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Designing a Software Platform for Evaluating Cyber-Attacks on The Electric PowerGrid

abstract: Energy management system (EMS) is at the heart of the operation and control of a modern electrical grid. Because of economic, safety, and security reasons, access to industrial grade EMS and real-world power system data is extremely limited. Therefore, the ability to simulate an EMS is invaluable in researching the EMS in normal and anomalous operating conditions.

I first lay the groundwork for a basic EMS loop simulation in modern power grids and review a class of cybersecurity threats called false data injection (FDI) attacks. Then I propose a software architecture as the basis of software simulation of the EMS loop and explain an actual software platform built using the proposed architecture. I also explain in detail the power analysis libraries used for building the platform with examples and illustrations from the implemented application. Finally, I will use the platform to simulate FDI attacks on two synthetic power system test cases and analyze and visualize the consequences using the capabilities built into the platform. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Computer Science 2019

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:asu.edu/item:53801
Date January 2019
ContributorsKhodadadeh, Roozbeh (Author), Sankar, Lalitha (Advisor), Xue, Guoliang (Advisor), Kosut, Oliver (Committee member), Arizona State University (Publisher)
Source SetsArizona State University
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeMasters Thesis
Format66 pages
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