• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.1493-1515
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• 2015

A smart meter is one of the core components in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) that is responsible for providing effective control and monitor of electrical energy consumptions. The multifunction tasks that a smart meter carries out such as facilitating two-way communication between utility providers and consumers, managing metering data, delivering anomalies reports, analyzing fault and power quality, simply show that there are huge amount of data exchange in smart metering networks (SMNs). These data are prone to security threats due to high dependability of SMNs on Internet-based communication, which is highly insecure. Therefore, there is a need to identify all possible security threats over this network and propose suitable countermeasures for securing the communication between smart meters and utility provider office. This paper studies the architecture of the smart grid communication networks, focuses on smart metering networks and discusses how such networks can be vulnerable to security attacks. This paper also presents current mechanisms that have been used to secure the smart metering networks from specific type of attacks in SMNs. Moreover, we highlight several open issues related to the security and privacy of SMNs which we anticipate could serve as baseline for future research directions.

• 전기학회논문지P
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• 제64권4호
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• pp.321-326
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• 2015

Smart metering is one of the most implementable internet-of-thing service. In order to implement the smart metering, a wireless communication network should be newly designed and evaluated so as to satisfy quality-of-service of smart metering. In this paper, we consider a wireless network for the smart metering implemented with multi-purpose wireless chips and channel coding-functioned micro controllers. Especially, channel coding is newly adopted to improve successful frame transmission probability. Based on the successful frame transmission probability, average transmission delay and delay violation probability are analyzed. Using the analytical results, service coverage expansion is evaluated. Through the delay analysis, service feasibility can be verified. According to our results, channel coding needs not to be utilized to improve the delay performance if the smart metering service coverage is several tens of meters. However, if more coverage is required, chanel coding adoption definitely reduces the delay time and improve the service feasibility.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제14권6호
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• pp.619-628
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• 2012

The ZigBee network has been considered to monitor electricity usage of home appliances in the smart grid network. ZigBee, however, may suffer from a coexistence problem with wireless local area network (WLAN). In this paper, to resolve the coexistence problem between ZigBee network and WLAN, we propose a new protocol constructing a cognitive smart grid network for supporting monitoring of home appliances. In the proposed protocol, home appliances first estimates the transmission timing and channel information of WLAN by reading request to send/clear to send (RTS/CTS) frames of WLAN. Next, based on the estimated information, home appliances transmit a data at the same time as WLAN transmission. To manage the interference between WLAN and smart grid network, we propose a cognitive beamforming algorithm. The beamforming algorithm is designed to guaranteeing zero interference to WLAN while satisfying a required rate for smart metering. We also propose an energy efficient rate adaptation algorithm. By slowing down the transmission rate while satisfying an imperceptible impact of quality of service (QoS) of the receiver, the home appliance can significantly save transmit power. Numerical results show that the proposed multiple antenna technique provides reliable communications for smart metering with reduced power comparing to the simple transmission technique.

• 한국가스학회지
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2020

이 논문은 가스 산업 현장에서 사용하기 위한 스마트 가스미터링 (AMI)의 아키텍처와 서비스의 개발에 관한 내용을 기술하고 있다. 일반적인 가스 AMI 시스템은 스마트 가스 계량기, IoT 네트워크, AMI 플랫폼, 보안 및 운영관리 시스템으로 구성되어 진다. 제안된 가스 AMI 플랫폼은 스마트 미터링 장치와 AMI 서비스 간의 양방향 통신을 지원하고, 여러 타사의 가스미터와 이종 IoT 네트워크와의 상호 운용을 위한 oneM2M 기반의 표준이 적용된다. 제안한 플랫폼을 적용한 AMI 시스템의 실증을 위하여 약 2,900대의 스마트 가스미터를 실제 환경에 설치하고, 1년 동안 가스AMI 시스템을 가동시켰다. 약 94%의 가스미터가 정상적으로 동작하고, 원격검침 서비스가 어떤 에러나 고장 없이 안정적으로 운용되었음을 확인하였다.

• 대한전기학회:학술대회논문집
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• 대한전기학회 2011년도 제42회 하계학술대회
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• pp.743-744
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• 2011

Currently, the major issue in power system is construction of smart grid. Unlike conventional electricity grids, smart grid allows two-way communication between electricity suppliers and consumers, as well as enabling more dispersed generation and storage of power. The AMI(advanced metering infrastructure) system is the core technology of smart grid and this paper deals with the design methodology of AMI System using PLC(power line communication) networks.

• 정보보호학회논문지
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• 제20권5호
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• pp.111-124
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• 2010

원격 검침 시스템(AMI : Advanced Metering Infrastructure)은 최근 활발히 추진 중인 스마트그리드의 핵심 인프라로, 구축비용 절감 및 운영의 효율성을 위해 무선 통신 기술 도입이 적극적으로 검토되고 있다. 하지만, AMI에 무선 통신 기술 적용 시 무선 통신의 보안 취약점 때문에 다양한 보안 위협이 발생 가능하기 때문에 이에 대한 대응책이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 Binary CDMA 망을 이용한 AMI 네트워크 무선망 구조를 제시하고, 이에 대한 보안 대책으로 BSIM(Binary Subscriber Identity Module)을 중심으로 사용자 인증 및 무선 구간 암호화를 수행함으로써 AMI 무선 구간의 보안 위협을 감소시키는 방안에 대해 연구한다.

• 한국항행학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.585-590
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• 2011

지난 몇 년 동안 사물지능통신(Machine to Machine, M2M) 어플리케이션은 무선업계에서 뜨거운 화제가 되고 있다. 사물지능통신 어플리케이션이 (건강, 농업, 상업, 산업, 소매, 유틸리티 등) 다양한 용도(스마트 홈, 스마트 촉광/전기계량기, 차량관리, 모바일 인력, 자동차보험, 자동판매기 등)에 대한 많은 분야에서 사용할 수 있지만 스마트 계량 어플리케이션 또는 스마트 그리드는 오늘날의 사물통신 시장에서 가장 큰 성장 잠재력을 나타낸다. 사물통신은 다양한 네트워크와 기기가 결합하여 복합적인 서비스를 제공하는 미래의 통신망 기술로 복합적인 서비스를 제공하기 위하여 센서 시스템들 사이에 표준화된 정보 교환 기술이 필요하다. 본 논문에서는 정보통신기술을 이용한 재난방재시스템에 관한 산업간 융합, 재난정보통신에 필요한 요소기술 및 응용에 대하여 연구한다.

• Journal of Communications and Networks
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• 제17권6호
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• pp.647-655
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• 2015

Low-power and lossy networks (LLNs) comprised of thousands of embedded networking devices can be used in a variety of applications, such as smart grid automated metering infrastructures (AMIs) and wireless sensor networks. Connecting these LLNs to the Internet has even greater potential, leading to the emerging concept of the Internet of Things (IoT). With the goal of integrating LLNs into IoT, the IETF has recently standardized RPL and 6LoWPAN to allow the use of IPv6 on LLNs. Although there already exist several studies on the the performance of RPL and embedded IPv6 stack in LLN, performance measurement and characterization of TCP over RPL in multihop LLNs is yet to be studied. In this article, we present a comprehensive experimental study on the performance of TCP over RPL in an embedded IPv6-based LLN running over a 30-node multihop IEEE 802.15.4 testbed network. Our results and findings are aimed at investigating how embedded TCP interoperates with common Linux TCP and underlying RPL (and vice versa), which furthers our understanding of the performance trade-offs when choosing TCP over RPL in IPv6-based LLNs.

• KEPCO Journal on Electric Power and Energy
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.245-251
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• 2016

Despite the exponential throughput improvement in mobile communications systems, their ability to satisfy requirements of state-of-the-art and future applications of advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is still under investigation. Challenges are mainly due to the inadequacy of third generation partnership project (3GPP) networks to support large amounts of devices simultaneously, while the number of AMI end-devices and the frequency of their data transmission increase with new AMI-based applications. In this introductory survey, innovative and future AMI applications and their communication requirements are first reviewed. Then, we identify challenges of 3GPP long term evolution (LTE) in enabling future AMI applications. More importantly, the latest improvements to LTE-A standard release 12 and 13 are reviewed and analyzed with regards to their potential to improve the quality of LTE-enabled AMI. It is found that 3GPP enhancements on machine type communications (MTC) standards will significantly enhance AMI communications. Beyond MTC specifications, non-MTC-specific enhancements such as carrier aggregation and multi-connectivity for user equipment will also contribute greatly to improving reliability and availability of AMI devices. The paper's focus is towards improved backhaul support for innovative and future AMI applications, beyond traditional automatic meter reading.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제2권2호
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• pp.7-10
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• 2014

In order to develop smart grid communications infrastructure, a high level of interconnectivity and reliability among its nodes is required. Sensors, advanced metering devices, electrical appliances, and monitoring devices, just to mention a few, will be highly interconnected allowing for the seamless flow of data. Reliability and security in this flow of data between nodes is crucial due to the low latency and cyber-attacks resilience requirements of the Smart Grid. In particular, Artificial Intelligence techniques such as Fuzzy Logic, Bayesian Inference, Neural Networks, and other methods can be employed to enhance the security gaps in conventional IDSs. A distributed FPGA-based network with adaptive and cooperative capabilities can be used to study several security and communication aspects of the smart grid infrastructure both from the attackers and defensive point of view. In this paper, the vital issue of security in the smart grid is discussed, along with a possible approach to achieve this by employing FPGA based Radial Basis Function (RBF) network intrusion.