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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

We consider the problem of securely and robustly embedding covert messages into an image-based diffusion model's output. The sender and receiver want to exchange the maximum amount of information possible per diffusion sampled image while…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Luke A. Bauer , Wenxuan Bao , Vincent Bindschaedler

This article provides a tool for analyzing mechanisms that aim to achieve resilience against stealthy, or undetectable, attacks on cyber-physical systems (CPSs). We consider attackers who are able to corrupt all of the inputs and outputs of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-03 Paul Griffioen , Bruce H. Krogh , Bruno Sinopoli

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) play an increasingly significant role in many critical applications. These valuable applications attract various sophisticated attacks. This paper considers a stealthy estimation attack, which aims to modify…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-05 Zhiheng Xu , Arvind Easwaran

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) embed software into the physical world. They appear in a wide range of applications such as smart grids, robotics, intelligent manufacture and medical monitoring. CPSs have proved resistant to modeling due to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Ye Yuan , Xiuchuan Tang , Wei Pan , Xiuting Li , Wei Zhou , Hai-Tao Zhang , Han Ding , Jorge Goncalves

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), in most instances, represent systems of systems with an informationally decentralized structure such as emerging mobility systems, networked control systems, sustainable manufacturing, smart power grids, power…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Andreas Malikopoulos

Secrecy in communication systems is measured herein by the distortion that an adversary incurs. The transmitter and receiver share secret key, which they use to encrypt communication and ensure distortion at an adversary. A model is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-04-14 Curt Schieler , Paul Cuff

Cryptographic Protocols (CP) are distributed algorithms intended for secure communication in an insecure environment. They are used, for example, in electronic payments, electronic voting procedures, systems of confidential data processing,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Andrew M. Mironov

With the emergence of low-cost smart and connected IoT devices, the area of cyber-physical security is becoming increasingly important. Past research has demonstrated new threat vectors targeting the transition process between the cyber and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Zhiyuan Yu , Zack Kaplan , Qiben Yan , Ning Zhang

Principles of modern cyber-physical system (CPS) analysis are based on analytical methods that depend on whether safety or liveness requirements are considered. Complexity is abstracted through different techniques, ranging from stochastic…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Eric M. S. P. Veith , Lars Fischer , Martin Tröschel , Astrid Nieße

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

In this paper, we address two main problems in the context of covert cyber-attacks in cyber-physical systems (CPS). First, we aim to investigate and develop necessary and sufficient conditions in terms of disruption resources of the CPS…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-10 Mahdi Taheri , Khashayar Khorasani , Nader Meskin

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) operate in dynamic environments, leading to different types of uncertainty. This work provides a comprehensive review of uncertainty representations and categorizes them based on the dimensions used to represent…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-01 Johannes Mäkelburg , Diego Perez-Palacin , Raffaela Mirandola , Maribel Acosta

Wireless networks have become imperative in all areas of human life. As such, one of the most critical concerns in next-generation networks is ensuring the security and privacy of user data/communication. Cryptography has been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-30 Muhammad Sohaib J. Solaija , Hanadi Salman , Huseyin Arslan

Data sharing enables critical advances in many research areas and business applications, but it may lead to inadvertent disclosure of sensitive summary statistics (e.g., means or quantiles). Existing literature only focuses on protecting a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Shuaiqi Wang , Rongzhe Wei , Mohsen Ghassemi , Eleonora Kreacic , Vamsi K. Potluru

Large language model (LLM)-powered multi-agent systems (MAS) enable agents to communicate and share information, achieving strong performance on complex tasks. However, this communication also creates an attack surface where malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Lingxi Zhang , Guangtao Zheng , Hanjie Chen

In decentralized networks, nodes cannot ensure that their shared information will be securely preserved by their neighbors, making privacy vulnerable to inference by curious nodes. Adding calibrated random noise before communication to…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Yiming Zhou , Kaiping Xue , Enhong Chen

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) consist of distributed engineered environments where the monitoring and surveillance tasks are governed by tightly integrated computing, communication and control technologies. CPS are omnipresent in our…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-11 Michel Barbeau , Georg Carle , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro , Vicenç Torra

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

Machine learning components such as deep neural networks are used extensively in Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS). However, they may introduce new types of hazards that can have disastrous consequences and need to be addressed for engineering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Dimitrios Boursinos , Xenofon Koutsoukos