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Critical Observability Enforcement in Discrete Event Systems Using Differential Privacy

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  • Jie Zhang

    (Institute of Systems Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau SAR, China)

  • Zhiwu Li

    (Institute of Systems Engineering, Macau University of Science and Technology, Taipa, Macau SAR, China)

Abstract

In the context of discrete event systems (DESs), critical states usually refer to a system configuration of interest, describing certain important system properties, e.g., fault diagnosability, state/language opacity, and state/event concealment. Technically, a DES is critically observable if an intruder can always unambiguously infer, by observing the system output, whether the plant is currently in a predefined set of critical states or the current state set is disjointed with the critical states. In this paper, given a partially observable DES modeled with a finite-state automaton that is not critically observable, we focus on how to make it critically observable, which is achieved by proposing a novel enforcement mechanism based on differential privacy (DP). Specifically, we consider two observations where one observation cannot determine whether a system is currently in the predefined critical states (i.e., the observation violating the critical observability) while the other is randomly generated by the system. When these two observations are processed separately by the differential privacy mechanism (DPM), the system generates an output, exposed to the intruder, that is randomly modified such that its probability approximates the two observations. In other words, the intruder cannot determine the original input of a system by observing its output. In this way, even if the utilized DPM is published to the intruder, they are unable to identify whether critical observability is violated.

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  • Jie Zhang & Zhiwu Li, 2024. "Critical Observability Enforcement in Discrete Event Systems Using Differential Privacy," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 12(23), pages 1-22, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:gam:jmathe:v:12:y:2024:i:23:p:3842-:d:1537655
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    1. Wenyu Li & Siqi Wang & Hongwei Wang & Yunlong Lu, 2024. "Child Health Dataset Publishing and Mining Based on Differential Privacy Preservation," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 12(16), pages 1-11, August.
    2. Haoming Zhu & Gaiyun Liu & Zhenhua Yu & Zhiwu Li, 2023. "Detectability in Discrete Event Systems Using Unbounded Petri Nets," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 11(18), pages 1-28, September.
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