Research

Current Research Activities

TCIPG researchers are currently engaged in the following research activities, which are integrated into four clusters of closely interrelated work and three cross-cutting efforts. Click on the links below to learn more about each research cluster or activity. 

Download Slide Summary of TCIPG Technical Clusters & Threads, Research Activities, and Cross-Cutting Efforts

Trustworthy Technologies for Wide-Area Monitoring and Control (Slide)

• Converged Networks for SCADA (CONES)
• Cryptographic Scalability in the Smart Grid (more info coming soon)
• Functional Security Enhancements for Existing SCADA Systems
• GridStat Middleware Communication Framework: Application Requirements
• GridStat Middleware Communication Framework: Management Security and Trust
• Lossless Compression of Synchrophasor Measurement Unit Archives
• PMU Enhanced Power System Operations
• Real-time Streaming Data Processing Engine for Embedded Systems
• Secure Wide-Area Data and Communication Networks for PMU-based Power System Applications (more info coming soon)
• State-Aware Decentralized Database Systems for Smart Grid

Trustworthy Technologies for Local Area Management, Monitoring, and Control (Slide)

• Coordinated Island Operation and Resynchronization
• Development of the Information Layer for the V2G Framework Implementation
• Password Changing Protocol
• Smart-Grid-Enabled Distributed Voltage Support
• Trustworthy Framework for Mobile Smart Meters

Responding To and Managing Cyber Events (Slide)

• A Game-Theoretic Intrusion Response and Recovery Engine
• Assessment and Forensics for Large-Scale Smart Grid Networks
• Hardware-based IDS for AMI Devices
• Specification-based IDS for Smart Meters
• Specification-based IDS for the DNP3 Protocol (more info coming soon)
• Usable Management Tools for the Smarter Grid's Data Avalanche

Trust Assessment (Slide)

• Automatic Verification of Network Access Control Policy Implementations
• Fuzz-testing of Proprietary SCADA/Control Network Protocols
• Modeling Methodologies for Power Grid Control System Evaluation
• Synchrophasor Data Quality
• Quantifying the Impacts on Reliability of Coupling between Power System Cyber and Physical Components
• Security and Robustness Evaluation and Enhancement of Power System Applications
• Smart Grid: Economics and Reliability (Analysis of Impacts of Smart Grid Resources on Economics and Reliability of Electric Supply)
• Testbed-Driven Assessment: Experimental Validation of System Security and Reliability
• Tools for Assessment and Self-assessment of ZigBee Networks
• Trustworthiness Enhancement Tools for SCADA Software and Platforms
• Vulnerability Assessment Tool Using Model Checking

Cross-Cutting Efforts (Slides)

• Testbed Initiatives
• Industry Interaction and Technology Transition (more info coming soon)
• Education and Engagement

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(from November 2011 Industry Workshop)

Research Activity Archives

• Cooperative Congestion Control in Power Grid Communication Networks
• Coordinating Black Start Operations Using Synchrophasors
• Decentralized Sensor Networking Models and Primitives for the Smart Grid
• PMU Integration into Power Flow Software