State of the Art Authentication, Access Control, and Secure Integration in Smart Grid

Grijalva

2018

IEEE Trans. Smart Grid

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Abstract-Enabling secure delivery of control commands and alert messages is one of the critical requirements of smart grid communications. If adversaries were to gain access, they could alter or send malicious commands from the control center, intended to the Remote Terminal Units (RTUs) and Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs). These malicious commands could disrupt power system operations and cause damage to power devices. In this paper, we propose an efficient signature scheme for ensuring the delivery of only legitimate commands over the communication network. We propose efficient signatures using hash that are sent by the control center along with commands for protecting command alteration over the network, which also provide sender authenticity by verifying the signatures at the RTU/IED. By using the proposed scheme, both random and malicious commands sent by an adversary are discarded. The security analysis shows that the scheme is secure against replay, repudiation, and impersonation attacks. The performance evaluation and prototype simulation show that our signature scheme using SHA1, SHA256, SHA384 is feasible, and can be used for communications from the control center to the field.

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Efficient Signature Scheme for Delivering Authentic Control Commands in the Smart Grid

Grijalva

2018

IEEE Trans. Smart Grid

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“…In addition, other standardized authentication protocols also exist, such as remote authentication dial-in user service (RADIUS) and Diameter protocols for the 2G, 3G, and 4G cellular networks [11].…”

Section: A Motivation and Research Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, the authentication provided by DLMS/COSEM, OpenADR, RADIUS, and Diameter are not sufficient, and also OpenADR is costly [11]. The DLMS (application layer communication protocol) and COSEM (data model) together provide an interface model for metering applications [14].…”

Section: A Motivation and Research Problemmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated Distributed Authentication Protocol for Smart Grid Communications

Choi

2018

IEEE Systems Journal

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Abstract-In the smart grid, an integrated distributed authentication protocol is needed to not only securely manage the system but also efficiently authenticate many different entities for the communications. In addition, a lightweight authentication protocol is required to handle frequent authentications among billions of devices. Unfortunately, in the literature, there is no such integrated protocol that provides mutual authentication among the home environment, energy provider, gateways, and advanced metering infrastructure network. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a lightweight cloud-trusted authorities-based integrated (centrally controlled) distributed authentication protocol that provides mutual authentications among communicated entities in a distributed manner. Based on certificateless cryptosystem, our protocol is lightweight and efficient even when there are invalid requests in a batch. Security and performance analysis show that the protocol provides privacy preservation, forward secrecy, semantic security, perfect key ambiguous, and protection against identity thefts while generating lower overheads in comparison with the existing protocols. Also, the protocol is secure against man-in-the-middle attacks, redirection attacks, impersonation attacks, and denial-of-service attacks. Moreover, our protocol provides a complete resistance against flood-based denial-of-service attacks.

“…There exist various security and privacy challenges in the V2G system that can massively affect practical usage of this next generation technology [12]. The information shared by the EVs and other V2G entities, such as LAG, Certification/Registration Authority (CA/RA), and CC must be secured over the network, and privacy of the personal and confidential information must be maintained.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Authentication Scheme for Flexible Charging and Discharging of Mobile Vehicles in the V2G Networks

IEEE Trans.Inform.Forensic Secur.

Choi

2016

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Abstract-Navigating security and privacy challenges is one of the crucial requirements in the Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) network. Since Electric Vehicles (EV) need to provide their private information to aggregators/servers when charging/discharging at different charging stations, privacy of the vehicle owners can be compromised if the information is misused, traced, or revealed. In a wide V2G network, where vehicles can move outside of their home network to visiting networks, security and privacy becomes even more challenging due to untrusted entities in the visiting networks. Although some privacy-preserving solutions were proposed in literature to tackle this problem, they do not protect against well-known security attacks and generate a huge overhead. Therefore, we propose a mutual authentication scheme to preserve privacy of the EV's information from aggregators/servers in the home as well as distributed visiting V2G networks. Our scheme, based on a bilinear pairing technique with an accumulator performing batch verification, yields higher system efficiency, defeats various security attacks, and maintains untraceability, forward privacy, and identity anonymity. Performance analysis shows that our scheme, in comparison with existing solutions, generates significantly lower communication and computation overheads in the home and centralized V2G networks, and comparable overheads in the distributed visiting V2G networks.