Reliable and Secure Advanced Metering Infrastructure for Smart Grid Network

With the power grid becoming smarter, there is a sudden boost in the amount of data that is being generated by the Advanced Metering Infrastructure that monitors and collects electricity consumption information from consumers. This data needs to be stored reliably and securely. There also exist smart grid applications that require this data in real time to perform accurately. The existing implementations are either slow in delivering real time data or are vulnerable to Denial of Service attacks. In this paper, we describe a reliable and secure hierarchical storage model for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) data that allows for real time querying.