Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine February 2018 - 3

DOI. No. 10.1109/MAES.2018.182001

From the Editors of the Special Issue on Cyber
Security in Aerospace
Kathleen Kramer, William P. Walsh, Erik Theunissen

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Kathleen Kramer

William P. Walsh

Erik Theunissen

FEBRUARY 2018

his issue marks the second and concluding section of the Special Issue on Cyber Security in Aerospace
Systems for the IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Magazine. The special issue was the first such
collaboration of the Society's Technical Operations Panel on Cyber Security. A major goal of this effort
was to channel the special expertise and interests of the panel to provide an important AESS technical perspective that has not been
well addressed in other cyber security related efforts
and publications.
The two papers in this
second section of the issue
both consider cyber security issues for avionics, but
propose solutions to two
very different aspects of
avionics integration.
The first article (Xu -
"High Throughput, Cyber
Secure Multi-User Superposition Covert Avionics
System") proposes secure
multi-user superposition
covert
communication
(MuSC) avionics to provide secure communication and navigation signal- A simplified concept of the players in an airborne network connecting ground and
ing. MuSC is based upon a space networks.
secure waveform that can
support covert superposition transmission for multiple users. It provides for noise-like superimposed signals based upon non-orthogonal multiple access or NOMA. Validity of the origin of the avionics data is
provided through a watermark, and the system application to avionics is considered for spectrum efficiency,
cyber security, data sharing and protection.
The second article (Vanderleest- "Is Formal Proof of seL4 Sufficient for Avionics Security?") considers
aircraft avionics and methods of considering safety and security within an integrated platform according
to the ARINC 653 guidelines for partitioning software, allowing critical functions to be differentiated in
importance and partitioned. The sel4 Microkernel and other partitioning approaches are considered and
compared in terms of avionics security, offering suggestions for developments applying to the security
needs of flight software.
In addition to the open call, the effort on this special issue brought together experts through meetings
of the Technical Operations Panel held at these at two different IEEE AESS conferences: the IEEE/AIAA
Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC) and the International Carnahan Conference on Security
Technology (ICCST). At the DASC, panelists consider how best to apply insights and solutions related to
its core topics including avionics and air traffic management (ATM) specifically involving and applying
cyber security concerns. Just a month later, the panel also meets at ICCST to consider the same questions,
with very different participants, starting instead from a security technology perspective and looking for
ways it was interesting and beneficially applied to specialized systems involved in avionics and ATM.
Those with great interest in these topics can not only read the special issue articles, but join our panel at
DASC or ICCST this fall.
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