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The vulnerability of machine learning systems to adversarial attacks questions their usage in many applications. In this paper, we propose a randomized diversification as a defense strategy. We introduce a multi-channel architecture in a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Olga Taran , Shideh Rezaeifar , Taras Holotyak , Slava Voloshynovskiy

A class of data integrity attack, known as false data injection (FDI) attack, has been studied with a considerable amount of work. It has shown that with perfect knowledge of the system model and the capability to manipulate a certain…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2017-08-29 Kaikai Pan , André Teixeira , Milos Cvetkovic , Peter Palensky

In this article, we establish a comprehensive theoretical framework for remote estimation in a networked system composed of a source that is observed by a sensor, a remote monitor that needs to estimate the state of the source in real time,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Touraj Soleymani , Mohamad Assaad , John S. Baras

The problem of communicating sensor measurements over shared networks is prevalent in many modern large-scale distributed systems such as cyber-physical systems, wireless sensor networks, and the internet of things. Due to bandwidth…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Marcos M. Vasconcelos

A common approach to overcome the limited nature of sensor networks is to aggregate data at intermediate nodes. A challenging issue in this context is to guarantee end-to-end security mainly because sensor networks are extremely vulnerable…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Thomas Claveirole , Marcelo Dias de Amorim , Michel Abdalla , Yannis Viniotis

Sensors are embedded in security-critical applications from medical devices to nuclear power plants, but their outputs can be spoofed through electromagnetic and other types of signals transmitted by attackers at a distance. To address the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-11-12 Ilias Giechaskiel , Youqian Zhang , Kasper B. Rasmussen

Quantum metrology and cryptography can be combined in a distributed and/or remote sensing setting, where distant end-users with limited quantum capabilities can employ quantum states, transmitted by a quantum-powerful provider via a quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-06 G. Bizzarri , M. Barbieri , M. Manrique , M. Parisi , F. Bruni , I. Gianani , M. Rosati

Network coding is an elegant technique where, instead of simply relaying the packets of information they receive, the nodes of a network are allowed to combine \emph{several} packets together for transmission and this technique can be used…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-03-12 Jen-Yeu Chen , Yi-ying Tseng

The paper considers a problem of detecting and mitigating biasing attacks on networks of state observers targeting cooperative state estimation algorithms. The problem is cast within the recently developed framework of distributed…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Mohammad Deghat , Valery Ugrinovskii , Iman Shames , Cedric Langbort

In this paper, we consider the parameter estimation in a bandwidth-constrained sensor network communicating through an insecure medium. The sensor performs a local quantization, and transmits a 1-bit message to an estimation center through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-13 Jimin Wang , Jieming Ke , Jin Guo , Yanlong Zhao

The paper addresses the problem of detecting attacks on distributed estimator networks that aim to intentionally bias process estimates produced by the network. It provides a sufficient condition, in terms of the feasibility of certain…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Mohammad Deghat , Valery Ugrinovskii , Iman Shames , Cedric Langbort

We consider an echo-assisted communication model wherein block-coded messages, when transmitted across several frames, reach the destination as multiple noisy copies. We address adversarial attacks on such models wherein a subset of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-04-11 Mohit Goyal , J. Harshan

This paper considers distributed estimation of linear systems when the state observations are corrupted with Gaussian noise of unbounded support and under possible random adversarial attacks. We consider sensors equipped with single…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-25 Mohammadreza Doostmohammadian , Themistoklis Charalambous , Miadreza Shafie-khah , Nader Meskin , Usman A. Khan

In this paper, we investigate data-driven attack detection and identification in a model-free setting. We consider a practically motivated scenario in which the available dataset may be compromised by malicious sensor attacks, but contains…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-09 Takumi Shinohara , Karl H. Johansson , Henrik Sandberg

This paper firstly addresses the problem of risk assessment under false data injection attacks on uncertain control systems. We consider an adversary with complete system knowledge, injecting stealthy false data into an uncertain control…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-12 Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira , Anders Ahlén

In this paper, we propose an algorithm that targets contamination and eavesdropping adversaries. We consider the case when the number of independent packets available to the eavesdropper is less than the multicast capacity of the network.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2008-05-16 Yejun Zhou , Hui Li , Jianfeng Ma

A novel strategy to encrypt covert information (code) via unitary projections into the null spaces of ill-conditioned eigenstructures of multiple host statistical distributions, inferred from incomplete constraints, is presented. The host…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 R. C. Venkatesan

Although federated learning improves privacy of training data by exchanging local gradients or parameters rather than raw data, the adversary still can leverage local gradients and parameters to obtain local training data by launching…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Xue Yang , Yan Feng , Weijun Fang , Jun Shao , Xiaohu Tang , Shu-Tao Xia , Rongxing Lu

Sensor systems are extremely popular today and vulnerable to sensor data attacks. Due to possible devastating consequences, counteracting sensor data attacks is an extremely important topic, which has not seen sufficient study. This paper…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Xubin Fang , Rick S. Blum , Ramesh Bharadwaj , Brian M. Sadler

Distribution-preserving integrated sensing and communication with secure reconstruction is investigated in this paper. In addition to the distortion constraint, we impose another constraint on the distance between the reconstructed sequence…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Yiqi Chen , Tobias Oechtering , Holger Boche , Mikael Skoglund , Yuan Luo