Safe and Secure Networked Control Systems under Denial-of-Service Attacks

Abstract. We consider the problem of security constrained optimal control for discrete-time, linear dynamical systems in which control and measurement packets are transmitted over a communication network. The packets may be jammed or compromised by a malicious adversary. For a class of denial-of-service (DoS) attack models, the goal is to find an (optimal) causal feedback controller that minimizes a given objective function subject to safety and power constraints. We present a semi-definite programming based solution for solving this problem. Our analysis also presents insights on the effect of attack models on solution of the optimal control problem.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: HYBRID
• Authors: Saurabh Amin, Alvaro A. Cárdenas, Shankar Sastry
• Keywords: Attack Models, HYBRID 2009, Hybrid Systems, Optimal Control, Optimal Control Problem