Jay Patel
Daniel R. Tauritz
ABSTRACT
Global connectivity from space using proliferated low Earth orbit (P-LEO) satellite constellations can benefit society at large. An increasing number of public and private actors rely on services that are provided from space through satellites, including Earth monitoring, communications, and internet access. As the dependence of society on satellite constellations grows, threats to P-LEO assets are more likely to increase. Developing strategies that are effective and efficient to defend P-LEO constellations against different types of attacks is warranted. As a first step, we develop a framework to evolve defense strategies for a low-fidelity constellation system against selected low-fidelity adversarial actions by evolving attack strategies, and the strategies are evolved using coevolutionary algorithms. Results show that attackers can easily overcome defenses that are unaware and non-reactive to executed attacks and demonstrate that it may be possible to perform meaningful coevolution of attack and defense strategies that consider selective actions on individual satellites in a constellation. Evolved attack and defense strategies have the potential to promote the development of robust, reliable, and secure P-LEO constellations.
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Index Terms
- Adversarial threats to large satellite networks (ATLAS-N): a coevolutionary approach based on flipit
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