Secure smart meter infrastructure in Multi-dwelling environment

Author

Vaidya, Bhaskar ; Makrakis, Dimitrios ; Mouftah, Hussein

Author_Institution

Univ. of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

fYear

2012

fDate

April 29 2012-May 2 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Smart grid deployment focuses on reliability, cost savings and energy efficiency as well as customer satisfaction. Many utilities are turning to Smart meter infrastructure technology. Smart Energy profile was motivated by requirement to enable personal energy management in Home area networks. In Multi-dwelling units, wireless networking such as WiFi and ZigBee could be feasible, as range of communications can be extended to communicate with the gateway. In such a network, routing is one of the fundamental components. However, designing secure routing protocols for wireless mesh networks is a challenging task due to various reasons. In this paper, we provide a comprehensive security mechanism for source routing protocol in wireless multi-hop networks, which is particularly suitable for multi-dwelling environment.

Keywords

automatic meter reading; computer network security; cryptographic protocols; customer satisfaction; energy conservation; energy management systems; home networks; internetworking; power system reliability; radio networks; routing protocols; smart power grids; cost saving; customer satisfaction; energy efficiency; gateway; home area network; multidwelling environment; personal energy management; reliability; security mechanism; smart energy profile; smart grid; smart meter infrastructure; source routing protocol; wireless mesh network; wireless multihop network; Ad hoc networks; Communication system security; Routing; Routing protocols; Security; Wireless communication; Multi-dwelling unit; Smart meter infrastructure; secure routing protocol; wireless muti-hop network;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Electrical & Computer Engineering (CCECE), 2012 25th IEEE Canadian Conference on

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

ISSN

0840-7789

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1431-2

Electronic_ISBN

0840-7789

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCECE.2012.6335016

Filename

6335016