Title
Efficient smart metering based on homomorphic encryption
Abstract
Smart meters send fine-grained client electricity consumption readings to suppliers. Although this presents advantages for both entities, it results in a serious loss of privacy for customers. We present a monitoring-purpose system that preserves customers’ privacy by homomorphically aggregating the consumptions of all n members of a neighborhood. The proposal has an efficient linear O(n) communication cost and is proven to preserve customers’ privacy even in the presence of a corrupted substation and some malicious smart meters. It requires neither secure communication channels nor a trusted third party (except for issuing public-key certificates). Computation on the smart meters is limited to modular exponentiations. These favorable properties come at the expense of increased computation cost on the electricity suppliers’ side. We show that the computation is easily feasible for realistic parameter choices.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.comcom.2015.08.016
Computer Communications
Keywords
Field
DocType
Encryption,ElGamal,Homomorphism,Privacy,Smart metering
Homomorphic encryption,Trusted third party,Computer security,Electricity,Computer science,Computer network,Communication channel,Encryption,ElGamal encryption,Modular design,Secure communication
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
82
0140-3664
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
15
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
nuria busom140.44
Ronald Petrlic25911.02
Francesc Sebé354640.92
Christoph Sorge417222.16
Magda Valls5678.68