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Secure Communication in Advanced Metering Infrastructure Environment

International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
© 2023 by SSRG - IJEEE Journal
Volume 10 Issue 12
Year of Publication : 2023
Authors : S. Shabana Banu, M.S. Sujatha
10.14445/23488379/IJEEE-V10I12P109
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S. Shabana Banu, M.S. Sujatha, "Secure Communication in Advanced Metering Infrastructure Environment," SSRG International Journal of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, vol. 10,  no. 12, pp. 87-94, 2023. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488379/IJEEE-V10I12P109

Abstract:

Recently, the smart grid has fascinated increasing attraction compared to the conventional methods of power generation with its specific characteristics. Due to its reliability, flexibility and efficiency, the smart grid is predicted to be the future contemporaries’ power system all over. Yet there are also significant security issues with smart grids, like confidentiality, message authentication and several security attacks. Therefore, developing an authentication system and a key management protocol has been determined to be one of the most challenging problems in the creation of smart grids. This paper proposes an efficient authentication mechanism using RSA and Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA). The results were generated with different key sizes for RSA and different standardized elliptic curves for ECDSA.

Keywords:

Security threats in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), Authentication mechanism in AMI, Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA), HES, RSA.

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