Cyber-Physical Architecture Assisted by Programmable Networking
This addresses security challenges in cyber-physical systems, which are critical for domains like infrastructure and manufacturing, but it appears incremental as it integrates existing techniques rather than introducing a fundamentally new approach.
The paper tackles the problem of protecting cyber-physical systems from attacks, faults, and failures by proposing a new architecture that combines control-theoretic solutions with programmable networking techniques to jointly detect and mitigate threats.
Cyber-physical technologies are prone to attacks, in addition to faults and failures. The issue of protecting cyber-physical systems should be tackled by jointly addressing security at both cyber and physical domains, in order to promptly detect and mitigate cyber-physical threats. Towards this end, this letter proposes a new architecture combining control-theoretic solutions together with programmable networking techniques to jointly handle crucial threats to cyber-physical systems. The architecture paves the way for new interesting techniques, research directions, and challenges which we discuss in our work.