Title
Detecting a Stealthy Attack in Distributed Control for Microgrids using Machine Learning Algorithms
Abstract
With the increasing penetration of inverter-based distributed generators (DG) into low-voltage distribution microgrid systems, it is of great importance to guarantee their safe and reliable operations. These systems leverage communication networks to implement a distributed and cooperative control structure. However, the detection of stealthy attacks with a large impact and weak detection signals on such distributed control systems is rarely studied. In this paper, we address the problem of detecting a stealthy attack, named MaR, on the communication network of a microgrid while an attacker modifies the voltage measurement with the reference values. We collect datasets from a hardware platform modeled after a simplified microgrid and running the MaR attack performed with a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) technique. We use the collected datasets to compare different attack detection algorithms based on multiple categories of machine learning algorithms. Our results show that the Random Forest algorithm outperforms the others to detect suspicious packets modified by a MitM attacker with an accuracy close to 97%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICPS48405.2020.9274721
2020 IEEE Conference on Industrial Cyberphysical Systems (ICPS)
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Microgrid,Security,Attack detection,Machine learning,CPS systems
Conference
1
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-7281-6390-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
10
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mingxiao Ma100.34
Abdelkader Lahmadi29018.46
Isabelle Chrisment322525.75