Optimal Denial-of-Service Attacks Against Status Updating
Saad Kriouile, Mohamad Assaad, Laboratory of Signals and Systems (L2S) CentraleSupelec, France; Deniz Gündüz, Touraj Soleymani, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, United Kingdom
Session:
Age of Information 3
Track:
19: Age of Information
Location:
Lamda
Presentation Time:
Tue, 9 Jul, 14:25 - 14:45
Session Chair:
Saad Kriouile, CentraleSupelec
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate denial-of-service attacks against status updating. The target system is modeled by a Markov chain and an unreliable wireless channel, and the performance of status updating in the target system is measured based on two metrics: age of information and age of incorrect information. Our objective is to devise optimal attack policies that strike a balance between the deterioration of the system's performance and the adversary's energy. We model the optimal problem as a Markov decision process and prove rigorously that the optimal jamming policy is a threshold-based policy under both metrics. In addition, we provide a low-complexity algorithm to obtain the threshold of the jamming policy. Our numerical results show that the networked system with the age-of-incorrect-information metric is less sensitive to jamming attacks than with the age-of-information metric.