On the Need of Neuromorphic Twins to Detect Denial-of-Service Attacks on Communication Networks

As we become more and more dependent on communication technologies, resilience against any attacks on communication networks is important to guarantee the digital sovereignty of our society. New developments of communication networks approach the problem of resilience through in-network computing ap...

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Published in:IEEE/ACM transactions on networking 2024-08, Vol.32 (4), p.2875-2887
Main Authors: Boche, Holger, Schaefer, Rafael F., Poor, H. Vincent, Fitzek, Frank H. P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
6G mobile communication
algorithmic detection
Blum-Shub-Smale machine
Denial-of-service attack
digital twin
Digital twins
Hardware
Jamming
jamming attack
neuromorphic computing
neuromorphic twin
Resilience
Turing machines
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Summary:As we become more and more dependent on communication technologies, resilience against any attacks on communication networks is important to guarantee the digital sovereignty of our society. New developments of communication networks approach the problem of resilience through in-network computing approaches for higher protocol layers, while the physical layer remains an open problem. This is particularly true for wireless communication systems which are inherently vulnerable to adversarial attacks due to the open nature of the wireless medium. In denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, an active adversary is able to completely disrupt the communication and it has been shown that Turing machines are incapable of detecting such attacks. As Turing machines provide the fundamental limits of digital information processing and therewith of digital twins, this implies that even the most powerful digital twins that preserve all information of the physical network error-free are not capable of detecting such attacks. This stimulates the question of how powerful the information processing hardware must be to enable the detection of DoS attacks. Therefore, in this paper the need of neuromorphic twins is advocated and by the use of Blum-Shub-Smale machines a first implementation that enables the detection of DoS attacks is shown. This result holds for both cases of with and without constraints on the input and jamming sequences of the adversary.
ISSN:1063-6692
1558-2566
DOI:10.1109/TNET.2024.3369018