Detection of Cyber-Attacks in Collaborative Intersection Control

Road intersections are widely recognized as a lead cause for accidents and traffic delays. In a future scenario with a significant adoption of Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles, solutions based on fully automatic, signage-less Intersection Control would become viable. Such a solution, however, requires communication between vehicles and, possibly, the infrastructure over wireless networks. This increases the attack surface available to a malicious actor, which could lead to dangerous situations. In this paper, we address the safety of Intersection Control algorithms, and design a Sliding-Mode-Observer based solution capable of detecting and estimating false data injection attacks affecting vehicles’ communication. With respect to previous literature, a novel detection logic with improved detection performances is presented. Simulation results are provided to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach.