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Detecting anomalies and the corresponding root causes in multivariate time series plays an important role in monitoring the behaviors of various real-world systems, e.g., IT system operations or manufacturing industry. Previous anomaly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Wenzhuo Yang , Kun Zhang , Steven C. H. Hoi

We address the problem of constructing false data injection (FDI) attacks that can bypass the bad data detector (BDD) of a power grid. The attacker is assumed to have access to only power flow measurement data traces (collected over a…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-22 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Abla Kammoun , Merouane Debbah , H. Vincent Poor

Power systems are moving towards hybrid AC/DC grids with the integration of HVDC links, renewable resources and energy storage modules. New models of frequency control have to consider the complex interactions between these components.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2020-06-02 Kaikai Pan , Elyas Rakhshani , Peter Palensky

Nonlinear causal discovery from observational data imposes strict identifiability assumptions on the formulation of structural equations utilized in the data generating process. The evaluation of structure learning methods under assumption…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-12-17 Georg Velev , Stefan Lessmann

As power systems evolve with increased integration of renewable energy sources, they become more complex and vulnerable to both cyber and physical threats. This study validates a centralized Dynamic State Estimation (DSE) algorithm designed…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-05 Emad Abukhousa , Syed Sohail Feroz Syed Afroz , Fahad Alsaeed , Abdulaziz Qwbaiban , A. P. Sakis Meliopoulos

This paper studies physical consequences of unobservable false data injection (FDI) attacks designed only with information inside a sub-network of the power system. The goal of this attack is to overload a chosen target line without being…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2018-05-03 Jiazi Zhang , Zhigang Chu , Lalitha Sankar , Oliver Kosut

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

Physical adversarial attacks are increasingly studied in settings that resemble deployed surveillance systems rather than isolated image benchmarks. In these settings, person detection, multi-object tracking, visible--infrared sensing, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Miguel A. DelaCruz , Patricia Mae Santos , Rafael T. Navarro

As cyber-physical systems grow increasingly interconnected and spatially distributed, ensuring their resilience against evolving cyberattacks has become a critical priority. Spatio-Temporal Anomaly detection plays an important role in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Arun Vignesh Malarkkan , Haoyue Bai , Xinyuan Wang , Anjali Kaushik , Dongjie Wang , Yanjie Fu

An unobservable false data injection (FDI) attack on AC state estimation (SE) is introduced and its consequences on the physical system are studied. With a focus on understanding the physical consequences of FDI attacks, a bi-level…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Jingwen Liang , Lalitha Sankar , Oliver Kosut

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

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

Electric power grids are evolving towards intellectualization such as Smart Grids or active-adaptive networks. Intelligent power network implies usage of sensors, smart meters, electronic devices and sophisticated communication network.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-07-17 Irina Lukicheva , David Pozo , Alexander Kulikov

Online unsupervised detection of anomalies is crucial to guarantee the correct operation of cyber-physical systems and the safety of humans interacting with them. State-of-the-art approaches based on deep learning via neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Daniele Meli

Despite the success of graph neural networks (GNNs), their vulnerability to adversarial attacks poses tremendous challenges for practical applications. Existing defense methods suffer from severe performance decline under unseen attacks,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Shuchang Tao , Qi Cao , Huawei Shen , Yunfan Wu , Bingbing Xu , Xueqi Cheng

Cybersecurity of Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems is drawing significant concerns as data communication increasingly leverages wireless networks. A lot of data-driven methods were develope for detecting cyberattacks, but few are focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Navid Aftabi , Dan Li , Paritosh Ramanan

State estimation estimates the system condition in real-time and provides a base case for other energy management system (EMS) applications including real-time contingency analysis and security-constrained economic dispatch. Recent work in…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2019-12-02 Xingpeng Li , Kory W. Hedman

Advances in edge computing are powering the development and deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) systems to provide advanced services and resource efficiency. However, large-scale IoT-based load-altering attacks (LAAs) can seriously…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-23 Subhash Lakshminarayana , Saurav Sthapit , Hamidreza Jahangir , Carsten Maple , H Vincent Poor

The transition of next generation advanced nuclear reactor systems from analog to fully digital instrumentation and control will necessitate robust mechanisms to safeguard against potential data integrity threats. One challenge is the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Zachery Dahm , Vasileios Theos , Konstantinos Vasili , William Richards , Konstantinos Gkouliaras , Stylianos Chatzidakis

Utility companies are increasingly leveraging residential demand flexibility and the proliferation of smart/IoT devices to enhance the effectiveness of residential demand response (DR) programs through automated device scheduling. However,…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-15 Thusitha Dayaratne , Carsten Rudolph , Ariel Liebman , Mahsa Salehi