Secure Lossless Aggregation Over Fading & Shadowing Channels for Smart Grid M2M Networks

Whilst security is generally perceived as an important constituent of communication systems, this paper offers a viable security-communication-tradeoff particularly tailored to smart grids. These systems, often composed of embedded nodes with highly constrained resources, require e.g., metering data to be delivered efficiently whilst neither jeopardizing communication nor security. Data aggregation is a natural choice in such settings, where an additional challenge is to facilitate per-hop and end-to-end security as well as a mechanism to protect the valid nodes from exhaustion threats.