TIM-AODV: A Secure Routing Protocol for Preventing Black Hole Attacks in Real-Time AMI Smart Meter Networks

摘要

To provide more flexibility with respect to pricing and a backbone for smart power distribution, advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is deployed to send real-time control commands and collect complete energy usage data. AMI is related to energy consumption in daily life, and countermeasures are necessary for preventing data lost due to black hole attacks, which are serious threats to the conventional ad hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV) routing protocol. Further, under the premise of ensuring security, requirements for traffic balance and real-time constrains often are not considered in AODV variants. To address AMI network requirements for real-time and secure data, this study proposes a time interval message ad hoc on-demand distance vector (TIM-AODV) routing protocol. The experiment results confirmed that the proposed mechanism is able to prevent black hole attacks and deliver data within a desired deadline.