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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

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 considers the problem of sensory data scheduling of multiple processes. There are $n$ independent linear time-invariant processes and a remote estimator monitoring all the processes. Each process is measured by a sensor, which…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-03-28 Shuang Wu , Xiaoqiang Ren , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

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 novel time synchronization attack (TSA) on wide area monitoring systems in smart grid has been identified in the first part of this paper. A cross layer detection mechanism is proposed to combat TSA in part II of this paper. In the…

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

In this paper a new distributed asynchronous algorithm is proposed for time synchronization in networks with random communication delays, measurement noise and communication dropouts. Three different types of the drift correction algorithm…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Milos S. Stankovic , Srdjan S. Stankovic , Karl Henrik Johansson

Multivariate time series alignment is critical for ensuring coherent analysis across variables, but missing values and timestamp inconsistencies make this task highly challenging. Existing approaches often rely on prior imputation, which…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Ding Jia , Jingyu Zhu , Yu Sun , Aoqian Zhang , Shaoxu Song , Haiwei Zhang , Xiaojie Yuan

We consider the problem of finding optimal time-periodic sensor schedules for estimating the state of discrete-time dynamical systems. We assume that {multiple} sensors have been deployed and that the sensors are subject to resource…

Applications · Statistics 2016-11-17 Sijia Liu , Makan Fardad , Engin Masazade , Pramod K. Varshney

This paper studies the remote state estimation problem of linear time-invariant systems with stochastic event-triggered sensor schedules in the presence of packet drops between the sensor and the estimator. It is shown that the system state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Liang Xu , Yilin Mo , Lihua Xie

In this paper, we propose a fully distributed algorithm for joint clock skew and offset estimation in wireless sensor networks based on belief propagation. In the proposed algorithm, each node can estimate its clock skew and offset in a…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-07-14 Jian Du , Yik-Chung Wu

This paper discusses the problem of estimating the state of a linear time-invariant system when some of its sensors and actuators are compromised by an adversarial agent. In the model considered in this paper, the malicious agent attacks an…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Mehrdad Showkatbakhsh , Yasser Shoukry , Suhas Diggavi , Paulo Tabuada

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

We consider a remote state estimation problem in the presence of an eavesdropper over packet dropping links. A smart sensor transmits its local estimates to a legitimate remote estimator, in the course of which an eavesdropper can randomly…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-10 Jingyi Lu , Alex S. Leong , Daniel E. Quevedo

In large-scale networks, communication links between nodes are easily injected with false data by adversaries. This paper proposes a novel security defense strategy from the perspective of attack detection scheduling to ensure the security…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-19 Yuhan Suo , Senchun Chai , Runqi Chai , Zhong-Hua Pang , Yuanqing Xia , Guo-Ping Liu

Mutual localization stands as a foundational component within various domains of multi-robot systems. Nevertheless, in relative pose estimation, time synchronization is usually underappreciated and rarely addressed, although it…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Xiangyong Wen , Yingjian Wang , Xi Zheng , Kaiwei Wang , Chao Xu , Fei Gao

We consider a class of malicious attacks against remote state estimation. A sensor with limited resources adopts an acknowledgement (ACK)-based online power schedule to improve the remote state estimation performance. A malicious attacker…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yuzhe Li , Daniel E. Quevedo , Subhrakanti Dey , Ling Shi

This work considers the sensor scheduling for multiple dynamic processes. We consider $n$ linear dynamic processes, the state of each process is measured by a sensor, which transmits their local state estimates over wireless channels to a…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Shuang Wu , Kemi Ding , Peng Cheng , Ling Shi

This paper introduces the Time Synchronization Attack Rejection and Mitigation (TSARM) technique for Time Synchronization Attacks (TSAs) over the Global Positioning System (GPS). The technique estimates the clock bias and drift of the GPS…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Ali Khalajmehrabadi , Nikolaos Gatsis , David Akopian , Ahmad F. Taha

In this study, we consider a remote estimation system that estimates a time-varying target based on sensor data transmitted over wireless channel. Due to transmission errors, some data packets fail to reach the receiver. To mitigate this,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-07 Sirin Chakraborty , Yin Sun

In this paper we consider the problem of transmission power allocation for remote estimation of a dynamical system in the case where the estimator is able to simultaneously receive packets from multiple interfering sensors, as it is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-13 Matthias Pezzutto , Luca Schenato , Subhrakanti Dey