Publications by Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay

Optimal Software Patching Plan for PMUs

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Ola Nils Anders Svensson, Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay

Phasor measurement units (PMUs) deployed to monitor the state of an electrical grid need to be patched from time to time to prevent attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in the software. Applying some of these patches requires a PMU reboot, which takes the ...

2017

Experimental Comparison of Multicast Authentication for Wide Area Monitoring Systems

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay

Multicast is proposed as a preferred communication mechanism for many power grid applications. One of the biggest challenges for multicast in smart grid is ensuring source authentication without violating the stringent time requirement. The research commun ...

2017

Cybersecurity Solutions for Active Power Distribution Networks

Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay

An active distribution network (ADN) is an electrical-power distribution network that implements a real-time monitoring and control of the electrical resources and the grid. Effective monitoring and control is realised by deploying a large number of sensin ...

EPFL2017

Real-Time State Estimation of the EPFL-Campus Medium-Voltage Grid by Using PMUs

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Dan-Cristian Tomozei, Paolo Romano, Marco Pignati, Lorenzo Zanni, Sergio Barreto Andrade, Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay, Styliani Sarri

We describe the real-time monitoring infrastructure of the smart-grid pilot on the EPFL campus. We experimentally validate the concept of a real-time state-estimation for a 20 kV active distribution network. We designed and put into operation the whole inf ...

2015

An Information-Centric Communication Infrastructure for Real-Time State Estimation of Active Distribution Networks

Mario Paolone, Paolo Romano, Marco Pignati, Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay, Styliani Sarri

The evolution toward emerging active distribution networks (ADNs) can be realized via a real-time state estimation (RTSE) application facilitated by the use of phasor measurement units (PMUs). A critical challenge in deploying PMU-based RTSE applications a ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Integration of IEEE C37.118 and publish/subscribe communication

Mario Paolone, Paolo Romano, Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay

IEEE C37.118 is the current standard for synchrophasor measurements in power systems. It defines the measurement method and communication protocols for the entities in a synchrophasor network. The standard offers two different modes for client-server commu ...

IEEE2015

Security Vulnerabilities of the Cisco IOS Implementation of the MPLS Transport Profile

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Sergio Barreto Andrade, Teklemariam Tsegay Tesfay, Udaya Upul Kumara Jayasinghe, Miroslav Popovic

We are interested in the security of the MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP), in the context of smart-grid communication networks. The security guidelines of the MPLS-TP standards are written in a complex and indirect way, which led us to pose as hypothesis t ...

2014