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Secure and efficient mutual authentication protocol for smart grid under blockchain

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Smart grid has been acknowledged as the next-generation intelligent network that optimizes energy efficiency. Primarily through a bidirectional communication channel, suppliers and users can dynamically adjust power transmission in real time. Nonetheless, many security issues occur with the widespread deployment of smart grid, e.g., centralized register authority and potential Distributed-Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack. These existing problems threaten the availability of smart grid. In this paper, we mainly focus on solving some identity authentication issues remained in the smart grid. Combined with blockchain, Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC), dynamic Join-and-Exit mechanism and batch verification, a reliable and efficient authentication protocol is proposed for smart meters and utility centers. Simultaneously, the provable security of this protocol is assured by the computational hard problem assumptions. Experiment results show that our protocol has achieved security and performance improvement compared with the other ECC related schemes.

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This work is partly supported by JSPS Kiban(B) 18H03240, JSPS Kiban(C) 18K11298, Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province of China under Grant No. LC2016024, Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions under Grant No. 17KJB520044 and Six Talent Peaks Project in Jiangsu Province No.XYDXX-108, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 62001126.

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  1. School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima, Japan

    Weizheng Wang, Huakun Huang & Chunhua Su

  2. School of Artificial Intelligence, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, Guilin-City, Guangxi, China

    Huakun Huang

  3. College of Information Engineering, Yangzhou University, Jiangsu, China

    Lejun Zhang

  4. Cyberspace Security Research Center, Peng Cheng Laboratory, Shenzhen, 518055, China

    Chunhua Su

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Wang, W., Huang, H., Zhang, L. et al. Secure and efficient mutual authentication protocol for smart grid under blockchain. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 14, 2681–2693 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-020-01020-2

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