Switching and Data Injection Attacks on Stochastic Cyber-Physical Systems

In this article, we consider the problem of attack-resilient state estimation, that is, to reliably estimate the true system states despite two classes of attacks: (i) attacks on the switching mechanisms and (ii) false data injection attacks on actuator and sensor signals, in the presence of stochastic process and measurement noise signals. We model the systems under attack as hidden mode stochastic switched linear systems with unknown inputs and propose the use of a multiple-model inference algorithm to tackle these security issues. Moreover, we characterize fundamental limitations to resilient estimation (e.g., upper bound on the number of tolerable signal attacks) and discuss the topics of attack detection, identification, and mitigation under this framework. Simulation examples of switching and false data injection attacks on a benchmark system and an IEEE 68-bus test system show the efficacy of our approach to recover resilient (i.e., asymptotically unbiased) state estimates as well as to identify and mitigate the attacks.

• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  ACM Trans. Cyber Phys. Syst.

• Publication date

  2017-07-22

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1145/3204439arXiv 1707.07112
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar

• No claims are published for this paper.

• No concepts are published for this paper.

• Cyber-Physical Systems Security—A Survey

  2017cited by this paper
• A Review of False Data Injection Attacks Against Modern Power Systems

  2017cited by this paper
• Robust and resilient estimation for Cyber-Physical Systems under adversarial attacks

  2016influential reference
• Simultaneous Input and State Estimation for Linear Time-Varying Continuous-Time Stochastic Systems

  2016influential reference
• Simultaneous mode, input and state estimation for switched linear stochastic systems

  2016cited by this paper
• Response and reconfiguration of cyber-physical control systems: A survey

  2015cited by this paper
• Attack-resilient state estimation in the presence of noise

  2015cited by this paper
• Secure state estimation: Optimal guarantees against sensor attacks in the presence of noise

  2015influential reference
• Resilient state estimation against switching attacks on stochastic cyber-physical systems

  2015cited by this paper
• Game-Theoretic Methods for Robustness, Security, and Resilience of Cyberphysical Control Systems: Games-in-Games Principle for Optimal Cross-Layer Resilient Control Systems

  2015cited by this paper
• Green Lights Forever: Analyzing the Security of Traffic Infrastructure

  2014cited by this paper
• Robustness of attack-resilient state estimators

  2014cited by this paper
• A unified filter for simultaneous input and state estimation of linear discrete-time stochastic systems

  2013cited by this paper
• On Topology Attack of a Smart Grid: Undetectable Attacks and Countermeasures

  2013influential reference
• Attack Detection and Identification in Cyber-Physical Systems

  2013influential reference
• Security analysis for Cyber-Physical Systems against stealthy deception attacks

  2013cited by this paper
• On distributed constrained formation control in operator-vehicle adversarial networks

  2013cited by this paper
• Markov Game Analysis for Attack-Defense of Power Networks Under Possible Misinformation

  2013cited by this paper
• A Framework for Modeling Cyber-Physical Switching Attacks in Smart Grid

  2013influential reference
• Secure Estimation and Control for Cyber-Physical Systems Under Adversarial Attacks

  2012influential reference
• Distributed detection and isolation of topology attacks in power networks

  2012cited by this paper
• False data injection attacks against state estimation in electric power grids

  2011cited by this paper
• Malicious Data Attacks on the Smart Grid

  2011cited by this paper
• Stackelberg-game analysis of correlated attacks in cyber-physical systems

  2011cited by this paper
• Stuxnet and the Future of Cyber War

  2011cited by this paper
• False Data Injection Attacks in Control Systems

  2010cited by this paper
• Stealth Attacks and Protection Schemes for State Estimators in Power Systems

  2010cited by this paper
• Hybrid dynamical systems

  2009cited by this paper
• False data injection attacks against state estimation in electric power grids

  2009cited by this paper
• Graph Implementations for Nonsmooth Convex Programs

  2008cited by this paper
• Secure Control: Towards Survivable Cyber-Physical Systems

  2008influential reference
• Research Challenges for the Security of Control Systems

  2008cited by this paper
• Technical communique: Unbiased minimum-variance input and state estimation for linear discrete-time systems with direct feedthrough

  2007cited by this paper
• Unbiased minimum-variance input and state estimation for linear discrete-time systems with direct feedthrough

  2007cited by this paper
• Unbiased minimum-variance input and state estimation for linear discrete-time systems

  2007cited by this paper
• On Delayed Observers for Linear Systems with Unknown Inputs

  2005influential reference
• Robust Control in Power Systems

  2005cited by this paper
• Electric load forecasting: Literature survey and classification of methods

  2002cited by this paper
• Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation: Theory, Algorithms and Software

  2001cited by this paper
• Estimation with Applications to Tracking and Navigation

  2001cited by this paper
• Power system stability and control

  1994cited by this paper
• Hybrid dynamical systems

  1989cited by this paper
• Interacting Multiple Model Methods in Target Tracking: A Survey

  1988influential reference
• Power Generation, Operation, and Control

  1984cited by this paper
• On Information and Sufficiency

  1951influential reference

• Event-Based Privacy Preserving Resilient Leader-Follower Consensus Control Against Cyber-Attacks in Multi-Agent Cyber-Physical Systems

  2025cites this paper
• Attack Estimation of Switched Nonlinear Control Systems Using Invertibility

  2025cites this paper
• Computationally Efficient State and Model Estimation via Interval Observers for Partially Unknown Systems

  2025cites this paper
• IoT-Driven Resilience Monitoring: Case Study of a Cyber-Physical System

  2025cites this paper
• A complete client–server architecture providing prevention from insider attack using homogeneous multi-core RSA crypto-processor

  2024cites this paper
• Secure Set-based State Estimation for Safety-Critical Applications under Adversarial Attacks on Sensors

  2023cites this paper
• Resilient State Estimation for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Systems via Input and State Interval Observer Synthesis

  2023cites this paper
• Monitoring and Defense of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems Under Typical Attacks: From a Systems and Control Perspective

  2023cites this paper
• An Active Detection Strategy Based on Dimensionality Reduction for False Data Injection Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems

  2023cites this paper
• Secure predictor-based neural dynamic surface control of nonlinear cyber-physical systems against sensor and actuator attacks.

  2022cites this paper
• Coordinated Charging and Discharging of Electric Vehicles: A New Class of Switching Attacks

  2022cites this paper
• Efficient secure state estimation against sparse integrity attack for regular linear system

  2022influential citation
• On controlled mode discernibility for nonlinear hybrid systems with unknown exogenous input

  2022cites this paper
• Haunted House: Physical Smart Home Event Verification in the Presence of Compromised Sensors

  2022cites this paper
• Detection of Malicious Attacks in Autonomous Cyber-Physical Inverter-Based Microgrids

  2022cites this paper
• Resilient Interval Observer for Simultaneous Estimation of States, Modes and Attack Policies

  2021influential citation
• Simultaneous Mode, State and Input Set-Valued Observers for Switched Nonlinear Systems

  2021cites this paper
• Extending Isolation Forest for Anomaly Detection in Big Data via K-Means

  2021cites this paper
• Path-dependent controller and estimator synthesis with robustness to delayed and missing data

  2021cites this paper
• Model-Based CPS Attack Detection Techniques: Strengths and Limitations

  2021cites this paper
• Time-Varying Tube-Based Output Feedback MPC for Constrained Linear Systems with Intermittently Delayed Data

  2021cites this paper
• A Survey on Resilience in the IoT

  2021cites this paper
• Resilient redundancy-based control of cyber-physical systems through adaptive randomized switching

  2021cites this paper
• A spatio-temporal specification language and its completeness & decidability

  2020cites this paper
• Simultaneous state and unknown input set‐valued observers for quadratically constrained nonlinear dynamical systems

  2020cites this paper
• Simultaneous Input and State Interval Observers for Nonlinear Systems with Full-Rank Direct Feedthrough

  2020cites this paper
• Simultaneous State and Unknown Input Set-Valued Observers for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems

  2020cites this paper
• Simultaneous input and state estimation for stochastic nonlinear systems with additive unknown inputs

  2020cites this paper
• Attack detection of nonlinear distributed control systems

  2020cites this paper
• On the Privacy Risks of Compromised Trigger-Action Platforms

  2020cites this paper
• A systematic review of cyber-resilience assessment frameworks

  2020cites this paper
• Synthesis of SimMechanics Model of Quadcopter Using SolidWorks CAD Translator Function

  2020cites this paper
• Neighborhood-aware Mobile Hub: An Edge Gateway with Leader Election Mechanism for Internet of Mobile Things

  2020cites this paper
• IFTTT Privacy Checker

  2020cites this paper
• Brief Survey on Attack Detection Methods for Cyber-Physical Systems

  2020cites this paper
• On Hiddenness of Moving Target Defense against False Data Injection Attacks on Power Grid

  2020cites this paper
• Optimal Partial Feedback Attacks in Cyber-Physical Power Systems

  2020influential citation
• Interval Observers for Simultaneous State and Model Estimation of Partially Known Nonlinear Systems

  2020cites this paper
• Simultaneous Mode, In put and State Set-Valued Observers with Applications to Resilient Estimation against Sparse Attacks

  2019cites this paper
• An internal model approach to estimation of systems with arbitrary unknown inputs

  2019cites this paper
• Crowd sensing aware disaster framework design with IoT technologies

  2019cites this paper
• Detection Scheme Against Cyber-Physical Attacks on Load Frequency Control Based on Dynamic Characteristics Analysis

  2019cites this paper
• Input and State Observability of Network Systems With Time-Varying Topology

  2019cites this paper
• From Bounded Reachability Analysis of Linear Hybrid Automata to Verification of Industrial CPS and IoT

  2019cites this paper
• Robust Optimization Model for Designing Emerging Cloud-Fog Networks

  2019cites this paper
• Location Privacy Protection in Mobile Crowdsensing

  2018cites this paper
• Simultaneous Input and State Set-Valued Observers with Applications to Attack-Resilient Estimation

  2018cites this paper
• Simultaneous mode, input and state estimation for switched linear stochastic systems

  2016cites this paper