LQG control under Denial-of-Service attacks: An experimental study

Abstract

Recently, the industrial wireless protocols have been widely used around the world. However, the unreliable communication media between the sensors and the central controller renders the wireless signal channel vulnerable to many attacks. Various efforts have been devoted to study the influence of specific malicious attacks from the aspect of theoretical investigation based on different assumptions. This paper focuses on verifying the optimal Denial-of-Service (DoS) jamming attack strategy on a class of wireless industrial control system from the view of experiments. We first introduce typical control system model and DoS attack model, and an optimal DoS attack schedule against LQG control based on these models. Then, we establish a semi-physical security testbed which consists of virtual plant, physical controller and communication process. We also realize wireless DoS attacks by exploiting the USRP device. Through extensive experiments and analysis, we investigate the performance of different DoS attack strategies on the LQG control system over an inverted pendulum.