Considerations for Planning a Multi-Platform Energy Utility System

Abstract

A federated cloud-based multi-platform Power System is presented to meet the growing challenges confronting power system operators. It uses a federated architecture to provide a group sourced increase in cyber security, in reducing the need for computing resource overcapacity, for sharing computing and power resources during emergencies, for minimizing energy costs, and for sharing information on threats and incident responses. In the face of nation-state and organized crime complex, multi-technology, coordinated attacks, a single organization stands an ever reducing chance of remaining safe. The proposed federated cloud preserves the economic efficiency advantages of marketplace of non-monopolistic organizations innovating to obtain competitive advantage with shared preparation, resources, information, and resiliency enabled by individual Power System cloud-based computing creating a federated System. The paper applies earlier advances. This paper combines the results previously published in different publications and applies them to a single paradigmatic example of a power system consisting of a number of individual asset owners. It includes the architecture, model of energy, and resource sharing as well as a novel, self-learning, semantic-less breach detection system for detecting anomalous behavior in resource usage across the power system participants. The paper extends previous work published about federated cloud. The simulations results provided to demonstrate the usefulness of the proposed system.

Confederated cloud—Design consideration for distributed utility computing system of systems

“…On inheriting the security measures, the confederated cloud will include them in supervisory controls, because, while dynamically balancing resources among the CSPs, the confederation needs to ensure that malware or data loss does not occur even when there is the slightest exposure to data storage architecture. Moreover, resource allocations occur dynamically and automatically for a workload that needs to be optimized, and this requires that computing, communication, and data sharing are carried out securely …”

“…In the confederated model below, we show various levels of interoperability the SP chooses to apply that best meets their requirements, eg, SP can share clusters or even node pools when the workload specifications allow. The model also suggests sharing a computing resource usage logs for tracking anomalies that might imply cybersecurity breaches 2.…”

“…Thus, the threshold value is a dynamic system property. For this demonstration, various singular values of the threshold were chosen…”

“…Moreover, resource allocations occur dynamically and automatically for a workload that needs to be optimized, and this requires that computing, communication, and data sharing are carried out securely. 16…”

Cyber-Security Incidents: A Review Cases in Cyber-Physical Systems

“…It mentioned that many infiltration attempts which the hacker tried on the controlling systems of electricity and transmission were prevented [40]. …”