LiSA: A Lightweight and Secure Authentication Mechanism for Smart Metering Infrastructure

07/21/2019
by   Sahil Garg, et al.
0

Smart metering infrastructure (SMI) is the core component of the smart grid (SG) which enables two-way communication between consumers and utility companies to control, monitor, and manage the energy consumption data. Despite their salient features, SMIs equipped with information and communication technology are associated with new threats due to their dependency on public communication networks. Therefore, the security of SMI communications raises the need for robust authentication and key agreement primitives that can satisfy the security requirements of the SG. Thus, in order to realize the aforementioned issues, this paper introduces a lightweight and secure authentication protocol, "LiSA", primarily to secure SMIs in SG setups. The protocol employs Elliptic Curve Cryptography at its core to provide various security features such as mutual authentication, anonymity, replay protection, session key security, and resistance against various attacks. Precisely, LiSA exploits the hardness of the Elliptic Curve Qu Vanstone (EVQV) certificate mechanism along with Elliptic Curve Diffie Hellman Problem (ECDHP) and Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem (ECDLP). Additionally, LiSA is designed to provide the highest level of security relative to the existing schemes with least computational and communicational overheads. For instance, LiSA incurred barely 11.826 ms and 0.992 ms for executing different passes across the smart meter and the service providers. Further, it required a total of 544 bits for message transmission during each session.

READ FULL TEXT
research
06/13/2023

Modification in Elliptic Curve Cryptography based Mutual authentication scheme for smart grid communication using biometric approach

Smart grid is a self-sufficient system. That tracks how the energy is us...
research
09/23/2021

An Improved Authentication Key Exchange Protocol Based on ECDH for WSNs

Wide-spread use of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that are consisted of...
research
11/09/2018

Mutual Heterogeneous Signcryption Schemes for 5G Network Slicings

With the emerging of mobile communication technologies, we are entering ...
research
04/02/2019

An Efficient Blockchain-based Hierarchical Authentication Mechanism for Energy Trading in V2G Environment

Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) networks have emerged as a new technology in moder...
research
12/08/2022

A Novel Efficient Signcryption Scheme for Resource-Constrained Smart Terminals in Cyber-Physical Power Systems

Most of the existing signcryption schemes generate pseudonym by key gene...
research
07/23/2023

An Efficient Authentication Protocol for Smart Grid Communication Based on On-Chip-Error-Correcting Physical Unclonable Function

Security has become a main concern for the smart grid to move from resea...
research
04/28/2022

An Improved Authentication Scheme for BLE Devices with no I/O Capabilities

Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices have become very popular because of t...

Please sign up or login with your details

Forgot password? Click here to reset