Comparison of the communication protocols DLMS/COSEM, SML and IEC 61850 for smart metering applications

Feuerhahn, Stefan; Zillgith, Michael; Wittwer, Christof; Wietfeld, Christian

doi:10.1109/smartgridcomm.2011.6102357

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“…Therefore, a significant future work is required to further study and analyze the effect of applying TLS to consider several clients and servers residing in different networks as well as larger data exchange. Besides, it would be interesting to further study the effect of applying TLS to the communication between clients residing in end-user networks and servers in the smart grid, because one important service for this kind of communication is the smart metering service, which has been researched in different works [31][32][33][34].…”

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Analysis of Secure TCP/IP Profile in 61850 Based Substation Automation System for Smart Grids

Khaled

Marín

Almenárez

et al. 2016

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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Smart grid is the term used to describe modern power grids. It aims at achieving efficient, sustainable, economic, and secure delivery of electricity supplies. In order to achieve these goals, communication between different components within the grid and control centers is required. In a rapidly growing world, the demands for substation automation are increasing. Recently, two trends have been changing Substation Automation Systems: IEC 61850 and the need for cybersecurity. IEC 61850 specifies very strict performance requirements for message transfer time. The security for the smart grid must be designed to satisfy both performance and reliability requirements. In this paper, we address a study about secure communication in the substation real-time environment, complying with the IEC 61850 specifications. We mainly focus on analyzing the proposed Secure TCP/IP profile for MMS, testing different cipher suite combinations and examining whether by applying TLS we can still achieve the strict performance requirements of IEC 61850 or not. As a result of the study, we propose a list of cipher suite combinations that should be used. The importance of this study lies mainly on future scenarios, because IEC 61850 is thought to support smart metering communications.

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Analysis of Secure TCP/IP Profile in 61850 Based Substation Automation System for Smart Grids

Khaled

Marín

Almenárez

et al. 2016

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks

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“…However, DLMS/COSEM does not allow the use of TLS/SSL. The support for asymmetric encryption is done by the European committee for electro-technical standardization CENELEC TC-13 [28]. Further, DLMS/COSEM protocol is suitable only for the AMI network of the smart grid in which a large number of smart meters are involved.…”

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

Saxena

Choi

2015

Energies

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Abstract:The smart grid (SG) is a promising platform for providing more reliable, efficient, and cost effective electricity to the consumers in a secure manner. Numerous initiatives across the globe are taken by both industry and academia in order to compile various security issues in the smart grid network. Unfortunately, there is no impactful survey paper available in the literature on authentications in the smart grid network. Therefore, this paper addresses the required objectives of an authentication protocol in the smart grid network along with the focus on mutual authentication, access control, and secure integration among different SG components. We review the existing authentication protocols, and analyze mutual authentication, privacy, trust, integrity, and confidentiality of communicating information in the smart grid network. We review authentications between the communicated entities in the smart grid, such as smart appliance, smart meter, energy provider, control center (CC), and home/building/neighborhood area network gateways (GW). We also review the existing authentication schemes for the vehicle-to-grid (V2G) communication network along with various available secure integration and access control schemes. We also discuss the importance of the mutual authentication among SG entities while providing confidentiality and privacy preservation, seamless integration, and required access control with lower overhead, cost, and delay. This paper will help to provide a better understanding of current authentication, authorization, and secure integration issues in the smart grid network and directions to create interest among researchers to further explore these promising areas. OPEN ACCESSEnergies 2015, 8 11884

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“…In the literature, several protocols have been proposed for an efficient communication of SMs, like DLMS/COSEM and IEC 61850 [23]. Nevertheless, the most promising standard is nowadays DLMS/COSEM, which has been already used by different suppliers.…”

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Smart meters as part of a sensor network for monitoring the low voltage grid

Dedè¹,

Giustina²,

Rinaldi

et al. 2015

2015 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)

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Traditional low voltage grids are equipped with meters for the accounting of the energy consumed by customers. Recently, the use of electronic meters offers the possibility of the remote reading. This paper deals with smart sensing: a secondgeneration Smart Meters replacing traditional metering device, and the first generation of electronic meters, in order to extract a richer and near real-time information. This information in then transferred on a fast communication network where is needed. In other words, the Smart Meters deployed over the distribution grid create a Sensor Network used for grid control and management. The intelligent unit employed in the proposed system is able to communicate using standard metering protocols like DLMS/COSEM, allowing high-level integration with systems that use this information for both billing and customer relationship management -as is today with Automatic Meter Management systems -and for the technical management of the LV power infrastructure like Distribution Management Systems. The paper presents a pilot installation in a real grid of the smart sensor network composed about 50 new-generation Smart Meters using fast -broad-band -communication. The network of Smart Metershas been used to monitor, during a measurement campaign of two months, the Power Quality of a part of the distribution grid. During the campaign, the grid voltage is below the 5 % of the nominal value only for the 3 % of the time, despite the large presence of distributed renewable resources.

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Comparison of the communication protocols DLMS/COSEM, SML and IEC 61850 for smart metering applications

Cited by 43 publications

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Analysis of Secure TCP/IP Profile in 61850 Based Substation Automation System for Smart Grids

Analysis of Secure TCP/IP Profile in 61850 Based Substation Automation System for Smart Grids

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

Smart meters as part of a sensor network for monitoring the low voltage grid

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