A novel secure diffusion Kalman filter algorithm against false data injection attacks

Abstract

Abstract This paper proposes a novel secure diffusion Kalman filter (dKF) algorithm to improve the estimation performance crippled by false data injection attacks on sensors in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Different from the conventional dKF, each adjacent node in the WSNs is detected to ascertain its trustworthiness before local estimate fusion, so as to form a new secure network topology. Then the combination step is performed to fuse the information collected from the secure topology. The proposed secure dKF algorithm, having a better estimation performance, is robust to false data injection attacks on multiple sensors and partial elements of measurements. For the proposed secure dKF algorithm, its mean and mean‐square performance are derived, based on which its convergence is analysed. Additionally, the estimating and tracking problem of projectile position is investigated to confirm the effectiveness of the proposed secure dKF algorithm. It is shown by simulations that the proposed secure dKF algorithm achieves a significant estimation performance gain.

Keywords

• Interpolation and function approximation (numerical analysis)
• Filtering methods in signal processing
• Communication network design, planning and routing
• Wireless sensor networks