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In Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs), two groups of actors interact toward the maximization of system performance: the sensors, observing and disseminating the system state, and the actuators, performing physical decisions based on the received…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-23 Pietro Talli , Federico Mason , Federico Chiariotti , Andrea Zanella

Cyberphysical systems (CPSs) integrate controllers, sensors, actuators, and communication networks. Tight integration with communication networks makes CPSs vulnerable to cyberattacks. In this paper, we investigate the impact of denial of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-06 Soheila Barchinezhad , Vicenç Puig

We introduce deceptive signaling framework as a new defense measure against advanced adversaries in cyber-physical systems. In general, adversaries look for system-related information, e.g., the underlying state of the system, in order to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Muhammed O. Sayin , Tamer Basar

Critical real-world applications strongly rely on Cyber-physical systems (CPS), but their dependence on communication networks introduces significant security risks, as attackers can exploit vulnerabilities to compromise their integrity and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Samuel Oliveira , Mostafa Tavakkoli Anbarani , Gregory Beal , Ilya Kovalenko , Marcelo Teixeira , André B. Leal , Rômulo Meira-Góes

This paper is concerned with the detection, resilient and fault-tolerant control issues for cyber-physical systems. To this end, the impairment of system dynamics caused by the defined types of cyber-attacks and process faults is analyzed.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-23 Linlin Li , Steven X. Ding , Liutao Zhou , Maiying Zhong , Kaixiang Peng

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are increasingly complex and frequently integrated into modern societies via critical infrastructure systems, products, and services. Consequently, there is a need for reliable functionality of these complex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-30 Babak Aslani , Shima Mohebbi , Edward J. Oughton

The vast majority of today's critical infrastructure is supported by numerous feedback control loops and an attack on these control loops can have disastrous consequences. This is a major concern since modern control systems are becoming…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-12-23 Hamza Fawzi , Paulo Tabuada , Suhas Diggavi

The security of cyber-physical systems is first and foremost a safety problem, yet it is typically handled as a traditional security problem, which means that solutions are based on defending against threats and are often implemented too…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Bryan Carter , Georgios Bakirtzis , Carl Elks , Cody Fleming

We consider the problem of how to deploy a controller to a (networked) cyber-physical system (CPS). Controlling a CPS is an involved task, and synthesizing a controller to respect sensing, actuation, and communication constraints is only…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-30 Shih-Hao Tseng , James Anderson

Software rejuvenation has been proposed as a strategy to protect cyber-physical systems (CSPs) against unanticipated and undetectable cyber attacks. The basic idea is to refresh the system periodically with a secure and trusted copy of the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Raffaele Romagnoli , Bruce H. Krogh , Bruno Sinopoli

Real-time cyber-physical systems depend on deterministic task execution to guarantee safety and correctness. Unfortunately, this determinism can unintentionally expose timing information that enables adversaries to infer task execution…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-04 Arkaprava Sain , Sunandan Adhikary , Soumyajit Dey

The importance of Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) applications is constantly increasing, especially in the context of Industry 4.0. Architectural decisions are crucial not just for performance, security and…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Patrizia Sailer , Igor Ivkic , Markus Tauber , Andreas Mauthe , Antonios Gouglidis

In the last decades, Cyber-physical Systems (CPSs) have experienced a significant technological evolution and increased connectivity, at the cost of greater exposure to cyber-attacks. Since many CPS are used in safety-critical systems, such…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Stefano Longari , Alessandro Pozone , Jessica Leoni , Mario Polino , Michele Carminati , Mara Tanelli , Stefano Zanero

Herein, design of false data injection attack on a distributed cyber-physical system is considered. A stochastic process with linear dynamics and Gaussian noise is measured by multiple agent nodes, each equipped with multiple sensors. The…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-06 Moulik Choraria , Arpan Chattopadhyay , Urbashi Mitra , Erik Strom

The aim of this study is to present an overview of current research on modelling, evaluation, and optimization methods for improving the reliability of Cyber-Physical System (CPS). Three major modelling approaches, namely analytical,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-17 Moslem Uddin , Huadong Mo , Daoyi Dong

This paper considers optimal attack attention allocation on remote state estimation in multi-systems. Suppose there are $\mathtt{M}$ independent systems, each of which has a remote sensor monitoring the system and sending its local…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Xiaoqiang Ren , Junfeng Wu , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

We consider the joint design of control and scheduling under stochastic Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks in the context of networked control systems. A sensor takes measurements of the system output and forwards its dynamic state estimates…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-12 Jingyi Lu , Daniel E. Quevedo

This paper studies the physical consequences of a class of unobservable state-and-topology cyber-physical attacks in which both state and topology data for a sub-network of the network are changed by an attacker to mask a physical attack.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Jiazi Zhang , Lalitha Sankar

For a class of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs), we address the problem of performing computations over the cloud without revealing private information about the structure and operation of the system. We model CPSs as a collection of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-15 Carlos Murguia , Paulo Tabuada

Although adverse effects of attacks have been acknowledged in many cyber-physical systems, there is no system-theoretic comprehension of how a compromised agent can leverage communication capabilities to maximize the damage in distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-10-12 Rohollah Moghadam , Hamidreza Modares