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CyberVehiCare: A Testbed for Cybersecurity of Vehicle to Everything (V2X) Automotive Systems

Summary:

The increasing integration of connectivity features
in modern vehicles has expanded the attack surface for cyber
threats, underscoring the need for robust cybersecurity research tools. This paper introduces CyberVehiCare, an innovative and realistic testbed designed to support the analysis and validation of cybersecurity mechanisms for Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) automotive systems. By combining real components from a commercial vehicle with emulated V2X modules, CyberVehi-Care enables comprehensive testing of in-vehicle and external communication vulnerabilities. The platform supports experimentation with cyberattacks, vulnerability assessments, and the development of security countermeasures, contributing to safer and more resilient automotive networks. The testbed’s design, implementation, and validation are discussed, highlighting its potential to advance research.

Author(s):

MD Arafatur Rahman    
Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of wolverhampton
United Kingdom

Md Arafatur Rahman received his Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy in 2013. He has around 15 years Research and Teaching experience in the domain of Computer and Communications Engineering. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer with the School of Engineering, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, University of Wolverhampton, UK. He was an Associate Professor with the Faculty of Computing, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, where he had conducted Undergraduate and Masters Courses and supervised more than 21 B.Sc., 5 M.Sc. and 5 PhD students. He worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with University of Naples Federico II in 2014 and Visiting Researcher with the Sapienza University of Rome in 2016. His research interests include Internet-of-Things (IoT), Wireless Communication Networks, Cognitive Radio Network, 5G, Vehicular Communication, Cyber Physical System, Big Data, Cloud-Fog-Edge Computing, Machine Learning and Security. He has developed an excellent track record of academic leadership as well as management and execution of international ICT projects that are supported by agencies in the UK, Italy, EU and Malaysia. Dr. Rahman has received number of prestigious international research awards, notably the Best Paper Award at ICNS’15 (Italy), IC0902 Grant (France), Italian Government PhD Research Scholarship and IIUM Best Masters Student Award, Best Supervisor Award at UMP, Awards in International Exhibitions including Euro Business-HALLER Poland Special Award, MTE 2022, Best Innovation Award, MTE 2020, Malaysia, Diamond and Gold in BiS’17 UK, Best of the Best Innovation Award and Most Commercial IT Innovation Award, Malaysia, and Gold & Silver medals in iENA’17 Germany. Dr. Rahman has co-authored of around 100 prestigious IEEE and Elsevier journal (e.g., IEEE TII, IEEE TITS, IEEE TGCN, IEEE TSC, IEEE COMMAG, Elsevier JNCA, Elsevier FGCS etc.) and conference publications (e.g., IEEE Globecom, IEEE DASC, etc.) and has served as an Specialty Chief Editor of IoT Theory and Fundamental Research (specialty section of Frontiers in the Internet of Things), Advisory Board Member, Editor (Computers, MDPI), Lead Guest Editor (IEEE ACCESS, Computers), Associate Editor (IEEE ACCESS), Patron, General Chair, Organizing Committee, Publicity Chair, Session Chair, Programme Committee and Member of Technical Programme Committee (TPC) in numerous leading conferences worldwide (e.g., IEEE Globecom, IEEE DASC, IEEE iSCI, IEEE ETCCE etc.) and Journals. His name was enlisted inside the World top 2% scientists list released by Stanford University under the category of “Citation Impact in Single Calendar Year 2019-2021”. He was awarded a Higher Education Academy (HEA) Fellowship from the UK. He was a Fellow of IBM Center of Excellence and Earth Resources & Sustainability Center, Malaysia and is a Senior Member of IEEE. He was endorsed by Royal Academy of Engineering, UK as Global Talent under the category of “Exceptional Talent” in 2022.

Tan Sze Wei    
Faculty of Science and Engineering, School of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of wolverhampton
United Kingdom

I'm currently a PHD student doing my postgraduate research on Computer Science at University of Wolverhampton.

I was previously a Full Stack Developer for both Mobile App and Website platform with experience in PHP MVC Framework with MySQL and Firebase Database in the last 2 years.

As a full stack developer, I have the knowledge of designing and developing databases and MySQL query based on requirement. Beside that, I'm able to perform routine maintenance tasks like content updates, bug fixes, and troubleshooting including configuring and maintaining server software.

Muhammad Saad Sohail    
University of Genoa
Italy

Muhammad Saad Sohail was born Pakistan in 1987. He got his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering majors in Telecom in October 2011, and his Master's degree in Engineering Technology Security and Strategy at the University of Genoa in Dec 2021, with a thesis on Data analysis for Gas Turbine Operative Status Recognition. Currently, he is a PhD student at the University of Genoa in collaboration with Aitek SpA.
His main research activities concern communication in the Vehicle to Everything V2X environment and security of V2X network Systems.

Giovanni Battista Gaggero    
University of Genova
Italy

Fabio Patrone    
University of Genoa
Italy

Fabio Patrone was born in Genoa, Italy in 1988. He got his Bachelor Degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 2010 and his Master Degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 2013 at the University of Genoa. He got his Ph.D. at the Satellite Communications and Networking Laboratory (SCNL) with a thesis on routing and scheduling algorithms in Satellite Delay and Disruption Tolerant Networks (DTNs).

Currently, he is an Assistant Professor.

His main research activities concern Satellite and DTN networks and cybersecurity, in particular:

design of Routing, Scheduling, and Congestion Control algorithms for Satellite Communication (SatCom) networks;
study of integration solutions between SatCom and terrestrial networks within the 5G framework, exploiting new networking paradigms such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV);
study of Internet of Things (IoT) solutions based on satellite/aerial networks.
design of Machine Learning (ML)-based solutions to apply to cybersecurity problems, such as ML-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)

Mario Marchese    
University of Genoa
Italy

Prof. Mario Marchese (S’94–M’97–SM’04) was born in Genoa, Italy in 1967. He got his "Laurea" degree cum laude at the University of Genoa, Italy in 1992, and his Ph.D. (Italian "Dottorato di Ricerca") degree in "Telecommunications" at the University of Genoa in 1997. From 1999 to January 2005, he worked with the Italian Consortium of Telecommunications (CNIT), by the University of Genoa Research Unit, where he was Head of Research. From February 2005 to January 2016 he was Associate Professor at the University of Genoa. Since February 2016 he has been Full Professor at the University of Genoa.

He was at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, as a Visiting Professor / Guest Scientist in the following periods: September 6 to 29, 2004; October 3 to 14, 2005; July 10 to 28, 2006; July 6 to August 8, 2007; July 7 to 22, 2008.

He is the founder and head of the Laboratory "Satellite Communications and Networking" (www.scnl.diten.unige.it) at the University of Genoa. The laboratory contains devices and instruments of great scientific and economic value and involves the management of different units of scientific-technical personnel. From 2009 to 2015 he was also co-responsible for the Laboratory of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) at DITEN-University of Genoa. He formed and trained staff in research: PhD students, research fellows, research associates and young researchers. He coordinated the technical-scientific and financial management of many research projects. He attracted and managed funds both at European and institutional level.

He is (or was, where indicated):

Coordinator of the PhD in "Science and Technology for Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering" since 2013 to 2021.
"Chair" (2006-2008), "Vice-Chair" (2004-2006) and "Secretary" (2002-2004) of the "Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee" of "IEEE ComSoc".
Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Vehicular Technology; Technical Editor of the IEEE Network Magazine; Associate Technical Editor of the IEEE Communications Magazine; Associate Editor of the IEEE Open Journal of the Communications Society (OJ-COMS); Associate Editor of the International Journal of Communication Systems (Wiley); Associate Founder Editor of the journal Frontiers in Space Technologies; Technical Editor dell’ IEEE Wireless Communications Magazine from 2006 to 2012.
Winner of the IEEE ComSoc "Satellite Communications Distinguished Service Award" in 2008 for the scientific and professional contribution in the field of satellite technology and of numerous "Best Paper Awards".

Prashant Pillai    
University of Wolverhampton
United Kingdom