TY - GEN
T1 - Smart meter privacy with an energy harvesting device and instantaneous power constraints
AU - Giaconi, Giulio
AU - Gunduz, Deniz
AU - Poor, H. Vincent
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2015/9/9
Y1 - 2015/9/9
N2 - A smart meter (SM) periodically measures end-user electricity consumption and reports it to a utility provider (UP). Despite the advantages of SMs, their use leads to serious concerns about consumer privacy. In this paper, SM privacy is studied by considering the presence of an energy harvesting device (EHD) as a means of masking the user's input load. The user can satisfy part or all of his/her energy needs from the EHD, and hence, less information can be leaked to the UP via the SM. The EHD is typically equipped with a rechargeable energy storage device, i.e., a battery, whose instantaneous energy content limits the user's capability in covering his/her energy usage. Privacy is measured by the information leaked about the user's real energy consumption when the UP observes the energy requested from the grid, which the SM reads and reports to the UP. The minimum information leakage rate is characterized as a computable information theoretic single-letter expression when the EHD battery capacity is either infinite or zero. Numerical results are presented for a discrete binary input load to illustrate the potential privacy gains from the existence of a storage device.
AB - A smart meter (SM) periodically measures end-user electricity consumption and reports it to a utility provider (UP). Despite the advantages of SMs, their use leads to serious concerns about consumer privacy. In this paper, SM privacy is studied by considering the presence of an energy harvesting device (EHD) as a means of masking the user's input load. The user can satisfy part or all of his/her energy needs from the EHD, and hence, less information can be leaked to the UP via the SM. The EHD is typically equipped with a rechargeable energy storage device, i.e., a battery, whose instantaneous energy content limits the user's capability in covering his/her energy usage. Privacy is measured by the information leaked about the user's real energy consumption when the UP observes the energy requested from the grid, which the SM reads and reports to the UP. The minimum information leakage rate is characterized as a computable information theoretic single-letter expression when the EHD battery capacity is either infinite or zero. Numerical results are presented for a discrete binary input load to illustrate the potential privacy gains from the existence of a storage device.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICC.2015.7249478
DO - 10.1109/ICC.2015.7249478
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84953790074
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Communications
SP - 7216
EP - 7221
BT - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2015
Y2 - 8 June 2015 through 12 June 2015
ER -