The integration of cyber and physical networks in modern power system introduces complex interdependencies that necessitate effective robustness assessment frameworks. In this paper, we propose a novel robustness assessment method for cyber-physical...
Smart microgrids (SMGs), as cyber–physical systems, are essential parts of smart grids. The SMGs’ cyber networks facilitate efficient system operation. However, cyber failures and interferences might adversely affect the SMGs. The available studies a...
With the increasing digitalization and informatization of distribution network systems, distribution networks have gradually developed into distribution network cyber physical systems (CPS) which are deeply integrated with traditional power systems a...
The paper proposes a technique for protecting reconfigurable networks that implements topology rebuilding, which combines immunization and network gaming methods, as a solution for maintaining cyber resilience. Immunization presumes an adaptive set o...
Nowadays, our living environment has been embedded with smart objects, such as smart sensors, smart watches and smart phones. They make cyberspace and physical space integrated by their abundant abilities of sensing, communication and computation, fo...
This work is concerned with the vulnerability of a network industrial control system to cyber-attacks, which is a critical issue nowadays. This is because an attack on a controlled process can damage or destroy it. These attacks use long short-term m...
In the face of escalating cyber threats that have contributed significantly to global economic losses, this study presents a comprehensive dataset capturing the multifaceted nature of cyber-attacks across 225 countries over a 14-month period from Oct...
Network traffic analysis can raise privacy concerns due to its ability to reveal sensitive information about individuals and organizations. This paper proposes a privacy-preserving Block-chained AutoML Network Traffic Analyzer (BANTA). The system sec...
In novel collaborative systems, cooperative entities collaborate services to achieve local and global objectives. With the growing pervasiveness of cyber-physical systems, however, such collaboration is hampered by differences in the operations of th...
Currently, expert systems and applied machine learning algorithms are widely used to automate network intrusion detection. In critical infrastructure applications of communication technologies, the interaction among various industrial control systems...
New applications of industrial automation request great flexibility in the systems, supported by the increase in the interconnection between its components, allowing access to all the information of the system and its reconfiguration based on the cha...
The electric grid is becoming increasingly cyber-physical with the addition of smart technologies, new communication interfaces, and automated grid-support functions. Because of this, it is no longer sufficient to only study the physical system dynam...
The COVID-19 pandemic made all organizations and enterprises work on cloud platforms from home, which greatly facilitates cyberattacks. Employees who work remotely and use cloud-based platforms are chosen as targets for cyberattacks. For that reason,...
Cyber-physical systems allow creating new applications and services which will bring people, data, processes, and things together. The network is the backbone that interconnects this new paradigm, especially 5G networks that will expand the coverage,...
Conventional power systems are developing into cyber-physical power systems (CPPS) with wide applications of communication, computer and control technologies. However, multiple practical cases show that the failure of cyber layers is a major factor l...
In the current digital era, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are evolving, transforming human experiences by creating an interconnected environment. However, ensuring the security of WSN-IoT networks remains a signific...
The existing power grid is going through a massive transformation. Smart grid technology is a radical approach for improvisation in prevailing power grid. Integration of electrical and communication infrastructure is inevitable for the deployment of...
The increasing factors of uncertainty faced by the system are due to the deep coupling of the electric power cyber network and the physical network. Consequently, ensuring the efficient, secure, and stable operation of the cyber–physical power...
Cyber-physical power systems (CPPSs) are increasingly vital to the reliable and resilient operation of modern electricity infrastructure. Within these systems, both physical components—such as power substations and lines—and cyber compone...
The convergence of industrial communication networks and electric drive systems has increased the range of risks associated with induction motor operation, with abnormal motor operation potentially arising from either physical motor faults or malicio...
The “insecurity of the network” characterizes each agent as being remotely controlled through unreliable network channels. In such an insecure network, the output signal can be altered through carefully designed adversarial attacks to pro...
Cyber-physical systems (CPS) have received much attention from both academia and industry. An increasing number of functions in CPS are provided in the way of services, which gives rise to an urgent task, that is, how to recommend the suitable servic...
Once an active distribution network of a cyber-physical system is in alert state, it is vulnerable to cross-domain cascading failures. It is necessary to transit the state of an active distribution network of cyber-physical system from an alert state...
This paper presents a novel diagnostic framework for distributed power systems that is based on using generative adversarial networks for generating artificial knockoffs in the power grid. The proposed framework makes use of the raw data measurements...
In today’s world, power distribution systems and information and communication technology (ICT) systems are increasingly interconnected, forming cyber–physical power systems (CPPSs) at the core of smart grids. Ensuring the resilience of t...
The deep integration of power grids and communication networks is the basis for realizing the complete observability and controllability of power grids. The communication node or link is always built according to the physical nodes. This step is alte...
Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) represent sophisticated intelligent architectures that tightly couple computational elements, communication networks, and physical processes. Their deployments now span virtually every industrial and civilian domain&mdas...
The synergy of computational and physical network components leading to the Internet of Things, Data and Services has been made feasible by the use of Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs). CPS engineering promises to impact system condition monitoring for a...
Proactive defense planning in Industrial Control Systems (ICS) is critically constrained by two intertwined types of uncertainty: epistemic uncertainty, arising from the defender’s limited observability of the system state and incomplete knowle...
A cyber-physical supply network is composed of an undirected cyber supply network and a directed physical supply network. Such interdependence among firms increases efficiency but creates more vulnerabilities. The adverse effects of any failure can b...
Transportation networks are fundamental to the efficient and safe functioning of modern societies. In the past, physical and cyber space were treated as isolated environments, resulting in transportation network being considered vulnerable only to th...
Traditional fault indicators based on 3G and 4G cannot send out fault-generated information if the distribution lines are located in the system across remote mountainous or forest areas. Hence, power distribution systems in rural areas only rely on p...
Improvements in technology have led to further enhancements in cyber security threats. Additionally, the mass application of IoT technology and networks has made the ecosystem vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Thus, this study focuses on analysing methods...
This paper studies an approach for detecting cyber attacks against networked cooperative systems (NCS) that are assumed to be working in a cyber-physical environment. NCS are prone to anomalies both due to cyber and physical attacks and faults. Cyber...
In the last decade, the main attacks against smart grids have occurred in communication networks (ITs) causing the disconnection of physical equipment from power networks (OTs) and leading to electricity supply interruptions. To deal with the deficie...
Complex cyber–physical networks combine the prominent features of complex networks and cyber–physical systems (CPSs), and the interconnections between the cyber layer and physical layer usually pose significant impacts on its normal opera...
The article proposes an approach to ensuring the functioning of Software-Defined Networks (SDN) in cyber attack conditions based on the analytical modeling of cyber attacks using the method of topological transformation of stochastic networks. Unlike...
In modern power systems, distributed generation (DG) clusters such as wind and solar resources are increasingly being integrated into active distribution networks through DG cluster control, which enhances the economic efficiency and adaptability of...
Cyber mimic defense is designed to ensure endogenous security, effectively countering unknown vulnerabilities and backdoors, thereby addressing a significant challenge in cyberspace. However, the immense scale of real-world networks and their intrica...
Complex cyberattacks on electric power networks traverse communication links, control objects and power-service processes, making it difficult to explain how network evidence propagates to operational impact. This paper proposes an explainable cyber...
Argumentation is one of the basic intelligent activities of humankind. Computational argumentation enables large-scale discussions using advanced computational and intelligent techniques. The growing interconnectedness among people across social netw...
With the rapid expansion of intelligent resource-constrained devices and high-speed communication technologies, the Internet of Things (IoT) has earned wide recognition as the primary standard for low-power lossy networks (LLNs). Nevertheless, IoT in...
Industry 4.0 houses diverse technologies including wireless communication and shared networks for internal and external operations. Due to the wireless nature and remote operability, the exposure to security threats is high. Cyber risk detection and...
Prompt detection of cyber–physical attacks (CPAs) on a water distribution system (WDS) is critical to avoid irreversible damage to the network infrastructure and disruption of water services. However, the complex interdependencies of the water networ...
With the continuous development of the networked society, the ability of cyber attackers is becoming increasingly intelligent, posing a huge threat to complex cyber–physical networks (CCPNs). Therefore, how to design a security strategy for CCP...
The paper suggests a method of early detection of cyber-attacks by using DDoS attacks as an example) using the method of extreme filtering in a mode close real time. The process of decomposition of the total signal (additive superposition of attackin...
Security presents itself as one of the biggest threats to the enabling and the deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT). Security challenges are evident in light of recent cybersecurity attacks that targeted major internet service providers and cri...
This paper proposes a decentralized control approach using a co-simulation platform to monitor protective elements and provide complete protection scheme for distribution systems. Real time measurements are obtained by interfacing the system model in...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are distributed systems with a communication model in which no central authority governs the behavior of individual peers. These networks currently account for a considerable percentage of all bandwidth worldwide. However,...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are the key underlying technology of the Internet of Things (IoT); however, these networks are energy constrained. Security has become a major challenge with the significant increase in deployed sensors, necessitating...
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