Tutorial 12 | 7th Jan | 9:30AM-12:30PM (IST)
Security of Emergent Autonomous Vehicles: From Sensors to Systems
Speaker: Prof. Sandip Ray, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
About Speaker:
Prof. Sandip Ray a Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, where he holds an Endowed IoT Term Professorship in the Warren B. Nelms Institute for Connected World. His research entails developing architecture and validation solutions for safe and secure system design in the emerging connected world of autonomous, connected applications. His research focus includes automotive security architecture and validation, trade-offs between security, validation, and power management, and hardware/software co-validation. Before joining University of Florida, he was a Senior Principal Engineer at NXP Semiconductors, where he led the research and development activities for security architecture and validation of NXP’s automotive and IoT designs. Prior to that, Sandip was a Research Scientist at Strategic CAD Labs, Intel Corporation, where he focused on functional and security readiness for next-generation Intel designs. Sandip has over 12 years of experience on various aspects of security architecture, security validation, post-silicon validation, and formal methods. He has over 80 peer-reviewed publications in renowned international conferences and journals. Dr. Ray is an Associate Editor of Springer Journal on Hardware and Systems Security. He has served as Guest editor for IEEE Design & Test of Computers, ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, Springer Journal of Hardware and Systems Security, and IEEE TMSCS. He co-chaired the 2013 edition of the International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer- Aided Design (FMCAD 2013), and served on the technical committee of over 50 international conferences on design automation, verification, and test including DAC, ICCAD, FMCAD, and DATE. Dr. Ray has a Ph.D. from University of Texas at Austin and is a Senior Member of IEEE.
Tutorial Abstract:
utomotive systems are highly complex, distributed cyber-physical systems including more than a hundred electronic control units (ECU), a diversity of sensors and actuators, several in-vehicle networks, and hundreds of Megabytes of software. The complexity will rise even more sharply as we move towards cars with increasing autonomy that use electronics and computing elements to replace various human functions. Automotive security entails comprehending the interplay of hardware, software, and a variety of heterogeneous cyber-physical components (e.g., sensors and actuators) and communication protocols at different levels of trustworthiness. Unfortunately, ensuring security and trust for a modern (and emergent) automotive system is a highly challenging exercise, both because of the complexity of the system itself as well as the complexity, ambiguity and inconsistency in the requirements. Furthermore, security requirements are often at odds with requirements of real-time response, privacy constraints, and “intelligent” behavior, and are limited by computation performance offered by automotive ECUs.
This tutorial will provide a broad overview of automotive security. The audience will get a general understanding of the scope and complexity of the problem, current and emergent challenges, and research directions. An in-depth analysis of requirements from hardware, software, sensors, and connectivity, and challenges arising from their interplay and conflicts will be provided. We will also discuss the state of the industrial practice in automotive security, their limitations, and emergent research to address those limitations.
The objective of the tutorial is two-fold: (1) to provide beginning researchers and students a comprehensive overview of the scope of automotive security and give a flavor of the diverse research problems; and (2) to provide researchers and practitioners the interplay of these factors that must be considered in automotive system design. The trend and direction of automotive security as we move towards autonomous vehicles will be presented. The influence of automotive security on transportation infrastructure will also be discussed.
