The introduction of advanced communication infrastructure into the power grid raises a plethora of new opportunities to tackle climate change. This paper is concerned with the security of energy management systems which are expected to be implemented in the future smart grid. The existence of a novel class of false data injection attacks that are based on modifying forecasted demand data is demonstrated, and the impact of the attacks on a typical system’s parameters is identified, using a simulated scenario. Monitoring strategies that the utility company may employ in order to detect the attacks are proposed, and a game-theoretic approach is used to support the utility company’s decision-making process for the allocation of their defence resources. Informed by these findings, a generic security game is devised and solved, revealing the existence of several Nash equilibrium strategies. The practical outcomes of these results for the utility company are discussed in detail, and a proposal is made, suggesting how the generic model may be applied to other scenarios.

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智能电网调度及其防御的安全攻击：一种博弈论方法

将先进的通信基础设施引入电网，为应对气候变化带来了许多新的机遇。本文涉及有望在未来的智能电网中实现的能源管理系统的安全性。演示了一种基于修改预测的需求数据的新型虚假数据注入攻击，并使用模拟方案识别了攻击对典型系统参数的影响。提出了公用事业公司为了检测攻击而可能采用的监视策略，并使用博弈论方法来支持公用事业公司分配其防御资源的决策过程。根据这些发现，我们设计并解决了通用安全游戏，揭示了几种纳什均衡策略的存在。对公用事业公司的这些结果的实际结果进行了详细讨论，并提出了建议，建议如何将通用模型应用于其他方案。