Award Abstract # 2101181
Excellence in Research: iMed-Sec: Exploring Hardware-Assisted Solutions for Energy-Efficient Low-Overhead Security and Privacy for the Internet-of-Medical-Things

NSF Org: CNS
Division Of Computer and Network Systems
Recipient: GRAMBLING STATE UNIVERSITY
Initial Amendment Date: June 25, 2021
Latest Amendment Date: April 28, 2023
Award Number: 2101181
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Subrata Acharya
acharyas@nsf.gov
 (703)292-2451
CNS
 Division Of Computer and Network Systems
CSE
 Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering
Start Date: June 1, 2021
End Date: May 31, 2026 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $499,500.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $499,500.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2021 = $499,500.00
History of Investigator:
  • Vasanth Iyer (Principal Investigator)
    iyerv@gram.edu
  • Saraju Mohanty (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Bibhudutta Rout (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Babu Baniya (Former Principal Investigator)
  • Vasanth Iyer (Former Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: Grambling State University
100 FOUNDER ST
GRAMBLING
LA  US  71245
(318)274-6117
Sponsor Congressional District: 05
Primary Place of Performance: Grambling State university
P.O.Drawer 607, 403 MAIN
Grambling
LA  US  71245-2715
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
04
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): GAWTFKJ8ZRC5
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): HBCU-EiR - HBCU-Excellence in
Primary Program Source: 01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 041Z, 9150
Program Element Code(s): 070Y00
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.070

ABSTRACT

The combination of a network of physical devices embedded with electronics, Internet connectivity, and sensors, that can communicate and interact with others over the Internet is known as the Internet of Things (IoT). An IoT-based framework for the healthcare industry is called the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). Security of Implantable Medical Devices and Wearable Medical Devices is one of the major concerns of IoMT, in addition to medical data privacy. Imminent threats to the safe use of IoMT include the vulnerability of IoMT-devices to hacking. The project will undertake research to explore Hardware-Assisted Security with low-overhead, energy-efficient solutions for the IoMT. The uniqueness of the iMed-Sec project is a unified multilayer effort involving devices, circuits, and systems for robust cybersecurity. The project will build IoMT security course materials (such as modules, training materials, and syllabi) to boost various interdisciplinary STEM undergraduate curricula to train students in smart healthcare paradigms, thus serving the national interest.


iMed-Sec is a novel unified multilayer effort involving devices, circuits, and systems using a Security-by-Design (SbD) paradigm for energy-efficient robust cybersecurity of internet-connected smart systems used in healthcare industry, popularly known as the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT). The project will address research to integrate IoMT devices with hardware security primitives called Physical Unclonable Functions (PUF) so that these can be used to perform real-time security and privacy functionalities, without using the resources of the devices, thus ensuring low-overhead. PUF-based unified security and privacy protocols are not available in the current literature. The project will determine appropriate device technology and circuit topologies for robust, energy efficient PUFs useful in smart healthcare security and privacy. The project will result in energy efficient novel protocols for IoMT device cybersecurity. The project will build IoMT cybersecurity course materials (such as modules, training materials, and syllabi) to boost various interdisciplinary STEM undergraduate curricula to train students in smart healthcare paradigms at Historically Black College and Universities.

This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

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Aarella, Seema G and Yanambaka, Venkata Prasanth and Mohanty, Saraju P and Kougianos, Elias "Fortified-Edge 4.0: A ML-Based Error Correction Framework for Secure Authentication in Collaborative Edge Computing" , 2024 https://doi.org/10.1145/3649476.3660384 Citation Details
Afshari, Hadi and Chacon, Sergio_A and Sourabh, Shashi and Byers, Todd_A and Whiteside, Vincent_R and Crawford, Rose and Rout, Bibhudutta and Eperon, Giles_E and Sellers, Ian_R "Radiation tolerance and self-healing in triple halide perovskite solar cells" APL Energy , v.1 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0158216 Citation Details
Afshari, Hadi and Sourabh, Shashi and Chacon, Sergio A. and Whiteside, Vincent R. and Penner, Rachel C. and Rout, Bibhudutta and Kirmani, Ahmad R. and Luther, Joseph M. and Eperon, Giles E. and Sellers, Ian R. "FACsPb Triple Halide Perovskite Solar Cells with Thermal Operation over 200 °C" ACS Energy Letters , v.8 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenergylett.3c00551 Citation Details
Baniya and Babu_Kaji "Intrusion Representation and Classification using Learning Algorithm" , 2022 Citation Details
Baniya, Babu "HARNESSING THE ROLE OF SOCIAL AWARENESS IN MELANOMA DETECTION" , 2024 Citation Details
Baniya, Babu Kaji "ACGAN for Addressing the Security Challenges in IoT-Based Healthcare System" Sensors , v.24 , 2024 https://doi.org/10.3390/s24206601 Citation Details
Baniya, Babu Kaji and Rush, Thomas "Intelligent Anomaly Detection System Based on Ensemble and Deep Learning" , 2024 https://doi.org/10.23919/ICACT60172.2024.10471923 Citation Details
Baniya, B and Iyer, V "Disparity of Covid-19 in Different Communities in Louisiana" , 2025 Citation Details
Bathalapalli, Venkata K. and Mohanty, Saraju P. and Kougianos, Elias and Baniya, Babu K. and Rout, Bibhudutta "PUFchain 2.0: Hardware-Assisted Robust Blockchain for Sustainable Simultaneous Device and Data Security in Smart Healthcare" SN Computer Science , v.3 , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-022-01238-2 Citation Details
Bathalapalli, Venkata K. and Mohanty, Saraju P. and Kougianos, Elias and Iyer, Vasanth and Rout, Bibhudutta "iTPM: Exploring PUF-based Keyless TPM for Security-by-Design of Smart Electronics" 2023 IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI (ISVLSI) , v.1 , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1109/ISVLSI59464.2023.10238586 Citation Details
Bathalapalli, Venkata K. and Mohanty, Saraju P. and Kougianos, Elias and Iyer, Vasanth and Rout, Bibhudutta "PMsec 2.0: A Security-By-Design Solution for Doctors Dilemma Problem in Smart Healthcare" Proceedings of the OITS International Conference on Information Technology (OCIT) , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1109/OCIT59427.2023.10430808 Citation Details
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