UC-National Lab Center for Power Distribution Cyber Security

Publications

Journal Papers

  1. A. Shahsavari, M. Farajollahi, E. Stewart, E. Cortez, H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Situational Awareness in Distribution Grid Using Micro-PMU Data: A Machine Learning Approach," IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid, vol. 10 , no. 6, pp. 6167-6177, Nov. 2019.
  2. A. Shahsavari, M. Farajollahi, H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Individual Load Model Parameter Estimation in Distribution Systems using Load Switching Events," IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, vol. 34 , no. 6 , pp. 4652-4664, Nov. 2019.
  3. R. Anguluri, V. Katewa, F. Pasqualetti, "Centralized Versus Decentralized Detection of Attacks in Stochastic Interconnected Systems," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019 (Early Access)
  4. A. Joseph, K. Smedley, S. Mehraeen, "Secure High DER Penetration Power Distribution via Autonomously Coordinated Volt/VAR Control," IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2019 (Early Access)
  5. A. Reisizadeh, A. Mokhtari, H. Hassani, R. Pedarsani, "An Exact Quantized Decentralized Gradient Descent Algorithm," IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 67, no. 19, pp. 4934-4947, Oct. 2019.
  6. S. Amini, F. Pasqualetti, M. Abbaszadeh, H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Hierarchical Location Identification of Destabilizing Faults and Attacks in Power Systems: A Frequency-Domain Approach," IEEE Trans. on Smart Grid, vol. 10, no. 2, Mar. 2019.
  7. M. Farajollahi, A. Shahsavari, E. Stewart, H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Locating the Source of Events in Power Distribution Systems Using Micro-PMU Data," IEEE Trans. on Power Systems, vol. 33, no. 6, Nov. 2018.
  8. Nathaniel Tucker, Ahmadreza Moradipari, Mahnoosh Alizadeh, "Constrained Thompson Sampling for Real-Time Electricity Pricing with Grid Reliability Constraints," arXiv:1908.07964, (Under review).

Conference Papers

  1. A. Barua and M. A. Al Faruque, "Hall Spoofing: A Noninvasive DoS Attack on Grid-Tied Solar Inverter", in Proc. of the Usenix Security, Boston, MA, August, 2020.
  2. M. Kamal, M. Farajollahi, H. Mohsenian-Rad "Analysis of Cyber Attacks Against Micro-PMUs: The Case of Event Source Location Identification," accepted for publication in The Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT 2020)
  3. E. Samani, P. Khaledian, A. Aligholian, E. Papalexakis, S. Cun, M. H. Nazari, H. Mohsenian-Rad "Anomaly Detection in IoT-Based PIR Occupancy Sensors to Improve Building Energy Efficiency," accepted for publication in The Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT 2020)
  4. A. Akrami, M. S. Asif, H. Mohsenian-Rad "Sparse Distribution System State Estimation: An Approximate Solution Against Low Observability," accepted for publication in The Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT 2020)
  5. A. Aligholian, M. Farajollahi, and H. Mohsenian-Rad, "Unsupervised Learning for Online Abnormality Detection in Smart Meter Data," accepted for publication in Proc. of the IEEE PES General Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August 2019.
  6. I. Burago and M. Levorato, "Cloud-Assisted On-Sensor Observation Classification for Constrained Decision-Making in Latency-Impeded IoT Systems," accepted for publication in IEEE ISIT 2019, July 7-12 2019, Paris, France.
  7. A. Shahsavari, M. Farajollahi, E. Stewart, E. Cortez, H. Mohsenian-Rad, "A Machine Learning Approach to Event Analysis in Distribution Feeders Using Distribution Synchrophasors," accepted for publication in IEEE Int. Conference on Smart Grid Synchronized Measurements and Analytics, College Station, TX, May 2019.
  8. K. Vatanparvar and M. A. Al Faruque, "Self-Secured Control with Anomaly Detection and Recovery in Automotive Cyber-Physical Systems," accepted for publication in IEEE/ACM Design Automation and Test in Europe (DATE'19), Florence, Italy, March 2019.
  9. Cesar A. Uribe, Hoi-To Wai, Mahnoosh Alizadeh, "Resilient Distributed Optimization Algorithms for Resource Allocation," 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, September 2019.
  10. K. Paarporn, M. Alizadeh, and J. R. Marden, "Risk and security tradeoffs in graphical coordination games," 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, September 2019.
  11. K. Paarporn, R. Chandan, M. Alizadeh, and J. R. Marden, "Characterizing the interplay between information and strength in Blotto games," 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Nice, France, September 2019.
  12. A. Reisizadeh, H. Taheri, A. Mokhtari, H. Hassani, R. Pedarsani,"Robust and Communication-Efficient Collaborative Learning," Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS),2019.
  13. C. Yang, R. Pedarsani, S. Avestimehr,"Timely-Throughput Optimal Coded Computing over Cloud Networks," ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (Mobihoc), pp. 301-310, July 2019.
  14. Z. Marzi, S. Gopalakrishnan, U. Madhow, R. Pedarsani,"Sparsity-based Defense against Adversarial Attacks on Linear Classifiers," IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Vail, CO, USA, June 2018.
  15. A. M. Reisizadeh, H. Hassani, R. Pedarsani, "Quantized Decentralized Consensus Optimization," IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Miami Beach, FL, USA, Dec. 17-19, 2018.
  16. I. Burago and M. Levorato, "Randomized Edge-Assisted On-Sensor Information Selection for Bandwidth-Constrained Systems," in Fifty-second Asilomar Conference on Signals, Systems and Computer, Asilomar, CA, October 2018.
  17. C. Yang, A. S. Avestimehr, and R. Pedarsani,"Communication-Aware Scheduling of Serial Tasks for Dispersed Computing," in 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), Vail, CO, June 2018.