Information theoretic privacy for smart meters

Deniz Gündüz; Jesus Gomez-Vilardebo; Onur Tan; H. Vincent Poor

doi:10.1109/ITA.2013.6503006

Information theoretic privacy for smart meters

Deniz Gündüz, Jesus Gomez-Vilardebo, Onur Tan, H. Vincent Poor

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Abstract

Smart meters (SMs) measure and report energy consumption of individual users to the utility provider at short intervals on the order of minutes. While SM data is used to increase the efficiency in electricity distribution, it also conveys sensitive private data on the energy consumption behaviour of individual customers. In this work, privacy in a smart metering system is studied from an information theoretic perspective in the presence of alternative energy sources and storage units. An alternative energy source provides increased privacy by diversifying the energy source, and the storage device filters the real energy consumption to reduce the leaked data. Connections between this problem and rate-distortion theory is established, and both theoretical and numerical results are presented.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	583-589
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ITA.2013.6503006
State	Published - May 16 2013
Event	2013 Information Theory and Applications Workshop, ITA 2013 - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: Feb 10 2013 → Feb 15 2013

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Other	2013 Information Theory and Applications Workshop, ITA 2013
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	2/10/13 → 2/15/13

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Computer Science Applications
Information Systems

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