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Machine Learning-Based Anomaly Detection for Load Forecasting Under Cyberattacks

Journal Article · · IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid
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  1. Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX (United States). Dept. of Electrical Engineering
  2. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Dept. of Sustainable Energy Technologies

Accurate load forecasting can create both economic and reliability benefits for power system operators. However, the cyberattack on load forecasting may mislead operators to make unsuitable operational decisions for the electricity delivery. To effectively and accurately detect these cyberattacks, this paper develops a machine learning-based anomaly detection (MLAD) methodology. First, load forecasts provided by neural networks are used to reconstruct the benchmark and scaling data by using the k-means clustering. Second, the cyberattack template is estimated by the naive Bayes classification based on the cumulative distribution function and statistical features of the scaling data. Finally, the dynamic programming is utilized to calculate both the occurrence and parameter of one cyberattack on load forecasting data. Here, a widely used symbolic aggregation approximation method is compared with the developed MLAD method. Numerical simulations on the publicly load data show that the MLAD method can effectively detect cyberattacks for load forecasting data with relatively high accuracy. Also, the robustness of MLAD is verified by thousands of attack scenarios based on Monte Carlo simulation.

Research Organization:
Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (SC-21)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0012704
OSTI ID:
1574423
Report Number(s):
BNL--212334-2019-JAAM
Journal Information:
IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, Journal Name: IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 10; ISSN 1949-3053
Publisher:
IEEECopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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