Securing Safety in Collaborative Cyber-Physical Systems Through Fault Criticality Analysis


KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 8, pp. 287-300, Aug. 2021
https://doi.org/10.3745/KTSDE.2021.10.8.287,   PDF Download:
Keywords: Safety, Composite Hazards Analysis, Fault Criticality, Cyber-Physical Systems, Platooning System
Abstract

Collaborative Cyber-Physical Systems (CCPS) are those systems that contain tightly coupled physical and cyber components, massively interconnected subsystems, and collaborate to achieve a common goal. The safety of a single Cyber-Physical System (CPS) can be achieved by following the safety standards such as ISO 26262 and IEC 61508 or by applying hazard analysis techniques. However, due to the complex, highly interconnected, heterogeneous, and collaborative nature of CCPS, a fault in one CPS's components can trigger many other faults in other collaborating CPSs. Therefore, a safety assurance technique based on fault criticality analysis would require to ensure safety in CCPS. This paper presents a Fault Criticality Matrix (FCM) implemented in our tool called CPSTracer, which contains several data such as identified fault, fault criticality, safety guard, etc. The proposed FCM is based on composite hazard analysis and content-based relationships among the hazard analysis artifacts, and ensures that the safety guard controls the identified faults at design time; thus, we can effectively manage and control the fault at the design phase to ensure the safe development of CPSs. To justify our approach, we introduce a case study on the Platooning system (a collaborative CPS). We perform the criticality analysis of the Platooning system using FCM in our developed tool. After the detailed fault criticality analysis, we investigate the results to check the appropriateness and effectiveness with two research questions. Also, by performing simulation for the Platooning, we showed that the rate of collision of the Platooning system without using FCM was quite high as compared to the rate of collisions of the system after analyzing the fault criticality using FCM.


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[IEEE Style]
M. Hussain, N. Ali, J. Hong, "Securing Safety in Collaborative Cyber-Physical Systems Through Fault Criticality Analysis," KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, vol. 10, no. 8, pp. 287-300, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3745/KTSDE.2021.10.8.287.

[ACM Style]
Manzoor Hussain, Nazakat Ali, and Jang-Eui Hong. 2021. Securing Safety in Collaborative Cyber-Physical Systems Through Fault Criticality Analysis. KIPS Transactions on Software and Data Engineering, 10, 8, (2021), 287-300. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3745/KTSDE.2021.10.8.287.