Smart meter privacy: A theoretical framework

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 837-846

  Sankar, Lalitha ^a   Raj Rajagopalan, S ^b   Mohajer, Soheil ^c   Vincent Poor, H ^a  

^a Princeton University   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Inference; leakage; privacy; rate distortion; smart meter; utility

Indexed keywords

DISTORTION THRESHOLD; FREQUENCY COMPONENTS; INFERENCE; PRIVACY PRESERVING; RATE DISTORTIONS; THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK; TRADE-OFF PROBLEM; UTILITY;

ELECTRIC POWER MEASUREMENT; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; INFORMATION THEORY; LEAKAGE (FLUID); SMART METERS; SMART POWER GRIDS;

DATA PRIVACY;

EID: 84878266591     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2012.2211046     Document Type: Article

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