The article is devoted to cybersecurity risk assessment of the dynamic device-to-device networks a smart city. Analysis modern security threats at IoT/IIoT, VANET, and WSN inter-device infrastructures demonstrates that main concern set network targeted functional sustainability urban infrastructure, most common use case networks. As result our study, systematization existing methods has been pr...

The fastest developing city in China is Shanghai; its annual growth rate (GDP) exceeded 11.9% average in every year from 1992 and GDP per person in 2003 reached 4909 USD. Economists, industries and the government have been considering how to keep Shanghai developing in a sustainable manner. In 1994, the Shanghai Municipal Government put forward the concept of “information harbor” and set the go...

Micropolis is a virtual city that is used for various studies, such as modeling and analyzing water networks. In this paper we model the various interdependencies between three major infrastructures in Micropolis, the power system, the communication network and the water network, in order to study cascades effects between them. Specifically, we develop open hybrid automata models for the main c...

Smart, green, and resilient city paradigms have been mainly promoted through top-down and technocratic approaches. However, based on the notion to return to “the right to the city”, emerging community-driven initiatives are providing self-managed infrastructures contributing to urban sustainability transitions. This paper explores the relevance of the behavioral aspects of people-centered appro...

The intensive urban infrastructures including roads, subways and high-speed railways are closely related to the sustainable economic development and social stability, and also supporting spatial distribution of various functions within the city. To ensure the security and sustainable development of transportation, we evaluated the potential of high resolution time-series Interferometric Synthet...

Can cities be smart? In this article we define what a smart city is and formulate categories and indicators of smart and/or informational cities. Based on these measures, we investigate four Japanese cities as case studies that appear to be highly developed modern metropolises. We focus on infrastructures essential for an informational city as base for a ubiquitous, smart (in a narrow sense), c...

Sharing information is a key enabler in the transition of a city becoming smart. Information, generated by the ICT backbone of a city, and maintained by distinct public and private entities, comes with processing challenges that must be addressed in order to increase citizens’ quality of life and make their cities sustainable. In CRISALIS and SysSec, we investigate such challenges from a securi...

This study investigates impacts of the 2001 World Trade Center attack on critical infrastructure systems in the New York City metropolitan area. Of particular interest are the physical or logical connections—also known as interdependencies—among these systems, and the impacts of the attack on them. This study extends knowledge about the behavior of complex and interdependent infrastructures sys...