A CAN Bus Security Testbed Framework for Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems

Abstract

The popularization of electronic devices and the enrichment of external interfaces have increased the attack surface of the automotive cyber-physical system (CPS). As a vital part of the CPS, the controller area network (CAN) is more vulnerable to security threats due to the lack of corresponding security protection mechanisms. This kind of security problem has also attracted extensive attention from academia and industry. Researchers have proposed numerous intrusion detection models for the in-vehicle CAN bus, solving some security problems to a certain extent. However, vehicle manufacturers seldom disclose the internal details of vehicle ECUs due to safety concerns. Thus, it is difficult for researchers to investigate the operation mechanism of the bus. Meanwhile, there is a risk of personal safety in completing attack experiments on real vehicles, which can also lead to the lack and diversification of in-vehicle network data, especially the data of attack behavior. Based on real vehicle data, an open, adaptable, and low-risk CAN bus security testbed framework in the automotive CPS is proposed in this study, aiming to enrich the operation data of the CAN bus and enhance the personal safety of researchers. Besides, the delay of the testbed sending and receiving periodic and aperiodic CAN messages is theoretically explored. The results demonstrate that the generated timestamp in the dataset is mainly associated with the timestamp of the real vehicle data and that the transmission and collection of time series data are completed by Algorithm 1 and Algorithm 2. In the evaluation of the security testbed, the stability of the security testbed is studied from the two indicators of delay and packet loss rate. The experiment reveals that the testbed has a small relative delay difference and a low packet loss rate. Moreover, the DTW algorithm is employed to calculate the distance between the real vehicle and the testbed, and the experimental results demonstrate that the testbed is featured with high similarity and simulation.