Summation Detector for False Data-Injection Attack in Cyber-Physical Systems

In this paper, from the perspectives of defenders, we consider the detection problems of false data-injection attacks in cyber-physical systems (CPSs) with white noise. The false data-injection attacks usually modify the sensor data to make CPSs unstable and keep stealth for the χ2 detector. To guarantee system security, a novel detector, that is, the summation (SUM) detector, is proposed to detect the false data-injection attacks. Different from the χ2 detector, the SUM detector not only utilizes the current compromise information but also collects all historical information to reveal the threat. Its evaluation value also satisfies χ2 distribution when no attacks compromise the systems, and the false alarm rate can be restricted to less than any given value by choosing the proper threshold value. Furthermore, an improved false data-injection attack with a time-variable increment coefficient is introduced based on the existing approaches. The effects of the SUM detector are also verified for the traditional and the improved false data-injection attacks, respectively. Finally, some simulation results are given to demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of the SUM detector.