Title
Time Synchronization Attack and Countermeasure for Multisystem Scheduling in Remote Estimation
Abstract
We consider time synchronization attack against multisystem 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 channel. We show that by randomly injecting relative time offsets on the sensors, the malicious attacker is able to make the expected estimation error covariance of the overall system diverge without any system knowledge. For the case that the attacker has full system information, we propose an efficient algorithm to calculate the optimal attack, which spoofs the least number of sensors and leads to unbounded average estimation error covariance. To mitigate the attack consequence, we further propose a countermeasure by constructing shift invariant transmission policies and characterize the lower and upper bounds for system estimation performance. Simulation examples are provided to illustrate the obtained results.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1109/TAC.2020.2997318
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Multisystem scheduling,remote state estimation,shift invariance,time synchronization attack
Journal
66
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0018-9286
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
12
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ziyang Guo161.41
Yuqing Ni232.07
Wing Shing Wong31025290.66
Ling Shi41717107.86