Smart Grid Security by Embedding Cryptography Hardware Chip

Abstract

Modern electric grids are innovative enough to incorporate high-speed sensing, distributed resources, and control, smart grids, and other cutting-edge metering technology. The smart grid faces a number of issues, including cybersecurity. The fact that communications are so crucial to the process of the smart grid makes cyber security a top priority. The research work focuses on the solution of grid security by integrating the embedded hardware chip into the communication infrastructure. The real-time chip integration with the newest cryptographic algorithm in the system addresses the hardware security challenges in smart grids. A distribution system for the smart grid that integrates technology can use cryptographic-based encryption and decryption technique. The objective of the research work is to design the cryptographic advanced encryption standard (AES) algorithm hardware chip for a smart grid in Xilinx 14.7 software and simulate the functionality of the embedded chip design with cryptographic encryption and decryption for ensuring secured data communication in a smart grid. The novelty of the work is that the design and simulation of the embedded chip of the secured data communication support 128 -bit data size with the key size alternating from 8-bit to 256-bit. The functional test cases have verified the grid data with a maximum frequency of 395.00 MHz.