Inter-Technology Bridging Gateway: A Low Cost Legacy Adaptation Approach to Secure Industrial Systems

Rafiullah Khan; Kieran McLaughlin; John Hastings; David Laverty; Sakir Sezer

Inter-Technology Bridging Gateway: A Low Cost Legacy Adaptation Approach to Secure Industrial Systems

Rafiullah Khan
, Kieran McLaughlin
, John Hastings
, David Laverty
, Sakir Sezer

School of Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

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Abstract

A major hindrance in industry modernization is the interoperability issues between existing legacy and new systems. Legacy systems normally have security vulnerabilities and are cost prohibitive to upgrade/replace. Thus, a feasible solution is needed to equip legacy systems with secure emerging technologies. This paper presents a low-cost ARM processor based Inter-Technology Bridging Gateway (ITBG). Its modular design makes it easily customizable for any industrial application. As a use case, this paper presents design, implementation, compliance testing and validation of ITBG for synchrophasor technology in smart grid. It bridges technological gap between legacy and new phasor devices by supporting two-way protocol translation between IEEE C37.118.2 and IEC 61850-90-5 standards. Further, it ensures system security by using IEC recommended GDOI security mechanism. Experiments in a laboratory based physical testbed successfully validated ITBG for different time-critical synchrophasor applications.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM)
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Publication status	Published - 10 Aug 2018
Event	IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting - Portland, United States Duration: 05 Aug 2018 → 09 Aug 2018 http://www.pes-gm.org/2018/

Publication series

Name	IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Electronic)	1944-9933

Conference

Conference	IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting
Abbreviated title	IEEE PES GM 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland
Period	05/08/2018 → 09/08/2018
Internet address	http://www.pes-gm.org/2018/

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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Cyber Security
industrial control system
Smart Grid
legacy
interoperability
Security
Synchrophasor
PMU
IEEE C37.118.2
IEC 61850-90-5
Emerging Technologies
Cyber Physical Systems
Gateway

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Accepted author manuscript, 2.02 MBLicence: Unspecified

R1452ECI: Converged Approach towards Resilient Industrial control systems and Cyber Assurance
Sezer, S. (PI), Laverty, D. (CoI), McLaughlin, K. (CoI), McLoone, S. (CoI) & Morrow, D. J. (CoI)
01/08/2014 → 31/12/2017
Project: Research

Research Institute in Trustworthy Industrial Control Systems (External organisation)
McLaughlin, K. (Member)
2014 → …
Activity: Membership types › Membership of external research organisation

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Khan, R, McLaughlin, K, Hastings, J, Laverty, D & Sezer, S 2018, Inter-Technology Bridging Gateway: A Low Cost Legacy Adaptation Approach to Secure Industrial Systems. in 2018 Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting, Portland, Oregon, United States, 05/08/2018.

Inter-Technology Bridging Gateway: A Low Cost Legacy Adaptation Approach to Secure Industrial Systems. / Khan, Rafiullah; McLaughlin, Kieran; Hastings, John et al.
2018 Power and Energy Society General Meeting (PESGM). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2018. (IEEE Power & Energy Society General Meeting).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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Inter-Technology Bridging Gateway: A Low Cost Legacy Adaptation Approach to Secure Industrial Systems

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R1452ECI: Converged Approach towards Resilient Industrial control systems and Cyber Assurance

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Research Institute in Trustworthy Industrial Control Systems (External organisation)

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