Framework for supervised and secure distributed simulations of critical infrastructures

Abstract

Research on critical infrastructures (CI)s deals with sensitive data that demands underlying platform to be secure, in addition, testing of CI resilience strategies requires reproducibility of results. Disruption or natural disaster scenarios can not be tested on the physical systems, thus simulations are used for experimentation on CIs and as they are inherently distributed and interdependent which is why here, to model CIs, we use a distributed simulations standard namely High Level Architecture (HLA). The main goals of HLA are to provide interoperability and flexibility. Security and events logging are neither included nor emphasis of HLA standard. This paper presents a framework to have a supervised and secure messages exchange across distributed simulations using HLA standard.