An Approach for Reduction of the Security Overhead in Smart Grid Communication Infrastructure Employing Dedicated Encryption

This paper considers an approach for partial reduction of the overhead implied by request for data security within the Smart Grid communications infrastructure. A significant part of the implementation and processing overhead appears as a consequence of the data confidentiality request and the related requirement for massive data encryption. Accordingly, this paper points out to the related requirements and employment of certain light-weight and highly secure encryption dedicated to the noisy communication channels. Keywords—Smart Grid; information-communication infrastructure; overheads; data confidentiality; light-weight encryption; randomness; coding.