Cyber vulnerabilities on agent-based smart grid protection system

Md Shihanur Rahman; Hemanshu R. Pota; Md Jahangir Hossain

doi:10.1109/PESGM.2014.6939298

Cyber vulnerabilities on agent-based smart grid protection system

Md Shihanur Rahman, Hemanshu R. Pota, Md Jahangir Hossain

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Abstract

This paper presents an innovative approach to identify potential impacts of cyber attacks on agent-based smart grid protection relays. An agent-based protection framework is developed, where an attacker may injects a malicious breaker trip command to the relay settings. This could cause unintentional tripping of CBs, even if there is no physical disturbance on the system. It results a healthy line of smart grids to be out-of-service that leads cascading failures. An algorithm is proposed to identify such kind of attack generated latency caused by unexpected malicious trip command. Using this algorithm agents can check the breaker statuses to ensure which line is out-of-service due to unintentional tripping. Furthermore, the proposed technique will be able to distinguish cyber attacks from faults on the system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2014 IEEE PES General Meeting
Subtitle of host publication	Conference & Exposition
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781479964154
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/PESGM.2014.6939298
Publication status	Published - 2014
Externally published	Yes
Event	2014 IEEE PES General Meeting - National Harbor, MD, United States Duration: 27 Jul 2014 → 31 Jul 2014

Publication series

Name	IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
ISSN (Print)	1944-9925

Conference

Conference	2014 IEEE PES General Meeting
Country/Territory	United States
City	National Harbor, MD
Period	27/07/14 → 31/07/14

Keywords

agent
cyber attack
phasor measurement
protection relay
security
smart grid

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