A Privacy Enhanced Authentication Scheme for Securing Smart Grid Infrastructure
Abstract
The rapid advancements in smart grid (SG)
technology extend a large number of applications including
vehicle charging, smart buildings, and smart cities through
the efficient use of advanced communication architecture.
However, the underlying public channel leads these services to be vulnerable to many threats. Recently, some
security schemes were proposed to counter these threats.
However, the insecurities of some of these schemes against
key compromise impersonation (KCI) and related attacks or
compromise on efficiency calls for a secure and efficient
authentication scheme for SG infrastructure. A new scheme
to secure SG communication is presented in this article
to provide a direct device-to-device authentication among
smart meter and neighborhood area network gateway. Designed specifically to resists KCI and related attacks, the
proposed scheme is more secure and completes the authentication procedure by using the least communication
cost as compared with related schemes, which is evident
through security and efficiency comparisons.
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