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Secure State Estimation with Cumulative Message Authentication

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Jovanov, I; Pajic, M
Published in: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
July 2, 2018

With network-based attacks, such as Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks, the attacker can inject false data to force a closed-loop system into any undesired state, unless even intermittently integrity of delivered sensor measurements is enforced. Yet, the use of standard cryptographic techniques that ensure data integrity, such as Message Authentication Codes (MACs), introduces significant communication and computation overhead. Thus, in this work we explore the use of cumulative MACs that significantly reduce network overhead. We consider systems with Kalman filter-based state estimators and sequential probability ratio test (SPRT) intrusion detectors. We show that strong estimation guarantees under MitM attacks can be obtained even with intermittent use of a single cumulative MAC that is added to appropriate sensor measurements transmitted over the network. We present a design-time methodology to evaluate the effects of any given cumulative integrity enforcement policy on reachable state-estimation errors for any type of stealthy attacks; this provides a base for design of cumulative enforcement policies with desired performance guarantees even in the presence of MitM attacks. Finally, we illustrate the effectiveness of our approach on an automated steering control.

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Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

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2576-2370

ISSN

0743-1546

ISBN

9781538613955

Publication Date

July 2, 2018

Volume

2018-December

Start / End Page

2074 / 2079
 

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Jovanov, I., & Pajic, M. (2018). Secure State Estimation with Cumulative Message Authentication. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Vol. 2018-December, pp. 2074–2079). https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2018.8619250
Jovanov, I., and M. Pajic. “Secure State Estimation with Cumulative Message Authentication.” In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2018-December:2074–79, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/CDC.2018.8619250.
Jovanov I, Pajic M. Secure State Estimation with Cumulative Message Authentication. In: Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. 2018. p. 2074–9.
Jovanov, I., and M. Pajic. “Secure State Estimation with Cumulative Message Authentication.” Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 2018-December, 2018, pp. 2074–79. Scopus, doi:10.1109/CDC.2018.8619250.
Jovanov I, Pajic M. Secure State Estimation with Cumulative Message Authentication. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. 2018. p. 2074–2079.

Published In

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

DOI

EISSN

2576-2370

ISSN

0743-1546

ISBN

9781538613955

Publication Date

July 2, 2018

Volume

2018-December

Start / End Page

2074 / 2079