A Survey on Security Communication and Control for Smart Grids Under Malicious Cyber Attacks

By Chen Peng, Hongtao Sun, Mingjin Yang, Yulong Wang. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics. Systems, 2019

309 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Smart grids (SGs), which can be classified into a class of networked distributed control systems, are designed to deliver electricity from various plants through a communication network to serve individual consumers. Due to the complexity of environments, the distribution of the spatial locations and vulnerability of the communication networks, cyber security emerges to be a critical issue because millions of electronic devices are interconnected via communication networks throughout critical power facilities. This paper addresses a comprehensive security understanding of the SGs framework, attacks scenarios, detection/protection methods, estimation and control strategies from both communication and control viewpoints. Also, some potential challenges and solution approaches are discussed to deal with the threat issues of SGs. At last, some conclusions and highlight future research directions are presented.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Control and Systems Engineering, Hardware and Architecture

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In Computer Networks and Communications

1. Qing-Long Han
2. Xiaohua Ge
3. Chen Peng
4. Derui Ding
5. Engang Tian
6. Hongtao Sun
7. Hongyi Li
8. Jun Wang

In Control and Systems Engineering

1. Qing-Long Han
2. Xiaohua Ge
3. Derui Ding
4. Chen Peng
5. Engang Tian
6. Hongtao Sun
7. Hongyi Li
8. Jun Wang

In Hardware and Architecture

1. Engang Tian
2. Chen Peng
3. Qing-Long Han
4. Derui Ding
5. Xiaohua Ge

Citations in the corpus

• Memory-Based Event-Triggering H∞ Load Frequency Control for Power Systems Under Deception Attacks (2020, background): “Notice that the communication and control signals in the networked power systems are commonly transmitted through public networks, which makes them vulnerable to cyber attacks [13], [23], [28], [31].”
• Switching-Like Event-Triggered Control for Networked Control Systems Under Malicious Denial of Service Attacks (2020, background): “Networked control systems (NCSs) have received more attention in the past few decades because of their widespread applications, such as automobiles, multiagent systems, smart grids, and so on [1], [2].”
• Event-Triggered Consensus Control for Multi-Agent Systems Against False Data-Injection Attacks (2019, background): “Hence, the problem of security control has aroused researchers’ enormous interest [34]–[36].”
• Secure State Estimation and Control of Cyber-Physical Systems: A Survey (2021, background): “For example, the recent progress of secure communication and control of smart grids under malicious cyberattacks is reviewed in [72], where different attack models and effects as well as security strategies are reviewed from IT protection and secure control-theoretic perspectives.”