Abstract
The traditional energy consumption calculation heavily relies on manual work, which is inefficient and error-prone. The Smart Grid, which integrates information and communication technologies into the electrical grid to gather information and manage energy production and consumption, may be a solution to this challenge. However, the resulting complex infrastructure and profusion of information may open up new attack vectors exploitable by malicious parties that could attack the grid itself or violate its consumers’ privacy. In this paper, we indicate the increasing interests in providing conditionally anonymous authentication in the Smart Grid systems. While the consumption report stays anonymous, the consumers who voluntarily curtail their energy consumption, can confirm their curtailments in the scheme. Moreover, compared with the existing conditionally anonymous authentication schemes, our scheme is more efficient in computational and communication overhead for Smart Grid systems.
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Sui, Z., Alyousef, A., de Meer, H. (2015). IAA: Incentive-Based Anonymous Authentication Scheme in Smart Grids. In: Tiropanis, T., Vakali, A., Sartori, L., Burnap, P. (eds) Internet Science. INSCI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9089. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18609-2_11
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