Timing-Based Attacks for HATS

Welling, Truman; Yener, Aylin

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Timing-Based Attacks for HATS

2026-01-30
By Welling, Truman ; Yener, Aylin

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Creators:

Welling, Truman ; Yener, Aylin
Corporate Creators:

Ohio State University. Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Corporate Contributors:

Center for Automated Vehicles Research with Multimodal Assured Navigation (CARMEN+) Tier-1 University Transportation Center (UTC) ; United States. Department of Transportation. University Transportation Centers (UTC) Program ; United States. Department of Transportation. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
Subject/TRT Terms:

Age Of Information Automated Vehicle Control Autonomous Vehicles Communication Systems Decision Making Digital Cameras Highly Automated Transportation Systems (HATS) Information Management Intelligent Vehicles Laser Radar Monitoring Sensors Stackelberg Game Strategic Planning Threats Timing Attack Transmission Vehicles Vehicle Safety
Resource Type:

Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:

United States
Edition:

Final Report: (Aug ‘24 to Dec ‘25)
Corporate Publisher:

Center for Automated Vehicles Research with Multimodal Assured Navigation (CARMEN+) Tier-1 University Transportation Center (UTC)
Abstract:

We have addressed attacks on information freshness using a model with application to cooperative autonomous routing networks. In this model, each user monitors the status of each other user in the network, where the statuses are communicated using beacon transmissions over a shared channel. We consider an adversarial attack where a portion of the beacon transmissions are delayed, causing each user to act on outdated information. As a method of mitigation of the adversarial delays, we allow the users to reset beacon transmissions. The users select the rate at which beacon transmissions are started from when the channel becomes idle and how long the users wait before resetting a transmission with the objective of having the most up to date information at the monitors. The adversary selects the average increase by which transmission durations are extended with the objective of having the status information at the users be as outdated as possible.
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PDF
Funding:

69A3552348327
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University Transportation Centers
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