Increasing smart meter privacy through energy harvesting and storage devices

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1331-1341

  Tan, Onur ^a   Gunduz, Deniz ^b   Poor, H Vincent ^c  

^a CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC DE TELECOMUNICACIONS DE CATALUNYA CTTC   (Spain)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Data privacy; energy harvesting; energy efficiency; information theoretic security; rechargeable batteries; smart grids; smart meters

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RATES; ENERGY SOURCE; INFORMATION LEAKAGE; INFORMATION- THEORETIC SECURITIES; REAL-TIME INFORMATION; SMART GRID; SMART METERING; STORAGE UNITS;

DATA PRIVACY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENERGY HARVESTING; ENERGY UTILIZATION; INFORMATION THEORY; SECONDARY BATTERIES; SMART METERS; VIRTUAL STORAGE;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 84880229460     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2013.130715     Document Type: Article

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