Security Control of Multiagent Systems Under Denial-of-Service Attacks

• Published in: IEEE transactions on cybernetics Vol. 52; no. 6; pp. 4323 - 4333
• Main Authors: Wang, Yaqi, Lu, Jianquan, Liang, Jinling
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States IEEE 01.06.2022; The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
• Subjects: Communication channels; Control systems design; Controllers; Decentralized control; Denial of service attacks; Denial-of-service attack; Denial-to-service (DoS) attacks; leader-following consensus; Multi-agent systems; Multiagent systems; observer-based model; Protocols; Security; security control; Sensors; Upper bounds
• ISSN: 2168-2267; 2168-2275; 2168-2275
• DOI: 10.1109/TCYB.2020.3026083

Security control aims to guarantee the consensus of multiagent systems (MASs) in the presence of the denial-to-service attacker. Most of the existing distributed controllers are invalid during the attack interval due to the paralyzed communication channels. In order to overcome this difficulty, a novel hybrid distributed control protocol is designed. Here, the controller uses the latest information saved in the buffers in the presence of malicious attacks, which will further enhance the security of MASs. Some sufficient conditions on the coupled strength and attack parameters are derived to achieve the leader-following consensus of MASs. Furthermore, we estimate the upper bounds of denial-of-service (DoS) frequency and DoS duration which the MASs can tolerate before losing consensus. Notice that we also reduce the computational complexity via the property of the Kronecker product. Besides, an observer-based model is proposed and the corresponding consensus criterion is established to reduce the effects of attackers on the controller. Finally, the efficiency of our theoretical results is illustrated by a numerical example.