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From Static to Adaptive Defense: Federated Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning-Driven Moving Target Defense Against DoS Attacks in UAV Swarm Networks

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  • Haebom

Author

Yuyang Zhou, Guang Cheng, Kang Du, Zihan Chen, Tian Qin, Yuyu Zhao

Outline

This paper proposes a novel federated multi-agent deep reinforcement learning (FMADRL)-based Moving Target Defense (MTD) framework to mitigate denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on low-altitude networks in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarm environments. To address the DoS threat posed by UAVs' open wireless environment, dynamic topology, and resource constraints, we design lightweight, coordinated MTD mechanisms, including leader switching, path mutation, and frequency hopping. The defense problem is formulated as a multi-agent partially observed Markov decision process (POMDP) to capture the uncertainty of the UAV swarm under attack. Each UAV is equipped with a policy agent that autonomously selects MTD actions based on partial observations and local experience. Using a policy gradient-based algorithm, the UAVs jointly optimize their policies through reward-weighted aggregation. Simulation results show that the proposed method improves attack mitigation rates by up to 34.6%, reduces mean recovery time by up to 94.6%, and reduces energy consumption and defense costs by up to 29.3% and 98.3%, respectively, compared to state-of-the-art baselines.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways:
We present the potential of the FMADRL-based MTD framework as an effective defense mechanism against DoS attacks in low-altitude networks.
We verify the effectiveness of lightweight distributed defense mechanisms such as leader switching, path mutation, and frequency hopping.
It shows high adaptability to various DoS attack strategies and effective mitigation rate.
Achieve energy efficiency and cost efficiency simultaneously.
Limitations:
These results are limited to a simulation environment and require performance verification in a real environment.
Further research is needed to determine the generalizability of this approach to different types of DoS attacks.
Additional consideration is needed for constraints of real environments, such as communication delays and communication errors of UAVs.
Scalability evaluation for large-scale UAV swarms is required.
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