Homo Digitus: Its Dependable and Resilient Smart Ecosystem

Designing resilient and secure smart micro grids

The research presented in this extended abstract paper depicts a smart grid management framework which enables a decentralized and autonomous organization of the energy participants within these grids. Based on basic requirements for operating such systems, challenges and tasks are being discussed here as a basis for future research. The discussion encompasses both fields of electrical engineer...

Resilient Data Collection in Smart Grid

Sensors and measurement devices are widely deployed in Smart Grid (SG) to monitor the health of the system. However, these devices are subject to damage and attack so that they cannot deliver sensing data to the control center. In treebased data collection schemes, a relay failure can further lead to unresponsiveness of all the devices in its sub-tree. In this paper, we study the resiliency iss...

Understanding homo-FRET and Its Measurement

A Methodology for Designing Resilient and Smart Critical Infrastructures

Critical infrastructures are rapidly converging toward digital technologies in order to provide advanced information services, efficient management, and resource utilization. This has led to the proliferation of ubiquitous connectivity to critical infrastructures (electrical grid, utility networks, finance, etc.) that are connecting homes, businesses, and government resources. This will drive t...

Optimal and Resilient Control with Applications in Smart Distribution Grids

The electric power industry and society are facing the challenges and opportunities of transforming the present power grid into a smart grid. To meet these challenges, new types of control systems are connected over IT infrastructures. While this is done to meet highly set economical and environmental goals, it also introduces new sources of uncertainty in the control loops. In this thesis, we ...