Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2-2021

Publisher

Elsevier

Source Publication

Future Generation Computer Systems

Source ISSN

0167-739x

Abstract

Advanced Metering Infrastructure forms a communication network for the collection of power data from smart meters in Smart Grid. As the communication between smart meters could be secured utilizing public-key cryptography, however, public-key cryptography still has certain challenges in terms of certificate revocation and management particularly related distribution and storage overhead of revoked certificates. To address this challenge, in this paper, we propose a novel revocation management approach by utilizing cryptographic accumulators which reduces the space requirements for revocation information significantly and thus enables efficient distribution of such information to all smart meters. We implemented the proposed approach on both ns-3 network simulator and a testbed. We demonstrated its superior performance with respect to traditional methods for revocation management.

Comments

Accepted version. Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 115 (February 2021): 267-278. DOI. © 2021 Elsevier. Used with permission.

Download

Share

COinS