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The wireless ad hoc networks are highly vulnerable to distributed denial of service(DDoS) attacks because of its unique characteristics such as open network architecture, shared wireless medium and stringent resource constraints. These…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-06-08 S. A. Arunmozhi , Y. Venkataramani

This paper is concerned with the analysis and design of secure Distributed Control Systems in the face of integrity attacks on sensors and controllers by external attackers or insiders. In general a DCS consists of many heterogenous…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-10-19 Sean Weerakkody , Xiaofei Liu , Sang H. Son , Bruno Sinopoli

Detection of malicious activities in corporate environments is a very complex task and much effort has been invested into research of its automation. However, vast majority of existing methods operate only in a narrow scope which limits…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Jan Kohout , Čeněk Škarda , Kyrylo Shcherbin , Martin Kopp , Jan Brabec

Opacity and attack detectability are important properties for any system as they allow the states to remain private and malicious attacks to be detected, respectively. In this paper, we show that a fundamental trade-off exists between these…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-14 Varkey M. John , Vaibhav Katewa

Cyber deception has recently received increasing attentions as a promising mechanism for proactive cyber defense. Cyber deception strategies aim at injecting intentionally falsified information to sabotage the early stage of attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-30 Zhuo Lu , Cliff Wang , Shangqing Zhao

Communication topology is a critical factor in the utility and safety of LLM-based multi-agent systems (LLM-MAS), making it a high-value intellectual property (IP) whose confidentiality remains insufficiently studied. Existing topology…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Zixun Xiong , Gaoyi Wu , Lingfeng Yao , Miao Pan , Xiaojiang Du , Hao Wang

While the increasing penetration of information and communication technology into distribution grid brings numerous benefits, it also opens up a new threat landscape, particularly through cyberattacks. To provide a basis for countermeasures…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Ömer Sen , Florian Schmidtke , Federico Carere , Francesca Santori , Andreas Ulbig , Antonello Monti

This paper is devoted to measuring the security of cyber networks under advanced persistent threats (APTs). First, an APT-based cyber attack-defense process is modeled as an individual-level dynamical system. Second, the dynamic model is…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-07-13 Lu-Xing Yang , Pengdeng Li , Xiaofan Yang , Luosheng Wen , Yingbo Wu , Yuan Yan Tang

The sophistication and complexity of cyber attacks and the variety of targeted platforms have been growing in recent years. Various adversaries are abusing an increasing range of platforms, e.g., enterprise platforms, mobile phones, PCs,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Edan Habler , Ron Bitton , Asaf Shabtai

This work proposes a moving target defense (MTD) strategy to detect coordinated cyber-physical attacks (CCPAs) against power grids. The main idea of the proposed approach is to invalidate the knowledge that the attackers use to mask the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Subhash Lakshminarayana , E. Veronica Belmega , H. Vincent Poor

Evaluating security and reliability for multi-agent systems (MAS) is urgent as they become increasingly prevalent in various applications. As an evaluation technique, existing adversarial attack frameworks face certain limitations, e.g.,…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Jianming Chen , Yawen Wang , Junjie Wang , Xiaofei Xie , Yuanzhe Hu , Qing Wang , Fanjiang Xu

Recent advancements in predictive machine learning has led to its application in various use cases in manufacturing. Most research focused on maximising predictive accuracy without addressing the uncertainty associated with it. While…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2021-07-29 Bang Xiang Yong , Alexandra Brintrup

This paper studies an attacker against a cyber-physical system (CPS) whose goal is to move the state of a CPS to a target state while ensuring that his or her probability of being detected does not exceed a given bound. The attacker's…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2017-03-31 Yuan Chen , Soummya Kar , José M. F. Moura

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are interconnected architectures that employ analog, digital, and communication resources for their interaction with the physical environment. CPS are the backbone of enterprise, industrial, and critical…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Ioannis Zografopoulos , Juan Ospina , XiaoRui Liu , Charalambos Konstantinou

Operation of radar equipment is one of the key facilities used by navigators to gather situational awareness about their surroundings. With an ever increasing need for always-running logistics and tighter shipping schedules, operators are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-06 G. Longo , E. Russo , A. Armando , A. Merlo

Innovative solutions to cyber security issues are shaped by the ever-changing landscape of cyber threats. Automating the mitigation of these threats can be achieved through a new methodology that addresses the domain of mitigation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Fizza Khurshid , Umara Noor , Zahid Rashid

In this work we present the first holistic survey of the agentic security landscape, structuring the field around three fundamental pillars: Applications, Threats, and Defenses. We provide a comprehensive taxonomy of over 160 papers,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Asif Shahriar , Md Nafiu Rahman , Sadif Ahmed , Farig Sadeque , Md Rizwan Parvez

Communication is important in many multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) problems for agents to share information and make good decisions. However, when deploying trained communicative agents in a real-world application where noise and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Yanchao Sun , Ruijie Zheng , Parisa Hassanzadeh , Yongyuan Liang , Soheil Feizi , Sumitra Ganesh , Furong Huang

In this paper we present an idea of trusted communication platform for Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) called TrustMAS. Based on analysis of routing protocols suitable for MAS we have designed a new proactive hidden routing. Proposed steg-agents…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-06-04 Krzysztof Szczypiorski , Igor Margasinski , Wojciech Mazurczyk

In this paper, we consider the resilient multi-dimensional consensus and distributed optimization problems of multi-agent systems (MASs) in the presence of both agent-based and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The considered agent-based…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-19 Hongjian Chen , Changyun Wen , Xiaolei Li