Empowered Smartgrid Systems Using SDN

Software Defined Networks (SDNs) is a emerging networking paradigm that has gained a allocation of consideration in recent years especially in applying data center networks and in providing efficient security solutions. The approval of SDN and its smart safety structures gives that it can be used in the context of smart grid systems to address many of the liabilities and security problems facing such critical infrastructure systems. The impact of different cyber-attacks that can target smart grid communication network which is implemented as a software defined networks on the process of the smart grid systems. We perform different attack situations including DDoS occurrences, location high jacking and link overloading in contradiction of SDN networks of dissimilar controller types that include POX, Floodlight and RYU. Our experiments were carried out using the mini net simulator. The experiments show that SDN-empowered smart grid systems are exposed to different types of occurrences.