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Combating time synchronization attack: a cross layer defense mechanism

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Zhenghao Zhang,

Matthew Trinkle,

Aleksandar D. DimitrovskiAuthors Info & Claims

ICCPS '13: Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 4th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems

Pages 141 - 149

https://doi.org/10.1145/2502524.2502544

Published: 08 April 2013 Publication History

Abstract

A novel time synchronization attack (TSA) on wide area monitoring systems in smart grid has been identified recently. A cross layer detection mechanism is proposed to combat TSA in this paper. In the physical layer, we propose a GPS carrier carrier to noise ratio (C/No) based spoofing detection technique. In addition, a patch-monopole hybrid antenna is applied to receive GPS signal. By computing the standard deviation of the C/No difference from two GPS receivers, the a priori probability of spoofing detection is fed to the upper layer, where power system state is estimated and controlled. A trustworthiness based evaluation method is applied to identify the PMU being under TSA. Both the physical layer and upper layer algorithms are integrated to detect the TSA, thus forming a cross layer mechanism. Experiment is carried out to verify the effectiveness of the proposed TSA detection algorithm.

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DOI:10.1145/2502524

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