An Effective Wormhole Attack Defence Method for a Smart Meter Mesh Network in an Intelligent Power Grid
Smart meters are one of the key components of intelligent power grids. Wireless mesh networks based on smart meters could provide customer-oriented information on electricity use to the operational control systems, which monitor power grid status and estimate electric power demand. Using this inform...
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| description | Smart meters are one of the key components of intelligent power grids. Wireless mesh networks based on smart meters could provide customer-oriented information on electricity use to the operational control systems, which monitor power grid status and estimate electric power demand. Using this information, an operational control system could regulate devices within the smart grid in order to provide electricity in a cost-efficient manner. Ensuring the availability of the smart meter mesh network is therefore a critical factor in securing the soundness of an intelligent power system. Wormhole attacks can be one of the most difficult-to-address threats to the availability of mesh networks, and although many methods to nullify wormhole attacks have been tried, these have been limited by high computational resource requirements and unnecessary overhead, as well as by the lack of ability of such methods to respond to attacks. In this paper, an effective defense mechanism that both detects and responds to wormhole attacks is proposed. In the proposed system, each device maintains information on its neighbors, allowing each node to identify replayed packets. The effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method is analyzed in light of additional computational message and memory complexities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a93e8606a6a842d7baacf588950fc19a2022-12-21T23:07:25ZengSAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems1729-88142012-08-01910.5772/4599510.5772_45995An Effective Wormhole Attack Defence Method for a Smart Meter Mesh Network in an Intelligent Power GridJungtaek Seo0Gunhee Lee1 The Attached Institute of ETRI, Daejeon, Korea The Attached Institute of ETRI, Daejeon, KoreaSmart meters are one of the key components of intelligent power grids. Wireless mesh networks based on smart meters could provide customer-oriented information on electricity use to the operational control systems, which monitor power grid status and estimate electric power demand. Using this information, an operational control system could regulate devices within the smart grid in order to provide electricity in a cost-efficient manner. Ensuring the availability of the smart meter mesh network is therefore a critical factor in securing the soundness of an intelligent power system. Wormhole attacks can be one of the most difficult-to-address threats to the availability of mesh networks, and although many methods to nullify wormhole attacks have been tried, these have been limited by high computational resource requirements and unnecessary overhead, as well as by the lack of ability of such methods to respond to attacks. In this paper, an effective defense mechanism that both detects and responds to wormhole attacks is proposed. In the proposed system, each device maintains information on its neighbors, allowing each node to identify replayed packets. The effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed method is analyzed in light of additional computational message and memory complexities.https://doi.org/10.5772/45995 |
| spellingShingle | Jungtaek Seo Gunhee Lee An Effective Wormhole Attack Defence Method for a Smart Meter Mesh Network in an Intelligent Power Grid International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems |
| title | An Effective Wormhole Attack Defence Method for a Smart Meter Mesh Network in an Intelligent Power Grid |
| title_full | An Effective Wormhole Attack Defence Method for a Smart Meter Mesh Network in an Intelligent Power Grid |
| title_fullStr | An Effective Wormhole Attack Defence Method for a Smart Meter Mesh Network in an Intelligent Power Grid |
| title_full_unstemmed | An Effective Wormhole Attack Defence Method for a Smart Meter Mesh Network in an Intelligent Power Grid |
| title_short | An Effective Wormhole Attack Defence Method for a Smart Meter Mesh Network in an Intelligent Power Grid |
| title_sort | effective wormhole attack defence method for a smart meter mesh network in an intelligent power grid |
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