The Integrated Colorado Smart Secure Grids initiative presents the unique opportunities for designing an innovative, efficient, reliable, secure smart grid networks to satisfy the challenging requirements of cyber security, high distributed demand-response control, fault tolerant survivable architecture, and infrastructure monitoring and surveillance.
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs is well positioned in contributing and leading the cyber and physical security research and development effort in this initiative. We have faculty members with expertise and federal funded research projects in the cyber area, including new biometric system and infrastructure that ensure the secure communication and protect user privacy, secure collective network defense with multipath indirect routing and secure Domain Name System, innovative techniques for detecting and mitigation of intrusion and Distributed Denial of Service attacks, secure information sharing system that applies role-based attribute certificates for on-demand secure access and operations, intelligent surveillance system for monitoring and protecting infrastructures, patented network restoration and survivable architectures for telecommunication networks, NSF funded multi-tier server cluster research with fine grain of qualify of service provisioning, and vehicle energy and distributed optimal control.
The new smart secure grid will interconnect users at different levels from major utilities, military bases, businesses, to residential customers, with different roles both as energy producers and consumers. A new authentication and identity management system is needed to provide secure communications and real-time transactions. With the potential terrorist and natural attacks on both power distribution, control, and communication infrastructures, a high available, malicious intrusion tolerant, adaptive quality of service system together with an intelligent surveillance and protection system are demanded of the new smart secure grids.
Our goals are to join the Integrated Colorado Smart Grid project team, leverage our existing expertise to lead or contribute the effort in
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