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Towards a secure network architecture for smart grids in 5G era

Towards a secure network architecture for smart grids in 5G era

Saghezchi, Firooz B., Mantas, Georgios ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8074-0417, Ribeiro, José, Al-Rawi, Mohammed, Mumtaz, Shahid and Rodriguez, Jonathan (2017) Towards a secure network architecture for smart grids in 5G era. In: 2017 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC). IEEE, pp. 121-126. ISBN 978-1509043736 ISSN 2376-6506 (Online) (doi:10.1109/IWCMC.2017.7986273)

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Abstract

Smart grid introduces a wealth of promising applications for upcoming fifth-generation mobile networks (5G), enabling households and utility companies to establish a two-way digital communications dialogue, which can benefit both of them. The utility can monitor real-time consumption of end users and take proper measures (e.g., real-time pricing) to shape their consumption profile or to plan enough supply to meet the foreseen demand. On the other hand, a smart home can receive real-time electricity prices and adjust its consumption to minimize its daily electricity expenditure, while meeting the energy need and the satisfaction level of the dwellers. Smart Home applications for smart phones are also a promising use case, where users can remotely control their appliances, while they are away at work or on their ways home. Although these emerging services can evidently boost the efficiency of the market and the satisfaction of the consumers, they may also introduce new attack surfaces making the grid vulnerable to financial losses or even physical damages. In this paper, we propose an architecture to secure smart grid communications incorporating an intrusion detection system, composed of distributed components collaborating with each other to detect price integrity or load alteration attacks in different segments of an advanced metering infrastructure.

Item Type: Conference Proceedings
Title of Proceedings: 2017 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC)
Additional Information: The 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference was held in Valencia, Spain, from 26-30 June 2017.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Smart Grid, Smart Home, AMI, IoT, M2M, Security, Intrusion Detection, Price Integrity, Load Alteration
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group: Faculty of Engineering & Science
Faculty of Engineering & Science > School of Engineering (ENG)
Last Modified: 02 Nov 2020 13:40
URI: http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/27722

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