Resilient Topology Reconfiguration for Industrial Internet of Things: A Feature-Driven Approach Against Heterogeneous Attacks

Abstract

This paper proposes a feature-driven topology reconfiguration framework to enhance the resilience of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems against heterogeneous attacks. By dynamically partitioning IIoT into subnetworks based on localized attack features and reconstructing each subnetwork with tailored topologies, our framework significantly improves connectivity and communication efficiency. Evaluations on a real-world dataset (Tech-Routers-RF) characterizing IIoT topologies with 2113 nodes show that under diverse attack scenarios, connectivity and communication efficiency improve by more than 70% and 50%, respectively. Leveraging information entropy to quantify the trade-off between structural diversity and connection predictability, our work bridges adaptive network design with real-world attack dynamics, offering a scalable solution for securing large-scale IIoT deployments.