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In this paper, we indicate the increasing interests in providing network security and privacy in Smart Grids, and propose a novel usage data aggregation scheme. The proposed scheme combines multiple cryptosystems to achieve anonymity and multidimensional data aggregation without a trusted third party. In our approach, smart meters transmit usage reports through hop-by-hop communication. If the communication is delayed or fails at one hop, it is possible to reroute the traffic through another hop. Therefore, the robustness of grid communication networks is improved. Additionally, an aggregation tree is constructed in order to optimize the aggregation time. Finally, smart meters utilize a highly efficient hash-based message authentication code to ensure data integrity and identity authentication. Although some existing approaches can achieve similar security features, our scheme has lower computational cost according to performance analysis and experiments.
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The research leading to these results was supported by the European Commission’s Project No. 608090, HyRiM (Hybrid Risk Management for Utility Networks) under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7-SEC-2013-1). The first author of this work is supported by the Chinese Scholarship Council.
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Sui, Z., Niedermeier, M., de Meer, H. (2016). RESA: A Robust and Efficient Secure Aggregation Scheme in Smart Grids. In: Rome, E., Theocharidou, M., Wolthusen, S. (eds) Critical Information Infrastructures Security. CRITIS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9578. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33331-1_14
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