TY - GEN
T1 - Special Session
T2 - 38th IEEE International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2020
AU - Zografopoulos, Ioannis
AU - Ospina, Juan
AU - Konstantinou, Charalambos
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/10
Y1 - 2020/10
N2 - Electric energy systems are undergoing significant changes to improve system reliability and accommodate increasing power demands. The penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) including roof-top solar panels, energy storage, electric vehicles, etc., enables the on-site generation of economically dispatchable power curtailing operational costs. The effective control of DERs requires communication between utilities and DER system operators. The communication protocols employed for DER management and control lack sophisticated cybersecurity features and can compromise power systems secure operation if malicious control commands are issued to DERs. To overcome authentication-related protocol issues, we present a bolt-on security extension that can be implemented on Distributed Network Protocol v3 (DNP3). We port an authentication framework, DERauth, into DNP3, and utilize real-time measurements from a simulated DER battery energy storage system to enhance communication security. We evaluate our framework in a testbed setup using DNP3 master and outstation devices performing secure authentication by leveraging the entropy of DERs.
AB - Electric energy systems are undergoing significant changes to improve system reliability and accommodate increasing power demands. The penetration of distributed energy resources (DERs) including roof-top solar panels, energy storage, electric vehicles, etc., enables the on-site generation of economically dispatchable power curtailing operational costs. The effective control of DERs requires communication between utilities and DER system operators. The communication protocols employed for DER management and control lack sophisticated cybersecurity features and can compromise power systems secure operation if malicious control commands are issued to DERs. To overcome authentication-related protocol issues, we present a bolt-on security extension that can be implemented on Distributed Network Protocol v3 (DNP3). We port an authentication framework, DERauth, into DNP3, and utilize real-time measurements from a simulated DER battery energy storage system to enhance communication security. We evaluate our framework in a testbed setup using DNP3 master and outstation devices performing secure authentication by leveraging the entropy of DERs.
KW - Authentication
KW - distributed energy resources
KW - DNP3
KW - hardware security
KW - power grid
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85098849496
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85098849496#tab=citedBy
U2 - 10.1109/ICCD50377.2020.00025
DO - 10.1109/ICCD50377.2020.00025
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85098849496
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Computer Design: VLSI in Computers and Processors
SP - 49
EP - 52
BT - Proceedings - 2020 IEEE 38th International Conference on Computer Design, ICCD 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 18 October 2020 through 21 October 2020
ER -