Article: FOESG: anonymous session key agreement protocol for fog assisted smart grid communication Journal: International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing (IJAHUC) 2023 Vol.42 No.3 pp.137 - 147 Abstract: To present a secure and authorised communication among customers, smart meters, utilities and smart grid (SG) communication should adopt a cryptographic mechanism to ensure involved entities' authentication, message integrity and confidentiality. To address efficient ways of authentication and secure session establishment, we construct an anonymous session key agreement protocol for the smart grid environment. This construction also uses fog as a specialised middle layer technique to make communication efficient. The formal proof of security is demonstrated under the widely adopted random oracle model (ROM) along with performance evaluation. Moreover, simulation for security validation is performed under broadly-accepted 'automated validation of internet security protocols and applications', which indicates that the protocol is safe. Comparison with recent proposals demonstrates an advantage in efficiency. In a nutshell, the proposed protocol achieves desirable security goals and performance attributes. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: FOESG: anonymous session key agreement protocol for fog assisted smart grid communication

Authors: Dheerendra Mishra; Saurabh Rana; Chirag Goyal; Gagandeep Singh

Addresses: Department of Mathematics, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, India ' Department of Mathematics and University Centre for Research and Development, Chandigarh University, Mohali-140413, India ' Department of Computer Science, The LNM Institute of Information Technology, Jaipur, India ' Centre of Advanced Study in Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Panjab University, Chandigarh-160014, India; University Grants Commission, New Delhi-110002, India

Abstract: To present a secure and authorised communication among customers, smart meters, utilities and smart grid (SG) communication should adopt a cryptographic mechanism to ensure involved entities' authentication, message integrity and confidentiality. To address efficient ways of authentication and secure session establishment, we construct an anonymous session key agreement protocol for the smart grid environment. This construction also uses fog as a specialised middle layer technique to make communication efficient. The formal proof of security is demonstrated under the widely adopted random oracle model (ROM) along with performance evaluation. Moreover, simulation for security validation is performed under broadly-accepted 'automated validation of internet security protocols and applications', which indicates that the protocol is safe. Comparison with recent proposals demonstrates an advantage in efficiency. In a nutshell, the proposed protocol achieves desirable security goals and performance attributes.

Keywords: smart grid; fog computing; authentication; security.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAHUC.2023.129388

International Journal of Ad Hoc and Ubiquitous Computing, 2023 Vol.42 No.3, pp.137 - 147

Received: 08 Sep 2021
Accepted: 25 Feb 2022
Published online: 07 Mar 2023 *

Full-text access for editors Full-text access for subscribers Purchase this article Comment on this article

Title: FOESG: anonymous session key agreement protocol for fog assisted smart grid communication

Keep up-to-date