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Non-Technical Loss Fraud in Advanced Metering Infrastructure in Smart Grid

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Cloud Computing and Security (ICCCS 2016)

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Smart Grid employs Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) to automatically manage metering and billing processes supporting various advanced features. Electricity theft is not limited to the traditional methods, such as bypassing power lines. In Smart Grid, adversaries could gain illegal benefit from the utility via various new ways, and we call this class of behavior as Non-Technical Loss (NTL) fraud. In this paper, we study various security issues in AMI and figure out which issues could be utilized by NTL fraud. We analyze various attacks in AMI and generalize attack tree of NTL fraud. We propose countermeasures for security issues to prevent NTL frauds.

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This work was supported in part by the National Nature Science Foundation of China under the Grant 61374200, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant CNS-1059265.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, The University of Alabama, 342 H.M. Comer, Box 870290, Tuscaloosa, AL, 35487-0290, USA

    Wenlin Han & Yang Xiao

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  1. University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China

    Xingming Sun

  2. Michigan State University , EAST LANSING, Michigan, USA

    Alex Liu

  3. National Dong Hwa University , Shoufeng, Taiwan

    Han-Chieh Chao

  4. Purdue University , West Lafayette, Indiana, USA

    Elisa Bertino

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Han, W., Xiao, Y. (2016). Non-Technical Loss Fraud in Advanced Metering Infrastructure in Smart Grid. In: Sun, X., Liu, A., Chao, HC., Bertino, E. (eds) Cloud Computing and Security. ICCCS 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10040. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48674-1_15

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