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Modern power grids are undergoing significant changes driven by information and communication technologies (ICTs), and evolving into smart grids with higher efficiency and lower operation cost. Using ICTs, however, comes with an inevitable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Hanyu Zeng , Pengfei Zhou , Xin Lou , Zhen Wei Ng , David K. Y. Yau , Marianne Winslett

As an important cyber-physical system (CPS), smart grid is highly vulnerable to cyber attacks. Amongst various types of attacks, false data injection attack (FDIA) proves to be one of the top-priority cyber-related issues and has received…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yang Li , Xinhao Wei , Yuanzheng Li , Zhaoyang Dong , Mohammad Shahidehpour

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

This paper proposes a cyber-resilient distributed control strategy equipped with attack detection capabilities for islanded AC microgrids in the presence of bounded stealthy cyber attacks affecting both frequency and power information…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-02 Vaibhav Vaishnav , Anoop Jain , Dushyant Sharma

Power grids heavily rely on Automatic Generation Control (AGC) systems to maintain grid stability by balancing generation and demand. However, the increasing digitization and interconnection of power grid infrastructure expose AGC systems…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-29 Vasileios Dimitropoulos , Andreas D. Syrmakesis , Nikos Hatziargyriou

The urgent need for the decarbonization of power girds has accelerated the integration of renewable energy. Concurrently the increasing distributed energy resources (DER) and advanced metering infrastructures (AMI) have transformed the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-12 Jip Kim , Siddharth Bhela , James Anderson , Gil Zussman

Data attacks on meter measurements in the power grid can lead to errors in state estimation. This paper presents a new data attack model where an adversary produces changes in state estimation despite failing bad-data detection checks. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-05-11 Deepjyoti Deka , Ross Baldick , Sriram Vishwanath

We propose a generative adversarial network (GAN) based deep learning method that serves the dual role of both identification and mitigation of cyber-attacks in wide-area damping control loops of power systems. Two specific types of attacks…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-09 Jishnudeep Kar , Aranya Chakrabortty

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

In digital substations, security events pose significant challenges to the sustained operation of power systems. To mitigate these challenges, the implementation of robust defense strategies is critically important. A thorough process of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Aydin Zaboli , Junho Hong

Most traditional false data injection attack (FDIA) detection approaches rely on a key assumption, i.e., the power system can be accurately modeled. However, the transmission line parameters are dynamic and cannot be accurately known during…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-09 Bowen Xu , Fanghong Guo , Changyun Wen , Ruilong Deng , Wen-An Zhang

The application of Deep Learning-based Schemes (DLSs) for detecting False Data Injection Attacks (FDIAs) in smart grids has attracted significant attention. This paper demonstrates that adversarial attacks, carefully crafted FDIAs, can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Ahmad Mohammad Saber , Aditi Maheshwari , Amr Youssef , Deepa Kundur

Semi-supervised and unsupervised Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN)-based methods have been gaining popularity in anomaly detection task recently. However, GAN training is somewhat challenging and unstable. Inspired from previous work in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-20 Ha Son Vu , Daisuke Ueta , Kiyoshi Hashimoto , Kazuki Maeno , Sugiri Pranata , Sheng Mei Shen

Recent studies have demonstrated that smart grids are vulnerable to stealthy false data injection attacks (SFDIAs), as SFDIAs can bypass residual-based bad data detection mechanisms. The SFDIA detection has become one of the focuses of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Xuefei Yin , Yanming Zhu , Yi Xie , Jiankun Hu

System restoration is critical for power system resilience, nonetheless, its growing reliance on artificial intelligence (AI)-based load forecasting introduces significant cybersecurity risks. Inaccurate forecasts can lead to infeasible…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-07 Chen Chao , Zixiao Ma , Ziang Zhang

This paper presents a real-time non-probabilistic detection mechanism to detect load-redistribution (LR) attacks against energy management systems (EMSs). Prior studies have shown that certain LR attacks can bypass conventional bad data…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Ramin Kaviani , Kory W. Hedman

False data injection attacks (FDIAs) represent a major class of attacks that aim to break the integrity of measurements by injecting false data into the smart metering devices in power grids. To the best of authors' knowledge, no study has…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-28 Osman Boyaci , Amarachi Umunnakwe , Abhijeet Sahu , Mohammad Rasoul Narimani , Muhammad Ismail , Katherine Davis , Erchin Serpedin

This paper introduces a hybrid attention and autoencoder (AE) model for unsupervised online anomaly detection in time series. The autoencoder captures local structural patterns in short embeddings, while the attention model learns long-term…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Seyed Amirhossein Najafi , Mohammad Hassan Asemani , Peyman Setoodeh

Security issue of distributed state estimation (DSE) is an important prospect for the rapidly growing smart grid ecosystem. Any coordinated cyberattack targeting the distributed system of state estimators can cause unrestrained estimation…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Haftu Tasew Reda , Abdun Mahmood , Adnan Anwar , Naveen Chilamkurti

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are essential tools for detecting network attacks and intrusions. While extensive research has explored the use of supervised Machine Learning for attack detection and characterisation, these…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Georgios Anyfantis , Pere Barlet-Ros