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First steps toward scientific cyber-security experimentation in wide-area cyber-physical systems

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Ryan Goodfellow,

Robert Braden,

Terry Benzel,

David E. BakkenAuthors Info & Claims

CSIIRW '13: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Cyber Security and Information Intelligence Research Workshop

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2459976.2460021

Published: 08 January 2013 Publication History

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This extended abstract reports on steps towards an environment for repeatable and scalable experiments on wide-area cyber-physical systems. The cyber-physical systems that underlie the world's critical infrastructure are increasingly vulnerable to attack and failure. Our work has focused on secure and resilient communication technology for the electric power grid, a subset of the general cyber-physical problem. We have demonstrated tools and methodology for experimentation with GridStat, a middleware system designed to provide enhanced communication service for the grid, within the DETERlab cyber-security testbed. Experiment design tools for DETERlab and for GridStat will ease the creation and execution of relatively large experiments, and they should make this environment accessible to users inexperienced with cluster testbeds. This abstract presents brief overviews of DETERLab and of GridStat and describes their integration. It also describes a large scale GridStat/DETERlab experiment.

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January 2013

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ISBN:9781450316873

DOI:10.1145/2459976

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https://doi.org/10.1109/JSYST.2021.3057614
Lee HNiddodi SSrivastava ABakken D(2016)Decentralized voltage stability monitoring and control in the smart grid using distributed computing architecture2016 IEEE Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting10.1109/IAS.2016.7731871(1-9)Online publication date: Oct-2016
https://doi.org/10.1109/IAS.2016.7731871
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https://doi.org/10.1109/ISGT.2015.7131869

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