SoK: Security in real-time systems

M Hasan, A Kashinath, CY Chen, S Mohan - ACM Computing Surveys, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Security is an increasing concern for real-time systems (RTS). Over the last decade or so,
researchers have demonstrated attacks and defenses aimed at such systems. In this article …

Impact of priority assignment on schedule-based attacks in real-time embedded systems

SY Karin, H Aydin, D Zhu, S Drager… - Journal of Systems …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate the impact of priority assignment on schedule-based attacks in
fixed-priority real-time systems. Through the schedule-based attacks, attackers may …

Rt-dfi: Optimizing data-flow integrity for real-time systems

N Bellec, G Hiet, S Rokicki, F Tronel… - ECRTS 2022-34th …, 2022 - inria.hal.science
The emergence of Real-Time Systems with increased connections to their environment has
led to a greater demand in security for these systems. Memory corruption attacks, which …

Schedguard++: Protecting against schedule leaks using linux containers on multi-core processors

J Chen, T Kloda, R Tabish, A Bansal, CY Chen… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Timing correctness is crucial in a multi-criticality real-time system, such as an autonomous
driving system. It has been recently shown that these systems can be vulnerable to timing …

Reorder++: Enhanced randomized real-time scheduling strategy against side-channel attacks

J Ren, Z Wang, C Lin, MS Obaidat, H Xie… - … on Network Science …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Embedded real-time systems are widely adopted in safety-critical domains such as aircrafts,
automobiles and space vehicles. Unfortunately, with the sharp rise in the use of common-off …

Protection Window Based Security-Aware Scheduling against Schedule-Based Attacks

J Ren, C Liu, C Lin, R Bi, S Li, Z Wang, Y Qian… - ACM Transactions on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
With widespread use of common-off-the-shelf components and the drive towards connection
with external environments, the real-time systems are facing more and more security …

Work-in-progress: Victim-aware scheduling for robust operations in safety-critical systems

D Zhu, S Drager, M Anderson… - 2022 IEEE Real-Time …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With ever-increasing attacks against learning-enabled components (LECs) in safety-critical
systems, it has become more challenging to ensure robust operations. By focusing on …