A Cost-Effective Statistical Learning Approach for Detection of DoS and Fuzzy Attacks in CAN


Topsakal M., Cevher S., Kassler A. J., Erğenç D.

2025 10th International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering (UBMK), İstanbul, Türkiye, 17 - 21 Eylül 2025, ss.1386-1391, (Tam Metin Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1109/ubmk67458.2025.11207034
  • Basıldığı Şehir: İstanbul
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Türkiye
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.1386-1391
  • Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Modern vehicles increasingly rely on Controller Area Networks (CAN), making them vulnerable to cyber-physical attacks such as denial of service (DoS) and fuzzy attacks. Real-time detection of such attacks is challenging due to the high message frequency, strict timing constraints, and lack of message authentication in CAN. This paper presents a cost-effective, two-stage statistical learning method for real-time intrusion detection in CAN networks. During training, times-tamp differences between consecutive message IDs are stored in a unidirectional dictionary, while bidirectional relationships are captured in an adjacency matrix. In the detection phase, incoming messages are checked against learned time bounds or, if missing, classified using a backward adjacency scan. The method is evaluated with two realistic datasets, Car-Hacking and Survival Analysis, containing both DoS and fuzzy scenarios. Results show high accuracy, precision, recall, and F1-score, with sub-millisecond per-message latency, meeting the stringent real-time requirements of CAN systems. These results confirm the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method for in-vehicle intrusion detection.