In this paper, we present a survey of security and privacy preserving issues in M2M communications in Cyber-Physical Systems. First, we discuss the security challenges in M2M communications in wireless networks of Cyber-Physical Systems and outline the constraints, attack issues, and a set of challenges that need to be addressed for building secure Cyber-Physical Systems. Then, a secure archite...

Cyber-physical systems integrate physical processes, computational resources, and communication capabilities. Cyber-physical systems have permeated modern society becoming prevalent in many domains including energy production, health care, and telecommunications. Examples of cyber-physical systems include sensor networks, industrial automation systems , and critical infrastructures such as tran...

We propose a general theoretical framework to analyze the security of Physical Uncloneable Functions (PUFs). We apply the framework to Optical PUFs. In particular we present a derivation, based on the physics governing multiple scattering processes, of the number of independent challengeresponse pairs supported by a PUF. We find that the number of independent challenge-response pairs is proport...

We consider a single-cell downlink massive MIMO communication in the presence of an adversary capable of jamming and eavesdropping simultaneously. We show that massive MIMO communication is naturally resilient to no training-phase jamming attack in which the adversary jams only the data communication and eavesdrops both the data communication and the training. Specifically, we show that the sec...

Recent initiatives that evaluate the security of physical systems with objects as assets and people as agents –here called Socio-Technical Physical Systems– have limitations: their agent behaviour is too simple, they just estimate feasibility and not the likelihood of attacks, or they do estimate likelihood but on explicitly provided attacks only. We propose a model that can detect and quantify...

This thesis deals with physical attacks on implementations of cryptographic algorithms and countermeasures against these attacks. Physical attacks exploit properties of an implementation such as leakage through physically observable parameters (side-channel analysis) or susceptibility to errors (fault analysis) to recover secret cryptographic keys. In the absence of adequate countermeasures suc...

Served as one of the most widely used wireless airlink interface, CDMA has been identified as a major technique for 3G wireless communications. The current IS-95 CDMA provides a near-satisfactory security solution to voice centric wireless communications, since generally each voice conversation only lasts a very short period of time. However, the security features provided by IS-95 CDMA are far...

This paper presents a coding scheme for the Gaussian wiretap channel based on low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes. The messages are transmitted over punctured bits to hide data from eavesdroppers. It is shown that this method is asymptotically effective in the sense that it yields a BER very close to 0.5 for an eavesdropper whose SNR is lower than the threshold SNRE , even if the eavesdropper...