Title:  Leveraging Electromagnetic Side-Channel for System Profiling

Committee: 

Dr. Prvulovic, Advisor

Dr. Zajic, Co-Advisor     

Dr. Qureshi, Chair

Dr. Kim

Abstract:

The objective of the proposed research is to explore and extract performance-critical system activity signatures from the electromagnetic side-channel of an embedded device for application profiling and monitoring non-intrusively. Specifically, the first objective of the proposed research is to extract memory access features and profile the memory subsystem completely externally. The second objective of the proposed research is to identify signatures of asynchronous system events (interrupts and exceptions) and develop a system profiler. The third objective of the proposed research is to achieve application fingerprinting and monitoring using the identified signatures of system activity.