Projects

Wireless Security in Cyber Physical Systems (WiSeCPS)

TÜBİTAK 2525 International Collaboration (Germany), Project No: 115E827, 2017-2020

The user demand and data transmission rates are ever increasing in wireless communication networks. However, due to their broadcast structure, wireless connections are inherently risky. In recent years, however, advances in the field of secure wireless communications have been made in the physical layer including beamforming and artificial interference approaches. However, these works are yet to be used for cyber-physical systems (CPS), which will enable us to interconnect all elements of an industrial production process. CPSs contain stringent requirements such as a maximum allowed latency, in addition to the commonly known metrics as security capacity. Existing PHY security solutions fail to address these requirements. In our project WiSeCPS, we target to enhance the current PHY security solutions, and provide a target to jointly use different approaches in an optimized fashion according to the requirements of a CPS. Our main goal in this project is to establish a secure CPS communications framework, determine the performance limits and propose applicable security solutions with proof-of-concept hardware demonstrations using software defined radio nodes. With this main goal our objectives are listed below.

  • Objective 1: Improvement of the existing wireless security solutions for the CPS secrecy strategies
  • Objective 2: Development of a common quality metric for the secrecy strategies in CPS
  • Objective 3: Development and application of multi agent optimization concepts with improved secrecy in distributed CPS, to propose a flexible control architecture
  • Objective 4: Integration of the strategies in a real test environment using software defined radio nodes to understand performance limits within a proof of concept (PoC) level deployment
  • Objective 5: Proposal of PHY-Security Framework for CPS

RECENT NEWS

  • 09.2019 Project member Mehmet Özgün Demir attended to International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing Networking and Communications (WiMob) in Barcelona, Spain, to present the paper titled "Using Perfect Codes in Relay Aided Networks: A Security Analysis".
  • 06.2019 Project member Ozan Alp Topal attended to Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO 2019) in Budva, Montenegro, to present the paper titled "Physical Layer Spoofing Against Eavesdropping Attacks".

PROJECT PUBLICATIONS

Publications Accepted:

  • Ozan Alp Topal, Mehmet Özgün Demir, Zekai Liang, Ali Emre Pusane, Guido Dartmann, Gerd Ascheid, Güneş Karabulut Kurt, "A Physical Layer Security Framework for Cognitive Cyber Physical Systems," IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine, accepted for publication at April 11 2020.
  • Mehmet Özgün Demir, Güneş Karabulut Kurt, Guido Dartmann, Ali Emre Pusane, "A Garden of Cyber Physical Systems", IEEE Internet of Things Magazine, accepted for publication at May 11 2020.
  • O. K. Ülger, Mehmet Özgün Demir, Ozan Alp Topal, Güneş Karabulut Kurt, Ali Emre Pusane, "Efficient Physical Layer Spoofing Detection with an Autoregressive Model," 43rd International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP–2020).
  • Ozan Alp Topal, Güneş Karabulut Kurt, "İşbirlikli NOMA Ağlarında Saklı İletim", 28. Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı (SİU 2020).
Appeared Publications:
  • Mehmet Özgün Demir, Güneş Karabulut Kurt, Guido Dartmann, Ali Emre Pusane, "Using Perfect Codes in Relay Aided Networks: A Security Analysis", 2019 International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Barcelona, Spain, 2019.
  • Mehmet Özgün Demir, Güneş Karabulut Kurt, Guido Dartmann, Ali Emre Pusane, "Utility-Privacy Trade-off in Communication Systems", Big Data Analytics in Cyber-Physical Systems (Elsevier), 2018.
  • Güneş Karabulut Kurt, Yalda Khosroshahi, Enver Ozdemir, Nasim Tavakkoli, Ozan Alp Topal, "A Hybrid Key Generation and a Verification Scheme", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics.
  • Ozan Alp Topal, Mehmet Özgün Demir, Guido Dartmann, Anke Schmeink, Gerd Ascheid, Ali Emre Pusane, Güneş Karabulut Kurt, "Physical Layer Spoofing Against Eavesdropping Attacks", Mediterranean Conference on Embedded Computing (MECO 2019).
  • Yılmaz Uğur Özcan, Güneş Karabulut Kurt, "Filtreleme Tabanlı Fiziksel Katman Güvenlik Sistemi", Elektrik, Elektronik ve Biyomedikal Mühendisliği Konferansı, (ELECO), 2018.
  • Semiha Tedik Başaran, Güneş Karabulut Kurt, Gülay Öke Günel, Anke Schmeink, Gerd Ascheid, Guido Dartmann, "A Joint Optimization Scheme for Artificial Noise and Transmit Filter for Half and Full Duplex Wireless Cyber Physical Systems", IEEE Wireless Communications Letters, 2018.
  • Ozan Alp Topal, Zekai Liang, Gerd Ascheid, Guido Dartmann, Gunes Karabulut Kurt, "Using of Wavelets for Secret Key Generation: A Measurement Based Study", 26. Telecommunications Forum (TELFOR), 2018.
  • Mehmet Özgün Demir, Güneş Karabulut Kurt, Guido Dartmann, Gerd Ascheid, Ali Emre Pusane , "Security Analysis of Forward Error Correction Codes in Relay Aided Networks", Proc. Global Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 2018.
  • Ali Yılmaz Yıldırım, Güneş Karabulut Kurt , "Filtre Seçimi Tabanlı Fiziksel Katman Güvenlik Sistemi", 26. IEEE Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı (SIU), 2018.
  • Mehmet Özgün Demir, Güneş Karabulut Kurt, Guido Dartmann, Gerd Ascheid, Ali Emre Pusane, "Röle Destekli Kablosuz Ağlarda Hamming Kodların Güvenlik Analizi", 26. IEEE Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı (SIU), 2018.
  • Kimon Çokona, Semiha Tedik Başaran, Emre Durmaz, Ezgi Oral, Gerd Ascheid, Guido Dartmann, Güneş Karabulut Kurt, "Sönümlemeli Kanalın Çok Etmenli Sistemlerde Konsensüse Ulaşmaya Etkisi", 26. IEEE Sinyal İşleme ve İletişim Uygulamaları Kurultayı (SIU), 2018.
  • Özge Cepheli, Guido Dartmann, Güneş Karabulut Kurt, Gerd Ascheid, "A Joint Optimization Scheme for Artificial Noise and Transmit Filter for Half and Full Duplex Wireless Cyber Physical Systems", IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 2018, July.

PROJEC TEAM

Istanbul Technical University
Prof. Guneş Karabulut Kurt
Ozan Alp Topal (PhD Student)

Bogazici University
Assoc. Prof. Ali Emre Pusane
Mehmet Özgün Demir (PhD Student)

ICE, RWTH Aachen University
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Guido Dartmann
Zekai Liang (PhD Student)