The Capability of Wavelet Convolutional Neural Network for Detecting Cyber Attack of Distributed Denial of Service in Smart Grid

Abstract

The electrical system's dependability, security, and efficiency are all improved through smart grid technologies. Its dependence on digital communication technology, on the other hand, introduces new risks and vulnerabilities that should be examined for the purpose to providing effective and trustworthy service delivery. This study presents a method for the detection of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on smart grid infrastructure. Continuous wavelet transform (CWT) is used in the suggested approach to convert one-dimensional traffic data to two-dimensional time-frequency domain scalogram as the input to the wavelet convolutional neural network (WavCovNet) to detect anomalous behavior in the data by distinguishing attack features from normal patterns. Our results demonstrate that the proposed approach detects DDoS attacks with a high rate of detection and with a very low rate of false alarm.