Integrity attacks on real-time pricing in electric power grids

ACM Transactions on Information and System Security

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Tan, Rui ^a   Krishna, Varun Badrinath ^b   Yau, David K Y ^a   Kalbarczyk, Zbigniew ^b  

^a ADVANCED DIGITAL SCIENCES CENTER   (Singapore)

^b University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

Author keywords

Cyber security; Demand response; Electricity market; Power grid; Real time pricing; Smart grid; Stability

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; COSTS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM SECURITY; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; POWER MARKETS; SECURITY OF DATA; SMART POWER GRIDS;

CYBER SECURITY; DEMAND RESPONSE; POWER GRIDS; REAL TIME PRICING; SMART GRID;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM STABILITY;

EID: 84942038774     PISSN: 10949224     EISSN: 15577406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2790298     Document Type: Conference Paper

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