Security for automotive electrical/electronic (E/E) architectures

Abstract

The following people had significant impact on this research and without them, this thesis would not have been possible. I would like to especially thank my advisors from TUM and NTU, Samarjit Chakraborty and Suhaib A. Fahmy for their supervision and advise when undertaking this thesis. Their insights into the processes and feedback helped shape the work leading to the thesis presented here, as well as the thesis itself. Furthermore, I extend my deepest gratitude to Martin Lukasiewycz and Sebastian Steinhorst, whose involvement in this work allowed continuous immediate feedback at any time and who had a large impact on both this work and me personally. I would also like to thank my colleagues Matthias Kauer, Peter Waszecki, Florian Sagstetter, Daniel Zehe, Swaminathan Narayanaswamy, and Shreejith Shanker for constructive discussions on my work and bearing with me throughout the time at TUM CREATE. I enjoyed the work with Andreas Ettner and Artur Mrowca, who I had the pleasure to supervise and who both did excellent work. Furthermore, the collaborations with Andrew Paverd, Sidharta Andalam, and Kai Xiang Wang led to some very interesting work, which, without their contributions, would not have been possible. Last but not least, I would like to thank the EVA team and project manager Daniel Gleyzes. The experience of building a fully functional electric vehicle from scratch is an incredible one, unique in every possible way, and I will never forget the time in this project and the experiences gained. Finally, I would like to thank my fantastic wife Lee Hui Xin, as well as my sister Anna and my parents Angela and Ulrich Mundhenk for their support and understanding throughout my studies, especially in stressful phases where time was short. While this is only a short list, many more people, institutions, and companies have contributed to and laid the basis on which this chapter of my education, experience and life is built. There are far too many to be mentioned in this short section. I am grateful for every single one of those. Thank you!

A Survey on CAN Bus Protocol: Attacks, Challenges, and Potential Solutions

“…The modern vehicles are equipped with around 100 Electronic Control Unit (ECU) to control the electrical systems to improve driving comfort and safety [1] [2]. ECUs control most of the car's functions including safety critical engine control, airbag deployment, and anti-lock braking system.…”

Evaluation of CAN Bus Security Challenges

“…The CAN protocol has also gained attention from the industry to its vulnerabilities, and companies are now manufacturing high-end secure ECUs. The Secure Hardware Extension (SHE) [76] specification developed by the Hersteller Initiative (HIS) becomes an open standard and used by many companies in their ECUs like NXP MPC5646C [52] microcontroller. Some commercial ECUs have built-in IDS; the NXP TJA115x [77] series can prevent spoofing attacks and be used as an IDS.…”

Secure Time-Sensitive Software-Defined Networking in Vehicles

“…Security challenges arise from Vehicle-to-X (V2X) communication with other vehicles, road side units and the Internet, opening the vehicle to remote attackers. Together with the tightened interconnection of internal domains with different security requirements this increases the vulnerability of safetycritical functions and requires versatile measures to secure future vehicles [9]. Current vehicles are vulnerable to manipulation by third parties, which has been shown in cyberattacks in the field [10].…”