IUCRC Phase 1 Florida International University: Center for Infrastructure Trustworthiness in Energy Systems (CITES)

能源系统基础设施可信度中心（CITES）是一个新的第一阶段IUCRC，专注于网络弹性和能源系统可信度关键领域的研究问题（例如，电网发电、输电和配电），这些都广泛依赖于网络技术。CITES由三所大学组成（伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校、阿肯色州大学和佛罗里达国际大学），旨在推进研究和技术，解决未满足和服务不足的行业需求，以更好地保护能源系统。CITES将与其成员（紧急医疗服务办公室、能源供应商、国家实验室和行业协会）密切合作，通过开发研究，帮助确保国防安全，从而找到保护能源系统免受网络基础设施故障和攻击的实用方法。《濒危物种贸易公约》处理的基本问题涉及在这些“操作技术”系统的专门要求背景下的网络复原力，包括操作技术设备的异质性以及与更广泛使用的信息技术设备的整合。该中心将专注于检测和快速响应对网络基础设施的攻击，从成功攻击的影响中快速恢复，降低修补操作系统的成本和风险，并确保设备之间的通信速度足够快，并且有足够的容量来支持操作。CITES还将在增加国家的OT知识网络安全专业人员的劳动力方面发挥重要作用。研究方法包括系统分析，正式方法和其他数学，以及原型的经验评估。CITES的技术贡献包括知识创造、知识转移和利用佛罗里达国际大学（FIU）的专业试验台进行的概念实践证明。能源供应商通过观察提高弹性的潜力而受益;设备制造商从经过验证的想法中受益，其他利益相关者从增加的知识中受益。金融情报所的濒危物种公约研究分为三个方面。第一个重点是提高安全性，解决与能源行业增加使用电力电子设备相关的问题，这些电力电子设备通过有线和无线连接嵌入式传感器、转换器、致动和控制机制。电网、电气化交通、数据中心和物联网（IoT）设备依赖于可靠的电力电子设备。 该中心旨在确定最佳的密钥管理方法，使现有的解决方案可部署到电网，并适应新的解决方案，这些解决方案将是轻量级的，具有显著的带宽，并具有存储效率。第二个推力-增强支持能源网络物理系统的通信-为保护商业无线网络及其与能源系统设备的交互提供关键能力。该中心利用5G和卫星通信和导航频段的全面频率范围，实现安全措施和表征技术，为不断增长的行业和相关能源系统创新、物联网（IoT）和导航提供服务，以支持当前和未来的能源网络物理系统。第三个推力，电动汽车基础设施的安全性-解决与电动汽车的广泛使用所带来的安全和安保相关的各种问题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Center for Infrastructure Trustworthiness in Energy Systems (CITES), a new Phase I IUCRC, focuses on research issues in the critical area of cyber resilience and the trustworthiness of energy systems (e.g., electric grid generation, transmission, and distribution), which have an extensive dependence on cyber technology. Composed of three University sites (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Arkansas, and Florida International University), CITES seeks to advance research and technologies that addresses unmet and underserved industry needs to better secure energy systems. In close partnership with its members (Offices of Emergency Medical Services, energy providers, national labs, and industry associations), CITES will help secure the national defense by developing research that leads to practical means of protecting energy systems against failure within and attacks upon their cyber infrastructures. The fundamental issues addressed by CITES concern cyber resilience in the context of the specialized requirements for these “operational technology” (OT) systems, issues which include the heterogeneity of OT equipment, and integration with much more widely used informational technology (IT) equipment. The Center will focus on detecting and quickly responding to attacks on the cyber infrastructure, rapidly recovering from the impacts of successful attacks, decreasing the costs and risks of patching operational systems, and ensuring that communication between devices happens fast enough and with enough volume to support operations. CITES will also serve an important role in augmenting the nation’s workforce in OT-knowledgeable cyber-security professionals.Research methodologies include system analysis, formal methods and other mathematics, and empirical evaluation of prototypes. CITES technical contributions include knowledge creation, knowledge transfer, and practical proofs of concept that utilize Florida International University (FIU)'s specialized testbeds. Energy providers benefit by observing the potential for increased resilience; Equipment manufacturers benefit from proven ideas, and other stakeholders benefit from increased knowledge. CITES research at FIU is organized in three thrusts. The first thrust is increasing security which addresses issues related to increased energy industry use of power electronics with embedded sensors, converters, actuation, and control mechanisms through wired and wireless connections. Electric grids, electrified transportation, data centers, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices rely on trustworthy power electronics. The Center seeks to identify the best key management approaches, make the existing solutions deployable to the power grid, and adapt novel solutions that will be lightweight, have significant bandwidth, and be storage efficient. The second thrust - enhancing communications supporting energy cyber-physical systems - provides critical capabilities for securing commercial wireless networks and their interactions with energy systems equipment that operate on them. The Center utilizes a comprehensive frequency range across the 5G and satellite communications and navigation bands to enable security measures and characterization techniques that serve the growing industry and related energy systems innovations, internet of things (IoT), and navigation in support of current and future energy cyber-physical systems. The third thrust, security of electric vehicle infrastructure - solves diverse problems related to safety and security that are forced by the widespread use of electric vehicles. A broad space of research problems related to power electronics, placement, and management of charging stations supports aggregate battery power to support renewable energy.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.