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Clock synchronization has become essential to modern societies since many critical infrastructures depend on a precise notion of time. This paper analyzes security aspects of high-precision clock synchronization protocols, particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Robert Annessi , Joachim Fabini , Felix Iglesias , Tanja Zseby

We demonstrate an attack on a clock synchronization protocol that attempts to detect tampering of the synchronization channel using polarization-entangled photon pairs. The protocol relies on a symmetrical channel, where propagation delays…

Despite the critical role of timing infrastructure in enabling essential services, from public key infrastructure and smart grids to autonomous navigation and high-frequency trading, modern timing stacks remain highly vulnerable to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Adeel Nasrullah , Fatima M. Anwar

Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is a promising industrial Internet of Things technology. Clock synchronization provides unified time reference, which is critical to the deterministic communication of TSN. However, changes in internal…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-05 Yafei Sun , Qimin Xu , Cailian Chen , Xinping Guan

High-precision time synchronization is a vital prerequisite for many modern applications and technologies, including Smart Grids, Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN), and 5G networks. Although the Precision Time Protocol (PTP) can accomplish…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Andreas Finkenzeller , Oliver Butowski , Emanuel Regnath , Mohammad Hamad , Sebastian Steinhorst

Secure precision time synchronization is important for applications of Cyber-Physical Systems. However, several attacks, especially the Time Delay Attack (TDA), deteriorates the performance of time synchronization system seriously. Multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yang Li , Yujie Luo , Yichen Zhang , Ao Sun , Wei Huang , Shuai Zhang , Tao Zhang , Chuang Zhou , Li Ma , Jie Yang , Mei Wu , Heng Wang , Yan Pan , Yun Shao , Xing Chen , Ziyang Chen , Song Yu , Hong Guo , Bingjie Xu

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

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

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, have gained popularity in various fields such as agriculture, emergency response, and search and rescue operations. UAV networks are susceptible to several security threats, such as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Keiwan Soltani , Federico Corò , Punyasha Chatterjee , Sajal K. Das

In this paper, we focus on the localization of a passive source from time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements. TDOA values are computed with respect to pairs of fixed sensors that are required to be accurately time-synchronized. This…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-16 Marguerite Delcourt , Jean-Yves Le Boudec

Two-way fiber-optic time transfer is a promising precise time synchronization technique with sub-nanosecond accuracy. However, asymmetric delay attack is a serious threat which cannot be prevent by any encryption method. In this paper, a…

Side-channel attacks are efficient attacks against cryptographic devices. They use only quantities observable from outside, such as the duration and the power consumption. Attacks against synchronous devices using electric observations are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-09-24 Philippe Hoogvorst , Sylvain Guilley , Sumanta Chaudhuri , Jean-Luc Danger , Taha Beyrouthy , Laurent Fesquet

We consider time synchronization attack against multi-system scheduling in a remote state estimation scenario where a number of sensors monitor different linear dynamical processes and schedule their transmissions through a shared collision…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-05-06 Ziyang Guo , Yuqing Ni , Wing Shing Wong , Ling Shi

High-precision clock synchronization is essential for a wide range of network-distributed applications. In the quantum space, these applications include communication, sensing, and positioning. However, current synchronization techniques…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Ravi Singh Adhikari , Aman Gupta , Anju Rani , Xiaoyu Ai , Robert Malaney

Existing asynchronous distributed optimization algorithms often use diminishing step-sizes that cause slow practical convergence, or fixed step-sizes that depend on an assumed upper bound of delays. Not only is such a delay bound hard to…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-24 Xuyang Wu , Changxin Liu , Sindri Magnusson , Mikael Johansson

The article is focused on research of an attack on the quantum key distribution system and proposes a countermeasure method. Particularly noteworthy is that this is not a classic attack on a quantum protocol. We describe an attack on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-04-29 Anton Pljonkin , Dmitry Petrov , Lilia Sabantina , Kamila Dakhkilgova

Many operations in power grids, such as fault detection and event location estimation, depend on precise timing information. In this paper, a novel time stamp attack (TSA) is proposed to attack the timing information in smart grid. Since…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-01-13 Shuping Gong , Zhenghao Zhang , Husheng Li , Aleksandar D. Dimitrovski

Timing information leakage occurs whenever an attacker successfully deduces confidential internal information by observing some timed information such as events with timestamps. Timed automata are an extension of finite-state automata with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Étienne André , Engel Lefaucheux , Didier Lime , Dylan Marinho , Jun Sun

Deep learning has achieved remarkable success in direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation. However, recent studies have shown that adversarial perturbations can severely compromise the performance of such models. To address this vulnerability,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-12 Shilian Zheng , Xiaoxiang Wu , Luxin Zhang , Keqiang Yue , Peihan Qi , Zhijin Zhao

We have introduced a mechanism for synchronizing chaotic systems by one way coupling with a variable delay that is reset at finite intervals. Here we extend this method to time delay systems and suggest a new cryptosystem based on this. We…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2010-07-02 G. Ambika , R. E. Amritkar
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