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Design and Evaluation of a Privacy-Preserving Architecture for Vehicle-to-Grid Interaction

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Public Key Infrastructures, Services and Applications (EuroPKI 2011)

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Charging battery-electric vehicles can pose a significant load to the power grid. Letting a central instance control vehicle charging processes can reduce the grid load and allows for vehicles to be used as distributed grid resources. It is commonly assumed that vehicle owners are willing to reveal their driving patterns to the control instance. As we show, current privacy-preserving technologies can be used to construct an architecture that reduces the need to reveal such sensitive information. Yet, we identify limitations to such an approach and demonstrate how an adversary can use information inherent to the context to decrease vehicle owner privacy. As a concrete case, we discuss an adversary algorithm based on travel times and show how to obtain anonymity sets for individual vehicles. This allows us to make an important step towards understanding and quantifying privacy achievable in practice.

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  1. Centre for Quantifiable Quality of Service in Communication Systems, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway

    Mark Stegelmann & Dogan Kesdogan

  2. Research Group for IT Security, FB5, University of Siegen, 57068, Siegen, Germany

    Dogan Kesdogan

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  1. University of Twente and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven ESAT-COSIC, Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, 3001, Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium

    Svetla Petkova-Nikova

  2. Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ESAT/SCD (COSIC), Kasteelpark Arenberg 10, 3001, Leuven-Heverlee, Belgium

    Andreas Pashalidis

  3. Department of Information Systems, University of Regensburg, Universitätsstraße 31, 93053, Regensburg, Germany

    Günther Pernul

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Stegelmann, M., Kesdogan, D. (2012). Design and Evaluation of a Privacy-Preserving Architecture for Vehicle-to-Grid Interaction. In: Petkova-Nikova, S., Pashalidis, A., Pernul, G. (eds) Public Key Infrastructures, Services and Applications. EuroPKI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7163. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29804-2_5

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