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Abstract
Driverless vehicles are expected to form the foundation of future connected transport infrastructure. A key weakness of connected vehicles is their vulnerability to physical-proximity attacks such as sensor saturation attacks. It is natural to study whether such attacks can be used to disrupt swarms of autonomous vehicles used as part of a large fleet providing taxi and courier delivery services. In this paper, we start to examine the strategic options available to attackers and defenders (autonomous-fleet operators) in such conflicts. We find that attackers have the upper hand in most cases and are able to carry out crippling denial-of-service attacks on fleets, by leveraging the inherent deficiencies of road networks identified by techniques from graph analysis. Experimental results on ten cities using real-world courier traces shows that most cities will require upgraded infrastructure to defend driverless vehicles against denial-of-service attacks. We found several hidden costs that impact equipment designers and operators of driverless vehicles - not least, that road-networks need to be redesigned for robustness against attacks thus raising some fundamental questions about the benefits.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Ithica, N.Y. |
Number of pages | 15 |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 25 Jul 2019 |
Keywords
- cs.GT
- cs.NI
- 91A80
- security economics
- network security
- robot control
- control systems security
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- 3 Finished
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Secure and Resilient Cyberphysical Systems
Nagaraja, S.
UK India Education and Research Initiative UKIERI
1/04/19 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
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Industrial CASE Account - University of Strathclyde 2017 | Shah, Ryan
Revie, C., Ahmed, C. M. & Shah, R.
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/10/18 → 15/02/23
Project: Research Studentship Case - Internally allocated
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Robustness-as-evolvability: building a dynamic control plane with Software-Defined Networking
Nagaraja, S.
EPSRC (Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
1/04/18 → 20/07/19
Project: Research