Transactive energy systems using blockchain for decentralized trading face security challenges not present in traditional grid operations. Cyber attacks targeting market participants, price manipulation, or denial-of-service could have serious consequences. The paper addresses this gap by providing a simulation testbed that enables evaluation of security measures and attack scenarios.
This paper presents a cyber-physical simulation platform for security assessment of transactive energy systems. The work extends the TESSP (Transactive Energy Simulation Testbed Platform) to evaluate security concerns in energy trading with blockchain-based market mechanisms and demonstrates simulation of cyber attacks on transactive systems.
The paper demonstrates TESSP with centralized and decentralized market clearing mechanisms. Results show how cyber attacks targeting bid price manipulation or system disruption affect energy trading outcomes. The simulation platform successfully evaluates security counterparts for blockchain-enabled transactive energy systems.
@inproceedings{Zhang2019a,
author = {Zhang, Yue and Eisele, Scott and Dubey, Abhishek and Laszka, Aron and Srivastava, Anurag K.},
booktitle = {7th Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of Cyber-Physical Energy Systems, MSCPES@CPSIoTWeek 2019, Montreal, QC, Canada},
title = {Cyber-Physical Simulation Platform for Security Assessment of Transactive Energy Systems},
year = {2019},
pages = {1--6},
abstract = {Transactive energy systems (TES) are emerging as a transformative solution for the problems that distribution system operators face due to an increase in the use of distributed energy resources and rapid growth in scalability of managing active distribution system (ADS). On the one hand, these changes pose a decentralized power system control problem, requiring strategic control to maintain reliability and resiliency for the community and for the utility. On the other hand, they require robust financial markets while allowing participation from diverse prosumers. To support the computing and flexibility requirements of TES while preserving privacy and security, distributed software platforms are required. In this paper, we enable the study and analysis of security concerns by developing Transactive Energy Security Simulation Testbed (TESST), a TES testbed for simulating various cyber attacks. In this work, the testbed is used for TES simulation with centralized clearing market, highlighting weaknesses in a centralized system. Additionally, we present a blockchain enabled decentralized market solution supported by distributed computing for TES, which on one hand can alleviate some of the problems that we identify, but on the other hand, may introduce newer issues. Future study of these differing paradigms is necessary and will continue as we develop our security simulation testbed.},
bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, https://dblp.org},
biburl = {https://dblp.org/rec/bib/conf/cpsweek/ZhangEDLS19},
category = {workshop},
contribution = {colab},
doi = {10.1109/MSCPES.2019.8738802},
file = {:Zhang2019a-Cyber_Physical_Simulation_Platform_for_Security_Assessment_of_Transactive_Energy_Systems.pdf:PDF},
keywords = {transactive energy systems, blockchain, market simulation, cyber security, smart grid, testbed},
project = {transactive-energy,cps-reliability},
tag = {platform,decentralization,power},
timestamp = {Wed, 16 Oct 2019 14:14:56 +0200},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1109/MSCPES.2019.8738802}
}