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In this paper, we present a framework based on differential privacy (DP) for querying electric power measurements to detect system anomalies or bad data. Our DP approach conceals consumption and system matrix data, while simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Nikhil Ravi , Anna Scaglione , Sean Peisert , Parth Pradhan

This paper reveals the potential of movable antennas in enhancing anti-jamming communication. We consider a legitimate communication link in the presence of multiple jammers and propose deploying a movable antenna array at the receiver to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Xiao Tang , Yudan Jiang , Jinxin Liu , Qinghe Du , Dusit Niyato , Zhu Han

Optical networks are prone to physical layer attacks, in particular the insertion of high jamming power. In this paper, we present a study of jamming attacks in elastic optical networks (EON) by embedding the jamming into the physical layer…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Mounir Bensalem , Ítalo Brasileiro , André Drummond , Admela Jukan

The smart grid is envisioned to significantly enhance the efficiency of energy consumption, by utilizing two-way communication channels between consumers and operators. For example, operators can opportunistically leverage the delay…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-18 Yara Abdallah , Zizhan Zheng , Ness B. Shroff , Hesham El Gamal , Tarek M. El-Fouly

Modern urban railways extensively use computerized sensing and control technologies to achieve safe, reliable, and well-timed operations. However, the use of these technologies may provide a convenient leverage to cyber-attackers who have…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-09-25 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Teo Zhan Teng , Rui Tan , David K. Y. Yau

Phasor measurement units (PMUs) provide accurate and high-fidelity measurements in order to monitor the state of the power grid and support various control and planning tasks. However, PMUs have a high installation cost prohibiting their…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-18 Saptarshi Ghosh , Murali Sankar Venkatraman , Shehab Ahmed , Charalambos Konstantinou

Wireless communication systems, such as wireless sensor networks and RFIDs, are increasingly adopted to transfer potential highly sensitive information. Since the wireless medium has a sharing nature, adversaries have a chance to eavesdrop…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-10-27 Jialin Wan , Siyao Cheng , Shanshan Han , Jianzhong Li

Multi-antenna (or MIMO) processing is a promising solution to the problem of jammer mitigation. Existing methods mitigate the jammer based on an estimate of its spatial signature that is acquired through a dedicated training phase. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-03 Gian Marti , Christoph Studer

Smart metering networks are increasingly susceptible to cyber threats, where false data injection (FDI) appears as a critical attack. Data-driven-based machine learning (ML) methods have shown immense benefits in detecting FDI attacks via…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-07 Md Raihan Uddin , Ratun Rahman , Dinh C. Nguyen

In modern smart grids, the proliferation of communication-enabled distributed energy resource (DER) systems has increased the surface of possible cyber-physical attacks. Attacks originating from the distributed edge devices of DER system,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Suman Sourav , Partha P. Biswas , Binbin Chen , Daisuke Mashima

Modern smart home control systems utilize real-time occupancy and activity monitoring to ensure control efficiency, occupants' comfort, and optimal energy consumption. Moreover, adopting machine learning-based anomaly detection models…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Nur Imtiazul Haque , Maurice Ngouen , Mohammad Ashiqur Rahman , Selcuk Uluagac , Laurent Njilla

Conventional anti-jamming method mostly rely on frequency hopping to hide or escape from jammer. These approaches are not efficient in terms of bandwidth usage and can also result in a high probability of jamming. Different from existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Ali Pourranjbar , Georges Kaddoum , Aidin Ferdowsi , Walid Saad

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

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-04-03 Zhenghao Zhang , Shuping Gong , Aleksandar D. Dimitrovski , Husheng Li

This paper proposes to use Intelligent Reflecting Surface (IRS) as a green jammer to attack a legitimate communication without using any internal energy to generate jamming signals. In particular, the IRS is used to intelligently reflect…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-06-01 Bin Lyu , Dinh Thai Hoang , Shimin Gong , Dusit Niyato , Dong In Kim

Fast and accurate detection of cyberattacks is a key element for a cyber-resilient power system. Recently, data-driven detectors and physics-based Moving Target Defences (MTD) have been proposed to detect false data injection (FDI) attacks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-22 Wangkun Xu , Martin Higgins , Jianhong Wang , Imad M. Jaimoukha , Fei Teng

The evolution of the traditional power system towards the modern smart grid has posed many new cybersecurity challenges to this critical infrastructure. One of the most dangerous cybersecurity threats is the False Data Injection (FDI)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-03-12 Nam N. Tran , Hemanshu R. Pota , Quang N. Tran , Xuefei Yin , Jiankun Hu

In the wake of increasing numbers of attacks on radio communication systems, a range of techniques are being deployed to increase the security of these systems. One such technique is radio fingerprinting, in which the transmitter can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Joshua Smailes , Edd Salkield , Sebastian Köhler , Simon Birnbach , Martin Strohmeier , Ivan Martinovic

Joint Communication and Sensing (JCAS) is taking its first shape in WLAN sensing under IEEE 802.11bf, where standardized WLAN signals and protocols are exploited to enable radar-like sensing. However, an overlooked problem in JCAS, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-03 Hasan Can Yildirim , Musa Furkan Keskin , Henk Wymeersch , François Horlin

This paper considers the problem of optimal estimation for linear system with the measurement vector subject to arbitrary corruption by an adversarial agent. This problem is relevant to cyber-physical systems where, due to the tight…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-08-09 Olugbenga Moses Anubi , Charalambos Konstantinou , Rodney Roberts

In this paper, we consider the problem of state estimation through observations possibly corrupted with both bad data and additive observation noises. A mixed $\ell_1$ and $\ell_2$ convex programming is used to separate both sparse bad data…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-05-04 Weiyu Xu , Meng Wang , Ao Tang