Securing publisher-subscriber in smart grid infrastructure

Orr, Fraser, Nafees, Muhammad Nouman, Saxena, Neetesh ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6437-0807 and Choi, Bong Jun 2021. Securing publisher-subscriber in smart grid infrastructure. Electronics 10 (19) , 2355. 10.3390/electronics10192355

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Abstract

The security of communication protocols in the smart grid system is a crucial concern. An adversary can exploit the lack of confidentiality and authentication mechanism to cause damaging consequences. In the substation automation systems that rely on multicast communication between various intelligent electronic devices, the lack of security features in the standard IEC61850 and IEC62351 can invite attackers to manipulate the integrity of the employed publisher–subscriber communication paradigm to their advantage. Consequently, many researchers have introduced various approaches offering authenticity and confidentiality. However, such schemes and methods for the aforesaid standards have computational limitations in compliance with the stringent timing requirements of specific applications in the smart grid. In this paper, we propose an approach that can fully secure the publisher–subscriber communication against confidentiality attacks. In this direction, we develop a demo tool to validate the performance of our proposed security approach for potential factors such as timing requirements and the size of the messages. Finally, we evaluate our scheme considering the requirements of the GOOSE, SMV, and MMS protocols in the substation automation systems.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Computer Science & Informatics
Additional Information:	This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license.
Publisher:	MDPI
ISSN:	2079-9292
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 October 2021
Date of Acceptance:	22 September 2021
Last Modified:	04 May 2023 07:28
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/144408

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