HIDG-based PSO Algorithm: Suspicious Sensor Selection for Power Grid Monitoring System Under Data Integrity Attack

With the development of communication and sensing technology, it has become possible to monitor the operating status of the power grid system through a series of sensors. However, malicious adversaries may launch data integrity attacks to compromise the measurements of certain sensors, causing the grid monitoring system to fail to grasp the correct system operating status. To solve the NP-hard suspicious sensor selection problem, this paper proposes an efficient attack detection scheduling algorithm, the Particle Swarm Optimization algorithm based on historical information directional guidance (HIDG-based PSO algorithm). The proposed algorithm is utilized with its unique evolutionary mechanism, which reduces the computational power requirements for sensor selection. For the problem of uncertainty in evolutionary algorithms, this paper uses historical information to guide the selection of suspicious sensors at the current moment. The simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can efficiently select suspicious sensors, which will greatly improve the efficiency of attack detection and ensure the security of information fusion of the power grid monitoring system.