Physical Benchmark for Evaluating Network Control Systems Under Cyber Attacks

Physical Benchmark for Evaluating Network Control Systems Under Cyber Attacks

연구 분야: Software Development

학회: Workshop on Engineering Applications

This article describes the details of the configuration of a physical benchmark that is useful for assessing performance degradation of networked control systems (NCS) when exposed to cyber-attacks (for example, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, deception attacks, man-in-the-middle (MiTM) attacks, and others, as stated in an NCS vulnerability taxonomy performed here), and explore countermeasures. The benchmark is a temperature control system controlled remotely through WIFI communication established in a private network under the UDP protocol. This is controlled here by an offset-free model predictive control. Two scenarios were visualized and tested, allowing input constraints, disturbances, mismatches, and DoS attacks. Experimental results are discussed, illustrating the potential use of this benchmark.