TY - GEN
T1 - Design of a high-fidelity testing framework for secure electric grid control
AU - Yoginath, Srikanth B.
AU - Perumalla, Kalyan S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2015/1/23
Y1 - 2015/1/23
N2 - A solution methodology and implementation components are presented that can uncover unwanted, unintentional or unanticipated effects on electric grids from changes to actual electric grid control software. A new design is presented to leapfrog over the limitations of current modeling and testing techniques for cyber technologies in electric grids. We design a fully virtualized approach in which actual, unmodified operational software under test is enabled to interact with simulated surrogates of electric grids. It enables the software to influence the (simulated) grid operation and vice versa in a controlled, high fidelity environment. Challenges in achieving such capability include achieving low-overhead time control mechanisms in hypervisor schedulers, network capture and time-stamping, translation of network packets emanating from grid software into discrete events of virtual grid models, translation back from virtual sensors/actuators into data packets to control software, and transplanting the entire system onto an accurately and efficiently maintained virtual-time plane.
AB - A solution methodology and implementation components are presented that can uncover unwanted, unintentional or unanticipated effects on electric grids from changes to actual electric grid control software. A new design is presented to leapfrog over the limitations of current modeling and testing techniques for cyber technologies in electric grids. We design a fully virtualized approach in which actual, unmodified operational software under test is enabled to interact with simulated surrogates of electric grids. It enables the software to influence the (simulated) grid operation and vice versa in a controlled, high fidelity environment. Challenges in achieving such capability include achieving low-overhead time control mechanisms in hypervisor schedulers, network capture and time-stamping, translation of network packets emanating from grid software into discrete events of virtual grid models, translation back from virtual sensors/actuators into data packets to control software, and transplanting the entire system onto an accurately and efficiently maintained virtual-time plane.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84940572536&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/WSC.2014.7020141
DO - 10.1109/WSC.2014.7020141
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84940572536
T3 - Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
SP - 3024
EP - 3035
BT - Proceedings of the 2014 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2014
A2 - Tolk, Andreas
A2 - Yilmaz, Levent
A2 - Diallo, Saikou Y.
A2 - Ryzhov, Ilya O.
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2014
Y2 - 7 December 2014 through 10 December 2014
ER -