TRUST Research on Physical Infrastructure Control, Monitoring, and Security

1. TRUST Research on Physical Infrastructure Control, Monitoring, and Security Prof. Stephen Wicker Cornell University

2. Physical Infrastructure • Power Grid, Telecom Infrastructure, Water Transport System, Interstate Highways • Immense Investment • Financial: Sunk costs and ongoing development and maintenance • Human: Established development, maintenance, and regulatory organizations at state and federal level • Critical to National Economy • National modes of production depend on functionality of critical infrastructures with embedded sensing and control • Multiple positive externalities have created secondary and tertiary dependencies (e.g. air traffic control dependence on power and telecom infrastructure) • Increasing complexity and 21st century security requirements demand new approaches to control, security, and long-term maintenance.

3. TRUST Infrastructure Research • Science and Technology • Low-power processors • Self-configuration algorithms • Taxonomy of network attacks • Information theory of privacy • Testbeds • Sensor networking and privacy • SCADA/plant security • Policy • Smart meters and privacy intrusion • Privacy-aware design

4. Nugget:TRUST Sensor Platform Technologies • CU Asynchronous Processor • Event-driven execution is ideal for sensor platforms • Low power consumption useful for large-scale and/or long-term deploment • Clockless logic • Spurious signal transitions (wasted power) eliminated • Hardware only active if it is used for the computation • MIPS: high-performance • 24pJ/ins and 28 MIPS @ 0.6V

5. Nugget: Smart Metering Provides Data Equivalent to a Search • Algorithm Performs well in determining presence and sleep cycles. • Over 90% of total interval length was correctly classified. • Power consumption data falls within the ambit of EU Directive 2002/58/EC • concerning the processing of personal data.