Title
Quantifying the Utility-Privacy Tradeoff in the Smart Grid.
Abstract
The modernization of the electrical grid and the installation of smart meters come with many advantages to control and monitoring. However, in the wrong hands, the data might pose a privacy threat. In this paper, we consider the tradeoff between smart grid operations and the privacy of consumers. We analyze the tradeoff between smart grid operations and how often data is collected by considering a realistic direct-load control example using thermostatically controlled loads, and we give simulation results to show how its performance degrades as the sampling frequency decreases. Additionally, we introduce a new privacy metric, which we call inferential privacy. This privacy metric assumes a strong adversary model, and provides an upper bound on the adversary's ability to infer a private parameter, independent of the algorithm he uses. Combining these two results allow us to directly consider the tradeoff between better load control and consumer privacy.
Year
Venue
Field
2014
CoRR
Smart grid,Computer science,Upper and lower bounds,Computer security,Consumer privacy,Adversary model,Electrical grid,Adversary
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1406.2568
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
19
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Roy Dong17912.05
Alvaro A. Cárdenas21390101.51
Lillian J. Ratliff38723.32
Henrik Ohlsson430525.91
Shankar Sastry5119771291.58