Blockchain-Based Distributed Key Management Approach Tailored for Smart Grid

Due to the wide range of applications in public and military domains, wireless sensor network (WSN) is evolving as a popular technology. This WSN consists of a large number of sensors that are spread across a geographical area thatare self-configuring in nature. These nodes are of low cost and resource-constrained nodes. Because these reasons the network becomes vulnerable to many network attacks. There are many types of attacks among which one of the serious attacks is the sinkhole attack, which is one of the destructive routing attacks. It causes the adversary node to attract all or most of the traffic from the neighbors by broadcasting false routing updates of having the shortest path to the central station. This paper is a survey on various methods implemented to overcome sinkhole attacks like Hop Count Monitoring scheme, Key Management Approach, Message-Digest Algorithm.

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Cyber Security for Smart Grid, Cryptography, and Privacy

International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting ◽

10.1155/2011/372020 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 2011 ◽

pp. 1-8 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Swapna Iyer

Keyword(s):

Smart Grid ◽

Power System ◽

Cyber Security ◽

Key Management ◽

Different Types ◽

Management Techniques ◽

Security Concerns ◽

High Level ◽

Efficiency And Reliability ◽

Security Concern

The invention of “smart grid” promises to improve the efficiency and reliability of the power system. As smart grid is turning out to be one of the most promising technologies, its security concerns are becoming more crucial. The grid is susceptible to different types of attacks. This paper will focus on these threats and risks especially relating to cyber security. Cyber security is a vital topic, since the smart grid uses high level of computation like the IT. We will also see cryptography and key management techniques that are required to overcome these attacks. Privacy of consumers is another important security concern that this paper will deal with.

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A viable and sustainable key management approach for a national e-health environment

2012 IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Health Networking, Applications and Services (Healthcom) ◽

10.1109/healthcom.2012.6379434 ◽

2012 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Pei-Yuan Shen ◽

Vicky Liu ◽

William Caelli

Keyword(s):

Key Management ◽

Management Approach

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A Key Management Scheme for Secure Communications Based on Smart Grid Requirements (KMS-CL-SG)

Security Solutions and Applied Cryptography in Smart Grid Communications - Advances in Information Security, Privacy, and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-1829-7.ch013 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 242-265

Author(s):

Bashar Alohali ◽

Kashif Kifayat ◽

Qi Shi ◽

William Hurst

Keyword(s):

Smart Grid ◽

Cyber Security ◽

Key Management ◽

Monitoring And Control ◽

Security Threat ◽

Real Time Control ◽

Time Control ◽

Management Scheme ◽

Communication Layer ◽

Key Management Scheme

Over the last decade, Internet of Things (IoTs) have brought radical changes to the means and forms of communication for monitoring and control of a large number of applications including Smart Grid (SG). Traditional energy networks have been modernized to SGs to boost the energy industry in the context of efficient and effective power management, performance, real-time control and information flow using two-way communication between utility provides and end-users. However, integrating two-way communication in SG comes at the cost of cyber security vulnerabilities and challenges. In the context of SG, node compromise is a severe security threat due to the fact that a compromised node can significantly impact the operations and security of the SG network. Therefore, in this chapter, Key Management Scheme for Communication Layer in the Smart Grid (KMS-CL-SG) has proposed. In order to achieve a secure end-to-end communication we assign a unique key to each node in the group.

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Efficient Decentralized Key Management Approach for Vehicular Ad Hoc Network

Data, Engineering and Applications ◽

10.1007/978-981-13-6351-1_13 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 147-161

Author(s):

Shikha Rathore ◽

Jitendra Agrawal ◽

Sanjeev Sharma ◽

Santosh Sahu

Keyword(s):

Key Management ◽

Ad Hoc Network ◽

Ad Hoc ◽

Vehicular Ad Hoc Network ◽

Management Approach

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A Key Management Scheme for Secure Communications Based on Smart Grid Requirements (KMS-CL-SG)

Securing the Internet of Things ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9866-4.ch018 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 319-343

Author(s):

Bashar Alohali ◽

Kashif Kifayat ◽

Qi Shi ◽

William Hurst

Keyword(s):

Smart Grid ◽

Cyber Security ◽

Key Management ◽

Monitoring And Control ◽

Security Threat ◽

Real Time Control ◽

Time Control ◽

Management Scheme ◽

Communication Layer ◽

Key Management Scheme

Over the last decade, Internet of Things (IoTs) have brought radical changes to the means and forms of communication for monitoring and control of a large number of applications including Smart Grid (SG). Traditional energy networks have been modernized to SGs to boost the energy industry in the context of efficient and effective power management, performance, real-time control and information flow using two-way communication between utility provides and end-users. However, integrating two-way communication in SG comes at the cost of cyber security vulnerabilities and challenges. In the context of SG, node compromise is a severe security threat due to the fact that a compromised node can significantly impact the operations and security of the SG network. Therefore, in this chapter, Key Management Scheme for Communication Layer in the Smart Grid (KMS-CL-SG) has proposed. In order to achieve a secure end-to-end communication we assign a unique key to each node in the group.

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