Adversarial Information Fusion in Distributed Sensor Networks

Adversarial Signal Processing is an emerging discipline that aims at studying signal processing techniques explicitly thought to withstand the intentional attacks of one or more adversaries aiming at system failure. Its final aim is modeling the inter-play between a Defender, wishing to carry out a certain processing task, and an Attacker, aiming at impeding it. A natural framework to model this inter-play relies on Game-Theory since it provides a powerful mathematical model of conflict and cooperation between rational decision-makers. This framework helps to overcome the so called ”cat & mouse” loop in which researchers and system designers continuously develop new attacks and countermeasures in a never-ending loop. In this project, we apply some general ideas from the Adv-SP field to the problem of Adversar- ial Information Fusion in Distributed Sensor Networks. In these networks, some distributed sensors, for instance autonomous sensors, actuators, mobile devices, must provide some information about the state of an observed sys- tem. In the centralized approach, the information collected by the sensors is sent to a ”Fusion Center” (FC). By using all the information received from the nodes, the FC is responsible of making final global decision about the state of the system of interest. The actual process of integrating the information submitted by several sources into a coherent understanding of the system state is called ”Information Fusion”. Therefore, Information Fusion, in general, refers to particular mathematical functions, algorithms, methods and procedures for combining information. This term is very flexible and the classification of various techniques depends on different perspectives i.e. type of information, type of data representation, level of information abstraction, and others.

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