| Sol No.: |
Navy SBIR FY2010.3 |
| Topic No.: |
N103-231 |
| Topic Title: |
Secure Operation of Untrusted SDR Systems |
| Proposal No.: |
N103-231-0200 |
| Firm: |
Zephyr Software LLC
2040 Tremont Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22911-8653 |
| Contact: |
Clark Coleman |
| Phone: |
(434) 284-3002 |
| Web Site: |
http://www.zephyr-software.com |
| Abstract: |
SDR (Software Defined Radio) systems will often be required to accept a software component that is untrusted, e.g. from a military coalition partner. The proposed research will perform not only memory address space isolation, but other high level security monitoring services, for these untrusted components using lightweight application-level virtualization technology known as SDT (Software Dynamic Translation). Careful measurements will explore the trade-off of performance and security and guide the memory address space isolation algorithm. |
| Benefits: |
The Navy and other operators of Software Defined Radio systems will be able to integrate untrusted software components into the system. Securing these untrusted components will have commercial application to any software system in the defense community that runs on a real-time platform similar to an SDR platform, leading to improved security in a broader market than SDR systems alone. |