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Citation
Coalton Bennett, Stephen Wicker. "Decreased time delay and security enhancement recommendations for AMI smart meter networks". IEEE Xplore Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), 2010, 6, 19, January, 2010.

Abstract
In this paper we consider a variety of real world AMI smart meter networking scenarios. We examine the network performance as a function the following parameters: the size of the network, node scheduling, and polling interval (period) under normal conditions. Then we introduce malevolent agents to the network to demonstrate the effects of their actions. Although there are several inherent security related issues involving wireless network the most relevant and attacks to launch against the de facto networking protocols used by AMI smart meters is a black hole attack. Focusing on the black hole attack we demonstrate, through simulations, how to avoid these attacks by creating dedicated paths between the source (smart meter) and the sink collecting the information (access point). In addition to this, we simulate a network of nodes that use a hybrid routing protocol when time sensitive data is needed in order to ensure that outages do not occur due to excess demand.

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  >Decreased time delay and security enhancement
  recommendations for AMI smart meter networks</a>, IEEE
  Xplore Innovative Smart Grid Technologies (ISGT), 2010, 6,
  19, January, 2010.

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  Coalton Bennett, Stephen Wicker. "Decreased time delay
  and security enhancement recommendations for AMI smart meter
  networks". IEEE Xplore Innovative Smart Grid
  Technologies (ISGT), 2010, 6, 19, January, 2010.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{BennettWicker10_DecreasedTimeDelaySecurityEnhancementRecommendations,
      author = {Coalton Bennett and Stephen Wicker},
      title = {Decreased time delay and security enhancement
                recommendations for AMI smart meter networks},
      booktitle = {IEEE Xplore Innovative Smart Grid Technologies
                (ISGT), 2010},
      pages = {6},
      day = {19},
      month = {January},
      year = {2010},
      abstract = {In this paper we consider a variety of real world
                AMI smart meter networking scenarios. We examine
                the network performance as a function the
                following parameters: the size of the network,
                node scheduling, and polling interval (period)
                under normal conditions. Then we introduce
                malevolent agents to the network to demonstrate
                the effects of their actions. Although there are
                several inherent security related issues involving
                wireless network the most relevant and attacks to
                launch against the de facto networking protocols
                used by AMI smart meters is a black hole attack.
                Focusing on the black hole attack we demonstrate,
                through simulations, how to avoid these attacks by
                creating dedicated paths between the source (smart
                meter) and the sink collecting the information
                (access point). In addition to this, we simulate a
                network of nodes that use a hybrid routing
                protocol when time sensitive data is needed in
                order to ensure that outages do not occur due to
                excess demand.},
      URL = {http://www.truststc.org/pubs/666.html}
  }
  

Posted by Coalton Bennett on 29 Mar 2010.
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