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Security and privacy of electric vehicles in the smart grid context: problem and solution

Authors:

Hasen Nicanfar,

Peyman TalebiFard,

Seyedali Hosseininezhad,

Victor C.M. Leung,

Mark DammAuthors Info & Claims

DIVANet '13: Proceedings of the third ACM international symposium on Design and analysis of intelligent vehicular networks and applications

Pages 45 - 54

https://doi.org/10.1145/2512921.2512926

Published: 03 November 2013 Publication History

Abstract

The technology, security and privacy requirements of the electric vehicle (EV) in the smart grid (SG) context, especially when the EV acts as mobile power storage, have gained much attention from the research community and market recently. This role of the EV is motivated by the increase in capacity of the power storages in the EV. In this paper, first we present different situations that an EV can be in the SG context and their privacy issues. Then, we provide two authentication schemes, first one between the EV and a trusted SG server directly, and second one via a non-trusted third party entity with a robust privacy-preserving agenda. Our analysis shows that our mechanisms are secure and robust enough to make sure the privacy of the customers is fully preserved, and at the same time, are efficient since they consume very limited resources.

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DIVANet '13: Proceedings of the third ACM international symposium on Design and analysis of intelligent vehicular networks and applications

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DOI:10.1145/2512921

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