Title: A literature review on security-aware design space exploration approaches for embedded systems

Authors: Fateh Boutekkouk

Addresses: RelaCS2 Laboratory, University of Oum El Bouaghi, Algeria

Abstract: Design space exploration (DSE) is a key activity in any embedded system design flow during which, decisions on architectural choices are made and their impacts on the overall performance are analysed and judged. As security emerges as a major design concern, DSE should be aware of the security aspect. By this literature review, we hope to study, analyse and add new knowledge on the topic. Our review showed that there is a lack of standard security metrics and expressive models to represent attackers' capabilities, security requirements and mechanisms. The review also revealed a big pitfall regarding the application of formal techniques, security standards adoption and adaptivity support. The presented review ends by proposing some potential promising future trends that can be investigated by researchers to pursue the research in related topics.

Keywords: embedded systems; security; design space exploration; DSE; optimisation; artificial intelligence; cyber-physical systems.

DOI: 10.1504/IJSN.2022.127153

International Journal of Security and Networks, 2022 Vol.17 No.4, pp.247 - 268

Received: 29 Nov 2021
Accepted: 10 Jan 2022
Published online: 23 Nov 2022 *

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