Informatics and Engineering Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-31-2021
Abstract
As increasingly more vehicles are connected to the Internet, cyber attacks against vehicles are becoming a real threat with devastating consequences. This highlights the importance of detecting vehicle cyber attacks before fatal accidents occur. One natural method for tackling this problem is to adapt existing approaches for detecting attacks in enterprize networks, but which has achieved limited success. In this article, we propose a new approach to treat vehicles as cyber-physical-human systems, leading to a novel framework called exploiting human, physical and driving behaviors to detect vehicle cyber attacks (ExHPD). The framework has four detectors: 1) a human detector; 2) a physical behavior-based detector; 3) a driving behavior-based detector (DBD); and 4) an integrated physical and DBD. As the proof of concept, we recruited 50 drivers to conduct institutional review board-approved simulation-based driving tests. The experimental results show that ExHPD is effective to detect vehicle cyber attacks and avoid deadly crashes by offering drivers adequate time to safely pull over their compromised vehicle. The impact of driver's impulsiveness (one aspect of human factors) on the detectors' effectiveness and limitations of the present study are discussed. Future research directions toward an ultimately usable solution are outlined.
Recommended Citation
Chen, Qian, Paul Romanowich, Jorge Castillo, Krishna Chandra Roy, Gustavo Chavez, and Shouhuai Xu. "ExHPD: exploiting human, physical, and driving behaviors to detect vehicle cyber attacks." IEEE Internet of Things Journal 8, no. 18 (2021): 14355-14371. https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2021.3069951
Publication Title
IEEE Internet of Things Journal
DOI
10.1109/JIOT.2021.3069951
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