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A novel efficient and lightweight authentication scheme for secure smart grid communication systems

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The smart grid designates an innovative technology integrating new information and communication technologies to modernize the energy distribution network and facilitate the transmission of consumption and billing data between production and distribution points. However, the data transmission over the network allows attackers to listen to and subsequently falsify these data, which poses a significant security problem. For this reason, various research works have been very successful in the past decades, with many proposals and improvements over time. However, many suffer from recurring problems regarding high computation and communication costs, and others have been vulnerable to several types of attacks. All these observations have led us to devise a new scheme that provides mutual authentication and authenticated key agreement, which aims to preserve the privacy and security of all communications exchanged in the smart grid against any attack attempt aimed at during network migrations. The experimental results confirm the efficiency and reliability of our contribution in terms of calculation and communication costs and show that our solution provides a high level of security with minimal general costs compared to other competing solutions proposed in the literature.

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This work was supported by grants to TalTech - TalTech Industrial (H2020, grant No 952410) and the Estonian Research Council (PRG1573).

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  1. DRIM Research Team, LIRIS UMR 5205 CNRS, INSA Lyon, National Institute of Applied Sciences of Lyon, Villeurbanne cedex, France

    Hamza Hammami

  2. Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, University of Tunis El Manar, LIPAH-LR11ES14, 2092, Tunis, Tunisia

    Sadok Ben Yahia

  3. Department of Software Science, Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 15a, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia

    Sadok Ben Yahia

  4. Computer Science Department, and Director of Cybersecurity Center, University of Texas-Permian Basin, 4901 E. University Blvd., Odessa, TX, 79762, USA

    Mohammad S. Obaidat

  5. King Abdullah II School of Information Technology, University of Jordan, Amman, 11942, Jordan

    Mohammad S. Obaidat

  6. School of Computer and Communication Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China

    Mohammad S. Obaidat

  7. Amity University, Noida, UP, 201301, India

    Mohammad S. Obaidat

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Hammami, H., Yahia, S.B. & Obaidat, M.S. A novel efficient and lightweight authentication scheme for secure smart grid communication systems. J Supercomput 79, 7360–7376 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-022-04944-z

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