Varun Badrinath Krishna

Former group member (M.S., 2016; Ph.D., 2018).
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Publications with the Performability Engineering Research Group

PCA-Based Method for Detecting Integrity Attacks on Advanced Metering Infrastructure.
V. Badrinath Krishna, G. A. Weaver, and W. H. Sanders. (15BAD02)
Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of Systems (QEST), Madrid, Spain, Sept. 1-3, 2015, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 9259, pp. 70-85, Springer. [The final publication is available at link.springer.com: Springer Link entry]

ARIMA-Based Modeling and Validation of Consumption Readings in Power Grids.
V. Badrinath Krishna, R. K. Iyer, and W. H. Sanders. (15BAD01)
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Critical Information Infrastructures Security (CRITIS), Berlin, Germany, Oct. 5-7, 2015, Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 9578, pp. 199-210, Springer. [The final publication is available at link.springer.com: Springer Link entry]

F-DETA: A Framework for Detecting Electricity Theft Attacks in Smart Grids.
V. Badrinath Krishna, K. Lee, G. A. Weaver, R. K. Iyer, and W. H. Sanders. (15BAD04)
Proceedings of the 46th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Toulouse, France, June 28-July 1, 2016, pp. 407-418. [IEEE Xplore entry]

An Energy-Efficient P2P Protocol for Validating Measurements in Wireless Sensor Networks.
V. Badrinath Krishna. (16BAD02)
Master’s Thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2016.

REMAX: Reachability-Maximizing P2P Detection of Erroneous Readings in Wireless Sensor Networks.
V. Badrinath Krishna, M. Rausch, B. E. Ujcich, I. Gupta, and W. H. Sanders. (16BAD01)
Proceedings of the 2017 47th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), Denver, Colorado, June 26-29, 2017, pp. 321-332. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Evaluating Detectors on Optimal Attack Vectors that Enable Electricity Theft and DER Fraud.
V. Badrinath Krishna, C. A. Gunter, and W. H. Sanders. (17BAD03)
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 12, no. 4, August 2018, pp. 790-805. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Peer-to-Peer Detection of DoS Attacks on City-Scale IoT Mesh Networks.
M. J. Rausch, V. Badrinath Krishna, P. Gu, R. Chandra, B. Feddersen, A. Fawaz, and W. H. Sanders. (18RAU02)
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE International Conference on Communications, Control, and Computing Technologies for Smart Grids (IEEE SmartGridComm), Aalborg, Denmark, October 29-31, 2018, pp. 1-6. [IEEE Xplore entry]

Data-Driven Methods to Improve Resource Utilization, Fraud Detection, and Cyber-Resilience in Smart Grids.
Varun Badrinath Krishna. (18BAD02)
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2018.

Cyberattacks on Primary Frequency Response Mechanisms in Power Grids.
V. Badrinath Krishna, Z. Wu, V. V. Ambardekar, R. Macwan, and W. H. Sanders. (18BAD01)
Computer,  vol. 51, no. 11, pp. 37-45, November 2018. [IEEE Xplore entry]


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