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  • Open Access
11 Citations
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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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,457 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
577 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
804 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,932 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
4 Citations
1,268 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,976 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,375 Views
20 Pages

Optimal Deception Asset Deployment in Cybersecurity: A Nash Q-Learning Approach in Multi-Agent Stochastic Games

  • Guanhua Kong,
  • Fucai Chen,
  • Xiaohan Yang,
  • Guozhen Cheng and ,
  • Shuai Zhang and
  • Weizhen He
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 December 2023

In the face of an increasingly intricate network structure and a multitude of security threats, cyber deception defenders often employ deception assets to safeguard critical real assets. However, when it comes to the intranet lateral movement attacke...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Security and Cryptography)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,007 Views
18 Pages

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
9 Citations
3,059 Views
18 Pages

Adaptive Event-Triggered Synchronization of Uncertain Fractional Order Neural Networks with Double Deception Attacks and Time-Varying Delay

  • Zhuan Shen,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Jing Chen,
  • Jingxiang Zhang and ,
  • Aihua Hu and
  • Manfeng Hu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

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
42 Citations
2,157 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
8 Citations
3,629 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
943 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
523 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,295 Views
29 Pages

Mitigating Crossfire Attacks via Topology Spoofing Based on ENRNN-MTD

  • Dexian Chang,
  • Xiaobing Zhang,
  • Jiajia Sun and
  • Chen Fang

25 October 2025

Crossfire attacks disrupt network services by targeting critical links of server groups, causing traffic congestion and server failures that prevent legitimate users from accessing services. To counter this threat, this study proposes a novel topolog...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue IoT Technology and Information Security)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,041 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,182 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
878 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
806 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,632 Views
20 Pages

AARF: Autonomous Attack Response Framework for Honeypots to Enhance Interaction Based on Multi-Agent Dynamic Game

  • Le Wang,
  • Jianyu Deng,
  • Haonan Tan,
  • Yinghui Xu and ,
  • Junyi Zhu,
  • Zhiqiang Zhang,
  • Zhaohua Li,
  • Rufeng Zhan and
  • Zhaoquan Gu
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

11 May 2024

Highly interactive honeypots can form reliable connections by responding to attackers to delay and capture intranet attacks. However, current research focuses on modeling the attacker as part of the environment and defining single-step attack actions...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research on Information System Security and Privacy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
271 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)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,840 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
6,453 Views
26 Pages

8 September 2022

The combination of in-vehicle networks and smart car devices has gradually developed into Intelligent Connected Vehicles (ICVs). Through the vehicle security protocol, ICVs can quickly realize communication transmission. However, with the more freque...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,008 Views
21 Pages

28 February 2022

In the ultra-connected age of information, online social media platforms have become an indispensable part of our daily routines. Recently, this online public space is getting largely occupied by suspicious and manipulative social media bots. Such au...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
177 Views
18 Pages

13 October 2026

Reinforcement learning is increasingly deployed in autonomous systems whose reward functions encode operational priorities and decision-making objectives. However, observable behavior can enable external observers to infer sensitive reward parameters...

  • Article
  • Open Access
605 Views
22 Pages

The rapid growth of web-based services has intensified the need for reliable mechanisms to distinguish malicious Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) from legitimate ones. Phishing campaigns, malware distribution networks, and defacement operations incre...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning and Cybersecurity—Trends and Future Challenges, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,692 Views
24 Pages

Safeguarding Brand and Platform Credibility Through AI-Based Multi-Model Fake Profile Detection

  • Vishwas Chakranarayan,
  • Fadheela Hussain,
  • Fayzeh Abdulkareem Jaber,
  • Redha J. Shaker and
  • Ali Rizwan

29 August 2025

The proliferation of fake profiles on social media presents critical cybersecurity and misinformation challenges, necessitating robust and scalable detection mechanisms. Such profiles weaken consumer trust, reduce user engagement, and ultimately harm...