PSP: A Framework to Allocate Resources to Power Storage Systems under Cyber-Physical Attacks

Abstract

This risk assessment of the smart grid focuses on energy storage, which is essential but largely unaddressed by the current literature. This work concentrates on actions (such as decreasing or increasing power reserve and power dispatch, performing load curtailment or load shedding, or repair of nodes) the defender should take to meet power demand at minimum operating cost in the presence of cyber-physical attacks on the power and information infrastructure of the smart grid. In this paper, we formulate a Power Storage Protection (PSP) framework against a fixed opponent (adversary). We fix the strategy for the adversary and model the problem as a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) from the perspective of the defender (power utility) and solve it using POMDP solver. We provide a theoretical framework for formulating the above problem and provide experimental results to support our claim using a simplified PSP scenario in which optimal POMDP policy is computed efficiently.

Contributors

Yatin Wadhawan

Dr. Clifford Neuman

Dr. AlMajali Anas

Conference

Publication date: August 2018

Publication date (Print): August 2018

Pages: 57-66

Affiliations

[1 ]University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

[2 ]The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/ICS2018.7

Copyright statement: © Wadhawan et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of ICS & SCADA 2018

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Conference name: 5th International Symposium for ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research 2018

Conference acronym: ICS-CSR 2018

Conference number: 5

Conference location: University of Hamburg, Germany

Conference date: 29 - 30 August 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: ICS & SCADA Cyber Security Research

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing