Latency-Aware Defense Against Combined False Data Injection and Denial-of-Service Attacks in Microgrid Control and Local Energy Markets

Microgrids increasingly rely on ICT-enabled distributed control and local energy market (LEM) messaging, which expands the attack surface and creates new fragility under adverse communication conditions. In practice, coordinated False Data Injection (FDI) and Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks can jointly distort operational control signals and disrupt market coordination, while elevated latency, packet loss, and congestion amplify both physical instability and economic manipulation. This concept proposes a latency-aware, hybrid defense framework that couples communication-aware resilience with coordinated detection and mitigation of combined FDI/DoS attacks across secondary control and LEM layers.