (OSI)'s seven-layer model. This thesis addresses the problem of designing customizable coarse-grain reconfigurable protocol processing fabrics as a solution to achieving high performance and computational efficiency. A key requirement that this thesis addresses is the ability to not only adapt to varying applications and standards, and different modes in each standard but also to time varying load and performance demands while maintaining quality of service.This thesis presents a tile-based multicore protocol processing architecture that can be customized at design time to meet the requirements of the target application. The architecture can then be reconfigured at boot time and tuned to suit the desired use-case. This architecture includes a packet-oriented memory system that has deterministic access time and access energy costs, and hence can be accurately dimensioned to fulfill the requirements of the desired use-case. Moreover, to maintain quality of service as predicted, while minimizing the use of energy and resources, this architecture encompasses an elastic management scheme that controls run-time configuration to deploy processing resources based on use-case and traffic demands.To evaluate the architecture presented in this thesis, different case studies were conducted while quantitative and qualitative metrics were used for assessment. Energy-delay product, energy efficiency, area efficiency and throughput show the improvements that were achieved using the processing cores and the memory of the presented architecture, compared with other solutions. Furthermore, the results show the reduction in latency and power consumption required to evaluate controlling states when using the elastic management scheme. The elasticity of the scheme also resulted in reducing the total area required for the controllers that serve multiple processing cores in comparison with other designs. Finally, the results validate the ability of the presented architecture to support quality of service without misutilizing available energy during a real-life case study of a multi-participant Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) call.
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- Chabloz, Jean-Michel, 1982-
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Globally-Ratiochronous, Locally-Synchronous Systems
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- It is well recognized in the literature that the fully-synchronous design style, once the best choice due especially to the simplicity of its design flow, is not suitable for present-days systems, which contain many more gates compared to their predecessors, and has to be superseded to meet the new needs of the industry. The alternative solution that has enjoyed more success in industry and the literature consists in breaking down a system into several fully-synchronous modules clocked with independent clocks. Such systems go under the name of Globally-non-Synchronous (GnS) and make no assumption on the phase alignment between the clocks in the individual modules. GnS design styles do not require a globally balanced clock tree and employ special synchronizers to achieve latency-insensitivity. The individual modules, whose sizes are relatively small, remain fully-synchronous, thus easy to design andmaintain. Two main classes of GnS systems have been proposed: the GALS (for Globally-Asynchronous, Locally-Synchronous) design style allows each module to be clocked at its own independent clock frequency; the mesochronous design style constrains all modules to run at the same frequency. GALS systems support per-module Dynamic Voltage-Frequency Scaling (DVFS), but GALS interfaces are complex and introduce high performance penalties; mesochronous systems do not support per-module DVFS but support simpler and faster interfaces. It is well recognized that neither of the two design styles can fully satisfy all the contrasting needs of the electronic industry, and often hybrid solutions are deployed as a trade-off. We propose Globally-Ratiochronous, Locally-Synchronous (GRLS) systems, where GRLS is a design style intermediate between the mesochronous and the GALS design paradigms: local frequencies in a GRLS system do not need to be identical, but are required to be rationally-related (such as one being 3/4 or 2/5 of the other). The periodic properties of rationally-related systems allow the deployment of interfaces that do not use any form of handshake and, thanks to this, are much more performant than GALS interfaces; on the other hand, GRLS supports quantized per-module DVFS. In this work we deploy and analyse all the components of the GRLS design style: the frequency regulation system, the voltage regulation system, and the GRLS latency-insensitive interfaces. We perform a theoretical analysis of DVFS efficiency in different GRLS systems, and then study a GRLS NoC-based platform. We also develop a complete GRLS power management system for a GRLS Network-on-Chip (NoC)-based platform. Experimental results show that GRLS performances are close to those of mesochronous systems and GRLS flexibility is close to that of GALS systems, which results in high figures of merit for GRLS systems. As an example, the GRLS NoC-based platform we study in this work has at least ≈ 21% lower latency-power product compared to alternative mesochronous-GALS hybrid platforms, and respectively ≈ 32% and ≈ 48% better latency-power product compared to mesochronous and GALS platforms.
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- Chabloz, J. -M, et al.
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Power management architecture in McNoC
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Ingår i: Scalable Multi-core Architectures. - New York, NY : Springer Science+Business Media B.V.. - 9781441967787 ; , s. 55-80
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this chapter we present the power management architecture of the McNoC platform. The power management architecture of McNoC offers distributed Dynamic Voltage Frequency Scaling (DVFS) and power down services to the platform at a fine level of granularity, allowing independent setting of frequency and supply voltage to all switch and resource nodes in the platform. The design style enables hierarchical physical design and solves the clock-domain-crossing problem with a solution based on rationally-related frequencies, which avoids the overhead associated with handshake. The architecture allows arbitrary power management regions to be defined and region-wide power management commands affecting all nodes in a region can be issued by the software layer that we call as Power Management Intelligence (PMINT).
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- Daneshtalab, Masoud, et al.
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Special issue on many-core embedded systems
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Ingår i: Microprocessors and microsystems. - : Elsevier BV. - 0141-9331 .- 1872-9436. ; 38:6, s. 525-525
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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