Integrated simulation to analyze the impact of cyber-attacks on the power grid

Author

Liu, R. ; Srivastava, A.

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA, USA

fYear

2015

fDate

13-13 April 2015

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

With the development of the smart grid technology, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays a sig- nificant role in the smart grid. ICT enables to realize the smart grid, but also brings cyber vulnerabilities. It is important to analyze the impact of possible cyber-attacks on the power grid. In this paper, a real-time, cyber-physical co-simulation testbed with hardware-in-the-loop capability is discussed. Real-time Digital Simulator (RTDS), Synchrophasor devices, DeterLab, and a wide- area monitoring application with closed-loop control are utilized in the developed testbed. Two different real life cyber-attacks, including TCP SYN flood attack, and man-in-the-middle attack, are simulated on an IEEE standard power system test case to analyze the the impact of these cyber-attacks on the power grid.

Keywords

closed loop systems; digital simulation; phasor measurement; power system simulation; smart power grids; DeterLab; ICT; IEEE standard power system test case; RTDS; TCP SYN flood attack; closed loop control; cyber vulnerability; cyber-attack impact analysis; hardware-in-the-loop capability; information and communication technology; integrated simulation; man-in-the-middle attack; real-time cyber-physical cosimulation testbed; real-time digital simulator; smart power grid technology; synchrophasor devices; wide-area monitoring application; Capacitors; Loading; Phasor measurement units; Power grids; Power system stability; Reactive power; Real-time systems; Cyber Security; Cyber-Physical; DeterLab; RTDS; Real-Time Co-Simulation; Synchrophasor Devices;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems (MSCPES), 2015 Workshop on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7357-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MSCPES.2015.7115395

Filename

7115395