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This paper provides an enhanced modeling of the contingency response that collectively reflects high-fidelity physical and operational characteristics of power grids. Integrating active and reactive power contingency responses into the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-18 Tuncay Altun , Ramtin Madani , Alper Atamturk , Ross Baldick , Ali Davoudi

Fault injection attacks deliberately inject faults into a device via physical channels to disturb its regular execution. Adversaries can effectively deduce secrets by analyzing both the normal and faulty outputs, posing serious threats to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-07 Xi Yang , Taolue Chen , Yuqi Chen , Fu Song , Chundong Wang , Zhilin Wu

Computer systems are facing biggest threat in the form of malicious data which causing denial of service, information theft, financial and credibility loss etc. No defense technique has been proved successful in handling these threats.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2010-06-24 Muhammad Imran Shafi , Muhammad Akram , Sikandar Hayat , Imran Sohail

Parallel cyber--physical attacks (PCPA) can simultaneously damage physical transmission lines and disrupt measurement data transmission in power grids, severely impairing system situational awareness and attack diagnosis. This paper…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Junhao Ren , Kai Zhao , Guangxiao Zhang , Xinghua Liu , Chao Zhai , Gaoxi Xiao

We consider a scenario in which a DoS attacker with the limited power resource jams a wireless network through which the packet from a sensor is sent to a remote estimator to estimate the system state. To degrade the estimation quality with…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Jiahu Qin , Menglin Li , Ling Shi , Yu Kang

This paper addresses the security allocation problem in a networked control system under stealthy injection attacks. The networked system is comprised of interconnected subsystems which are represented by nodes in a digraph. An adversary…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-03 Anh Tung Nguyen , Sribalaji C. Anand , André M. H. Teixeira

Networked Control Systems typically come with a limited communication bandwidth and thus require special care when designing the underlying control and triggering law. A method that allows to consider hard constraints on the communication…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-14 Stefan Wildhagen , Matthias Pezzutto , Luca Schenato , Frank Allgöwer

We study the optimal design of stealthy attacks against partially observed linear control systems. We first propose a novel likelihood-based detection mechanism derived from the innovation process, based on which we quantify stealthiness…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Haosheng Zhou , Ruimeng Hu

We propose a new defense mechanism against undetected infiltration into controllers in cyber-physical systems. To this end, we cautiously design the outputs of the sensors that monitor the state of the system. Different from the defense…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-01-08 Muhammed O. Sayin , Tamer Başar

The rise of cyber-security concerns has brought significant attention to the analysis and design of cyber-physical systems (CPSs). Among the various types of cyberattacks, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and false data injection (FDI)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-06 Wenjie Liu , Lidong Li , Jian Sun , Fang Deng , Gang Wang , Jie Chen

This paper considers the problem of controlling inverter-interfaced distributed energy resources (DERs) in a distribution grid to solve an AC optimal power flow (OPF) problem in real time. The AC OPF includes voltage constraints, and seeks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-16 Antonin Colot , Yiting Chen , Bertrand Cornelusse , Jorge Cortes , Emiliano Dall'Anese

The integration of information and physical systems in modern power grids has heightened vulnerabilities to False Data Injection Attacks (FDIAs), threatening the secure operation of power cyber-physical systems (CPS). This paper reviews…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Xiaoyong Bo

Model predictive control (MPC) is a popular strategy for urban traffic management that is able to incorporate physical and user defined constraints. However, the current MPC methods rely on finite horizon predictions that are unable to…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Sadra Sadraddini , Calin Belta

Cyber-Physical Systems are the result of integrating information and communication technologies into physical systems. One particular case are Cyber-Physical Power Systems (CPPS), which use communication technologies to perform real-time…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-11-28 Michel Bessani , Rodrigo Z. Fanucchi , Alexandre C. C. Delbem , Carlos D. Maciel

Model predictive control (MPC) is one of the most successful modern control methods. It relies on repeatedly solving a finite-horizon optimal control problem and applying the beginning piece of the optimal input. In this paper, we develop a…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Eya Guizani , Julian Berberich

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) use computational resources to control physical process and provide critical services. For this reason, an attack in these systems may have dangerous consequences in the physical world. Hence, resilience is a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Mariana Segovia , Jose Rubio-Hernan , Ana Rosa Cavalli , Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro

In this paper, we propose and analyze an attack detection scheme for securing the physical layer of a networked control system against attacks where the adversary replaces the true observations with stationary false data. An independent and…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-01-06 Arunava Naha , Andre Teixeira , Anders Ahlen , Subhrakanti Dey

It is challenging for a security analyst to detect or defend against cyber-attacks. Moreover, traditional defense deployment methods require the security analyst to manually enforce the defenses in the presence of uncertainties about the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Xiaofan Zhou , Simon Yusuf Enoch , Dong Seong Kim

False Data Injection (FDI) attacks are a significant threat to modern power systems. Although numerous research studies have focused on FDI attacks on power systems, these studies have primarily concentrated on designing or detecting DC FDI…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-03-03 Mohammadreza Iranpour , Mohammad Rasoul Narimani

Networked Control Systems (NCSs) are integral in critical infrastructures such as power grids, transportation networks, and production systems. Ensuring the resilient operation of these large-scale NCSs against cyber-attacks is crucial for…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Sribalaji C. Anand , Anh Tung Nguyen , André M. H. Teixeira , Henrik Sandberg , Karl H. Johansson