Event-Triggered Security Consensus for Multi-Agent Systems with Markov Switching Topologies under DoS Attacks

• Published in: Energies (Basel) Vol. 15; no. 15; p. 5353
• Main Authors: Tian, Yuan, Tian, Sheng, Li, Huaqing, Han, Qi, Wang, Xiaonan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.08.2022
• Subjects: Communication channels; Denial of service attacks; Design; event-trigger strategy; Markov analysis; markov switching; multi-agent systems; secure consensus; Unmanned aerial vehicles
• ISSN: 1996-1073; 1996-1073
• DOI: 10.3390/en15155353

This paper studies secure consensus control for multi-agent systems subject to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The DoS attacks cause changes in topologies, which will destroy the channels of communication and result in network paralysis. Unlike the existing publications with Markov switching, this paper mainly studies the topological structure changes of the subsystem models after DoS attacks. To ensure the consensus of systems, this paper designs an event triggered to reduce the use of the controller and decrease the influence of channel breaks off caused by DoS attacks. On this basis, different Lyapunov functions are established in each period of attack. Then, stochastic and Lyapunov stable theory is used to form the consensus criteria. Moreover, Zeno behavior is excluded by theoretical analysis. Finally, the simulation experiment proves the effectiveness of the proposed protocol.