Why we need it?
Future embedded systems will be composed by ubiquitous and autonomous devices fully interconnected. The increasing system complexity and the heterogeneity as well as scalability and decentralized control of such distributed systems will become extremely difficult to handle without novel approaches, incorporating intelligence, self-tuning capabilities and distributed resources management. In this context, self-adaptive computing can provide an efficient and disruptive response to such problems in ubiquitous computing. Self-adaptivity is seen as the ability for the systems to autoreconfigure themselves by reacting to internal and external stimuli.
Our goal
Being realised by ALaRI-USI,this project aims at investigation of new design principles, methods and mechanisms for enabling new self-adaptive approaches to security of embedded systems by optimizing both network protocols and use of their cryptographic algorithms.
Current project is based on the research performed by the applicant within the European project AETHER (EU: IST-2006-27611).
In particular, our research focuses on the problem to support the selection of the most suitable security solutions for a given operating environment, taking into account constraints on available resources and applications requirements.
This work was partially supported and funded by the Hasler Foundation under the Project Aetherplus (Grant No. 09083-2043-021). The Hasler Foundation is not liable for any use that may be made of the information contained herein.
