Byzantine fault tolerance for electric power grid monitoring and control

Proceedings of The International Conference on Embedded Software and Systems, ICESS 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 129-135

  Zhao, Wenbing ^a   Eugenio Villaseca, F ^a  

^a Cleveland State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Byzantine fault tolerance; Electric power grid monitoring and control; Fault tolerance middleware; Intrusion tolerance; Security

Indexed keywords

BYZANTINE FAULT TOLERANCE; BYZANTINE FAULTS; DATA COMMUNICATIONS; DEGREE OF RELIABILITY; ELECTRIC POWER GRID MONITORING AND CONTROL; ELECTRIC POWER GRIDS; EMBEDDED SOFTWARES; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; FAULT TOLERANCE MIDDLEWARE; INFORMATION SHARING; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; INTRUSION TOLERANCE; MONITORING AND CONTROLLING; NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS; NORTH AMERICA; POWER GRIDS; REACTION TIME; RESEARCH WORKS; RESPONSE TIME; SAMPLING RATE; SECURITY; SUPERVISORY CONTROL AND DATA ACQUISITION; WIDE-AREA;

CHEMICAL SENSORS; COORDINATION REACTIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; ERRORS; FAULT TOLERANCE; FAULT TOLERANT COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; POWER GENERATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RATE CONSTANTS; RELIABILITY; SCADA SYSTEMS; TECHNOLOGY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 51849106430     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICESS.2008.13     Document Type: Conference Paper

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