Reliability Considerations in Cyber-Power Dependent Systems

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1 Reliability Considerations in Cyber-Power Dependent Systems Visvakumar Aravinthan Wichita State University PSERC Webinar April 17,

2 Acknowledgement This work was part of PSERC project T-53 Reliability Assessment and Modeling of Cyber Enabled Power Systems with Renewable Sources and Energy Storage Collaborative work between Texas A&M & Wichita State The following students contributed to this work Mohammad Heidari Mojtaba Sepehry Thanatheepan Balachandran Suvagata Chakraborty 2

3 Presentation Outline Background and Motivation Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance Effect of Communication Cyber System Failure Modeling Scenario 1: Cyber unavailability Scenario 2: Cyber attack Dependent System Modeling Tools: A Need Final Remarks and Future Needs 3

4 Presentation Outline Background and Motivation Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance Effect of Communication Cyber System Failure Modeling Scenario 1: Cyber unavailability Scenario 2: Cyber attack Dependent System Modeling Tools: A Need Final Remarks and Future Needs 4

5 Background & Motivation 5

6 Background & Motivation A simple example of cyber-power system Automated fault isolation as the example This process depends on Communication Automatic decision 6

7 Background & Motivation The cyber-power system can be modeled as A three layer system 7

8 Background & Motivation Three layer system 8

9 Presentation Outline Background and Motivation Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance Effect of Communication Cyber System Failure Modeling Scenario 1: Cyber unavailability Scenario 2: Cyber attack Dependent System Modeling Tools: A Need Final Remarks and Future Needs 9

10 Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance A simple example for motivation Improved monitoring Traditional equipment failure management t 2 Corrective Action Improve Detection Isolation Restoration Repair rate (µ) M. Heidari and V. Aravinthan, Component Reliability Evaluation in the Presence of Smart Monitoring, in Proc North American Power Symposium 10

11 Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance A simple example for motivation Improved monitoring Preventive equipment failure management Preventive Action t 2 Corrective Action Improve Monitoring Failure rate (λ) Improve Detection Isolation Restoration Repair rate (µ) M. Heidari and V. Aravinthan, Component Reliability Evaluation in the Presence of Smart Monitoring, in Proc North American Power Symposium 11

12 Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance A simple example for motivation Improved monitoring Smart component: Combination of electrical & monitoring Electrical equipment Normal Preventive action Failure Scheduled maintenance Monitoring Normal Failure Scheduled maintenance M. Heidari and V. Aravinthan, Component Reliability Evaluation in the Presence of Smart Monitoring, in Proc North American Power Symposium 12

13 Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance A simple example for motivation Improved monitoring Smart component: State transition model for reliability evaluation Up μμ λλ Down M. Heidari and V. Aravinthan, Component Reliability Evaluation in the Presence of Smart Monitoring, in Proc North American Power Symposium 13

14 Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance A simple example for motivation Improved monitoring Smart component: Failure rate of the smart component (Markov Model) State transition State 0: pp 0 θθ ssss + λλ ssss + λλ pppp = pp 2 μμ pppp + pp 3 μμ ssss + PP 5 μμ 0 State 1: pp 1 θθ pppp = pp 0 (λλ pppp ) State 2: pp 2 λλ dd + μμ pppp = pp 1 θθ pppp State 3: pp 3 λλ cc + μμ ssss = pp 0 θθ ssss + pp 4 θθ ssss State 4: pp 4 λλ cc + θθ ssss = pp 0 λλ ssss State 5: pp 5 μμ 0 = pp λλ dd + pp 3 λλ cc + pp 4 (λλ cc ) Smart component failure rate λλ ssssss = λλ dd pp 2 + λλ cc pp 3 + λλ cc pp 4 Can be shown that iiii pp 0 > 0 λλ ssssss < λλ cc Failure rate decreases M. Heidari and V. Aravinthan, Component Reliability Evaluation in the Presence of Smart Monitoring, in Proc North American Power Symposium 14

15 Presentation Outline Background and Motivation Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance Effect of Communication Cyber System Failure Modeling Scenario 1: Cyber unavailability Scenario 2: Cyber attack Dependent System Modeling Tools: A Need Final Remarks and Future Needs 15

16 Effect of Communication Communication network Successful data received rate 16

17 Effect of Communication Communication network Failure data: Data Availability Missing Data Rate Recovery Rate failures per day second 17

18 Effect of Communication Communication network How communication failure affects power system: Example: Event driven communication Application: Automatic switches Critical to understand the dependency M. Heidari and V. Aravinthan, Component Reliability Evaluation in the Presence of Smart Monitoring, in Proc North American Power Symposium 18

19 Effect of Communication Communication network How communication failure affects power system: Example: Event driven communication Application: Automatic switches Communication enabled switches Time sequential Monte-Carlo simulation Unavailability based approach M. Heidari and V. Aravinthan, Component Reliability Evaluation in the Presence of Smart Monitoring, in Proc North American Power Symposium 19

20 Presentation Outline Background and Motivation Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance Effect of Communication Cyber System Failure Modeling Scenario 1: Cyber unavailability Scenario 2: Cyber attack Dependent System Modeling Tools: A Need Final Remarks and Future Needs 20

21 Cyber System Failure Modeling Failure of cyber system Scenario 1: Data unavailability Decision is made based on the information received from fault indicators Communication failure can be modeled based on the network behavior M. Heidari, M. Sepehry, and V. Aravinthan, Fault Detector and Switch Placement in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Network, IEEE Trans. Smart Grids, Vol: 9, Iss: 2, March

22 Cyber System Failure Modeling Failure of cyber system Scenario 1: Data unavailability Fault detector Remote controlled switch si ii PP ffii = PP ffff i cf ii + 1 PP ffff i cf i sw ii PP ffff i cf i sw P = P + ( 1 P ) P + (1 P )(1 P ) P i ak M. Heidari, M. Sepehry, and V. Aravinthan, Fault Detector and Switch Placement in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Network, IEEE Trans. Smart Grids, Vol: 9, Iss: 2, March

23 Cyber System Failure Modeling Network availability modeling Cyber network with single path Graph r 0 =S r 1 r 2 r h 2 r h 1 r h = D Probability of transmitted data from S received at D PP ss = PP ss rr 0 rr 1 PP ss rr 1 rr 2 PP ss rr h 1 rr h S. Chakraborty, B. Thanatheepan, and V. Aravinthan, Worst-Case Reliability Modeling and Evaluation in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Systems, 2017 North American Power Symposium 23

24 Cyber System Failure Modeling Network availability modeling Physical network model with multiple paths Graph of the above model S. Chakraborty, B. Thanatheepan, and V. Aravinthan, Worst-Case Reliability Modeling and Evaluation in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Systems, 2017 North American Power Symposium 24

25 Cyber System Failure Modeling Network availability modeling Reliability computation for multipath network Multiple paths between source and destination AA CC EE AA BB FF HH AA BB DD AA CC GG HH AA BB FF GG EE Successful data transmission PP ss = PP AA CC EE PP AA BB FF HH PP AA BB DD PP AA CC GG HH PP AA BB FF GG EE S. Chakraborty, B. Thanatheepan, and V. Aravinthan, Worst-Case Reliability Modeling and Evaluation in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Systems, 2017 North American Power Symposium 25

26 Cyber System Failure Modeling Reliability computation R(A) = 0.9 R(B) = 0.6 R(C) = 0.8 R(C) = 0.7 Series parallel approach: RR ss = 1 1 RR AA RR BB 1 RR CC RR DD = Simple approach but limited to either series or parallel combinations. Concern: Cyber network more complicated S. Chakraborty, B. Thanatheepan, and V. Aravinthan, Worst-Case Reliability Modeling and Evaluation in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Systems, 2017 North American Power Symposium 26

27 Cyber System Failure Modeling Reliability computation R(A) = 0.9 R(B) = 0.6 R(C) = 0.8 R(C) = 0.7 Minimal cut set approach: Minimal cut sets: AAAA AAAA BBBB BBBB System structure function: ψψ XX AA, XX BB, XX CC, XX DD = 1 1 XX AA 1 XX CC 1 1 XX AA 1 XX DD 1 1 XX BB 1 XX CC 1 1 XX BB 1 XX DD = XX AA + XX cc XX AA XX CC XX AA + XX DD XX AA XX DD XX BB + XX CC XX BB XX CC XX BB + XX DD XX BB XX DD = XX AA XX BB + XX CC XX DD XX AA XX BB XX CC XX DD Reliability of the network RR ss = EE ψψ XX AA, XX BB, XX CC, XX DD = EE[XX AA XX BB ] + EE[XX CC XX DD ] EE[XX AA XX BB XX CC XX DD ] = RR AA RR BB + RR CC RR DD RR AA RR BB RR CC RR DD = S. Chakraborty, B. Thanatheepan, and V. Aravinthan, Worst-Case Reliability Modeling and Evaluation in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Systems, 2017 North American Power Symposium 27

28 Cyber System Failure Modeling Network availability modeling For the given simple network Minimal cut sets CCCCCC AAAAAA BBBBBB {BBBBBB} CCCCCC, AAAAAA Structure function is given by ψψ (3,4) = 1 [ 1 1 XX BB 1 XX DD 1 XX EE 1 1 XX CC 1 XX DD 1 XX FF 1 1 XX BB 1 XX DD 1 XX FF 1 1 XX CC 1 XX DD 1 XX EE 1 1 XX AA 1 XX DD 1 XX FF { 1 XX AA 1 XX DD 1 XX E } Calculations becomes tedious as network gets larger S. Chakraborty, B. Thanatheepan, and V. Aravinthan, Worst-Case Reliability Modeling and Evaluation in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Systems, 2017 North American Power Symposium 28

29 Cyber System Failure Modeling Network availability modeling For effective computation Lower bound for the link reliability can be determined Reasonable lower bound Place minimal cut-sets in series Total number of cut sets RR LLLL llllllll cc = ii=1 1 kkεεss ii 1 RR kk Reliability of element i Set of elements in cut set i S. Chakraborty, B. Thanatheepan, and V. Aravinthan, Worst-Case Reliability Modeling and Evaluation in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Systems, 2017 North American Power Symposium 29

30 Cyber System Failure Modeling Network availability modeling Example: Communication links can be: Decisions can be: centralized or decentralized Simple network: S. Chakraborty, B. Thanatheepan, and V. Aravinthan, Worst-Case Reliability Modeling and Evaluation in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Systems, 2017 North American Power Symposium 30

31 Cyber System Failure Modeling Network availability modeling Example: Worst case Expected Energy Not Served (WEENS): DR level 1: Partial load curtailment DR level 2: Complete load curtailment S. Chakraborty, B. Thanatheepan, and V. Aravinthan, Worst-Case Reliability Modeling and Evaluation in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Systems, 2017 North American Power Symposium 31

32 Presentation Outline Background and Motivation Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance Effect of Communication Cyber System Failure Modeling Scenario 1: Cyber unavailability Scenario 2: Cyber attack Dependent System Modeling Tools: A Need Final Remarks and Future Needs 32

33 Cyber System Failure Modeling Failure of cyber system Scenario 2: Information manipulation Any of the following can be compromised Control Center network Corporate network Substation network Device level network M. Heidari, M. Sepehry, and V. Aravinthan, Fault Detector and Switch Placement in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Network, IEEE Trans. Smart Grids, Vol: 9, Iss: 2, March

34 Cyber System Failure Modeling Failure of cyber system Scenario 2: Information manipulation Compromise of any one network will result in all the associated networks being compromised For reliability analysis series connected elements (if no firewall) Control Center Network Substation Network Device Network M. Heidari, M. Sepehry, and V. Aravinthan, Fault Detector and Switch Placement in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Network, IEEE Trans. Smart Grids, Vol: 9, Iss: 2, March

35 Cyber System Failure Modeling Failure of cyber system Scenario 2: Effect of cyber attack Challenge: Attack and recovery model Needs human behavior based modeling If known then could be modeled using common mode failure approach M. Heidari, M. Sepehry, and V. Aravinthan, Fault Detector and Switch Placement in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Network, IEEE Trans. Smart Grids, Vol: 9, Iss: 2, March

36 Cyber System Failure Modeling Failure of cyber system Scenario 2: Effect of cyber attack Automatic switch operation time Manual switching time Time to recover from cyber attack Based on availability of alternative path time for reconfiguration Fault detectors Manual switch Automated switch M. Heidari, M. Sepehry, and V. Aravinthan, Fault Detector and Switch Placement in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Network, IEEE Trans. Smart Grids, Vol: 9, Iss: 2, March

37 Cyber System Failure Modeling Failure of cyber system A single effect (attack) can affect multiple parts (network) Common cause failure (CCF) model: A group of components fail due to a shared cause The reason behind the failure (root cause) Which parts are affected and why (coupling factor) An event that causes a set of components to fail is known as common cause event (CCE). Components that could fail for the same cause(s) are grouped together; common cause component group (CCCG) M. Heidari, M. Sepehry, and V. Aravinthan, Fault Detector and Switch Placement in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Network, IEEE Trans. Smart Grids, Vol: 9, Iss: 2, March

38 Cyber System Failure Modeling Failure of cyber system Common cause failure (CCF) model: Example: Switching Operation in one frequency Sensors in another frequency M. Heidari, M. Sepehry, and V. Aravinthan, Fault Detector and Switch Placement in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Network, IEEE Trans. Smart Grids, Vol: 9, Iss: 2, March

39 Dependent failures Step 1: Determine the common cause component group (CCCG) Step 2: Determine basic event probabilities All possible ways αα kk = Cyber System Failure Modeling For example alpha factor method can be used A component can fail due to mm kk mm jj=1 Independent failure of the given component Dependent failure due to k out of m components Assume equal probability of occurrence mm jj PP kk PP jj Probability Dependent failure probability PP kk (mm) = kk mm 1 kk 1 Total failure probability of component k αα kk mm jj=1 jjαα jj PP tt(kk) M. Heidari, M. Sepehry, and V. Aravinthan, Fault Detector and Switch Placement in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Network, IEEE Trans. Smart Grids, Vol: 9, Iss: 2, March

40 Cyber System Failure Modeling Fault detector & automatic switch placement based on the cost Objective: minimize Investment cost (switch and fault detectors) Expected interruption cost for customers M. Heidari, M. Sepehry, and V. Aravinthan, Fault Detector and Switch Placement in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Network, IEEE Trans. Smart Grids, Vol: 9, Iss: 2, March

41 Presentation Outline Background and Motivation Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance Effect of Communication Cyber System Failure Modeling Scenario 1: Cyber unavailability Scenario 2: Cyber attack Dependent System Modeling Tools: A Need Final Remarks and Future Needs 41

42 Dependent System Modeling Tools: A Need Required approach Power System Failures (Random) Cyber Component Failure (Random) Message failure Message delay Cyber attack Interdependent System Reliability Evaluation Cyber Failure Impact on Power System Direct impact - Power component failure Indirect impact - Failure may impact - Not operate in safe state 42

43 Dependent System Modeling Tools: A Need Failure modes Power component Communication and coupling Decision 43

44 Presentation Outline Background and Motivation Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance Effect of Communication Cyber System Failure Modeling Scenario 1: Cyber unavailability Scenario 2: Cyber attack Dependent System Modeling Tools: A Need Final Remarks and Future Needs 44

45 Final Remarks Cyber system benefits are correlated with power system operational needs A three layer approach can be utilized by separating Power components Communication and coupling components Decision components Dependent system based modeling increases possible states of operations Adjustments to reliability analysis is required with Understanding of communication link failure Understanding cyber attack 45

46 Future Needs A unified analytical framework for cyber-power system needs to be better established. Effective modeling of cyber-unavailability and cyber-manipulation is a prerequisite. A human behavior based modeling for cyber attack can provide better insight Propagation of cyber failure on power system application (similar to cascading failure) needs to be further studied. 46

47 Final-Final Remarks Cyber solutions become more effective if: Power system applications are more identified Dependent effects of cyber and power systems are better understood Solutions utilize the properties of both cyber & power An appropriate performance evaluation tool is used to assess the benefits against the cost and adaptability. 47

48 Questions? Visvakumar Aravinthan 48

49 Presentation Outline Background and Motivation Monitoring & Preventive Maintenance Effect of Communication Cyber System Failure Modeling Scenario 1: Cyber unavailability Scenario 2: Cyber attack Dependent System Modeling Tools: A Need Final Remarks and Future Needs System Properties Based Communication 49

50 System Properties Based Communication Cyber infrastructure can improve reliability How to enhance the benefits One of the options Distributed Sensor Network at feeder level. Event driven communication protocol for distribution Communicate upon an event Not communicate periodically One application Use power system properties in communication protocol in anomaly detection applications. M. Heidari, M. Sepehry, and V. Aravinthan, Fault Detector and Switch Placement in Cyber-Enabled Power Distribution Network, IEEE Trans. Smart Grids, Vol: 9, Iss: 2, March

51 System Properties Based Communication Distributed sensor network Hierarchical communication architecture. Lower level - WiMax, Upper Level Wired. Use mesh network architecture between the control centers and the substation level communication M. Heidari, T. Balachandran, V. Aravinthan, V. Namboodiri, and G. Chen, ALARM: Average Low-Latency Medium Access Control Communication Protocol for Smart Feeders, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol: 10, Iss.: 11, Aug

52 System Properties Based Communication Communication Delay lost packets Identify a protocol that will prioritize time sensitive data M. Heidari, T. Balachandran, V. Aravinthan, V. Namboodiri, and G. Chen, ALARM: Average Low-Latency Medium Access Control Communication Protocol for Smart Feeders, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol: 10, Iss.: 11, Aug

53 System Properties Based Communication Communication Delay lost packets Allocate the first slot for time sensitive data Problem: Solution: M. Heidari, T. Balachandran, V. Aravinthan, V. Namboodiri, and G. Chen, ALARM: Average Low-Latency Medium Access Control Communication Protocol for Smart Feeders, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol: 10, Iss.: 11, Aug

54 System Properties Based Communication Communication Delay lost packets Allocate based on the location Or incorporate power system properties Z line,1 Z line,2 Z line,i Fault Substation Z load,1 Z load,2 Z load,i-1 Z load,i Z fault = 0 M. Heidari, T. Balachandran, V. Aravinthan, V. Namboodiri, and G. Chen, ALARM: Average Low-Latency Medium Access Control Communication Protocol for Smart Feeders, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol: 10, Iss.: 11, Aug

55 System Properties Based Communication Communication Delay lost packets Specific node communicating 100% of the time Latency M. Heidari, T. Balachandran, V. Aravinthan, V. Namboodiri, and G. Chen, ALARM: Average Low-Latency Medium Access Control Communication Protocol for Smart Feeders, IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Vol: 10, Iss.: 11, Aug