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SafeHype: a light and secure satellite hypervisor

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contract: W31P4Q-13-C-0146
Agency Tracking Number: D131-009-0078
Amount: $150,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: SB131-009
Solicitation Number: 2013.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2013
Award Year: 2013
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2013-05-01
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2014-01-31
Small Business Information
15400 Calhoun Drive suite 400
Rockville, MD -
United States
DUNS: 161911532
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: Yes
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Peng Xie
 Lead Scientist
 (301) 294-5218
 pxie@i-a-i.com
Business Contact
 Mark James
Title: Director, Contracts and Proposals
Phone: (301) 294-5221
Email: mjames@i-a-i.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The virtualization of satellite payload increases the capability and flexibility of the payload developer and is demanded in defense and intelligence community. In this proposed effort, we propose a tiny hypervisor, called SafeHype to virtualize satellite payload. SafeHype can securely isolate the virtual machines concurrently running on the same hardware resources such as CPU, memory and I/O devices. Moreover, SafeHype also supports the provisioning of a new machine on-the -flying. In this proposed effort, we utilize hardware support to reduce virtualization overhead. SafeHype adopt resources pre-allocation and para-virtualized IO techniques to simplify its functions and to support real time applications. The code size of SafeHype is small and can feasibly be verified. SafeHype also reduces the surface attacks by bringing the guest virtual machine in more direct contact with the underlying hardware resources. Finally, we will develop a workable SafeHype prototype to show the feasibility of our proposed techniques for satellite hypervisor.

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