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Event-Triggered Control Systems Under Denial-of-Service Attacks

V. S. Dolk, Pietro Tesi, Claudio De Persis, W.P.M.H. Heemels

IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, Vol. 4, Issue 1, pp. 93–105 (2016)

Eindhoven University of Technology, University of Groningen

DOI: 10.1109/tcns.2016.2613445

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Abstract

In this paper, we propose a systematic design framework for output-based dynamic event-triggered control (ETC) systems under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. These malicious DoS attacks are intended to interfere with the communication channel causing periods in time at which transmission of measurement data is impossible. We show that the proposed ETC scheme, if well designed, can tolerate a class of DoS signals characterized by frequency and duration properties without jeopardizing the stability, performance and Zeno-freeness of the ETC system. In fact, the design procedure of the ETC condition allows tradeoffs between performance, robustness to DoS attacks, and utilization of communication resources. The main results will be illustrated by means of a numerical example.

Topics

Smart Grid Security and Resilience 1.00 Network Time Synchronization Technologies 0.99 Fault Detection and Control Systems 0.99

Field: Engineering · Subfield: Control and Systems Engineering

Keywords

Denial-of-service attack,Computer science,Robustness (evolution),Data transmission,Zeno's paradoxes,Event (particle physics),Communications system,Distributed computing,Computer network,Computer security