TY - JOUR
T1 - A highly-adaptable and small-sized in-field power analyzer for low-power IoT devices
AU - Kitayama, Ryosuke
AU - Takenaka, Takashi
AU - Yanagisawa, Masao
AU - Togawa, Nozomu
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2016 The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers.
Copyright:
Copyright 2017 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/12
Y1 - 2016/12
N2 - Power analysis for IoT devices is strongly required to protect attacks from malicious attackers. It is also very important to reduce power consumption itself of IoT devices. In this paper, we propose a highly-adaptable and small-sized in-field power analyzer for low-power IoT devices. The proposed power analyzer has the following advantages: (A) The proposed power analyzer realizes signal-averaging noise reduction with synchronization signal lines and thus it can reduce wide frequency range of noises; (B) The proposed power analyzer partitions a long-term power analysis process into several analysis segments and measures voltages and currents of each analysis segment by using small amount of data memories. By combining these analysis segments, we can obtain long-term analysis results; (C) The proposed power analyzer has two amplifiers that amplify current signals adaptively depending on their magnitude. Hence maximum readable current can be increased with keeping minimum readable current small enough. Since all of (A), (B) and (C) do not require complicated mechanisms nor circuits, the proposed power analyzer is implemented on just a 2.5 cm×3.3 cm board, which is the smallest size among the other existing power analyzers for IoT devices. We have measured power and energy consumption of the AES encryption process on the IoT device and demonstrated that the proposed power analyzer has only up to 1.17% measurement errors compared to a high-precision oscilloscope.
AB - Power analysis for IoT devices is strongly required to protect attacks from malicious attackers. It is also very important to reduce power consumption itself of IoT devices. In this paper, we propose a highly-adaptable and small-sized in-field power analyzer for low-power IoT devices. The proposed power analyzer has the following advantages: (A) The proposed power analyzer realizes signal-averaging noise reduction with synchronization signal lines and thus it can reduce wide frequency range of noises; (B) The proposed power analyzer partitions a long-term power analysis process into several analysis segments and measures voltages and currents of each analysis segment by using small amount of data memories. By combining these analysis segments, we can obtain long-term analysis results; (C) The proposed power analyzer has two amplifiers that amplify current signals adaptively depending on their magnitude. Hence maximum readable current can be increased with keeping minimum readable current small enough. Since all of (A), (B) and (C) do not require complicated mechanisms nor circuits, the proposed power analyzer is implemented on just a 2.5 cm×3.3 cm board, which is the smallest size among the other existing power analyzers for IoT devices. We have measured power and energy consumption of the AES encryption process on the IoT device and demonstrated that the proposed power analyzer has only up to 1.17% measurement errors compared to a high-precision oscilloscope.
KW - IoT
KW - Noise reduction
KW - Power analyzer
KW - Scalable measurement
KW - Signal-averaging method
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U2 - 10.1587/transfun.E99.A.2348
DO - 10.1587/transfun.E99.A.2348
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84999288029
VL - E99A
SP - 2348
EP - 2362
JO - IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
JF - IEICE Transactions on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences
SN - 0916-8508
IS - 12
ER -