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Security Challenges in Smart-Grid Metering and Control Systems
The smart grid is a next-generation power system that is increasingly attracting the attention of government, industry, and academia. It is an upgraded electricity network that depends on two-way digital communications between supplier and consumer that in turn give support to intelligent metering and monitoring systems. Considering that energy utilities play an increasingly important role in our daily life, smart-grid technology introduces new security challenges that must be addressed. Deploying a smart grid without adequate security might result in serious consequences such as grid instability, utility fraud, and loss of user information and energy-consumption data. Due to the heterogeneous communication architecture of smart grids, it is quite a challenge to design sophisticated and robust security mechanisms that can be easily deployed to protect communications among different layers of the smart grid-infrastructure. In this article, we focus on the communication-security aspect of a smart-grid metering and control system from the perspective of cryptographic techniques, and we discuss different mechanisms to enhance cybersecurity of the emerging smart grid. We aim to provide a comprehensive vulnerability analysis as well as novel insights on the cybersecurity of a smart grid
A minimal extension of MSSM in light of the B decay anomaly
Motivated by the and anomalies from B decays, we extend the
minimal supersymmetric model with a non-universal anomaly-free
gauge symmetry, coupling non-universally to the lepton sector as well as the
quark sector. In particular, only the third generation quarks are charged under
this , which can easily evade the dilepton bound from the LHC
searches. An extra singlet is introduced to break this symmetry
allowing for the -term to be generated dynamically. The relevant
constraints of mixing, mixing and the LHC
dilepton searches are considered. We find that in the allowed parameter space
this gauge interaction can accommodate the and
anomalies and weaken considerably the mass limits while remaining
perturbative up to the Planck scale.Comment: 12 pages,2 figure
Stability of Phase-modulated Quantum Key Distribution System
Phase drift and random fluctuation of interference visibility in double
unbalanced M-Z QKD system are observed and distinguished. It has been found
that the interference visibilities are influenced deeply by the disturbance of
transmission fiber. Theory analysis shows that the fluctuation is derived from
the envioronmental disturbance on polarization characteristic of fiber,
especially including transmission fiber. Finally, stability conditions of
one-way anti-disturbed M-Z QKD system are given out, which provides a
theoretical guide in pragmatic anti-disturbed QKD.Comment: 9 pages, 3 figue
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