Position Manipulation Attacks to Balise-Based Train Automatic Stop Control

Balise is a popular wayside device to provide accurate location information for subway station parking by sending telegrams to passing trains. By craftily disturbing wireless signals of balise telegrams, this paper proposes three attacks that may make passengers fall and even cause injury. Concretely, the first attack is to jam telegrams such that balises cannot be detected by a passing train; the second attack changes the location of transmitting telegrams by jamming and replaying; and the third attack is to change the total time of transmitting telegrams. All the attacks exploit the train localization mechanism such that a passing train localizes its position inaccurately and then takes improper control actions. Furthermore, since these attacks are independent, they can be launched at the same time to achieve advanced attacks. As the attacks do not require to tamper with the balises, they can be launched easily. The authors' simulations demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed attacks. To defeat these attacks, the received telegrams need be verified by a train based on fidelity of telegram data.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1109/TVT.2018.2802444
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Copyright © 2018, IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Wu, Yongdong
  • Wei, Zhuo
  • Weng, Jian
  • Deng, Robert H
• Publication Date: 2018-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 5287-5301
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • Volume: 67
  • Issue Number: 6
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 0018-9545
  • Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=25

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Brakes; Errors; Measurement; Public transit; Railroad rails; Railroad traffic control; Sensors; Subways; Wireless communication systems
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Public Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01676349
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jul 26 2018 2:38PM