SecureSurgiNET: A framework for ensuring security in telesurgery

The notion of surgical robotics is actively being extended to enable telesurgery, where both the surgeon and patient are remotely located and connected via a public network, which leads to many security risks. Being a safety-critical application, it is highly important to make telesurgery robust and secure against active and passive attacks. In this article, we propose the first complete framework, called SecureSurgiNET, for ensuring security in telesurgery environments. SecureSurgiNET is primarily based on a set of well-established protocols to provide a fool-proof telesurgical robotic system. For increasing the efficiency of secured telesurgery environments, the idea of a telesurgical authority is introduced that ensures the integrity, identity management, authentication policy implementation, and postoperative data security. An analysis is provided describing the security and throughput of Advanced Encryption Standard during the intraoperative phase of SecureSurgiNET. Moreover, we have tabulated the possible attacks on SecureSurgiNET along with the devised defensive measures. Finally, we also present a time complexity analysis of the SecureSurgiNET through simulations.

Modeling and Realization of CBTC Interlocking System Using SCADE

With the rapidly growing of passenger flow in big city, Communications Based Train Control (CBTC) system is believed to be the chief choice for urban railway transportation system. Interlocking system is a key safety critical application for CBTC, as it provides trains safety routes both in normal condition and under degraded mode. To deal with the logic complexity and high demand for safety, this paper addresses a novel scheme for modeling and realization of CBTC interlocking system. Using SCADE toolset, core function model prototypes are elaborated and software codes are generated automatically. The practical application indicates that this method provides an accurate and complete description for the whole system, and offers a path to gain high quality system implementation.

Hot Isostatic Pressing of Large Bore, Stainless Steel Pipework for a Safety Critical Application

This paper presents an overview of the work undertaken by Rolls-Royce to introduce Hot Isostatically Pressed (HIP) large bore, austenitic stainless steel pipework into a safety critical application - a Nuclear Reactor plant. It describes the advantages of using HIP product forms to combine separate sections of straight pipe and elbows and, in so doing, reducing the number of structural plant welds.