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cs.AR2025

On the Thermal Vulnerability of 3D-Stacked High-Bandwidth Memory Architectures

Mehdi Elahi, Mohamed R. Elshamy, Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy +1

3D-stacked High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) architectures provide high-performance memory interactions to address the well-known performance challenge, namely the memory wall. However,…

cs.CR2025

iThermTroj: Exploiting Intermittent Thermal Trojans in Multi-Processor System-on-Chips

Mehdi Elahi, Mohamed R. Elshamy, Abdel-Hameed Badawy +1

Thermal Trojan attacks present a pressing concern for the security and reliability of System-on-Chips (SoCs), especially in mobile applications. The situation becomes more complica…

cs.PF2025

CPINN-ABPI: Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Accurate Power Estimation in MPSoCs

Mohamed R. Elshamy, Mehdi Elahi, Ahmad Patooghy +1

Efficient thermal and power management in modern multiprocessor systems-on-chip (MPSoCs) demands accurate power consumption estimation. One of the state-of-the-art approaches, Alte…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

TrojanWhisper: Evaluating Pre-trained LLMs to Detect and Localize Hardware Trojans

Md Omar Faruque, Peter Jamieson, Ahmad Patooghy +1

Existing Hardware Trojans (HT) detection methods face several critical limitations: logic testing struggles with scalability and coverage for large designs, side-channel analysis r…

cs.CR2024

Unleashing GHOST: An LLM-Powered Framework for Automated Hardware Trojan Design

Md Omar Faruque, Peter Jamieson, Ahmad Patooghy +1

Traditionally, inserting realistic Hardware Trojans (HTs) into complex hardware systems has been a time-consuming and manual process, requiring comprehensive knowledge of the desig…

cs.CR2024

MATTER: Multi-stage Adaptive Thermal Trojan for Efficiency & Resilience degradation

Mehdi Elahi, Mohamed R. Elshamy, Abdel-Hameed Badawy +2

As mobile systems become more advanced, the security of System-on-Chips (SoCs) is increasingly threatened by thermal attacks. This research introduces a new attack method called th…

cs.PF2024

Fine-Grained Clustering-Based Power Identification for Multicores

Mohamed R. Elshamy, Mehdi Elahi, Ahmad Patooghy +1

Fine-grained power estimation in multicore Systems on Chips (SoCs) is crucial for efficient thermal management. BPI (Blind Power Identification) is a recent approach that determine…

cs.CR2024

Cluster-BPI: Efficient Fine-Grain Blind Power Identification for Defending against Hardware Thermal Trojans in Multicore SoCs

Mohamed R. Elshamy, Mehdi Elahi, Ahmad Patooghy +1

Modern multicore System-on-Chips (SoCs) feature hardware monitoring mechanisms that measure total power consumption. However, these aggregate measurements are often insufficient fo…

cs.CR2024★ 4 cited

TrojanForge: Generating Adversarial Hardware Trojan Examples Using Reinforcement Learning

Amin Sarihi, Peter Jamieson, Ahmad Patooghy +1

The Hardware Trojan (HT) problem can be thought of as a continuous game between attackers and defenders, each striving to outsmart the other by leveraging any available means for a…

cs.CR2024

The Seeker's Dilemma: Realistic Formulation and Benchmarking for Hardware Trojan Detection

Amin Sarihi, Ahmad Patooghy, Abdel-Hameed A. Badawy +1

This work focuses on advancing security research in the hardware design space by formally defining the realistic problem of Hardware Trojan (HT) detection. The goal is to model HT…

cs.CR2024★ 1 cited

Leveraging Machine Learning for Wi-Fi-based Environmental Continuous Two-Factor Authentication

Ali Abdullah S. AlQahtani, Thamraa Alshayeb, Mahmoud Nabil +1

The traditional two-factor authentication (2FA) methods primarily rely on the user manually entering a code or token during the authentication process. This can be burdensome and t…