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Smart meters, devices measuring the electricity and gas consumption of a household, are currently being deployed at a fast rate throughout the world. The data they collect are extremely useful, including in the fight against climate change.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Ana-Maria Cretu , Miruna Rusu , Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye

Accurate detection of human presence in indoor environments is important for various applications, such as energy management and security. In this paper, we propose a novel system for human presence detection using the channel state…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-09 Li-Hsiang Shen , An-Hung Hsiao , Kuan-I Lu , Kai-Ten Feng

We study a setting of collecting and learning from private data distributed across end users. In the shuffled model of differential privacy, the end users partially protect their data locally before sharing it, and their data is also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Tal Wagner

Smart grids (SGs) promise to deliver dramatic improvements compared to traditional power grids thanks primarily to the large amount of data being exchanged and processed within the grid, which enables the grid to be monitored more…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-04 Giulio Giaconi , Deniz Gunduz , H. Vincent Poor

Machine learning has been widely applied in wireless communications. However, the security aspects of machine learning in wireless applications have not been well understood yet. We consider the case that a cognitive transmitter senses the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-29 Yi Shi , Tugba Erpek , Yalin E. Sagduyu , Jason H. Li

In this paper, we study the design of secure communication for time division duplex multi-cell multi-user massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems with active eavesdropping. We assume that the eavesdropper actively attacks the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Yongpeng Wu , Chao-Kai Wen , Wen Chen , Shi Jin , Robert Schober , Giuseppe Caire

Frequent metering of electricity consumption is crucial for demand side management in smart grids. However, metered data can be processed fairly easily by employing well-established nonintrusive appliance load monitoring techniques to infer…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-08 Cihan Emre Kement , Marija Ilic , Hakan Gultekin , Cihan Tugrul Cicek , Bulent Tavli

Smart meters play a crucial role in enhancing energy management and efficiency, but they raise significant privacy concerns by potentially revealing detailed user behaviors through energy consumption patterns. Recent scholarly efforts have…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-30 Ruichang Zhang , Youcheng Sun , Mustafa A. Mustafa

A novel smart metering technique capable of anomaly detection was proposed for real-time home power management system. Smart meter data generated in real-time was obtained from 900 households of single apartments. To detect outliers and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-21 Sangkeum Lee , Sarvar Hussain Nengroo , Hojun Jin , Yoonmee Doh , Chungho Lee , Taewook Heo , Dongsoo Har

Privacy-Preserving machine learning (PPML) can help us train and deploy models that utilize private information. In particular, on-device machine learning allows us to avoid sharing raw data with a third-party server during inference.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Xinchi Qiu , Ilias Leontiadis , Luca Melis , Alex Sablayrolles , Pierre Stock

Accurate load forecasting is crucial for energy management, infrastructure planning, and demand-supply balancing. Smart meter data availability has led to the demand for sensor-based load forecasting. Conventional ML allows training a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Asif Iqbal , Prosanta Gope , Biplab Sikdar

Bidirectional privacy-preservation federated learning is crucial as both local gradients and the global model may leak privacy. However, only a few works attempt to achieve it, and they often face challenges such as excessive communication…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Xue Yang , Depan Peng , Yan Feng , Xiaohu Tang , Weijun Fang , Jun Shao

Modern grids have adopted advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) to facilitate bidirectional communication between smart meters and control centers. This enables smart meters to report consumption values at predefined intervals to utility…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Farid Zaredar , Morteza Amini

In this paper, we present a framework based on differential privacy (DP) for querying electric power measurements to detect system anomalies or bad data. Our DP approach conceals consumption and system matrix data, while simultaneously…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-26 Nikhil Ravi , Anna Scaglione , Sean Peisert , Parth Pradhan

Intelligence is one of the most important aspects in the development of our future communities. Ranging from smart home, smart building, to smart city, all these smart infrastructures must be supported by intelligent power supply. Smart…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Zhitao Guan , Guanlin Si , Xiaosong Zhang , Longfei Wu , Nadra Guizani , Xiaojiang Du , Yinglong Ma

The next generation Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI), with the aid of two-way Smart Metering Network (SMN), is expected to support many advanced functions. In this work, we focus on the application of remote periodic energy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-03-07 Yue Yang , Sumit Roy

Distributed multi-agent learning enables agents to cooperatively train a model without requiring to share their datasets. While this setting ensures some level of privacy, it has been shown that, even when data is not directly shared, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Anudit Nagar , Cuong Tran , Ferdinando Fioretto

Detecting energy theft is vital for effectively managing power grids, as it ensures precise billing and prevents financial losses. Split-learning emerges as a promising decentralized machine learning technique for identifying energy theft…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-11-28 Yang Yang , Xun Yuan , Arwa Alromih , Aryan Mohammadi Pasikhani , Prosanta Gope , Biplab Sikdar

Smart grid, through networked smart meters employing the non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM) technique, can considerably discern the usage patterns of residential appliances. However, this technique also incurs privacy leakage. To address…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Jialing He , Jiacheng Wang , Ning Wang , Shangwei Guo , Liehuang Zhu , Dusit Niyato , Tao Xiang

As smart grids are getting popular and being widely implemented, preserving the privacy of consumers is becoming more substantial. Power generation and pricing in smart grids depends on the continuously gathered information from the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-05-16 Alireza Ahadipour , Mojtaba Mohammadi , Alireza Keshavarz-Haddad