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On Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Smart Metering Systems

Security and Privacy in Smart Grids

  • Presents limitations for all privacy-preserving protocols with data aggregations
  • Introduces the concept of asymmetric DC-Nets, including important properties such as verification
  • Provides an implementation of an efficient asymmetric DC-Net, which can be transferred to several other applications
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
  2. Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Fábio Borges de Oliveira
      Pages 3-12
    3. Background and Models

      • Fábio Borges de Oliveira
      Pages 13-23
    4. A Selective Review

      • Fábio Borges de Oliveira
      Pages 25-36
  3. Contributions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
    2. Reasons to Measure Frequently and Their Requirements

      • Fábio Borges de Oliveira
      Pages 39-47
    3. Quantifying the Aggregation Size

      • Fábio Borges de Oliveira
      Pages 49-60
    4. Selected Privacy-Preserving Protocols

      • Fábio Borges de Oliveira
      Pages 61-100
    5. Analytical Comparison

      • Fábio Borges de Oliveira
      Pages 101-110
    6. Simulation and Validation

      • Fábio Borges de Oliveira
      Pages 111-126
    7. Concluding Remarks

      • Fábio Borges de Oliveira
      Pages 127-129
  4. Back Matter

    Pages 131-143

About this book

This book presents current research in privacy-preserving protocols for smart grids. It contains several approaches and compares them analytically and by means of simulation. In particular, the book introduces asymmetric DC-Nets, which offer an ideal combination of performance and features in comparison with homomorphic encryption; data anonymization via cryptographic protocols; and data obfuscation by means of noise injection or by means of the installation of storage banks. The author shows that this theory can be leveraged into several application scenarios, and how asymmetric DC-Nets are generalizations of additive homomorphic encryption schemes and abstractions of symmetric DC-Nets. The book provides the reader with an understanding about smart grid scenarios, the privacy problem, and the mathematics and algorithms used to solve it.



Authors and Affiliations

  • Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC) – Brazil, Petropolis, Brazil

    Fábio Borges de Oliveira

About the author

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Fábio Borges de Oliveira concluded his doctoral research on security and privacy in smart grids. In 1994, a civil service examination selected him to the position of civil servant in the State University of Londrina - Brazil (UEL - Universidade Estadual de Londrina in Portuguese). In 2002, another civil service examination selected him to work for the Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation at the Brazilian National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC - Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica in Portuguese). From 2011 to 2015, Horst Görtz Foundation supported him to work at the Technological University of Darmstadt - Germany (TU Darmstadt - Technische Universität Darmstadt in German). He holds a Ph.D. degree in Doctor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science at TU Darmstadt, a master's degree in Computational Modeling at LNCC, and a bachelor's degree in Mathematics at UEL. Currently, he is developing research on algorithms, security, cryptography, and privacy at LNCC - Brazil.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: On Privacy-Preserving Protocols for Smart Metering Systems

  • Book Subtitle: Security and Privacy in Smart Grids

  • Authors: Fábio Borges de Oliveira

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40718-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40717-3Published: 22 August 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82163-4Published: 14 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40718-0Published: 13 August 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVII, 143

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 37 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Systems and Data Security, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Cryptology

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eBook USD 39.99
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  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
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Softcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 54.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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