NFD: A practical scheme to detect non-technical loss fraud in smart grid

2014 IEEE International Conference on Communications, ICC 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 605-609

  Han, Wenlin ^a   Xiao, Yang ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

NonTechnical Loss fraud; Smart Grid security; Smart meter

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CRIME; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SMART METERS;

FRAUD DETECTION; NON-TECHNICAL LOSS; PRACTICAL SCHEMES; SMART GRID; USER BEHAVIOUR; UTILITY COMPANIES;

SMART POWER GRIDS;

EID: 84906997866     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICC.2014.6883385     Document Type: Conference Paper

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