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A Fault-Tolerant Emergency-Aware Access Control Scheme for Cyber-Physical Systems
Access control is an issue of paramount importance in cyber-physical systems
(CPS). In this paper, an access control scheme, namely FEAC, is presented for
CPS. FEAC can not only provide the ability to control access to data in normal
situations, but also adaptively assign emergency-role and permissions to
specific subjects and inform subjects without explicit access requests to
handle emergency situations in a proactive manner. In FEAC, emergency-group and
emergency-dependency are introduced. Emergencies are processed in sequence
within the group and in parallel among groups. A priority and dependency model
called PD-AGM is used to select optimal response-action execution path aiming
to eliminate all emergencies that occurred within the system. Fault-tolerant
access control polices are used to address failure in emergency management. A
case study of the hospital medical care application shows the effectiveness of
FEAC
Federated Embedded Systems – a review of the literature in related fields
This report is concerned with the vision of smart interconnected objects, a vision that has attracted much attention lately. In this paper, embedded, interconnected, open, and heterogeneous control systems are in focus, formally referred to as Federated Embedded Systems. To place FES into a context, a review of some related research directions is presented. This review includes such concepts as systems of systems, cyber-physical systems, ubiquitous
computing, internet of things, and multi-agent systems. Interestingly, the reviewed fields seem to overlap with each other in an increasing number of ways
Big Data in Critical Infrastructures Security Monitoring: Challenges and Opportunities
Critical Infrastructures (CIs), such as smart power grids, transport systems,
and financial infrastructures, are more and more vulnerable to cyber threats,
due to the adoption of commodity computing facilities. Despite the use of
several monitoring tools, recent attacks have proven that current defensive
mechanisms for CIs are not effective enough against most advanced threats. In
this paper we explore the idea of a framework leveraging multiple data sources
to improve protection capabilities of CIs. Challenges and opportunities are
discussed along three main research directions: i) use of distinct and
heterogeneous data sources, ii) monitoring with adaptive granularity, and iii)
attack modeling and runtime combination of multiple data analysis techniques.Comment: EDCC-2014, BIG4CIP-201
Securing Real-Time Internet-of-Things
Modern embedded and cyber-physical systems are ubiquitous. A large number of
critical cyber-physical systems have real-time requirements (e.g., avionics,
automobiles, power grids, manufacturing systems, industrial control systems,
etc.). Recent developments and new functionality requires real-time embedded
devices to be connected to the Internet. This gives rise to the real-time
Internet-of-things (RT-IoT) that promises a better user experience through
stronger connectivity and efficient use of next-generation embedded devices.
However RT- IoT are also increasingly becoming targets for cyber-attacks which
is exacerbated by this increased connectivity. This paper gives an introduction
to RT-IoT systems, an outlook of current approaches and possible research
challenges towards secure RT- IoT frameworks
Mission-Aware Cyber-Physical Optimization on a Tabletop Satellite
Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/106493/1/AIAA2013-4807.pd
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