Future Research on Cyber-Physical Emergency Management Systems

Gelenbe, Erol; Wu, Fang–Jing

doi:10.3390/fi5030336

Cited by 73 publications

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“…CPS are also a promising approach to serve mission-critical applications (ensuring safety, security, and sustainability). Example mission-critical applications include emergency and management applications [13], [14]. In [4], Mueller discusses several security concerns in the power grid, and how immediate research is needed to protect the critical infrastructure to avoid cyber-physical attacks.…”

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confidence: 99%

Cyber-physical systems: A framework for dynamic traffic light control at road intersections

Younis

Moayeri

2016

2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference

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Abstract-Traffic control at road intersections is based on traffic lights (TLs). The control mechanism typically used for traffic lights operates based on a periodic schedule to change the light (red/yellow/green). In many cases, a different schedule is used in late night/early morning hours. This fixed control mechanism does not adequately account for changing traffic conditions, and is unaware of/unresponsive to congestion. In this work, we propose a framework for dynamic traffic light control at intersections. The framework relies on a simple sensor network to collect traffic data and includes novel protocols for traffic flow control to handle congestion and facilitate flow. We show that our proposed algorithms have low overhead and are practical to employ in live traffic flow scenarios. Through extensive simulations, we demonstrate the benefits of our framework in optimizing traffic flow metrics, such as traffic throughput, average vehicle waiting time, and vehicle waiting line length.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyber-physical systems: A framework for dynamic traffic light control at road intersections

Younis

Moayeri

2016

2016 IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference

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“…The authors in [3] present a smart navigation system for disaster management while a distributed emergency management simulator which can operate in conjunction with a Wireless Sensor Network for real-time hazard monitoring is presented in [4]. An extended survey of cyber-physical systems geared towards emergency management is presented in [5], where the authors elaborate on current research related to sensor-assisted evacuation and asynchronous control of large scale emergency response systems. Moreover, the effects of malicious attacks to emergency management systems are investigated in [6].…”

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confidence: 99%

Physical indicators of cyber attacks against a rescue robot

Vuong

Filippoupolitis

Loukas

et al. 2014

2014 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communication Workshops (PERCOM WORKSHOPS)

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Abstract-Responding to an emergency situation is a challenging and time critical procedure. The primary goal is to save lives and this is directly related to the speed and efficiency at which help is provided to the victims. Rescue robots are able to benefit an emergency response procedure by searching for survivors, providing access to inaccessible areas and establishing an on-site communication network. This paper investigates how a cyber attack on a rescue robot can adversely affect its operation and impair an emergency response operation. The focus is on identifying physical indicators of an ongoing cyber attack, which can help to design more efficient detection and defense mechanisms. A number of experiments have been conducted on an Arduino based robot, under different cyber attack scenarios. The results show that the cyber attack's effects have physical features that can be used in order to improve the robot's robustness against this type of threat.

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“…Several counter measures are proposed in the literature against these attacks [5] [6]. However, these countermeasures protect the SCADA/DMS/SAU from potential cyber-threat ,they don't provide mechanisms that ensures availability of their functions once they have been compromised.…”

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Resilient design of distribution grid automation system with CALVIN

Shrivastava

Ostendorf

Lipari

et al. 2018

2018 IEEE International Energy Conference (ENERGYCON)

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Abstract-The distribution automation system is vital for the safe and reliable operation of distribution grids. Typically, the automation architectures are either centralized or hierarchical. The monitoring and controlling of the grid is done by dedicated actors like the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and the Distribution Management Systems (DMS) or the Substation Automation Units (SAUs). These actors are deployed in dedicated machines and thus become a single point of failure in the automation system. Hence, the chances of blackouts are increased when any of these dedicated machines are compromised (due to either cyber-attacks or natural calamities). Therefore, special measures have to be taken that enable the migration of the functionalities of SCADA/DMS/SAU to a clean new machine, when the previous machine is compromised. This ensures higher availability and resilience of grid monitoring and control applications. This study presents the feasibility of using CALVIN IoT framework for providing such resiliency. A basic architecture for enabling the migration strategies with CALVIN is proposed and implemented. The results show that the CALVIN framework is a promising solution in providing resilience to the distribution grid automation.

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Future Research on Cyber-Physical Emergency Management Systems

Cited by 73 publications

References 82 publications

Cyber-physical systems: A framework for dynamic traffic light control at road intersections

Cyber-physical systems: A framework for dynamic traffic light control at road intersections

Physical indicators of cyber attacks against a rescue robot

Resilient design of distribution grid automation system with CALVIN

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