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State estimation is routinely being performed in high-voltage power transmission grids in order to assist in operation and to detect faulty equipment. In low- and medium-voltage power distribution grids, on the other hand, few real-time…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-04-15 Henrik Sandberg , György Dán , Ragnar Thobaben

Wireless networks are a key component of the telecommunications infrastructure in our society, and wireless services become increasingly important as the applications of wireless devices have penetrated every aspect of our lives. Although…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-01-05 Hossein Pirayesh , Huacheng Zeng

This paper proposes a secure state estimation scheme with non-periodic asynchronous measurements for linear continuous-time systems under false data attacks on the measurement transmit channel. After sampling the output of the system, a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-31 Zishuo Li , Anh Tung Nguyen , André Teixeira , Yilin Mo , Karl H. Johansson

State-of-the-art solutions detect jamming attacks ex-post, i.e., only when jamming has already disrupted the wireless communication link. In many scenarios, e.g., mobile networks or static deployments distributed over a large geographical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Martijn Hanegraaf , Savio Sciancalepore , Gabriele Oligeri

With the increasing computational demands of deep neural network (DNN) inference on resource-constrained devices, DNN partitioning-based device-edge collaborative inference has emerged as a promising paradigm. However, the transmission of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Mengru Wu , Jiawei Li , Jiaqi Wei , Bin Lyu , Kai-Kit Wong , Hyundong Shin

Many operations in power grids, such as fault detection and event location estimation, depend on precise timing information. In this paper, a novel time stamp attack (TSA) is proposed to attack the timing information in smart grid. Since…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-01-13 Shuping Gong , Zhenghao Zhang , Husheng Li , Aleksandar D. Dimitrovski

The use of energy harvesting as a counter-jamming measure is investigated on the premise that part of the harmful interference can be harvested to increase the transmit power. We formulate the strategic interaction between a pair of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-14 Gada Rezgui , E. Veronica Belmega , Arsenia Chorti

In the framework of 5G-and-beyond Industry 4.0, jamming attacks for denial of service are a rising threat which can severely compromise the system performance. Therefore, in this paper we deal with the problem of jamming detection and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-04 Leonardo Chiarello , Paolo Baracca , Karthik Upadhya , Saeed R. Khosravirad , Silvio Mandelli , Thorsten Wild

In this paper, we investigate the problem of jamming detection and channel estimation during multi-user uplink beam training under random pilot jamming attacks in beamspace massive multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) systems. For jamming…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-21 Pengguang Du , Cheng Zhang , Yindi Jing , Chao Fang , Zhilei Zhang , Yongming Huang

Recent research has shown that the security of power grids can be seriously threatened by botnet-type cyber attacks that target a large number of high-wattage smart electrical appliances owned by end-users. Accurate detection and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Hamidreza Jahangir , Subhash Lakshminarayana , Carsten Maple

Future power networks will be characterized by safe and reliable functionality against physical malfunctions and cyber attacks. This paper proposes a unified framework and advanced monitoring procedures to detect and identify network…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-03-16 Fabio Pasqualetti , Florian Dörfler , Francesco Bullo

The inherent vulnerability of wireless communication necessitates strategies to enhance its security, particularly in the face of jamming attacks. This paper uses the collaborations of multiple sensing nodes (SNs) in the wireless network to…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Amir Mehrabian , Georges Kaddoum

Physical security of power networks under power injection attacks that alter generation and loads is studied. The system operator employs Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) for detecting such attacks, while attackers devise attacks that are…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Yue Zhao , Andrea Goldsmith , H. Vincent Poor

The electric grid is an attractive target for cyberattackers given its critical nature in society. With the increasing sophistication of cyberattacks, effective grid defense will benefit from proactively identifying vulnerabilities and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-14 Amr S. Mohamed , Deepa Kundur

Security issue of distributed state estimation (DSE) is an important prospect for the rapidly growing smart grid ecosystem. Any coordinated cyberattack targeting the distributed system of state estimators can cause unrestrained estimation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Haftu Tasew Reda , Abdun Mahmood , Adnan Anwar , Naveen Chilamkurti

In recent years, Information Security has become a notable issue in the energy sector. After the invention of The Stuxnet worm in 2010, data integrity, privacy and confidentiality has received significant importance in the real-time…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2014-11-12 A. Anwar , A. N. Mahmood

Most of the current anti-jamming algorithms for wireless communications only consider how to avoid jamming attacks, but ignore that the communication waveform or frequency action may be obtained by the jammers. Although existing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Yifan Wang , Xin Liu , Mei Wang , Yu Yu

The paper considers a problem of detecting and mitigating biasing attacks on networks of state observers targeting cooperative state estimation algorithms. The problem is cast within the recently developed framework of distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Mohammad Deghat , Valery Ugrinovskii , Iman Shames , Cedric Langbort

In wireless security, cognitive adversaries are known to inject jamming energy on the victim's frequency band and monitor the same band for countermeasures thereby trapping the victim. Under the class of cognitive adversaries, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Soumita Hazra , J. Harshan

The growing complexity of modern Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and the frequent communication between their components make them vulnerable to malicious attacks. As a result, secure state estimation is a critical requirement for the control…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-10-09 Xusheng Luo , Miroslav Pajic , Michael M. Zavlanos