Detecting Stealthy False Data Injection Using Machine Learning in Smart Grid

Aging power industries, together with the increase in demand from industrial and residential customers, are the main incentive for policy makers to define a road map to the next-generation power system called the smart grid. In the smart grid, the overall monitoring costs will be decreased, but at the same time, the risk of cyber attacks might be increased. Recently, a new type of attacks (called the stealth attack) has been introduced, which cannot be detected by the traditional bad data detection using state estimation. In this paper, we show how normal operations of power networks can be statistically distinguished from the case under stealthy attacks. We propose two machine-learning-based techniques for…