Overcoming the Performance and Security Challenges of Building Highly-Distributed Fault-Tolerant Embedded Systems

A Loveless - 2023 - deepblue.lib.umich.edu
Over the past few decades, embedded systems, like those in spacecraft and aircraft, have
evolved into complex distributed systems with hundreds of nodes and dozens of network …

CrossTalk: Making Low-Latency Fault Tolerance Cheap by Exploiting Redundant Networks

A Loveless, LTX Phan, L Erickson… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Real-time embedded systems perform many important functions in the modern world. A
standard way to tolerate faults in these systems is with Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) state …

Pcspoof: Compromising the safety of time-triggered ethernet

A Loveless, LTX Phan, R Dreslinski… - 2023 IEEE Symposium …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Designers are increasingly using mixed-criticality networks in embedded systems to reduce
size, weight, power, and cost. Perhaps the most successful of these technologies is Time …

[PDF][PDF] TINYBFT: Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Replication for Highly Resource-Constrained Embedded Systems

H Böhm, T Distler, P Wägemann - Proceedings of the 30th IEEE Real …, 2024 - sys.cs.fau.de
Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) state-machine replication offers resilience against a wide
spectrum of faults including hardware crashes, software failures, and attacks. Unfortunately …

IGOR: Accelerating byzantine fault tolerance for real-time systems with eager execution

A Loveless, R Dreslinski, B Kasikci… - 2021 IEEE 27th Real …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Critical real-time systems like spacecraft and aircraft commonly use Byzantine fault-tolerant
(BFT) state machine replication (SMR) to mask faulty processors and sensors. Unfortunately …

Engraft: Enclave-guarded Raft on Byzantine faulty nodes

W Wang, S Deng, J Niu, MK Reiter… - Proceedings of the 2022 …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
This paper presents the first critical analysis of building highly secure, performant, and
confidential Byzantine fault-tolerant (BFT) consensus by integrating off-the-shelf crash fault …

Resilient Threat-Adaptive Consensus

D SIMOES SILVA - 2023 - orbilu.uni.lu
Malicious and coordinated attacks are happening increasingly often, and have targeted
critical systems such as nuclear plants, public transportation systems, hospitals and …

Threat adaptive byzantine fault tolerant state-machine replication

DS Silva, R Graczyk, J Decouchant… - 2021 40th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Critical infrastructures have to withstand advanced and persistent threats, which can be
addressed using Byzantine fault tolerant state-machine replication (BFT-SMR). In practice …

Egalitarian Byzantine fault tolerance

M Eischer, T Distler - 2021 IEEE 26th Pacific Rim International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Minimizing end-to-end latency in geo-replicated systems usually makes it necessary to
compromise on resilience, resource efficiency, or throughput performance, because existing …

Integrity in embedded control networks

P Koopman, C Szilagyi - IEEE security & privacy, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Many embedded systems, such as in cars, use a network to coordinate control actions in
real time. Usually, the system doesn't employ an Ethernet network but rather a specialized …