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Authors:
Ulas Baran Baloglu
Yakup Demir
Keywords: identity-based encryption; smart grid; privacy preservation
Abstract:
Smart grids are expected to replace existing electrical grids with advanced mechanisms and intelligent entities, which have excessive data processing and communication tasks. It is important for the sensitive consumer data, such as meter readings, to be secured at these intelligent entities. Novel digital communication mechanisms should be developed to protect privacy. Existing smart grid architectures do not have sufficient and efficient security functionalities for data transmission. In this paper, we propose an Identity-Based Encryption scheme, which is more promising than the classical form regarding performance and security. The proposed scheme focuses on the data structure of meter readings and optimizes this structure to achieve a better privacy preservation. This novel structure further improves the performance of the scheme by reducing communication overhead caused by public key creation and distribution operations, as evaluations demonstrated.
Pages: 18 to 21
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2017
Publication date: April 23, 2017
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-3964
ISBN: 978-1-61208-544-9
Location: Venice, Italy
Dates: from April 23, 2017 to April 27, 2017