Publications by Sergio Barreto Andrade

Feasibility of Time Synchronization Attacks against PMU-based State-Estimation

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Sergio Barreto Andrade, Marguerite Marie Nathalie Delcourt, Gyorgy Miklos Dan

The emerging measurement technology of phasor measurement units (PMUs) makes it possible to estimate the state of electrical grids in real-time, thus opening the way to new protection and control applications. PMUs rely on precise time synchronization, the ...

2019

Undetectable Timing-Attack on Linear State-Estimation by Using Rank-1 Approximation

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Marco Pignati, Sergio Barreto Andrade, Gyorgy Miklos Dan

Smart-grid applications based on synchrophasor measurements have recently been shown to be vulnerable to timing attacks. A fundamental question is whether timing attacks could remain undetected by bad-data detection algorithms used in conjunction with stat ...

2018

Cyber-attack on Packet-Based Time Synchronization Protocols: the Undetectable Delay Box

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Aswin Suresh, Sergio Barreto Andrade

We present a cyber-attack on packet-based time synchronization protocols (PBTSP) with high-accuracy requirements. The cyber-attack is undetectable from the PBTSP's perspective and exploits a vulnerability that is in the nature of all PBTSPs. It can be succ ...

Ieee2016

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

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