Title
Deep reinforcement learning for optimal denial-of-service attacks scheduling
Abstract
We consider an optimal denial-of-service (DoS) attack scheduling problem of N independent linear time-invariant processes, where sensors have limited computational capability. Sensors transmit measurements to the remote estimator via a communication channel that is exposed to DoS attackers. However, due to limited energy, an attacker can only attack a subset of sensors at each time step. To maximally degrade the estimation performance, a DoS attacker needs to determine which sensors to attack at each time step. In this context, a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) algorithm, which combines Q-learning with a deep neural network, is introduced to solve the Markov decision process (MDP). The DoS attack scheduling optimization problem is formulated as an MDP that is solved by the DRL algorithm. A numerical example is provided to illustrate the efficiency of the optimal DoS attack scheduling scheme using the DRL algorithm.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s11432-020-3027-0
Science China Information Sciences
Keywords
DocType
Volume
optimal denial-of-service attack, scheduling, optimization, limited energy, deep reinforcement learning
Journal
65
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1674-733X
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
28
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
F Hou110.35
Jian Sun225842956.90
Q Yang310.35
ZH Pang410.35