Title
Quantifying the impact of unavailability in cyber-physical environments.
Abstract
The Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system discussed in this work manages a distributed control network for the Tunisian Electric & Gas Utility. The network is dispersed over a large geographic area that monitors and controls the flow of electricity/gas from both remote and centralized locations. The availability of the SCADA system in this context is critical to ensuring the uninterrupted delivery of energy, including safety, security, continuity of operations and revenue. Such SCADA systems are the backbone of national critical cyber-physical infrastructures. Herein, we propose adapting the Mean Failure Cost (MFC) metric for quantifying the cost of unavailability. This new metric combines the classic availability formulation with MFC. The resulting metric, so-called Econometric Availability (EA), offers a computational basis to evaluate a system in terms of the gain/loss ($/hour of operation) that affects each stakeholder due to unavailability.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/CICYBS.2014.7013364
CICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
dependability,availability
Revenue,Control system security,Dependability,Stakeholder,Electricity,Cyber-physical system,Unavailability,SCADA,Engineering,Reliability engineering
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Anis Ben Aissa1948.51
Robert K. Abercrombie211815.30
Frederick Sheldon38616.46
Ali Mili41067127.61