A multi-sensor energy theft detection framework for advanced metering infrastructures

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1319-1330

  McLaughlin, Stephen ^a   Holbert, Brett ^a   Fawaz, Ahmed ^b   Berthier, Robin ^b   Zonouz, Saman ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

advanced metering infrastructures; intrusion alert correlation; intrusion and energy theft detection; multi sensor inference and information fusion; Power grid critical infrastructures

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENT MANAGEMENTS; ELEMENTARY ANALYSIS; INTRUSION ALERT CORRELATION; INTRUSION DETECTION SYSTEMS; MULTI SENSOR; MULTIPLE SENSORS; POWER GRIDS; THEFT DETECTIONS;

CRIME; INFORMATION FUSION; INTRUSION DETECTION; SENSORS; SMART METERS; SMART POWER GRIDS;

ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURES;

EID: 84880210183     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2013.130714     Document Type: Article

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