Stability of networked control systems under malicious attacks and bit rate constraints

This article investigates the stability of networked control systems under two types of malicious attacks and bit rate constraints. The malicious attacks may lead to parameter mismatches, including scaling variable mismatches between the encoder and decoder sides and discrepancies between the data sent by the encoder and received by the decoder, causing system instability. To address these issues, scaling variable update rules are proposed for the encoder and decoder sides separately to mitigate the adverse effects of malicious attacks. A control strategy featuring a compensation term is designed to counteract the detrimental impacts of the mismatch. A lower bound on the bit rate is established to prevent quantization saturation and achieve exponential stability of the system. Finally, confirmatory and comparative simulations showcase the effectiveness of the theoretical insights and the merits of the proposed strategies, respectively.