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Denial of Service Attacks on Beam Allocation in Large LEO Constellations
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arXiv:2610.34631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study the vulnerability of beam allocation approaches in large low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite constellations to adversarial demand inflation resulting in denial-of-service attacks. We consider an attack model in which an adversary places (injects) additional terminals and evaluate these attacks against greedy and max-min-fair beam allocation algorithms, each combined with either equal or demand-proportional intra-cell capacity sharing. Vulnerability is measured using mean demand satisfaction, coverage, and the fraction of legitimate users receiving at least a threshold fraction of their requested capacity under several attack heuristics. There is a trade-off for the system between robustness and performance, meaning the algorithm with the most vulnerability to the attacks (greedy-proportional) has the highest performance before the attacks. Demand-proportional sharing increases the fraction of under-served users up to 34% under both allocation algorithms, whereas equal sharing limits the increase up to 13%. The sharing rule also changes the most damaging attack allocation in nearly all cases: demand-proportional sharing rewards concentrating injected terminals in the most loaded cells, while equal sharing performs better when distributing these terminals across the least loaded cells. Furthermore, the max-min-fair beam allocation algorithm forces the attacker to use a higher number of targeted cells to result in extensive damage to the system.
Source:https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.34631PreviousLunarRF: A Terrain-Aware Propagation Engine and Pole-Wide 3GPP Surface Coverage Atlas of the Lunar South PoleNextSatellite Intelligence: Distributed Training, Collaborative Inference,and LLM Adaptation in LEO Constellation
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