sesa 18(16): e4

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A secure and lightweight multicast communication system for Smart Grids

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  • @ARTICLE{10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.156004,
    author={Tiago Ant\~{o}nio Rizzetti and Bol\^{\i}var Menezes da Silva and Alexandre Silva Rodrigues and Rafael Gressler Milbradt and Luciane Neves Canha},
    title={A secure and lightweight multicast communication system for Smart Grids},
    journal={EAI Endorsed Transactions on Security and Safety},
    volume={5},
    number={16},
    publisher={EAI},
    journal_a={SESA},
    year={2018},
    month={12},
    keywords={Security, Key Distribution, WMN, Multicast, Multihop, AMI, Smart Grids, Secure Multicast, Message Authentication},
    doi={10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.156004}
}
  • Tiago Antônio Rizzetti
    Bolívar Menezes da Silva
    Alexandre Silva Rodrigues
    Rafael Gressler Milbradt
    Luciane Neves Canha
    Year: 2018
    A secure and lightweight multicast communication system for Smart Grids
    SESA
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.156004
Tiago Antônio Rizzetti1,*, Bolívar Menezes da Silva2, Alexandre Silva Rodrigues1, Rafael Gressler Milbradt1, Luciane Neves Canha1
  • 1: Electrical Engineering Graduate Program, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil
  • 2: Informatics Graduate Program, Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil
*Contact email: tiago.rizzetti@ufsm.br

Abstract

In the Smart Grids context, all communications must be handled in a secure way, including multicast traffic. The Application Layer Multicast (ALM) algorithms provide better flexibility and can employ security mechanisms, however, causes overhead to all nodes to build the multicast tree. In this work is proposed another approach to provide a secure multicast focusing on filtering packets on nodes without need an overlay protocol. It uses the multihop property of Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) usually employed to bring connectivity to smart meters. Also, there is the support to message authentication code (MAC) using symmetric cryptography and presents an algorithm to provide a secure key distribution system. The results show that this approach is lightweight, secure, and assures multicast message delivery, even on failures caused by attacks on the key distribution system. The key management protocol used to provide authentication and integrity are evaluated using an automated test tool.

Keywords
Security, Key Distribution, WMN, Multicast, Multihop, AMI, Smart Grids, Secure Multicast, Message Authentication
Received
2018-09-08
Accepted
2018-11-27
Published
2018-12-03
Publisher
EAI
http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.156004

Copyright © 2018 Tiago Antônio Rizzetti et al., licensed to EAI. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unlimited use, distribution and reproduction in any medium so long as the original work is properly cited.