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Title: On the Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks for Live Modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems

Abstract

Attention to cyber security of cyber-physical systems (CPS) has led to the development of innovative cyber-resilient methodologies to ensure early detection and mitigation of cyber anomalies and threats. The concept of Digital Twin (DT) has recently emerged as one of the approaches to achieve the objective of resilience. In the approach using DT, a software-based live model of a target CPS is used to continuously monitor, surveil and verify the correctness of the target CPS operation. In this paper, we empirically study the effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)-based models as the basis of DT-based resilience. We uncover the important characteristics of an RNN-based solution with experimentation on a lab-scale Canal Lock CPS emulator with live validations and attack scenarios. For the first time, we demonstrate actual, real-time use of a RNN-based model as a DT for performing live analysis on an operational CPS. Based on the observed results, we highlight the importance of a DT model's training interval, prediction interval and CPS polling interval in the process of anomaly detection. We uncover the limitations in anomaly detection due to real-time synchronization needs of the RNN-based DT. We highlight this uncovered tug of war between synchronization and anomaly detection ismore » inherent in any complex CPS that is monitored and synchronized by relying on the same sensor streams of ground truth for both synchronization as well as anomaly detection.« less

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Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1649632
DOE Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Conference
Resource Relation:
Conference: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Internet (ICII) 2019 - Orlando, Florida, United States of America - 11/11/2019 9:00:00 AM-11/12/2019 9:00:00 AM
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

Citation Formats

Yoginath, Srikanth, Tansakul, Varisara, Chinthavali, Supriya, Taylor, Curtis, Hambrick, Joshua, Irminger, Philip, and Perumalla, Kalyan. On the Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks for Live Modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1109/ICII.2019.00062.
Yoginath, Srikanth, Tansakul, Varisara, Chinthavali, Supriya, Taylor, Curtis, Hambrick, Joshua, Irminger, Philip, & Perumalla, Kalyan. On the Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks for Live Modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICII.2019.00062
Yoginath, Srikanth, Tansakul, Varisara, Chinthavali, Supriya, Taylor, Curtis, Hambrick, Joshua, Irminger, Philip, and Perumalla, Kalyan. 2019. "On the Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks for Live Modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICII.2019.00062. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1649632.
@article{osti_1649632,
title = {On the Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks for Live Modeling of Cyber-Physical Systems},
author = {Yoginath, Srikanth and Tansakul, Varisara and Chinthavali, Supriya and Taylor, Curtis and Hambrick, Joshua and Irminger, Philip and Perumalla, Kalyan},
abstractNote = {Attention to cyber security of cyber-physical systems (CPS) has led to the development of innovative cyber-resilient methodologies to ensure early detection and mitigation of cyber anomalies and threats. The concept of Digital Twin (DT) has recently emerged as one of the approaches to achieve the objective of resilience. In the approach using DT, a software-based live model of a target CPS is used to continuously monitor, surveil and verify the correctness of the target CPS operation. In this paper, we empirically study the effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Network (RNN)-based models as the basis of DT-based resilience. We uncover the important characteristics of an RNN-based solution with experimentation on a lab-scale Canal Lock CPS emulator with live validations and attack scenarios. For the first time, we demonstrate actual, real-time use of a RNN-based model as a DT for performing live analysis on an operational CPS. Based on the observed results, we highlight the importance of a DT model's training interval, prediction interval and CPS polling interval in the process of anomaly detection. We uncover the limitations in anomaly detection due to real-time synchronization needs of the RNN-based DT. We highlight this uncovered tug of war between synchronization and anomaly detection is inherent in any complex CPS that is monitored and synchronized by relying on the same sensor streams of ground truth for both synchronization as well as anomaly detection.},
doi = {10.1109/ICII.2019.00062},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1649632}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {11}
}

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