Safe and Secure Embedded Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Today’s embedded systems are, to an increasing degree, being deployed in contexts where the safety and security of a system are paramount. The systems need to be demonstrably safe, meaning that they should not instigate an unacceptable risk to humans, environment, or equipment. Often, an independent certification agency must assess safety. At the same time, systems must be secure, meaning that they should be resilient to tampering and malicious attempts to access or control the system. In the connected world, security measures to prevent attacks of the Internet are necessary. Thread and hazard analysis of embedded systems usually depend on the recognition of vulnerable software and hardware components, where the failure of these can cause accidents or successful attacks. While both safety and security are difficult and expensive to achieve in their own rights, their combination in provable safe and secure embedded systems remains largely unsolved. Hence, this Special Issue solicits novel research in topics that include, but are not limited to:

• modeling of safety and security concerns in embedded systems
• interdependencies between safety and security in embedded systems
• integrated approaches safety and security
• security in safety-critical systems
• run-time mechanisms in hardware and software to support safety and security
• safety and security in parallel and/or heterogeneous computing platforms
• methods, tools, and techniques for modeling, design, and verification of safe and secure embedded systems
• implications of regulation and certification on safety and security in embedded systems
• thread and hazard analysis of hardware and software components
• fault tolerant designs for safe and secure embedded systems
• hardware and software co-design and specialization for safe and secure embedded systems

Prof. Dr. Mikael Sjödin
Dr. Masoud Daneshtalab
Guest Editors

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