Secure communications in the smart grid

Naruchitparames, Jeff; Güneş, Mehmet Hadi; Evrenosoğlu, Cansin Yaman

doi:10.1109/ccnc.2011.5766362

Cited by 23 publications

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“…Recently, there have been proposals to integrate trusted computing into the power grid [27,47,48]. These studies, except our work in [27], however, do not consider a security service that will hide information from the rest of the system including the system administrator as in the blind processing.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Several techniques such as secure boot [24], authenticated boot [25], and independent auditing [26] have been developed to provide a trustworthy root in a system. Trusted computing incorporates these techniques and has a potential to provide mechanisms for the blind processing service [6,27]. Trusted functionality of a system is furnished by a trusted platform module (TPM), a tamper-resistant cryptoprocessor, where the TPM serves as the root of trust that an operating system and higher level applications can build upon.…”

Section: Prototypementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In addition, researchers have developed systems that utilize the TPM for anonymous attestation [31], authentication [32], device attestation [33], digital rights management [34], digital signature [35], distributed computing [36], drive encryption [37], e-voting [38], grid security [39], identity management [40], mobile agents [41], on-line payment [42], on-line storage [43], peer-to-peer networks [44], policy enforcement [45], and virtualization [46]. Recently, there have been proposals to integrate trusted computing into the power grid [27,47,48]. These studies, except our work in [27], however, do not consider a security service that will hide information from the rest of the system including the system administrator as in the blind processing.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A blind processing framework to facilitate openness in smart grid communications

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a b s t r a c tSmart grid has diverse stakeholders that often require varying levels of access to grid state and measurements. At the distribution level (i.e., MAN), smart grid provides two way communication between households and utilities. At the transmission level (i.e., WAN), multiple organizations need to share the transmission lines and cooperate with participants in their region. In this paper, we propose secure communication and computation services for smart grid to transform the current "closed cyber architecture" to an "open cyber architecture". In order to ensure the privacy and integrity of communicating parties at the distribution level, we propose to utilize the smart meters as a gateway between intra-network (i.e., HAN) and inter-network (i.e., WAN) communications, and manage incoming and outgoing traffic and mediate household devices based on the instructions from the electric utility or contracted service providers. To enhance data sharing between operators at the transmission level, we propose an open cyber architecture that utilizes blind processing service, in which sensitive data is transmitted through the secured channel and used in computations running in an isolated environment while the outcome is rendered only to a dedicated user or process. The "open" communication between the smart substructures and "blind" computation at operation centers will increase data sharing, minimize human intervention, and mitigate cascading events. In the paper, we provide and discuss underlying mechanisms to achieve an open cyber architecture.

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“…In the work of [6], the Smart Meter is the core element of all functionality. Due to the mobile Internet connection, which is used to communicate with the power provider, a network infrastructure besides the Home Area Network (HAN) is not required.…”

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Weighted vote algorithm combination technique for anomaly based Smart Grid Intrusion Detection systems

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Intrusion Detection systems (IDS) are a crucial and necessary aspect of the smart grid, particularly when considering the possible attack vectors and their consequences. While there are many different approaches on IDS for Smart Grid, the benefits of an anomaly detection technique is still in discussion, due to its capability of detecting zero-day attacks and misuse. This paper proposes a weighted vote classification approach and a general weight calculation function to improve the detection performances of anomaly IDS systems. Initial results show that a combination technique is able to improve classifier performance by several percent.

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“…In the security of the Smart Grid, a key issue that must be addressed is the balance between the benefits of enhanced communications in the smart grid and the privacy of homeowners [7].…”

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confidence: 99%