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Abstract
Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) such as power plants, water desalination utilities are just a few examples of systems that may come under stealth attacks. These attacks can threaten the proper operations of such systems without any indication. This problem necessitates the design of a control system that is able to work under such attacks. In this paper, an improved observer-based stabilising controller is proposed for CPS including random measurements and actuation delays and it is coming under distributed denial of service (DDoS) and deception attacks. The occurrences of DDoS and deception attacks are modelled as Bernoulli distributed white sequences with variable conditional probabilities. The criterion is presented in terms of linear matrix inequalities. Detailed simulation experiments on representative systems are shown to prove the applicability of the proposed methodology.
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The authors acknowledge the support provided by the DSR at KFUPM through the distinguished professorship award project no. IN161965 and the support through the National Plan for Science, Technology and Innovation (MAARIFAH) -- KACST through the Science & Technology Unit at KFUPM, award project no. 15-ELE4117-04.
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Magdi S. Mahmoud
Magdi S. Mahmoud obtained B.Sc. (Honors) in communication engineering, the M.Sc. in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. in systems engineering, all from Cairo University in 1968, 1972 and 1974, respectively. He has been a Professor of Engineering since 1984. He is now a Distinguished Professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. He was on the faculty at different universities worldwide including Egypt (CU, AUC), Kuwait (KU), UAE (UAEU), UK (UMIST), USA (Pitt, Case Western), Singapore (Nanyang) and Australia (Adelaide). He lectured in Venezuela (Caracas), Germany (Hanover), UK ((Kent), USA (UoSA), Canada (Montreal) and China (BIT, Yanshan). He is the principal author of fifty-one (51) books, inclusive book-chapters and the author/co-author of more than 610 peer-reviewed papers. He is a fellow of the IEE, a senior member of the IEEE, the CEI (UK), and a registered consultant engineer of information engineering and systems (Egypt). He received the Science State Incentive Prize for outstanding research in engineering, (1978, 1986), the State Medal For Science And Art, First Class, (1978), and the State Distinction Award, (1986), Egypt. He awarded the Abdulhamed Showman Prize for Young Arab Scientists in the field of Engineering Sciences, (1986), Jordan. In 1992, he received the Distinguished Engineering Research Award, College of Engineering and Petroleum, Kuwait University, (1992), Kuwait. He is co-winner of the Most Cited Paper Award 2009, “Signal Processing”, vol. 86, no. 1, 2006, pp. 140¡152. The Web of Science ISI selected his papers among the 40 best papers in Electrical & Electronic Engineering in July 2012. He interviewed for “People in Control”, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, August 2010. He served as Guest Editor for the special issue “Neural Networks and Intelligence Systems in Neurocomputing” and Guest Editor for the 2015 International Symposium on Web of Things and Big Data (WoTBD 2015) 18¡20 October 2015, Manama, Bahrain. He is a Regional Editor (Middle East and Africa) of International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications (JSCC), Inderscience Publishers since 2007, member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization (NACO), Australia since 2010, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Systems Dynamics Applications (IJSDA), since 2011, member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Engineering Management, USA since 2012 and an Academic Member of Athens Institute for Education and Research, Greece since 2015. Since 2016, He is an Editor of the Journal Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Company, USA. He is currently actively engaged in teaching and research in the development of modern methodologies to distributed control and filtering, networked control systems, fault-tolerant systems, cyber-physical systems and information technology.
Mutaz M. Hamdan
Mutaz M. Hamdan obtained Bachelor of Engineering degree (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering Branch from Palestine Polytechnic University, Hebron, Palestine, in 2006. He received M. Sc. and Ph. D in Systems and Control Engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 2012 and 2019. He has several published journal papers. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include linear and nonlinear control systems, networked control systems, distributed control systems, and secure control systems.
Uthman A. Baroudi
Uthman A. Baroudi is currently an associate professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He received his B.Sc. and M.S. degrees from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 1988 and 1990, respectively and in 2000, he received his Ph.D. from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, all in Electrical Engineering. In 2000, he joined Nortel Networks, Ottawa, Canada, to work in R&D for next generation wireless networks. His research interests lie in the areas of cloud robotics networks, network design for IoT, cyber physical systems and security. Dr. Baroudi has over 100 publications in referred Journal and Conference Proceedings, and 34 US patents.