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7 Citations
2,983 Views
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10 November 2021

This study investigates the time-varying formation tracking (TVFT) control problem for multiple unmanned aerial vehicle (multi-UAV) systems under deception attacks by utilizing an event-triggered mechanism (ETM). First, for the sake of alleviating th...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,308 Views
14 Pages

23 March 2022

The quasi-consensus of a class of nonlinear time-varying multi-agent systems suffering from both external inputs and deception attacks is studied in this paper. This is different from a time-varying matrix, which is assumed to be bounded; further rea...

(This article belongs to the Topic Complex Systems and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
2,106 Views
24 Pages

29 October 2024

This article investigates the issue of H∞ security output feedback control for a nonlinear networked cascade control system with deception attacks. First, to further reduce the amount of communication data, reasonably schedule network resources...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Systems: Dynamics, Control, Optimization and Applications in Science and Engineering, 3rd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,605 Views
18 Pages

31 March 2020

This paper is concerned with the distributed full- and reduced-order l 2 - l ∞ state estimation issue for a class of discrete time-invariant systems subjected to both randomly occurring switching topologies and deception attacks o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Distributed Algorithms for Wireless Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,226 Views
17 Pages

This paper explores an event-triggered load frequency control (LFC) strategy for smart grids incorporating electric vehicles (EVs) under the influence of random deception attacks. The aggressive attack signals are launched over the channels between t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Knowledge Information Extraction Research)
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  • Open Access
373 Views
24 Pages

The security of heterogeneous unmanned systems (HUSs) operating in open environments has become a key concern. Therefore, this paper focuses on the fractional-order adaptive resilient clustering synchronization control for a class of networked HUSs c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional-Order Modeling in Data-Driven Intelligent Systems: From Optimization to AI/ML Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,397 Views
18 Pages

2 November 2025

This paper proposes an adaptive control framework for constrained nonlinear systems subject to sensor and actuator deception attacks, in the presence of actuator saturation. To enforce state constraints under sensor attacks, a modified coordinate tra...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Switched Systems and Control Theory: Theory and Application)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,170 Views
15 Pages

Language Recovery in Discrete-Event Systems against Sensor Deception Attacks

  • Abdeldjalil Labed,
  • Ikram Saadaoui,
  • Hanyu E,
  • Mohammed A. El-Meligy,
  • Zhiwu Li and
  • Mohamed Sharaf

16 May 2023

Cyber-physical systems are characterized by the intrinsic combination of software and physical components that usually include (wired and wireless) communication devices, sensors, actuators, and control processing units. Some wireless devices communi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Systems Engineering, Control, and Automation)
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  • Open Access
778 Views
22 Pages

26 November 2025

This paper is concerned with the secure and resource-efficient cluster synchronization problem of a class of complex dynamical networks (CDNs) under random deception attacks. Each node in the CDNs is modeled by a nonlinear dynamical system with multi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Dynamics on Complex Networks: Theory, Modelling, and Applications)
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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,915 Views
16 Pages

Covariance-Based Estimation for Clustered Sensor Networks Subject to Random Deception Attacks

  • Raquel Caballero-Águila,
  • Aurora Hermoso-Carazo and
  • Josefa Linares-Pérez

14 July 2019

In this paper, a cluster-based approach is used to address the distributed fusion estimation problem (filtering and fixed-point smoothing) for discrete-time stochastic signals in the presence of random deception attacks. At each sampling time, measur...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,754 Views
23 Pages

31 March 2024

The impact of communication disturbances on microgrids (MGs) needs robust and scalable Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure for efficient MG control. This work builds on advances in the Internet of Things (IoT) to provide a pract...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Technological and Experimental Advances in Microgrids and Renewable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,860 Views
16 Pages

7 September 2021

This paper addresses an adaptive secure control problem for the leader-follower formation of nonholonomic mobile robots in the presence of uncertainty and deception attacks. It is assumed that the false data of the leader robot’s information attacked...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,366 Views
18 Pages

27 May 2025

With the rapid development of smart grid technologies, communication networks have become the core infrastructure supporting control and energy optimization in microgrids. However, the excessive reliance of microgrid control on communication networks...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Optimal Control and Applications)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,257 Views
16 Pages

24 October 2021

This paper investigates the problem of networked load frequency control (LFC) of power systems (PSs) against deception attacks. To lighten the load of the communication network, a new adaptive event-triggered scheme (ETS) is developed on the premise...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,031 Views
18 Pages

30 September 2021

This paper investigates the problem of adaptive event-triggered synchronization for uncertain FNNs subject to double deception attacks and time-varying delay. During network transmission, a practical deception attack phenomenon in FNNs should be cons...

(This article belongs to the Topic Artificial Intelligence and Sustainable Energy Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,475 Views
17 Pages

Distributed Fusion Estimation in Network Systems Subject to Random Delays and Deception Attacks

  • María Jesús García-Ligero,
  • Aurora Hermoso-Carazo and
  • Josefa Linares-Pérez

20 February 2022

This paper focuses on the distributed fusion estimation problem in which a signal transmitted over wireless sensor networks is subject to deception attacks and random delays. We assume that each sensor can suffer attacks that may corrupt and/or modif...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analysis and Comparison of Probabilistic Models)
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  • Open Access
921 Views
28 Pages

16 June 2025

This paper investigates the event-triggered dissipative fuzzy tracking control problem of nonlinear networked systems with dynamic quantization and stochastic deception attacks, where the Takagi–Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy system theory is utilized to r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Stability and Optimal Control of Linear Systems)
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  • Open Access
393 Views
22 Pages

Frequency Control of Smart Grids Under Complex Hybrid Deception Attacks via Point-by-Point Model-Reference Tracking

  • Mohamed F. Hassan,
  • Hisham M. Soliman,
  • Farag A. El Sheikhi,
  • Sangkeum Lee and
  • Ehab H. E. Bayoumi

12 August 2026

Load Frequency Control (LFC) is critical for maintaining stability in smart grids (SGs) against complex hybrid (deterministic and/or stochastic) cyber-deception attacks. This paper presents a new approach to handle such a complicated problem via traj...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,361 Views
20 Pages

13 June 2024

This paper investigates the problem of the adaptive neural network tracking control of nonlinear cyber–physical systems (CPSs) subject to unknown deception attacks with prescribed performance. The considered system is under the influence of unk...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nonlinear Dynamics and Control: Challenges and Innovations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,657 Views
24 Pages

25 February 2025

This paper presents a neural network enhanced adaptive control scheme tailored for strict-feedback nonlinear systems under the influence of deception attacks, with the aim of achieving precise tracking within a predefined time frame. Such studies are...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematics in Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,485 Views
28 Pages

5 June 2023

This paper focuses on the adaptive control problem of a class of uncertain time-delay nonlinear cyber-physical systems (CPSs) with both unknown time-varying deception attacks and full-state constraints. Since the sensors are disturbed by external dec...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,338 Views
15 Pages

13 April 2022

This article is concerned with the problem of leader-following consensus tracking control for multi-unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems under deception attacks and actuator saturation. While guaranteeing the expected control performance, a novel ad...

(This article belongs to the Section Automation Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,003 Views
19 Pages

In this paper, a general event-triggered framework is constructed to investigate the problem of remote fault detection for stochastic cyber-physical systems subject to the additive disturbances, sensor nonlinearities and deception attacks. Both fault...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Developments on Time-Delay Systems and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,083 Views
26 Pages

In this paper, a nonlinear sliding-mode super-twisting reaching law algorithm is designed to address the problem of coupling interference under deception attacks and actuator physical faults in USV formations during cooperative mining operations of a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Control and Optimization of Ship Propulsion System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
792 Views
18 Pages

26 April 2025

This paper studies the composite anti-disturbance static output feedback control problem of networked nonlinear Markov jump systems with general transition probabilities subject to multiple disturbances and deception attacks. The transition probabili...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Engineering and Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,956 Views
21 Pages

11 November 2020

In this paper, the distributed filtering problem is addressed for a class of discrete-time stochastic systems over a sensor network with a given topology, susceptible to suffering deception attacks, launched by potential adversaries, which can random...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor Fusion and Signal Processing)
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  • Open Access
25 Citations
2,919 Views
27 Pages

26 April 2023

This article is concerned with the adaptive-event-triggered filtering problem as it relates to a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems characterized by interval Type-2 fuzzy models. The system under investigation is susceptible to Markovian switch...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Probability and Stochastic Processes with Applications to Communications, Systems and Networks, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
777 Views
30 Pages

26 December 2025

A state and fault estimator is designed in this paper for nonlinear complex networks using binary encoding schemes subject to parameter uncertainties, randomly switching couplings, randomly occurring deception attacks and bounded stochastic noises. A...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Forefront of Internet of Things Cybersecurity with Artificial Intelligence)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,109 Views
28 Pages

26 November 2025

This paper investigates a distributed robust tracking control method with prescribed convergence time for heterogeneous air–ground multi-agent systems under the combined effects of deception attacks and actuator faults. Considering the corrupti...

(This article belongs to the Section Control Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,698 Views
28 Pages

Signaling Security Games with Attack Planner Deception

  • Santing He,
  • Mingchu Li and
  • Runfa Zhang

16 August 2024

This paper studies a class of attack behavior in which adversaries assume the role of initiators, orchestrating and implementing attacks by hiring executors. We examine the dynamics of strategic attacks, modeling the initiator as an attack planner an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Computing and Mathematical Physics: Robots, Security Games, Quantum Algorithms and Symbolic Computing)
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  • Open Access
530 Views
15 Pages

11 June 2026

This paper investigates the tracking control problem for a class of networked nonlinear systems in a non-ideal communication environment, where both internal communication constraints (delays and packet dropouts) and external random deception attacks...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,422 Views
21 Pages

4 November 2022

Due to its great importance in several applied and theoretical fields, the signal estimation problem in multisensor systems has grown into a significant research area. Networked systems are known to suffer random flaws, which, if not appropriately ad...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms, Systems and Applications of Smart Sensor Networks)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,853 Views
18 Pages

4 June 2025

This study highlights the security control challenge for multi-agent systems (MASs) with integrated attack detectors under deception attacks (DAs). We develop an adaptive backstepping security control strategy designed to simultaneously detect DAs an...

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  • Open Access
464 Views
22 Pages

22 May 2026

Stealthy sensor deception attacks in process industries are difficult to detect because they often exhibit weak anomalies, strong persistence, and can be obscured by normal process fluctuations. To address these challenges, this study proposes an att...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,051 Views
15 Pages

13 June 2019

The problem of secure load frequency control of smart grids is investigated in this paper. The networked data transmission within the smart grid is corrupted by stochastic deception attacks. First, a unified Load frequency control model is constructe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control in Microgrid Systems)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,561 Views
20 Pages

22 January 2019

As a critical infrastructure, the modern electrical network is faced with various types of threats, such as accidental natural disaster attacks and deliberate artificial attacks, thus the power system fortification has attracted great concerns in the...

(This article belongs to the Section F: Electrical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
1,857 Views
25 Pages

16 June 2025

The increasing integration of photovoltaic (PV) systems into smart grids introduces new cybersecurity vulnerabilities, particularly against cyber-physical attacks that can manipulate grid operations and disrupt renewable energy generation. This paper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Big Data Analysis and Application in Power System)
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  • Open Access
1,230 Views
22 Pages

This article addresses the optimal scheduling problem for linear deception attacks in multi-channel cyber–physical systems. The scenario where the attacker can only attack part of the channels due to energy constraints is considered. The effect...

(This article belongs to the Section Systems & Control Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,809 Views
19 Pages

This article investigates the problem of finite-time synchronization of fractional-order complex-valued random multi-layer networks without decomposing them into two real-valued systems. Firstly, by promoting real-valued signum functions, sign functi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,569 Views
19 Pages

28 December 2022

In this study, distributed security estimation problems for networked stochastic uncertain systems subject to stochastic deception attacks are investigated. In sensor networks, the measurement data of sensor nodes may be attacked maliciously in the p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms, Systems and Applications of Smart Sensor Networks)
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  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,137 Views
25 Pages

23 January 2018

In this paper, a synthesized design of fault-detection filter and fault estimator is considered for a class of discrete-time stochastic systems in the framework of event-triggered transmission scheme subject to unknown disturbances and deception atta...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Fault Detection)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
773 Views
23 Pages

Industrial control systems (ICSs) increasingly rely on legacy communication protocols such as ModbusTCP, which lack built-in security mechanisms and remain widely exposed to network-based attacks. This paper investigates the security limitations of a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Adversarial Attacks and Cyber Security)
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  • Open Access
337 Views
26 Pages

20 June 2026

This paper investigates the problems of anti-synchronization for a class of inertial neural networks (INNs) with time-varying delays under the influence of deception attacks and hybrid triggered control. A novel dynamic hybrid-triggered control (DHTC...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Asymmetric and Symmetric Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics)
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  • Open Access
479 Views
23 Pages

22 May 2026

The exponential synchronization in mean square for complex networks by using two self-triggered impulsive control mechanisms under denial-of-service (DoS) and deception attacks is studied in this paper. These proposed control mechanisms include both...

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  • Open Access
115 Views
22 Pages

This paper investigates safe leader-following consensus of heterogeneous nonlinear Caputo fractional-order multi-agent systems under simultaneous denial-of-service (DoS), sensor-deception, and actuator-deception attacks. A joint augmented observer re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
94 Citations
19,281 Views
25 Pages

3 April 2021

This paper aims to explore the cyber-deception-based approach and to design a novel conceptual model of hybrid threats that includes deception methods. Security programs primarily focus on prevention-based strategies aimed at stopping attackers from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain-Enabled Technology for IoT Security, Privacy and Trust)
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,015 Views
16 Pages

Mean Square Consensus of Nonlinear Multi-Agent Systems under Markovian Impulsive Attacks

  • Huan Luo,
  • Yinhe Wang,
  • Xuexi Zhang,
  • Peitao Gao and
  • Haoxiang Wen

26 April 2021

This paper focuses primarily on the mean square consensus problem of a class of nonlinear multi-agent systems suffering from stochastic impulsive deception attacks. The attacks here are modeled by completely stochastic destabilizing impulses, where t...

(This article belongs to the Topic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications)
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  • Open Access
453 Views
25 Pages

20 May 2026

This paper investigates a tracking control problem for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear systems with time delays, asymmetric output constraints, and deception attacks on the controller. First, by introducing a new error conversion technology, any...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Approaches to Control Systems: Methods and Applications)
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  • Open Access
499 Views
30 Pages

14 July 2026

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) pose a serious threat to Internet of Things (IoT) systems because of their stealthiness, persistence, and ability to adapt to defensive responses. Communication-Based Train Control (CBTC) systems, as IoT-enabled rai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence of Things for Future Networks and Service Management)
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  • Open Access
230 Views
21 Pages

1 August 2026

The issue of mean-square bounded synchronization for complex networks subject to random disturbances, time-varying delays, and cyber-attacks is investigated in this paper. We employ static and dynamic self-triggered impulsive control strategies, whic...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical Analysis)

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