An Optimal DoS Attack Strategy Disturbing the Distributed Economic Dispatch of Microgrid

As a promising method with excellent characteristics in terms of resilience and dependability, distributed methods are gradually used in the field of energy management of microgrid. However, these methods have more stringent requirements on the working conditions, which will make the system more sen...

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Main Authors: Yihe Wang, Mingli Zhang, Kun Song, Tie Li, Na Zhang
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Language:English
Published: Wiley 2021-01-01
Series:Complexity
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5539829
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description As a promising method with excellent characteristics in terms of resilience and dependability, distributed methods are gradually used in the field of energy management of microgrid. However, these methods have more stringent requirements on the working conditions, which will make the system more sensitive to communication failures and cyberattacks. As a result, it is both theoretical merits and practical values to investigate the malicious effect of cyber attacks on microgrid. This paper studies the distributed economic dispatch problem (EDP) under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks for the microgrid, in which each generator can communicate with its neighbors and has the computational capability to implement local operation. Firstly, a DoS attack model is proposed, in which the DoS attacker intentionally jams the communication channel to deteriorate the performance of the microgrid. Then, the evolution mechanism of the dispatch system of the microgrid under different attack scenarios is adequately discussed. On this basis, an optimal attack strategy based on enumerating-search algorithm is presented to allocate the limited attack resources reasonably, so as to maximize the effect of DoS attacks. Finally, the validity of the theoretical studies about the attack effect under different scenarios and the effectiveness of the proposed enumerating-search-based optimal attack strategy are illustrated through the simulation examples on the IEEE 57-bus system and IEEE 39-bus system, respectively.
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spelling doaj-art-df3ee8760f774eb9ae5a5770801f9b782025-02-03T00:58:58ZengWileyComplexity1076-27871099-05262021-01-01202110.1155/2021/55398295539829An Optimal DoS Attack Strategy Disturbing the Distributed Economic Dispatch of MicrogridYihe Wang0Mingli Zhang1Kun Song2Tie Li3Na Zhang4School of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110819, ChinaState Grid Liaoning Electric Power Company Limited Economic Research Institute, Shenyang 110015, ChinaState Grid Liaoning Electric Power Company Limited Economic Research Institute, Shenyang 110015, ChinaState Grid Liaoning Electric Power Supply Co. Ltd., Shenyang 110004, ChinaState Grid Liaoning Electric Power Company Limited Economic Research Institute, Shenyang 110015, ChinaAs a promising method with excellent characteristics in terms of resilience and dependability, distributed methods are gradually used in the field of energy management of microgrid. However, these methods have more stringent requirements on the working conditions, which will make the system more sensitive to communication failures and cyberattacks. As a result, it is both theoretical merits and practical values to investigate the malicious effect of cyber attacks on microgrid. This paper studies the distributed economic dispatch problem (EDP) under denial-of-service (DoS) attacks for the microgrid, in which each generator can communicate with its neighbors and has the computational capability to implement local operation. Firstly, a DoS attack model is proposed, in which the DoS attacker intentionally jams the communication channel to deteriorate the performance of the microgrid. Then, the evolution mechanism of the dispatch system of the microgrid under different attack scenarios is adequately discussed. On this basis, an optimal attack strategy based on enumerating-search algorithm is presented to allocate the limited attack resources reasonably, so as to maximize the effect of DoS attacks. Finally, the validity of the theoretical studies about the attack effect under different scenarios and the effectiveness of the proposed enumerating-search-based optimal attack strategy are illustrated through the simulation examples on the IEEE 57-bus system and IEEE 39-bus system, respectively.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5539829
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