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Detection of Replay Attack in Control Systems Using Multi-Sine Watermarking

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Detection of Replay Attack in Control Systems Using Multi-Sine Watermarking

Ghamarilangroudi, Azam (2020) Detection of Replay Attack in Control Systems Using Multi-Sine Watermarking. Masters thesis, Concordia University.

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Abstract

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) consist of networks of sensors, computers and actuators. This
research studies a control system within a CPS in which the plant and controller are separated
geographically but connected through communication links. The links could be subject to security
attacks. Recently, the research focus on attack detection has been growing rapidly. This thesis
aims to develop methods based on the dynamic models of CPS for detecting attacks.
This research focuses on detection of ”replay attacks”. First, it proposes a watermarking
scheme based on injecting a sequence of multi-sine waves. The watermarking is designed in such
a way that the transient response to watermarking is suppressed. A design process is proposed to
reach a compromise between (i) the ease of detection of watermarking effects in the output and (ii)
the limiting of output fluctuations due to watermarking (and loss of control quality). One of the
benefits of this method is that it only requires frequency response of the closed loop system at a set
of frequencies; a model of system is not required.
Power spectral density estimates based on periodograms of the plant output (received by the
controller) are used to trace watermarking. Furthermore, replay attack detection by tracing watermarking
effects in the residual of Kalman filters is also explored.
A case study involving a laboratory water tank is used to explore the proposed method. The
results of linear and non-linear model simulations are presented and is shown that replay attacks
can be detected successfully.

Divisions:Concordia University > Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science
Item Type:Thesis (Masters)
Authors:Ghamarilangroudi, Azam
Institution:Concordia University
Degree Name:M.A. Sc.
Program:Electrical and Computer Engineering
Date:18 March 2020
Thesis Supervisor(s):Shahin, Hashtrudi Zad and Youmin, Zhang
ID Code:986635
Deposited By: Azam Ghamarilangroudi
Deposited On:26 Jun 2020 13:12
Last Modified:26 Jun 2020 13:12
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