Research Article
Cybersecurity Vulnerability Analysis of the PLC PRIME Standard
Table 1
Main PRIME features for v1.3.6 and v1.4 [
20].
| Layer | Feature | PRIME V1.3.6 | PRIME V1.4 |
| PHY | Frequency band | CENELEC band (3–95 kHz) | FCC vand (10–490 kHz) | Data rate | Up to 130 kbps | Up to 1028.8 kbps | Robust mode | No | Repetition coder |
| MAC | Network formation | Beacon discovery, automatic promotion | Beacon discovery (longer), automatic promotion | Keep-alive monitoring | Yes | Yes (with link quality info) |
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