Research Area:  Blockchain Technology

Abstract:

Recent technological evolution in the Internet of Things (IoT) age supports better solutions to magnify the management of the power quality and reliability concerns, and imposes the measures of a smart grid. In smart grid environment, a smart meter needs to securely access the services from a service provider via insecure channel. However, since the communication is via public channel, it imposes various security threats by an adversary. To deal with this, in this article we design a new anonymous signature-based authenticated key exchange scheme for IoT-enabled smart grid environment, called AAS-IoTSG. The dynamic smart meter addition phase is also permissible in AAS-IoTSG after initial deployment. The security of AAS-IoTSG has been tested rigorously using formal security analysis under the real-or-random (ROR) model which is one of the broadly-accepted standard random oracle models, formal security verification under the broadly-used automated validation of Internet security protocols and applications (AVISPA) tool and also using informal security analysis. Finally, an exhaustive comparative study unveils that AAS-IoTSG supports better security and functionality features and requires less communication and computation overheads as compared to the existing state-of-art authentication mechanisms in smart grid systems.

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Author(s) Name:   Jangirala Srinivas; Ashok Kumar Das; Xiong Li; Muhammad Khurram Khan; Minho Jo

Publisher name:  IEEE

DOI:  10.1109/TII.2020.3011849

Volume Information:  ( Volume: 17, Issue: 7, July 2021) Page(s): 4425 - 4436

Paper Link:   https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9147035