Repairing an aggregation-based smart metering system (bibtex)
by Ricard Garra, Dominik Leibenger, Josep M. Miret and Francesc Sebé
Abstract:
Smart meters inform the electricity suppliers about the consumption of their clients in short intervals. Fine-grained electricity consumption information is highly sensitive as it has been proven to permit to infer people's habits, for instance, the time they leave or arrive home. Hence, appropriate measures have to be taken to preserve clients' privacy in smart metering systems. In this paper, we first analyze a recent proposal by Busom et al. (Comput Commun 82:95–101, 2016) and show how a corrupted substation is able to get the individual reading of any arbitrarily chosen smart meter without requiring the collaboration of any other party. After that, we propose a way to fix the mentioned security flaw which is based on adding an additional step in which the substation proves that it has properly followed all the protocol steps. Our solution is analyzed and shown to be computationally feasible for realistic parameter choices.
Reference:
Ricard Garra, Dominik Leibenger, Josep M. Miret and Francesc Sebé: Repairing an aggregation-based smart metering system, In International Journal of Information Security, 2019.
Bibtex Entry:
@Article{	  garra2019,
  author	= "Garra, Ricard and Leibenger, Dominik and Miret, Josep M.
		  and Seb{\'e}, Francesc",
  title		= "Repairing an aggregation-based smart metering system",
  journal	= "International Journal of Information Security",
  year		= "2019",
  month		= "Apr",
  day		= "05",
  abstract	= "Smart meters inform the electricity suppliers about the
		  consumption of their clients in short intervals.
		  Fine-grained electricity consumption information is highly
		  sensitive as it has been proven to permit to infer people's
		  habits, for instance, the time they leave or arrive home.
		  Hence, appropriate measures have to be taken to preserve
		  clients' privacy in smart metering systems. In this paper,
		  we first analyze a recent proposal by Busom et al. (Comput
		  Commun 82:95--101, 2016) and show how a corrupted
		  substation is able to get the individual reading of any
		  arbitrarily chosen smart meter without requiring the
		  collaboration of any other party. After that, we propose a
		  way to fix the mentioned security flaw which is based on
		  adding an additional step in which the substation proves
		  that it has properly followed all the protocol steps. Our
		  solution is analyzed and shown to be computationally
		  feasible for realistic parameter choices.",
  issn		= "1615-5270",
  doi		= "10.1007/s10207-019-00435-0",
  url		= "https://doi.org/10.1007/s10207-019-00435-0"
}
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