The master’s thesis for the student (Mustafa Yassin Diab) was discussed with a major in (Computer Engineering) on Wednesday 10/12/2022 at the discussion room (Hall No. 9) in the Department of Control and Systems Engineering. The thesis is entitled “Cyber-Physical System for Dams Monitoring and Control”

The discussion committee consisted of:

1-Prof. Dr. Muhammad Ali Tawfiq / Chairman Asst.

2-Prof. Dr. Ayman Daoud Salman / Member Asst.

3-Prof. Dr. Ahmed Alaa Okla / Member Prof. Dr.

4-Moayad Sadiq Crook / Member and Supervisor

The water management system is nowadays an issue of increasing importance. In this thesis, a safe automated monitoring and control system for dams based on electronic physical systems (CPSs), which is a modern core technology in a complex and heterogeneous cyber world, is proposed. This system consists of three main parts: The physical WSN node, which is the physical world; Communication technologies such as communication protocols; Web-based servers like the world of the Internet. The first part consists of four nodes (NodeMCU8266) as a microcontroller distributed over the dam areas, a Raspberry pi4 as a central server, sensors of water level, temperature and air humidity, sensor of rain and temperature of the dam's water, and three actuators, representing the three gates of the dam. It has become vulnerable to many cyber-attacks. To secure the proposed system, two cyber security algorithms are proposed to detect and prevent cyber attacks. The first one is applied to a physical wireless sensor network (WSN) that adopts telemetry transfer protocol in message queue. The second addresses cyber-attacks on the cloud server side. These algorithms predict DoS attacks on nodes or DoS-HTTP flood attacks on the cloud. Dams are monitored and managed and threats are identified via the dashboard. The proposed system and algorithms were tested by nine case studies. The experimental results showed a high performance of the proposed methods to monitor and manage the dam as well as a high effectiveness of securing the CPS system by detecting and preventing cyber-attacks affecting WSN and cloud servers. The discussion was attended by the Assistant Head of the Department for Administrative Affairs (Prof. Dr. Hazem Ibrahim Ali) and the Assistant Head of the Department for Scientific Affairs and Graduate Studies (Prof. Dr. Muhammad Youssef Hassan). On this occasion, we congratulate the student (Mustafa Yassin Diab) for obtaining the master's degree and we wish him continued success.