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My current research interest includes security and privacy in the vehicle-to-grid networks.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
Network Security and Privacy Challenges in Smart Vehicle-to-Grid
Brief Description: Smart V2G involves intelligent charge and discharge decisions based on user operational energy requirements, such as desired levels of charging and waiting time. V2G is also supported by information management capabilities enabled by a secure network, such as a reliable privacy-preserving payment system. V2G communication systems are different from other existing communication systems in several ways, such as vehicle mobility, geographical location of the vehicle, charge and discharge operations, driving pattern, and limited communication range. In terms of security, authentication in the V2G network needs to be fast and efficient in order to support a large number of EVs expected to participate in dynamic charging/ discharging. Confidential information, such as the vehicle identity, vehicle type, charging and discharging time, and Charging Station Identity needs to be protected. There exist security and privacy challenges in the V2G system that can massively affect practical usage of this next generation technology. The information shared by the EVs and other V2G entities, such as the Local aggregator, communication and authentication servers, billing center, and control center must be secured over the network. Privacy of the personal and confidential information must be maintained.
Authentication Scheme for Flexible Charging and Discharging of Mobile Vehicles in the V2G Networks
Brief Description: Navigating security and privacy challenges is one of the crucial requirements in the V2G network. Since electric vehicles (EVs) need to provide their private information to aggregators/servers when charging/discharging at different charging stations, privacy of the vehicle owners can be compromised if the information is misused, traced, or revealed. In a wide V2G network, where vehicles can move outside of their home network to visiting networks, security and privacy become even more challenging due to untrusted entities in the visiting networks. Although some privacy-preserving solutions were proposed in the literature to tackle this problem, they do not protect against well-known security attacks and generate a huge overhead. Therefore, we need a mutual authentication scheme for preserving the privacy of the EV’s information from aggregators/servers in the home as well as distributed visiting V2G networks.
Important Papers:
UBAPV2G: A Unique Batch Authentication Protocol for Vehicle-to-Grid Communications, IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid.
Role-Dependent Privacy Preservation for Secure V2G Networks in the Smart Grid, TIFS.
P^2: Privacy-Preserving Communication and Precise Reward Architecture for V2G Networks in Smart Grid, IEEE TSG.
Aggregated-Proofs Based Privacy-Preserving Authentication for V2G Networks in the Smart Grid, IEEE TSG.
Lightweight Authentication and Privacy-Preserving Scheme for V2G Connections, IEEE TVT.
Authentication Scheme for Flexible Charging and Discharging of Mobile Vehicles in the V2G Networks, IEEE TIFS.
Privacy-friendly and efficient secure communication framework for V2G networks, IEEE TIFS.
Securing vehicle-to-grid communications in the smart grid, IEEE WCM.
Network Security and Privacy Challenges in Smart Vehicle-to-Grid, IEEE WCM.
TPP: Traceable Privacy-Preserving Communication and Precise Reward for Vehicle-to-Grid Networks in Smart Grids, IEEE TIFS.