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Mobile Secure Communications in Smart Grid Control

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Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies (SmartGift 2017)

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This paper analyses the communication required to connect the Distributed Energy Resources with power grid substations securely. The IEC 61850 standard communications enhanced with IEC 62351 security standard are evaluated by implementing the information exchanges related to voltage control in an experimental test bed deploying cellular M2M access networks. Particularly the end-to-end security is implemented using peer authentication and packet encryption in compliance with the IEC 62351-3 standard profile. Based on the network traces obtained from the test bed, the security overhead and the impact of cellular networks on transmission delay are measured by protocol specific performance indicators and the results are discussed in the paper.

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This work has been supported by the European FP7 project SmartC2Net (under grant agreement no. 318023). Further information is available at www.smartc2net.eu.

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  1. Transmission and Distribution Technologies Department, Ricerca sul Sistema Energetico, Milan, Italy

    Giovanna Dondossola & Roberta Terruggia

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  1. Giovanna Dondossola
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  1. Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Eng Tseng Lau

  2. Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Michael K.K. Chai

  3. Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom

    Yue Chen

  4. Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria

    Oliver Jung

  5. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Victor C.M. Leung

  6. University of Essex, Colchester, United Kingdom

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  7. Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria

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  8. Middlesex University London, London, United Kingdom

    Jonathan Loo

  9. University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

    Tomonori Nakayama

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Dondossola, G., Terruggia, R. (2017). Mobile Secure Communications in Smart Grid Control. In: Lau, E., et al. Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies. SmartGift 2017. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 203. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61813-5_18

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