Asymptotic stabilization under homomorphic encryption: A re-encryption free method

In this paper, we propose methods to encrypted a pre-given dynamic controller with homomorphic encryption, without re-encrypting the control inputs. We first present a preliminary result showing that the coefficients in a pre-given dynamic controller can be scaled up into integers by the zooming-in factor in dynamic quantization, without utilizing re-encryption. However, a sufficiently small zooming-in factor may not always exist because it requires that the convergence speed of the pre-given closed-loop system should be sufficiently fast. Then, as the main result, we design a new controller approximating the pre-given dynamic controller, in which the zooming-in factor is decoupled from the convergence rate of the pre-given closed-loop system. Therefore, there always exist a (sufficiently small) zooming-in factor of dynamic quantization scaling up all the controller's coefficients to integers, and a finite modulus preventing overflow in cryptosystems. The process is asymptotically stable and the quantizer is not saturated.

@article{feng2025_2504.09248,
  title={ Asymptotic stabilization under homomorphic encryption: A re-encryption free method },
  author={ Shuai Feng and Qian Ma and Junsoo Kim and Shengyuan Xu },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.09248},
  year={ 2025 }
}