Logota, Evariste, Mantas, Georgios ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8074-0417, Rodriguez, Jonathan and Marques, Hugo (2015) Analysis of the impact of denial of service attacks on centralized control in smart cities. In: Wireless Internet: 8th International Conference, WICON 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, November 13-14, 2014, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, 146 . Springer, pp. 91-96. ISBN 978-3319188010 ISSN 1867-8211 (Print), 1867-822X (Online) (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-18802-7_13)

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Abstract

The increasing threat of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks targeting Smart City systems impose unprecedented challenges in terms of service availability, especially against centralized control platforms due to their single point of failure issue. The European ARTEMIS co-funded project ACCUS (Adaptive Cooperative Control in Urban (sub) Systems) is focused on a centralized Integration and Coordination Platform (ICP) for urban subsystems to enable real-time collaborative applications across them and optimize their combined performance in Smart Cities. Hence, any outage of the ACCUS ICP, due to DoS attacks, can severely affect not only the interconnected subsystems but also the citizens. Consequently, it is of utmost importance for ACCUS ICP to be protected with the appropriate defense mechanisms against these attacks. Towards this direction, the measurement of the performance degradation of the attacked ICP server can be used for the selection of the most appropriate defense mechanisms. However, the suitable metrics are required to be defined. Therefore, this paper models and analyzes the impact of DoS attacks on the queue management temporal performance of the ACCUS ICP server in terms of system delay by using queueing theory.

Item Type:	Conference Proceedings
Title of Proceedings:	Wireless Internet: 8th International Conference, WICON 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, November 13-14, 2014, Revised Selected Papers
Uncontrolled Keywords:	smart city security, denial of service attacks, security modeling, queueing theory
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Engineering & Science Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Engineering (ENG)
Last Modified:	02 Nov 2020 13:40
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/27719

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