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In this article, we establish a comprehensive theoretical framework for remote estimation in a networked system composed of a source that is observed by a sensor, a remote monitor that needs to estimate the state of the source in real time,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Touraj Soleymani , Mohamad Assaad , John S. Baras

This article investigates the security issue caused by false data injection attacks in distributed estimation, wherein each sensor can construct two types of residues based on local estimates and neighbor information, respectively. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Jiahao Huang , Marios M. Polycarpou , Wen Yang , Fangfei Li , Yang Tang

We propose a method to attack controllers that rely on external timeseries forecasts as task parameters. An adversary can manipulate the costs, states, and actions of the controllers by forging the timeseries, in this case perturbing the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-15 Po-han Li , Ufuk Topcu , Sandeep P. Chinchali

We consider the probabilistic planning problem for a defender (P1) who can jointly query the sensors and take control actions to reach a set of goal states while being aware of possible sensor attacks by an adversary (P2) who has perfect…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-12-01 Sumukha Udupa , Abhishek N. Kulkarni , Shuo Han , Nandi O. Leslie , Charles A. Kamhoua , Jie Fu

We consider a sensor network focused on target localization, where sensors measure the signal strength emitted from the target. Each measurement is quantized to one bit and sent to the fusion center. A general attack is considered at some…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-04-04 Jiangfan Zhang , Xiaodong Wang , Rick S. Blum , Lance M. Kaplan

Consider a remote estimation problem where a sensor wants to communicate the state of an uncertain source to a remote estimator over a finite time horizon. The uncertain source is modeled as an autoregressive process with bounded noise.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-02-12 Mukul Gagrani , Yi Ouyang , Mohammad Rasouli , Ashutosh Nayyar

Approximate Computing (AC) has emerged as a promising technique for achieving energy-efficient architectures and is expected to become an effective technique for reducing the electricity cost for cloud service providers (CSP). However, the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Ye Wang , Jian Dong , Ming Han , Jin Wu , Gang Qu

Consider a stochastic process being controlled across a communication channel. The control signal that is transmitted across the control channel can be replaced by a malicious attacker. The controller is allowed to implement any arbitrary…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Cheng-Zong Bai , Fabio Pasqualetti , Vijay Gupta

We consider a scenario in which a DoS attacker with the limited power resource jams a wireless network through which the packet from a sensor is sent to a remote estimator to estimate the system state. To degrade the estimation quality with…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Jiahu Qin , Menglin Li , Ling Shi , Yu Kang

In this paper, quickest detection of false data injection attack on remote state estimation is considered. A set of $N$ sensors make noisy linear observations of a discrete-time linear process with Gaussian noise, and report the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-19 Akanshu Gupta , Abhinava Sikdar , Arpan Chattopadhyay

We consider the problem of resilient state estimation in the presence of integrity attacks. There are m sensors monitoring the state and p of them are under attack. The sensory data collected by the compromised sensors can be manipulated…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Duo Han , Yilin Mo , Lihua Xie

The operation of critical infrastructures such as the electrical power grid, cellphone towers, and financial institutions relies on precise timing provided by stationary GPS receivers. These GPS devices are vulnerable to a type of spoofing…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Junhwan Lee , Ahmad F. Taha , Nikolaos Gatsis , David Akopian

A subset of Human Activity Classification (HAC) systems are based on AI algorithms that use passively collected wireless signals. This paper presents the micro-Doppler attack targeting HAC from wireless orthogonal frequency division…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Margarita Loupa , Antonios Argyriou , Yanwei Liu

This paper considers a method of coding the sensor outputs in order to detect stealthy false data injection attacks. An intelligent attacker can design a sequence of data injection to sensors and actuators that pass the state estimator and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Fei Miao , Quanyan Zhu , Miroslav Pajic , George J. Pappas

Automatic modulation classification (AMC) aims to improve the efficiency of crowded radio spectrums by automatically predicting the modulation constellation of wireless RF signals. Recent work has demonstrated the ability of deep learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Rajeev Sahay , Christopher G. Brinton , David J. Love

The vulnerability of false data injection attacks on real-time electricity pricing for the power grid market has been recently explored. Previous work has focused on the impact caused by attackers that compromise pricing signals and send…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Jairo Giraldo , Alvaro Cárdenas , Nicanor Quijano

The development of algorithms for secure state estimation in vulnerable cyber-physical systems has been gaining attention in the last years. A consolidated assumption is that an adversary can tamper a relatively small number of sensors. In…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Vito Cerone , Sophie M. Fosson , Diego Regruto , Francesco Ripa

Influence estimation tools -- such as memorization scores -- are widely used to understand model behavior, attribute training data, and inform dataset curation. However, recent applications in data valuation and responsible machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tue Do , Varun Chandrasekaran , Daniel Alabi

Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) is a widely used driver assistance technology for maintaining the desired speed and safe distance to the leading vehicle. This paper evaluates the security of the deep neural network (DNN) based ACC systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Xugui Zhou , Anqi Chen , Maxfield Kouzel , Haotian Ren , Morgan McCarty , Cristina Nita-Rotaru , Homa Alemzadeh

Providing situational awareness in light of severe coordinated cyber-attacks on power grids, where many measurements may be untrusted, is necessary for reliable monitoring and resilient operation of the grid. In this scenario, the set of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-13 Ana Jevtić , Marija Ilić