Abstract
This paper presents a reliable and secure supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system equipped with advanced communication technologies (ACT) to enhance the operation and cyber security of the communication network in residential microgrid. The proposed approach uses the mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) for collecting data of power consumption from smart meters of residential areas and electric vehicles (EVs), and also for connecting mobile system operators to the network. Moreover, by understanding the dynamic nature of MANET and their exposure to cyber-attacks, we propose an intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) technology with secure knowledge algorithm and anomaly detection for preventing the black hole attacks, and other unknown attacks that result into packet dropping. Test results obtained by using Network Simulator (NS-2) demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed IDP technology in preventing the cyber-attacks in the proposed residential microgrid communication network.
Highlights
The electric power grid is going through major changes worldwide in order to become smarter, resilient, sustainable, and more reliable [1]
The major contributions of this paper are: 1) we recommend to integrate advanced communication technologies (ACT) into existing supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system, 2) we propose to use mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) for residential microgrid where MANET is required to collect the information of power consumption as well as to connect with the mobile system operators, and 3) we propose an intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) technology for preventing cyber-attacks in MANET used in residential microgrid
In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed IDP technology, the black hole attacked nodes and misbehaving nodes are added into the MANET network
Summary
The electric power grid is going through major changes worldwide in order to become smarter, resilient, sustainable, and more reliable [1]. Such microgrids can operate in connected or islanded mode with the main grid. There is a great need to develop a reliable and secure SCADA control and communication network to enhance MMEMS operations by adopting advanced communication technologies (ACT) and providing cyber security. The major contributions of this paper are: 1) we recommend to integrate ACT into existing SCADA system, 2) we propose to use mobile ad hoc networks (MANET) for residential microgrid where MANET is required to collect the information of power consumption as well as to connect with the mobile system operators, and 3) we propose an intrusion detection and prevention (IDP) technology for preventing cyber-attacks in MANET used in residential microgrid. It is emphasized that to the best knowledge of authors, this paper is the first attempt to use MANET for communication in residential microgrid
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