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The detection of energy thefts is vital for the safety of the whole smart grid system. However, the detection alone is not enough since energy thefts can crucially affect the electricity supply leading to some blackouts. Moreover, privacy…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Arwa Alromih , John A. Clark , Prosanta Gope

Traditional electricity meters are replaced by Smart Meters in customers' households. Smart Meters collects fine-grained utility consumption profiles from customers, which in turn enables the introduction of dynamic, time-of-use tariffs.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2011-03-02 Marek Jawurek , Martin Johns , Florian Kerschbaum

Anonymity and privacy are two key properties of modern communication networks. In quantum networks, distributed quantum sensing has emerged as a powerful use case, with applications to clock synchronisation, detecting gravitational effects…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-10 Jarn de Jong , Santiago Scheiner , Naomi R. Solomons , Ziad Chaoui , Damian Markham , Anna Pappa

In the electricity grid, networked sensors which record and transmit increasingly high-granularity data are being deployed. In such a setting, privacy concerns are a natural consideration. We present an attack model for privacy breaches,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-06-02 Lillian J. Ratliff , Roy Dong , Henrik Ohlsson , Alvaro A. Cardenas , S. Shankar Sastry

The paper studies how to release data about a critical infrastructure network (e.g., the power network or a transportation network) without disclosing sensitive information that can be exploited by malevolent agents, while preserving the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Ferdinando Fioretto , Terrence W. K. Mak , Pascal Van Hentenryck

A smart meter (SM) measures a consumer's electricity consumption and reports it automatically to a utility provider (UP) in almost real time. Despite many advantages of SMs, their use also leads to serious concerns about consumer privacy.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-01-30 Giulio Giaconi , Deniz Gunduz , H. Vincent Poor

The integration of information and communication technology (ICT) with traditional power grids has led to the emergence of smart grids. Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) plays a crucial role in smart grids by facilitating two-way…

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

Trade-offs between privacy and cost are studied for a smart grid consumer, whose electricity consumption is monitored in almost real time by the utility provider (UP) through smart meter (SM) readings. It is assumed that an electrical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Giulio Giaconi , Deniz Gunduz , H. Vincent Poor

For the modeling, design and planning of future energy transmission networks, it is vital for stakeholders to access faithful and useful power flow data, while provably maintaining the privacy of business confidentiality of service…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-03-29 David Smith , Frederik Geth , Elliott Vercoe , Andrew Feutrill , Ming Ding , Jonathan Chan , James Foster , Thierry Rakotoarivelo

Network tomography plays a crucial role in network monitoring and management, where network topology serves as the fundamental basis for various tomography tasks including traffic matrix estimation and link performance inference. The…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Chengze Du , Jibin Shi , Hui Xu , Guangzhen Yao

Installing smart meters to publish real-time electricity rates has been controversial while it might lead to privacy concerns. Dispatched rates include fine-grained data on aggregate electricity consumption in a zone and could potentially…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-12-19 Mahrokh GhoddousiBoroujeni , Dominik Fay , Christos Dimitrakakis , Maryam Kamgarpour

This paper proposes a sensor data anonymization model that is trained on decentralized data and strikes a desirable trade-off between data utility and privacy, even in heterogeneous settings where the sensor data have different underlying…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Xin Yang , Omid Ardakanian

In this proposal paper we highlight the need for privacy preserving energy demand forecasting to allay a major concern consumers have about smart meter installations. High resolution smart meter data can expose many private aspects of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Christopher Briggs , Zhong Fan , Peter Andras

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…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Giulio Giaconi , Deniz Gündüz , H. Vincent Poor

The widespread popularity of smart meters enables an immense amount of fine-grained electricity consumption data to be collected. Meanwhile, the deregulation of the power industry, particularly on the delivery side, has continuously been…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Yi Wang , Qixin Chen , Tao Hong , Chongqing Kang

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

Smart Grid systems not only transport electric energy but also information which will be active part of the electricity supply system. This has led to the introduction of intelligent components on all layers of the electrical grid in power…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Mohammed S. Kemal , Rasmus L. Olsen

A measure of privacy infringement for agents (or participants) travelling across a transportation network in participatory-sensing schemes for traffic estimation is introduced. The measure is defined to be the conditional probability that…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-09-06 Farhad Farokhi , Iman Shames

Cellular providers and data aggregating companies crowdsource celluar signal strength measurements from user devices to generate signal maps, which can be used to improve network performance. Recognizing that this data collection may be at…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Jiang Zhang , Lillian Clark , Matthew Clark , Konstantinos Psounis , Peter Kairouz

In advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), smart meters (SMs) are installed at the consumer side to send fine-grained power consumption readings periodically to the system operator (SO) for load monitoring, energy management, billing, etc.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Mohamed I. Ibrahem , Mahmoud Nabil , Mostafa M. Fouda , Mohamed Mahmoud , Waleed Alasmary , Fawaz Alsolami