학술논문

Evasion Attacks in Smart Power Grids: A Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
Document Type
Conference
Source
2024 IEEE 21st Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC) Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC), 2024 IEEE 21st. :708-713 Jan, 2024
Subject
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Computing and Processing
Robotics and Control Systems
Analytical models
Q-learning
Machine learning algorithms
Electricity
Closed box
Detectors
Deep reinforcement learning
Distance measurement
Data models
Smart grids
Security
electricity theft
evasion attacks
reinforcement learning
and smart power grids
Language
ISSN
2331-9860
Abstract
In smart power grids, certain customers are motivated by financial gains to manipulate electricity consumption data, aiming to reduce their bills. Despite the development of machine learning-based detectors, these systems remain vulnerable to evasion attacks. This paper investigates the susceptibility of deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based detectors to evasion attacks. We propose an evasion attack model that employs the double deep Q learning (DDQN) algorithm for a black-box attack scenario. Our model generates adversarial evasion samples by altering malicious consumption data, tricking detectors into classifying them as benign. Leveraging the unique attributes of reinforcement learning (RL), our model determines optimal actions for manipulating malicious data. For comparative analysis, we compare our DRL-based model with an FGSM-based attack model. Our experiments consistently demonstrate the effectiveness of our DRL-based attack model, achieving an impressive attack success rate (ASR) ranging from 92.92% to 99.96%, outperforming the FGSM-based attack model.