Rule Specification-based Misbehavior Detection for IoT-Embedded Cyber Physical Systems

Abstract

The problem we propose to solve is the vulnerability to infrastructure damage, service interruption, and revenue loss caused by malicious Internet of Things (IoT) devices embedded in a cyber physical system such as an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) system with heterogeneous UAVs as the IoT constituents, a smart grid system with head-ends (HEs), distribution access points/data aggregation points (DAPs), and subscriber energy meters (SEMs) as the IoT constituents, a smart building embedding sensors, actuators, and microchips for sensing and control, or a safety-critical medical system with vital sign monitor (VSM), patient controlled analgesia (PCA), and cardiac device (CD) as the IoT constituents. We aim to provide a solution to this problem by detecting misbehavior of embedded IoT devices that exploit the vulnerability through known or unknown attacks. The solution we are offering is a lightweight behavior rule specification-based monitoring technique with which misbehavior of an IoT device manifested as a result of attacks exploiting the vulnerability exposed may be detected through automatic model checking and formal verification, regardless of whether the attack is known or unknown. We aim to provide a solution for malicious IoT device detection that is accurate in detection rate (close to 100%) while limiting the false positive probability to a minimum (less than 3%). We aim to verify that our rule specification-based misbehavior detection technique can outperform contemporary anomaly-based misbehavior detection techniques through a comprehensive comparative analysis for real-world IoT-embedded applications described above.

Document Details

Document Type
DoD Grant Award
Publication Date
Apr 09, 2018
Source ID
FA23861714076

Entities

People

  • Ing-Ray Chen

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • United States Air Force
  • Virginia Tech

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Computer Networking
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development

Technology Areas

  • 5G
  • 5G - Internet of Things
  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - Autonomous System Control
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Cyber