A survey of denial-of-service attacks and solutions in the smart grid

A Huseinović, S Mrdović, K Bicakci, S Uludag - IEEE Access, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The scope, scale, and intensity of real, as well as potential attacks, on the Smart Grid have
been increasing and thus gaining more attention. An important component of Smart Grid …

Feasibility of time-synchronization attacks against PMU-based state estimation

E Shereen, M Delcourt, S Barreto, G Dán… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The emerging measurement technology of phasor measurement units (PMUs) makes it
possible to estimate the state of electrical grids in real time, thus opening the way to new …

Model-based and data-driven detectors for time synchronization attacks against PMUs

E Shereen, G Dán - IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Precise time synchronization of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) is critical for monitoring
and control of smart grids. Thus, time synchronization attacks (TSAs) against PMUs pose a …

Next steps in security for time synchronization: Experiences from implementing IEEE 1588 v2. 1

E Shereen, F Bitard, G Dán, T Sel… - 2019 IEEE International …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The lack of integrated support for security has been a major shortcoming of Precision Time
Protocol version 2 (PTPv2) for a long time. The upcoming PTPv2. 1 aims at addressing this …

Exploiting the vulnerability of relative data alignment in phasor data concentrators to time synchronization attacks

B Moussa, A Al-Barakati, M Kassouf… - … on Smart Grid, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we formulate an attack on the relative data alignment scheme used by Phasor
Data Concentrators (PDCs) to aggregate and stream phasor measurements. This attack …

Time-Synchronization Attacks against Critical Infrastructures and their Mitigation

MMN Delcourt - 2021 - infoscience.epfl.ch
This work focuses on the security of critical infrastructures against time-synchronization
attacks (TSA). A TSA can impact any network that relies on the dynamic analysis of data, by …

Correlation-based detection of PMU time synchronization attacks

E Shereen, G Dán - 2018 IEEE International Conference on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Real-time monitoring and control in power systems is increasingly dependent on Phasor
Measurement Units (PMUs). PMUs depend on precise time synchronization, and thus it is …

Economical and Dependable Time Sources for Distributed Energy Resources

J O'Raw, D McFadden, D Laverty… - 2020 IEEE Power & …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Computing devices are required to have time synchronization to enable meaningful logging,
fault finding, and forensics. In an automation environment, there are additional requirements …