STPA-Driven Multilevel Runtime Monitoring for In-Time Hazard Detection

Smitha Gautham, Georgios Bakirtzis, Alexander Will, Athira Varma Jayakumar, Carl R. Elks

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Abstract

Runtime verification or runtime monitoring equips safety-critical cyber-physical systems to augment design assurance measures and ensure operational safety and security. Cyber-physical systems have interaction failures, attack surfaces, and attack vectors resulting in unanticipated hazards and loss scenarios. These interaction failures pose challenges to runtime verification regarding monitoring specifications and monitoring placements for in-time detection of hazards. We develop a well-formed workflow model that connects system theoretic process analysis, commonly referred to as STPA, hazard causation information to lower-level runtime monitoring to detect hazards at the operational phase. Specifically, our model follows the DepDevOps paradigm to provide evidence and insights to runtime monitoring on what to monitor, where to monitor, and the monitoring context. We demonstrate and evaluate the value of multilevel monitors by injecting hazards on an autonomous emergency braking system model.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationComputer Safety, Reliability, and Security - 41st International Conference, SAFECOMP 2022, Proceedings
EditorsMario Trapp, Francesca Saglietti, Marc Spisländer, Friedemann Bitsch
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages158-172
Number of pages15
ISBN (Print)9783031148347
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2022
Externally publishedYes
Event41st International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, SAFECOMP 2022 - Munich, Germany
Duration: 6 Sept 20229 Sept 2022

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13414 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference41st International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security, SAFECOMP 2022
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityMunich
Period6/09/229/09/22

Keywords

  • Cyber-physical systems
  • Dynamic safety management
  • Hazard analysis
  • Runtime monitors
  • Runtime verification
  • STPA

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