TY - GEN
T1 - BACGraph
T2 - 51st Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks - Supplemental Volume, DSN-S 2021
AU - Esquivel-Vargas, Herson
AU - Caselli, Marco
AU - Peter, Andreas
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - This work presents BACGRAPH, a tool that extracts relationships among configuration parameters of Building Automation and Control Systems (BACSs) implemented using the BACnet protocol (ISO 16484-5). BACnet models these configuration parameters as object data structures comprised of multiple properties, some of which contain references to other objects. Given the regular exchange of objects among devices, we leverage these explicit references to build a graph of BACnet objects exclusively from network traffic. We tested BACGRAPH using traffic collected from a real building located at the University of Twente. After analyzing 66.8 hours of traffic, the resulting graph is comprised of 13,733 nodes and 3,169 edges. Such a graph improves the system visibility that BACS administrators have over their infrastructure, which is crucial for troubleshooting and security.
AB - This work presents BACGRAPH, a tool that extracts relationships among configuration parameters of Building Automation and Control Systems (BACSs) implemented using the BACnet protocol (ISO 16484-5). BACnet models these configuration parameters as object data structures comprised of multiple properties, some of which contain references to other objects. Given the regular exchange of objects among devices, we leverage these explicit references to build a graph of BACnet objects exclusively from network traffic. We tested BACGRAPH using traffic collected from a real building located at the University of Twente. After analyzing 66.8 hours of traffic, the resulting graph is comprised of 13,733 nodes and 3,169 edges. Such a graph improves the system visibility that BACS administrators have over their infrastructure, which is crucial for troubleshooting and security.
KW - BACS
KW - BACnet
KW - Building Automation and Control Systems
KW - graph
KW - visibility
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85115624906
U2 - 10.1109/DSN-S52858.2021.00029
DO - 10.1109/DSN-S52858.2021.00029
M3 - Contribución a la conferencia
AN - SCOPUS:85115624906
T3 - Proceedings - 51st Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks - Supplemental Volume, DSN-S 2021
SP - 45
EP - 48
BT - Proceedings - 51st Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks - Supplemental Volume, DSN-S 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 21 June 2021 through 24 June 2021
ER -