Design of false data injection attack on distributed process estimation
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2022

Herein, design of false data injection attack on a distributed cyber-physical system is considered. A stochastic process with linear dynamics and Gaussian noise is measured by multiple agent nodes, each equipped with multiple sensors. The agent nodes form a multi-hop network among themselves. Each agent node computes an estimate of the process by using its sensor observation and messages obtained from neighboring nodes, via Kalman-consensus filtering. An external attacker, capable of arbitrarily manipulating the sensor observations of some or all agent nodes, injects errors into those sensor observations. The goal of the attacker is to steer the estimates at the agent nodes as close as possible to a pre-specified value, while respecting a constraint on the attack detection probability. To this end, a constrained optimization problem is formulated to find the optimal parameter values of a certain class of linear attacks. The parameters of linear attack are learnt on-line via a combination of stochastic approximation based update of a Lagrange multiplier, and an optimization technique involving either the Karush-Kuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions or online stochastic gradient descent. The problem turns out to be convex for some special cases. Desired convergence of the proposed algorithms are proved by exploiting the convexity and properties of stochastic approximation algorithms. Finally, numerical results demonstrate the efficacy of the attack.

CPS security

distributed estimation

Estimation

Approximation algorithms

Attack design

Sensors

Gaussian noise

Optimization

stochastic approximation

Wireless sensor networks

Detectors

false data injection attack

Kalman-consensus filter

Författare

Moulik Choraria

University of Illinois

Arpan Chattopadhyay

Indian Institute of Technology Delhi

Urbashi Mitra

University of Southern California

Erik Ström

Chalmers, Elektroteknik, Kommunikation, Antenner och Optiska Nätverk

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

1556-6013 (ISSN) 15566021 (eISSN)

Vol. 17 670-683

Styrkeområden

Informations- och kommunikationsteknik

Transport

Ämneskategorier

Beräkningsmatematik

Reglerteknik

Signalbehandling

DOI

10.1109/TIFS.2022.3146078

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2022-04-05