Simulating andAnalysis of Cyber Attacks on a BPLC Network

In this paper at first we identify the main vulnerabilities of BPLC network from the cyber space point of view, and then, by using a suitable dataset (NSL-KDD), we simulate different cyber attacks. It is obvious that the nodes that an adversary can infiltrate through the home-area section are mainly the meters which are commonly implemented with star topology or cascaded star topology in power grids. However, engineers program the hubs and switches in a way that the star topology of the power grid changes into a mesh topology (star-mesh topology) in order to benefit from the advantages of mesh networks like multi-hopping and multi-pathing capabilities. Our simulations contain an optimal routing algorithm as well as considering the communicational protocols related to this network. In the main part of our simulations, we benefit from three types of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) using two Artificial Immune System (AIS) algorithms as well as an algorithm based on Support Vector Machines (SVM). At the end of our simulations, we compare these three Intrusion Detection Systems according to FPR, FNR, and DR criteria. Simulation results show that our method is a good way to determine the adversary traffics in BPLC networks.