Cyberphysical Attacks in Network Dynamics
Cyberphysical Attacks in Network Dynamics
With the rise of cyber-physical systems in critical infrastructures like power grids, water networks, and transportation, ensuring their security has become a major challenge. Consensus-based algorithms used for tasks such as formation control, distributed optimization, and data fusion are particularly vulnerable to cyber-attacks that can disrupt system performance.
From the perspective of an attacker, it is crucial to understand how an attack on a particular node can most effectively destabilize the network, while for a network designer, it is equally important to assess each node’s vulnerability to allocate security resources efficiently.
Our work investigates how attacks targeted at specific nodes can disrupt global consensus and how this disruption depends on the topological properties of the attacked nodes.