Mitigation of peer-to-peer overlay attacks in the automatic metering infrastructure of smart grids

Security and Communication Networks

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 343-359

  Rottondi, Cristina ^a   Savi, Marco ^a   Verticale, Giacomo ^a   Krauß, Christoph ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b FRAUNHOFER AISEC   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chord; Overlay attacks; Smart grids

Indexed keywords

COMPLIANCE CONTROL; CRYPTOGRAPHY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; PATIENT MONITORING; POWER MANAGEMENT (TELECOMMUNICATION); SMART POWER GRIDS;

AUTOMATIC METERING INFRASTRUCTURES; CHORD; OVERLAY ATTACKS; PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKING; PEER-TO-PEER OVERLAYS; PRIVACY-PRESERVING AGGREGATIONS; SMART GRID; VERIFIABLE SECRET SHARING SCHEME;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 84921020529     PISSN: 19390114     EISSN: 19390122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sec.983     Document Type: Article

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