SCMABC Algorithm-based routing for secure and efficient data transmission in smart grid AMI networks

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) play a vital role in collecting and transmitting data in diverse environments. In the context of Smart Grid systems, WSNs are extensively employed within the Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) architecture to facilitate bidirectional communication between electric water/gas meters and city utilities. However, the design of an efficient routing protocol and ensuring secure data transmission present notable challenges in AMI smart systems. In this paper, a novel routing protocol named the Secure Composite Mutation Artificial Bee Colony (SCMABC) algorithm is proposed to perform secure transmission of data in AMI networks. Moreover, the determination of Group Key management scheme-based Lagrange Interpolation Polynomial (GK-LIP) is obtained to validate the security of data within the cluster nodes. The proposed approach capitalizes on the inherent capabilities of WSNs to track and monitor Smart Grid data, leveraging smart meters embedded within sensor nodes. We achieve efficient routing to ensure rapid data transmission while guaranteeing data security through the utilization of cryptographic keys for secure transmission between the smart grid and IoT web pages. The analysis of the result is performed with various metrics to show the robustness of the model. The experimentation results revealed that the proposed method attained better efficiency in security enhancement by diminishing the processing time for encryption as well as the decryption process and the mean error. The research contributes to the challenges determined in Smart Grid AMI networks to improve robustness and security for efficient data transmission.