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Technische Universität München

Security for IoT and Autonomous Systems

Group Leader: Dr.-Ing. Mohammad Hamad

Researchers:

Alumni Researchers:

 

Research Directions

The Internet of Things (IoT) has changed how we live, becoming a key part of our daily routines. IoT technology enables devices, appliances, and machines to communicate and work together smoothly, offering greater convenience and efficiency. One major application of IoT is autonomous systems. These systems use advanced sensors, communication tools, and artificial intelligence to operate without human control. For example, autonomous vehicles can interact with other vehicles, road infrastructure, and pedestrians. Autonomous systems in various sectors aim to improve safety, reduce pollution, and make processes more efficient and eco-friendly. 

However, most of the IoT systems are vulnerable to many cyber attacks, making it essential to ensure their security, particularly for safety-critical systems (such as smart vehicles) that could result in severe consequences if attacked. To address this issue, our research group focuses on innovating and developing solutions that provide intrusion prevention, detection, and response capabilities for these systems. The solutions are designed to consider the unique resources and real-time constraints, as well as the distributed and autonomous nature of these systems.

Projects

Ongoing 

  1. CyberSecDome, EU  [2023 - 2026]
  2. CyberCTF, Funded by the German French Academy (GFA) [2023-2024]
  3. PANDORA, EU [2024 - 2027]
  4. DTACK, GFA [2024, 2025] 
  5. SecDataGen, GFA  [2024, 2025] 

Completed 

  1. nIoVe, EU H2020 [2019- 2022]

 

Tools

Simutack: An Attack Simulation Framework for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Related Publications

2025

  • Andreas Finkenzeller, Arne Fucks, Emanuel Regnath, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Securing the Precision Time Protocol with SDN-enabled Cyclic Path Asymmetry Analysis". In: ACM Transactions on Cyber-Physical Systems, https://doi.org/10.1145/3728363.

  • ndrew Roberts, Mohsen Malayjerdi, Mauro Bellone, Raivo Sell, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "ADSecData Platform: An Open-Source Data Platform for Autonomous Driving Cybersecurity". In: The 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring). Oslo, Norway, In Press. 

  • Andrew Roberts, Jingyue Cheng, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "ADSecLang: A Domain-Specific Language for Cybersecurity Testing of Autonomous Vehicles". In: The 2025 IEEE 101st Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2025-Spring). Oslo, Norway, In Press. 

  • Mohammad Hamad, Christian Prehofer, Mikael Asplund, Tobias Loehr, Lucas Bublitz, Alexander Zeh, Mridula Singh, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Cybersecurity Challenges of Autonomous Systems". In: Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2025). Lyon, France, pp. 10. 

  • Zain A. H. Hammadeh, Mohammad Hamad, Andrzej Olchawa, Milenko Starcik, Ricardo Fradique, Stefan Langhammer, Manuel Hoffmann, Florian Goehler, Daniel Luedtke, Michael Felderer, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Designing Secure Space Systems". In: Design, Automation and Test in Europe Conference (DATE 2025). Lyon, France, pp. 7.

  • Andrew Roberts, Mohsen Malayjerdi, Mauro Bellone, Raivo Sell, Olaf Maennel, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. “Analysis of Autonomous Driving Software to Low-Level Sensor Cyber Attacks”. In: 20th International Conference on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems. Ottawa, Canada, 2025. 

2024

  • Mohammad Hamad, Andreas Finkenzeller, Michael Kühr, Andrew Roberts, Olaf Maennel, Vassilis Prevelakis, Sebastian Steinhorst. "REACT: Autonomous intrusion response system for intelligent vehicles". In: Computers & Security, 145( ), pp. . DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cose.2024.104008
  • Sherin Kalli Valappil, Lars Vogela, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Advanced IDPS Architecture for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles". In: Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IEEE IV 2024). Korea.
  • Zain A. H. Hammadehand, Monowar Hasan, Mohammad Hamad. "Securing Real-Time Systems using Schedule Reconfiguration". In: International Symposium on Real Time Distributed Computing (ISORC 2024).
  • Andreas Finkenzeller, Oliver Butowski, Emanuel Regnath, Mohammad Hamad, and Sebastian Steinhorst, "PTPsec: Securing the Precision Time Protocol Against Time Delay Attacks Using Cyclic Path Asymmetry Analysis", IEEE International Conference on Computer Communications (IEEE INFOCOM)
  • Andrew Roberts, Mohammad Reza Heidari Iman, Mauro Bellone, Tara Ghasempouri, Olaf Maennel, Jaan Raik, Mohammad Hamad, and Sebastian Steinhorst, "ADAssure: Debugging Methodology for Autonomous Driving Control Algorithms", Design, Automation, and Test in Europe (DATE 2024)

2023

  • Firas Hamila, Mohammad Hamad, Daniel Costa Salgado and Sebastian Steinhorst, "Enhancing security in Fiat-Shamir transformation-based non-interactive zero-knowledge protocols for IoT authentication", International Journal of Information Security, 2023.
  • Mohammad Hamad, and Sebastian Steinhorst, "Security Challenges in Autonomous Systems Design", International Conference on Computational Technologies and Electronics (ICCTE 2023).
  • Andreas Finkenzeller, Anshu Mathur, Jan Lauinger, Mohammad Hamad, and Sebastian Steinhorst. “Simutack - An Attack Simulation Framework for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles”. In: The 2023 IEEE 97th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2023-Spring. Accepted. Florence, Italy, 2023.
  • Borna Blazevic, Michael Peter, Mohammad Hamad, and Sebastian Steinhorst, "TEEVseL4: Trusted Execution Environment for Virtualized seL4-based Systems". In: IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2023). Niigata, Japan, pp. 10

2022

  • Mohammad Hamad, Andreas Finkenzeller, Hangmao Liu, Jan Lauinger, Vassilis Prevelakis, Sebastian Steinhorst. "SEEMQTT: Secure End-to-End MQTT-Based Communication for Mobile IoT Systems Using Secret Sharing and Trust Delegation". In: IEEE Internet of Things Journal, , pp. 1-1. DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2022.3221857
  • Jan Lauinger, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Toward a Multi-Layer Intrusion Response System for Connected Vehicles". In: The 2022 IEEE 96th Vehicular Technology Conference: VTC2022-Fall (VTC2022-Fall). London, UK, pp. 2. DOI: 10.1109/VTC2022-Fall57202.2022.10012711
  • Andreas Finkenzeller, Thomas Wakim, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Feasible Time Delay Attacks Against the Precision Time Protocol". In: IEEE Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM 2022) . Rio de Janeiro, Brazil , pp. 6. DOI: 10.1109/GLOBECOM48099.2022.10001666M
  • Jan Lauinger, Andreas Finkenzeller, Henrik Lautebach, Mohammad Hamad, Sebastian Steinhorst. "Attack Data Generation Framework for Autonomous Vehicle Sensors". In: Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2022) . Antwerp, Belgium, pp. 4. DOI: 10.23919/DATE54114.2022.9774542

2021

  • Lea Schönberger, Mohammad Hamad, Javier Velasquez Gomez, Sebastian Steinhorst, Selma Saidi. "Towards an Increased Detection Sensitivity of Time-Delay Attacks on Precision Time Protocol". In: IEEE Access, , pp. 1-1. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3127852
  • Mohammad Hamad, Emanuel Regnath, Jan Lauinger, Vassilis Prevelakis, Sebastian Steinhorst. "SPPS: Secure Policy-based Publish/Subscribe System for V2C Communication". In: Proceedings of the Conference on Design, Automation and Test in Europe (DATE 2021). Grenoble, France.

 

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