Toward CPS Security Monitoring: Employing Multi-Agent Systems and Digital Twins

This paper proposes a study on designing architecture models based on the multi-agent system (MAS) and digital twin (DT) concepts to take care of cyber-physical systems security. CPS are used in a network to address a complex problem and allow to support physical process by sensing. CPS could be vulnerable to attack, from hardware and physical attacks to software attacks and even including network attacks. To meet these challenges, we explored several approaches to ally MAS and DT with the aim to benefit from the scalability and adaptability of MASs and the enhanced modelling of DTs. As a result of this exploration, we present a innovative approach to tackle networking attacks of CPSs by proposing an model architecture and apply it in an experiment to detect blackhole attacks.