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Artificial neural network (ANN) provides superior accuracy for nonlinear alternating current (AC) state estimation (SE) in smart grid over traditional methods. However, research has discovered that ANN could be easily fooled by adversarial…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-28 Tian Liu , Tao Shu

Machine learning (ML)-based detectors have been shown to be effective in detecting stealthy false data injection attacks (FDIAs) that can bypass conventional bad data detectors (BDDs) in power systems. However, ML models are also vulnerable…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-07 Yexiang Chen , Subhash Lakshminarayana , H. Vincent Poor

This paper considers a constrained discrete-time linear system subject to actuation attacks. The attacks are modelled as false data injections to the system, such that the total input (control input plus injection) satisfies hard input…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-18 P. A. Trodden , J. M. Maestre , H. Ishii

In this work, we focus on analyzing vulnerability of nonlinear dynamical control systems to stealthy false data injection attacks on sensors. We start by defining the stealthiness notion in the most general form where an attack is…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-10 Amir Khazraei , Miroslav Pajic

False data injection attacks (FDIAs) pose a persistent challenge to AC power system state estimation. In current practice, detection relies primarily on topology-aware residual-based tests that assume malicious measurements can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Chenhan Xiao , Yang Weng

The emergence of novel the dummy data injection attack (DDIA) poses a severe threat to the secure and stable operation of power systems. These attacks are particularly perilous due to the minimal Euclidean spatial separation between the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-09 Zhaoyang Qu , Yunchang Dong , Yang Li , Siqi Song , Tao Jiang , Min Li , Qiming Wang , Lei Wang , Xiaoyong Bo , Jiye Zang , Qi Xu

As one of the largest and most complex systems on earth, power grid (PG) operation and control have stepped forward as a compound analysis on both physical and cyber layers which makes it vulnerable to assaults from economic and security…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Wangkun Xu , Fei Teng

This paper studies the physical consequences of a class of unobservable state-and-topology cyber-physical attacks in which both state and topology data for a sub-network of the network are changed by an attacker to mask a physical attack.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2015-09-03 Jiazi Zhang , Lalitha Sankar

Active distribution networks facilitating bidirectional power exchange with renewable energy resources are susceptible to cyberattacks due to integration of a diverse array of cyber components. This study introduces a grid-level defense…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-18 Hampei Sasahara , Tatsuya Yamada , Jun-ichi Imura , Henrik Sandberg

Machine learning models have achieved great success in supervised learning tasks for end-to-end training, which requires a large amount of labeled data that is not always feasible. Recently, many practitioners have shifted to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Yiwei Lu , Matthew Y. R. Yang , Gautam Kamath , Yaoliang Yu

Gaussian random attacks that jointly minimize the amount of information obtained by the operator from the grid and the probability of attack detection are presented. The construction of the attack is posed as an optimization problem with a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-08 Ke Sun , Inaki Esnaola , Samir M. Perlaza , H. Vincent Poor

This letter proposes a novel, fully distributed, transient-safe resilient secondary control strategies for AC microgrids, addressing unbounded false data injection (FDI) attacks on control input channels. Unlike existing methods that focus…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-08 Mohamadamin Rajabinezhad , Nesa Shams , Yichao Wang , Shan Zuo

In this paper, we introduce a new vulnerability of cyber-physical systems to malicious attack. It arises when the physical plant, that is modeled as a continuous-time LTI system, is controlled by a digital controller. In the sampled-data…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-12 Jihan Kim , Gyunghoon Park , Hyungbo Shim , Yongsoon Eun

Federated Learning (FL) trains a black-box and high-dimensional model among different clients by exchanging parameters instead of direct data sharing, which mitigates the privacy leak incurred by machine learning. However, FL still suffers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Qi Tan , Qi Li , Yi Zhao , Zhuotao Liu , Xiaobing Guo , Ke Xu

Cybersecurity in building energy management is crucial for protecting infrastructure, ensuring data integrity, and preventing unauthorized access or manipulation. This paper investigates the energy efficiency and cybersecurity of building…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-03 Xiaoyu Ge , Kamelia Norouzi , Faegheh Moazeni , Mirel Sehic , Javad Khazaei , Parv Venkitasubramaniam , Rick Blum

New methods that exploit sparse structures arising in smart grid networks are proposed for the state estimation problem when data injection attacks are present. First, construction strategies for unobservable sparse data injection attacks…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-02-17 Mete Ozay , Inaki Esnaola , Fatos T. Yarman Vural , Sanjeev R. Kulkarni , H. Vincent Poor

This paper presents a new framework of identifying a series of cyber data attacks on power system synchrophasor measurements. We focus on detecting "unobservable" cyber data attacks that cannot be detected by any existing method that purely…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-03 Pengzhi Gao , Meng Wang , Joe H. Chow , Scott G. Ghiocel , Bruce Fardanesh , George Stefopoulos , Michael P. Razanousky

The IoT is vulnerable to network attacks, and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) can provide high attack detection accuracy and are easily installed in IoT Servers. However, IDS are seldom evaluated in operational conditions which are…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Mohammed Nasereddin , Mert Nakıp , Erol Gelenbe

Cyber Physical Systems (cps) are deployed in many mission-critical settings, such as medical devices, autonomous vehicular systems and aircraft control management systems. As more and more CPS adopt Deep Neural Networks (Deep Neural Network…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-24 Aarti Kashyap , Syed Mubashir Iqbal , Karthik Pattabiraman , Margo Seltzer

With increasingly deployed deep neural networks in sensitive application domains, such as healthcare and security, it's essential to understand what kind of sensitive information can be inferred from these models. Most known model-targeted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Yuechun Gu , Jiajie He , Keke Chen