Intrusion detection and defence for CAN bus through frequency anomaly analysis and arbitration mechanism

Abstract

As automobile intelligence continues to develop, the electronic control units connected to the Controller Area Network (CAN) bus within vehicles face an increasing number of threats from potential attacks originating from the internet. To address this issue, an intrusion detection and defence method is proposed that is capable of detecting illegal messages through the use of frequency anomaly detection, and subsequently disrupting them through utilization of the CAN bus arbitration mechanism. This proposed method offers a simple implementation compared to traditional approaches, while being able to identify suspicious units and neutralize threats in real‐time. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of this approach.