Camouflage traffic: Minimizing message delay for smart grid applications under jamming

IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 31-44

  Lu, Zhuo ^a   Wang, Wenye ^a   Wang, Cliff ^b  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH OFFICE   (United States)

Author keywords

jamming attacks; message delay; performance modeling; Smart grid; wireless applications; worst case analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION NETWORKS; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; JAMMING; RADIO INTERFERENCE; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

JAMMING ATTACKS; MESSAGE DELAY; PERFORMANCE MODEL; SMART GRID; WIRELESS APPLICATION; WORST-CASE ANALYSIS;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 84921341664     PISSN: 15455971     EISSN: 19410018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TDSC.2014.2316795     Document Type: Article

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