Combining Switching Mechanism with Re-Initialization and Anomaly Detection for Resiliency of Cyber-Physical Systems

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Main Authors: Fu, Hao, Krishnamurthy, Prashanth, Khorrami, Farshad
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author Fu, Hao
Krishnamurthy, Prashanth
Khorrami, Farshad
author_facet Fu, Hao
Krishnamurthy, Prashanth
Khorrami, Farshad
contents Cyber-physical systems (CPS) play a pivotal role in numerous critical real-world applications that have stringent requirements for safety. To enhance the CPS resiliency against attacks, redundancy can be integrated in real-time controller implementations by designing strategies that switch among multiple controllers. However, existing switching strategies typically overlook remediation measures for compromised controllers, opting instead to simply exclude them. Such a solution reduces the CPS redundancy since only a subset of controllers are used. To address this gap, this work proposes a multi-controller switching strategy with periodic re-initialization to remove attacks. Controllers that finish re-initialization can be reused by the switching strategy, preserving the CPS redundancy and resiliency. The proposed switching strategy is designed to ensure that at each switching moment, a controller that has just completed re-initialization is available, minimizing the likelihood of compromise. Additionally, the controller's working period decreases with the number of involved controllers, reducing the controller's exposure time to attacks. An anomaly detector is used to detect CPS attacks during the controller's working period. Upon alarm activation, the current control signal is set to a predefined value, and a switch to an alternative controller occurs at the earliest switching moment. Our switching strategy is shown to be still effective even if the anomaly detector fails to detect (stealthy) attacks.
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spellingShingle Combining Switching Mechanism with Re-Initialization and Anomaly Detection for Resiliency of Cyber-Physical Systems
Fu, Hao
Krishnamurthy, Prashanth
Khorrami, Farshad
Systems and Control
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) play a pivotal role in numerous critical real-world applications that have stringent requirements for safety. To enhance the CPS resiliency against attacks, redundancy can be integrated in real-time controller implementations by designing strategies that switch among multiple controllers. However, existing switching strategies typically overlook remediation measures for compromised controllers, opting instead to simply exclude them. Such a solution reduces the CPS redundancy since only a subset of controllers are used. To address this gap, this work proposes a multi-controller switching strategy with periodic re-initialization to remove attacks. Controllers that finish re-initialization can be reused by the switching strategy, preserving the CPS redundancy and resiliency. The proposed switching strategy is designed to ensure that at each switching moment, a controller that has just completed re-initialization is available, minimizing the likelihood of compromise. Additionally, the controller's working period decreases with the number of involved controllers, reducing the controller's exposure time to attacks. An anomaly detector is used to detect CPS attacks during the controller's working period. Upon alarm activation, the current control signal is set to a predefined value, and a switch to an alternative controller occurs at the earliest switching moment. Our switching strategy is shown to be still effective even if the anomaly detector fails to detect (stealthy) attacks.
title Combining Switching Mechanism with Re-Initialization and Anomaly Detection for Resiliency of Cyber-Physical Systems
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14259