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Robust control and maintenance of the grid relies on accurate data. Both PMUs and state estimators are prone to false data injection attacks. Thus, it is crucial to have a mechanism for fast and accurate detection of an agent maliciously…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-03-10 Hanie Sedghi , Edmond Jonckheere

Meter measurements in the power grid are susceptible to manipulation by adversaries, that can lead to errors in state estimation. This paper presents a general framework to study attacks on state estimation by adversaries capable of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-06-16 Deepjyoti Deka , Ross Baldick , Sriram Vishwanath

The high penetration of voltage source converters in modern smart microgrids enhances operational flexibility while introducing complex cyber-physical vulnerabilities. Existing cyber-attack studies either require detailed knowledge of…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-15 Hongwei Zhen , Ze Yu , Xin Xiang , Mingyang Sun , Wuhua Li

Data injection attacks (DIAs) pose a significant cybersecurity threat to the Smart Grid by enabling an attacker to compromise the integrity of data acquisition and manipulate estimated states without triggering bad data detection…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-26 Ke Sun , Iñaki Esnaola , H. Vincent Poor

Security issues have gathered growing interest within the control systems community, as physical components and communication networks are increasingly vulnerable to cyber attacks. In this context, recent literature has studied increasingly…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Xiaoyu Luo , Chongrong Fang , Jianping He , Chengcheng Zhao , Dario Paccagnan

The current paper addresses relevant network security vulnerabilities introduced by network devices within the emerging paradigm of Internet of Things (IoT) as well as the urgent need to mitigate the negative effects of some types of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Pedro Manso , Jose Moura , Carlos Serrao

The vulnerability of false data injection attacks on real-time electricity pricing for the power grid market has been recently explored. Previous work has focused on the impact caused by attackers that compromise pricing signals and send…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Jairo Giraldo , Alvaro Cárdenas , Nicanor Quijano

In this paper, the impact of false information injection is investigated for linear dynamic systems with multiple sensors. It is assumed that the system is unsuspecting the existence of false information and the adversary is trying to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-10-30 Jingyang Lu , Ruixin Niu

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

This paper outlines a cyber-physical authentication strategy to protect power system infrastructure against false data injection (FDI) attacks. We demonstrate that it is feasible to use small, low-cost, yet highly attack-resistant security…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-02 Martin Higgins , Keith Mayes , Fei Teng

In the era of Industry 4.0, ensuring the resilience of cyber-physical systems against sophisticated cyber threats is increasingly critical. This study proposes a pioneering AI-based control framework that enhances short-term voltage…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-14 Yang Li , Shitu Zhang , Yuanzheng Li

The security of energy supply in a power grid critically depends on the ability to accurately estimate the state of the system. However, manipulated power flow measurements can potentially hide overloads and bypass the bad data detection…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-16 Chenguang Wang , Kaikai Pan , Simon Tindemans , Peter Palensky

Fast and accurate detection of cyberattacks is a key element for a cyber-resilient power system. Recently, data-driven detectors and physics-based Moving Target Defences (MTD) have been proposed to detect false data injection (FDI) attacks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-22 Wangkun Xu , Martin Higgins , Jianhong Wang , Imad M. Jaimoukha , Fei Teng

Power grids increasingly need real-time situational awareness under the ever-evolving cyberthreat landscape. Advances in snapshot-based system identification approaches have enabled accurately estimating states and topology from a snapshot…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-17 Shimiao Li , Guannan Qu , Bryan Hooi , Vyas Sekar , Soummya Kar , Larry Pileggi

This paper considers a method of coding the sensor outputs in order to detect stealthy false data injection attacks. An intelligent attacker can design a sequence of data injection to sensors and actuators that pass the state estimator and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Fei Miao , Quanyan Zhu , Miroslav Pajic , George J. Pappas

For a safe and reliable operation of the smart grid, timely detection of cyber-attacks is of critical importance. Moreover, considering smarter and more capable attackers, robust detection mechanisms are needed against a diverse range of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Mehmet Necip Kurt , Yasin Yilmaz , Xiaodong Wang

In this paper, we propose an effective and easily deployable approach to detect the presence of stealthy sensor attacks in industrial control systems, where (legacy) control devices critically rely on accurate (and usually non-encrypted)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Suman Sourav , Binbin Chen

With the growing concern about the security and privacy of smart grid systems, cyberattacks on critical power grid components, such as state estimation, have proven to be one of the top-priority cyber-related issues and have received…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Muhammad Akbar Husnoo , Adnan Anwar , Haftu Tasew Reda , Nasser Hosseinzadeh , Shama Naz Islam , Abdun Naser Mahmood , Robin Doss

In this paper, a novel graph-theoretic framework is proposed to generalize the analysis of a broad set of security attacks, including observability and data injection attacks, that target the state estimator of a smart grid. First, the…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2020-02-05 Anibal Sanjab , Walid Saad , Tamer Başar

This paper proposes a cyber-resilient secure control framework for autonomous vehicles (AVs) subject to false data injection (FDI) threats as actuator attacks. The framework integrates data-driven modeling, event-triggered communication,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-16 Yashar Mousavi , Mahsa Tavasoli , Ibrahim Beklan Kucukdemiral , Umit Cali , Abdolhossein Sarrafzadeh , Ali Karimoddini , Afef Fekih