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EAPA: An efficient authentication protocol against pollution attack for smart grid

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The development of smart grid depends on increased deployment of two-way communication to improve its efficiency and reliability of power delivery. However, this additional dependency also expands the risk from pollution attacks, which consist of injecting malicious packets in the network. The pollution attacks are amplified by the network coding process, resulting in a greater damage to the state estimation and decision making. In this paper, we address this issue by designing an efficient authentication protocol, named EAPA, for the smart grid communication. The proposed scheme allows not only recipient nodes, but also intermediate nodes, to verify the integrity and origin of the packets received without having to decode, and thus detect and discard the malicious packets in transit that fail the verification. By this means, the pollution is canceled out before reaching the destinations. Security analysis demonstrates that the EAPA can be resilient to data/tag pollution attacks and replay attacks. Performance evaluation results show that our EAPA can reduce much more communication overhead than Wu’s scheme.

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This work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 61373152, No. 61272437 and No. 61202369, Innovation Program of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission No. 13ZZ131, No.14ZZ150 and No.14YZ 129. Foundation Key Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Committee No. 12JC1404500, and Project of Shanghai Science and Technology Committee No. 12510500700.

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    Mi Wen, Jingsheng Lei, Zhongqin Bi & Jing Li

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Wen, M., Lei, J., Bi, Z. et al. EAPA: An efficient authentication protocol against pollution attack for smart grid. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 8, 1082–1089 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-014-0283-1

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