Visible to the public A Three-dimension Resilience State Space-based Approach to Resilience Assessment of CBTC system

TitleA Three-dimension Resilience State Space-based Approach to Resilience Assessment of CBTC system
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsZhao, Junyi, Tang, Tao, Bu, Bing, Li, Qichang
Conference Name2021 IEEE International Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC)
Keywordscontrol systems, control theory, Fault tolerance, Human Behavior, human factors, Malware, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Resists, Scalability, simulation, State-space methods, Three-dimensional displays
AbstractTraditional passive defense methods cannot resist the constantly updated and evolving cyber attacks. The concept of resilience is introducing to measure the ability of the system to maintain its function under attack. It matters in evaluating the security of modern industrial systems. This paper presents a 3D Resilience State Space method to assess Communication-based train control (CBTC) system resilience under malware attack. We model the spread of malware as two functions: the communicability function \$f\$(x) and the susceptibility function 9 (x). We describe the characteristics of these two function in the CBTC complex network by using the percolation theory. Then we use a perturbation formalism to analyze the impact of malware attack on information flow and use it as an indicator of the cyber layer state. The CBTC cyber-physical system resilience metric formalizes as the system state transitions in three-dimensional state space. The three dimensions respectively represent the cyber layer state, the physical layer state, and the transmission layer state. The simulation results reveal that the proposed framework can effectively assess the resilience of the CBTC system. And the anti-malware programs can prevent the spread of malware and improve CBTC system resilience.
DOI10.1109/ITSC48978.2021.9564448
Citation Keyzhao_three-dimension_2021