Securing Smart Meter Data in Smart Grid Transmission using Attribute Based Encryption

Abstract

In recent Electrical era, Smart Grid (SG) is rapidly evolving technology. SG consists of smart meter to provide two way communications from consumer to distributor and from distributor to the consumer. Because of this communication, smart meter need to transmit large amount of information. In order to avoid cyber security issues in smart meter transmission, Attribute Based Encryption Algorithm (ABEA) is proposed. Conventional encryption algorithms cannot prevent cyber security threats like Denial of Service (DOS) attacks which targets the availability of the information to the authenticated user. By introducing additional information to the encryption system, Intrusion Detection (ID) of the smart meter information cannot be done easily. Performance of the proposed system can be evaluated by comparing the performance of the different types of encryption algorithms like synchronous, asynchronous and hybrid algorithms.