scholarly journals Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation Scheme for Smart Grid Based on Blockchain

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (18) ◽  
pp. 5282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongbin Fan ◽  
Yining Liu ◽  
Zhixin Zeng
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Data Aggregation ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Grid Data ◽  
Trusted Third Party ◽  
Grid Based

As a next-generation power system, the smart grid can implement fine-grained smart metering data collection to optimize energy utilization. Smart meters face serious security challenges, such as a trusted third party or a trusted authority being attacked, which leads to the disclosure of user privacy. Blockchain provides a viable solution that can use its key technologies to solve this problem. Blockchain is a new type of decentralized protocol that does not require a trusted third party or a central authority. Therefore, this paper proposes a decentralized privacy-preserving data aggregation (DPPDA) scheme for smart grid based on blockchain. In this scheme, the leader election algorithm is used to select a smart meter in the residential area as a mining node to build a block. The node adopts Paillier cryptosystem algorithm to aggregate the user’s power consumption data. Boneh-Lynn-Shacham short signature and SHA-256 function are applied to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of user data, which is convenient for billing and power regulation. The scheme protects user privacy data while achieving decentralization, without relying on TTP or CA. Security analysis shows that our scheme meets the security and privacy requirements of smart grid data aggregation. The experimental results show that this scheme is more efficient than existing competing schemes in terms of computation and communication overhead.

scholarly journals Privacy-Preserving Multidimensional Data Aggregation Scheme for Smart Grid

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Yousheng Zhou ◽  
Xinyun Chen ◽  
Meihuan Chen
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Data Aggregation ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Random Oracle Model ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Multidimensional Data ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Grid Data ◽  
Aggregation Scheme

In a smart grid, data aggregation is a common method to evaluate regional power consumption. Data leakage in the process of data transmission poses a security threat to the privacy of users. Many existing data aggregation schemes can only aggregate one-dimensional data; however, it is necessary to aggregate multidimensional data in practical smart grid applications. Therefore, this paper proposes a privacy-preserving multidimensional data aggregation scheme, which can aggregate multidimensional data and protect the individual user’s identity and data privacy. The security of the proposed scheme is proved under the random oracle model. The simulation results show that the proposed scheme has great advantages in computing overhead, and the communication overhead also meets the requirements of the smart grid.

Enhancing Privacy in PUF-Cash through Multiple Trusted Third Parties and Reinforcement Learning

2022 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Georgios Fragkos ◽  
Cyrus Minwalla ◽  
Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou ◽  
Jim Plusquellic
Keyword(s):  
User Anonymity ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
Trusted Third Party ◽  
Physical Unclonable Functions ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Direct Contrast ◽  
Debit Cards

Electronic cash ( e-Cash ) is a digital alternative to physical currency such as coins and bank notes. Suitably constructed, e-Cash has the ability to offer an anonymous offline experience much akin to cash, and in direct contrast to traditional forms of payment such as credit and debit cards. Implementing security and privacy within e-Cash, i.e., preserving user anonymity while preventing counterfeiting, fraud, and double spending, is a non-trivial challenge. In this article, we propose major improvements to an e-Cash protocol, termed PUF-Cash, based on physical unclonable functions ( PUFs ). PUF-Cash was created as an offline-first, secure e-Cash scheme that preserved user anonymity in payments. In addition, PUF-Cash supports remote payments; an improvement over traditional currency. In this work, a novel multi-trusted-third-party exchange scheme is introduced, which is responsible for “blinding” Alice’s e-Cash tokens; a feature at the heart of preserving her anonymity. The exchange operations are governed by machine learning techniques which are uniquely applied to optimize user privacy, while remaining resistant to identity-revealing attacks by adversaries and trusted authorities. Federation of the single trusted third party into multiple entities distributes the workload, thereby improving performance and resiliency within the e-Cash system architecture. Experimental results indicate that improvements to PUF-Cash enhance user privacy and scalability.

scholarly journals EPPDA: An Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation Scheme with Authentication and Authorization for IoT-Based Healthcare

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Faris. A. Almalki ◽  
Ben othman Soufiene
Keyword(s):  
Data Aggregation ◽  
Data Privacy ◽  
Homomorphic Encryption ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Range Data ◽  
Aggregation Techniques ◽  
Aggregation Scheme ◽  
Iot Devices

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) connects various kinds of intelligent objects and devices using the internet to collect and exchange data. Nowadays, The IoT is used in diverse application domains, including the healthcare. In the healthcare domain, the IoT devices can collects patient data, and its forwards the data to the healthcare professionals can view it. The IoT devices are usually resource-constrained in terms of energy consumption, storage capacity, computational capability, and communication range, data aggregation techniques are used to reduce the communication overhead. However, in healthcare system using IoT, the heterogeneity of technologies, the large number of devices and systems, and the different types of users and roles create important challenges in terms of security. For that, the security and privacy aggregation of health data are very important aspects. In this paper, we propose a novel secure data aggregation scheme based on homomorphic primitives in IoT based healthcare systems, called “An Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation Scheme with authentication for IoT-Based Healthcare applications” (EPPDA). EPPDA is based the Verification and Authorization phase to verifying the legitimacy of the nodes wants to join the process of aggregation. EPPDA uses additive homomorphic encryption to protect data privacy and combines it with homomorphic MAC to check the data integrity. The security analysis and experimental results show that our proposed scheme guarantees data privacy, messages authenticity, and integrity, with lightweight communication overhead and computation.

scholarly journals Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Data Aggregation and Dynamic Billing in Smart Grid Metering Networks

Energies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2085 ◽  
Author(s):  
An Braeken ◽  
Pardeep Kumar ◽  
Andrew Martin
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Data Aggregation ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Smart Meters ◽  
Life Patterns ◽  
Consumption Data ◽  
Secure Data ◽  
Secure Data Aggregation ◽  
Privacy Issues

The smart grid enables convenient data collection between smart meters and operation centers via data concentrators. However, it presents security and privacy issues for the customer. For instance, a malicious data concentrator cannot only use consumption data for malicious purposes but also can reveal life patterns of the customers. Recently, several methods in different groups (e.g., secure data aggregation, etc.) have been proposed to collect the consumption usage in a privacy-preserving manner. Nevertheless, most of the schemes either introduce computational complexities in data aggregation or fail to support privacy-preserving billing against the internal adversaries (e.g., malicious data concentrators). In this paper, we propose an efficient and privacy-preserving data aggregation scheme that supports dynamic billing and provides security against internal adversaries in the smart grid. The proposed scheme actively includes the customer in the registration process, leading to end-to-end secure data aggregation, together with accurate and dynamic billing offering privacy protection. Compared with the related work, the scheme provides a balanced trade-off between security and efficacy (i.e., low communication and computation overhead while providing robust security).

scholarly journals PAS: An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Multidimensional Aggregation Scheme for Smart Grid

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Zhu ◽  
Fen Liu ◽  
Rong Yan ◽  
Hui Li
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Power Consumption ◽  
Privacy Preservation ◽  
Security Analysis ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Communication Overhead ◽  
Sensitive Information ◽  
Aggregation Scheme ◽  
Operation Center

As a convergence of traditional power system engineering and information technology, smart grid, which can provide convenient environment of operation and management for the power provider, has attracted considerable interest recently. However, the flourish of smart grid is still facing many challenges in data security and privacy preservation. In this paper, we propose an efficient privacy-preserving multidimensional aggregation scheme for smart grid, called PAS. Without disclosing the privacy-sensitive information (e.g., identity and power consumption) of users, the operation center can obtain the number of users and power consumption at each step in different dimensions. Based on an improved Paillier cryptosystem, the operation center can acquire more valid information to regulate the generated energy, and an efficient anonymous authentication scheme is employed to protect the privacy of user’s identity from the regional center. Detailed security analysis shows the security and privacy-preserving ability of PAS. In addition, performance evaluations via extensive simulations demonstrate that PAS is implemented with great efficiency for smart grid in terms of computation and communication overhead.

scholarly journals Privacy-preserving energy storage sharing with blockchain and secure multi-party computation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-50
Author(s):  
Nan Wang ◽  
Sid Chi-Kin Chau ◽  
Yue Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Energy Storage ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Empirical Evaluation ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Third Party ◽  
User Privacy ◽  
External Energy ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Significant Cost Reduction ◽  
The Cost

Energy storage provides an effective way of shifting temporal energy demands and supplies, which enables significant cost reduction under time-of-use energy pricing plans. Despite its promising benefits, the cost of present energy storage remains expensive, presenting a major obstacle to practical deployment. A more viable solution to improve the cost-effectiveness is by sharing energy storage, such as community sharing, cloud energy storage and peer-to-peer sharing. However, revealing private energy demand data to an external energy storage operator may compromise user privacy, and is susceptible to data misuses and breaches. In this paper, we explore a novel approach to support energy storage sharing with privacy protection, based on privacy-preserving blockchain and secure multi-party computation. We present an integrated solution to enable privacy-preserving energy storage sharing, such that energy storage service scheduling and cost-sharing can be attained without the knowledge of individual users' demands. It also supports auditing and verification by the grid operator via blockchain. Furthermore, our privacy-preserving solution can safeguard against a majority of dishonest users, who may collude in cheating, without requiring a trusted third-party. We implemented our solution as a smart contract on real-world Ethereum blockchain platform, and provided empirical evaluation in this paper 1 .

Privacy Preserving, Verifiable and Resilient Data Aggregation in Grid-Based Networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 61 (4) ◽  
pp. 614-628 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaushal A Shah ◽  
Devesh C Jinwala
Keyword(s):  
Data Aggregation ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Grid Based
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