2016/09/22 by Pietro Danzi, Danzi, Pietro, Čedomir Stefanović +7 · 1 citation
Engineering · #FOS: Electrical engineering #Microgrid Control and Optimization #Smart Grid Energy Management #Smart Grid Security and Resilience #Systems and Control (eess.SY) #electronic engineering #information engineering
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1609.07368
openalex publication_date 2016/09/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
The secondary control in direct current microgrids (MGs) is used to restore the voltage deviations caused by the primary droop control, where the latter is implemented locally in each distributed generator and reacts to load variations. Numerous recent works propose to implement the secondary control in a distributed fashion, relying on a communication system to achieve consensus among MG units. This paper shows that, if the system is not designed to cope with adversary communication impairments, then a malicious attacker can apply a simple jamming of a few units of the MG and thus compromise the secondary MG control. Compared to other denial-of-service attacks that are oriented against the tertiary control, such as economic dispatch, the attack on the secondary control presented here can be more severe, as it disrupts the basic functionality of the MG.