Title
A protocol for metering data pseudonymization in smart grids
Abstract
A tradeoff between data collection needs and user privacy is of paramount importance in the Smart Grid. This paper proposes a pseudonymization protocol for data gathered by the Smart Metres, which relies on a network infrastructure and a dedicated set of nodes, called privacy preserving nodes. The network privacy is enforced by a separation of duties; the privacy preserving nodes perform data pseudonymization without having access to the measurements, which are masked by means of a secret sharing scheme, while the entities accessing the data recover and relate the plain measurements generated by the same metre along a time window of finite duration but have no access to the metre identities. The paper also provides an evaluation of the security and of the performance of the protocol, comparing it to the two alternative encryption techniques, which mask the measurements by means of the Chaum mixing scheme or of an identity-based proxy re-encryption scheme. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1002/ett.2760
TRANSACTIONS ON EMERGING TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
Field
DocType
Volume
Data collection,Secret sharing,Smart grid,Computer science,Computer network,Encryption,Pseudonymization,Metering mode,Separation of duties,User privacy
Journal
26
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
2161-3915
6
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.44
28
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Cristina Rottondi116117.87
Giulia Mauri2333.32
Giacomo Verticale321326.03