Distributed Robust Filtering for Wireless Sensor Networks with Markov Switching Topologies and Deception Attacks.

This paper is concerned with the distributed full- and reduced-order l 2 - l ∞ state estimation issue for a class of discrete time-invariant systems subjected to both randomly occurring switching topologies and deception attacks over wireless sensor networks. Firstly, a switching topology model is proposed which uses homogeneous Markov chain to reflect the change of filtering networks communication modes. Then, the sector-bound deception attacks among the communication channels are taken into consideration, which could better characterize the filtering network communication security. Additionally, a random variable obeying the Bernoulli distribution is used to describe the phenomenon of the randomly occurring deception attacks. Furthermore, through an adjustable parameter , we can obtain full- and reduced-order l 2 - l ∞ state estimator over sensor networks, respectively. Sufficient conditions are established for the solvability of the addressed switching topology-dependent distributed filtering design in terms of certain convex optimization problem. The purpose of solving the problem is to design a distributed full- and reduced-order filter such that, in the presence of deception attacks, stochastic external interference and switching topologies, the resulting filtering dynamic system is exponentially mean-square stable with prescribed l 2 - l ∞ performance index. Finally, a simulation example is provided to show the effectiveness and flexibility of the designed approach.