Cyber security and privacy issues in smart grids

IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 981-997

  Liu, Jing ^a   Xiao, Yang ^a   Li, Shuhui ^b   Liang, Wei ^c   Chen, C L Philip ^d  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United States)

^b The Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department   (United States)

^c SHENYANG INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

Accountability; AMI; Privacy; SCADA; Security; Smart grid

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURES; COMMUNICATION; DATA PRIVACY; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ENERGY RESOURCES; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

ACCOUNTABILITY; AMI; SCADA; SECURITY; SMART GRID;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 84893572193     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1553877X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/SURV.2011.122111.00145     Document Type: Article

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