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Main Authors: Zhong, Yuxing, Li, Yuzhe, Quevedo, Daniel E., Shi, Ling
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11606
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author Zhong, Yuxing
Li, Yuzhe
Quevedo, Daniel E.
Shi, Ling
author_facet Zhong, Yuxing
Li, Yuzhe
Quevedo, Daniel E.
Shi, Ling
contents This paper considers the optimal power allocation of a jamming attacker against remote state estimation. The attacker is self-sustainable and can harvest energy from the environment to launch attacks. The objective is to carefully allocate its attack power to maximize the estimation error at the fusion center. Regarding the attacker's knowledge of the system, two cases are discussed: (i) perfect channel knowledge and (ii) unknown channel model. For both cases, we formulate the problem as a Markov decision process (MDP) and prove the existence of an optimal deterministic and stationary policy. Moreover, for both cases, we develop algorithms to compute the allocation policy and demonstrate that the proposed algorithms for both cases converge to the optimal policy as time goes to infinity. Additionally, the optimal policy exhibits certain structural properties that can be leveraged to accelerate both algorithms. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the main results.
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spellingShingle Harvest and Jam: Optimal Self-Sustainable Jamming Attacks against Remote State Estimation
Zhong, Yuxing
Li, Yuzhe
Quevedo, Daniel E.
Shi, Ling
Systems and Control
This paper considers the optimal power allocation of a jamming attacker against remote state estimation. The attacker is self-sustainable and can harvest energy from the environment to launch attacks. The objective is to carefully allocate its attack power to maximize the estimation error at the fusion center. Regarding the attacker's knowledge of the system, two cases are discussed: (i) perfect channel knowledge and (ii) unknown channel model. For both cases, we formulate the problem as a Markov decision process (MDP) and prove the existence of an optimal deterministic and stationary policy. Moreover, for both cases, we develop algorithms to compute the allocation policy and demonstrate that the proposed algorithms for both cases converge to the optimal policy as time goes to infinity. Additionally, the optimal policy exhibits certain structural properties that can be leveraged to accelerate both algorithms. Numerical examples are given to illustrate the main results.
title Harvest and Jam: Optimal Self-Sustainable Jamming Attacks against Remote State Estimation
topic Systems and Control
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11606