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Smart grid is an intelligent power distribution system that employs dual communication between the energy devices and the substation. Dual communication helps to overseer the internet access points, energy meters, and power demand of the entire grid. Deployment of advanced communication and control technologies makes smart grid system efficient for energy availability and low-cost maintenance. Appropriate algorithms are analyzed first for the convenient grid to have proper routing and security with a high-level of power transmission and distribution. Information and Communication Technology plays a significant role in monitoring, demand response, and control of the energy distribution. This paper presents a broad review of communication and network technologies with regard to Internet of Things, Machine to Machine Communication, and Cognitive radio terminologies which comprises 5G technology. Networks suitable for future smart-grid are compared with respect to standard protocols, data rate, throughput, delay, security, and routing. Approaches adopted for the smart-grid system has been commended based on the performance and the parameters observed. ©2019. CBIORE-IJRED. All rights reserved

The Internet of Things is rapidly becoming reality. Currently, a variety of technologies co-exist in large-scale deployments yet pervasive connectivity between things is still an open issue. Several IP capable protocol stacks are emerging to address these issues; however, no systematic evaluations regarding integration and scalability exists in the literature. This work looks to analyze the performance of one of the latest protocol stacks focusing on home area networks: the Thread stack.

Securing the network communication for the smart grid, it is important that a secure key distribution and management scheme is needed. Advanced metering Infrastructure (AMI) is considered as integral part of the smart grid that collects and analyzes the information of energy consumption using the communication network. In order to achieve data confidentiality, privacy, and authentication in AMI, various crypto algorithms are used, such as demand key distribution and management schemes. Investigation on properly designed key distribution and management scheme for securely gathering both individual and aggregated meter’s readings is one of the critical requirements. In this paper, we propose a secure key distribution for Home Area Network (HAN) in smart grid. In this paper, we propose a new key distribution and management scheme, which uses identification scheme of Wu – Hsu and tailored to smart grid. We also give the scheme for key update/freshness and key revocation. Specifically, a group ID based mechanism is proposed to establish the keys for a large amount of users with small overload.

International audience; Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) serve as a key enabling technology for various smart initiatives, such as Smart Power Grids, by virtue of providing a self-organized wireless communication superhighway that is capable of monitoring the health and performance of system assets as well as enabling efficient trouble shooting notifications. Despite this promise, the current routing protocols in WMNs are fairly limited, particularly in the context of smart initiatives. Additionally, managing and upgrading these protocols is a difficult and error-prone task since the configuration must be enforced individually at each router. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) shows promise in this regard since it enables creating a customizable and programmable network data plane. However, SDN research to date has focused predominantly on wired networks, e.g., in cloud computing, but seldom on wireless communications and specifically WMNs. This paper addresses the limitations in SDN for WMNs by allowing the refactoring of the wireless protocol stack so as to provide modular and flexible routing decisions as well as fine-grained flow control. To that end, we describe an intelligent network architecture comprising a three-stage routing approach suitable for WMNs in uses cases, such as Smart Grids, that provides an efficient and affordable coverage as well as scalable high bandwidth capacity. Experimental results evaluating our approach for various QoS metrics like latency and bandwidth utilization show that our solution is suitable for the requirements of mission-critical WMNs.

Strengthening of Smart Grid functionalities has become the need of the 21st Century. Security evolves to be the primary concern at the deployment level of Smart Grids. Cyber security threats and vulnerabilities in Smart grid Network needs to be addressed before the deployment of the Smart Grid. Our proposed intrusion detection scheme identifies anomalies in the Smart Grid traffic and detects attacks like flooding which causes Denial of Service in Smart Grid Networks. This paper applies k-Means algorithm for clustering of traffic data and outlier detection for the data transmitted between utility Centre and the Smart Homes. Performance of the algorithm has been compared with other clustering algorithms and the results were found to have higher percentage in anomaly detection.

This article introduces the concept of the ATM Warren. The Warren is an arbitrary mesh subnetwork of very simple ATM switches and end stations connected to the wide-area B-ISDN at one or more points. The Warren differs from other ATM networks in that both switches and end stations are designed to be implemented entirely in hardware with all control software banished to external computers.

The machine to machine communication in Home Area Network (HAN) having a great impact on building a powerful smart grid. With recent advances in M2M technologies, SG smart meters are not only collecting the information about the energy consumed, but also detailed energy consumption pattern and also used for analyzing future demand of utilities. Information and communication technology is playing very important role in transforming Power grids to Smart grid. However, there are many challenges in the design of the Smart grid communications network whereby the electrical appliances and smart meters are able to exchange information pertaining to varying power requirements. Furthermore, different types of M2M gateways are required at different points of the SG communication network. This article surveys a number of existing communication technologies that can be adopted for M2M communication in HAN for SG and also explained the various challenges that the M2M communication in HAN for Smart Grid is facing. Furthermore, a possible solution to deal with these challenges and to improve Machine to machine communication in HAN for Smart Grid is also presented.

Smart Energy Home Area Networks (SE-HAN) enable two-way communication between utility companies and HAN devices. Due to multifaceted nature of SE-HAN, securely managing SE-HAN is very challenging. In this paper, we propose a device authentication mechanism for smart energy home area network. The proposed mechanism is more robust and secure than the existing one.

Smart Grid (SG) technology aims at bringing the world's aging electric grids into the twenty first century. To this end, the current power grids require to be overlayed with a robust communications system. Home Area Network (HAN) is an important part of the SG communications framework through which the end-users are able to communicate with the electricity provider. In a HAN, there is typically a smart-meter and a number of electric appliances. Most of the proposals to-date have agreed upon using IEEE 802.15.4 wireless technology dubbed as ZigBee for the HAN communications amongst the smart meter and the various electric appliances. Although ZigBee provides few security features, the technology still suffers from a number of security vulnerabilities, particularly in case of SG HAN. In this paper, we describe a HANIdentifier (HANId) conflict attack against ZigBee for HAN communications and demonstrate the impact of the attack on SG communications through computer simulations. Finally, we also envision an appropriate framework to prevent the attack.

Home NodeB is a technology defined by 3GPP organization to realize a home area network. In the traditional structure of Home NodeB technology, one Home NodeB just has one single gateway to transmit each session, and hasn’t taken the transmission quality into account. By improving the traditional structure of Home NodeB, this article proposes a new structure based on policy. This structure adds a new device which is created based on traditional policy server. Before each transmission from Home NodeB to gateway, Home NodeB needs send request to the policy server firstly, according to which Home NodeB can finish self-management and self-configuration ability. Thus ensure the whole network runs in a steady and affluent environment. Policy arithmetic is the key that applying policy server. This passage use arithmetic of Load Balancing as policy arithmetic’s leader. Combining Load Balancing into the policy based Home NodeB structure, policy arithmetic can have a steady running environment.

This paper analyzes the security concerns of IEEE 802.11 WLAN based mesh networking for the home scenario. The paper also provides a novel solution to setup the wireless home area network (WHAN) with minimal user intervention. The proposed solution makes use of the concept of resurrecting duckling. Once the network is setup the proposed solution takes care that not only data but also management and control/signaling are secured. The paper also presents a security analysis of the novel solution.

The cost of asynchronous transfer mode technology is falling while its deployment is growing. Once regarded as a technology strictly for rates above 100 Mbps, ATM may now be considered for any networking scenario where multimedia and real-time are important. We look at a possible deployment path for ATM technology in the home and explain some of our practical work. These are both based on dumb ATM devices which can be built for low cost. The style of operation and method of control of these dumb devices uses the approach of the ATM Warren. The Warren is a method of building low cost ATM devices and switches where the cost savings are achieved by using fixed VCI values in end stations and by using proxy control from a single processor, rather than local control processors in each device or switch.