TY - GEN
T1 - Cyber-Attacks and Mitigation in Blockchain Based Transactive Energy Systems
AU - Barreto, Carlos
AU - Eghtesad, Taha
AU - Eisele, Scott
AU - Laszka, Aron
AU - Dubey, Abhishek
AU - Koutsoukos, Xenofon
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation under award numbers 1818901 and 1840052 and by the National Institute of Standards and Technology under Grant 70NANB18H198. Authors also thank anonymous reviewers.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 IEEE.
PY - 2020/6/10
Y1 - 2020/6/10
N2 - Power grids are undergoing major changes due to the rapid adoption of intermittent renewable energy resources and the increased availability of energy storage devices. These trends drive smart-grid operators to envision a future where peer-to-peer energy trading occurs within microgrids, leading to the development of Transactive Energy Systems. Blockchains have garnered significant interest from both academia and industry for their potential application in decentralized TES, in large part due to their high level of resilience. In this paper, we introduce a novel class of attacks against blockchain based TES, which target the gateways that connect market participants to the system. We introduce a general model of blockchain based TES and study multiple threat models and attack strategies. We also demonstrate the impact of these attacks using a testbed based on GridLAB-D and a private Ethereum network. Finally, we study how to mitigate these attack.
AB - Power grids are undergoing major changes due to the rapid adoption of intermittent renewable energy resources and the increased availability of energy storage devices. These trends drive smart-grid operators to envision a future where peer-to-peer energy trading occurs within microgrids, leading to the development of Transactive Energy Systems. Blockchains have garnered significant interest from both academia and industry for their potential application in decentralized TES, in large part due to their high level of resilience. In this paper, we introduce a novel class of attacks against blockchain based TES, which target the gateways that connect market participants to the system. We introduce a general model of blockchain based TES and study multiple threat models and attack strategies. We also demonstrate the impact of these attacks using a testbed based on GridLAB-D and a private Ethereum network. Finally, we study how to mitigate these attack.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICPS48405.2020.9274708
DO - 10.1109/ICPS48405.2020.9274708
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85091146381
T3 - Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Conference on Industrial Cyberphysical Systems, ICPS 2020
SP - 129
EP - 136
BT - Proceedings - 2020 IEEE Conference on Industrial Cyberphysical Systems, ICPS 2020
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 3rd IEEE Conference on Industrial Cyberphysical Systems, ICPS 2020
Y2 - 10 June 2020 through 12 June 2020
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