Event-triggered distributed secure state estimation for homologous sensor attacks

Abstract

Network security technology is capable of mitigating attack signals launched by malicious attackers, thereby safeguarding and bolstering system security. Secure state estimation is a type of network defense technology that involves reconstructing the system state by measuring potential attacks. The relevant research has also been expanded to distributed systems to enable collaborative secure state estimation among different agents facing homogeneous attacks; however, such research significantly enhance the communication load of the system. On the other hand, if the homogeneous attack is non-existent or consistent, excessive network communication is definitely inefficient. An event-triggered approach is a potent technique that can alleviate communication overhead while having minimal impact on system performance. This paper proposes a mechanism for event-triggered transmission in the context of distributed secure state estimation. While communication latency and data transmission disorder may be present within the communication network, the estimation error of the proposed observer is constrained and bounded. The simulation results indicate that for stable malicious attack signals, system communication can be divided into high-frequency and low-frequency communication periods. The simulation results also shows that the maximum estimation error is proportional to the trigger threshold, allowing the observer’s performance to be finely tuned to the required precision.