SRDA: A Secure Routing and Data Aggregation Approach for Wireless Smart Meter

Abstract

Abstract-For the secure two-way communication and forwarding, this paper proposes SRDA, a secure routing and data aggregation approach for wireless smart meter. This approach introduces the unique wireless smart meter identifier to represent its public identity information, and gives a secure routing architecture based on control and forwarding separation. In this architecture, SRDA uses the proxy re-encryption data aggregation algorithm to protect security of data transmission. By using the routing algorithm according to distance and link quality, SRDA achieves the best routing path and provides several alternative paths which have different priorities. Besides, the identifier-based cryptography mechanism is used to issue and update the routing information in security, and the proxy reencryption mechanism is designed to preserve the data privacy. In conclusion, this paper gives an analysis for the relatively excellent security, scalability and energy efficiency.  Index Terms-Wireless smart meter identifier, secure routing and data aggregation, control and forwarding separation, identifier-based cryptography mechanism

Smart Grid Metering Networks: A Survey on Security, Privacy and Open Research Issues

“…As a consequence, inconsistencies in the SM network operations may occur. However, numerous schemes have been presented to improve routing security in smart grid [99], [133]- [141], as shown in Table IX.…”

“…A secure scalable routing and data aggregation (SRDA) approach has been evaluated for wireless meter network by Wan et al [133]. To determine the best routing path, the authors first introduced the inter-domain proxy and intra-domain proxy concepts.…”

“…Although the authors claimed that a software-defined network based secure architecture has been utilized for securing routing, there is a lack of details about the proposed SRDA. For instance, it is not described how IBC is being implied on the control and data planes of SDN architecture in the SRDA [133] In another work [134], Wei-Kundur described a resilient multicast routing called "GOAliE" for smart grid applications. The approach utilized publish-subscribe paradigm and flocking theory where a phasor measurement unit (PMU) message-flock traverses from agent m to n in multihop manner while bypassing DoS region, as shown in Fig.…”

“…Summary: In SG metering networks, most of the schemes discuss a verity of attacks, e.g., secure to packet flooding attack [99], resilient to MITM attack [133], resilient to DoS attack [134], and sinkhole and spoofing attacks [140]. These proposed solutions mainly use two types of countermeasures, such as, cryptographic-based (e.g., [99], [133], [140], [141]) and networking-based (e.g., [134], [144]).…”

“…A routing protocol should be integrated with a security and privacy design in order to mitigate the public SG metering communication paths. Note that the cryptography based techniques ( [99], [133], [140], [141]) can protect from impersonation, masquerade, MITM, and integrity attacks. However, these techniques does not appear effective to detect other malicious attacks or malfunction due to the packet modification.…”