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Authors:
Chakib Bekara
Thomas Luckenbach
Kheira Bekara
Keywords: Identity-based Cryptography; Key Establishment; Data Source Authentication; Smart Grid; Advanced Metering Infrastructure; Smart Meter; User’s privacy
Abstract:
In the smart grid, smart meters play an important role in keeping a real-time balance between energy production and energy consumption. The advanced metering infrastructure is responsible of collecting, storing, analyzing and providing metering data from smart meters to the authorized parties, and also carrying commands, requests, messages and software updates from the authorized parties to the smart meters. As such, advanced metering infrastructure is one of the important components of the smart grid, and securing it is a prerequisite for guaranteeing a large acceptance and deployment of the smart grid. One step towards securing it is to provide authentication, integrity and confidentiality services. Another important step is to preserve the privacy of the end-customer equipped with a smart meter, where all its related data (including metering data) are kept secret, such as energy consumption, billing and which smart appliances are used in its premises. In this paper, we propose an ID-based authentication protocol for the advanced metering infrastructure, which provides source authentication, data integrity and non-repudiation services, while preserving the end-customer’s privacy
Pages: 60 to 68
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012
Publication date: March 25, 2012
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-412X
ISBN: 978-1-61208-189-2
Location: St. Maarten, The Netherlands Antilles
Dates: from March 25, 2012 to March 30, 2012