Gope, P. orcid.org/0000-0003-2786-0273 and Sikdar, B. (2021) A privacy-aware reconfigurable authenticated key exchange scheme for secure communication in smart grids. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 12 (6). pp. 5335-5348. ISSN 1949-3053
Abstract
The smart metering infrastructure plays an important role in smart grid environments. Such metering networks need to be protected against cyber attacks by using authenticated key exchange protocols, and many relevant schemes have been presented by researchers. In addition, in order to protect against the energy theft problem, it is also important to consider physical security of the smart meter. Recently, PUFs (physical uncloneable functions) have gained popularity as a primitive against physical attacks. In 2019, we proposed the first PUF-based authentication scheme for secure smart grid communication with resilience against physical attacks on smart meters. However, recent studies have shown that PUFs are susceptible to modeling attacks. To address this issue, this paper proposes a reconfigureable authenticated key exchange scheme for secure communication in smart grids by using the concept of reconfigureable PUFs. In addition to security, the efficiency evaluation demonstrates that our new scheme has advantages in both the computation and communication costs as compared to the state-of-the-art protocols.
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Keywords: | Mutual Authentication; Smart Meter; RPUF; Secure Communication |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Engineering (Sheffield) > Department of Computer Science (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number Engineering and Physical Science Research Council EP/V039156/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2021 07:33 |
Last Modified: | 19 Aug 2022 00:13 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1109/tsg.2021.3106105 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:177303 |