A comprehensive survey on security issues in vehicle-to-grid networks

Abstract

Vehicle to grid (V2G) is the most hopeful approach to transfer energy as well as information in the bidirectional way. V2G network is formed by electric vehicles which connect with smart metres for information and energy transfer in a wireless manner. Even though many security preserving schemes developed in V2G networks, they were prone to enormous number of security breaches. A countless deal of works has been done towards it, but security mechanisms in V2G networks are not effective. This survey work provides a summary about the V2G network characteristics, significance, security services and the security challenges. Moreover, this work offers a summary of some foremost security attacks on various security services such as accessibility, confidentiality, authentication, integrity and non-repudiation and the related countermeasures to make the V2G communications more protected.

KEYWORDS:

• Authentication
• confidentiality
• integrity
• privacy
• security

Acknowledgements

The authors appreciate the supports from Artificial Intelligence Engineering Dept., Research Center for AI and IoT, Near East University, Mersin 10, Turkey. The authors thank GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam, Andhra Pradesh for the technical assistance to complete this experimental work.

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Arun Sekar Rajasekaran

Arun Sekar Rajasekaran received his Ph.D. degree in Low Power VLSI design from Anna University, Chennai in 2019. He is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering at GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Maria Azees

Maria Azees received the Ph.D. degree in the faculty of information and communication engineering from Anna University, Chennai, in 2017. He is currently working as a Senior Assistant Professor with the GMR Institute of Technology, Rajam, India.

Fadi Al-Turjman

Prof. Dr. Fadi Al-Turjman received his Ph.D. in computer science from Queen’s University, Canada, in 2011. He is the associate dean for research and the founding director of the International Research Center for AI and IoT at Near East University, Nicosia, Cyprus. He also received the prestigious Best Research Paper Award from Elsevier Computer Communications Journal for the period 2015–2018, in addition to the Top Researcher Award for 2018 at Antalya Bilim University, Turkey. Prof. Al-Turjman has led a number of international symposia and workshops in flagship communication society conferences. Currently, he serves as book series editor and the lead guest/associate editor for several top tier journals, including the IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials (IF 23.9) and the Elsevier Sustainable Cities and Society (IF 5.7).