Problem
Research questions and friction points this paper is trying to address.
Small Satellite Systems
Cybersecurity Research
Reconfigurable Testbed
Mission Outcomes
Execution Environments
MimicSat: A Reconfigurable Cyber-Physical Testbed For Small Satellite Systems and Cybersecurity Research
🤖 AI Summary
MimicSat通过提供一个可重构的软硬件测试平台，解决小卫星系统及网络安全研究中行为变化对任务结果影响的问题。
📝 Abstract
MimicSat provides a common experimental environment for examining how changes in satellite subsystem behavior propagate to mission outcomes across software-based and hardware-based execution. Its design is motivated by controlled spacecraft cybersecurity studies involving attacks, faults, and defensive responses. In MimicSat, a mission encompasses the spacecraft and ground activities required to achieve defined objectives, and an experiment consists of one or more mission runs used to study selected conditions or interventions. To support such studies, MimicSat offers software-based and hardware-based execution environments that implement the same mission functions and data exchanges, while allowing specific functions to be realized differently. A shared mission definition preserves command and telemetry semantics across environments, and collected observations retain provenance about the originating participants and acquisition paths. As a result, mission behavior can be compared across execution configurations without redefining the surrounding mission. This paper presents the architectural principles of MimicSat, its software and hardware execution forms, and their integrated operation. MimicSat also supports satellite systems engineering, mission operations, resilience studies, and related experimental use cases.
Innovation
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Reconfigurable
Cyber-Physical Testbed
Small Satellite Systems
Mission Function Consistency
Execution Environment
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