Decentralized Multi-Agent Swarms for Autonomous Grid Security in Industrial IoT: A Consensus-based Approach

תקציר מקורי באנגליתarXiv:2601.17303v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) environments scale to tens of thousands of connected devices, centralized security architectures introduce latency bottlenecks that sophisticated attackers can exploit to compromise an entire manufacturing ecosystem. We present a Decentralized Multi-Agent Swarm (DMAS) architecture that deploys autonomous agents at each edge gateway, forming a distributed defense layer for IIoT networks. Rather than relying on static firewalls or cloud-forwarded telemetry, DMAS agents coordinate through a lightweight peer-to-peer protocol, detecting threats locally without cloud dependency. We describe a Consensus-based Threat Validation (CVT) protocol in which agents collectively vote on detected threats, enabling n