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Title: Privacy-Assured Aggregation Protocol for Smart Metering: A Proactive Fault-Tolerant Approach [Proactive Fault-Tolerant Aggregation Protocol for Privacy-Assured Smart Metering]

Abstract

Smart meters are integral to demand response in emerging smart grids, by reporting the electricity consumption of users to serve application needs. But reporting real-time usage information for individual households raises privacy concerns. Existing techniques to guarantee differential privacy (DP) of smart meter users either are not fault tolerant or achieve (possibly partial) fault tolerance at high communication overheads. In this paper, we propose a fault-tolerant protocol for smart metering that can handle general communication failures while ensuring DP with significantly improved efficiency and lower errors compared with the state of the art. Our protocol handles fail-stop faults proactively by using a novel design of future ciphertexts, and distributes trust among the smart meters by sharing secret keys among them. We prove the DP properties of our protocol and analyze its advantages in fault tolerance, accuracy, and communication efficiency relative to competing techniques. We illustrate our analysis by simulations driven by real-world traces of electricity consumption.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [3]
  1. Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN (United States)
  2. Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Illinois (Singapore)
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1327744
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 24; Journal Issue: 3; Journal ID: ISSN 1063-6692
Publisher:
IEEE/ACM
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; 47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; information security; data privacy; protocols; privacy; smart meters; fault tolerance; fault tolerant systems; noise; encryption

Citation Formats

Won, Jongho, Ma, Chris Y. T., Yau, David K. Y., and Rao, Nageswara S. V. Privacy-Assured Aggregation Protocol for Smart Metering: A Proactive Fault-Tolerant Approach [Proactive Fault-Tolerant Aggregation Protocol for Privacy-Assured Smart Metering]. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1109/TNET.2015.2425422.
Won, Jongho, Ma, Chris Y. T., Yau, David K. Y., & Rao, Nageswara S. V. Privacy-Assured Aggregation Protocol for Smart Metering: A Proactive Fault-Tolerant Approach [Proactive Fault-Tolerant Aggregation Protocol for Privacy-Assured Smart Metering]. United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2015.2425422
Won, Jongho, Ma, Chris Y. T., Yau, David K. Y., and Rao, Nageswara S. V. 2016. "Privacy-Assured Aggregation Protocol for Smart Metering: A Proactive Fault-Tolerant Approach [Proactive Fault-Tolerant Aggregation Protocol for Privacy-Assured Smart Metering]". United States. https://doi.org/10.1109/TNET.2015.2425422. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1327744.
@article{osti_1327744,
title = {Privacy-Assured Aggregation Protocol for Smart Metering: A Proactive Fault-Tolerant Approach [Proactive Fault-Tolerant Aggregation Protocol for Privacy-Assured Smart Metering]},
author = {Won, Jongho and Ma, Chris Y. T. and Yau, David K. Y. and Rao, Nageswara S. V.},
abstractNote = {Smart meters are integral to demand response in emerging smart grids, by reporting the electricity consumption of users to serve application needs. But reporting real-time usage information for individual households raises privacy concerns. Existing techniques to guarantee differential privacy (DP) of smart meter users either are not fault tolerant or achieve (possibly partial) fault tolerance at high communication overheads. In this paper, we propose a fault-tolerant protocol for smart metering that can handle general communication failures while ensuring DP with significantly improved efficiency and lower errors compared with the state of the art. Our protocol handles fail-stop faults proactively by using a novel design of future ciphertexts, and distributes trust among the smart meters by sharing secret keys among them. We prove the DP properties of our protocol and analyze its advantages in fault tolerance, accuracy, and communication efficiency relative to competing techniques. We illustrate our analysis by simulations driven by real-world traces of electricity consumption.},
doi = {10.1109/TNET.2015.2425422},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1327744}, journal = {IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking},
issn = {1063-6692},
number = 3,
volume = 24,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Wed Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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