Egert, Rolf ; Tundis, Andrea ; Volk, Florian ; Mühlhäuser, Max (2017)
An Integrated Tool for Supporting the Design and Virtual Evaluation of Smart Grids.
International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm). Dresden, Germany (October 23 - 27, 2017)
doi: 10.1109/SmartGridComm.2017.8340675
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Abstract

<div>Energy grids and critical infrastructures in general</div> <div>undergo drastic changes. Specifically, energy grids evolve from</div> <div>centrally managed hierarchical networks with central production</div> <div>to locally supplied Smart Grids with distributed management.</div> <div>Therefore, information and communication technology (ICT)</div> <div>is added to these critical infrastructures. Thus, they become</div> <div>vulnerable to new attack vectors introduced by ICT. New</div> <div>methods and processes cannot be tested in real networks as such</div> <div>test are expensive and risk the proper function of the critical</div> <div>infrastructures. Existing simulation software either does not take</div> <div>ICT attacks into account or is designed too general with a lot</div> <div>of abstraction loss. In this paper, we present a time-discrete</div> <div>simulation environment that enables the simulation of smart grid</div> <div>ICT components. Moreover, attacks can be modeled and can be</div> <div>injected into the simulation. With the help of our simulation</div> <div>environment, system designers can evaluate the behaviour in</div> <div>the presence of threats and identify vulnerabilities as well as</div> <div>possible solutions already during the design phase. We present</div> <div>our simulation environment based on a case study extracted</div> <div>from a research project on the resilience of energy grids and</div> <div>exemplary show how two attacks influence the underlying critical</div> <div>infrastructure.</div>

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