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Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) data from smart electric and gas meters enables valuable insights for utilities and consumers, but also raises significant privacy concerns. In California, regulatory decisions (CPUC D.11-07-056 and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Benjamin Westrich

This paper studies how a system operator and a set of agents securely execute a distributed projected gradient-based algorithm. In particular, each participant holds a set of problem coefficients and/or states whose values are private to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Yang Lu , Minghui Zhu

Secure multiparty computation (MPC) allows joint privacy-preserving computations on data of multiple parties. Although MPC has been studied substantially, building solutions that are practical in terms of computation and communication cost…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-02-16 Martin Burkhart , Mario Strasser , Dilip Many , Xenofontas Dimitropoulos

The roll-out of smart meters in electricity networks introduces risks for consumer privacy due to increased measurement frequency and granularity. Through various Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring techniques, consumer behavior may be inferred…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Jun-Xing Chin , Tomas Tinoco De Rubira , Gabriela Hug

Cloud computing comes with a lot of advanced features along with privacy and security problem. Smart meter data takes the benefit of cloud computing in the smart grid. User's privacy can be compromised by analyzing the smart meter data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-11-18 Jatinder Kumar , Ashutosh Kumar Singh

In this work, we consider the problem of secure multi-party computation (MPC), consisting of $\Gamma$ sources, each has access to a large private matrix, $N$ processing nodes or workers, and one data collector or master. The master is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-04-13 Seyed Reza Hoseini Najarkolaei , Mohammad Ali Maddah-Ali , Mohammad Reza Aref

In smart grids, the use of smart meters to measure electricity consumption at a household level raises privacy concerns. To address them, researchers have designed various load hiding algorithms that manipulate the electricity consumption…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Vadim Arzamasov , Klemens Böhm

Energy theft poses a significant threat to the stability and efficiency of smart grids, leading to substantial economic losses and operational challenges. Traditional centralized machine learning approaches for theft detection require…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Diego Labate , Dipanwita Thakur , Giancarlo Fortino

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

Elaborate protocols in Secure Multi-party Computation enable several participants to compute a public function of their own private inputs while ensuring that no undesired information leaks about the private inputs, and without resorting to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-04 Patrick Ah-Fat , Michael Huth

Smart meters enable improvements in electricity distribution system efficiency at some cost in customer privacy. Users with home batteries can mitigate this privacy loss by applying charging policies that mask their underlying energy use. A…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-02 Miguel Arrieta , Iñaki Esnaola , Michelle Effros

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

When multiple parties that deal with private data aim for a collaborative prediction task such as medical image classification, they are often constrained by data protection regulations and lack of trust among collaborating parties. If done…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-02-22 Ismat Jarin , Birhanu Eshete

We describe scalable protocols for solving the secure multi-party computation (MPC) problem among a large number of parties. We consider both the synchronous and the asynchronous communication models. In the synchronous setting, our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Varsha Dani , Valerie King , Mahnush Movahedi , Jared Saia , Mahdi Zamani

In smart electricity grids, high time granularity (HTG) power consumption data can be decomposed into individual appliance load signatures via Nonintrusive Appliance Load Monitoring techniques to expose appliance usage profiles. Various…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-10-30 Cihan Emre Kement , Bulent Tavli , Hakan Gultekin , Halim Yanikomeroglu

Smart-meters are a key component of energy transition. The large amount of data collected in near real-time allows grid operators to observe and simulate network states. However, privacy-preserving rules forbid the use of such data for any…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Jordan Holweger , Lionel Bloch , Christophe Ballif , Nicolas Wyrsch

Outsourcing data storage to the remote cloud can be an economical solution to enhance data management in the smart grid ecosystem. To protect the privacy of data, the utility company may choose to encrypt the data before uploading them to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Jiangnan Li , Xiangyu Niu , Jinyuan Stella Sun

Secure multi-party computation (SMPC) protocols allow several parties that distrust each other to collectively compute a function on their inputs. In this paper, we introduce a protocol that lifts classical SMPC to quantum SMPC in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-17 Theodoros Kapourniotis , Elham Kashefi , Dominik Leichtle , Luka Music , Harold Ollivier

The smart meter (SM) privacy problem is addressed together with the cost of energy for the user. It is assumed that a storage device, e.g., an electrical battery, is available to the user, which can be utilized both to achieve privacy and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-08-11 Giulio Giaconi , Deniz Gunduz , H. Vincent Poor

Smart grid adopts two-way communication and rich functionalities to gain a positive impact on the sustainability and efficiency of power usage, but on the other hand, also poses serious challenges to customers' privacy. Existing solutions…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-04 Shaohua Li , Kaiping Xue