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Sensor systems are extremely popular today and vulnerable to sensor data attacks. Due to possible devastating consequences, counteracting sensor data attacks is an extremely important topic, which has not seen sufficient study. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xubin Fang , Rick S. Blum , Ramesh Bharadwaj , Brian M. Sadler

To combat the detrimental effects of the variability in wireless channels, we consider cross-layer rate adaptation based on limited feedback. In particular, based on limited feedback in the form of link-layer acknowledgements (ACK) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2011-11-21 C. Emre Koksal , Philip Schniter

Cyber-physical systems can be subject to sensor attacks, e.g., sensor spoofing, leading to unsafe behaviors. This paper addresses this problem in the context of linear systems when an omniscient attacker can spoof several system sensors at…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Xiao Tan , Pio Ong , Paulo Tabuada , Aaron D. Ames

This work considers the problem of designing an attack strategy on remote state estimation under the condition of strict stealthiness and $\epsilon$-stealthiness of the attack. An attacker is assumed to be able to launch a linear attack to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-09 Hanxiao Liu , Yuqing Ni , Lihua Xie , Karl Henrik Johansson

The electrical power network is a critical infrastructure in today's society, so its safe and reliable operation is of major concern. State estimators are commonly used in power networks, for example, to detect faulty equipment and to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2010-11-09 André Teixeira , György Dán , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson

The increase in network connectivity has also resulted in several high-profile attacks on cyber-physical systems. An attacker that manages to access a local network could remotely affect control performance by tampering with sensor…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2018-01-15 Ilija Jovanov , Miroslav Pajic

In this paper, secure, remote estimation of a linear Gaussian process via observations at multiple sensors is considered. Such a framework is relevant to many cyber-physical systems and internet-of-things applications. Sensors make…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-08-01 Arpan Chattopadhyay , Urbashi Mitra

An unobservable false data injection (FDI) attack on AC state estimation (SE) is introduced and its consequences on the physical system are studied. With a focus on understanding the physical consequences of FDI attacks, a bi-level…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jingwen Liang , Lalitha Sankar , Oliver Kosut

We propose a technique to assess the vulnerability of the power system state estimator. We aim at identifying measurements that have a high potential of being the target of false data injection attacks. From an adversary's point of view,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-07-01 Gonzalo E. Constante-Flores , Antonio J. Conejo , Jiankang Wang

For geographically separated cyber-physical systems, state estimation at a remote monitoring or control site is important to ensure stability and reliability of the system. Often for safety or commercial reasons it is necessary to ensure…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-19 Justin M. Kennedy , Jason J. Ford , Daniel E. Quevedo

In smart grid, malicious customers may compromise their smart meters (SMs) to report false readings to achieve financial gains illegally. Reporting false readings not only causes hefty financial losses to the utility but may also degrade…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-04 Mahmoud M. Badr , Mohamed I. Ibrahem , Mohamed Mahmoud , Mostafa M. Fouda , Waleed Alasmary

In a sensor network, some sensors usually provide the same or equivalent measurement information, which is not taken into account by the existing secure state estimation methods against sparse sensor attacks such that the computational…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-09 Liwei An , Guang-Hong Yang

With the ever-increasing reliance on data for data-driven applications in power grids, such as event cause analysis, the authenticity of data streams has become crucially important. The data can be prone to adversarial stealthy attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Iman Niazazari , Hanif Livani

Secrecy encoding for remote state estimation in the presence of adversarial eavesdroppers is a well studied problem. Typical existing secrecy encoding schemes rely on the transmitter's knowledge of the remote estimator's current…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-16 Justin M. Kennedy , Jason J. Ford , Daniel E. Quevedo , Falko Dressler

We consider a sensor scheduling and remote estimation problem with one sensor and one estimator. At each time step, the sensor makes an observation on the state of a source, and then decides whether to transmit its observation to the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-02 Xiaobin Gao , Emrah Akyol , Tamer Basar

In this paper, we investigate the impact of denial-of-service attacks on the status updating of a cyber-physical system with one or more sensors connected to a remote monitor via unreliable channels. We approach the problem from the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Saad Kriouile , Mohamad Assaad , Amira Alloum , Touraj Soleymani

This paper studies attack-resilient estimation of a class of switched nonlinear systems subject to stochastic noises. The systems are threatened by both of signal attacks and switching attacks. The problem is formulated as the joint…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Hunmin Kim , Pinyao Guo , Minghui Zhu , Peng Liu

This paper considers a sequential sensor scheduling and remote estimation problem with one sensor and one estimator. The sensor makes sequential observations about the state of an underlying memoryless stochastic process and makes a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-10-19 Xiaobin Gao , Emrah Akyol , Tamer Basar

This paper focuses on securely estimating the state of a nonlinear dynamical system from a set of corrupted measurements. In particular, we consider two broad classes of nonlinear systems, and propose a technique which enables us to perform…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-03-23 Qie Hu , Dariush Fooladivanda , Young Hwan Chang , Claire J. Tomlin

Meter measurements in the power grid are susceptible to manipulation by adversaries, that can lead to errors in state estimation. This paper presents a general framework to study attacks on state estimation by adversaries capable of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Deepjyoti Deka , Ross Baldick , Sriram Vishwanath