Design and Operation of Secure Multi-Agent Networks

Abstract

Networks and distributed systems will play an increasingly fundamental role on the battlefield and in other operating theaters of interest to the U.S. Army, where success relies critically on integrity and availability of network resources. Despite redundancy in numbers, protected communication, and supervised operation, studies and real-world incidents have demonstrated how capable adversaries can disrupt networked operations by observing the behavior of a few units, spoofing exchanged messages, and tampering with coordination protocols.Crucially, it is the networked coordination among the units that introduce these vulnerabilities, which have neither been analyzed nor considered in the design, implementation, and operation of network-centric protocols.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 20, 2021
Accession Number
AD1205976

Entities

Organizations

  • University of California, Riverside

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Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Availability
  • Battlefields
  • California
  • Classification
  • Closed Loop Systems
  • Contracts
  • Control Systems
  • Decomposition
  • Detectors
  • Dynamics
  • Information Operations
  • Information Processing
  • Instructions
  • Linear Systems
  • Military Research
  • Monitoring
  • Navigation
  • Network Science
  • Office Buildings
  • Redundancy
  • Resonant Frequency
  • Security
  • Steady State
  • Training
  • Trajectories
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Cybersecurity.
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