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)