Privacy-Preserving Meter Report Protocol of Isolated Smart Grid Devices

Abstract

Smart grid aims to improve the reliability, efficiency, and security of the traditional grid, which allows two-way transmission and efficiency-driven response. However, a main concern of this new technique is that the fine-grained metering data may leak the personal privacy information of the customers. Thus, the data aggregation mechanism for privacy protection is required for the meter report protocol in smart grid. In this paper, we propose an efficient privacy-preserving meter report protocol for the isolated smart grid devices. Our protocol consists of an encryption scheme with additively homomorphic property and a linearly homomorphic signature scheme, where the linearly homomorphic signature scheme is suitable for privacy-preserving data aggregation. We also provide security analysis of our protocol in the context of some typical attacks in smart grid. The implementation of our protocol on the Intel Edison platform shows that our protocol is efficient enough for the physical constrained devices, like smart meters.

An efficient privacy protection scheme for the smart meter in electrical distribution system

“…On the basis of above performance analysis, we can conclude that scheme of [18] is better than other schemes [12,17,20,21,22,23,24,25] whereas scheme [18] has used 21 times multiplication operations. So, it is clear that the proposed scheme is more efficient than other existed literatures [12,17,18,20,21,22,23,24,25] because it uses only 8 times XOR operations which is more efficient than the 21 times of multiplication operations Figures 3 & 4 deduces that the proposed work requires less computation cost as compared to the existing works [12,17,18,20,21,22,23,24,25]. The proposed scheme has used the visual cryptography technique instead of public cryptography, which is simple and easy to implement than public cryptography.…”

“…On the basis of above statement, we can say that multiplication operator is more efficient operator than bilinear and exponential operators. From table 2 and 3, it is clear that among all the existing literatures, ref [18] is better than other ref [12,17,20,21,22,23,24,25] for n ≥ 9. S. Zhang et al [18] have used only 21 times multiplication operations.…”

“…In the proposed scheme, only 8 XOR (T x ) operations are required for the ring signcryption, which is efficient than T b , T m , T e and T 2dnf (2-DNF Formulas Cryptosystem Decryption) operations. Hence, it takes less computation time as compared to the other existing works [12,17,18,20,21,22,23,24,25].…”

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“…It opens up a new opportunity to connect people to sensor devices distributed around them. With the development of the sensor technologies, a lot of IoT applications have been designed, such as healthcare services, smart grid devices [2]- [4], smart transport systems [5], [6] and smart city etc., which enhance the living conditions greatly. In the context of IoT application domains, there exist two types of networks, i.e., distributed and centralized networks [7].…”

Novel chaotic map‐based privacy‐preserving authenticated key agreement scheme without the electricity service provider involvement

“…Nonetheless, the second type are the ones that cannot be easily covered by the data communication network. The reasons for why we have such isolated devices have been comprehensively discussed and explained in References For example, one of the main reasons is that most of these devices are located in distant places, which makes the extension of the network very costly. Therefore, as illustrated in Figure , the electricity service provider (ESP) reads consumption reports from the isolated smart meters (ISMs) by the utilization of a handheld and portable smart reader device and sending one of its worker to their physical location.…”