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An Attribute-Based Secure and Scalable Scheme for Data Communications in Smart Grids

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The concept of Smart Grid gains tremendous attention amongst researchers and utility providers in recent years. One of the challenges is to establish a secure communication architecture among smart meters, utility companies, and third-party service providers, whilst address the prevalent security and privacy concerns. In this paper, we propose a communication architecture for smart grids, and design a scheme to secure the data communications among smart meters, utility companies, and third-party service providers by employing Decentralized Ciphertext-Policy Attribute Based Encryption (CP_ABE) to store the data in ciphertext format, hence ensuring data security. The architecture we proposed is high scalable since the decentralized feature. Also, our architecture achieves an role-based access control by employing an access control LSSS matrix that describes the attributes required to access the data. We analyze the proposed scheme, and argue that it provides message authenticity and collusion resistance, and is efficient and feasible.

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Acknowledgement

We are very grateful to all reviewers who have helped improve the quality of this paper. This research was partially supported by the National Science Foundation of the US under grants CNS-1624485, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China under grants 61471028 and 61672119, and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (Grant No. 2016JBZ003).

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  1. School of Software Engineering, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

    Chunqiang Hu

  2. School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China

    Yan Huo

  3. Department of Computer Science, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, USA

    Liran Ma

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The Catholic University of America, Washington, Dc, USA

    Chunqiang Hu & Hang Liu

  5. School of Computer Science, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China

    Shaojiang Deng

  6. Department of Computer Science and Technology, Xinzhou Teachers University, Xinzhou, China

    Liping Feng

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  2. New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey, USA

    Abdallah Khreishah

  3. University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

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Hu, C., Huo, Y., Ma, L., Liu, H., Deng, S., Feng, L. (2017). An Attribute-Based Secure and Scalable Scheme for Data Communications in Smart Grids. In: Ma, L., Khreishah, A., Zhang, Y., Yan, M. (eds) Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications. WASA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10251. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60033-8_41

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