2022/07/14 by Xiuzhen Ye, Ye, Xiuzhen, Iñaki Esnaola +5
Computer Science · Engineering · #FOS: Electrical engineering #Information and Cyber Security #Network Security and Intrusion Detection #Smart Grid Security and Resilience #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2207.06973
openalex publication_date 2022/07/14 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A novel metric that describes the vulnerability of the measurements in power system to data integrity attacks is proposed. The new metric, coined vulnerability index (VuIx), leverages information theoretic measures to assess the attack effect on the fundamental limits of the disruption and detection tradeoff. The result of computing the VuIx of the measurements in the system yields an ordering of the measurements vulnerability based on the level of exposure to data integrity attacks. This new framework is used to assess the measurements vulnerability of IEEE test systems and it is observed that power injection measurements are overwhelmingly more vulnerable to data integrity attacks than power flow measurements. A detailed numerical evaluation of the VuIx values for IEEE test systems is provided.