Achieving Resilience in SDN-Based Smart Grid : A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach

Rehmani, Mubashir Husain and Akhtar, Fayaz and Davy, Alan and Jennings, Brendan (2018) Achieving Resilience in SDN-Based Smart Grid : A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach. In: 2018 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization and Workshops, NetSoft 2018 :. 2018 4th IEEE Conference on Network Softwarization and Workshops, NetSoft 2018 . Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., CAN, pp. 105-113. ISBN 9781538646335

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Abstract

With the advancement in electrical power systems, control engineering, and information and communication technologies (ICT), remarkable efforts have been made to improve the current electrical power grid, resulting in the so-called intelligent grid or the smart grid (SG). The envisioned smart grid heavily relies on ICT to support two-way communication, demand side management, and other critical smart grid operations. In case of an attack in the SG environment, communication link failures may occur. Moreover, an attacker may also compromise the switch within the SG communication network, thus leading to the breakdown of several communication links. Consequently, important information will not be communicated to and from the SG entities like relays, and remote terminal units (RTUs), As a result, cascading failures or blackouts may occur. Identification of these link failures and choosing alternative communication paths at run-time is indispensable. Thus, to deal with this issue, we consider an SDN-based smart grid setting in which the SDN controller in coordination with the network switches, is capable of learning about the link failures inside the network and then adapt to the changing network conditions dynamically. We model this problem as Multi-armed bandit problem and propose a link failure learning (LFL-MAB) algorithm. The proposed algorithm has the capability to learn the strategy adopted by the attacker and select those communication links which are reliable. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm outperform other approaches and ensure reliable communication and resiliency within the smart grid network.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Funding Information: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This work has emanated from research conducted with the financial support of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund under Grant Number 13/RC/2077. Publisher Copyright: © 2018 IEEE.
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Date Deposited:	19 Oct 2022 23:17
Last Modified:	27 Jun 2023 16:05
URI:	http://repository-testing.wit.ie/id/eprint/5164

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