Cyber-Hydra: A Resilient Design Framework for Legacy and Future Naval Platforms
Abstract
Large scale naval platforms and vessels such as aircraft carriers, cruisers, or destroyers, consist of multiple complex, interconnected, and heterogeneous subsystems that are essential to the vessel#s overall functionality. When such a vessel operates in a hostile environment over an extended mission duration, one or more of these subsystems may be damaged and fail due to engagement with adversaries or natural causes. In the aftermath of an attack, ensuring that the naval platform continues to operate to meet all or most mission objectives remains a grand challenge, as posed recently by the ONR Cyber Division. Overcoming this challenge will require a paradigm shift. Any potential approach providing a new design framework will need to incorporate performance, safety, reliability, efficiency, software processes for coordination and computing, and guarantees for C4ISR. Currently, however, there is no scientific or analytic approach that would enable making use of some of the undamaged networked subsystems of a vessel to replace functionalities of one or compromised (attacked, damaged, or failed) subsystems. Developing such a scientific framework has enormous ramificationsfor the Navy in understanding how to protect existing sea and undersea platforms, as well as how to design future platforms keepinga new resilient computing paradigm in mind. In this proposal, we aim to develop one such framework. Key to our approach is the concept of resilience, defined as the ability of a system to recover functionalities lost during a fault or attack. We will investigate and develop Cyber-Hydra, a resiliency-integrated design framework for legacy and future interconnected systems and platforms by answering the questions: (i) Can one or more operational subsystems be leveraged to take over and compensate for the loss of performanceand functionality of damaged subsystems in real-time?, (ii) Given a desired functionality, can we identify a set of resilience primitives to construct a future system meeting these design requirements? We will explore foundational principles to help us answer these questions concretely and develop computationally viable algorithms and strategies with provable guarantees on resilience.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Apr 12, 2023
- Source ID
- N000142312386
Entities
People
- Radha Poovendran
Organizations
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy
- University of Washington