Secure and Lightweight Authentication Scheme for Smart Metering Infrastructure in Smart Grid
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Abstract
In this article, a secure and lightweight authentication scheme, which provides trust, anonymity, and mutual authentication, with reduced energy, communicational, and computational overheads, is proposed for resource-constrained smart meters (SMs). The designed mutual authentication-based key agreement protocol leverages the advantages of fully hashed menezes-qu-vanstone key exchange mechanism along with Elliptic curve cryptography and one-way hash functions. Moreover, it allows to securely establish and verify the trust between the two communicating parties, i.e., SMs and neighbourhood area network gateway. These entities communicate over the insecure channel and form an important component of the smart metering infrastructure. Furthermore, extensive performance evaluation validates the supremacy of the designed protocol over the state-of-the-art in furnishing higher security features with minimal communicational and computational overheads. The obtained results also reflect that the proposed protocol is fit for implementation on resource-constrained SMs as it leads to minimal energy consumption.
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