Optimal Denial-of-Service Attacks Against Status Updating

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Main Authors: Kriouile, Saad, Assaad, Mohamad, Gündüz, Deniz, Soleymani, Touraj
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author Kriouile, Saad
Assaad, Mohamad
Gündüz, Deniz
Soleymani, Touraj
author_facet Kriouile, Saad
Assaad, Mohamad
Gündüz, Deniz
Soleymani, Touraj
contents In this paper, we investigate denial-of-service attacks against status updating. The target system is modeled by a Markov chain and an unreliable wireless channel, and the performance of status updating in the target system is measured based on two metrics: age of information and age of incorrect information. Our objective is to devise optimal attack policies that strike a balance between the deterioration of the system's performance and the adversary's energy. We model the optimal problem as a Markov decision process and prove rigorously that the optimal jamming policy is a threshold-based policy under both metrics. In addition, we provide a low-complexity algorithm to obtain the optimal threshold value of the jamming policy. Our numerical results show that the networked system with the age-of-incorrect-information metric is less sensitive to jamming attacks than with the age-of-information metric. Index Terms-age of incorrect information, age of information, cyber-physical systems, status updating, remote monitoring.
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spellingShingle Optimal Denial-of-Service Attacks Against Status Updating
Kriouile, Saad
Assaad, Mohamad
Gündüz, Deniz
Soleymani, Touraj
Information Theory
Optimization and Control
In this paper, we investigate denial-of-service attacks against status updating. The target system is modeled by a Markov chain and an unreliable wireless channel, and the performance of status updating in the target system is measured based on two metrics: age of information and age of incorrect information. Our objective is to devise optimal attack policies that strike a balance between the deterioration of the system's performance and the adversary's energy. We model the optimal problem as a Markov decision process and prove rigorously that the optimal jamming policy is a threshold-based policy under both metrics. In addition, we provide a low-complexity algorithm to obtain the optimal threshold value of the jamming policy. Our numerical results show that the networked system with the age-of-incorrect-information metric is less sensitive to jamming attacks than with the age-of-information metric. Index Terms-age of incorrect information, age of information, cyber-physical systems, status updating, remote monitoring.
title Optimal Denial-of-Service Attacks Against Status Updating
topic Information Theory
Optimization and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.04489