Publications related to Cyberwarfare

Safeguarding the IoT From Malware Epidemics: A Percolation Theory Approach

The upcoming Internet of Things (IoT) is foreseen to encompass massive numbers of connected devices, smart objects, and cyber-physical systems. Due to the large scale and massive deployment of devices, it is deemed infeasible to safeguard 100% of the devic ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Built-in Self-Evaluation of First-Order Power Side-Channel Leakage for FPGAs

Francesco Regazzoni, Mirjana Stojilovic, Ognjen Glamocanin, Louis Coulon

Embedded and cyber-physical systems are pervading all aspects of our lives, including sensitive and critical ones. As a result, they are an alluring target for cyber attacks. These systems, whose implementation is often based on reconfigurable hardware, ar ...

2020

Security-aware Routing and Scheduling for Control Applications on Ethernet TSN Networks

Amir Aminifar

Today, it is common knowledge in the cyber-physical systems domain that the tight interaction between the cyber and physical elements provides the possibility of substantially improving the performance of these systems that is otherwise impossible. On the ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

Healthy Operator 4.0: A Human Cyber-Physical System Architecture for Smart Workplaces

Xiaochen Zheng

Recent advances in technology have empowered the widespread application of cyber-physical systems in manufacturing and fostered the Industry 4.0 paradigm. In the factories of the future, it is possible that all items, including operators, will be equipped ...

2020

Topics in Educational Cyber-Physical Labs : Configurations, Data Collection and Analysis

Wissam Halimi

Recent advances in remote sensing and actuation technologies, coupled with the large reach of the internet, allowed for the emergence of applications such as cyber-physical labs. Cyber-physical labs are the digital and remotely-accessible equivalent of the ...

EPFL2018

Distributed Cyber-Attack Detection in the Secondary Control of DC Microgrids

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata, Mustafa Sahin Turan

The paper considers the problem of detecting cyber-attacks occurring in communication networks typically used in the secondary control layer of DC microgrids. The proposed distributed methodology allows for scalable monitoring of a microgrid and is able to ...

2018

Distributed Cyber-Attack Detection in the Secondary Control of DC Microgrids

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate, Pulkit Nahata, Mustafa Sahin Turan

The paper considers the problem of detecting cyber-attacks occurring in communication networks typically used in the secondary control layer of DC microgrids. The proposed distributed methodology allows for scalable monitoring of a microgrid and is able to ...

IEEE2018

Wireless Communication and Security Issues for Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet-of-Things

Andreas Peter Burg, Anupam Chattopadhyay

Wireless sensors and actuators connected by the Internet-of-Things (IoT) are central to the design of advanced cyber-physical systems (CPSs). In such complex, heterogeneous systems, communication links must meet stringent requirements on throughput, latenc ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2018

Stability-Aware Integrated Routing and Scheduling for Control Applications in Ethernet Networks

Amir Aminifar

Real-time communication over Ethernet is becoming important in various application areas of cyber-physical systems such as industrial automation and control, avionics, and automotive networking. Since such applications are typically time critical, Ethernet ...

2018

Generating Safety Guidance for Medical Injection with Three-Compartment Pharmacokinetics Model

Giovanni De Micheli, Francesca Stradolini, Heinz Riener, Cunxi Yu

Medical cyber-physical systems are a new trend of software controlled physical systems that are increasingly common in medical domains. With rapid developments in medical science and computer technology, safety verification and simulation becomes more chal ...

IEEE2018

Cyber-Medical Systems: Requirements, Components and Design Examples

Giovanni De Micheli

Cyber-medical systems will produce a major revolution in health care, by both raising the quality of care and reducing its cost, thus reaching an important social and economic goal. The evolution of electronic devices and systems has already enabled societ ...

2017

A distributed attack detection method for multi-agent systems governed by consensus-based control

Giancarlo Ferrari Trecate

The paper considers the problem of detecting cyber-attacks occurring in communication networks for distributed control schemes. A distributed methodology is proposed to detect the presence of malicious attacks aimed at compromising the stability of large-s ...

IEEE2017

Cybersecurity Solutions for Active Power Distribution Networks

Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay

An active distribution network (ADN) is an electrical-power distribution network that implements a real-time monitoring and control of the electrical resources and the grid. Effective monitoring and control is realised by deploying a large number of sensin ...

EPFL2017

Governing Cyber Security Risks and Benefits of the Internet of Things: Application to Connected Vehicles and Medical Devices

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin

Creating trust in connectivity including confidentiality, integrity and availability will be key to achieving the promises of the IoT, at least in the automotive and medical sector. Assessing vulnerability, implementing and assessing security controls, des ...

International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2016

Intrusion-Damage Assessment and Mitigation in Cyber-Physical Systems for Control Applications

Amir Aminifar

With cyber-physical systems opening to the outside world, security can no longer be considered a secondary issue. One of the key aspects in security of cyber-phyiscal systems is to deal with intrusions. In this paper, we highlight the several unique proper ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Cyber-attack on Packet-Based Time Synchronization Protocols: the Undetectable Delay Box

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Aswin Suresh, Sergio Barreto Andrade

We present a cyber-attack on packet-based time synchronization protocols (PBTSP) with high-accuracy requirements. The cyber-attack is undetectable from the PBTSP's perspective and exploits a vulnerability that is in the nature of all PBTSPs. It can be succ ...

Ieee2016