Chapter 18

Distributed Network and System Monitoring for Securing Cyber-Physical Infrastructure

Yang Liu and Yong Guan

18.1 Overview

An important problem for securing cyber-physical infrastructures (CPIs) is how to effectively monitor CPIs and detect unexpected situations (e.g., failures or malicious attacks) in real time. A variety of CPIs, such as smart grid, healthcare, water systems, transportation systems, built atop modern computer networks and embedded system technologies, have become (or will become) essential parts of the daily life for billions of people worldwide. People would not be able to afford the lost and unavailability of such services or application systems. Maintaining the healthiness of such CPIs requires not only the robust ...

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