Secure Communication in Digital Twin-enabled Smart Grid Platform with a Lightweight Authentication Scheme

The concepts of Digital Twin let the evolution of new energy services and more decentralized business models where people and energy industries are becoming essential participants in donating to smart grid sustainability dreams. In order to provide secure communication in a digital twin-enabled smart grid platform, we propose a lightweight authentication scheme. In our work, each smart meter and its related digital twin entity will calculate a shared session key for further use. The proposed scheme is indeed secure and efficient because we delivered a detailed security analysis and performance evaluation. Compared with other works, the proposed scheme is more suitable for creating the future smart grid industry.