학술논문

Cyber-Immune Line Current Differential Relays
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics IEEE Trans. Ind. Inf. Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transactions on. 20(3):3597-3608 Mar, 2024
Subject
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Signal Processing and Analysis
Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computer crime
Current measurement
Relays
Time measurement
Media
Informatics
Global Positioning System
Cyber-physical security
false-tripping attacks
fault-masking attacks
line current differential relays (LCDRs)
smart grid security
sympathetic-tripping attacks
Language
ISSN
1551-3203
1941-0050
Abstract
Industrial advancements in information and communications technology facilitated the widespread use of line current differential relays (LCDRs) for protecting critical transmission lines due to their fast, sensitive, selective, and secure performance. Despite their advantages, LCDRs' reliance on vulnerable communication networks to swap current measurements makes them vulnerable to cyberattacks. In this article, a scheme is proposed to protect LCDRs from direct-false-tripping (DFT), fault-masking (FM), and sympathetic-tripping (ST) cyberattacks, which have not been studied together before for transmission-level LCDRs. The proposed scheme utilizes a deep neural network (DNN), trained offline on features extracted from only the measurements available for LCDRs. The trained DNN model can then be implemented within LCDRs. Unlike the previous solutions, which only differentiate between faults and DFT cyberattacks, the proposed scheme actively differentiates between authentic and manipulated LCDR measurements to detect and mitigate possible cyberattacks. The performance of the proposed scheme is evaluated using the IEEE 39-bus benchmark system. Our results show that the proposed scheme can accurately detect different forms of DFT, ST, and FM cyberattacks while maintaining the LCDR's protective characteristics. The proposed scheme is tested for real-time capability using an OPAL-RT simulator.