Abstract
A software-defined active synchronous detection (SDASD) is presented to protect networked microgrids (NMs) from cyberattacks on SDN network and power bot attacks on inverter controllers of distributed energy resources (DERs). A HostStatus-Checker is designed and embedded in an SDN controller to authenticate the entity of hosts for data communication of NMs. Based on the secured communication layer, active synchronous detection method is introduced to efficiently detect power bot attacks on DER controllers in NMs without impeding system normal operations. Extensive tests show that SDASD can detect and mitigate malicious attacks online and serve as a powerful safeguard for monitoring and protecting future NMs.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 8586966 |
| Pages (from-to) | 1613-1622 |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jul 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
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Funding
Manuscript received July 9, 2018; revised November 2, 2018; accepted December 17, 2018. Date of publication December 24, 2018; date of current version June 20, 2019. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grants CNS-1647209, ECCS-1611095, and ECCS-1831811, in part by the Office of the Provost, University of Connecticut, in part by the Eversource Energy Center, and in part by the UTC Fellowship. Paper no. TSTE-00679-2018. (Corresponding author: Peng Zhang.) Y. Li and P. Zhang are with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269 USA (e-mail:, [email protected]; [email protected]). This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grants CNS-1647209, ECCS-1611095, and ECCS-1831811, in part by the Office of the Provost, University of Connecticut, in part by the Eversource Energy Center, and in part by the UTC Fellowship. Paper no. TSTE- 00679-2018.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Eversource Energy Center | |
| National Science Foundation | ECCS-1611095, CNS-1647209, ECCS-1831811, 1831811, 1611095, 1647209 |
| University of Connecticut | |
| Office of the Provost, Central Michigan University | |
| Office of the Vice Provost for Research, Boston College | |
| University Transportation Centers |
Keywords
- Cyberattack
- active synchronous detection
- cyber-physical security
- distributed energy resources
- host location hijacking
- networked microgrids
- software-define networking
