A game-theoretic analysis of DoS attacks on driverless vehicles

Shah, Ryan and Nagaraja, Shishir (2019) A game-theoretic analysis of DoS attacks on driverless vehicles. Preprint / Working Paper. arXiv.org, Ithica, N.Y..

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Abstract

Driverless vehicles are expected to form the foundation of future connected transport infrastructure. A key weakness of connected vehicles is their vulnerability to physical-proximity attacks such as sensor saturation attacks. It is natural to study whether such attacks can be used to disrupt swarms of autonomous vehicles used as part of a large fleet providing taxi and courier delivery services. In this paper, we start to examine the strategic options available to attackers and defenders (autonomous-fleet operators) in such conflicts. We find that attackers have the upper hand in most cases and are able to carry out crippling denial-of-service attacks on fleets, by leveraging the inherent deficiencies of road networks identified by techniques from graph analysis. Experimental results on ten cities using real-world courier traces shows that most cities will require upgraded infrastructure to defend driverless vehicles against denial-of-service attacks. We found several hidden costs that impact equipment designers and operators of driverless vehicles - not least, that road-networks need to be redesigned for robustness against attacks thus raising some fundamental questions about the benefits.

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Shah, Ryan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1348-8423 and Nagaraja, Shishir;
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