Perea, Jorge

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On the security of smart grid communications: vulnerabilities and countermeasures
(2015) Perea, Jorge; Lu, Kejie; College of Engineering; Vega, Fernando; Rivera, Wilson; Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering; Torres, Pedro
Smart grid is an advanced power grid which has been developed to improve the efficiency and reliability of the electricity network. However, because of the complexity of the smart grid, it introduces many security issues. This thesis investigates the security weakness and countermeasures of the smart grid to improve the understanding of the threats that this system faces, which is crucial from a security risk management perspective and allows the addressing of these vulnerabilities which contribute to the improvement the smart grid security. To achieve this goal, we divide the problem in the investigation of the security of two smart grid elements: (1) we study the use cases security of the Advance Metering Infrastructure (AMI) which is one of the smart grid‘s most important components; (2) we evaluate the security of the ANSIC12.22 network protocol which is the most adopted solution for supporting the operation of AMI.