Modeling and performance evaluation of stealthy false data injection attacks on smart grid in the presence of corrupted measurements

DOI10.1016/J.JCSS.2016.04.005zbMATH Open1350.68092arXiv1605.06180OpenAlexW2406619912MaRDI QIDQ314801FDOQ314801

Mark Pickering, Adnan Anwar, Abdun Naser Mahmood

Publication date: 16 September 2016

Published in: Journal of Computer and System Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: The false data injection (FDI) attack cannot be detected by the traditional anomaly detection techniques used in the energy system state estimators. In this paper, we demonstrate how FDI attacks can be constructed blindly, i.e., without system knowledge, including topological connectivity and line reactance information. Our analysis reveals that existing FDI attacks become detectable (consequently unsuccessful) by the state estimator if the data contains grossly corrupted measurements such as device malfunction and communication errors. The proposed sparse optimization based stealthy attacks construction strategy overcomes this limitation by separating the gross errors from the measurement matrix. Extensive theoretical modeling and experimental evaluation show that the proposed technique performs more stealthily (has less relative error) and efficiently (fast enough to maintain time requirement) compared to other methods on IEEE benchmark test systems.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1605.06180

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zbMATH Keywords

blind attackfalse data injectionprincipal component analysis (PCA)smart grid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Factor analysis and principal components; correspondence analysis (62H25) Data encryption (aspects in computer science) (68P25) Cryptography (94A60)

Cites Work

• Robust principal component analysis?
• A Singular Value Thresholding Algorithm for Matrix Completion
• Subspace Methods for Data Attack on State Estimation: A Data Driven Approach

Cited In (2)

• A novel trust-based false data detection method for power systems under false data injection attacks
• Efficient Computations of a Security Index for False Data Attacks in Power Networks

Uses Software

• MATPOWER

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