(Second IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications)
Symposium Co-chairs
Prof. Sanjay Goel, University at Albany, SUNY (chair)
Dr. Stephen F. Bush, GE Global Research, New York
Prof. William H. Sanders, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Scope and Motivation
The emerging Smart Grid vision is of an interconnected power distribution
network that streamlines transmission, distribution, monitoring, and control
of electricity. This vision is being realized through the design and
implementation of an information network overlaying the traditional power
grid. On the distribution side, it is envisioned that a smart meter will be
connected to each household allowing the consumer to not only draw power,
but also supply surplus power to the grid. A distribution-side communication
network would allow for a more precise real-time estimation of anticipated
usage allowing for a more optimized demand-response driven control. The
smart grid vision also includes many technologies on the transmission side,
including those that provide wide area situational awareness of grid status.
All of these technologies must be woven together in a way that insures
end-to-end security and resiliency. Ensuring end-to-end grid security and
resiliency is one of the biggest challenges of the Smart Grid vision. Not
only is it necessary to ensure high-availability, real-time, communication
but also to ensure that communications are secure, private, and have
integrity. Given the size and time-scales involved, the new grid must also
be able to detect and respond to such problems and either recover
automatically or provide timely alerts to humans. This capability may
require that redundancy and diversity be built into the system in a manner
that ensures that critical IT functions not be compromised. Means to measure
and validate grid resilience also need to be developed. Also important are
policy issues that will govern privacy and usage of information. The scope
includes physical security of the grid communication infrastructure
including a risk analysis of the critical components as well as
incorporation of redundancy in the grid.
Topics of Particular interest
The symposium aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in the
area of security to present and discuss the knotty issues involved in smart
grid security. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the
following:
* Grid Resilience
o Mechanisms to isolate and/or recover from both physical and cyber faults
and attacks
o Metrics of resilience
* Smart Grid Security Risk Assessment and Management
* Communications and Device Security
o Authorization and Access Control
o End-to-end Encryption, Key Management, etc.
* Security of Devices
* Privacy and Misuse of User Data
* System Security, e.g.,
o Malware attacks (on the network and devices)
o Intrusion
o Denial-of-Service Attacks
o SCADA security
o Other network attacks
* Physical Security of the Grid Communication Infrastructure
o Building redundancy in the grid
o Meter tampering by customer or others
Submission Guidelines
Submission deadlines and format requirements are the same for all symposia,
see here Paper submission will be through EDAS, please check this page again
in March 2011 for a direct link.
Technical Program Committee (TPC) members
Bora Akyol, Pacific Northwest Labs, USA Brian M. Bowen, Columbia University,
USA Bruno Sinopoli, Carnegie Mellon University, USA David Bakken, Washington
State University Georgios Kalogridis, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd, UK John
Buford, Avaya Labs Research, USA Mostafa El-Said, Grand Valley State
University, USA Russ Housley, Vigil Security, US Sanjay Goel, University at
Albany, SUNY, USA Shalini Kishore, Lehigh University, USA Stephen F. Bush,
GE Global Research, USA William H Sanders, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA William T. Polk, NIST, USA Kevin Mills, NIST, USA Carl
Hauser, Washington State University, USA Dave Dalva Cisco Systems, USA
Stojan Denic, Toshiba Research Europe Ltd., UK Henrik Sandberg, KTH, Royal
Institute of Technology, Sweden Vincent Roca, INRIA Rhne-Alpes, France
Andrew Wright, N-Dimension Solutions, USA Le Xie, Texas A&M University, USA
Marianne Swanson, NIST, USA Bulent Yener, RPI, USA
Steve (www.research.ge.com/~bushsf)
(www.comsoc.org/nano)
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