On Connections between Opacity and Security in Linear Systems

Opacity and attack detectability are important properties for any system as they allow the states to remain private and malicious attacks to be detected, respectively. In this paper, we show that a fundamental trade-off exists between these properties for a linear dynamical system, in the sense that...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2022-06
Main Authors: John, Varkey M, Katewa, Vaibhav
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Dynamical systems
Linear systems
Opacity
Privacy
Remote control
Security
Tradeoffs
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Summary:Opacity and attack detectability are important properties for any system as they allow the states to remain private and malicious attacks to be detected, respectively. In this paper, we show that a fundamental trade-off exists between these properties for a linear dynamical system, in the sense that if an opaque system is subjected to attacks, all attacks cannot be detected. We first characterize the opacity conditions for the system in terms of its weakly unobservable subspace (WUS) and show that the number of opaque states is proportional to the size of the WUS. Further, we establish conditions under which increasing the opaque sets also increases the set of undetectable attacks. This highlights a fundamental trade-off between security and privacy. We demonstrate application of our results on a remotely controlled automotive system.
ISSN:2331-8422