TY - GEN
T1 - Smart meter privacy in the presence of energy harvesting and storage devices
AU - Tan, Onur
AU - Gunduz, Deniz
AU - Poor, H. Vincent
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - While increasing the efficiency in generation, distribution and storage of energy in a smart grid, smart meters also allow the utility provider to monitor the energy consumption behavior of the users, leading to important threats to privacy. In this paper, privacy in a smart metering system is studied from an information theoretic perspective in the presence of energy harvesting and storage units. It is shown that energy harvesting provides increased privacy by diversifying the energy source, while the storage device can be used to increase both the energy efficiency and the privacy of the user. For given input load and energy harvesting rates, it is shown that there exists a trade-off between the information leakage rate, which is used to measure the privacy of the user, and the wasted energy rate, which is a measure of the energy-efficiency. The impact of the energy harvesting rate and the size of the storage device on this trade-off is also studied.
AB - While increasing the efficiency in generation, distribution and storage of energy in a smart grid, smart meters also allow the utility provider to monitor the energy consumption behavior of the users, leading to important threats to privacy. In this paper, privacy in a smart metering system is studied from an information theoretic perspective in the presence of energy harvesting and storage units. It is shown that energy harvesting provides increased privacy by diversifying the energy source, while the storage device can be used to increase both the energy efficiency and the privacy of the user. For given input load and energy harvesting rates, it is shown that there exists a trade-off between the information leakage rate, which is used to measure the privacy of the user, and the wasted energy rate, which is a measure of the energy-efficiency. The impact of the energy harvesting rate and the size of the storage device on this trade-off is also studied.
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U2 - 10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486062
DO - 10.1109/SmartGridComm.2012.6486062
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84876067976
SN - 9781467309110
T3 - 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2012
SP - 664
EP - 669
BT - 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2012
T2 - 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on Smart Grid Communications, SmartGridComm 2012
Y2 - 5 November 2012 through 8 November 2012
ER -