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Privacy-preserving smart metering revisited

Rial, A; Danezis, G; Kohlweiss, M; (2018) Privacy-preserving smart metering revisited. International Journal of Information Security , 17 pp. 1-31. 10.1007/s10207-016-0355-8. Green open access

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Abstract

Privacy-preserving billing protocols are useful in settings where a meter measures user consumption of some service, such as smart metering of utility consumption, pay-as-you-drive insurance and electronic toll collection. In such settings, service providers apply fine-grained tariff policies that require meters to provide a detailed account of user consumption. The protocols allow the user to pay to the service provider without revealing the user’s consumption measurements. Our contribution is twofold. First, we propose a general model where a meter can output meter readings to multiple users, and where a user receives meter readings from multiple meters. Unlike previous schemes, our model accommodates a wider variety of smart metering applications. Second, we describe a protocol based on polynomial commitments that improves the efficiency of previous protocols for tariff policies that employ splines to compute the price due.

Type: Article
Title: Privacy-preserving smart metering revisited
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1007/s10207-016-0355-8
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10207-016-0355-8
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © 2016 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10207-016-0355-8
Keywords: Universally composable security; Privacy; Billing; Smart meters; Polynomial commitments
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1532682
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