An efficient Merkle-tree-based authentication scheme for smart grid

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 655-663

  Li, Hongwei ^a   Lu, Rongxing ^b   Zhou, Liang ^a   Yang, Bo ^a   Shen, Xuemin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Authentication; Merkle hash tree; smart grid

Indexed keywords

AUTHENTICATION; COMMUNICATION;

AUTHENTICATION SCHEME; COMMUNICATION OVERHEADS; COMPUTATION COMPLEXITY; COMPUTATION OVERHEADS; EFFICIENT AUTHENTICATION; MERKLE HASH TREE; SECURITY CHALLENGES; SMART GRID;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 84902287084     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2013.2271537     Document Type: Article

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