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DLMS/COSEM security level enhancement to construct secure advanced metering infrastructure

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Jaeduck Choi,

Incheol ShinAuthors Info & Claims

SEGS '13: Proceedings of the first ACM workshop on Smart energy grid security

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2516930.2516949

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This paper proposes an authentication and key management framework to strengthen the security level of the advanced metering infrastructure based on the DLMS/COSEM standard. The current DLMS/COSEM standard does not specify detailed secret key generation and distribution procedures, which induce a critical issues regarding interoperability in secure communication among AMI devices. Moreover, the protocol suffers from a key distribution problem, which can expose a session secret key supposed to be shared only by two devices to a third party node. The basic ideas are that smart meters and data collection systems perform the authentication and key exchange with AMI server using existing Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) standard, and DLMS/COSEM secret keys are created and shared securely using pre-formed secure channels. We show how the proposed framework can be realized in advanced metering infrastructure using existing standard protocols and provide preliminary security and performance comparisons with the existing related proposals.

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DLMS/COSEM security level enhancement to construct secure advanced metering infrastructure
1. Security and privacy
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DOI:10.1145/2516930

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Lieskovan THajny JCika P(2019)Smart Grid Security: Survey and Challenges2019 11th International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems and Workshops (ICUMT)10.1109/ICUMT48472.2019.8970738(1-5)Online publication date: Oct-2019
https://doi.org/10.1109/ICUMT48472.2019.8970738
Sha KAlatrash NWang Z(2017)A Secure and Efficient Framework to Read Isolated Smart Grid DevicesIEEE Transactions on Smart Grid10.1109/TSG.2016.25260458:6(2519-2531)Online publication date: Nov-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/TSG.2016.2526045

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