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Power-attack: a comprehensive tool-chain for modeling and simulating attacks in power systems
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Ajay Chhokra, Carlos Barreto, Abhishek Dubey, Gabor Karsai, Xenofon KoutsoukosAuthors Info & Claims
Ajay Chhokra, Carlos Barreto, Abhishek Dubey, Gabor Karsai, Xenofon KoutsoukosAuthors Info & ClaimsArticle No.: 5, Pages 1 - 6
Abstract
Due to the increased deployment of novel communication, control and protection functions, the grid has become vulnerable to a variety of attacks. Designing robust machine learning based attack detection and mitigation algorithms require large amounts of data that rely heavily on a representative environment, where different attacks can be simulated. This paper presents a comprehensive tool-chain for modeling and simulating attacks in power systems. The paper makes the following contributions, first, we present a probabilistic domain specific language to define multiple attack scenarios and simulation configuration parameters. Secondly, we extend the PyPower-dynamics simulator with protection system components to simulate cyber attacks in control and protection layers of power system. In the end, we demonstrate multiple attack scenarios with a case study based on IEEE 39 bus system.
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