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Denial of Service Attack on Protocols for Smart Grid Communications

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Abstract

In this work, a denial of service (DoS) attack known as the clogging attack has been performed on threedifferent modern protocols for smart grid (SG) communications. The first protocol provides authenticationbetween smart meters (SM) and a security and authentication server (SAS). The second protocolfacilitates secure and private communications between electric vehicles (EV) and the smart grid. Thethird protocol is a secure and efficient key distribution protocol for the smart grid. The protocols differin either their applications (authentication, key distribution), or their ways of communications (usage ofencryption, hashes, timestamps etc.). But they are similar in their purpose of design (for the smart grid)and their usage of computationally intensive mathematical operations (modular exponentiation, ECC)to implement security. Solutions to protect these protocols against this attack are then illustrated alongwith identifying the causes behind the occurrence of this vulnerability in SG communication protocolsin general.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSecurity Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications
PublisherIGI Global
Pages50-67
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9781522518303
ISBN (Print)9781522518297
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

Publication series

NameSecurity Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications
ISSN (Print)1948-9730
ISSN (Electronic)1948-9749

ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General Computer Science

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