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Mitigation and resiliency of multi-agent systems subject to malicious cyber attacks on communication links
M Taheri, K Khorasani, I Shames, N Meskin
CCTA 2020 - 4th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications | IEEE | Published : 2020
Abstract
This paper aims at investigating a novel type of cyber attack that is injected to multi-agent systems (MAS) having an underlying directed graph. The cyber attack, which is designated as the controllability attack, is injected by the malicious adversary into the communication links among the agents. The adversary, leveraging the compromised communication links disguises the cyber attack signals and attempts to take control over the entire network of MAS. The adversary aims at achieving this by directly attacking only a subset of the multi-agents. Conditions under which the malicious hacker has control over the entire MAS network are provided. Two notions of security controllability indices ar..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support received from NATO under the Emerging Security Challenges Division program. K. Khorasani and N. Meskin would like to acknowledge the support received from NPRP grant number 10-0105-17017 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of Qatar Foundation). K. Khorasani would also like to acknowledge the support received from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and the Department of National Defence (DND) under the Discovery Grant and DND Supplemental Programs. The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors.