Visible to the public Integrated Simulation Testbed for Security and Resilience of CPS

TitleIntegrated Simulation Testbed for Security and Resilience of CPS
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2018
AuthorsNeema, Himanshu, Potteiger, Bradley, Koutsoukos, Xenofon, Karsai, Gabor, Volgyesi, Peter, Sztipanovits, Janos
Conference NameProceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number978-1-4503-5191-1
Keywordsattack vectors, courses of action, Cyber-physical systems, high-level architecture, Human Behavior, Modeling and Simulation, pubcrawl, Resiliency, Scalability, security and resilience
AbstractOwing1 to an immense growth of internet-connected and learning-enabled cyber-physical systems (CPSs) [1], several new types of attack vectors have emerged. Analyzing security and resilience of these complex CPSs is difficult as it requires evaluating many subsystems and factors in an integrated manner. Integrated simulation of physical systems and communication network can provide an underlying framework for creating a reusable and configurable testbed for such analyses. Using a model-based integration approach and the IEEE High-Level Architecture (HLA) [2] based distributed simulation software; we have created a testbed for integrated evaluation of large-scale CPS systems. Our tested supports web-based collaborative metamodeling and modeling of CPS system and experiments and a cloud computing environment for executing integrated networked co-simulations. A modular and extensible cyber-attack library enables validating the CPS under a variety of configurable cyber-attacks, such as DDoS and integrity attacks. Hardware-in-the-loop simulation is also supported along with several hardware attacks. Further, a scenario modeling language allows modeling of alternative paths (Courses of Actions) that enables validating CPS under different what-if scenarios as well as conducting cyber-gaming experiments. These capabilities make our testbed well suited for analyzing security and resilience of CPS. In addition, the web-based modeling and cloud-hosted execution infrastructure enables one to exercise the entire testbed using simply a web-browser, with integrated live experimental results display.
URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3167132.3167173
DOI10.1145/3167132.3167173
Citation Keyneema_integrated_2018