Title

Stuck In Traffic (Sit) Attacks: A Framework For Identifying Stealthy Attacks That Cause Traffic Congestion

Abstract

Recent advances in wireless technologies have enabled many new applications in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) such as collision avoidance, cooperative driving, congestion avoidance, and traffic optimization. Due to the vulnerable nature of wireless communication against interference and intentional jamming, ITS face new challenges to ensure the reliability and the safety of the overall system. In this paper, we expose a class of stealthy attacks - Stuck in Traffic (SiT) attacks - that aim to cause congestion by exploiting how drivers make decisions based on smart traffic signs. An attacker mounting a SiT attack solves a Markov Decision Process problem to find optimal/suboptimal attack policies in which he/she interferes with a well-chosen subset of signals that are based on the state of the system. We apply approximate policy iteration algorithms to derive potent attack policies. We evaluate their performance on a number of systems and compare them to other attack policies including random, myopic and DoS attack policies. The generated policies, albeit suboptimal, are shown to significantly outperform other attack policies as they maximize the expected cumulative reward from the standpoint of the attacker. © 2013 IEEE.

Publication Date

12-1-2013

Publication Title

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/VTCSpring.2013.6692769

Socpus ID

84893635930 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84893635930

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