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Security in OPERA Specification based PLC Systems Guiomar Corral, Josep M. Selga, Agustín Zaballos, David González-Tarragó Enginyeria i Arquitectura La Salle-Universitat Ramon Llull (URL) Barcelona-Spain {jmselga, guiomar, zaballos, dgonzalez}@ Luis M. Torres Design of Systems on Silicon (DS2) SA Valencia, Spain Berthold Haberler Linz Strom Gmbh Linz, Austria Abstract— Power Line Communication (PLC) is a broadband telecommunication technology that enables the use of the existing electricity networks for high speed data transmission purposes. European project OPERA (Open PLC European Research Alliance) is a project whose strategic objective is to push PLC technology in all the different and relevant aspects. Within this framework, security is an important aspect thatshould be taken into account and integrated into thespecifications from the very beginning. The project was scheduled in two phases with a duration of two years each. Phase1 produced a first PLC specification, including security.Phase2 produced an improved specification which was submitted to the IEEE as the OPERA PLC proposal within thecontest organized by WG P1901. The paper presents the studies related to security in the PLC access technology made within this process that led to the second security specification of OPERA. Finally, an analysis of this specification isperformed. Keywords- access technologies; PLC; communications network security; OPERA project. I. INTRODUCTION Power Line Communication (PLC) is a broadband telecommunication technology able to use the existing electricity networks for data transmission purposes, allowing any user connected to the power grid to benefit from Information Technology based services easily. The strategic objective of project OPERA (Open PLC European Research Alliance) [1] is to push PLC technology in all the different and relevant aspects (standardization, technology improvement, installation tools and processes, telecom services, dissemination,..) so as t