Towards a Low-Cost Remote Memory Attestation for the Smart Grid
In the smart grid, measurement devices may be compromised by adversaries, and their operations could be disrupted by attacks. A number of schemes to efficiently and accurately detect these compromised devices remotely have been proposed. Nonetheless, most of the existing schemes detecting compromise...
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| author | Xinyu Yang Xiaofei He Wei Yu Jie Lin Rui Li Qingyu Yang Houbing Song |
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| description | In the smart grid, measurement devices may be compromised by adversaries, and their operations could be disrupted by attacks. A number of schemes to efficiently and accurately detect these compromised devices remotely have been proposed. Nonetheless, most of the existing schemes detecting compromised devices depend on the incremental response time in the attestation process, which are sensitive to data transmission delay and lead to high computation and network overhead. To address the issue, in this paper, we propose a low-cost remote memory attestation scheme (LRMA), which can efficiently and accurately detect compromised smart meters considering real-time network delay and achieve low computation and network overhead. In LRMA, the impact of real-time network delay on detecting compromised nodes can be eliminated via investigating the time differences reported from relay nodes. Furthermore, the attestation frequency in LRMA is dynamically adjusted with the compromised probability of each node, and then, the total number of attestations could be reduced while low computation and network overhead can be achieved. Through a combination of extensive theoretical analysis and evaluations, our data demonstrate that our proposed scheme can achieve better detection capacity and lower computation and network overhead in comparison to existing schemes. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4295c1e6a650483bb45a8e8d41516fbc2022-12-22T02:17:59ZengMDPI AGSensors1424-82202015-08-01158207992082410.3390/s150820799s150820799Towards a Low-Cost Remote Memory Attestation for the Smart GridXinyu Yang0Xiaofei He1Wei Yu2Jie Lin3Rui Li4Qingyu Yang5Houbing Song6Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, ChinaDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, ChinaDepartment of Computer and Information Sciences, Towson University, Towson, MD 21252, USADepartment of Computer Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, ChinaDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, ChinaSKLMSE Lab, School of Electronic Information Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, ChinaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, West Virginia University, Montgomery, WV 25136, USAIn the smart grid, measurement devices may be compromised by adversaries, and their operations could be disrupted by attacks. A number of schemes to efficiently and accurately detect these compromised devices remotely have been proposed. Nonetheless, most of the existing schemes detecting compromised devices depend on the incremental response time in the attestation process, which are sensitive to data transmission delay and lead to high computation and network overhead. To address the issue, in this paper, we propose a low-cost remote memory attestation scheme (LRMA), which can efficiently and accurately detect compromised smart meters considering real-time network delay and achieve low computation and network overhead. In LRMA, the impact of real-time network delay on detecting compromised nodes can be eliminated via investigating the time differences reported from relay nodes. Furthermore, the attestation frequency in LRMA is dynamically adjusted with the compromised probability of each node, and then, the total number of attestations could be reduced while low computation and network overhead can be achieved. Through a combination of extensive theoretical analysis and evaluations, our data demonstrate that our proposed scheme can achieve better detection capacity and lower computation and network overhead in comparison to existing schemes.http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/8/20799smart measurement devicescode injection attacksoftware-based attestationsmart grid |
| spellingShingle | Xinyu Yang Xiaofei He Wei Yu Jie Lin Rui Li Qingyu Yang Houbing Song Towards a Low-Cost Remote Memory Attestation for the Smart Grid Sensors smart measurement devices code injection attack software-based attestation smart grid |
| title | Towards a Low-Cost Remote Memory Attestation for the Smart Grid |
| title_full | Towards a Low-Cost Remote Memory Attestation for the Smart Grid |
| title_fullStr | Towards a Low-Cost Remote Memory Attestation for the Smart Grid |
| title_full_unstemmed | Towards a Low-Cost Remote Memory Attestation for the Smart Grid |
| title_short | Towards a Low-Cost Remote Memory Attestation for the Smart Grid |
| title_sort | towards a low cost remote memory attestation for the smart grid |
| topic | smart measurement devices code injection attack software-based attestation smart grid |
| url | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/15/8/20799 |
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