A secure and lightweight multicast communication system for Smart Grids

Tiago Rizzetti,Luciane Neves Canha,Rafael Gressler Milbradt,Alexandre Silva Rodrigues,Bolívar Menezes Da Silva

doi:10.4108/eai.13-7-2018.156004

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Abstract

In the Smart Grids context, all communications must be handled in a secure way, including multicast traﬃc. The Application Layer Multicast (ALM) algorithms provide better ﬂexibility and can employ security mechanisms, however, causes overhead to all nodes to build the multicast tree. In this work is

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Several efforts were made in past years to promote automation through the use of communications network and information technology applied to utility services and industrial controls, such as power systems [1]
The results show that the presented proposal is an alternative to provide secure multicast without the need to any change at the network layer, and without the need of a more complex solution as generic inter-domain Application Layer Multicast (ALM) algorithms
This work presents a secure multicast solution designed to Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) environment without the need to exchange controls packets managed by Wireless Mesh Networks (WMN) nodes

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Several efforts were made in past years to promote automation through the use of communications network and information technology applied to utility services and industrial controls, such as power systems [1]. The Smart Grids concept is an example of it, using a two-way communication network capable of promoting remote monitoring, and control to the power grid, this way enabling a new set of applications. From customer perspectives promote better control of its use, enabling large-scale insertion of distributed generation, this way the user could produce energy besides of consumes it.

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