Cloud-Based Cyber Physical Systems: Design Challenges and Security Needs

The cyber-physical systems are the combination of computational elements and physical entities that can interact with humans through many modalities. The security includes the malicious attempts by adversary that disrupts or fails the functions of physical systems and affects infrastructure, businesses, and routine human life. The research in cyber-physical systems is in its initial stage. Therefore, first we discussed the status of security in cloud cyber-physical systems. Second, we introduced the challenges ahead to the design and development of the future engineering systems with new security capabilities. Third, we presented the security requirements in Hadoop distributed file systems. Since trust-based packet transfer in sensor networks is one of the important security issue infrastructure security, we presented a trust-based approach using Sporas formula and presented the simulations to trust of a successive node before transferring the packets. Finally, the paper presents the future research on cyber-physical systems in the cloud environment.