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We propose an approach to design a Model Predictive Controller (MPC) for constrained Linear Time Invariant systems performing an iterative task. The system is subject to an additive disturbance, and the goal is to learn to satisfy state and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-13 Monimoy Bujarbaruah , Akhil Shetty , Kameshwar Poolla , Francesco Borrelli

Control-flow hijacking attacks are used to perform malicious com-putations. Current solutions for assessing the attack surface afteracontrol flow integrity(CFI) policy was applied can measure onlyindirect transfer averages in the best case…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-04 Paul Muntean , Matthias Neumayer , Zhiqiang Lin , Gang Tan , Jens Grossklags , Claudia Eckert

This work's main goal is to understand if Information Flow Control (IFC), a security technique used for discovering leaks in software, could be used to indicate the presence of dynamic semantic conflicts between developers contributions in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Roberto Souto Maior de Barros Filho , Paulo Borba

The rise of serverless computing provides an opportunity to rethink cloud security. We present an approach for securing serverless systems using a novel form of dynamic information flow control (IFC). We show that in serverless…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2018-02-27 Kalev Alpernas , Cormac Flanagan , Sadjad Fouladi , Leonid Ryzhyk , Mooly Sagiv , Thomas Schmitz , Keith Winstein

In today's data-driven world, the proliferation of publicly available information raises security concerns due to the information leakage (IL) problem. IL involves unintentionally exposing sensitive information to unauthorized parties via…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-06-02 Pritha Gupta , Marcel Wever , Eyke Hüllermeier

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) and Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices are increasingly being deployed across multiple functionalities, ranging from healthcare devices and wearables to critical infrastructures, e.g., nuclear power plants,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Tanujay Saha , Najwa Aaraj , Neel Ajjarapu , Niraj K. Jha

The goal of an Intrusion Detection is inadequate to detect errors and unusual activity on a network or on the hosts belonging to a local network by monitoring network activity. Algorithms for building detection models are broadly classified…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-10-28 M. Sadiq Ali Khan

Identifying the origin of nonequilibrium characteristics in a generic interacting system having multiple degrees of freedom is a challenging task. In this context, information theoretic measures such as mutual information and related…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-24 Biswajit Das , Sreekanth K Manikandan , Ayan Banerjee

Stealthy false data injection attacks on cyber-physical systems (CPSs) introduce erroneous measurement information to on-board sensors with the purpose to degrade system performance. An intelligent attacker is able to leverage knowledge of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-06 Paul J Bonczek , Nicola Bezzo

With the exponential growth of cyber-physical systems (CPS), new security challenges have emerged. Various vulnerabilities, threats, attacks, and controls have been introduced for the new generation of CPS. However, there lack a systematic…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Abdulmalik Humayed , Jingqiang Lin , Fengjun Li , Bo Luo

Modern Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are often designed as networked, software-based controller implementations which have been found to be vulnerable to network-level and physical level attacks. A number of research works have proposed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-05 Ipsita Koley , Sunandan Adhikary , Soumyajit Dey

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

As modern hardware designs grow in complexity and size, ensuring security across the confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA) triad becomes increasingly challenging. Information flow tracking (IFT) is a widely-used approach to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Nowfel Mashnoor , Mohammad Akyash , Hadi Kamali , Kimia Azar

Kullback-Leibler (KL) control enables efficient numerical methods for nonlinear optimal control problems. The crucial assumption of KL control is the full controllability of the transition distribution. However, this assumption is often…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Kaito Ito , Kenji Kashima

System security assurance provides the confidence that security features, practices, procedures, and architecture of software systems mediate and enforce the security policy and are resilient against security failure and attacks. Alongside…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Ankur Shukla , Basel Katt , Livinus Obiora Nweke , Prosper Kandabongee Yeng , Goitom Kahsay Weldehawaryat

Ensuring that information flowing through a network is secure from manipulation and eavesdropping by unauthorized parties is an important task for network administrators. Many cyber attacks rely on a lack of network-level information flow…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-22 Stefan Achleitner , Quinn Burke , Patrick McDaniel , Trent Jaeger , Thomas La Porta , Srikanth Krishnamurthy

We introduce a new perspective into the field of quantitative information flow (QIF) analysis that invites the community to bound the leakage, reported by QIF quantifiers, by a range consistent with the size of a program's secret input…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-06-06 Sari Haj Hussein

Debugging Cyber-Physical System (CPS) models can be extremely complex. Indeed, only the detection of a failure is insuffcient to know how to correct a faulty model. Faults can propagate in time and in space producing observable…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Ezio Bartocci , Niveditha Manjunath , Leonardo Mariani , Cristinel Mateis , Dejan Ničković

Neural network controllers trained via behavior cloning are increasingly deployed in cyber-physical systems (CPS), yet practitioners lack tools to trace controller failures back to training data. Existing data attribution methods assume…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Jiachen Li , Shihao Li , Soovadeep Bakshi , Jiamin Xu , Dongmei Chen

Cybersecurity of industrial control system is a very complex and challenging research topic, due to the integration of these systems in national critical infrastructures. The control systems are now interconnected in industrial networks and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Emil Pricop , Sanda Florentina Mihalache