Spatio-Temporal Synchrophasor Data Characterization for Mitigating False Data Injection in Smart Grids

Yi Cui, Weikang Wang, Yilu Liu, Peter Fuhr, Marissa Morales-Rodriguez

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Abstract

As electric power grids' dependence on wide area monitoring systems (WAMS) is expected to increase significantly in the near future, the cyber security concerns of WAMS must be carefully addressed. False data injection attack (FDIA) is a typical cyber-physical attack of WAMS in modern smart grids. This paper presents a data mining-based approach to identify FDIA on frequency data of WAMS by revealing the spatio-temporal signatures of synchrophasor measurements. Specifically, recurrence quantification analysis (RQA) is utilized to extract temporal signatures of frequency measurements while the spatial signatures are derived by using statistical method. Three FDIA scenarios, i.e., 'Source ID Mix', time mirroring and time dilation attacks are simulated. Experimental results by using synchrophasor measurements archived in FNET /GridEye demonstrate the practicability of the proposed methodology for mitigating FDIA on frequency measurements of power systems.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2019
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
ISBN (Electronic)9781728119816
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2019
Event2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2019 - Atlanta, United States
Duration: Aug 4 2019Aug 8 2019

Publication series

NameIEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
Volume2019-August
ISSN (Print)1944-9925
ISSN (Electronic)1944-9933

Conference

Conference2019 IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, PESGM 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAtlanta
Period08/4/1908/8/19

Keywords

  • Cyber-physical attack
  • smart grid
  • spatiotemporal signature
  • synchrophasor
  • wide area monitoring systems

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