Lightweight Authentication and Key Agreement for Smart Metering in Smart Energy Networks

Kumar, Pardeep; Gurtov, Andrei; Sain, Mangal; Martin, Andrew; Ha, Phuong Hoai

doi:10.1109/tsg.2018.2857558

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“…Authentication and access control schemes: Authentication mechanism is paramount that provides sufficient protection against eavesdropping, and eliminates unauthorized entities [188]- [190]. Recently, a number of authentication and access control schemes have been extensively studied in smart grid applications [82], [143], [191]- [203]. Table XIII summarises different approaches on how different entities in smart grid ensures the authentication and access control.…”

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Smart Grid Metering Networks: A Survey on Security, Privacy and Open Research Issues

Kumar

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Bai

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IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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Smart grid (SG) networks are newly upgraded networks of connected objects that greatly improve reliability, efficiency and sustainability of the traditional energy infrastructure. In this respect, the smart metering infrastructure (SMI) plays an important role in controlling, monitoring and managing multiple domains in the SG. Despite the salient features of SMI, security and privacy issues have been under debate because of the large number of heterogeneous devices that are anticipated to be coordinated through public communication networks. This survey paper shows a brief overview of real cyber attack incidents in traditional energy networks and those targeting the smart metering network. Specifically, we present a threat taxonomy considering: (i) threats in system-level security, (ii) threats and/or theft of services, and (iii) threats to privacy. Based on the presented threats, we derive a set of security and privacy requirements for SG metering networks. Furthermore, we discuss various schemes that have been proposed to address these threats, considering the pros and cons of each. Finally, we investigate the open research issues to shed new light on future research directions in smart grid metering networks.

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“…Kumar et al proposed a lightweight authentication and key agreement for smart metering network in [191]. The scheme is based on hybrid cryptography, i.e., ECC and symmetric key.…”

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Smart Grid Metering Networks: A Survey on Security, Privacy and Open Research Issues

Kumar

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Bai

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IEEE Commun. Surv. Tutorials

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“…In the past few years, with the advances of information and communication technologies, users can easily access any service provided in various smart grid (SG) environments, including smart home, smart building, vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) [1][2][3][4]. In particular, smart grid using smart device has attracted growing attention from the academia, industries, and researchers.…”

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Privacy-Preserving Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Demand Response Management in Smart Grid Environment

Park

Lee

et al. 2020

Applied Sciences

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With the development in wireless communication and low-power device, users can receive various useful services such as electric vehicle (EV) charging, smart building, and smart home services at anytime and anywhere in smart grid (SG) environments. The SG devices send demand of electricity to the remote control center and utility center (UC) to use energy services, and UCs handle it for distributing electricity efficiently. However, in SG environments, the transmitted messages are vulnerable to various attacks because information related to electricity is transmitted over an insecure channel. Thus, secure authentication and key agreement are essential to provide secure energy services for legitimate users. In 2019, Kumar et al. presented a secure authentication protocol for demand response management in the SG system. However, we demonstrate that their protocol is insecure against masquerade, the SG device stolen, and session key disclosure attacks and does not ensure secure mutual authentication. Thus, we propose a privacy-preserving lightweight authentication protocol for demand response management in the SG environments to address the security shortcomings of Kumar et al.’s protocol. The proposed protocol withstands various attacks and ensures secure mutual authentication and anonymity. We also evaluated the security features of the proposed scheme using informal security analysis and proved the session key security of proposed scheme using the ROR model. Furthermore, we showed that the proposed protocol achieves secure mutual authentication between the SG devices and the UC using Burrows–Abadi–Needham (BAN) logic analysis. We also demonstrated that our authentication protocol prevents man-in-the-middle and replay attacks utilizing AVISPA simulation tool and compared the performance analysis with other existing protocols. Therefore, the proposed scheme provides superior safety and efficiency other than existing related protocols and can be suitable for practical SG environments.

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“…In order to assure the confidentiality and integrity of V2G connections, Abdallah and Shen [5] designed a lightweight authentication and privacy-preserving scheme where EVs are allowed to generate their own pseudonym identities for protecting their private information. Likewise, Kumar et al [6] designed a hybrid cryptography based authentication and key agreement scheme to facilitate mutual trust between the legitimate entities in smart energy networks. In order to provision the authentication between EVs and smart meters, Wazid et al [7] devised a threefactor user authentication scheme for SG environments based on lightweight cryptographic primitives such as one-way hash functions, bitwise XOR operations and ECC.…”

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An Efficient Blockchain-Based Hierarchical Authentication Mechanism for Energy Trading in V2G Environment

Garg

Kaur

Kaddoum

et al. 2019

2019 IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops)

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Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) networks have emerged as a new technology in modern electric power transmission networks. It allows bi-directional flow of communication and electricity between electric vehicles (EVs) and the Smart Grid (SG), in order to provide more sophisticated energy trading. However, due to the involvement of a huge amount of trading data and the presence of untrusted entities in the visiting networks, the underlying V2G infrastructure suffers from various security and privacy challenges. Although, several solutions have been proposed in the literature to address these problems, issues like lack of mutual authentication and anonymity, incapability to protect against several attack vectors, generation of huge overhead, and dependency on centralized infrastructures make security and privacy issues even more challenging. To address the above mentioned problems, in this paper, we propose a blockchain oriented hierarchical authentication mechanism for rewarding EVs. The overall process is broadly classified into the following phases: 1) System Initialization, 2) Registration, 3) Hierarchical Mutual Authentication, and 4) Consensus; wherein blockchain's distributed ledger has been employed for transaction execution in distributed V2G environments while Elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) has been used for hierarchical authentication. The designed hierarchical authentication mechanism has been employed to preserve the anonymity of EVs and support mutual authentication between EVs, charging stations (CSs) and the central aggregator (CAG). Additionally, it also supports minimal communicational and computational overheads on resource constrained EVs. Further, formal security verification of the proposed scheme on widely accepted Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications (AVISPA) tool validates its safeness against different security attacks.

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Lightweight Authentication and Key Agreement for Smart Metering in Smart Energy Networks

Cited by 122 publications

References 32 publications

Smart Grid Metering Networks: A Survey on Security, Privacy and Open Research Issues

Smart Grid Metering Networks: A Survey on Security, Privacy and Open Research Issues

Privacy-Preserving Lightweight Authentication Protocol for Demand Response Management in Smart Grid Environment

An Efficient Blockchain-Based Hierarchical Authentication Mechanism for Energy Trading in V2G Environment

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