PSC2022: Power Systems Cybersecurity |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psc2022 |
Abstract registration deadline | March 4, 2022 |
Submission deadline | May 1, 2022 |
Springer Nature, Call for book chapters |
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Book title: Power Systems Cybersecurity |
Synopsis
Due to environmental concerns and energy security risks, modern power systems are being through the transition towards the smart grid concept, which enables the high penetration level of renewable energies and motilities the high digitalization rate that requires new information and communication infrastructures. Renewable energy resources are mainly inverter-based sources that introduce new problems and technical issues to modern power systems that should be properly addressed. Such energy sources highly decrease the system's total inertia which puts the system's stability and security in danger and weakens the grid against different events including cyberattacks. The main aspect in the transition to smart grids is the replacement of traditional infrastructure that was based on SCADA systems with new ones that are being built based on wide-area measurement systems (WAMS), wide sensor networks (WSN), and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies. On one hand, the recent advances in the measurements and communications systems, i.e. phasor measurement units (PMUs) and wide-area monitoring systems (WAMSs) open a promising environment for developing new control and protection approaches that can help solve the renewable energy and modern power system operation technical issues. On the other hand, these new infrastructures are vulnerable to cyberattacks which put the system cybersecurity under danger, where in some cases a small false injected data as an attack could result in a serious blackout. A clear example of such events is the 2015 Ukraine blackout which has been proven that happened due to a cyberattack based on a false-date injection scenario. This dangerous event and other recent cyberattack events against energy systems in different countries around the globe have highly motivated research activities on power systems cybersecurity. Cyber-attackers are highly skilled professionals working as teams who are capable of generating very complex and coordinated attacks using sophisticated tools. Therefore, power system operators in WAMS centers need to be equipped with robust tools that can detect and classify cyberattack signals instantly. The WAMS centers should be supplied with new operation, control, and protection approaches that can take cyberattack issues into account. For instance, it is obvious that all control systems in modern power systems should be replaced with new tolerant controllers against cyberattacks. The new wide-area monitoring systems provide the modern power systems with real-time measurements of the electric quantities. Based on these quantities, the power system cybersecurity can be monitored and assessed online and in a real-time framework. Therefore, cybersecurity including the stability and security of the modern energy system can be guaranteed in a suitable level using new wide-area tolerant control and protection schemes. Developing such schemes can bring several advantages to both the system operators and consumers. Furthermore, this will help complete the transition to smart grids and adopt the new concepts such as demand response programs, virtual power plants, the integration of aggregated electric vehicles (EVs) and other smart appliances with the grid, with no delays due to their high vulnerability to cyberattacks. Therefore, modern power systems require cyberattack detectors and tolerant operation and control schemes that can take cyberattacks into account, to be used online in the monitoring centers, the control rooms, the aggregators of EVs and other appliances, the virtual power plants, and protection schemes. There is a great research gap related to wide-area power systems cybersecurity in the presence of high penetration distributed generating units and renewable energy resources. Therefore, this book aims to do a complete state of the art and propose new control and protection schemes that can improve the overall stability and cybersecurity of the future wide-area power systems.
The book covers an important topic in modern and future power systems which is power systems cybersecurity. In order to enhance overall stability and security in wide-area power systems against cyberattacks, new operation, control, and protection methods are in demand. The control methods can help improve the overall cybersecurity stability in normal and abnormal operating conditions. In the contrast, protection schemes are important to keep the secure operation of the system under the most severe contingencies and cyberattacks. The main features of this book are: 1) proposing new tolerant control and protection methods against cyberattacks for future power systems, 2) suggesting new methods for stability and cybersecurity assessment, 3) focusing on practical issues in modern power systems, and 4) taking the smart grid concept into account.
List of Topics
This book aims at establishing a common ground to provide solutions and best practices around Cybersecurity for modern future smart power systems. The following focus areas could be considered (not limited to):
- Power system cybersecurity and microgrid cybersecurity
- Cyberattack detection
- False data injection, denial of service, man-in-the-middle cyberattacks on power systems
- Cyberattack-resilient operation
- Cyberattack-resilient control
- Cybersecurity in wide-area systems
- Modern infrastructure in power systems and its cyber issues
- Cybersecurity issues in demand response, electricity market, and aggregators of electric vehicles
- Recorded and verified cyberattacks in real-world power systems
- Case studies related to cybersecurity in power systems
- Innovations and future trends of cybersecurity
- State of the art of power system cybersecurity
- Stability and security in case of cyber threats
- Other related topics in power system cybersecurity
Academics, researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, and professionals are invited to contribute with book chapters. They should consider submitting a full chapter within the timeline provided hereunder.
Important Dates / Deadlines
Title Submission & brief introduction: |
4 March 2022 |
Proposal Acceptance Notification: |
10 March 2022 |
Full Chapter Submission: |
01 May 2022 |
Revised Chapter Submission: |
15 June 2022 |
Publication Available (Tentative) : |
15 July 2022 |
Publication
The Book will be published by Springer Nature Group, USA.
Editors
Hassan Haes Alhelou, Monash University, Australia (alhelou@ieee.org)
Nikos Hatziargyriou, NTUA, Greece (nh@power.ece.ntua.gr)
ZhaoYang Dong, UNSW, Australia (zydong@ieee.org)
Submission Procedure
Chapter proposal submissions (Title Submission & brief introduction, based on template-free format) are invited from researchers and practitioners on or before the deadline. Proposals should be limited to between 250-1000 words, explaining the mission and concerns of the topics and how it fits into the general theme of the book.
Only electronic submissions in PDF format will be considered. Please submit it through EasyChair using the following submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psc2022 and send a copy of your proposal through email to the editors (h.haesalhelou@gmail.com).
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to editors.
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