Design of an Anonymous Lightweight Communication Protocol for Smart Grid and Its Implementation on 8-bit AVR and 32-bit ARM

Dariush Abbasinezhad-Mood ； Arezou Ostad-Sharif ； Morteza Nikooghadam

《International Journal of Network Security》 21卷4期 (2019/07) Pp. 607-617

https://doi.org/10.6633/IJNS.201907_21(4).10

摘要

Upgrading the conventional electrical grid to smart grid offers more efficiency, resiliency, and reliability. Thus, the smart grid adoption is essential in today's modern countries and the information age. In smart grid, consumption reports are gathered from smart meters and sent to the control center and some control messages are sent vice versa. These bidirectional communications are subject to various security challenges. Because of the constrained resources of smart meters, employing lightweight communication protocols is critical. For this purpose, recently, scholars have proposed several lightweight communication protocols. Nonetheless, most of these protocols are not anonymous or fail to assuage the entire desired security features. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an efficient communication scheme that not only is anonymous, but also can thwart the well-known attacks. Our actual hardware performance analysis, which has been done on both 8-bit AVR and 32-bit ARM microcontrollers, confirms the outperformance of the proposed scheme.

關鍵字

ARM ； AVR ； Lightweight ； Secure Communications ； Smart Grid Security