Optimal Denial-of-Service Attack Scheduling With Energy Constraint Over Packet-Dropping Networks
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- 1 June 2018
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
- Vol. 63 (6), 1648-1663
- https://doi.org/10.1109/TAC.2017.2756259
Abstract
The recent years have seen a surge of security issues of cyber-physical systems (CPS). In this paper, denial-of-service (DoS) attack scheduling is investigated in depth. Specifically, we consider a system where a remote estimator receives the data packet sent by a sensor over a wireless network at each time instant, and an energy-constrained attacker that cannot launch DoS attacks all the time designs the optimal DoS attack scheduling to maximize the attacking effect on the remote estimation performance. Most of the existing works concerning DoS attacks focus on the ideal scenario in which data packets can be received successfully if there is no DoS attack. To capture the unreliability nature of practical networks, we study the packet-dropping network in which packet dropouts may occur even in the absence of attack. We derive the optimal attack scheduling scheme that maximizes the average expected estimation error, and the one which maximizes the expected terminal estimation error over packet-dropping networks. We also present some countermeasures against DoS attacks, and discuss the optimal defense strategy, and how the optimal attack schedule can serve for more effective and resource-saving countermeasures. We further investigate the optimal attack schedule with multiple sensors. The optimality of the theoretical results is demonstrated by numerical simulations.Keywords
Funding Information
- National Natural Science Foundation of China (61473269)
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Hong Kong RGC General Research Fund (16210015)
- Australian Research Council under Discovery Program (#DP170102303)
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