Toward a secure wireless-based home area network for metering in smart grids

IEEE Systems Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 509-520

  Namboodiri, Vinod ^a   Aravinthan, Visvakumar ^a   Mohapatra, Surya Narayan ^a   Karimi, Babak ^a   Jewell, Ward ^a  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI); communications; home area network (HAN); security; smart grids; smart meters (SM)

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; HOME NETWORKS; INDUSTRY; SMART METERS; SMART POWER GRIDS;

COMMERCIAL OFF-THE-SHELF HARDWARES; CONSUMER EQUIPMENT; CONSUMER PARTICIPATION; HOME AREA NETWORK (HAN); SECURITY; SECURITY CHALLENGES; SMART GRID; WIRELESS NETWORKING;

ADVANCED METERING INFRASTRUCTURES;

EID: 84902297134     PISSN: 19328184     EISSN: 19379234     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSYST.2013.2260700     Document Type: Article

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