An Effective Wormhole Attack Defence Method for a Smart Meter Mesh Network in an Intelligent Power Grid

International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems

关键词: Ad hoc network;    Security;    Wormhole attack;    Replay attack;    Malicious node detection;    Malicious node isolation;   

DOI  :  10.5772/45995

学科分类：自动化工程

来源: InTech

【 摘 要 】

Smart meters are one of the key components of intelligent power grids. Wireless mesh networks based on smart meters could provide customer-oriented information on electricity use to the operational control systems, which monitor power grid status and estimate electric power demand. Using this information, an operational control system could regulate devices within the smart grid in order to provide electricity in a cost-efficient manner. Ensuring the availability of the smart meter mesh network is therefore a critical factor in securing the soundness of an intelligent power system. Wormhole attacks can be one of the most difficult-to-address threats to the availability of mesh networks, and although many methods to nullify wormhole attacks have been tried, these have been limited by high computational resource requirements and unnecessary overhead, as well as by the lack of ability of such methods to respond to attacks. In this paper, an effective defense mechanism that both detects and responds to wormho...

【 授权许可】

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