Strategic protection against data injection attacks on power grids

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 326-333

  Kim, Tng T ^a   Poor, H Vincent ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Bad data; cyberattack; phasor measurement units (PMUs); power grid security; sparse signal processing; system state estimation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM SECURITY; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; NETWORK SECURITY; PHASE MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATE ESTIMATION; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

BAD DATA; CYBER-ATTACKS; PHASOR MEASUREMENT UNIT (PMUS); POWER GRID SECURITIES; SPARSE SIGNAL PROCESSING;

PHASOR MEASUREMENT UNITS;

EID: 85027945316     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2011.2119336     Document Type: Article

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