Cyber-Attacks on Smart Meters in Household Nanogrid: Modeling, Simulation and Analysis

Denise Tellbach and Yan-Fu Li
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Denise Tellbach: Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China
Yan-Fu Li: Department of Industrial Engineering, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China

Energies, 2018, vol. 11, issue 2, 1-19

Abstract: The subject of cyber-security and therefore cyber-attacks on smart grid (SG) has become subject of many publications in the last years, emphasizing its importance in research, as well as in practice. One especially vulnerable part of SG are smart meters (SMs). The major contribution of simulating a variety of cyber-attacks on SMs that have not been done in previous studies is the identification and quantification of the possible impacts on the security of SG. In this study, a simulation model of a nanogrid, including a complete household with an SM, was developed. Different cyber-attacks were injected into the SM to simulate their effects on household nanogrid. The analysis of the impacts of different cyber-attacks showed that the effects of cyber-attacks can be sorted into various categories. Integrity and confidentiality attacks cause monetary effects on the grid. While, availability attacks have monetary effects on the grid as well, they are mainly aimed at compromising the SM communication by either delaying or stopping it completely.

Keywords: reliability assessment; cyber-physical systems; distributed generation systems; smart grid; SCADA; smart meter; cyber-security; cyber-attacks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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