Against Data Attacks on Smart Grid Operations: Attack Mechanisms and Security Measures

This chapter provides a survey and some highlights of recent developments on cyber security issues related to smart grid operations. In particular, we present data attack models and attack mechanisms on system state estimation, generation dispatch, and market operations. Security measures via sensor protection and data authentication are discussed. Although presented in the context of a smart grid, the main ideas are applicable to general cyber physical systems.

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