On optimal PMU placement-based defense against data integrity attacks in smart grid

IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 1735-1750

  Yang, Qingyu ^a   An, Dou ^a   Min, Rui ^a,b   Yu, Wei ^c   Yang, Xinyu ^a   Zhao, Wei ^d  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS CORPORATION   (China)

^c TOWSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Data integrity attacks; defense strategy; optimal PMU placement; state estimation; system observability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; NETWORK SECURITY; OBSERVABILITY; SMART POWER GRIDS; STATE ESTIMATION; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

COMPUTATION COMPLEXITY; DATA INTEGRITY; DEFENSE STRATEGY; FALSE DATA INJECTION ATTACKS; GREEDY ALGORITHMS; NUMBER OF STATE; PMU PLACEMENT; SYSTEM OBSERVABILITY;

PHASOR MEASUREMENT UNITS;

EID: 85018904573     PISSN: 15566013     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2017.2686367     Document Type: Article

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