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Fault-Tolerant Encryption for Space Applications

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posted on 2012-10-24, 09:06 authored by R Banu, T Vladimirova
This paper is concerned with the use of commercial security algorithms like the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) in Earth observation small satellites. The demand to protect the sensitive and valuable data transmitted from satellites to ground has increased and hence the need to use encryption on board. AES, which is a very popular choice in terrestrial communications, is slowly emerging as the preferred option in the aerospace industry including satellites. This paper first addresses the encryption of satellite imaging data using five AES modes - ECB, CBC, CFB, OFB and CTR. A detailed analysis of the effect of single even upsets (SEUs) on imaging data during on-board encryption using different modes of AES is carried out. The impact of faults in the data occurring during transmission to ground due to noisy channels is also discussed and compared for all the five modes of AES. In order to avoid data corruption due to SEUs, a novel fault-tolerant model of AES is presented, which is based on the Hamming error correction code. A field programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation of the proposed model is carried out and measurements of the power and throughput overhead are presented.

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The research presented in this paper is sponsored by the University ofSurrey and the UK ORS scheme

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Citation

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS, 2009, 45 (1), pp. 266-279 (14)

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/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING/Department of Engineering

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

Volume

45

Issue

1

Pagination

266-279 (14)

Publisher

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

issn

0018-9251

Copyright date

2009

Available date

2012-10-24

Language

English

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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/4805278

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